Founding SpringBoot Developer

We’re looking for an Engineering Manager to guide our micro-service platform and mentor a fully remote backend team. You’ll blend hands-on technical ownership with people leadership—shaping architecture, driving cloud best practices, and coaching engineers in their careers and craft.

Key Responsibilities:

Area

What You’ll Own

Architecture & Delivery

• Define and evolve backend architecture built on Java 17+, Spring Boot 3, AWS (Containers, Lambdas, SQS, S3), Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL/MySQL, Databricks, Redis etc...

• Lead design and code reviews; enforce best practices for testing, CI/CD, observability, security, and cost-efficient cloud operations.

• Drive technical roadmaps, ensuring scalability (billions of events, 99.9 %+ uptime) and rapid feature delivery.

Team Leadership & Growth

• Manage and inspire a distributed team of 6-10 backend engineers across multiple time zones.

• Set clear growth objectives, run 1-on-1s, deliver feedback, and foster an inclusive, high-trust culture.

• Coach the team on AI-assisted development workflows (e.g., GitHub Copilot, LLM-based code review) to boost productivity and code quality.

Stakeholder Collaboration

• Act as technical liaison to Product, Frontend, SRE, and Data teams, translating business goals into resilient backend solutions.

• Communicate complex concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences; influence cross-functional decisions.

Technical Vision & Governance

• Own coding standards, architectural principles, and technology selection.

• Evaluate emerging tools and frameworks (especially around GenAI and cloud-native patterns) and create adoption strategies.

• Balance technical debt and new feature delivery through data-driven prioritization.

Required Qualifications:

● 8+ years designing, building, and operating distributed backend systems with Java & Spring Boot

● Proven experience leading or mentoring engineers; direct people-management a plus

● Expert knowledge of AWS services and cloud-native design patterns

● Hands-on mastery of Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL/MySQL, and Redis for high-volume, low-latency workloads

● Demonstrated success scaling systems to millions of users or billions of events Strong grasp of DevOps practices: containerization (Docker), CI/CD (GitHub Actions), observability stacks

● Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills in a remote-fi rst environment

Nice-to-Have:

● Hands-on experience with Datadog (APM, Logs, RUM) and a data-driven approach to debugging/performance tuning

● Startup experience—comfortable wearing multiple hats and juggling several projects simultaneously

● Prior title of Principal Engineer, Staff Engineer, or Engineering Manager in a high-growth SaaS company

● Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools (Copilot, CodeWhisperer, Cursor) and a track record of introducing them safely

Job Title: Engineering Manager (Java / Spring Boot, AWS) – Remote

Leadership Role

Location: Remote

Employment Type: Full-time

As an engineer, you will help with the implementation, and launch of many key product features. You will get an opportunity to work on a wide range of technologies (including Spring, AWS Elastic Search, Lambda, ECS, Redis, Spark, Kafka etc.) and apply new technologies for solving problems. You will have an influence on defining product features, drive operational excellence, and spearhead the best practices that enable a quality product. You will get to work with skilled and motivated engineers who are already contributing to building high-scale and high-available systems.

If you are looking for an opportunity to work on leading technologies and would like to build product technology that can cater millions of customers inclined towards providing them the best experience, and relish large ownership and diverse technologies, join our team today!

What You'll Do:

• Creating detailed design, working on development and performing code reviews.
• Implementing validation and support activities in line with architecture requirements
• Help the team translate the business requirements into R&D tasks and manage the roadmap of the R&D tasks.
• Designing, building, and implementation of the product; participating in requirements elicitation, validation of architecture, creation and review of high and low level design, assigning and reviewing tasks for product implementation.
• Work closely with product managers, UX designers and end users and integrating software components into a fully functional system
• Ownership of product/feature end-to-end for all phases from the development to the production.
• Ensuring the developed features are scalable and highly available with no quality concerns.
• Work closely with senior engineers for refining the and implementation.
• Management and execution against project plans and delivery commitments.
• Assist directly and indirectly in the continual hiring and development of technical talent.
• Create and execute appropriate quality plans, project plans, test strategies and processes for development activities in concert with business and project management efforts.

The ideal candidate is a passionate engineer about delivering experiences that delight customers and creating solutions that are robust. He/she should be able to commit and own the deliveries end-to-end.

What You'll Need:

• A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline.
• 2-3+ years of Software Development experience with proficiency in Java or equivalent object-oriented languages, coupled with design and SOA
• Fluency with Java, and Spring is good.
• Experience in JEE applications and frameworks like struts, spring, mybatis, maven, gradle
• Strong knowledge of Data Structures, Algorithms and CS fundamentals.
• Experience in at least one shell scripting language, SQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL and data modeling skills
• Excellent analytical and reasoning skills
• Ability to learn new domains and deliver output
• Hands on Experience with the core AWS services
• Experience working with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, Spinnaker, Nexus, GitLab, TeamCity, GoCD, etc.)

• Expertise in at least one of the following:

    - Kafka, ZeroMQ, AWS SNS/SQS, or equivalent streaming technology

    - Distributed cache/in memory data grids like Redis, Hazelcast, Ignite, or Memcached

    - Distributed column store databases like Snowflake, Cassandra, or HBase

    - Spark, Flink, Beam, or equivalent streaming data processing frameworks

• Proficient with writing and reviewing Python and other object-oriented language(s) are a plus
• Experience building automations and CICD pipelines (integration, testing, deployment)
• Experience with Kubernetes would be a plus.
• Good understanding of working with distributed teams using Agile: Scrum, Kanban
• Strong interpersonal skills as well as excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Attention to detail and quality, and the ability to work well in and across teams

• Proven hands-on Software Development experience
• Proven working experience in Java development
• Hands on experience in designing and developing applications using Java EE platforms
• Object Oriented analysis and design using common design patterns.
• Profound insight of Java and JEE internals (Classloading, Memory Management, Transaction management etc)
• Excellent knowledge of Relational Databases, SQL and ORM technologies (JPA2, Hibernate)
• Experience in the Spring Framework
• Experience as a Sun Certified Java Developer

Skills & Abilities:

1. Language: Java, J2EE, springboot, angular, react, node, (CSS: Tailwind CSS + angular Material) etc.

2. OS : Linux, windows

3. Database : Oracle, postgres, PL/SQL

4. Desirable : API integration, CI/CD, automation, working experience in the mobile financial domain

5. Able to mentor and guide juniors

6. Able to resolve customer queries independently

7. Able to write test cases  and execute test plans

8. Added advantage (Good to have): application security, RabbitMQ, Apache Kafka, Grafana, Prometheus, MongoDB, shell scripting basics

Job Purpose: At the Mobiquity project engineering team, our core job is to customize, install, configure and support the customer during the entire project lifecycle.

Principal Accountabilities Development

1. Write code in Java and java based technologies as well as web GUI development using latest technologies like, angular, react, conforming to company guidelines against written requirements & high-level design documents, particularly for complex modules that cannot be handled by junior developers. Work in an IDE while developing code ( especially in Java) and use GIT, SVN or any other CM tool being used in the company, for checking in and checking out the code being developed.

2. Submit developed code for review, incorporate required changes and conduct Unit testing, after preparing Unit Test Plans and necessary stubs.

3. Review code offered by others and document response in assigned format.

4. Participate in (a) the integration of the developed code with code developed by other team members (this could happen on customer premises if appropriate environment is not available in-house) (b) preparation of the environment for integration testing (c) execution of integration testing (d) fixing the problems relating to the offered code as discovered in the integration testing.

5. Participate in load testing conducted on the final product and fix problems encountered.

6. Assist Product Validation Group in setting up the test environment, writing test cases, generating stubs and executing tests.

7. Review test cases written by the Product Validation Group.

8. Install product in customer location, train the customer reps on product features and operation & maintenance procedures, and complete user acceptance testing, making any changes in the final deliverable as required.

9. Handle customer queries and complaints received directly or through the company support organization.

10. Change code to fix reported customer problems after trouble shooting, get the fix reviewed and complete selective regression testing.

11. Draft user documentation for consolidation by the technical documentation team. This could include GUI, API, O&M and technical documentation relating to COTS. Review drafts prepared by junior developers.

12. Help maintain design requirement documents as directed.

13. Participate in the development, release, support & enhancement activity through multiple release cycles and multiple products

14. Proactively seek feedback/reviews on self-development, learning, and developed code. Responsible for completing the assigned task in all aspects by proactively seeking reviews, and updating the status to supervisors.

15. Ensure the task assigned is understood in all respects and communicate effectively and raise necessary alarms to reporting leads if anything is not understood or no progress is possible.

Capability Building

1. Assist junior developers in coding, testing, and troubleshooting.

2. Train and support a new member joining the team with little or no experience in the development environment, technology domain, and the specific work underway. Focus on scope of work familiarization.

1. Hands on programming skills.
2. Monitoring application and infrastructure health by using monitoring tools
3. Build and deployment automation tools on AWS
4. Design and coding experience in Java/golang
5. Design and coding experience in Java/golang
6. Hands on exposure to GitLab or Github

Minimum 5-7years of professional experience building web-applications
Strong experience in backend development
Strong experience in AI/Machine Learning development, Data Analysis/Processing
Experience in creating robust and secure REST APIs
Hands-on exposure to RDBMS like PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB etc.
Proficiency with one or more programming languages from Java, Python, Node/JavaScript
Solid familiarity working with cloud and related technologies, AWS, GCP and Azure cloud environments
Ability to do very quick research in unknown technologies
Startup mindset, comfort with chaos and multi-tasking ability
Strong programming fundamentals in Data Structures, Algorithms
An eye for writing performance optimum code in any tool set

This is for our Chennai Office , however work from home can be considered during pandemic or lockdowns .

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