Founding SpringBoot Developer

Job Description – Senior Java Developer (Spring Boot / Microservices)

Location: Chennai, India

Experience: 4+ Years

Availability: Immediate Joiner

About the Role:

We are looking for a highly skilled Java Developer with over 5 years of hands-on experience in building scalable backend systems using Java, Spring Boot, and Microservices architecture. The ideal candidate will have strong problem-solving skills, deep knowledge of backend frameworks, and a solid understanding of JUnit-based testing.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain high-performance backend systems using Java and Spring Boot
• Develop and deploy RESTful microservices in a distributed architecture
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features
• Write clean, scalable, and testable code following best practices
• Implement unit and integration tests using JUnit and other testing frameworks
• Participate in code reviews and contribute to improving team processes
• Troubleshoot and resolve production issues in a timely manner

Key Skills:

• Strong proficiency in Java
• Expertise in Spring Boot and related modules (Spring Data, Spring Security, etc.)
• Solid understanding of Microservices architecture, REST APIs, and inter-service communication
• Experience with JUnit and writing automated test cases
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and version control (Git)
• Knowledge of containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) is a plus
• Exposure to messaging systems like Kafka or RabbitMQ is a plus
• Familiarity with databases (SQL/NoSQL)

• 2.5+ year of experience in Development in JAVA technology.
• Strong Java Basics
• SpringBoot or Spring MVC
• Hands on experience on Relationl Databases (SQL query or Hibernate) + Mongo (JSON parsing)
• Proficient in REST API development
• Messaging Queue (RabitMQ or Kafka)
• Microservices
• Any Caching Mechanism
• Good at problem solving

Good to Have Skills:

• 2+ years of experience in using Java/J2EE tech stacks
• Good understanding of data structures and algorithms.
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills.
• Ability to work in a fast paced internet start-up environment.
• Experience in technical mentorship/coaching is highly desirable.
• Understanding of AI/ML algorithms is a plus.

We are seeking extremely smart & independent senior developers who are gung ho about building large scale systems that are going to have a big impact on millions of customers. You will:

Responsibilities:

• Lead design and development of products working closely with business team.
• Independently own software components and co-own entire applications with a small group of fellow developers.
• Formally mentor junior software engineers on the team, reviewing design documents, (peer) reviewing code, providing design direction and guidance.
• Build performant, scalable, yet secure, enterprise ready back end architectures that can support millions of users in parallel.
• Establish strong engineering best practices and champion their adoption.

Requirements:

• 4+ years' experience in software product development and delivery.
• Bachelors or Masters degree in engineering (preferably computer science or sister branches) from a reputed institute (preferably IITs, NITs, or other top engineering institutes).
• Strong grasp of CS fundamentals, algorithms and excellent problem-solving abilities.
• All experience should be from good product development or e-commerce background.
• Able to take ownership of working with at least one of mobile or web app teams for complete integration with backend.
• Must have shown good stability in all your previous associations.
• Have strong backend knowledge and cloud development exposure.
• Proficiency in Java, Spring boot, Hibernate, REST API development.
• Worked with at least 1 RDBMS (Mysql preferred).
• NoSql is a plus.
• Have used or are very hands-on with Microservices, Docker, Kubernetes, Gradle/Ant, Kafka, GIT/bitbucket in a very agile work place.
• Writing high quality code which is made better by unit tests and integration tests is how you work.
• Comfortable with exploring proven open source tech stack like Grafana, Kibana, Jira, Prometheus, caches like Redis/Memcached, task queues like celery, to name a few.
• Knowledge of test driven development and AWS tech stack will be a good plus.

Requirements & Responsibilities:

- 3+ years of experience developing web applications using J2EE.

- 3+ years of experience in Spring Boot.

- Understanding of MicroServices.

- Experience working with tools like Git, Maven, and AWS.

- Expertise in developing RESTful APIs.

- Experience writing Unit and Integration tests.

- Background working with Linux/UNIX environments.

- Strong working knowledge with RDBMS like MySql, Postgres and NoSQL databases like Mongo

- Passion to stay on top of the latest happenings in the tech world and an attitude to discuss and bring those into play.

- Experience with agile/scrum development

- Strong collaboration and communication skills 

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronic Engineering, Information Technology or another related field or Equivalent

What we need from you

• You will bring very strong consulting skills, are customer focused and know how to navigate through tough project situations
• You are highly motivated, creative in your approach to technical problems and love all things about Data!
• You spend a significant amount of time to keep your technical skills updated and are constantly looking for the next big data challenge
• You will be a key contributor to our growth and our customer’s success
• You will bring both broad and deep knowledge in Efficient Java (JSP, Servlet) Developer and going forward build the ability to architect a solution by mapping a customer business challenges
• You are resourceful and confident under pressure
• Willingness to travel as needed to customer sites

Competencies:

• Relevant experience on using tools like JSP, Servlet for web applications
• MVC frame works - Struts or Spring
• Web services- SOAP and REST WebLogic, Hibernate
• Middleware technologies MQ OSB.
• Web/App Servers: Tomcat or WebLogic or JBoss
• Experience using Angular, Micro Services using Spring, jersey, Swagger
• Good knowledge of Backend and Front-end technologies
• Good knowledge of Core Java, J2EE, Ajax, Spring, Java Script, jQuery, HTML
• Good knowledge of any RDBMS database like SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL & Cluster set-up, performance benchmarking, client-side API evaluation, knowledge of various deployment strategies
• Strong knowledge with Core JAVA concepts – Exception handling, Multi-threading, Collection, String, OOPS etc…
• Advanced understanding of Windows and Linux based operating systems
• Mainly 3-4 months hands on with reverse engineering and old legacy solutions to new modern applications
• Working knowledge using REST, HTTP, TCP, SCTP protocols
• Hands-on with JAVA frameworks such as – Thread Pool Executor, Object Pooling, Logging (Log4j preferred), XML/JSON handling

Education Criteria:

• Preferred BE degree in CS, E&C, E&E
• Proficient being a J2EE Developer (courses or project done) and data analytics skills
• Flexible to work on any projects assigned

Note: Terms & Conditions

• This opportunity will be work from office

• The Architect/ Lead Backend Engineer will handle the digital experience from inception to go-live model.
• The role holder is expected to create a vision and roadmap for the digital experience to provide best in class customer experience for each of the product solutions handled.  The role holder will play a critical role in leading the innovation and growth of our front end web and mobile platforms.
• Must be from Good Companies and have been working on high Scale of Traffic
• Proficiency in engineering practices and writing high quality code, with expertise in either one of Java or Groovy or Go.
• 3+ years of experience building microservices.
• Strong experience in architecting and building distributed systems, scalability, and availability
• Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and designing for performance
• Strong knowledge of cloud technologies like AWS/Google Cloud/Azure
• Good understanding of RxJava or Actors framework
• Proficient with RDBMS
• Strong knowledge on data stores, database design, data modelling and SQL queries
• Extensive experience building and owning large- scale distributed backend systems
• Experience working with three or more of : Unix/Linux environments, Distributed and parallel systems, Workflow automation, CI/CD Platform development, Cloud platforms development e.g. AWS/GCP, Kubernetes/Container platforms based development 

Experience required

• Strong hands-on experience in Core Java, JSP, Spring , Struts and Web Services (SOAP and REST)

• Should have good understanding Object Oriented Design , Domain Driven Design , Database (Oracle,DB2), ORM framework like Hibernate and JavaScript framework

• Should have awareness on OWASP security vulnerabilities. Knowledge on Security tools like Fortify Checkmarx CAST SonarQube etc will be value added

• Good understanding on DevOps concept (preferably working experience on Teamcity or Jenkins or Docker)

• Ability to quickly troubleshooting and diagnosis of the application issues.

• Provide support delivery and cross functional teams

• Strong in reviewing technical design

• Excellent communication skills

• Excellent customer handling skills

• Experience in OO, DI, IoC design patterns

• Recommend changes on project design concepts to improve efficiency.

• Develop design specifications, installation instructions and other system-related information.

• Verify stability, interoperability, portability, security and scalability of java system architecture.

• Evaluate current or emerging technologies to consider monetary factors of java program.

• Knowledge of Enterprise message bus

Job Description: 

3+ years of experience as a JAVA/J2EE technologies developer in delivering highly available and scalable applications in a cloud operating environment. - Expertise in Spring framework and equivalent. 

• Experience in developing Java Microservices using spring boot, docker, Kubernetes etc. 
• Programming expertise in Java, JavaScript; and familiarity with other languages.
• Experience building, testing, and consuming REST APIs is a must have experience. 
• Experience with high-throughput messaging technologies and patterns; Kafka and/or related technologies a plus. 
• Exposure to databases of any types relational, analytical, columnar, etc; including MySql. 
• Experience with Git source control and building/maintaining Continuous Integration and Delivery pipelines; Jenkins experience a plus. 
• Expertise in Object-Oriented Development. 
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum-inspired delivery methodology. - Expertise with database programming, transaction management. Expertise with build tools – MAVEN, Gradle. 
• Expertise in design patterns and data structures. 
• Good understanding of Unit test tools. 
• Good analytical skills to break down requirements and solve complex problems. 
• Good understanding of Source control toolsets. 
• Well-developed verbal and written communication skills. 
• Proven track record to meet aggressive timelines.

Required Skills:

Good to have

• Understanding CI tools like Jenkins, Bamboo. 
• Experience with Google Cloud Platform or equivalent. 
• Experience with Microservices and/or Monolith to Microservice migration.
• Experience with frontend technologies like to react, angular is a plus
• Good Linux experience

Role/ Responsibilities

• Design APIs, DB, Queues, monitoring for micro services. 
• Writing, deploying and managing micro services. 
• Migrate existing components into distributed micro service architecture. 
• AWS Cloud / Google Cloud Platform (Manage Infrastructure). 
• API integration with 3rd parties. 
• Unit test cases, automation. 
• Database optimisation. 
• Design of highly concurrent backend architecture. 
• Handling high traffic data. 

Experience required: 

• Sound fundamentails in software design. 
• Must have worked on distributed and micro service architecture. 
• Sound fundamentals on scale/ performance/ memory optimisation. 
• Sound fundamentals of authentication, authorization, payment processes, data security. 
• Must have experience in Spring / Spring boot. 
• Good to have experience in Kafka / JMS / RabbitMQ / AWS Elastic queue. 
• Good to have experience in Junit / mockito unit test cases. 
• Good to have knowledge in Mysql (or any RDBMS). 

About the role:

As a product engineer I/II, you will be responsible for continuous improvement of Cashfree experience for all our customers and end- users. You will dream big but identify and take small steps towards achieving that goal. You will receive great feedbacks at every step of the development cycle from your peers to our customers and end- users.

You may be working on architecting the money disbursement flow or creating most- friendly interface for consumer payment. All our engineers identify as generalist and building products that are useful and delightful are core to our engineering culture.

You're more than a coder. You wil be part of entire product process, from conceptualizing till post- launch evaluation. You should have deep empathy for the users to minimize the gap between what we build and what they need. Have sound judgement to balance between code writing speed and it's maintainability. Knowledge of variety of server- side/ frontend frameworks is desirable but not compulsory