We are scaling rapidly in user engagement (reached 150K+ daily transactions within 3 months of beta launch), and if you're looking to deal with scale, this is for you.
About Trago.in: We are a neo-trading platform where one can trade their opinions on real-time events across politics, Sports. We are building in a super-interesting category with a focus on things happening around you and giving the audience a platform to earn from opinions and knowledge.
We are a seed-funded company with marquee investors from across the globe and an amazing set of co-founders from the premier institutes of India.
To know more about us, please visit: www.trago.in
Responsibilities:
* Build the APIs and internal mechanisms of the Trago backend across all our services.
* Architect and guide building end-to-end systems optimized for speed and scale.
* Build and lead engineering teams to achieve product roadmap milestones.
* Oversee the research and development of new products and technologies.
* Be available for troubleshooting in case of backend emergencies.
Requirements:
* Bachelors in Computer Science or any Engineering domain with experience in Software Programming.
* 2-5 years of experience building large-scale software applications.
* Highly proficient with Java and knowledge of the many intricacies of Spring Boot.
* Proficient with MongoDB and Redis.
* Knowledge of Aerospike, and other databases would be a bonus. Good understanding of distributed systems (servers, databases, etc.).
* Positive and solution-oriented mindset and comfort working in a highly agile, intensely iterative software development environment.
What's in for you?
* Work directly with founders
* Freedom to experiment and get creative.
* Be Yourself, every day.
* Build for scale - We are building Trago with a mindset to scale to 100 mn+ customers in 3 years. We are presently doing 150K transactions a day, which we will scale by 100x in one year.

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Job Summary
We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer with strong experience in Java, Spring Boot, and Microservices architecture. Candidates with server-side Kotlin development experience are highly preferred. Strong software engineering fundamentals, REST API development expertise, and experience building enterprise-scale applications are essential.
The ideal candidate should be passionate about clean code, testing, scalability, and product/platform engineering.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend applications using Java and/or Kotlin.
- Build and enhance RESTful APIs and microservices-based applications.
- Develop high-performance, secure, and reliable enterprise applications.
- Participate in system design, architecture discussions, and technical decision-making.
- Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code following industry best practices.
- Implement and maintain automated unit tests, integration tests, and other testing strategies.
- Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and DevOps teams to deliver high-quality solutions.
- Troubleshoot production issues and optimize application performance.
- Mentor junior developers and contribute to engineering excellence initiatives.
Required Skills
- 6–8+ years of backend development experience.
- Strong proficiency in Java.
- Experience with server-side Kotlin (preferred) or willingness to learn and work extensively in Kotlin.
- Hands-on experience with Spring Boot and Microservices architecture.
- Strong experience developing REST APIs.
- Experience building enterprise-grade applications.
- Good understanding of software design patterns and object-oriented programming principles.
- Strong knowledge of unit testing frameworks such as JUnit, Mockito, or equivalent.
- Experience with Test-Driven Development (TDD) is highly desirable.
- Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and version control systems such as Git.
- Experience working with relational and/or NoSQL databases.
Key Responsibility Areas:
- Design, build and deliver Enterprise software solutions.
- Write code with standards and conventions and follow best practices.
- Encourage and lead innovation and solid lifecycle processes.
- Collaborate with development teams on work definition, estimation and prioritization
- Lead and grow as a professional software engineer.
- Full ownership of product deliveries and mentoring junior team members.
- Preparing curriculum to train junior developers for Java Web Development
- Strong client interactions to provide excellent Quality of Service.
- Owning the code base and making sure all code is reviewed and is of very high quality.
- Write and modify coding conventions and standards documents for all development
Required Skills:
Technologies/Frameworks –
- Core Java, J2EE,
- Spring Core and Spring MVC, Sprint Boot, Spring Security,
- JDBC, Hibernate, RESTful APIs, SOAP WebServices
- Knowledge of JavaScript, JQuery, AJAX, HTML5, and CSS3, Angular is added advantage
- Junit or Mockito frameworks
- Maven, Git
- Knowledge Data Structures,
- SQL, MySQL
- Designing relational database schemas
- Basics of AWS, Cloud, Microservices
- Must have strong knowledge and experience in Agile based software development methodologies. Knowledge of an Agile tool like Jira.
- Strong knowledge of working in Integrations of 3rd party APIs and creating the new APIs.
- Must have good knowledge of creating Flow diagrams, UMLs and all the required documentations.
- Domain Preference
- BFSI, FinTech
Product Development Using Java, Microservices, SpringBoot
Experience with RestFUL API's.

Job Role: Java SpringBoot Developer
Job Description:
- Should have expertise in Core Java, Java & J2ee
- Built MVC based Web Application Using JSP/Struts framework
- Hands on experience of OOPS concepts, Hibernate and Spring version 3.x 1, Spring Boot
- Hands on experience of Application Servers like Tomcat and WebLogic.
- Hands on experience of Restful services and Web services
- Experience in deploying Spring boot in Micro services
- Good verbal and written communication
- Excellent team player, ability to work in a global team and follow through on deadlines
Primary Skills:
- Core Java, Java & J2ee
- Spring Boot
Responsibilities
- Plan, develop and implement large-scale projects from conception to completion.
- Interface with clients and gather business requirements and objectives.
- Translate clients’ business requirements and objectives into technical applications and solutions.
- Understand and evaluate complex data models.
- Design, develop and implement new integration.
- Execute system development and maintenance activities.
- Develop solutions to improvise performance and scalability of systems.
- Mentor junior and mid-level engineers.
Minimum Requirements
- 3-5 years of relevant experience, working in Java related technologies.
- A Good Engineering or Masters degree from a reputed university
- Should have strong technical skills with a good grasp of OO concepts and design patterns
- Good knowledge of SQL database ( MySQL, Oracle, etc )
- Good understanding of frameworks like Spring, Hibernate, etc.
- Good understanding of spring boot and microservices.
- Exposure to AWS services - S3, SQS, Lambda, DynamoDB, API Gateway, etc.
Good to have
- Knowledge of No-SQL DBs like mongo, dynamoDB, etc.
- Knowledge of message brokers/queuing services like SQL, rabbitMQ, Kafka, etc.
Job description
- Design and develop large-scale business application using Java, Spring boot, Microservices Architecture
- Design and develop software application code by analyzing requirements and specification using Java and J2EE
- Creating webservices (SOAP/RESTful) and consuming webservices
- Strong fundamentals OOPS concepts, Exception Handling, Coding Standards
- Experience in MySQL/MSSQL/Oracle
- Experience in SDLC methodologies Agile / waterfall
- Good understanding of data structures and algorithms
- Basic working knowledge of Unix/Linux
- Must possess strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills
- Excellent team player with strong verbal & written communication skills.
An ideal candidate must possess excellent Logical & Analytical skills. You will be working in a team as well on diverse projects. The candidate must be able to deal smoothly and confidently with the Clients & Personnel.
Key roles and Responsibilities:
⦁ Able to design and build efficient, testable and reliable code.
⦁ Should be a team player sharing ideas with the team for continuous improvement and development process.
⦁ Good Knowledge on Spring Boot, Spring MVC, J2EE and SQL Queries.
⦁ Stay updated of new tools, libraries, and best practices.
⦁ Adaptable, Self-Motivated, must be willing to learn new things.
⦁ Sound Good knowledge on HTML, CSS, JavaScript.
Basic Requirements:
⦁ Bachelors' Degree in Computer Science Engineering / IT or related discipline with a good academic record.
⦁ Excellent communication skills and interpersonal skills.
⦁ Knowledge on SDLC flow from requirement analysis to deployment phase.
⦁ Should be able to design, develop and deploy applications.
⦁ Able to identify bugs and devise solutions to address and resolve the issues.
About the opportunity
What you’ll be doing:
- You will contribute to all aspects of an agile software development life-cycle including design, architecture, development, documentation, testing and operations.
- You will build cutting-edge scalable systems by writing simple and efficient code.
- You will push your design and architecture limits for new product development.
- You will collaborate with product managers, and other key stakeholders within the MMT family to successfully execute projects.
- You will ensure compliance with build/release and configuration management process.
What you’ll bring to the table:
- You possess good understanding of Agile Methodology, Object Oriented Programming Concepts and Responsive Designs.
- You have hands-on experience on Java/ J2EE stack and have done development across multiple browsers/platforms delivering mind-boggling results.
- You thrive in complexity and jump at the opportunity to collaborate with colleagues to delivery projects within tight deadlines.
- If you have work experience in a product/start-up company, we’ll like you even more.
Our Purpose and Challenges
With over 47% market-share, MakeMyTrip is India’s first and biggest travel company. In fact, one in every four passengers at an airport is our customer. Driven by the desire to provide an exceptional travel experience for our customers, we have continuously stayed ahead of the curve by developing technology and products to meet the ever-changing demands of the rapidly evolving travel ecosystem.
We are currently solving multiple challenging problems, including -
- How to bring the next 100 million users to our platform?
- How to leverage customer insights to create a truly personalised experience for users?
- How to create a delightful experience for our users, to make travel synonymous to MMT?






