Fullstack Developer

Developer Requirements/Expectations:

• Experience: 5+ Years
• Tech Stack: Core PHP, MySQL, Basic JavaScript, Oracle
• 3rd Party Integration: Payment Gateways (Apple Pay Wallet, Google Pay, Stripe)
• Tools: Trello, Slack, Github
• Soft Skills: Team Work, Excellent Client Communication. 

Engagement Type: Full Time, Dedicated

• Work Hours: 8 Hours per day, 160 hours per month
• Shift: 10 AM-7 AM IST (Including Lunch hour)
• Work shifts need to be flexible to accommodate client calls in EST.

Screening Process: 

Round 1: Technical 

Round 2: Managerial 

Location: Ahmedabad (Hybrid)

Senior Software Engineer – Java

Location: Pune (Hybrid – 3 days from office)

Experience: 8–15 Years

Domain: Information Technology (IT)

Joining: Immediate joiners only

Preference: Local candidates only (Pune-based)

Job Description:

We are looking for experienced and passionate Senior Java Engineers to join a high-performing development team. The role involves building and maintaining robust, scalable, and low-latency backend systems and microservices in a fast-paced, agile environment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Work within a high-velocity scrum team to deliver enterprise-grade software solutions.
• Architect and develop scalable end-to-end web applications and microservices.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to analyze requirements and deliver optimal technical solutions.
• Participate in code reviews, unit testing, and deployment.
• Mentor junior engineers while remaining hands-on with development tasks.
• Provide accurate estimates and support the team lead in facilitating development processes.

Mandatory Skills & Experience:

• 6–7+ years of enterprise-level Java development experience.
• Strong in Java 8 or higher (Java 11 preferred), including lambda expressions, Stream API, Completable Future.
• Minimum 4+ years working with Microservices, Spring Boot, and Hibernate.
• At least 3+ years of experience designing and developing RESTful APIs.
• Kafka – minimum 2 years’ hands-on experience in the current/most recent project.
• Solid experience with SQL.
• AWS – minimum 1.5 years of experience.
• Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and deployment processes.
• Exposure to asynchronous programming, multithreading, and performance tuning.
• Experience working in at least one Fintech domain project (mandatory).

Nice to Have:

• Exposure to Golang or Rust.
• Experience with any of the following tools: MongoDB, Jenkins, Sonar, Oracle DB, Drools, Adobe AEM, Elasticsearch/Solr/Algolia, Spark.
• Strong systems design and data modeling capabilities.
• Experience in payments or asset/wealth management domain.
• Familiarity with rules engines and CMS/search platforms.

Candidate Profile:

• Strong communication and client-facing skills.
• Proactive, self-driven, and collaborative mindset.
• Passionate about clean code and quality deliverables.
• Prior experience in building and deploying multiple products in production.

Note: Only candidates who are based in Pune and can join immediately will be considered.

JD:

As a Software Development Engineer at Amazon, you have industry-leading technical abilities and demonstrate breadth and depth of knowledge. You build software to deliver business impact, making smart technology choices. You work in a team and drive things forward.

Responsibilities:

• You solve problems at their root, stepping back to understand the broader context.
• You develop pragmatic solutions and build flexible systems that balance engineering complexity and timely delivery, creating business impact.
• You understand a broad range of data structures and algorithms and apply them to deliver high-performing applications.
• You recognise and use design patterns to solve business problems.
• You understand how operating systems work, perform and scale.

Requirements:

• You write high quality, maintainable, and robust code.
• You recognise and adopt best practices in software engineering: design, testing, version control, documentation, build, deployment, and operations.
• You have experience building scalable software systems that are high-performance, highly-available, highly transactional, low latency and massively distributed.
• Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science or relevant technical field.
• Experience in software development and full product life-cycle.
• Excellent programming skills in any object oriented programming languages - preferably Java, C/C++/C#, Perl, Python, or Ruby.
• Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and designing for performance, scalability, and availability.
• Proficiency in SQL and data modeling.

Job responsibility:

• Hire and mentor a team of high-calibre front-end and Backend engineers
• Design and develop new user-facing full-stack applications.
• Building reusable components and front-end, backend libraries for future use
• Optimizing pages for maximum performance across a vast array of web-capable devices and browsers
• Optimize Backend to high scale.

Skills and Experiences:

• 6+ years of experience in software development with minimum 1 year as a tech lead.
• Experience in NodeJS, ReactJS, PostgreSQL, Redis, AWS.
• Deep understanding of at least one of React JS / Vue JS and its core principles
• Deep understanding of NodeJS.
• Experience with common front-end development tools such as babel, webpack, npm
• Familiarity with at least one code versioning tools such as Git, SVN etc.
• Good understanding of quality JavaScript code (Object oriented and commonly used design patterns)
• Capable of debugging complex issues in JavaScript
• Experience in building complex single page applications with front end and backend.
• Experience with production full stack environment debugging and DevOps experience.
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs
• Hands on coding experience.

Good to have:

• Advanced knowledge of HTML5, CSS3 and responsive web development.
• Experience with writing unit test cases with JS frameworks.
• Experience with high scalable applications.

About Us

upGrad is an online education platform building the careers of tomorrow by offering the most industry-relevant programs in an immersive learning experience. Our mission is to create a new digital-first learning experience to deliver tangible career impact to individuals at scale. upGrad currently offers programs in Data Science, Machine Learning, Product Management, Digital Marketing, and Entrepreneurship, etc. upGrad is looking for people passionate about management and education to help design learning programs for working professionals to stay sharp and stay relevant and help build the careers of tomorrow.

• upGrad was awarded the Best Tech for Education by IAMAI for 2018-19
• upGrad was also ranked as one of the LinkedIn Top Startups 2018: The 25 most sought-after startups in India 
• upGrad was earlier selected as one of the top ten most innovative companies in India by FastCompany.
• We were also covered by the Financial Times along with other disruptors in Ed-Tech
• upGrad is the official education partner for Government of India - Startup India program 
• Our program with IIIT B has been ranked #1 program in the country in the domain of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning 

About the Role

If you love to learn, are a quick learner and would love to create top-notch online courses on emerging technologies like Blockchain, Software Development or Data science then we are looking for you!

The Senior Content Strategist role is unique in the sense that it provides an opportunity to learn new topics quickly, work on case studies, interact and build network with top industry professionals and faculty members in the respective domains, and do work that directly impacts the lives and careers of our learners.upGrad is looking for people passionate about education to help design learning programs for working professionals in order to help build the careers of tomorrow. 

Roles & Responsibilities

• Develop world-class content for online courses on different stacks in Full-Stack Web Development (Java, Spring, Spring Boot, Angular, React.js, Node.js & Express.js, C#, .NET), Blockchain Development & Architecture, software development/mean-stack development / Data science/Machine Learning. This job will equip the candidate with highly sought after skills and will be a great starting point for a career
• Understand the industry requirements and develop courses to help students meet high standards
• Plan and execute student competency assessment and engagement to ensure extraordinary learning experience
• Quickly learn complex concepts and ensure quality of content, instructional design and overall course experience
• Collaborate with business development team to meet content production deliverables
• Define & structure content development process; work with educational content across all levels
• Structure, grow and lead content development team including research assistants, video producers, scriptwriters etc.
• Work closely with senior faculty, freelancers and global industry leaders

Skills Required

• BE/B.tech Computer science background (Bachelor’s/Master’s degree, BCA/ MCA,
• Online/ self taught/MOOC) OR a degree in Maths/Statistics.
• 4+ years of experience in e-Learning and/or creating customised higher education programs
• Experience in software development (backend/full-stack web development) , Data science is valuable.
• Excellence in problem solving and structuring of complex processes in new terrains
• Master in Higher Education/ Technology, Education & Innovation is preferred
• Experience in (digital) pedagogic content production; preferably higher education is preferred