HR Executive

Job Overview:

We are looking for a skilled Senior Backend Engineer to join our team. The ideal candidate will have a strong foundation in Java and Spring, with proven experience in building scalable microservices and backend systems. This role also requires familiarity with automation tools, Python development, and working knowledge of AI technologies.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain backend services and microservices.
• Build and integrate RESTful APIs across distributed systems.
• Ensure performance, scalability, and reliability of backend systems.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and participate in agile development.
• Deploy and maintain applications on AWS cloud infrastructure.
• Contribute to automation initiatives and AI/ML feature integration.
• Write clean, testable, and maintainable code following best practices.
• Participate in code reviews and technical discussions.

Required Skills:

• 4+ years of backend development experience.
• Strong proficiency in Java and Spring/Spring Boot frameworks.
• Solid understanding of microservices architecture.
• Experience with REST APIs, CI/CD, and debugging complex systems.
• Proficient in AWS services such as EC2, Lambda, S3.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication in English (written and verbal).

Good to Have:

• Experience with automation tools like Workato or similar.
• Hands-on experience with Python development.
• Familiarity with AI/ML features or API integrations.
• Comfortable working with US-based teams (flexible hours).

Job Description:

As per our conversation, please find below the job description for your review. 

·       Strong written/verbal communication skills

·       Minimum 5-14 Years of Core Java Programming with Collections Framework, Concurrent Programming, Multi-threading (Good knowledge in Executor service, Forkjoin pool and other threading concepts)

·       Good knowledge of the JVM with an understanding of performance and memory optimization.

·       Extensive and expert programming experience in JAVA programming language (strong OO skills preferred).

·       Excellent knowledge on collections like, Array List, Vector, LinkedList, HashMap, Hash Table, HashSet is mandate.

·       Exercised exemplary development practices including design specification, coding standards, unit testing, and code-reviews.

·       Expert level understanding of Object-Oriented Concepts and Data Structures

·       Good experience in Database (Sybase, Oracle, or SQL Server) like indexing (clustered, non clustered), hashing, segmenting, data types like clob / blob, views (materialized), replication, constraints, functions, triggers, procedures etc.

·       While you may already know about Wissen and the company history, here is a quick rundown for you.

About the company:

Company is building a math-learning platform with a meticulously designed curriculum that helps students become 4x quicker and better at math by nurturing their cognitive abilities and building their core math acumen.

Responsibilities:

• Lead technical direction, delivery and execution of technology roadmap, geared towards our overall vision
• Provide senior technical leadership at the highest levels in strong engineering culture
• Experience developing desktop and mobile applications
• Manage a team of around 10 engineers at various level of experience
• Experience working with Product Managers and UX Designers
• High level of maturity in delivery management in terms of project planning, execution, quality and stakeholder expectation management
• Regularly review team performance, collaborate with them on improvement initiatives/experiments and understand the data, team and workflow
• Attract, recruit, retain, and develop top engineering talent
• Foster a culture of risk taking and be able to celebrate failures
• Lead accountability, autonomy, and empowerment within your teams and manage the appropriate boundaries to achieve the result of having self-directed work teams

• Proficiency in Integration of various Azure resources (IaaS and PaaS - SQL DB , App Service , Application Insights , databricks , Storage accounts etc) to deliver an end to end automation.
• Thorough understanding of Continuous integration and continuous delivery using Azure DevOps/VSTS.
• Performing cost analysis of the Azure platform to identify where cost efficiencies could be had.
• Proficiency and thorough understanding of Azure RBAC model.
• Sound understanding of Azure Active directory and conditional access policies.
• Good grasp of Azure governance principles and hands-on experience in rolling out compliance and governance polices.
• Proficiency in developing infrastructure automation scripts in the form of ARM templates and Azure Power Shell scripts which can then be provided to application teams as consumables.
• Effective communication skills, both written and verbal for technical and non-technical audiences.
• Good working and hands on knowledge of Azure IaaS , Vnet , Subnets , Firewalls and NSG. Sound understanding of networking knowledge on DNA and Firewall security like Palo Alto.
• Experience working with Confluence, JIRA, Bitbucket, git, Jenkins, Sonar for collaboration and continuous integration.
• Experience with agile methods, along with having found their limitations and ways to overcome them.