IOT Backend Lead

Job Position: Lead II - Software Engineering

Domain: Information technology (IT)

Location: India - Thiruvananthapuram

Salary: Best in Industry

Job Positions: 1

Experience: 8 - 12 Years

Skills: .Net, Sql Azure, Rest Api, Vue.Js

Notice Period: Immediate – 30 Days

Job Summary:

We are looking for a highly skilled Senior .NET Developer with a minimum of 7 years of experience across the full software development lifecycle, including post-live support. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in .NET backend API development, Agile methodologies, and Cloud infrastructure (preferably Azure). You will play a key role in solution design, development, DevOps pipeline enhancement, and mentoring junior engineers.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable and secure .NET backend APIs.
• Collaborate with product owners and stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
• Lead and contribute to Agile software delivery processes (Scrum, Kanban).
• Develop and improve CI/CD pipelines and support release cadence targets, using Infrastructure as Code tools (e.g., Terraform).
• Provide post-live support, troubleshooting, and issue resolution as part of full lifecycle responsibilities.
• Implement unit and integration testing to ensure code quality and system stability.
• Work closely with DevOps and cloud engineering teams to manage deployments on Azure (Web Apps, Container Apps, Functions, SQL).
• Contribute to front-end components when necessary, leveraging HTML, CSS, and JavaScript UI frameworks.
• Mentor and coach engineers within a co-located or distributed team environment.
• Maintain best practices in code versioning, testing, and documentation.

Mandatory Skills:

• 7+ years of .NET development experience, including API design and development
• Strong experience with Azure Cloud services, including:
• Web/Container Apps
• Azure Functions
• Azure SQL Server
• Solid understanding of Agile development methodologies (Scrum/Kanban)
• Experience in CI/CD pipeline design and implementation
• Proficient in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) – preferably Terraform
• Strong knowledge of RESTful services and JSON-based APIs
• Experience with unit and integration testing techniques
• Source control using Git
• Strong understanding of HTML, CSS, and cross-browser compatibility

Good-to-Have Skills:

• Experience with Kubernetes and Docker
• Knowledge of JavaScript UI frameworks, ideally Vue.js
• Familiarity with JIRA and Agile project tracking tools
• Exposure to Database as a Service (DBaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) concepts
• Experience mentoring or coaching junior developers
• Strong problem-solving and communication skills

We are seeking an experienced & highly skilled Java Lead to join our team. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in both front end & Back-end Technologies with expertise in JAVA, and Spring.

As a Lead, you will be responsible for overseeing the development

team, architecture saleable application & ensuring best practices in software development. This role requires a hands on leader with excellent problem solving abilities & a passion for mentoring junior

team members.

Responsibilities

• Lead & mentor a team of developers proving guidance on coding standards, architecture & best
• practices
• Architect, design & develop ent to end JAVA based web applications & ensure high performance,
• security & scalability
• Work closely with cross functional teams, including product managers, designers & other developers
• to ensure alignment on project requirements & deliverable.
• Conduct code reviews & provide constructive feedback to team members to improve code quality &
• maintain a consistent codebase
• Participate in Agile/Scrum Ceremonies such as stand ups, sprint planning & retrospectives to
• contribute to the development process.
• Troubleshoot & resolve complex technical issues & ensure timely resolution of bugs & improvements.
• Stay up to date with emerging technologies & industry trends recommending & implementing
• improvements to keep our stack modern & effective

Skills & Requirements

• Minimum 8 Years of experience in Java development, with at least 2 years in Lead developer role.
• Back-end - Core JAVA/JAVA8, Spring-boot, Spring Framework, Micro-services, Rest API’s, Kafka,
• Database - MySQL
• Must be working in the fintech/ Payments domain

Preferred

• Experience with Batch writing, Application performance, Caches security, Web Security

• 1-5 years of experience in Java Development.
• Very good with DSA - Java programming.
• Hands-on experience in working with REST APIs & Web Services.
• Good Database design skills - SQL
• Write well-designed, testable, efficient code.
• Contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle.

Work Location : Bangalore

Work mode : Work from office.

Java with cloud

Senior Software Engineer, Java/Python (Bangalore, Remote option available)

4+ years of experience 

Zepto 

Why should you look at this role?

Salary 40-55 lakh per annum

Paid leave

Sick leave

Provident Fund

What Else?

• High growth startup in quick commerce space (10 min delivery)
• Given our very high hiring bar, we offer a very competitive salary and substantial equity to create everlasting wealth for our early believers as the company grows.
• Work on real world logistics problems & benefit from the rocket ship Zepto is!

Tech Team: 40-50 (200+ in few months)

About the Employer

Zepto is a fast-growing startup that delivers products in 10 minutes through an optimised network of dark stores that we're building across the country!

Just 6 months after launching, we've raised $160 million from marquee

investors in Silicon Valley and India. Our investors include Y Combinator, Nexus Venture Partners, and many more! We’ve built out one of the best startup teams in India, with Senior Executives from Uber, Flipkart, Dream11, PhonePe, Goldman Sachs, Pepperfry, and institutions like Stanford, INSEAD, IITs, and IIMs.

The magic of Zepto is our ability to consistently deliver 2,500+ products in 10 minutes flat. It's the core of what we do, and the reason why we’ve been able to grow so fast with phenomenal customer love. Our mission is simple: to make 10-minute delivery the new normal.

Funding:

Funding Zepto has raised a total of $160M in funding over 3 rounds.

Their latest funding was raised on Dec 20, 2021 from a Series C round.

Employer Reviews:

“High Ownership, Lots of Learning, Broad Roles, Accessible Leaders”

"Alot of benefits like ZeptoJoy coupon, internet bill reimbursement and cab reimbursement is also taken care of. Overtime is paid."

Reporting structure:

Software Engineer -> Sr Software Engineer -> Lead -> EM -> AD / Director / VP -> Head of Engineering -> CTO

This role would be by and large a Individual Contributor role.

Interview Process:

• Round 1. Problem Solving + CS Fundamentals (60 mins)
  • DS/Algo Problems (30 mins) - You can expect 1-2 Leetcode easy/medium questions
  • CS Fundamentals (30 mins)
• Round 2. Low Level Design (60 mins)
  • You would be given a trivial problem and expected to work through the low level design viz class structure, interfaces, db data models etc.
• Round 3. High Level Design (60 mins)
  • You will be given a trivial problem, where we would work with you to design the system for the problem statement. We expect the detailed flow of the Functionality
    • Extract APIs, if any
    • Database choices
    • Schema design and Scale the system, if time permits

What You will do Everyday?

• Work very closely with the Tech Leadership and lead end-to-end development.
• Closely collaborate with product, design and business teams to understand product ideas and business needs and help deliver these as a series of ultra fast experiments.
• Architect and implement backend services with high reliability and scalability.
• Contribute to system architecture and database design.
• Set up best practices for development and champion their adoption.
• Write quality documentation and handle conflicts well to build consensus.
• Learn about new technologies and incorporate them.
• Mentor young minds and foster team spirit

Your Superpowers

• 4+ years of experience with Java frameworks like Spring / Dropwizard/Play or Python frameworks like Django/Flask/FastApi and databases like PostgreSQL/MySQL/MongoDB
• Experience in building highly scalable customer-facing applications that involve implementing complex business flows and dealing with an ever-increasing scale
• Extensive experience in object-oriented design skills, knowledge of design patterns, and huge passion and ability to design intuitive module and class-level interfaces.
• Experience in service-oriented architecture design.
• Experience building at least one application from scratch.
• Experience with cache store/message broker like Redis / RabbitMQ/Kafka
• Interest in learning new languages/framework as needed.
• Worked in a startup environment with high levels of ownership and commitment.
• A growth mindset and passionate about building things from the ground up and most importantly, you should be fun to work with.

Job Responsibilities:

* Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable Java code

* Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the applications

* Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to these problems

* Help maintain code quality, organization, and automatization

* Prepare the technical design of complex technology components

Mandatory Skills:

* Proficient in Java (JDK 1.7) or above JDK 8 preferable, with a good knowledge of its ecosystems with a knack for writing clean, readable Java code, writing reusable Java libraries along with knowledge of concurrency patterns in Java

* Solid understanding of object-oriented programming along with various design and architectural patterns

* Hands on experience with Spring, Spring Boot, JUnit

* Familiarity with concepts of MVC, Microservices, RESTful

• You will be responsible for design, development and testing of Products
• Contributing in all phases of the development lifecycle

• Writing well designed, testable, efficient code
• Ensure designs are in compliance with specifications

• Prepare and produce releases of software components

• Support continuous improvement by investigating alternatives and technologies and presenting these for architectural review

• Some of the technologies you will be working on: Core Java, Solr, Hadoop, Spark, Elastic search, Clustering, Text Mining, NLP, Mahout and Lucene etc.