IT/System Administrator

Position : Lead – Java Full Stack Developer

Experience : 7 to 12 Years

Location : Kochi / Thiruvananthapuram / Remote

Notice Period : Immediate to 15 Days

Open Positions : 1

Role Overview :

We are looking for a Lead Java Full Stack Developer with strong expertise in Java (Java 21, Spring Boot, and Hibernate), Angular (v19), and AWS to lead agile scrum teams and drive end-to-end feature delivery.

Key Skills Required :

• Java 21, Spring Boot MVC, Spring Data, Hibernate, Gradle
• Angular 19, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, REST APIs
• PostgreSQL / RDBMS / NoSQL
• AWS services: S3, Secrets Manager, CloudWatch
• CI/CD (Jenkins, GitHub), Docker
• Unit Testing (Jasmine/Karma or Jest)
• Tools: JIRA, Azure DevOps, Confluence
• Strong in design patterns, OOPs concepts, and performance optimization
• Excellent debugging and communication skills

Responsibilities :

• Design, develop, and deploy scalable full stack solutions
• Lead sprint tasks, perform code reviews, and ensure code quality
• Collaborate with stakeholders and convert requirements into technical specs
• Participate in Agile ceremonies and follow DevOps/CI-CD best practices
• Guide team members and promote technical best practices

Interview Process :

1. Technical Round
2. 2–3 Technical Rounds
3. Final Technical Discussion

Position : Software Engineer (Java Backend Engineer)

Experience : 4+ Years

📍 Location : Bangalore, India (Hybrid)

Mandatory Skills : Java 8+ (Advanced Features), Spring Boot, Apache Spark (Spark Streaming), SQL & Cosmos DB, Git, Maven, CI/CD (Jenkins, GitHub), Azure Cloud, Agile Scrum.

About the Role :

We are seeking a highly skilled Backend Engineer with expertise in Java, Spark, and microservices architecture to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in object-oriented programming, experience with Spark Streaming, and a deep understanding of distributed systems and cloud technologies.

Key Responsibilities :

• Design, develop, and maintain highly scalable microservices and optimized RESTful APIs using Spring Boot and Java 8+.
• Implement and optimize Spark Streaming applications for real-time data processing.
• Utilize advanced Java 8 features, including:
• Functional interfaces & Lambda expressions
• Streams and Parallel Streams
• Completable Futures & Concurrency API improvements
• Enhanced Collections APIs
• Work with relational (SQL) and NoSQL (Cosmos DB) databases, ensuring efficient data modeling and retrieval.
• Develop and manage CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub, and related automation tools.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Product, Business, and Automation, to deliver end-to-end product features.
• Ensure adherence to Agile Scrum practices and participate in code reviews to maintain high-quality standards.
• Deploy and manage applications in Azure Cloud environments.

Minimum Qualifications:

• BS/MS in Computer Science or a related field.
• 4+ Years of experience developing backend applications with Spring Boot and Java 8+.
• 3+ Years of hands-on experience with Git for version control.
• Strong understanding of software design patterns and distributed computing principles.
• Experience with Maven for building and deploying artifacts.
• Proven ability to work in Agile Scrum environments with a collaborative team mindset.
• Prior experience with Azure Cloud Technologies.

We're looking for highly skilled experienced engineers to design and build high-scale, cloud-based data processing systems that can handle massive amounts of data with low latency. You'll work with a team of smart, motivated, and diverse people and be given the autonomy and support to do your best work. This is a rare opportunity to make a meaningful impact in society while working in a dynamic and flexible workplace where you'll belong and be encouraged.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree required
• Significant experience with distributed systems.
• Experience with modern programming languages such as Java, C#, C/C++, or Ruby.
• Experience with container platforms such as DC/OS, Kubernetes
• Fluency in technologies and design concepts around Big Data processing and relational databases, such as the Hadoop ecosystem, Map/Reduce, stream processing, etc.
• Experience with production operations and good practices for putting quality code into production and troubleshooting issues when they arise.
• Effective communication of technical ideas verbally and in writing, including technical proposals, design specs, architecture diagrams, and presentations.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with the team and other stakeholders.
• Preferably, production experience with Cloud and data processing technologies.

Responsibilities:

As a member of the software engineering division, you will take an active role in the definition and evolution of standard practices and procedures. Define specifications for significant new projects and specify, design and develop software according to those specifications. You will perform professional software development tasks associated with the developing, designing and debugging of software applications or operating systems.

• Design and build distributed, scalable, and fault-tolerant software systems.
• Build cloud services on top of the modern OCI infrastructure.
• Participate in the entire software lifecycle, from design to development, to quality assurance, and to production.
• Invest in the best engineering and operational practices upfront to ensure our software quality bar is high.
• Optimize data processing pipelines for orders of magnitude higher throughput and faster latencies.
• Leverage a plethora of internal tooling at OCI to develop, build, deploy, and troubleshoot software.

ROR

1-2 years of experience working with Ruby on rails as well as libraries like Resque and RSpec.

Good experience with Redis, Sidekiq, and Docker.

Ability to write clean ruby code.

Proficiency with code versioning tools including Git, Github, Gitlab, and SVN.

Experience with AngularJS or React JS is a plus.

Familiarity with MVC, Mocking, RESTful, and ORM.

Good understanding of front-end technologies including HTML5, JavaScript, Jquery, and CSS3.

Knowledge of server-side templating languages including Slim, Haml, and ERB.

Familiarity with tools like Jira, Postman, Slack, and Microsoft Teams.

JD:

• Demonstrable hands-on experience working with Azure technologies.
• Extensive experience with Azure DevOps and pipelines.
• Experience working with Jira and Github.
• Experience of Infrastructure as Code using Terraform to model cloud infrastructure.
• Practical experience of engineering best practices with continuous improvement.

Required

• HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals

Desirable

Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate

Location- Remote

Job Type: Full time on contract

ABOUT US.

Established in 2009, Ashnik is a leading open-source solutions and consulting company in South East Asia and India, headquartered in Singapore. We enable digital transformation for large enterprises through our design, architecting, and solution skills. Over 100 large enterprises in the region have acknowledged our expertise in delivering solutions using key open-source technologies. Our offerings form critical part of Digital transformation, Big Data platform, Cloud and Web acceleration and IT modernization. We represent EDB, Pentaho, Docker, Couchbase, MongoDB, Elastic, NGINX, Sysdig, Redis Labs, Confluent, and HashiCorp as their key partners in the region. Our team members bring decades of experience in delivering confidence to enterprises in adopting open source software and are known for their thought leadership.

As a team culture, Ashnik is a family for its team members. Each member brings in different perspective, new ideas and diverse background. Yet we all together strive for one goal – to deliver best solutions to our customers using open source software. We passionately believe in the power of collaboration. Through an open platform of idea exchange, we create vibrant environment for growth and excellence.

THE POSITION

Ashnik is looking for talented and passionate people to be part of the team for an upcoming project at client location.

QUALIFICATION AND EXPERIENCE

• Preferably have a working experience of 4 Years and more , on production PostgreSQL DBs.
• Experience of working in a production support environment
• Engineering or Equivalent degree
• Passion for open-source technologies is desired

ADDITIONAL SKILLS

• Install & Configure PostgreSQL, Enterprise DB
• Technical capabilities PostgreSQL 9.x, 10.x, 11.x
• Server tuning
• Troubleshooting of Database issues
• Linux Shell Scripting
• Install, Configure and maintain Fail Over mechanism
• Backup - Restoration, Point in time database recovery
• A demonstrable ability to articulate and sell the benefits of modern platforms, software and technologies.
• A real passion for being curious and a continuous learner. You are someone that invests in yourself as much as you invest in your professional relationships.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Monitoring database performance
• Optimizing Queries and handle escalations
• Analyse and assess the impact and risk of low to medium risk changes on high profile production databases
• Implement security features
• DR implementation and switch over

LOCATION: Bangalore

Experience: 4 yrs plus

Package: upto 12 LPA

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent
• 8-12 years’ of industry experience in programming web applications, mobile and/or large scale enterprise products
• Deep knowledge of C#, ASP, .NET, MVC, .Net core
• Deep knowledge and extensive experience working on Ruby or React and JavaScript, as required
• Experience with XML, ADO/ADO.NET, LINQ, AJAX, IIS
• Extended experience with SQL, relational and non-relational databases
• Experience in TFS and Visual Studio
• Hands on experience with SDLC and programming design patterns
• Experience with Agile methodology
• Skillful at reviewing new feature impact on an application and recognizing potential risks
• Uses time effectively and efficiently
• Quickly learns new technologies
• Detailed oriented, professional and possesses a positive work attitude
• Communicate professionally both verbally and in writing
• Effective time management skills
• Knowledge on UI technologies will be plus

PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Develops software solutions by studying information needs, conferring with users, studying systems flow, data usage, and work processes, investigating problem areas, following the software development lifecycle.
• Conducts systems analysis and makes recommendations to improve the system to achieve an outcome.
• Promotes internal best practices and coding conventions to write and execute tests for your own code, including creating comprehensive unit tests.
• Contributes to Technical Requirements Documents.
• Requests constructive feedback for designs early in the process.
• Communicates successfully with large teams and many stakeholders.
• Provides mentorship for Software Engineers and participates in interview panels to hire new Software Engineers.
• Assists in removing obstacles for the team to yield successful sprints.
• Performs peer code reviews to ensure quality of the codebase.
• Ability to decompose and delegate work to junior engineers.
• Updates job knowledge by studying state-of-the-art development tools, programming techniques and computing equipment; participating in educational opportunities, reading professional publications, maintaining personal networks, participating in professional organizations.
• Works effectively with multiple projects and features.
• All other duties as assigned.

• 10+ years developing and designing software products, and demonstrated experience with full software development lifecycle, ideally in a regulated industry
• Strong computer science fundamentals in OOAD, design patterns, data structures, and algorithms
• Fluency in a high-level object oriented programming language (e.g. Java, C#, Golang, C++)
• Strong understanding of professional software engineering best practices for the full SLDC including coding standards, code reviews, source control, build processes, testing, and operations.
• Experience designing and developing scalable, highly available distributed systems / services
• Expertise with services and microservices solution design and delivery covering API design, containerization, and application integration / messaging.
• Expertise with design and delivery of cloud native solutions on any of the major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Expertise with algorithm development in one or more of the following areas: numerical & statistical analysis, signal processing, image processing, regression, and machine learning.
• Practical experience with SCRUM, SaFe or other applicable agile framework in regulated environments.
• Experience in design, engineering, and testing of software contained in medical devices developed under the FDAs regulations for 510(k) or PMA products is preferred. 
• Superior communications skills (oral & written)
• Outstanding interpersonal skills, and effective collaboration

Primary Job Function:

• Works in a lead role in one or more aspects of the overall software development process (such as software design, code development) under a disciplined product development process that meets FDA requirements.
• Works independently on identifying new technologies and creating systems designs for implementation into new product development and process improvements.
• Exercises independent judgment in identifying, recommending and implementing significant and/or complex new tools/process improvements to meet company objectives in areas of new product development, product testing, process improvement and compliance with regulatory requirements.
• Readily adjusts priorities and works within team environment for timely completion of common objectives for multiple projects.
• Resolve significant and/or complex technical issues to meet company objectives.

Main Responsibilities:

• Technical leadership in cloud services / systems software development (such as software design, code development, design review, code review, and testing) including project scheduling activities.
• Reliably deliver high quality software within schedule constraints.
• Provides technical ownership of software products.
• Actively participates in product development teams for the development of new products and services.
• Interacts with QA engineers to ensure that software products are robust and of very high quality.
• Research technical issues and propose technical approaches that achieve product and quality requirements.
• Participate in the full life cycle of development, from specification and design through implementation, testing, and support.
• Work on significant and unique issues where analysis of situations or data requires an evaluation of intangibles.
• Exercise independent judgment in methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results.

Minimum Education:

• Bachelors in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related engineering or scientific field.

Minimum Experience:

• 10 years relevant experience and a Bachelors degree or 5 yrs with MS degree. Will receive additional 2 years experience credit for PhD.
• Good knowledge of software engineering principles.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills are essential..
• Excellent troubleshooting skills are a must. Strong debugging techniques and experience on using debugger is required and/or use of testing tools to ensure high level of quality of software product.
• Strong working knowledge of the principles of quality software engineering as described by software lifecycle development processes that are consistent with ISO, IEEE, or other FDA recognized standards.
• Experience w/ distributed computing / services (preferably cloud native) software design and development is highly preferable.