JAVA ALPHA LEAD DEVELOPER

RazerTech Consulting is mandated to hire a Technical Lead for a US based Tech Company that offers a cloud-based, AI?powered image editing and automation platform for leading brands in ecommerce, fashion, marketplaces & photo studios. The platform helps creatives and marketers produce stunningly consistent imagery and video content at scale.

Role Overview :

Were looking for a hands-on engineering lead to own the delivery of our GenAI-centric product from the backend up to the UI while integrating visual AI pipelines built by ML engineers. Youll be both a builder and a leader : writing clean Java and TypeScript/Node.js, scaling AWS-based systems, mentoring engineers, and making architectural decisions that stand the test of scale. Ideally, youre also familiar with Python for deploying ML pipelines.

(Note : This role requires both technical mastery and leadership skills - we're looking for someone who can write production code, make architectural decisions, and lead a team to success.)

What Youll Do :

• Lead development of the Java, Node.js and Python (FastAPI) backend services on AWS
• Build high-performance image processing pipelines using ImageMagick, SharpJS, and SVG manipulation
• Implement automated visual content generation using Headless Chrome and Puppeteer or similar tools.
• Deploy ML pipelines (built by the ML team) into containerized inference workflows using FastAPI, Docker, and GPU-enabled ECS EC2.
• Deploy and manage services on AWS ECS/Fargate, Lambda, API Gateway, and GPU-powered EC2
• Contribute to React/TypeScript frontend when needed to accelerate product delivery
• Work closely with the founder, product, and UX teams to translate business needs and PRDs into features that drive productmarket fit.
• Make architecture and infrastructure decisions from media processing to task queues to storage
• Own the performance and cost-optimization of our AWS platform
• Hire and mentor junior/mid engineers over time
• Drive technical planning, sprint prioritization, and trade-off decisions

Must have Skills :

• Backend Development (57 years) : Java, Node.js, TypeScript, RESTful API, Docker
• AWS Expertise (5+ years) : AWS Lambda, ECS, EC2, S3, DynamoDB, CloudWatch, IAM, roles
• Image Processing & Media Technologies : ImageMagick, SharpJS, SVG manipulation and programmatic generation, Headless Chrome, Puppeteer
• System Optimization & Middleware (35 years) : AWS cloud cost optimization, Celery, BullMQ, AWS Step Functions
• Frontend Development (23 years) : React, TypeScript, Redux, Context API, CI/CD pipelines.
• System Design & Architecture (46 years) : Event-driven architectures using queues, microservices-based systems, caching strategies (e.g., Redis, CDN edge caching)
• Leadership & Communication (23 years) : Lead engineering teams and drive project delivery

Experience 2- 6 years within SW development

Excellent C/C++ and object-oriented programming skills

Excellent design analysis skills, including experience with software modeling,

Excellent on Linux for CLI or SNMP management related layer for L2 or L3 switches

Experience in telecom is a plus

Flexible, innovative, and driven

Structured and thorough with analytical and troubleshooting skills

Highly motivated team player

Agile way of working

Job Description:
We are looking for a Software Engineer with solid development experience in Java and related frameworks. We are looking for a self-motivated, go-getter, out-of-the-box thinker who is ready to work in a high-energy start-up environment. He/she must demonstrate a high level of ownership, integrity, and creativity.
Required Skills:
• Core Java (Proficient)
• Spring, Spring MVC OR Spring boot
• Hibernate – Good to have
• Oracle/MySQL DB - Hands-on (Intermediate)
• REST API and AWS– Good to have
• Hands-on experience of working on Spring boot based Microservices (Intermediate)
• Good to have knowledge of Microservice DevOps tools (Git, Jenkins, JUnits, deployment, monitoring, tracing)
• Sound understanding of core Java, SOAP Services, REST Services, Spring & maven, having expertized to work on Unix platform
• Should have working knowledge on web servers (e.g. Apache HTTP) and application servers (e.g. Tomcat, WebLogic)
• Should have a working knowledge of any relational database. Preferred will be Oracle and MySQL.
Roles and Responsibilities:
• You will design, develop, modify, debug and/or maintain software code according to functional, non-functional and technical design specifications.
• You will follow software engineering standards, applicable software development
methodology and release processes, to ensure code is maintainable, scalable,
supportable and demo the software products to stakeholders
• You will investigate issues by reviewing/debugging code, providing fixes and workarounds, and reviewing changes for operability to maintain existing software solutions.
• You will work within a team, collaborate and add value through participation in peer code reviews, provide comments and suggestions, work with cross-functional teams to achieve goals.

Why should you join Opcito?
We are a dynamic company that believes in designing transformation solutions for our customers with our ability to unify quality, reliability, and cost-effectiveness at any scale. Our core work culture focuses on adding material value to client products by leveraging best practices in DevOps like continuous integration, continuous delivery, and automation, coupled with disruptive technologies like cloud, containers, serverless computing, and microservice-based architectures.
Here are some of the perks of working with Opcito:
• Outstanding career development and learning opportunities
• Competitive compensation depending on experience and skill
• Friendly team and enjoyable work environment
• Flexible working schedule
• Corporate and social events.

Job Description:

• Must have experience of 1 – 6 years.
• Experience in Java/J2EE platform.
• Experience in web application development with JSP, Servlet, Spring Boot, Hibernate
• Knowledge of MySQL database.
• Developed REST and SOAP web services..
• Experience in version control system and build tool
• Must have completed BE/MCA/M.Sc/MTech.

ThoughtWorks is a global software consultancy with an aim to create a positive impact on the world through technology. Our community of technologists thinks disruptively to deliver pragmatic solutions for our clients' most complex challenges. We are curious minds who come together as collaborative and inclusive teams to push boundaries, free to be ourselves and make our mark in tech.

Our developers have been contributing code to major organizations and open source projects for over 25 years. They’ve also been writing books, speaking at conferences and helping push software development forward, changing companies and even industries along the way. We passionately believe that software quality is driven by open communication, review and collaboration. That’s why we’re such vehement supporters of open source and have made significant contributions to open source tools for testing, continuous delivery (GoCD), continuous integration (CruiseControl), machine learning and healthcare. 

As consultants, we https://www.thoughtworks.com/careers/hub/consultant-life">work with our clients to ensure we’re evolving their technology and empowering adaptive mindsets to meet their business goals. You could influence the digital strategy of a retail giant, build a bold new mobile application for a bank or redesign platforms using event sourcing and intelligent data pipelines. You will use the latest Lean and Agile thinking, create pragmatic solutions to solve mission-critical problems and challenge yourself every day.

You’ll spend time on the following:

• You will champion best practices like writing clean and reusable code using practices like TDD, SOLID principles, OO design, and pair programming
• You will partner with other technologists from cross-functional teams advocating devops culture
• You will work in collaborative, product-focused teams to build innovative customer experiences
• Take ownership and accountability beyond individual deliverables, always pushing the envelope in order to deliver awesome results for our clients
• Learn, digest and subsequently apply the latest technology thinking from ourhttps://www.thoughtworks.com/radar"> tech radar to solve client problems

Here’s what we’re looking for:

• You have 2+ years* of experience using two or more development languages (Java, JavaScript, Ruby, C#, etc.) with experience in Object-Oriented programming
• You’re willing and able to commit to traveling up to 100% (back home on the weekends) across the US and Canada to help our clients solve their business problems
• You can write clean, high-quality code in a variety of languages and are also able to spot (and improve) bad code
• You’re resilient in ambiguous situations and can approach challenges from multiple perspectives
• You have experience with Agile, Lean and/or Continuous Delivery approaches such as Continuous Integration, TDD, Infrastructure as Code, etc.
• Bonus points if you have knowledge of cloud technology such as AWS, Docker or Kubernetes
• You’re willing and able to commit to travel to client sites in order to solve their business problems

Job Summary:

– We are looking for a kick ass software engineer with exceptional skills in data structures, algorithms, core java, and distributed systems. If you think you have it in you to deliver on aggressive timelines, have the hunger for growth, don’t like giving excuses, contribute to product features, be hands-on and deliver a world-class product, then we want to hear from you.

This is a predominantly back-end engineering role.

– You are a rockstar engineer with proven capabilities working on SaaS product and a passion for writing exception code.

– You are hungry for an opportunity to join a start-up and become a member of core platform team driving the company forward.

– You will be responsible for the delivery of product features as a part of the platform engineering team.

– You will be hands-on working on key features of the product.

– You will be responsible for design of back-end architectural changes and product features.

– You will have plenty of opportunity to learn and implement ideas to build products in efficient and cohesive manner.

– Understand the product mission, goals, and tasks and execute with the team to achieve them.

– Understand the design and architecture and build modules in accordance with it or recommend and make the necessary changes that adds more stability to our product.

Eligibility:

– 4+ years of experience with hands-on experience in Core Java/Kotlin

– 2+ years of experience as a technical architect with responsibility for core features 

– 4+ years of working experience in cloud-based systems

– 2+ years of experience working on distributed systems

– 2+ years of experience working on Kafka and Zookeeper

– Experience working on RxJava/ Reactive Programming

– Adept on design patterns and distributed systems

– Excellent verbal and written communication

– Proficient in building REST APIs to interact with relational and non-relational data sources

– Proficient in SQL and RDBMS

– Hands on experience in code and system optimization

– Experience in working with NoSQL databases is a plus