JAVA

Work Mode: Full-time, in-person

Reporting To: VP – Software

Job Description

We are looking for a hands-on Technical Lead Engineer to lead the design, development, and delivery of our Head-End System (HES), Meter Data Management (MDM), and Smart Metering platform. The role requires strong backend engineering expertise, deep understanding of smart metering and utility systems, and the ability to guide a development team through architecture, implementation, integration, testing, deployment, and production support.

The ideal candidate will have practical experience building scalable IoT or utility platforms involving smart meter communication, DLMS/COSEM protocols, real-time data acquisition, validation, event processing, command execution, and integration with enterprise systems such as billing, NMS, OMS, and analytics platforms.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end technical development of HES, MDM, AMI/AMR, and smart metering modules.
• Design scalable backend architecture for meter communication, data ingestion, validation, processing, storage, and reporting.
• Implement and guide development of DLMS/COSEM IEC 62056 based meter communication.
• Integrate with smart meters, DCUs/gateways, billing systems, NMS, OMS, analytics systems, and third-party utility platforms.
• Lead Java/Spring Boot backend development using REST APIs, messaging queues, socket programming, and distributed system patterns.
• Design high-volume data pipelines for interval data, events, alarms, billing reads, and meter health data.
• Ensure performance, scalability, fault tolerance, database optimization, and reliable production operations.
• Mentor developers, review code, define engineering standards, and guide sprint-level technical execution.
• Work with product, project, QA, deployment, and customer teams to convert utility requirements into robust technical solutions.
• Own technical troubleshooting for production issues, performance bottlenecks, device communication failures, and integration defects.
• Prepare technical documentation, architecture diagrams, API specifications, and deployment guidelines.

Required Skills

• 6+ years of software development experience, including 3+ years in smart metering, HES, MDM, AMI, IoT, or utility platforms.
• Strong hands-on experience with Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs, JDBC/JPA, multithreading, backend system design, debugging, performance tuning, and production support.
• Practical experience with DLMS/COSEM, IEC 62056, Gurux or similar frameworks, smart meter communication, meter reads, events, commands, and remote operations.
• Strong understanding of communication protocols such as TCP/IP, socket programming, FTP/SFTP, MQTT/HTTP, and related integration patterns.
• Experience with Kafka/RabbitMQ, MySQL/MariaDB, MongoDB, Redis, ClickHouse, Apache Solr, or similar messaging and data platforms.
• Knowledge of scalable architecture, including clustering, replication, load balancing, caching, retries, failover, monitoring, and large-scale time-series data handling.
• Experience leading backend engineering teams, owning technical delivery, reviewing code, and mentoring developers.
• Preferred: experience with utility/DISCOM projects, AMISP programs, billing engines, prepaid metering, NMS/OMS, energy accounting, cloud services, CI/CD, Docker/Kubernetes, observability, and cybersecurity for smart metering systems.

Education Requirement

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, Electronics & Communication, Electrical Engineering, or a related engineering discipline is preferred. Candidates with strong hands-on HES/MDM, AMI, DLMS/COSEM, IoT, or utility software experience may be considered even with a different academic background.

We are looking for a strong Mobile Engineer with backend exposure who can own end-to-end feature development. This is a mobile-heavy fullstack role where you will primarily build scalable mobile applications while contributing to backend services and APIs.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and develop high-quality mobile applications (primary focus)
• Build and integrate RESTful APIs and backend services
• Collaborate with product and design teams to ship features end-to-end
• Ensure performance, scalability, and reliability of mobile apps
• Write clean, maintainable, and testable code
• Participate in architecture discussions and technical decision-making

Must Have Skills

• Strong experience in mobile development (Flutter / React Native / iOS / Android)
• Solid understanding of backend development (Node.js / Java / Python / Go)
• Experience with API design, microservices, and databases
• Good understanding of system design and app performance optimization
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS/GCP)

Good to Have

• Experience working in startup environments
• Exposure to CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices
• Understanding of real-time systems or scalable architectures

What You will do

● Create beautiful software experiences for our customers using design thinking, lean and agile methodology.

● Design and develop software products from scratch using the latest cutting edge technologies, platforms and languages such as JAVA, python, Javascript, GoLang and Scala.

● Work in a dynamic, collaborative, transparent, non-hierarchical culture.

● Help to grow the next generation of developers and have a positive impact on the industry.

Basic Qualifications

● Experience: 8+ years.

● Engineering Degree in Computer Science OR Equivalent.

● Hands-on development experience with a broad mix of languages such as JAVA, Python, Javascript etc.

● Server-side development experience mainly in JAVA, (Python and nodeJS can be considerable)

● UI development experience in ReactJS or AngularJS or PolymerJS or EmberJS or Jquery etc.

● Passion for software engineering and follow the best coding concepts. ● Good to great problem solving and communication skills.

● Must have experience in technical architecture and design , code reviews and mentoring junior developers.

● Should have experience in stakeholder management and work along with architects as and when necessary to lead the project.

Nice to have Qualifications

● Product engineering and customer-centric mindset.

● Great OOP skills, including design patterns.

● Experience with devops, continuous integration & deployment.

● Exposure to big data technologies, Machine Learning and NLP will be a plus.

Benefits

● Competitive salary.

● Work from anywhere.

● Reimbursements for remote work set up.

● Insurance (including a top up insurance for COVID).

● Free Access to Online learning libraries such as O'reilly or equivalent Location Remote - work from anywhere

Hurry Upp!!! We are Hiring Full Stack Developer

We are looking for a highly skilled computer programmer who is comfortable with both front and back-end programming. Full Stack Developers are responsible for developing and designing front-end web architecture, ensuring the responsiveness of applications, and working alongside graphic designers for web design features, among other duties.

Full Stack Developers will be required to see out a project from conception to final product, requiring good organizational skills and attention to detail.

Full Stack Developer Responsibilities:

• Developing front-end website architecture.

• Designing user interactions on web pages.

• Developing back-end website applications.

• Creating servers and databases for functionality.

• Ensuring cross-platform optimization for mobile phones.

• Ensuring responsiveness of applications

• Working alongside graphic designers for web design features.

We are looking for Web Designer with 2+yrs of experience and well-versed with Wordpress, kindly apply if the following responsibility suit you:

Job Responsibility:

• Experience in building both front-end and back-end of the website
• Knowledge of WordPress Plugins
• Excellent and written and verbal communication skills with proven fluency in English
• Good understanding of Web architecture
• Analysing website performance and troubleshooting errors
• Conducts Wordpress design/development research and performs discovery analyses for new client projects, including content reviews and wireframing.
• Creates Wordpress design/development strategies based on research.
• Stay up-to-date with new web technologies.

Company Website: https://theempiremedia.in/

Job Responsibilities:

• Be a part of a team developing a rapidly growing product used by thousands of small businesses.
• Responsible for building large scale applications that are high performance, scalable, and resilient in an microservices environment
• Evaluate new technologies and tools such as new frameworks, methodologies, best practices and other areas that will improve overall efficiencies and product quality

Skill Set:

• 3+ years of working experience in developing API centric core Java/J2EE applications using Spring boot, JPA, REST API, XML and JSON
• Experience in frontend framework - any one of Backbone, Angular, Vue or React
• Working experience in any one of the Cloud Platforms - Google Cloud (preferable) or AWS
• Experience in large scale databases - NoSQL and MongoDB.
• Hands on experience in Eclipse based development and using Git, SVN, Junit
• Past experience in startups or product development is a big plus.

Our ideal candidate is someone who is an exceptional JS developer with significant experience on React and Node. You should be able to build and support complex applications single-handedly with a keen eye towards UX, design, security and performance. Additionally you will need to have a basic understanding of microservices, API integrations to aid in achieving our vision of building the most robust and scalable integration platform in the B2B Retail + Food verticals. You will be responsible for architecture, design and implementation of the entire system to support thousands of customers globally. Our stack is primarily built around Node, PHP, React, Angular, Mongo, PHP and advanced Infra and DevOps tools such as Kubernetes, Grafana, Prometheus, ELK and more.

Mentoring should come naturally to you, as well as finding the right balance towards process and documentation.

Highlights:
1) You will be working on interesting technical challenges in a product centric and open-source driven environment.
2) You will help set a very high bar on code quality with a focus on test driven development and writing highly performant, fault tolerant and secure code.
3) You will take ownership of product features from conception to implementation, testing deployment and support.
4) A lot of freedom on when and where you work from - just get stuff done.
5) You will open source as much as possible, and blog about cool things that you learnt and built.
6) You will help define who we become as a company.
7) You will get stock options in line with silicon valley standards.


Caveats:
1) We have a strict no-divas rule. There are a lot of smart engineers on the team but no one with an attitude / superiority complex.
2) If you think writing tests for your code, writing docs, doing customer support etc are not your cup of tea, this isn't the right role for you.
3) Similarly, if you're viewing this just as a 20-40% increment opportunity over your current compensation, this isn't the right role or company for you.


This role can be the growth opportunity of a lifetime for anyone who has been operating as a backend lead and wants to grow into a fullstack CTO. Check out the links below if you'd like to learn more about us. We encourage people from underrepresented groups to apply.

1) Why ShoppinPal? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cE7DgtwA0ws" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cE7DgtwA0ws
2) Our hiring philosophy and process http://techstory.in/building-startup-team/" target="_blank">http://techstory.in/building-startup-team/
3) Our culture- https://www.shoppinpal.com/culture">https://www.shoppinpal.com/culture