JAVA Developer

About the Role

We are undertaking a platform migration from our existing WordPress site to a modern React frontend. We are seeking a highly capable Backend Engineer on a 1-month contract to lead the backend aspects of this transition. The ideal candidate has strong experience with serverless backends and API-first architectures, particularly using Cloudflare Workers and the Cloudflare ecosystem. You will collaborate closely with our in-house Frontend Engineer (specialized in React) to deliver a seamless, performant, and secure end product.  

Key Responsibilities

Audit current WordPress backend (data structures, plugins, custom code). Design and implement a backend solution leveraging Cloudflare Workers, Cloudflare KV / Durable Objects, and related services (or propose suitable alternatives such as Node.js/Express or headless CMS if appropriate). Develop secure APIs for authentication, content, and form handling. Migrate existing WordPress data (pages, posts, forms, and media) into the new system. Integrate with our CRM (_Zoho_) and other existing systems. Ensure compliance with NZ data protection standards. Deploy backend on Cloudflare (and/or coordinate with existing hosting infrastructure as needed). Provide documentation and handover to the internal team.

Qualifications & Skills

Proven experience in backend engineering with serverless platforms (Cloudflare Workers, AWS Lambda, or similar). Strong knowledge of RESTful APIs, authentication, and security best practices. Familiarity with Cloudflare KV, Durable Objects, R2, or equivalent distributed data solutions. Experience with WordPress architecture and React-based frontend integration. Experience in migration projects (legacy CMS → modern stack) highly valued. Strong collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively alongside frontend specialists.

Deliverables

Backend environment and Cloudflare Worker (or alternative) architecture established. Secure APIs deployed and tested with React frontend. Migration of content/data from WordPress. Integration with Zoho CRM and forms. Production deployment. Documentation + handover.

Duration: 1 month.

Engagement: Remote, with short daily and hourly weekly check-ins.

Compensation: 75,000 INR

Experience with Cloudflare Workers, the Cloudflare CDN, prior Wordpress migration experience, and any experience of working alongside frontend engineers prioritized. A huge bonus would be experience with Zoho CRM/Zoho Forms.

Work With Us

Get To Know Us First!

Freecharge a subsidiary of Axis Bank Limited founded in 2010, is a Fin-Tech organisation revolutionizing Financial Products through technology.

At our core, we’re a creative company. Ideas and pixels is where we live and we love building magical products that make our users feel ‘wow’. At Freecharge, you'll have the chance to do the best work of your life. We’re on a journey to build something new, something different and something innovative & that requires passion to build such incredible products.

Come join us and shape the future of Fin-Tech.

Do You Make The Cut?

We are looking for a motivated developer to join our agile team of developers as a Lead to mentor and as an individual contributor to drive best practices in the product.

You will be responsible for the design, architecture, and delivery of a feature/product with the highest quality. Providing the product with visible benefit to end-users in an iterative fast-paced environment by creating solutions suitable for the job in real-time.

Title: Lead SDE (Backend)

Location: Gurugram

Experience: 3-7 Yrs.

Education: Bachelor’s / Master’s in Software Engineering

Responsibilities

• In this lead role, you will be designing and developing complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers.
• Ensure the quality of design of systems by serving as a technical lead on our most demanding, cross-functional teams
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use.
• Build highly available, high performance, scalable software and you will work on distributed systems for massive-scale systems
• Responsible for code quality of the product being developed along with unit and integration testing.
• Mentor junior developers to improve their skills, and make them more effective, product software engineers.
• Communicate with technical teams, and senior management to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy.

Sounds Like You?

• 4+ years of software development experience with Enterprise Java (JDK 8 and above), Spring (Boot, MVC, AOP, DI), ORM Frameworks.
• 1+ years of experience contributing to the architecture and design (LLD, HLD, Solid principles and design patterns and scaling) of new and current systems.
• Strong experience in technically leading junior developers with a focus on the goal.
• Strong experience in data structures & algorithms and their space & time complexities.
• Solid understanding of multithreading, microservices, MVC and strong OO skills with demonstrated experience in developing complex and reusable APIs.
• Strong experience working with Databases like SQL & NoSQL.
• Experience working with microservices-based architecture.
• Experience in high traffic, highly scalable distributed system designs, complex web applications, and code reviews.
• Experience working in an Agile environment.
• Solid understanding of the full software development life cycle and the domain.
• Good to have knowledge of messaging systems like SNS/ SQS /Kafka etc.

Life at Freecharge!

Our Playground!

• 450+ FCian’s, at Gurugram & Bengaluru locations
• Collaboration spaces & A flat and transparent culture
• Wow Corners, fun & reading Zone
• Best learning and development opportunities

Benefits

• Day-care facility
• Comprehensive Insurance Policy
• Wellness Benefits like Health check-ins
• 26 Weeks Maternity & 2 Weeks Paternity Leaves
• Adoption Assistance Program
• On-Site Parking at all locations
• A chance to have a big impact early in your career

ARE YOU READY?

TO

#ChargeYourFuture

Primary Skills:

.Net/.Net Core, C#, OOPS and SQL Server as a key technology, which covers frontend and backend work. Knowledge of DevOps (building and deployment) and the Cloud is nice to have.

Roles & Responsibilities

Participate in requirements analysis.

Collaborate with internal teams to produce software design and architecture.

Write clean, scalable code using .NET programming languages.

Test and deploy applications and systems.

Revise, update, refactor and debug code.

Improve existing software.

Eligibility

3+ years of experience in building web applications. Passion for building and delivering great software with a strong sense of ownership

Advanced proficiency in C#, very clear OOPS concepts, In-depth knowledge of the .NET framework, ASP.NET, MVC, Web API, REST APIs, OAuth 2.0/ Authentication/ Authorization

Strong expertise in SQL programming, with experience of writing & optimizing queries that access/process millions of records

Good to have any scripting(powershell) knowledge, JS based UI Frameworks

Outstanding analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills

Experienced in complex logic designing and implementation

Should have worked in Agile development environment and best practices

Good to have experience in secure development practices

•Hands on experience in Object oriented programming

•Hands on experience in Java, SpringBoot (min 2 years) or kafka or Cassandra or MongoDB

•Experience with developing/enhancing applications connecting to different Databases : Oracle/MySQL/Cassandra/MongoDB

•Strong knowledge of common Data structures and algorithms and when to use them.

•Experience in Xpath or XML or REST or JSON or protobuff

• Experience with software version control (such as git)

•Experience in working in an agile environment such as Scrum.

Preferable:

•Experience in public cloud PaaS (AWS, GCP, Azure)

•Real time stream data handling (Kafka, Kinesis

About Telstra:

Telstra is Australia’s leading telecommunications and technology company, with operations in more than 20 countries. At Telstra, We've implemented an IT strategy that employs leading-edge software engineering practices to help deliver a superior customer experience with improved trust and speed of delivery, lower cost, and simplified architecture, systems and processes.

Your key responsibilities and major tasks include, but are not limited to

• As a backend Java developer, you will work within a specific problem space critical to Telstra’s current needs where you will design, develop, and deploy backend services with a focus on scalability, high availability, and low latency.
• Review and integrate all application requirements, including functional, security, integration, performance, quality, and operations requirements.
• Apply engineering best practices such as Agile, CI/CD, and DevOps as part of a high performing motivated team.
• Collaborate and grow in a dynamic and autonomous environment while working in small, agile, and cross functional teams
• Pivot to working on new features and developments, to providing production support in the production and pre-production environments assisted by all team members. This responsibility is equally shared by all members of the team.
  
  

We are looking for candidates with the following experience and skills:

Essential skills and Experience

• 3 years – 7 years year experience in this area
• Must have strong Java programming background (preferably Java 8+)​
• Preferred Frameworks – Spring Boot​
• Unit Testing, Integration testing and Automated testing. ​
• Experience with Continuous Integration/Deployment​
• Microservices development – HTTP, REST API​ design and implementation​
• Comfortable to operate in an agile, dynamic environment​.

Required Skills:

• 3+ years of experience with development in JAVA technology.
• Strong Java Basics
• SpringBoot or Spring MVC
• Hands-on experience with Relational Databases (SQL query or Hibernate) + Mongo (JSON parsing)
• Proficient in REST API development
• Messaging Queue (RabitMQ or Kafka)
• Microservices
• Any Caching Mechanism
• Good at problem-solving

Good to Have Skills:

• 4+ years of experience in using Java/J2EE tech stacks
• Good understanding of data structures and algorithms.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced internet start-up environment.
• Experience in technical mentorship/coaching is highly desirable.
• Understanding of AI/ML algorithms is a plus.

1. 2+ years of experience building REST APIs with Java
2. 1+ years of experience in maintaining REST APIs documentation.
3. 2+ years of experience programming and delivering in a production environment
4. Expertise working with data structures and algorithms
5. Proficiency in object-oriented programming and experience applying modern design patterns.