Java Architect

About OptimizeGEO

OptimizeGEO.ai is our flagship product that helps brands stay visible and discoverable in AI-powered answers. Unlike traditional SEO that optimizes for keywords and rankings, OptimizeGEO operationalizes GEO principles ensuring brands are mentioned, cited, and trusted by generative systems (ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, etc.) and answer engines (featured snippets, voice search, and AI answer boxes).

Founded by industry veterans Kirthiga Reddy (ex-Meta, MD Facebook India) and Saurabh Doshi (ex-Meta, ex-Viacom), Company is backed by Micron Ventures, Better Capital, FalconX, and leading angels including Randi Zuckerberg, Vani Kola and Harsh Jain.

Role Overview

We are hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to build the data and services layer that powers OptimizeGEO’s analytics, scoring, and reporting. This role partners closely with our GEO/AEO domain experts and data teams to translate framework gap analysis, share-of-voice, entity/knowledge-graph coverage, trust signals into scalable backend systems and APIs.

You will design secure, reliable, and observable services that ingest heterogeneous web and third-party data, compute metrics, and surface actionable insights to customers via dashboards and reports.

Key Responsibilities

• Own backend services for data ingestion, processing, and aggregation across crawlers, public APIs, search consoles, analytics tools, and third-party datasets.
• Operationalize GEO/AEO metrics (visibility scores, coverage maps, entity health, citation/trust signals, competitor benchmarks) as versioned, testable algorithms.
• Data Scaping using various tools and working on volume estimates for accurate consumer insights for brands
• Design & implement APIs for internal use (data science, frontend) and external consumption (partner/export endpoints), with clear SLAs and quotas.
• Data pipelines & orchestration: batch and incremental jobs, queueing, retries/backoff, idempotency, and cost-aware scaling.
• Storage & modeling: choose fit-for-purpose datastores (OLTP/OLAP), schema design, indexing/partitioning, lineage, and retention.
• Observability & reliability: logging, tracing, metrics, alerting; SLOs for freshness and accuracy; incident response playbooks.
• Security & compliance: authN/authZ, secrets management, encryption, PII governance, vendor integrations.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with domain experts to convert research into productized features and executive-grade reports.

Required Qualification (Must Have)

• Familiarity with technical SEO artifacts: schema.org/structured data, E-E-A-T, entity/knowledge-graph concepts, and crawl budgets.
• Exposure to AEO/GEO and how LLMs weigh sources, citations, and trust; awareness of hallucination risks and mitigation.
• Experience integrating SEO/analytics tools (Google Search Console, Ahrefs, SEMrush, Similarweb, Screaming Frog) and interpreting their data models.
• Background in digital PR/reputation signals and local/international SEO considerations.
• Comfort working with analysts to co-define KPIs and build executive-level reporting.

Expected Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience building backend systems in production (startups or high-growth product teams preferred).
• Proficiency in one or more of: Python, Node.js/TypeScript, Go, or Java.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure) and containerized deployment (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Hands-on with data pipelines (Airflow/Prefect, Kafka/PubSub, Spark/Flink or equivalent) and REST/GraphQL API design.
• Strong grounding in systems design, scalability, reliability, and cost/performance trade-offs.

Tooling & Stack (Illustrative)

• Runtime: Python/TypeScript/Go
• Data: Postgres/BigQuery + object storage (S3/GCS)
• Pipelines: Airflow/Prefect, Kafka/PubSub
• Infra: AWS/GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform
• Observability: OpenTelemetry, Prometheus/Grafana, ELK/Cloud Logging
• Collab: GitHub, Linear/Jira, Notion, Looker/Metabase

Working Model

• Hybrid-remote within India with limited periodic in-person collaboration
• Startup velocity with pragmatic processes; bias to shipping, measurement, and iteration.

Equal Opportunity

OptimizeGEO is an equal-opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, test, and deploy high-quality backend solutions using Java and Spring Boot.
• Build and maintain scalable microservices that interact with various data sources and front-end applications.
• Develop RESTful APIs for internal and external consumption.
• Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code following best practices and coding standards.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including front-end developers, QA, and DevOps.
• Troubleshoot and resolve technical issues across environments.
• Participate in code reviews, unit testing, and integration testing.
• Ensure application performance, uptime, and scale by identifying and resolving bottlenecks.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• Strong proficiency in Java (8 or higher).
• Hands-on experience with Spring Boot framework.
• Experience in developing RESTful APIs and understanding of HTTP protocols.
• Solid understanding of Microservices architecture and related patterns (e.g., service discovery, circuit breaker).
• Familiarity with relational and NoSQL databases (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB).
• Understanding of containerization tools (e.g., Docker) and orchestration tools (e.g., Kubernetes) is a plus.
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and version control tools like Git.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Good communication and teamwork skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Familiarity with message brokers like Kafka or RabbitMQ.
• Exposure to Agile/Scrum development methodologies.

Skills Required:

- 4+ years of technical experience in a developer role

- Strong proficiency with Core Java

- Database experience preferably with DB2, Sybase, or Oracle

- Complete SDLC process and Agile Methodology (Scrum)

- Strong oral and written communication skills

- Excellent interpersonal skills and professional approach

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, MIS, or other technology/engineering discipline

Skill Desired:

-Strong proficiency with Scala on Spark

- Previous experience in front office and back office reports

- Strong understanding Order Life Cycle management from Equities or Listed derivatives perspective

- Previous experience in Trade Surveillance or working with data from the order lifecycle

- Good to have knowledge on Hadoop Technologies

- High quality software architecture and design methodologies and patterns

- Work experience as level-3 support for applications

- Layered Architecture, Component based Architecture

- XML-based technologies

- Unix OS, Scripting, Python or Perl

- Experience in development on other application types (Web applications, batch, or streaming)

Company: Fineline Technologies (www.finelinetech.com)

Founded: 1998

Headquarters: Norcross, Georgia, USA.

Global Presence: Operations in the U.S., Canada, China, Europe, India, and Africa

Work Mode: Hybrid

We are looking for a highly skilled Java Developer to join our team for permanent, long-term projects, focusing on managing IoT and RFID projects as well as barcode printing solutions. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in Java development, particularly with Spring Boot, Angular, and RESTful services. They should excel in designing and implementing scalable, reliable, and efficient Java applications. This role involves designing, developing, and maintaining high-quality software solutions, ensuring high performance and responsiveness. Additionally, the candidate will collaborate with stakeholders to understand business requirements, propose optimal solution approaches, and ensure the successful implementation of Java-based solutions.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Develop, test, and maintain Java applications using modern frameworks like Spring Boot.
• Design and implement RESTful services and web applications.
• Troubleshoot, debug, and optimize application performance.
• Actively engage in product design discussions and contribute to application architecture development.
• Participate in code reviews and pair programming sessions.
• Stay updated with the latest industry trends and technologies.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Qualifications: B.E/B.S/ M.S in Computer Science, B. Tech/M. Tech in Information Technology, MCA
• Experience: Advanced knowledge of Java programming with 8+ years of experience
• Java Programming: Proficiency in Java and its associated technologies, such as J2EE, JDBC, Servlets, JSP, and JavaFX.
• Spring Framework: (Nice to have UX/UI experience) Expertise in Spring Boot, Spring MVC, and other Spring modules for building robust applications.
• Web Services: Experience with RESTful and SOAP web services, including designing and implementing APIs.
• Front-End Technologies: Knowledge of front-end technologies like Angular 16+, React, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
• Database Management
• Microservices Architecture: Understanding of microservices architecture and containerization tools like Docker and Kubernetes.
• Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) Agile
• Code Quality and Testing: Familiarity with Test Driven Development (TDD), unit testing, and code review processes.

Nice to Have skills

• Experience with barcode printing and scanning.
• Understanding of RFID encoding and scanning technologies.
• Experience with cloud platforms like AWS, Azure.

Salary

As per industry standard

• Proven hands-on Software Development experience
• Proven working experience in Java development
• Hands on experience in designing and developing applications using Java EE platforms
• Object Oriented analysis and design using common design patterns.
• Profound insight of Java and JEE internals (Classloading, Memory Management, Transaction management etc)
• Excellent knowledge of Relational Databases, SQL and ORM technologies (JPA2, Hibernate)
• Experience in the Spring Framework
• Experience as a Sun Certified Java Developer

We are looking for a Tech with a proficiency in backend technologies to design, develop a new state-of-the-art, paradigm changing product in software development. Responsibilities include evaluating technologies, developing proof-of concept prototypes, designing, and developing complete end-to-end products.

What would you be doing?

• should be able to mentor, guide, and train other engineers.
• should also be able to work with different stakeholders such as business owners, leadership, and customers.
• able to evaluate the business requirements, performance constraints, trade-offs and system limitations when developing software.
• should be well versed with new technologies and software development practices and be able to judge the trade-offs to make well thought out decisions, design choices and build the system for extensibility and robustness.
• The Django developer will be part of the core engineering team, entrusted with the complete architecture, design and development of the product.
• Work on a great product which empowers next generation entrepreneurs from its early phase

What makes you a suitable candidate?

• 1+ years of experience in designing and developing large scale, complex software applications
• Strong analytical, problem solving and design skills
• Strong knowledge of data structure, algorithms, and coding
• Proven experience in any high-level programming languages like Python, Django, DRF, Elasticsearch etc
• Knowledge of MVC architecture and hands-on experience with Spring, Spring security, Spring boot, and Hibernate framework
• Proven experience in database technologies (SQL, NoSQL, MongoDB).
• Working knowledge of developing Restful Micro services, ORM technologies etc
• Experience in container-based deployments
• Working experience in Amazon DynamoDB, Docker, AWS-Lambda
• Experience with Messaging technologies like Kakfa, RabbitMQ, redis etc
• Ability to multitask
• Good communication, organizational and leadership skills