
Java Backend Developer
Experience/skills required
Key Qualifications
- Developer Role:
- Preferably Java
- CI/CD - DevOps (Exposure)
- Messaging Middleware (Exposure to Kafka or any other messaging middleware)
- DB: Oracle (pref) - any other Database platforms (SQL/NoSQL)
- Server Side: Java, Spring boot Microservices
- Exposure to Any Major Cloud Platform (AWS/Azure/GCP)

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Role Summary:
We are looking for a hands-on Java Solution Architect to design and lead scalable, secure, event-driven platforms. The ideal candidate has deep expertise in Java/Spring Boot microservices, Kafka, Redis/KeyDB, and open-source databases (Cassandra, PostgreSQL), with experience building high-throughput, low-latency systems.
Experience- 10+yrs
Key Responsibilities
- Architecture & Design
- Define service boundaries using DDD; create service contracts and API specifications.
- Design Kafka-based event flows (topics, partitions, retention, DLQs, idempotency).
- Choose fit-for-purpose storage (Cassandra vs PostgreSQL) for workloads:
- Cassandra for time-series, high write throughput, and horizontal scaling.
- PostgreSQL for transactional integrity, complex joins, and reporting.
- Engineer caching strategies using Redis/KeyDB (read-through/write-through, TTL, eviction).
- Establish NFRs (performance, availability, RPO/RTO) and capacity planning.
- Security & Compliance
- Implement OAuth2/OIDC, mTLS, token-based auth, key rotation, encryption at rest/in transit.
- Work with InfoSec/AppSec for threat modeling, VAPT, secure SDLC integration.
- DevOps & Observability
- Drive CI/CD pipelines (blue/green/canary), container orchestration (Kubernetes).
- Define SLOs/SLIs; implement metrics, logs, traces; promote proactive alerting.
- Governance & Standards
- Publish architecture guidelines, coding standards, and API governance (versioning, deprecation).
- Champion documentation (ADR, sequence diagrams, data flow, runbooks).
- Mentoring & Leadership
- Coach engineers; conduct design/code reviews; lead PoCs and migrations.
- Collaborate with Product/Delivery to align scope, timelines, and risk mitigation.
Required Technical Skills (Deep Expertise)
- Java: Java 17+, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, reactive programming (WebFlux).
- Microservices: API Gateway, service mesh (Istio/Linkerd), resilience (Resilience4j).
- Kafka: Kafka Connect, Streams, consumer lag management, schema registry (Avro/JSON).
- Redis/KeyDB: Cluster configuration, HA, persistence (AOF/RDB), pub/sub and streams.
- Databases:
- Cassandra: Data modeling (partition keys, clustering), consistency levels, compaction strategies.
- PostgreSQL: Indexing strategies, partitioning, query planning, isolation levels, VACUUM.
- Cloud & Infra: Docker, Kubernetes, Helm/Terraform; AWS/Azure/GCP (EKS/AKS/GKE).
- Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK, OpenTelemetry.
- Security: JWT, mTLS, secrets management (Vault/KMS), OWASP Top 10, compliance-aware design.
Soft Skills
- Strong stakeholder communication; ability to simplify complex technical decisions.
- Ownership mindset; risk identification and mitigation.
- Mentorship; collaborative leadership across cross-functional teams.
Experience: 3-7 Years
Qualification- Graduation: Bachelor of Science (B.Sc) / Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) / Bachelor of Computer Applications (BCA)
Post-Graduation: Master of Science (M.Sc) /Master of Technology (M.Tech) / Master of Computer Applications (MCA)
Roles and Responsibilities:
- Must have experience in Microservice architecture with the ability to collaborate effectively with team members and build positive working relationships.
- Design and build and deploy APIs to meet business requirements.
- High level of commitment to business satisfaction and agility.
- Strong work ethic and a passion for the role, with a positive attitude and a willingness to learn.
- Communicate effectively with the tech lead to thoroughly understand the requirements and highlight any blockers immediately.
- Handle programming and software development, including requirement gathering, bug fixing, testing, documenting, and implementation.
- Work in an agile environment to deliver high-quality solutions.
- Understand and implement Security, Logging, Auditing, Policy Management, and Performance Monitoring.
- Familiarity with relational databases (E.g.: Oracle), non-relational databases (E.g.: MongoDB), MSK Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, and CICD Technologies (Jenkins, GitHub, Maven)
As a senior developer you will be responsible to manage the software
development life cycle from planning to prioritizing to testing and release.
Responsibilities includes gathering system and team product requirements,
building java modules and testing features before release. Should have hands
on experience developing software with agile methodologies and are ready to
lead our junior developers.
Responsibilities:
• Contribute to all phases of development lifecycle.
• Planning of API workflow.
• Understanding the requirements all the teams involved and planning the
development process.
• Write well designed, testable, efficient code.
• Prepare and produce releases of software components.
• Support continuous improvements by investigating alternatives and
technologies and presenting these for architecture review.
• Designing, implementing, and maintaining java applications that are
often high-volume and low latency.
• Identify bottlenecks and bugs and advise solutions to these problems.
• Develop highly scalable REST APIs to use in our applications.
• Guide the team and help them in any complex situations.
Required Qualifications
We are looking for individuals who are curious, excited about learning, and navigating
through the uncertainties and complexities that are associated with a growing company.
Some qualifications that we think would help you thrive in this role are:
• Minimum 8+ Years in a Java programming.
• Expert hands-on knowledge of latest technology, good exposure to web
technologies and open to all technologies like Java, J2EE, Spring Boot,
Microservices, Cloud computing, any DB.
• Very good exposure to DevOps concepts and tools, Continuous Integration and
Continuous Delivery.
• Quick learner believes in continuous learning and acts as a catalyst for building
the culture within the organization.
• Analytical thinking skills, problem solving with strong exposure to root causing
tools and techniques and ability to come up with solutions in complex
situations.
• Familiar with various design and architectural patterns.
• Bachelor/Masters of CS/IT Engineering, BCA/MCA, B Sc/M Sc in CS/IT
Preferred Qualifications
• Deep insights of Java and J2EE internals such as memory management,
transaction management, etc.
• Skill for writing reusable Java libraries.
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git.
• Familiarity with build tools such as Ant, Maven, and Gradle.
• Ability to work without guidance and under tight deadlines.
• Result oriented and focused on meeting deliverable timelines.
• Teamwork and willingness to listen to others.
• Communicate effectively
• Good knowledge of microservices.
• Expertise in developing enterprise level web applications and RESTful APIs
using Microservices with demonstrable production-scale experience.
• Strong background working with Linux/Unix environments.
• Working experience in industry standard protocols related API security.
• Clear understanding of web services and SOA related standards like
REST/OAuth/JSON.
- Excellent programming in Core Java, Multi-threading.
- Java technologies: Core Java, Java EE/J2EE, JPA/Hibernate, Spring
- Should have good understanding on design patterns.
- Should have minimum 1 yr exp in spring boot / Microservices / Amazon Web Services.
- Should have experience developing RESTful services along with Spring and Hibernate
- Good exposure & experience in Product development.
- Ability to collaborate with Architects on development and design.
- Up to date with technology trends and be able to set direction for other developers.
- Ability to evaluate and build POCs, make recommendations around Java, DevOPs, Mobility and Cloud related technologies.
Technical Skills :
- Microservices, Spring Boot, HIbernate, REST
- Redis, MongoDB, MySQL
- DevOps - CI/CD, Ansible/Docker/Kubernetes.
- Cloud - AWS/Google
We are seeking extremely smart programmers who are gung ho about building large scale systems that are going to have a big impact on millions of customers.
Responsibilities:
- Design and develop products by working closely with business team.
- Gain experience with hands on coding and independent ownership of software components.
- Build performant, scalable, enterprise ready back end architectures that can support millions of users in parallel.
- Follow strong engineering best practices and champion their adoption.
Requirements:
- 2+ years’ experience in software product development and delivery.
- Bachelors or Masters degree in engineering from a reputed institute(preferably IITs, NITs, or other top engineering institutes).
- Strong grasp of CS fundamentals, algorithms and excellent problem solving abilities.
- All experience should be from good product development or e-commerce background.
- Must have shown good stability in all your previous associations.
- Have strong backend knowledge and cloud development exposure.
- Expert at Java, Spring boot, Hibernate, REST API development.
- Worked with at least 1 RDBMS (Mysql preferred). NoSql is a plus.
- Have used or are very hands-on with Microservices, Docker, Kubernetes, Gradle/Ant, Kafka, GIT/bitbucket in a very agile work place.
- Writing high quality code which is made better by unit tests and integration tests is how you work.
- Comfortable with exploring proven open source tech stack like Grafana, Kibana, Jira, Prometheus, caches like Redis/Memcached, task queues like celery, to name a few.
- Knowledge of test driven development and AWS tech stack will be a good plus.
Additional Responsibilities: • Knowledge of more than one technology • Basics of Architecture and Design fundamentals • Knowledge of Testing tools • Knowledge of agile methodologies • Understanding of Project life cycle activities on development and maintenance projects • Understanding of one or more Estimation methodologies, Knowledge of Quality processes • Basics of business domain to understand the business requirements • Analytical abilities, Strong Technical Skills, Good communication skills • Good understanding of the technology and domain • Ability to demonstrate a sound understanding of software quality assurance principles, SOLID design principles and modelling methods • Awareness of latest technologies and trends • Excellent problem solving, analytical and debugging skills Technical and Professional Requirements: • Primary skills: Java • Desirables: Java->Microservices, Java->Springboot Preferred Skills: Java Generic Skills: Java->Microservices Java->Springboot Educational Requirements Bachelor of Engineering Service Line Application Development and Maintenance * Location of posting is subject to business requirements.
- Looking for 2+ Years of Java Developers.
- Looking for Immediate joiners.
- Application development experience in Spring Framework, Spring MVC ,Spring Boot.
- Experience in designing and developing microservices.
- Experience in data structures.
Turtlemint is one of India's largest InsureTech companies. Launched in 2015, Turtlemint works on educating customers and helping them research across all segments of insurance. It also has its own network of advisors who are empowered with all necessary training, tools and license to sell insurance and other financial products like Mutual Funds, Loans and e-Gold. It has a wide multi-brand distribution network through its multi-language mobile application - MintPro
With an advisor network of over 100,000 that caters to 1.5mn+ customers across 800 cities in India, Turtlemint today has an overwhelming majority of Indian insurance companies as its partners. With a goal to improve the skill and knowledge of the Insurance advisor community, it has invested in technology offerings, online trainings and shareable content. The Mumbai-based Startup has been funded by Sequoia Capital, Nexus Venture Partners and Blume Ventures.
Explore more about us on – www.turtlemintmoney.com and www.turtlemint.com &
In the News : https://techcrunch.com/2020/11/17/india-insurance-startup-turtlemint-raises-30-million/
https://yourstory.com/2020/11/funding-alert-turtlemint-ggv-capital
Responsibilities:
• Design, implement, and support scalable and functionally resilient public REST APIs
• Support and help cultivate product mindset culture, by working directly with - business and product management to understand customer needs, perform customer requirement analysis, and collaborate on roadmap planning and its execution
• Advocate for best practice development methodologies across the entire team and help iterate on software development processes and standards
• Contribute to the development of test automation
• Demonstrate flexibility and leadership in a fast paced startup environment while remaining focused on the responsibility of creating sustainable and scalable platform code base
Experience and Skill required:
• Experience designing, developing, delivering, and scaling modern web applications
• Strong experience with one or more general purpose programming languages including but not limited to: Python, Java, C/C++, C#
• Demonstrated expertise working with at least one modern enterprise application frameworks like Spring Boot, Play Framework, Django
• Demonstrated expertise in building scalable distributed applications in microservices architecture
• Expert knowledge of best practice software engineering methodologies and coding standards
• Strong and proven advocacy for Test Driven Development is preferred
• Experience with SQL (mySQL, Postgres, etc) and NoSQL (MongoDb, DynamoDB, Aerospike or Redis)
• Production experience in running cloud based enterprise-grade systems at scale
• Natural ability to process requirements, figure out multiple execution options, their complexity, and estimate the scope of work required to get tasks done
• DevOps experience
• Cloud experience (AWS required, Google Cloud Platform bonus)
Education:
Bachelors in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent experience
Finally, and most importantly, drive, energy, and motivation to succeed with delivering great customer experiences
Experience: 4-8 years
What you get:
- To work in an early stage consumer internet start-up in disruptive space - To directly work with founding team of graduates from IIT/ IIM and experience at top internet brands like Yahoo/ eBay - Silicon Valley like culture - Competitive salary
Location: Mumbai/Pune









