Java Backend Developer

Job Summary:

We are seeking a seasoned Java Backend Developer Lead to drive the design, development, and deployment of robust backend systems. This role requires hands-on coding expertise, architectural vision, and the ability to mentor and lead a team of developers in delivering high-performance, scalable applications.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the backend development team in designing and implementing microservices-based architectures using Java (preferably Java 11+).
• Architect and develop RESTful APIs and backend services using Spring Boot, Hibernate, and related frameworks.
• Collaborate with DevOps teams to streamline CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Docker, and Kubernetes.
• Ensure code quality through code reviews, unit testing (JUnit/TestNG), and integration testing.
• Optimize application performance and scalability through profiling and tuning.
• Guide team members in adopting best practices in software engineering, including Agile methodologies.
• Work closely with product managers, frontend developers, and QA teams to deliver end-to-end solutions.
• Maintain documentation and ensure knowledge sharing across the team.

Required Skills:

• Strong proficiency in Java, Spring Boot, and REST API development.
• Experience with relational databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB, Redis).
• Familiarity with messaging systems like Kafka or RabbitMQ.
• Solid understanding of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Experience with containerization and orchestration tools (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Excellent problem-solving, debugging, and analytical skills.
• Strong leadership and communication abilities.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• 7+ years of backend development experience, with at least 2 years in a lead role.
• Exposure to security best practices and performance testing tools like JMeter.

Role & Responsibilities :

- Lead the design, analysis, and implementation of technical solutions.

- Take full ownership of product features.

- Participate in detailed discussions with the product management team regarding requirements.

- Work closely with the engineering team to design and implement scalable solutions.

- Create detailed functional and technical specifications.

- Follow Test-Driven Development (TDD) and deliver high-quality code.

- Communicate proactively with your manager regarding risks and progress.

- Mentor junior team members and provide technical guidance.

- Troubleshoot and resolve production issues with RCA and long-term solutions

Required Skills & Experience :

- Bachelors/Masters degree in Computer Science or related field with a solid academic track record.

- 6+ years of hands-on experience in backend development for large-scale enterprise products.

- Strong programming skills in Java; familiarity with Python is a plus.

- Deep understanding of data structures, algorithms, and problem-solving.

- Proficient in Spring Boot and RESTful APIs.

- Experience with cloud technologies like ElasticSearch, Kafka, MongoDB, Hazelcast, Ceph, etc.

- Strong experience in building scalable, concurrent applications.

- Exposure to Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Test-Driven Development (TDD).

- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Preferred Technologies :

- Java

- Spring Boot, J2EE

- ElasticSearch

- Kafka

- MongoDB, Ceph

- AWS

- Storm, Hazelcast

- TDD, SOA

• Design and build user-facing products, owning the entire process from gathering functional requirements from teams, through testing and staging, to deploying in a Python based stack
• Guide the team in making technical trade-offs
• Proactively identify bottlenecks, areas for improvement and put forth a plan to course-correct
• Design and implement maintainable backend services, including data processing pipelines, APIs and internal tools
• Coordinating with internal teams to understand user requirements and provide technical solutions

Java developer roles will vary greatly depending on companies and job positions. Here are some typical roles and responsibilities of java developers:

• Contribute to all stages of software development lifecycle
• Design, implement and maintain Java-based applications that can be high-volume and low-latency
• Analyze user requirements to define business objectives
• Envisioning system features and functionality
• Define application objectives and functionality
• Ensure application designs conform with business goals
• Develop and test software
• Identify and resolve any technical issues arising
• Create detailed design documentation
• Propose changes to current Java infrastructure
• Develop technical designs for application development
• Develop multimedia applications
• Write well designed, testable code
• Conducting software analysis, programming, testing, and debugging
• Manage Java and Java EE application development
• Develop documentation to help users
• Transforming requirements into stipulations
• Prepare and produce releases of software components
• Support continuous improvement, investigating alternatives and technologies, and presenting for architectural review

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Our Engineering Team

We have a passionate product engineering team that works on complex technical challenges, employs creativity, and constantly learns a variety of frameworks, tools, and technologies. While we are dedicated to delivering excellent product, we also believe having fun along the way motivates us to pour our heart into what we do. Our team has mastered development and delivery process, allowing the team to focus on designing, architecting, and crafting masterpieces.

We are growing rapidly and expanding our team in India, join our product engineering team to be part of this exciting journey.

“Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.” – Martin Fowler

Skills Required

• 5+ years of strong programming experience on .NET platform
• Expertise in C#, ASP.NET Web API / Typescript / Angular (or any front-end framework or passion to learn Angular)
• Hands on experience with SQL
• Azure experience is a plus but not a deal breaker
• Knowledge and experience with Html, CSS, JavaScript
• Experience designing high-level and low-level design of the system
• Experience with microservices architecture is a plus

Expectations

• Contribute to tech grooming backlog items providing design, architecture, and implementation details
• Quality is the key driver to successful delivery, ensure highly testable and quality deliverables
• Leverage troubleshooting and analytical skills to analyze issues
• Experience with debugging, performance profiling and optimization 

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If you are looking for a solid opportunity to put your Computer Science skills to test you are in the right place. We need some hard-core programming help to help enhance our Data management frameworks used to move data between platforms and systems seamlessly.

Employment Type: Full-Time

Position: Sr SDE - Senior Software Development Engineer (Java Back-End Development)

Project: Product-Apple’s Maps and Advertising Platforms

Experience: 4-8 Years

Key Skills: Java Programming + Spring Boot + REST / Java + SQL

Joining time: Immediate to 30 days

Work Location: Hyderabad - India

Education: Master’s/Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Engineering or a related technical discipline will be preferred

Detailed Job Description: At UNIFY, great ideas have a way of becoming great products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you could accomplish. 

We are looking to hire extraordinary individuals with strong communication and interpersonal skills and ability to work effectively across multiple business and technical teams. As a part of this team, you will build cutting edge software service, one that is continually innovating and is proud of making a difference. 

You should be a self-starter, motivated, with exceptional interpersonal skills as well as a positive and flexible approach to problems. The applicant should have the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, tight deadline delivery timeline. As a part of this dynamic team, the applicant will help us build the product experience on a global scale. 

If you’ve responded positively to the above questions and want to work in a great, international team, that is passionate, creative, ambitious, open to knowledge-sharing, and loves to cooperate with each other - join us!

Key Qualifications:

• Minimum of 4 years experience implementing large-scale production systems

• Hands-on experience with design, development and productizing highly available, distributed and scalable transactional enterprise systems.

• Strong hands-on programming experience in Java/J2EE building middleware or backend applications.

• Strong development experience of microservices architecture in a highly distributed environment with web services, Spring, Spring Boot, Hibernate and SOA

• Experience with RDBMS like Oracle and NoSQL databases such as MongoDB, Couchbase, Elasticsearch

• Sharp troubleshooting skills and real-world systems deployment experience.

• Proven track record with rapid development cycles and demanding schedules

• Experience doing Software Development using Agile methodologies

• Understanding or experience working on Cloud technologies is a plus

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Design and implement web APIs.

• In this role, you will be involved in the end to end cycle of design, development and deployment of core services for mission-critical customer-facing applications. 

• Results-oriented and demonstrate a high degree of ownership and accountability.

• Experience handling distributed vendor resources

• Creative problem solver and excellent collaborator, who thrives in a fast-paced, innovative environment.

• Communicate quickly and effectively; vertically and horizontally through the organization.

• Influence others to get things done.

• Must possess excellent problem-solving & analytical skills.

• Handle ambiguity and solve problems despite uncertainties.

• Ability to lead large projects focusing on innovation, teamwork and results.

• Proven track record of achieving outstanding results in a professional career

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Design and Build API/Micro services using Spring boot.
• Experience in Spring Reactive programming.
• Exposure to docker and containerization
• Developing enterprise grade highly scalable java-based application
• Writing test cases using Java testing framework like JUnit, Mockito.
• Proficient understanding of code version tools, such as Git, SVN
• Displaying initiative and an ability to lead others, and develop applications team disciplined manner
• Participating in application solutions including assisting with planning and architectural design, development, resolution of technical issues, and application rationalization.
• Utilizing and applying robust analytic thinking with the ability to identify, debug, and resolve technical issues.
• Achieving significant contributions within a small team of developers to lead teams and deliver solutions within an Agile methodology, whilst ensuring quality, timeliness and team-wide adherence to good architectural practice and guidelines.
• Good Experience in Application Software Design and Development, Object Oriented Analysis and Design (OOAD), Software Testing and Debugging.
• Conduct peer code reviews