Java Backend Developer

Your Skills & Experience:

•1-8 Years experience of implementing commerce application on any eCommerce platform in last 3 years

• If you have not worked in eCommerce platform, we can still discuss with you if you are expert in Java/.Net and understand REST/SOAP webservices.

•Demonstrate proficiency in build and release management using CI/CD strategies (leveraging tools like Jenkins and DevOps practices), implement Mocha/Chai unit and functional test cases in order to reduce costs while ensuring quality

•Contributes to designing, implementing and documenting the build release process as well as system configuration and deployment characteristics of the applications

•Participates in technical walkthroughs/ code reviews of other team members’ components, test plans and results and help them with gaps

•Collaborate with architect to define implementation processes and quality gates and standards

•Identifies risks and issues, and help monitor them

•Guides the development of reference and resource materials

•Mentors developers in improving their platform knowledge and development skills

•Communicate technical design to the developers and help/guide them in the implementation

•Participates in Agile sprints

Position Requirements

• Expert in front-end development using Javascript, CSS, and Java.

• Hands-on experience in Java, J2EE, Hibernate, Springboot.

• Deep knowledge & working experience with Database, JSP, Javascript frameworks.

 

Technical Skills

• 4 years of experience in the software industry experience.

• Strong self-initiative to strive for both personal & technical excellence.

• Coordinate efforts across the Product development team and Business Analyst team.

• Strong business and data analysis skills.

• Should be strong on coordinating with onshore resources on the development.

About PhonePe
PhonePe is India’s leading digital payments platform with over 280 million registered users. Using
PhonePe, users can send and receive money, recharge mobile, DTH, data cards, pay at stores,
make utility payments, buy gold, and make investments. PhonePe went live for customers in
August 2016 and was the first non-banking UPI app and offered money transfer to individuals
and merchants, recharges and bill payments to begin with. In 2017, PhonePe forayed into
financial services with the launch of digital gold, providing users with a safe and convenient
option to buy 24-karat gold securely on its platform. PhonePe has since launched Mutual Funds
and Insurance products like tax-saving funds, liquid funds, international travel insurance, Corona
Care, a dedicated insurance product for the COVID-19 pandemic among others.
PhonePe launched its Switch platform in 2018, and today its customers can place orders on over
300 apps including Ola, Myntra, IRCTC, Goibibo, RedBus, Oyo etc. directly from within the
PhonePe mobile app. PhonePe is accepted at over 18 million merchant outlets across 500 cities
nationally.
Culture
At PhonePe, we take extra care to make sure you give your best at work, Everyday! And creating
the right environment for you is just one of the things we do. We empower people and trust
them to do the right thing. Here, you own your work from start to finish, right from day one.
Being enthusiastic about tech is a big part of being at PhonePe. If you like building technology
that impacts millions, ideating with some of the best minds in the country and executing on your
dreams with purpose and speed, join us!
Challenges
Building for Scale, Rapid Iterative Development, and Customer-centric Product Thinking at each
step defines every day for a developer at PhonePe. Though we engineer for a 50million+ strong
user base, we code with every individual user in mind. While we are quick to adopt the latest in
Engineering, we care utmost for security, stability, and automation. Apply if you want to
experience the best combination of passionate application development and product-driven
thinking
As a Software Engineer:
 3+ years of experience in the art of writing code and solving problems on a Large Scale.
 You will build Robust and scalable web-based applications You will need to think of
platforms & reuse
 Build abstractions and contracts with separation of concerns for a larger scope
 Drive problem-solving skills for high-level business and technical problems.
 Do high-level design with guidance; Functional modeling, break-down of a module
 Do incremental changes to architecture: impact analysis of the same
 Do performance tuning and improvements in large scale distributed systems
 Mentor young minds and foster team spirit, break down execution into phases to bring
predictability to overall execution
 Work closely with Product Manager to derive capability view from features/solutions, Lead
execution of medium-sized projects
 Work with broader stakeholders to track the impact of projects/features and proactively
iterate to improve them As a senior software engineer you must have
 Extensive and expert programming experience in at least one general programming
language (e.g. Java, C, C++) & tech stack to write maintainable, scalable, unit-tested code.
 Experience with multi-threading and concurrency programming
 Extensive experience in object-oriented design skills, knowledge of design patterns, and
huge passion and ability to design intuitive module and class-level interfaces
 Excellent coding skills – should be able to convert the design into code fluently
 Knowledge of Test Driven Development
 Good understanding of databases (e.g. MySQL) and NoSQL (e.g. HBase, Elasticsearch,
Aerospike, etc)
 Strong desire to solving complex and interesting real-world problems
 Experience with full life cycle development in any programming language on a Linux
platform
 Go-getter attitude that reflects in energy and intent behind assigned tasks
 Worked in a startups environment with high levels of ownership and commitment
 BTech, MTech, or Ph.D. in Computer Science or related technical discipline (or equivalent).
 Experience in building highly scalable business applications, which involve implementing
large complex business flows and dealing with a huge amount of data.
 An open communicator who shares thoughts and opinions frequently listens intently and
takes constructive feedback.
As a Software Engineer, good to have
 The ability to drive the design and architecture of multiple subsystems
 Ability to break-down larger/fuzzier problems into smaller ones in the scope of the product
 Understanding of the industry’s coding standards and an ability to create appropriate
technical documentation.
PhonePe Full Time Employee Benefits
 Insurance Benefits - Medical Insurance, Critical Illness Insurance, Accidental Insurance, Life
Insurance
 Wellness Program - Employee Assistance Program, Onsite Medical Center, Emergency
Support System
 Parental Support - Maternity Benefit, Paternity Benefit Program, Adoption Assistance
Program, Day-care Support Program
 Mobility Benefits - Relocation benefits, Transfer Support Policy, Travel Policy
 Retirement Benefits - Employee PF Contribution, Flexible PF Contribution, Gratuity, NPS,
Leave Encashment
 Other Benefits - Higher Education Assistance, Car Lease, Mobile & Broadband
Reimbursements, Salary Advance Policy

JOB DESCRIPTION

• Proficiency in Java, with a good understanding of its ecosystems
• Sound knowledge of https://www.simplilearn.com/tutorials/java-tutorial/oops-interview-questions" target="_blank">Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) Patterns and Concepts
• Familiarity with different design and architectural patterns
• Skill for writing reusable Java libraries 
• Knowhow of Java concurrency patterns
• Basic Understanding of the concepts of MVC (Model-View-Controller) Pattern, JDBC (Java Database Connectivity), and RESTful web services
• Experience in working with popular web application frameworks like Play and Spark
• Relevant Knowledge of Java GUI frameworks like Swing, SWT, AWT according to project requirements
• Ability to write clean, readable Java code
• Basic knowhow of class loading mechanism in Java
• Experience in handling external and embedded databases
• Understanding basic design principles behind a scalable application
• Skilled at creating database schemas that characterize and support business processes
• Basic knowledge of https://www.simplilearn.com/jvm-and-the-implications-of-sandbox-model-rar41-article" target="_blank">JVM (Java Virtual Machine), its drawbacks, weaknesses, and workarounds
• Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests 
• In-depth knowledge of code versioning tools, for instance, Git
• Understanding of building tools like Ant, Maven, Gradle, etc
• Expertise in continuous integration

Essential Requirements:

• 5+ years of Software development experience
• Hands on development experience using Java technology stack with focus on architecture and design.
• Hands-on in Java Programming, J2EE, Spring or SpringBoot, Hibernate, RestAPI, Data Structures, Design Patterns, Oracle Database, PL/SQL
• Experience in application servers with prime focus on Tomcat.
• Experience in messaging systems such as RabbitMQ.
• Experience working in Linux/Unix environments. Must be hands on with Object Oriented concepts along with passion for design patterns and applicability.
• Relevant experience in Java frameworks like Spring Microservices, Spring-Boot, Hibernate, JPA etc.
• Understanding of developer testing practices and the differences between unit, functional, and system tests,
• Should have working experience in a CI/CD environment where build & test is automated.
• Should have working experience in tools like Maven, Jenkins, Bamboo etc.
• Should have used testing Frameworks such as JUnit, Selenium
• Ability to quickly learn and apply new concepts or principles
• Ability to work effectively as part of global team
• Experience working in an agile environment.
• Experience in Azure and AWS Development and Deployment, Active Directory, Containerization.

4 - 7 years of relevant work experience using OOM, preferable Java
Solid understanding of Spring and Spring Boot Framework
Experience with NoSQL DB, preferable MongoDB
Experience working with Agile Methodology and BDD Framework
Experience with Microservices Architecture

Position : Backend Developer – SDE3 : Java/Nodejs

 

As part of the engineering team, you would be expected to have deep technology expertise with a passion for building highly scalable products. This is a unique opportunity where you can impact the lives of people across 150+ countries!

 

Responsibilities

● Own architecture, design, development, and implementation of different modules/features of the services

● Design, develop, deploy and support web applications.

● Bring in industry best practices

● Discover opportunities for performance improvements

● Recommend ways to improve reliability, efficiency and code quality

● Focus on continuous delivery and reducing complexity

● Carry out code reviews and manage pull requests within the mobile application development team

● Build applications based on micro-services architecture

 

Requirements

● Overall 5+ years of experience in Backend development (Java or Nodejs).

● B.E/B.Tech in CS or equivalent streams from institute of repute (IITs, NITs, BITs, IIITs or equivalent)

● Strong object oriented design skills & knowledge of design patterns

● Experience in working with data platform & data lake pipeline building is preferred.

● Experience designing & developing distributed systems involving multiple web services, databases (both SQL and NoSQL), caches, queues, etc. taking into consideration scalability, availability, fault tolerance, consistency, etc. of the overall system

● Well-aware of and enforces development best practices: Unit Tests, Code Reviews, Integration Tests, CI/CD, Monitoring, Alerting, etc

• 6+ years Java coding experience with immediate joiner
• Will be working closely with Product and Technology team
• Very good logical thinking and quick at learning and exploring new frameworks
• Hands-on with technology and providing POC
• Strong background culture of delivering projects with First time right and near-zero defects in production

 

Skill Sets: 

• Java Spring Boot 
• Micro Services architecture
• J2EE, JDBC, ORM Frameworks, JPA, NoSQL

Roles and Responsibilities : - Write good quality, modular, reusable, performance, well documented, unit-tested code - Actively get involved in technical discussions with other engineering team members on design and technical implementation details - API Definitions and end-to-end service design and implementations - Design applications in true service oriented architecture - Develop object-oriented models and design data structure for new software projects taking systems aspects into account - Take full ownership of at least one micro-service Minimum qualifications and Competencies : - Strong expertise in at least one programming language & tech stack to write maintainable, scalable, unit-tested code - Strong knowledge of Data Structures & Algorithms - Well-versed with Computer Science fundamentals - Strong object oriented design skills, knowledge of design patterns, data structures and algorithms - Experience with full life cycle development on a Linux platform - Knowledge of Test Driven Development - BE or higher in Computer Science or related technical discipline (or equivalent)

Who are we? BlueOptima provides industry-leading objective metrics in software development using our proprietary Coding Effort Analytics. We enable large organisations to deliver better software, faster and at lower cost. Founded in 2006, BlueOptima is a profitable, high-growth independent software company. Our unique technology was initially devised in seminal research carried out at Cambridge University. We are headquartered in London with offices in New York, Bangalore, Gurgaon and Guadalajara. BlueOptima’s technology is deployed by global enterprises to drive value from their software development activities. We work with nine of the world’s top twelve largest Universal Banks (by revenue) and three of the world’s top ten telecommunications companies (by revenue, excl. China). Our technology is pushing the limits of complex analytics on large data-sets with more than 15 billion static source code metric observations of software engineers working in an Enterprise software development environment. BlueOptima is an Equal Opportunities employer. Whom are we looking for? Our groundbreaking technology, requires highly skilled and talented Web Backend Developers to understand the depth of the problem and device a solution for it. We are seeking a Software Engineer, with a depth of experience in developing Web Applications enabled using REST APIs and backed by a data warehouse solution, to join our growing company and be a part of our success story. We are looking for individual with great attention to detail, who is genuine, confident, committed and not only passionate about technology, but excited to work in a fun and friendly start-up environment. The ideal candidate will be passionate about technology and getting things to work while at the same time being able to mentor (and lead) other engineers by way of example to achieve excellence in their work. What does the role involve? As a Web Backend Principal Software Engineer you will be responsible for creating REST APIs which are used to drive the User Interface. Given the nature of the application, these APIs needs to be very efficient and high performing. This requires optimising queries for faster execution and introducing database changes that may be required. You would be working with a complex technology stack which includes (but is not limited to) Spring, Hibernate, HornetQ, Quartz, etc. This requires extensive understanding of transaction management and data handling across different application layers. In addition to the technical ownership, you will also be involved in detailing requirements for requested functionalities and be responsible for providing technical insight into how requirements will be implemented and made available to users. Accurate estimation of tasks and planning are qualities we look for in our engineers.  Responsibilities include: Develop, test, implement and maintain application software Take part in software and architectural development activities Transform requirements into implementation details Debug application issues and helping support respond to client queries May lead and provide mentoring and guidance to less senior developers Participate in application development meetings Provide accurate estimates, clearly communicate status of tasks and identification of risks Commitment to accomplishing the task at hand and identify the fastest and most reliable way to solve a problem Performance tuning of application code at different service levels Incorporate design changes to improve performance of the application Interact with customers of the application and help address issues reported Interact with customers of the application and collect requirements or potential uses cases and draft technical and user requirements ESSENTIAL SKILLS / EXPERIENCE REQUIRED: Minimum Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent Minimum 8+ years experience with Java and J2EE/Java EE Minimum 8+ years experience with Spring MVC, Spring Security and Hibernate 2+ years experience managing in colocated and remote teams Strong understanding of relational database and normal forms Strong understanding of SQL concepts and ability to write optimised and high performing queries Strong understanding of Java concurrency, concurrency patterns, experience building thread safe code Experience building RESTful web services Experience with web application servers like JBoss Strong written and verbal communication skills Strong interpersonal skills and time management skills Strong problem solving and analytical skills Experience using task tracking systems e.g. Jira and distributed version control systems e.g. Git Understanding of testNg/JUnit Unix/Windows shell and related command line tools Experience with database partitioning and column Indexing Experience with query optimisation techniques Why work for us? Above market remuneration Stimulating challenges that fully utilise your skills Work on real-world technical problems to which solution cannot simply be found on the internet Working alongside other passionate, talented engineers Hardware of your choice Our fast-growing company offers the potential for rapid career progression