Java Backend Developer

Company Name – Client Freshworks,Location : Perungudi Chennai (Hybrid)

• Strong written/verbal communication skills

• Minimum 3+ Years of Core Java Programming with Collections Framework, Concurrent Programming, Multi-threading (Good knowledge in Executor service, Fork joins pool and other threading concepts)

•  Good knowledge of the JVM with an understanding of performance and memory optimization.

•  Extensive and expert programming experience in JAVA programming language (strong OO skills preferred).

•  Excellent knowledge on collections like, Array List, Vector, LinkedList, HashMap, Hash Table, HashSet is mandate.

•  Exercised exemplary development practices including design specification, coding standards, unit testing, and code-reviews.

•  Expert level understanding of Object-Oriented Concepts and Data Structures

•  Good experience in Database (Sybase, Oracle or SQL Server) like indexing (clustered, non-clustered), hashing, segmenting, data types like clob / blob, views (materialized), replication, constraints, functions, triggers, procedures etc.

Founded in 2012,leader in high-assurance digital identity verification technology.  Named to Forbes’ 2019 AI 50 list as one of America’s most promising AI companies, and a recent winner of API World’s Best Data API, technology applies artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques with trusted online/offline data intelligence from email, address, phone, IP, social media and the broader Internet to verify identities in real-time. Customers include three of the top five U.S. banks, seven of the top 10 U.S. card issuers, as well as the majority of leading digital banks, lenders and insurers across the U.S. We are funded by some of the world's best investors and entrepreneurs including Scale Venture Partners, Commerce Ventures, Work-Bench, Santander InnoVentures and Two Sigma Ventures.

The only way we can further our mission of becoming the single, trusted source of identity verification and eliminating identity fraud is by building the best team on the planet. This is where you come in!

We are hiring Software Engineers across all levels in Chennai!

What You'll Be Doing:

• You will partner with our globally distributed cross-functional teams (Product, Infrastructure, Engineering, Data Science) to conceptualize and develop new features and products in an Agile environment. 
• You will own end-to-end delivery of software components all the way to production, owning team features or systems. 
• You will be building web services and REST APIs at scale, and producing high-quality results with direct business impact. 
• You will be monitoring and improving existing deployments, ensuring that we are continuously improving our product. 
• You will be assisting our QA and support team in triaging and resolving production issues and addressing bugs.

What You'll Bring:

• You are interested in our tech stack (Java or Scala, SQL Databases, NoSQL, Microservices, and AWS)
• You will have strong computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, various programming languages, distributed systems, etc. 
• You understand engineering best practices and seek to improve engineering standards, tooling and processes. 
• You write “good code” - easily understandable, secure and testable! 
• You are comfortable helping drive technical decisions within our Engineering team. 
• You have experience building applications at scale.

Perks & Benefits:

• Competitive base salary
• Equity - every employee is a stakeholder in our enormous upside
• A tech-first company culture driven by entrepreneurial thinking and talent
• A great team working in unison towards the same mission
• Transparency is what our product is built on—and so is our culture
• Daily catered lunch and snacks
• Generous health insurance for employees and dependents
• Flexible work schedule and work-from-home options
• Flexible PTO

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity of all kinds at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. 

Basic Qualifications:

• 2+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• Programming experience with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
• 1+ years of experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems.

Additional Job requirements

• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science/Math or equivalent
• BS in computer science or related field.
• 2+ years of relevant professional software development experience: designing, developing, and delivering software written in Java, C#, or C++, web development.
• Knowledgeable in object-oriented design patterns.
• Experience building highly scalable and distributed systems

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with service-oriented architecture and application/services development
• Passion for performance debugging and benchmarking
• Ability to clearly and concisely communicate with technical and non-technical stakeholders across all levels of the organization

Job Description

• Design & implement backend APIs 
• Mentor junior developers technically.
• Actively work to reduce tech debt in the backend
• Work towards more stability & scalability of the backend
• Tech stack - Java, AWS, Aurora etc. 

Eligibility

• 4-8 years of product company experience
• OOP implementation experience. Programming language does not matter. We use Java internally but have hired folks from non Java background.
• Hands on experience in SQL, Dynamo DB, Postgres etc preferred. 
• Prior experience building REST APIs
• Advanced understanding of AWS stack
• Prior knowledge of solving problems at scale.

•  2 - 6 years of software development experience
•  Good grasp on programming fundamentals including OOP, Design Patterns and Data Structures
•  Excellent analytical, logical and problem-solving skills
• Software Development Engineer
• Good understanding of complexities involved in designing/developing large scale systems
• Strong system design skills
•  Experience in technologies like Elasticsearch, Redis, Kafka etc
• Good knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases
• Familiarity with common machine learning algorithms. In-depth knowledge is a plus
• Experience of working with big data technologies like Hadoop, Spark, Hive is a big plus
• Ability to understand business requirements and take ownership of the work
• Exhibit passion and enthusiasm for building and maintaining large scale platforms

CommerceIQ is a well funded fast growing enterprise SaaS platform that is helping brands grow and sell more on e-commerce channels through its machine learning technology. Are you excited about building distributed crawling engine at global scale that will crawl and parse 1000’s of websites with 10+ million crawls on a daily basis? Would you enjoy building something as ambitious as “Google/Facebook Ad platform” for Amazon (and other e-commerce retailers)? Does building a CI/CD and containerisation framework that will allow our products to be released and deployed every week across dozens of geographies and data centers seamlessly excite you? Do you find building machine learning models that will optimize billions of dollars in ad and promotions spend exhilarating? Do you find it super exciting to build a plug and play product UI platform where leaders of brands will spend hours daily (almost as much as an email inbox) to optimize their business? We can keep writing, but you will get the idea.

In our journey of building and scaling CommerceIQ, Engineers and data scientists in our team tackle these and many more problems daily. If you are as excited as we are after reading this, we would love to talk to you! 30+ global brands including Kellogg, Unilever, Johnson & Johnson, MARS, Nestle, Logitech and many more trust our product to manage their growth on Amazon. If you are excited about building product that will write the script for how brands sell and grow on e-commerce channels please reach out to us.

Are you ready to power intelligent commerce? @CommerceIQ, you will :

• You will be responsible for developing, testing and releasing features within time and with high quality that will drive revenue and margin impact to top brands.

• You will be designing your own features keeping in mind the scale and high availability of the systems. • You will be working with the team and expected to perform code reviews, conduct design discussions and mentor other developers.

•You will be the owner of your feature and work directly with product teams to drive customer impact.

• You will be expected to participate in all phases of the software development cycle as part of a Scrum team.

Experience : 3+ Years in developing in designing and developing complex and scalable software modules..

Skillset : • The ideal candidate will be an experienced Java developer with exceptional software system design, problem solving, and object-oriented coding skills

• Experience with distributed transaction-processing systems or asynchronous messaging technology is required.

• Good understanding of system performance trade-offs, load balancing, and engineering for high availability.

• Obsessed about building quality software and owning end to end responsibility for the developed features.

• Understanding of enterprise information systems, service oriented architectures, and operational data stores is a plus

• BS or MS in Computer Science/Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics or similar degree from a top tier institution