
Java Backend Engineer - Fintech Rocketship Pilot
Distributed systems, scalability, reliability, robustness, security, quality, building responsive real time systems - do these terms get your adrenaline high? Come be a part of a high growth, fast paced engineering team building for India’s new generation.
We have an open culture, you take responsibility and ownership of what you do. No bureaucracy. No bullsh*t.
If you are up for big engineering challenges, personal and professional growth, then let’s join forces!
You’ll fit right in if you have - 2-3 years of experience building, running and maintaining production services Strong with Java and JVM based services along with PostgreSQL Comfortable working with multiple cloud providers: mainly GCP and AWS Comfortable with CI and CD tools and best practices Done TDD and values TDD
Good to have –
Engineering aptitude - Owns small features, starting from technical design through completion. Appreciates and participates in technical discussions, and values guidance and feedback. Does not need mentoring on a daily basis; makes steady progress by themselves, and knows when to ask for help to get unblocked. Comfortable with referencing technical specifications, API references, source code, and man pages to understand concepts or solve issues.
Design process - Understands the role and importance of design, can write good backend specifications Can communicate API specifications and design goals to the end consumers API
Code reviews - Understands the value of peer-reviewed code; learns how to be unbiased and provide effective feedback. Asks senior engineers for help when needed (e.g.: architecture decisions, refactoring)

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Senior Software Engineer – Retail Platforms (GCP | Java/Kotlin | MongoDB)
Location
Kochi or Chennai or Bangalore ,willing to work on Bangalore
Role Overview
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to build and scale next-generation
retail and eCommerce platforms. The role focuses on developing cloud-native, high-
performance backend systems that power customer journeys, order management,
product catalogue, and real-time retail operations.
The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in Java/Kotlin, and MongoDB, along
with experience in GCP, React JS and high-scale, customer-facing applications.
Key Responsibilities
Design and develop scalable backend systems for eCommerce platforms
Ensure high availability and low latency for retail workloads
Enable auto-scaling and high-availability architectures for peak retail
traffic
Develop and manage microservices architecture for modular retail systems
Required Skills & Qualifications
4–8 years of experience in backend development
Strong proficiency in Java and Kotlin.
Knowledge in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) , React JS and MongoDB /
NoSQL databases (Preferred).
Experience in eCommerce or retail platforms .
Strong understanding of microservices and event-driven architecture.
Experience with REST APIs and distributed systems.
Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines .
Understanding of retail analytics and customer behaviour .
Write clean, maintainable, and testable code
Ensure adherence to security and data protection standards
DevOps & Release Engineering
Implement CI/CD pipelines for faster releases
Use Docker and Kubernetes for containerized deployments
Soft Skills
Strong collaboration and communication skills
Strong problem-solving and analytical mindset
Ability to work in fast-paced, high-scale environments
Customer-first thinking
What We Offer
Opportunity to work on large-scale retail and eCommerce platforms
Exposure to high-traffic, real-time systems
Collaborative and innovation-driven environment
Career growth in cloud-native and retail technologies
Proficient in Golang, Python, Java, C++, or Ruby (at least one)
Strong grasp of system design, data structures, and algorithms
Experience with RESTful APIs, relational and NoSQL databases
Proven ability to mentor developers and drive quality delivery
Track record of building high-performance, scalable systems
Excellent communication and problem-solving skills
Experience in consulting or contractor roles is a plus
Skills And Qualifications
- 2-3 years of hands-on experience in back-end development with Node.js. ● Knowledge of Node.js frameworks
- Good understanding of server-side templating languages
- Understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git ● Have worked in any of the cloud based platform AWS, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes.
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Hands-on technologists, who will help us architect and design large-scale, multi-tiered, microservice based distributed software systems and services using object-oriented design, distributed programming, PHP, NodeJS, Python etc.
Responsibilities:
Collaborate with cross functional teams, gathering business and functional requirements, to solve complex problems by building high volume transactional systems that handle massive data and high traffic.
Be a part of the full development life cycle, end-to-end from scoping, effort estimation, risk identification, implementation and testing, while meeting project schedules and timelines.
Work on (and recommend) the best technologies, components on server side tech. Proactively identify architectural weaknesses, design issues, performance and scalability issues, and recommend solutions.
Complete ownership of problem-free execution of owned modules and solutions, with focus on code optimisation, code quality, maintainability etc.
Balance short-term versus long-term actions, strategic versus tactical requirements, while continuing to move forward towards the strategic vision.
Requirements:
BE/B.Tech in computer science or equivalent experience from top college, with 3-6 years of hands-on experience in design/development of building massively large scale, microservice based, high traffic Node.js applications (including Socket.io and Express or similar)
Excellent data structure & algorithm and problem solving skills, full-stack knowledge and (preferred) application architectural experience and/or understanding
Proficiency in multiple programming languages, both dynamic and strongly typed object oriented languages. Knowledge of one or more of: PHP, Python, Couchbase, DynamoDB, NoSQL, Terraform, Cassandra, Redis, AWS etc.
End user-focused, react well to changes, work with teams and be able to multitask while enjoying challenging assignments in a high-energy, fast growing and start-up workplace.
Familiarity with Agile development, Scrums, continuous integration, and test driven development processes.
Prior startup experience of large scale B2C product company background is preferred.
- Python knowledge: object-oriented programming: inheritance, abstract classes, dataclass, dependency injection, design patterns: comand-query, repository, adapter, hexagonal architecture, swagger/Open API, flask, connexion
- Experience on AWS services: lambda, ecs, sqs, s3, dynamodb, auroradb
- Experience with following libraries boto3, behave, pytest, moto, localstack, docker
- Basic knowledge about terraform, gitlab ci
- Experience with SQL DB
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Job Responsibilities
- Work with product managers to understand product requirements and make them live.
- Ownership of end to end development
Must Haves
- Startup mindset of getting things done and focussing on business goals
- Proven problem solving skills
- 3+ years Hands on experience in designing and developing applications using server side technology (Java, Spring Boot / Node.js, Express)
- Excellent knowledge of Relational Databases, SQL and ORM technologies
- Good knowledge of design patterns
- Proficiency in REST architecture
- Experience with test-driven development
- Experience with Git/CI/CD/Gradle/Maven
- Inclination towards writing quality and performant code
Nice to Have
- Experience in Agile development
- Performance tuning, testing, refactoring and automation
- Experience working with AWS Cloud and Devops technologies (terraform , cloudformation, ansible)
- Experience running a production environment
Our young and rapidly growing team at Zycus is looking to fill out vacant positions for Lead Engineers. We are a well established SAAS based company, with 20+ years of AI legacy and experience in the industry. Once you join us, you will get to innovate and experience the latest technologies including Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and AWS Cloud. We are looking for candidates well versed with Java/J2EE, Spring boot, Microservices, Hibernate, JMS/ Kafka/ Rabbit and most importantly an expert in design patterns. Exposure to Cloud platform, Full stack environment and Agile methodology, would be a plus.
We are looking for curious, collaborative candidates who are willing to learn and ready to take up new exciting endeavors. You are going to work together with the team on complex innovative projects in the industry. We are basically looking for an enthusiastic candidate with a coding experience of about 5-10 years, with a hands-on experience in Software Product Development and ownership.
You could be a perfect fit if you,
- understand use cases and product requirements, can design, develop, review (code/design), unit test, module test, integration test, documentation for PDLC.
- are an expert in maintaining, enhancing, bug fixing and following standard documentation process laid down for the project.
- follow the defined PDLC process and participate in improving the process, work with cross functional team to achieve project delivery goal.
- ensure all the work meets or exceeds predefined quality standards through exhaustive testing, peer reviews SQA process standards.
- are able to build solution which is easily scalable, high speed/ real-time performance, configurable, deploy-able and secure in SaaS environment using any open source tech stack.
- are able to identify, track and mitigate risks to the product
- are responsible for planning product iterations and releasing iterations on schedule.
Requirements
- 5-10 years’ experience in Java, J2EE and associated technologies (Spring, Hibernate, Web Services, Micro Services, Spring boot)
- Technical Skills: Core Java, Advanced Java, J2EE, Exception handling, Collections, Oops, UML, Oracle, Jenkins, Maven & Linux
- Should be able to build solutions which is easily configurable, deploy able and secure in SaaS environment.
- Must have worked spring boot Extensively.
- Strong hands on development experience in Java, J2EE.
- Product development experience in agile environment will be a big plus though not mandatory.
- Highly Tech Savvy and hands-on.
- Strong evidence of a solution/product created ground up.
Product Development:
- Has in-depth knowledge on technology and end to end development processes.
- Has the ability to recommend new processes/alternatives to meet Product development requirements and rolling them out the team.
Benefits
Five Reasons Why You Should Join Zycus
- Cloud Product Company: We are a Cloud SaaS Company and our products are created by using the latest technologies like ML and AI. Our UI is in Angular JS and we are developing our mobile apps using React.
- A Market Leader: Zycus is recognized by Gartner (world’s leading market research analyst) as a Leader in Procurement Software Suites.
- Move between Roles: We believe that change leads to growth and therefore we allow our employees to shift careers and move to different roles and functions within the organization
- Get a Global Exposure: You get to work and deal with our global customers.
- Create an Impact: Zycus gives you the environment to create an impact on the product and transform your ideas into reality. Even our junior engineers get the opportunity to work on different product features.
About Us
Zycus is a pioneer in Cognitive Procurement software and has been a trusted partner of choice for large global enterprises for two decades. Zycus has been consistently recognized by Gartner, Forrester, and other analysts for its Source to Pay integrated suite. Zycus powers its S2P software with the revolutionary Merlin AI Suite. Merlin AI takes over the tactical tasks and empowers procurement and AP officers to focus on strategic projects; offers data-driven actionable insights for quicker and smarter decisions, and its conversational AI offers a B2C type user-experience to the end-users.
Zycus helps enterprises drive real savings, reduce risks, and boost compliance, and its seamless, intuitive, and easy-to-use user interface ensures high adoption and value across the organization.
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- Must have good experience in Dot net, MVC and J-Query.
- Need experience between 2.5 years to 5 years.
- Excellent Communication Skills.
- To develop, design, test, maintain and support custom mobile and web applications.
- To collect the software requirement by customer and develop the application as per their requirement.
- Evaluate and research the products and technologies related to software.
- To design and develop the activities and procedures related to activities and maintenance.
- To write the high-quality code to meet customer requirement.
- To design, develop and implement the critical application for dot Net environment.
- Team with top-notch engineers, product managers, program managers, DevOps and QA following agile development methodologies
- Review functional requirements, providing technical feedback on feasibility and architectural approach and framework.
- Design and develop web / mobile applications
- Create Prototype and/or Proof of Concepts (POCs) when necessary
- Act in a technical leadership capacity: Mentor junior engineers and new team members, perform code reviews and apply technical expertise to challenging programming and design problems
- Utilize Agile Development, SCRUM / Pair / Extreme Programming methodologies
- Design and develop supporting components and microservices for the backend tiers focusing on fault-tolerance and scalability in a multi-tenant enterprise environment
- Maintain and improve the functionality and performance of the existing web applications
- Help shape and execute the technical roadmap to develop next generation features; integrate corporate- and product-level architecture principles and goals into the teams project work through designs, implementation strategies, and project planning.
- Drive a culture of quality, technical curiosity, continuous improvement, and evidence-based data driven decision making in the organization.
- Execute other Duties as assigned
- 3+ years of experience developing Backend, API and data-based applications/software
- Experience with one of the major relational databases (MySQL, Oracle, Postgres) and NoSQL databases (Mongo DB, Cassandra, Dynamo DB or such)
- Expert object-oriented programming experience using Java
- Strong OO design and programming skills in Java, Hibernate, JPA, Spring Boot
- Worked in Maven, JPA, REST services, Postman
- Working knowledge on Spring Security / Spring Batch / ZUUL / Eureka / Hysterix
- Exposure with Frontend technologies (React.js, Angular or Ruby-on-Rails)
- Require experience and Strong understanding of entire Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Agile (Scrum), Software design/architecture process, unit testing & Test-Driven Development (TDD)
- Experience with web services (consuming or creating)
- Experience managing Cloud infrastructure (resources and service) in AWS, Azure and/or GCP
- Strong knowledge of SOA, object-oriented programming, design patterns, multi-threaded application development
- Experience in reporting and analytics, queuing and real-time streaming systems
- Git or similar distributed SCM tools experience.
The candidate will need to demonstrate previous experience of taking a client's requirements and translating them into technical specifications. The candidate will have to have previous examples of how he/she has worked with internal customers and technical peers.
The ideal candidate should have 3 to 5 years’ experience within a web application development environment.
Experience with PHP, HTML, CSS, MySQL, SOAP/REST, JavaScript, AJAX, etc. is a must. Following are the key area we are expecting you to have strong command on:
- Analytical Skills
- Algorithms
Responsibilities and Duties
- Development of software extensions to vTiger CRM/Drupal/WordPress and any other PHP based application
- Development of integration between CRM and ERP systems provided by Target Integration and any other system using their APIs
- Development and maintenance of code in Gitlab (In-house git server)
- Managing tickets and updating them regularly in Redmine (Project and Ticket Management Platform)
- Providing solutions to the pre-sales team on new projects
- Supporting the existing development team
Qualifications and Skills
- Coming up with ideas to help grow the team
- Data Structure
- Data Modelling Concepts
- Object-Oriented Design Principles and Concepts
- MVC – Pattern in Depth.
- Aware of Various other commonly used design patterns like Factory, Abstract Factory, etc.
- PHP, MYSQL, HTML, CSS, JS, JSON, Webservices
- Object-Oriented PHP
- SQL In general, Procedure, triggers, functions, etc.
- Query Designing.
- Thorough understanding of HTTP.
- Version Control (specifical git) and bug tracking software knowledge are important.
Benefits
- Linux system administration experience will be useful
- Experience of working on at least two of Joomla/Drupal/vTiger CRM or Sugar CRM is a must
- Strong understanding of relational database design
- Experience in creating professional-looking web interfaces using CSS and HTML
- Understanding of business processes
- Ideally, they should have worked on CRM/ERP/Accounting applications
- Excellent written and spoken communication skills
Job Type: Full-time









