
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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Integration Developer
ROLE TITLE
Integration Developer
ROLE LOCATION(S)
Bangalore/Hyderabad/Chennai/Coimbatore/Noida/Kolkata/Pune/Indore
ROLE SUMMARY
The Integration Developer is a key member of the operations team, responsible for ensuring the smooth integration and functioning of various systems and software within the organization. This role involves technical support, system troubleshooting, performance monitoring, and assisting with the implementation of integration solutions.
ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES
· Design, develop, and maintain integration solutions using Spring Framework, Apache Camel, and other integration patterns such as RESTful APIs, SOAP services, file-based FTP/SFTP, and OAuth authentication.
· Collaborate with architects and cross-functional teams to design integration solutions that are scalable, secure, and aligned with business requirements.
· Resolve complex integration issues, performance bottlenecks, and data discrepancies across multiple systems. Support Production issues and fixes.
· Document integration processes, technical designs, APIs, and workflows to ensure clarity and ease of use.
· Participate in on-call rotation to provide 24/7 support for critical production issues.
· Develop source code / version control management experience in a collaborative work environment.
TECHNICAL QUALIFICATIONS
· 5+ years of experience in Java development with strong expertise in Spring Framework and Apache Camel for building enterprise-grade integrations.
· Proficient with Azure DevOps (ADO) for version control, CI/CD pipeline implementation, and project management.
· Hands-on experience with RESTful APIs, SOAP services, and file-based integrations using FTP and SFTP protocols.
· Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills for resolving complex integration and system issues.
· Experience in Azure Services, including Azure Service Bus, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Container Apps, and ideally Azure API Management (APIM) is a plus.
· Good understanding of containerization and cloud-native development, with experience in using Docker, Kubernetes, and Azure AKS.
· Experience with OAuth for secure authentication and authorization in integration solutions.
· Strong experience level using GitHub Source Control application.
· Strong background in SQL databases (e.g., T-SQL, Stored Procedures) and working with data in an integration context.
· Skilled with Azure DevOps (ADO) for version control, CI/CD pipeline implementation, and project management.
· Experience in Azure Services, including Azure Service Bus, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Container Apps, and ideally Azure API Management (APIM) is a plus.
GENERAL QUALIFICATIONS
· Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with a keen attention to detail.
· Effective communication skills, with the ability to collaborate with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
· Experience working in a fast paced, production support environment with a focus on incident management and resolution.
· Experience in the insurance domain is considered a plus.
EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS
· Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field.
Key Responsibilities
● Evolving the architecture for performance and scalability.
● Design, develop and own components of a highly scalable, distributed web
services platform.
● End to end delivery of new features.
● Lead a team of software engineers and help create an environment of ownership
and learning.
● Constantly strive to improve software development process and team
productivity.
Technical Skills
● 6-10 years of relevant software development experience.
● Experience in developing scalable, fault-tolerant, distributed backend services.
● Exceptional proficiency in any 1 of the language - Java, RoR or Golang.
● Good experiences with databases and Schema design and strong RDMS
knowledge.
● Strong knowledge of Performance optimization and caching techniques.
● Fairly good understanding of AWS (or any equivalent) and a relational database.
● Experience with prevalent design patterns and advanced system designing.
Benefits
● This is an opportunity to work on a fairly complex set of systems and impro
About the Role-
Thinking big and executing beyond what is expected. The challenges cut across algorithmic problem solving, systems engineering, machine learning and infrastructure at a massive scale.
Reason to Join-
An opportunity for innovators, problem solvers & learners. Working will be Innovative, empowering, rewarding & fun. Amazing Office, competitive pay along with excellent benefits package.
Requiremets and Responsibilities- (please read carefully before applying)
- The overall experience of 3-6 years in Java/Python Framework and Machine Learning.
- Develop Web Services, REST, XSD, XML technologies, Java, Python, AWS, API.
- Experience on Elastic Search or SOLR or Lucene -Search Engine, Text Mining, Indexing.
- Experience in highly scalable tools like Kafka, Spark, Aerospike, etc.
- Hands on experience in Design, Architecture, Implementation, Performance & Scalability, and Distributed Systems.
- Design, implement, and deploy highly scalable and reliable systems.
- Troubleshoot Solr indexing process and querying engine.
- Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science from Tier 1 Institutions
Synapsica is a growth stage HealthTech startup founded by alumni from IIT Kharagpur, AIIMS New Delhi, and IIM Ahmedabad. We believe healthcare needs to be transparent and objective, while being affordable. Every patient has the right to know exactly what is happening in their bodies and they don’t have to rely on cryptic 2 liners given to them as diagnosis.
Towards this aim, we are building an artificial intelligence enabled cloud based platform to analyze medical images and create 2.0 of advanced radiologist reporting.
We are backed by YCombinator and other marquee investors from India, US and Japan. We are proud to have GE, AIIMS, the Spinal Kinetics as our partners.
Join us, if you find this as exciting as we do!
Description:
Synapsica is looking for a Node.js/Python developer who is passionate about designing and implementing scalable solutions with highest quality. You will be responsible for creating high performance, responsive, and secure server-side programs to manage Synapsica platform. You will be responsible for designing, managing and supporting cloud platform and scaling our database. This role is ideal for you if you have a background in bakcned development and are looking for the next level of career growth in a fast paced, learning based and merit driven work environment.
Responsibilities:
- Design and development of our new platform modules from scratch.
- Hands on implementation of our APIs and integrations.
- Design, scaling and integration of new/existing databases.
- Ensuring the entire stack is designed and built for speed and scalability
- Design and construction of our REST APIs with best secutiry mechanisms.
- Design and implementation of continuous integration and deployment pipelines in tandem with the respective team members.
- Performance tuning and improvements in large scale systems.
- Ensuring responsiveness and cross-platform compatibility of applications.
- Owning and delivering end-to-end products, features, enhancements.
Requirements:
- Degree in Computer Science or related discipline with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, and software design
- At least 4+ years of experience with writing Python/NodeJS/PHP/Ruby on Rails.
- Prior experience of database design and management in MongoDB, including being up on the latest practices and associated versions.
- Experience in building highly scalable business applications, which involve implementing large complex business flows and dealing with huge amount of data.
- Familiarity with AWS (or equivalent) ecosystem with end-to-end cloud deployment.
- Experience implementing code level unit tests.
- Proficiency with Git / Version control.
- Appreciation for clean and well documented code
- Excellent verbal communication skills.
- Good problem solving skills.
- Attention to detail.
- Very high sense of ownership.
- Deep interest and passion for technology
What you will be doing
You will join our team as our Senior PHP Developer (Laravel) and your main responsibilities will be to:
- Write clean and maintainable code with good test coverage.
- Implement new features in collaboration with our design team.
- Optimize existing code to perfection with special attention to performance and maintainability.
- Do a code review of your colleagues work.
You and our future-proof stack
- We seek a balance between sticking with what works and fearlessly exploring the new.
- We use the latest stable version of PHP 7|8 because it allows us to write better code using features like strict type declarations, typed class properties and arrow functions.
- We leverage the elegance, simplicity and readability of the latest Laravel version.
- We want to spend our precious time on things that matter the most; that's why we perfect our easy to run the development environment with Homestead and custom scripts.
- We write and run tests with PHPUnit and http://cypress.io/">JavaScript End to End Testing Framework.
- We have a great set of tools to maintain the code quality and run on CI/CD (psalm (error level 4), rector, phpcs, php-cs-fixer, phpcpd etc.)
- We use Rector to maintain our code quality.
- We’re constantly refactoring our front-end code intending to reach front-end heaven:
- Laravel Blade template engine.
- PostCSS to maximize the power of modern CSS.
- Webpack for perfect control over front-end assets.
- Latest JS with support for ES2020 features. To accomplish this we use the latest Babel releases.
We ❤ CI (Continuous Integration) and CD (Continuous Delivery) so we usually deploy a few releases per day: Zero downtime. Just a few buttons to push. No sweaty palms.
We care deeply about the Developer Experience (DX) of our codebase and tools. DX and DevOps is our middle name: Git, GitHub, HTTP/2, Assets CDN, AWS, Enterprise SSDs on our high-spec servers, and much more.
About you
- You have expert knowledge of PHP.
- You have expert knowledge of Laravel.
- You have experience with test-driven development (TDD).
- You have 6+ years of experience working professionally with OOP.
- Your work is based on a solid foundation in computer science fundamentals from data structures and algorithms to design patterns.
- You are an engineer by mindset and always try to understand how things work under the hood.
- You have substantial experience working with RESTful web services and ORM concepts.
- You love to learn through doing. You’re ready to put in some hard work to expand your skills.
- You speak and write acceptable English – not perfect English, just acceptable
- You are a team player and you don't bring your ego to work.
- You are self-motivated and self-disciplined and thus work well in a flat hierarchy with lots of freedom.
- You love to have creative freedom, make independent judgments and live up to the responsibility that comes with that freedom.
- You love to create tangible results—every hour and every day.
- You love to make a positive impact on the world and the lives of others.
Speed, passion, attention to details, get it done attitude, long term association and 1st principal thinking and lastly team player with ZERO insecurities. Learning opportunities will surely be huge.
Responsibilities:
1. Build new services to meet critical product and business needs.
2. Design scalable systems to solve problems with modern cloud technology and industry best practices.
3. Articulate a long-term vision for maintaining and scaling our backend systems and the teams running them.
4. Work with engineers, designers, product managers and senior leadership to turn our product and technical vision into a tangible roadmap every quarter.
5. Write high quality, well tested code to meet the needs of your customers.
Requirements & Qualifications
1. 3-7 years of recent hands-on coding and software design.
2. Bachelor degree or more in Computer Science or a related field.
3. A track record of projects completed on time – you are a flawless executor, not a procrastinator.
4. You find satisfaction in a job well done and want to solve head-scratching challenges.
5. Experience with all phases of the software development life cycle, best practices and Agile Software Development.
6. Solid OOP and software design knowledge – you should know how to create software that’s extensible, reusable and meets desired architectural objectives.
7. Establish Back-End Software Engineer best practices.
8. Working experience with NodeJS, PostgreSQL, In memory Database like Redis, Messaging Queues like RabbitMQ/Kafka
Role and Responsibilities
The candidate for the role will be responsible for enabling single view for the data from multiple sources.
- Work on creating data pipelines to graph database from data lake
- Design graph database
- Write Graph Database queries for front end team to use for visualization
- Enable machine learning algorithms on graph databases
- Guide and enable junior team members
Qualifications and Education Requirements
B.Tech with 2-7 years of experience
Preferred Skills
Must Have
Hands-on exposure to Graph Databases like Neo4J, Janus etc..
- Hands-on exposure to programming and scripting language like Python and PySpark
- Knowledge of working on cloud platforms like GCP, AWS etc.
- Knowledge of Graph Query languages like CQL, Gremlin etc.
- Knowledge and experience of Machine Learning
Good to Have
- Knowledge of working on Hadoop environment
- Knowledge of graph algorithms
- Ability to work on tight deadlines









