
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)

Similar jobs
Strong Backend Engineer Profiles
Mandatory (Experience 1) – Must have 2+ years of hands-on Backend Engineering experience building production-grade systems in a B2B SaaS or product environment
Mandatory (Experience 2) – Must have strong backend development experience using at least one backend framework such as FastAPI / Django (Python), Spring (Java), or Express (Node.js)
Mandatory (Experience 3) – Must have a solid understanding of backend fundamentals, including API development, service-oriented architecture, data structures, algorithms, and clean coding practices
Mandatory (Experience 4) – Must have strong experience working with databases (SQL and/or NoSQL), including efficient data modeling and query optimization
Mandatory (Experience 5) – Must have experience designing, building, and maintaining APIs and backend services, including integrations with external systems (CRMs, payment gateways, ERPs, data platforms, etc.)
Mandatory (Experience 6) – Must have experience working in cloud-based environments (AWS / GCP / Azure) and be familiar with Git-based collaborative development workflows
Mandatory (Domain) – Experience with financial systems, billing platforms, fintech applications, or SaaS revenue-related workflows is highly preferred
Mandatory (Domain) – Experience with financial systems, billing platforms, or fintech applications is highly preferred (fintech background is a strong plus)
Mandatory (Company) – Must have worked in product companies / startups, preferably Series A to Series D
Preferred
Preferred (Education) – Candidates from Tier - 1 engineering institutes (IITs, BITS are highly preferred)
Role Overview
We are looking for a Senior Backend Developer with strong Node.js expertise who is comfortable working in an AI-assisted development environment. The ideal candidate should be proficient in leveraging modern AI developer tools to accelerate development, improve code quality, and help modernize legacy systems.
This role involves working on backend systems, microservices architecture, and AI-powered development workflows, including refactoring legacy applications into modern Node.js services.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services using Node.js.
- Leverage AI-powered developer tools such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or Amazon Q to improve development efficiency.
- Refactor and modernize legacy .NET applications into Node.js-based microservices using AI-assisted workflows.
- Design and optimize database schemas and complex SQL queries for performance and scalability.
- Work with PostgreSQL and Redis for high-performance data storage and caching.
- Build and integrate AI-based features and services into backend applications.
- Automate development workflows through custom CLI tools or IDE extensions.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality backend solutions.
Required Skills & Experience
- 5+ years of backend development experience
- Strong expertise in Node.js backend development
- Hands-on experience with AI-assisted development tools (GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Amazon Q, or similar)
- Experience working with PostgreSQL and Redis
- Strong understanding of microservices architecture and API design
- Experience with AI engineering (building or integrating AI-powered features)
- Strong problem-solving and debugging skills
Good to Have
- Prior experience with .NET / C#
- Experience modernizing legacy systems
- Experience building developer productivity tools (CLI tools, IDE extensions, automation)
- Experience optimizing complex SQL queries and database migrations
A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE COMPANY:
Established in 2017, Fountane Inc is one part a Digital Product Studio that specializes in building superior product experiences, and one part Ventures Lab incubating and investing in new competitive technology businesses from scratch. Thus far, we’ve created half a dozen multi million valuation companies in the US, and a handful of sister ventures for large corporations including Target, US Ventures, Imprint Engine.
We’re a team of 100 strong from around the world that are radically open minded and believes in excellence, respecting one another and pushing our boundaries to furthest its ever been.
· What you’ll be doing:
Architecting and delivering mid to large scale Enterprise Applications on Microsoft Platform.
· Recommending and participating in activities related to the design, development and maintenance of the Enterprise Application Architecture.
Delivering projects on time with quality.
· Provide technical leadership regarding technology or project to customers and team members
· Shares best practices, lessons learned and constantly updates the technical system architecture requirements based on changing technologies and knowledge related to recent, current and up-coming vendor products and solutions.
· Participate in technical forums and discussion within the team and with clients.
· Guides and mentors’ team in terms of technical solutioning.
What you’ll bring to the team:
· You have 15+ years of experience in Strong design & coding experience in Dot net framework using design patterns & OOPs concepts.
· You have practical knowledge & good understanding of cross technology and functional domains, programming concepts and logical approach for problem solving.
You hold rich experience on web development technologies including ASP.NET, MVC5, JavaScript, jQuery, HTML5, AJAX, XML and CSS.
· You have experience in web application Architecture and Development with hands on expertise in delivering solutions, customizing C#, ASP.Net applications using development tools like Visual Studio 2010/2012.
non-metro and rural markets. DealShare has raised series C funding of USD 21 million with key investors like WestBridge Capital, Falcon Edge Capital, Matrix Partners India, Omidyar Network, Z3 Partners and Partners of DST Global and has a total funding of USD 34 million.They have 2 million customers across Rajasthan, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Karnataka and Delhi NCR with monthly transactions of 1.2 million and annual GMV of $100 million. Our aim is to expand operations to 100 cities across India and reach annual GMV of USD 500 Million by end of 2021.
They started in Sept 2018 and had 5000 active customers in the first three months. Today
we have 25K transactions per day, 1 Lakh DAU and 10 Lakh MAU with a monthly GMV of INR 100 Crores and 50% growth MoM. We aim to hit 2 Lakh transactions per day with an annual GMV of 500 Million USD by 2021.
We are hiring for various teams in discovery (search, recommendation, merchandising,
intelligent notifications) , pricing (automated pricing, competition price awareness, balancing revenue with profits, etc), user growth and retention (bargains, gamification), monetisation (ads), order fulfillment (cart/checkout, warehousing, last mile, delivery promise, demand forecasting), customer support, data infrastructure (warehousing, analytics), ML infrastructure (data versioning, model repository, model training, model hosting, feature store, etc). We are looking for passionate problem solvers to join us and solve really challenging problems and scale DealShare systems
You will:
● Implement the solve with minimal guidance after solutioning closure with senior engineers.
● Write code that has good low level design and is easy to understand, maintain, extend
and test.
● End to end ownership of product/feature from development to production and fixing
issues
● Ensure high unit, functional and integration automated test coverage. Ensure releases
are stable.
● Communicate with various stakeholders (product, QA, senior engineers) as necessary to
ensure quality deliverables, smooth execution and launch.
● Participate in code reviews, improve development and testing processes.
● Participate in hiring great engineers
Required:
● Bachelor’s degree (4 years) or higher in Computer Science or equivalent and 1-3 years
of experience in software development
● Excellent at problem solving, is a self thinker.
● Good understanding of computer science fundamentals, data structures and algorithms
and object oriented design.
● Good coding skills in any object oriented language (C++, Java, Scala, etc), preferably in
Java.
● Prior experience in building one or more modules of large-scale, highly available, low
latency, high quality distributed system is preferred.
● Extremely good at problem solving, is a self thinker.
● Ability to multitask and thrive in a fast paced timeline-driven environment.
● Good team player and ability to collaborate with others
● Self driven and motivated, very high on ownership
Is a plus
● Prior experience of working in Java
● Prior experience of using AWS offerings - EC2, S3, DynamoDB, Lambda, API Gateway,
Cloudfront, etc
● Prior experience of working on big data technologies - Spark, Hadoop, etc
● Prior experience on asynchronous processing (queuing systems), workflow systems.
Who you are:
- You have an overall software development experience of 4 to 10 years
- 3+ years proficiency in Java and Spring boot
- Familiar with distributed computing and frameworks such as gRPC/ protobuf
- Understands JVM metrics, Garbage collection and performance tuning
- Experience in creating high-level design(HLD) and low-level design(LLD)
- You have a good understanding of relational database, NoSQL technologies, and REST
- Good to have experience in HTML, JavaScript, GraphQL, TypeScript, ReactJS and related toolsets
- Exposure to AWS stack/cloud computing
- Self-motivated developer who takes ownership of work
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Computing related discipline
- Experience in Product Development Environment is a plus.
• Microsoft: http://asp.net/" target="_blank">ASP.NET Core, Azure, C#/Web API
We are looking for Java Developers in the experience level of 3 to 5 years for our Client for Hyderabad Location. Looking for immediate to 15 days joiners only.
Skill sets-
Java with struts, spring, Spring Boot, hibernate ..oracle DB Background

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.
● 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
● Build applications based on micro-services architecture
Requirements
● Overall 1-3 years of experience in Backend development.
● 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 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
making api and wokring on aws and s3 is added advantage.







