Java Backend Engineer

Technical Skill Set:

1. ASP. NET Development – Strong expertise in C#, ASP.NET, WPF, and solid understanding of SOLID principles, API development, and databases.

2. Cloud Technologies – Hands-on experience with AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.

3. Software Development & Architecture – Proficiency in SDLC, Agile, Scrum, and DevOps frameworks.

4. Project Planning & Management – Experience in task allocation, tracking, estimations, and deliverables management.

5. Repository & Version Control – Familiarity with Git, SVN, or similar tools, along with basic networking concepts.

6. Product Lifecycle Management – Knowledge of requirement analysis, documentation, testing, and release management.

7. Project Planning Tools – Experience with tools like Microsoft Project Plan, JIRA, Redmine, or HP ALM/Quality Centre.

Leadership & Soft Skills:

1. Team Leadership – Ability to guide, mentor, and manage a team while ensuring high-quality deliverables within tight deadlines.

2. Client Engagement & Requirement Gathering – Skilled in collaborating with stakeholders to enhance and refine project requirements.

3. Strong Communication & Problem-Solving – Effective at handling challenges, making decisions, and ensuring smooth project execution.

Skills:

• Proficient in Go programming language with experience in building high-performance, scalable applications
• Experience with Java development a plus
• Familiarity with Git version control systems (e.g., GitHub, GitLab, BitBucket, SVN)
• Solid understanding of RESTful web services APIs
• Experience with CI/CD tools like Jenkins
• Experience with NoSQL databases
• Experience working with PostgreSQL databases

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain robust and efficient Go code
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, implement, and deploy new features
• Participate in code reviews and ensure high code quality
• Troubleshoot and debug complex technical problems
• Stay up-to-date with the latest advancements in Go and related technologies

60 Decibels is a tech-powered impact measurement company that makes it easy to listen to the people who matter most. We've been in business as an independent entity since early 2019, when we spun out of the global Impact Investor Acumen.

We believe that the best way to understand social impact is by talking to the people experiencing that impact. It sounds obvious when you say it, but that is not the typical practice for many impact investors, corporations and foundations working to create social change. 

We collect social impact data directly from beneficiaries (customers / employees / suppliers) using our network of 1000+ trained research assistants in 75+ countries. We do it quickly and without the fuss typically associated with measuring social impact. Our research assistants speak directly to customers to understand their lived experience; and our team turns all this data into benchmarked social performance reports, with accompanying insights, to help our clients demonstrate and improve social performance. 

By making impact measurement simple, scalable, and comparable, we not only enable organizations to improve their products and services; we also help transform what it means to credibly measure impact, ensuring that the voices of those who matter most are always part of the story.

About the role: 

You’ll be an early engineer in a newly formed engineering team. This is a unique opportunity for you to learn, build, demonstrate, and subsequently own diverse components of our tech stack and evolve as we scale our business. As a core engineer in a small team, the role demands a high degree of self-drive and ownership, on a path to achieving outsized impact.

Your Primary Responsibility Will Be:

To Advance Our Integrated Data Capture And Insights Platform (Ruby/React/PostgreSQL) And Associated Tooling (Python)

Specifically, your responsibilities will include:

• Work with a diverse multidisciplinary team across Engineering, Product & Operations, to translate product specs into clean, functional, production-ready code.
• Participate actively in defining of the systems architecture vision to better support our team’s needs
• Grow our technical capacity by mentoring other engineers and interviewing candidates
• Collaborate with team members to identify systems, practices & technologies that suit our needs the best
• Seek, learn, adopt and advocate industry best practices. Contribute towards the engineering culture
• Troubleshooting coding problems quickly and efficiently to ensure a productive workplace

About You: First and foremost, you bring compassion and dedication to this work because it matters to you.

You are a pragmatic and product-driven engineer who is interested in solving user problems and delivering value while taking into account tradeoffs between Business and Tech. You have a bias towards action: you get your hands dirty and actively tackle problems in a way that leads to the best outcomes and brings teams together. You successfully balance flexibility and rigour, using informed judgment to make decisions. You model critical thinking and introspection, taking strategic risks and growing from mistakes. You are decisive and bold, have a growth mindset, are an excellent communicator, and know the value of being a part of an effective team

Minimum Qualification:

• At least 4+ years of experience in software engineering building SaaS platforms, products and APIs
• At least 1+ years in your current role as a senior engineer
• Strong proficiency in Ruby on Rails (primary) and Python (additional)
• Strong proficiency in data modelling, RDBMS (Postgres preferred) and NoSQL databases.
• Proficient in software design, modularity, testability and software quality
• Strong problem-solving and decision-making skills

Additional desired qualifications:

• Preferred prior experience in the following stack: Python, Ruby On Rails, React, Postgres, AWS
• Experience in working on natural language processing, and ML for text and audio.
• Fast self-learner, with aptitude and interest in learn new technologies, languages & frameworks
• Experience working on data-pipelines, and data transformation systems.
• Experience setting up, managing and ensuring best practices on public clouds like AWS, GCP, or Azure (we use AWS)

Working with 60 Decibels

We are a fun, international and highly-motivated team who believes that team members should have the opportunity to expand their skills and career in a supportive environment. We offer a competitive salary, the opportunity to work flexibly and in a fun, supportive working environment. If this sounds like the role for you, get in touch!

60 Decibels is deeply committed to having a workplace that is inclusive and anti-discriminatory. We believe that our team must embody the compassion, listening, and sense of shared humanity that is so central to our goal as an organization. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation age, marital status, veteran status, or disability.

As a growing company, we are building towards a more universally accessible workplace for our employees. At this time, we do use some cloud-based technologies that are not compatible with screen readers and other assistive devices. We would be happy to discuss accessibility at 60 Decibels in greater depth during the recruitment process.

 About our team and our culture: we are a fun and hardworking global team that is full of smart, mission-driven folks who combine an entrepreneurial spirit with a commitment to make a positive change in the world.  

We consistently hear from our clients that the best thing about 60 Decibels is the people. To get a feel for our slightly nerdy, not-take-ourselves-too-seriously vibe, check out our monthly newsletter, The Volume.

Compensation: 60 Decibels offers a competitive salary and benefits package and the opportunity to work in a flexible, fun and supportive environment. The salary range will be adjusted according to costs of living in our country offices. 

Extra Perks: We have an unlimited leave policy and 12 monthly recharge days, on the first Friday of each month. We are a globally distributed team and we give team members opportunities to cross-pollinate and visit our different offices. 

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> Read about our team values here. 

• Proficiency in Java, with a good understanding of its ecosystems
• Sound knowledge of 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

• 5 years experience with the Django framework
• Experience with building APIs (REST or GraphQL) 
• Strong Troubleshooting and debugging skills
• React.js knowledge would be an added bonus 
• Understanding on how to use a database like Postgres (prefered choice), SQLite, MongoDB, MySQL.
• Sound knowledge of object-oriented design and analysis.
• A strong passion for writing simple, clean and efficient code.
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools Git.

Experience:

• Min 5 year experience
• Startup experience is a must. 

Location:

• Remote developer

Timings:

• 40 hours a week but with 4 hours a day overlapping with client timezone.  Typically clients are in California PST Timezone.

Position:

• Full time/Direct
• We have great benefits such as PF, medical insurance, 12 annual company holidays, 12 PTO leaves per year, annual increments, Diwali bonus, spot bonuses and other incentives etc.
• We dont believe in locking in people with large notice periods.  You will stay here because you love the company.  We have only a 15 days notice period.

About Numen (https://numenhealth.com):
Numen Health is a Health-tech company with a goal to reimagine healthcare in India. Through an amalgamation of our healthcare team with the power of AI and the Internet of Things (IoT), we make healthcare easier and accessible through a data-based preemptive approach. Our mission is to facilitate change in the healthcare industry by moving from a reactive approach to a proactive one.
We are a wonderful, young team with experience in scaling up Indian and international businesses from the ground up. We are looking for like-minded and enthusiastic people who are passionate about making a lasting difference and want to help us revolutionize the way healthcare is delivered to a billion Indian!

Our Vision:
To shift the healthcare ecosystem from a ‘Sick-care' approach to a ‘Holistic-healthcare' approach. We aim to do that by enabling doctors and caregivers to move from treating ailments to employing a data-based,
preemptive approach.
About Product:
We offer preventive healthcare programs to individuals to improve their health. These plans are crafted in consultation with their treating doctor and a dedicated care team remotely monitors the progress in real[1]time. For doctors, Numen is a virtual facility to cater to all of their patient’s needs, remotely.
Why Join?
At Numen, you have the opportunity to make tangible changes to the existing healthcare systems in India
making it preventive and affordable. By joining the Numen team, you get to be part of a young, dynamic
team that is passionate about making a change and a fast-paced environment with multiple opportunities to
learn and grow.

Job Overview:
Numen Health is looking for Tech Lead to join our Engineering team and lead all stages of the software product development life cycle. This will include analyzing system and user requirements, designing software flowcharts, writing clean Java code, troubleshooting bugs, and running tests to improve system functionality.
If you are a person who has proficiency in Java technologies, good analytical skills, the ability to design software systems and anticipate issues, and frame remedial actions with excellent teamwork skills; We
would like to speak to you.

Responsibilities:
1. Design, develop, scale, and maintain backend services in Java
2. Collaborate with the engineering and product team to discuss project definitions and goals.
3. Work on individual priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.
4. Improve reliability, scalability, observability, and security of the backend systems.
5. Write simple, efficient, and maintainable code
6. Function well in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment
7. Ensuring best coding standards and practices to improve and maintain quality.

Requirements:
8. Bachelor/Master degree in CS or related field from a reputed college
9. Sound knowledge of Java technologies.
10. Solid grip on the programming basics like DS and algorithms, OOPS.
11. Experience with software design and application programming
12. Understanding & experience with software design patterns, restful APIs, and microservice
architecture
13. Experience with software design and application programming
14. Strong debugging skills
15. Exposure to CI/CD and Test-Driven Development
16. Nice to have are Unix / Linux, database SQl / NoSQL, Java Spring, working knowledge on
scripting (Perl, Shell Scripting).

Prior Experience:
17. 5 - 8 years of experience in java development
18. A hustler with the capability to think out of box and hence prior experience with Startups would
be a plus.
19. Understanding or Experience in Health-Tech is good to have
20. Good To have a Team Lead / Mentorship Experience.

Your Opportunity

• Own and drive business features into tech requirements
• Design & develop large scale real time server side systems
• Quickly create quality prototypes
• Staying updated on emerging technologies
• Ensuring that all deliverables adhere to our world class standards
• Promote coding best practices
• Mentor and develop junior developers in the team

Required Experience:

• 4+ years of relevant experience as described below
• Excellent grasp of Core Java, Multi Threading and OO design patterns
• Experience with Scala, functional, reactive programming and Akka/Play is a plus
• Excellent understanding of data structures and algorithms
• Solid grasp of large scale distributed real time systems
• Prior experience on building a scalable and resilient micro service
• Solid understanding of relational databases, NoSQL databases and Caching systems
• Good understanding of Big Data technologies such as Spark, Hadoop is a plus
• Experience on one of AWS, Azure or GCP

Who you are :

• You have excellent and effective communication and collaborative skills
• You love problem solving
• You stay up to date with the latest technologies and then apply them in real life
• You love paying attention to detail
• You thrive in meeting tight deadlines and prioritising workloads
• Ability to collaborate across multiple functions

Education:

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or equivalent experience within the field