Java Developer (7+ Years Experience)

Role Overview

We are looking for a hands-on Engineering Manager to lead backend and platform development. You’ll drive scalable, secure, and high-performance solutions using Java, Spring Boot, and AWS, while mentoring a talented engineering team and delivering real-world impact through proven projects.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of backend engineers to deliver robust and scalable systems.

• Design and architect backend services using Java, Spring Boot, and AWS infrastructure.

• Ensure code quality, CI/CD, and best practices across deployments.

• Collaborate with Product, Design, and Data teams to translate business goals into technical outcomes.

• Drive technical decisions, performance optimization, and system reliability.

• Manage sprint planning, resource allocation, and project delivery timelines.

• Contribute to hands-on coding, design reviews, and architecture discussions.

Requirements

• 6–10 years of software development experience, including 2+ years leading engineering teams.

• Strong expertise in Java, Spring Boot, AWS (EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS), and related backend frameworks.

• Proven experience in building and scaling production-grade systems and services.

• Solid understanding of RESTful APIs, microservices, and distributed systems.

• Experience with Agile/Scrum development methodologies.

• Excellent leadership, communication, and decision-making skills.

• Prior experience in a fintech or high-scale product startup preferred.

Why Join Univest

• Shape how India trades and invests — real users, real money, real impact.

• Fast-paced environment with ownership and room to experiment.

• Work directly with founders on tech strategy and scale.

• Transparent, high-trust culture with competitive compensation and ESOPs.

• Fun, collaborative, and ambitious team driving real innovation in fintech.

Position: Java Lead

Experience: 7+ Years

Location: Jaipur (Onsite)

Joining: Immediate Joiners Preferred

Employment Type: Permanent

Company: Deqode

Role Summary:

We are looking for a Java Lead to join Deqode’s backend engineering team. This role requires deep hands-on expertise in Java technologies along with the ability to lead a team and drive complex technical implementations.

Key Responsibilities:

• Take ownership as Lead Developer for backend services.
• Manage a team of 5-7 Java developers; mentor and guide juniors.
• Perform code reviews and ensure adherence to coding best practices.
• Contribute in writing clean, testable, scalable code using Java and Spring Boot.
• Own and drive technical design discussions and implementations.
• Work with cross-functional teams: Frontend, QA, DevOps, Product, and 3rd parties.
• Ensure robust unit testing, code coverage, and maintain high quality deliverables.
• Troubleshoot defects and support production deployments.

Required Skills:

• 7+ years of Java development experience
• Expertise in Spring Boot and REST APIs
• Strong experience in Microservices Architecture
• Knowledge of Netflix OSS or Spring Cloud
• Proficient in writing JUnit test cases
• CI/CD pipeline experience in real-time projects
• Understanding of Docker and Kubernetes
• Exposure to AWS Cloud Services from a development perspective

We are seeking a highly skilled Backend Developer to join our team and contribute to the development and improvement of both our customer-centric SaaS platform and internal systems. As a Backend Developer, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining the server-side logic of our application, ensuring high performance, scalability, and security.

As a Backend Developer with expertise in Java, and PostgreSQL, you will play a critical role in developing and maintaining the backend infrastructure of our SaaS and internal platforms, ensuring its reliability, scalability, and performance. Join our team and be a part of building cutting-edge software solutions that empower our customers and drive business growth.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including front-end developers, product managers, and designers, to understand project requirements and translate them into technical specifications.
• Design and develop server-side logic, APIs, and database schema to support the functionality and performance requirements of our SaaS platform.
• Write clean, modular, and well-documented code using any relevant programming language preferably Java with SpringBoot.
• Optimize the backend systems for maximum speed and scalability, ensuring high performance and responsiveness of the application.
• Implement data storage solutions using PostgreSQL or other relational databases, ensuring data integrity and security.
• Conduct thorough testing and debugging to identify and resolve any issues or bugs in the backend code.
• Stay up-to-date with emerging technologies, industry trends, and best practices in backend development and contribute to the continuous improvement of our development processes.

Requirements:

• Proven work experience as a Backend Developer or similar role, with a focus on server-side development.
• Proficiency in working with relational databases, particularly PostgreSQL, and writing efficient SQL queries.
• Familiarity with SaaS concepts and architecture.
• Experience with API design and development, including RESTful APIs.
• Solid understanding of software development principles, including object-oriented programming, design patterns, and data structures.
• Experience with version control systems, such as Git.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills, with keen attention to detail.
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field is preferred, but not mandatory.

Location: Pan India (Hyderabad / Chennai preferred)

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain SOA-based process applications using JBPM.
• Define and model business processes using BPMN 2.0 on a BPM platform.
• Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code, ensuring best practices in configuration management and code refactoring.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and implement solutions to business process needs.
• Perform code reviews, troubleshoot issues, and provide innovative solutions.
• Work on UI development and integrate with backend systems.
• Deploy and maintain applications on servers like WebLogic, WebSphere, Apache Tomcat, or Jetty.
• Stay updated with new technologies and tools to improve development efficiency.

Key Requirements

• 4+ years of professional experience in building applications.
• Strong development experience with BPM engines, specifically JBPM (mandatory).
• Hands-on experience in SOA-based process applications.
• Proficient in Java, JSP, Servlets, SQL, and frameworks like Struts/Spring/Hibernate/MyBatis.
• Knowledge of HTML5, CSS, JavaScript languages.
• Familiarity with BPMN 2.0 and querying BPM APIs.
• Experience with application servers like WebLogic, WebSphere, Apache Tomcat, or Jetty.
• Strong problem-solving skills and excellent communication abilities.

• 5 years of experience as Java/Jee Developer, Springboot
• Good knowledge of OOPS concepts.
• Experience in Java8, JSP, Spring Core, Spring MVC, Spring Rest & Spring JPA Repository
• Experience in Hibernate, relational databases and sql.
• Experience in Rest API development.
• Experience in implementation of Jasper Reports
• Familiar with Git & Maven

Primary Responsibilities:

• Principal Engineers  are responsible for driving Technology and Engineering Best Practices in their respective teams.
• They should demonstrate a high level of ownership and accountability for their product and software systems.
• They are expected to go above and beyond their role by contributing in tools, processes and practices which bring operational efficiency and are aligned with business goals.
• They are expected to actively participate in development along with team members and create systems and modules which represent a working model of engineering best practices.
• They are expected to participate in code reviews, design reviews, architecture discussions.
• They are responsible for the Engineering metrics/health of their systems including strong alerting and monitoring mechanisms.
• They are expected to lead the adoption of best practices around coding, designing, performance of systems in a team.

Experience or Skills Required:

• B.Tech or Advanced degree in Computer Science with 6-12 years of industry experience in product based companies.
• Proficiency with Basic libraries for machine learning such as scikit-learn and pandas
• Experience in building solutions based on Linear Regression, Logistic Regression, K Nearest neighbor, SVM, Random Forest, Decision Trees.
• Strong experience with at least one of programming languages: Python, Java, Vertx, Golang
• Strong experience in building Server side reusable components based on Microservices or Distributed Architecture.
• Solid coding skills with ability to lead teams in identifying clearing tech debts for large scale code base.
• Good understanding & experience in improving performance of scalable and real time responsive applications.
• Excellent Problem Solving skills and an aptitude to approach problems from first principles and build solutions for those.
• Must have excellent communication (verbal & written), interpersonal, leadership, and problem solving skills.
• Must be able to work independently and enjoy working at a fast paced start-up environment
• Excellent Mentoring skills. Be the technical mentor to your team.
• Must be comfortable working in fuzzy environments where boundaries are not clearly defined.

• Hands-on Java Engineers, with experience building consumer-facing or enterprise applications using Java stack – Spring, Hibernate, MySQL
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills
• Strong understanding of Object-Oriented Programming concepts and Design patterns.

Do You Know? (Skills good to have)

• Exposure to building service-oriented distributed systems
• In building systems that process big data in a distributed environment, either in real-time streaming or offline batching.
• In messaging systems like Kafka, RabbitMQ, kinesis, etc.
• In real-time computation tools like Storm / Spark or Hadoop-based tools.
• In Data warehousing technologies like Redshift, BigQuery, etc.

MUST HAVE SKILLS
- CORE JAVA & SQL

Desired Skills
Designing, implementing and delivering high quality Software project in JAVA, SQL / Oracle, J2EE and other JAVA technologies.

Job Responsibilities
Participate in detailed level in design, coding, code walk through, peer code reviews and unit testing,  System Testing, UAT, Demos, POCs, installation, maintenance of Software modules. 

❑ Ensures the preparation of the following: 

▪ Software prototype 

▪ System Architecture 

▪ Software Design Document 

▪ User interfaces to be developed as per UX guidelines 

▪ Code files ensuring coding guidelines followed 

▪ Code review artefacts during peer code review 

▪ Test plan and Test Cases 

▪ Installation / Deployment document 

▪ Release Document 

▪ Technical Documentation 

❑ Documents and demonstrates solutions by developing documentations, flowcharts, layouts, diagram, charts,  code. comments and clear code; Ensuring that project task are completed in defined effort and timelines ❑ Prepares and installs solutions by determining and designing system specifications, standards & programming. 

❑ Testing: Writing of test cases, unit testing, system testing, negative testing 

❑ Trouble shooting: Log analysis and database query optimization  

❑ Improves operations by conducting system's analysis. 

❑ Updates job knowledge by studying state of the art development tools, programming techniques & computing equipment; participates in educational opportunities, reads professional publications & maintains  personal networks.  

❑ Protects operations by keeping information confidential. 

❑ Provides information by collecting, analyzing and summarizing development and service issues.  ❑ Develops software solution by studying information needs, conferring with users, studding system flow,  data usage and work processes, investigating problem areas, following delivery cycle. 

Technologies

Must have                         Core JAVA, J2EE, Multithreading, OOPS, and Multiprocessing

Great to have                   RabbitMQ, Netty, XML, JSON, Messagepack

Huge Advantage:             Good at mathematics, statistics, complex data structures, algorithms, and design patterns

Other skills

• Ability to understand most complex and challenging problems and solve them from users’ view point
• Ability to create and present software designs (as per the aligned solution) to the product owner
• Ability to build and create modules from scratch.
• Ability to write, understand and deal with large code base
• Experience in understanding and implementing design patterns
• Ability to provide technical leadership to a team of equally talented, efficient and motivated engineers

Roles and responsibilities

• Responsible for solving the most complex and seemingly impossible problems related to variety of dimensions of software engineering. Dealing with Big Data to Complex Data Structures, From Inter Process Communication to sub 100 MilliSec server responses, From Distributed Systems to 99.999 Availability.
• Responsible for providing technical leadership to a team of 3-4 Engineers
• Responsible to drive delivery of a project/module and report to Product Owner
• Responsible for functional/technical tracking of a project/module

Responsibility Split

• 80% Technology, 20% Team management
• With 80:20 split this is definitely a technology oriented role suitable for geeks.