Java Developer

A SaaS startup founded in April 2020.

What’s the opportunity?

Are you a backend developer looking to fast-track your learning and growth? Have you looked at world-class products like Asana, Notion, or Airtable, and felt “I wish I were part of the early team that built these products”?

We’re a team that has previously built and rolled out globally successful SaaS products used by tens of thousands of customers.

We’re laser-focused on delivering a world-class product again, and looking for an ambitious backend engineer to join our existing team of 9 engineers.

If it excites you to think of a fast-paced start-up environment, building something big from scratch, breaking down new problems, creating new APIs, working on performance issues, getting hands-on with DevOps initiatives, and showcasing demos of your work every Friday with a happy and passionate team, then this is the right opportunity for you.

Some of the tech problems you get to work on as a backend engineer would be to build the backend for a modern spreadsheet experience from scratch, work on infra as code, write robust code that is fault-tolerant, work on performant code that adheres to SLOs set by the organization. 

About you:

● 3- 5 years of experience

● Expertise in the following areas ○ Java ○ HTTP Protocol

● You’ve heard of or worked with some of the following tech stacks/products

○ Spring

○ PostgreSQL

○ Redis ○ Docker

○ Message brokers

○ GitHub

● These non-functional areas are familiar to you

○ Performance

○ Debugging

○ Log management

Nice to have:

● Familiarity with AWS 

What’s in it for you?

● Great opportunity: We genuinely care about everyone we hire. You’ll learn new things and grow no matter how experienced you are; you will be working with founders who have more than three decades of collective experience in building significant B2B SaaS startups.

● Great team: Work with a world-class, high-velocity team that truly embodies the values of empathy, curiosity, and customer-centricity. Check out the MTT(Meet The Team) videos on our LinkedIn.

● Great culture: An open, fun, and exciting startup culture that empowers its people to champion big problems with the freedom to think and innovate.

● Growth: You could easily and quickly transition into other roles you might like.

● Impact: You get to be part of a global, passionate team in a fast-paced and growth-oriented environment. The team has a work philosophy of being high on ambition, ownership, and a bias for action.

● Monetary rewards and benefits: Competitive stipend, flexible leave policy, and more

As a Backend Engineer you will be responsible for creating REST APIs which are used to drive the User Interface. Given the nature of the application, these APIs need to be very efficient and high performing. This requires optimizing queries for faster execution and introducing database changes that may be required. We are looking for individuals with great attention to detail, who are genuine, confident, committed and not only passionate about technology, but excited to work in a fun and friendly start-up environment. The ideal candidate will be passionate about technology and GETTING IT DONE.

Responsibilities:

• Develop, test, implement and maintain application software
• Take part in software and architectural development activities
• Debug application issues and helping support respond to client queries
• Participate in application development meetings
• Provide accurate estimates, clearly communicate status of tasks and identification of risks
• Commitment to accomplishing the task at hand and identify the fastest and most reliable way to solve a problem
• Performance tuning of application code at different service levels
• Interact with customers of the application and help address issues reported

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent
• 3+ years of experience with Java and Spring frameworks.
• Having good knowledge in a scripting language like python is a plus
• Experience with Spring and Hibernate/ ORM
• Understanding of relational database and normal forms
• Understanding of NoSQL / RDBMS (Mongo or Postgres) and ability to write optimized and high performing queries
• Strong understanding of Java concurrency, concurrency patterns, experience building thread safe code
• Experience building RESTful web services
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Strong interpersonal skills and time management skills
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills
• Experience with GIT as a VCS, Unix based systems
• Experience with NoSQL Database is a plus
• Following are a set of 'good to have' skills React AWS Bitbucket, JIRA

Key deliverables for the Backend Engineer would be to work on meaningful, large-scale initiatives with a focus on autonomy to build features, be a part of the core team, and give direction to the product.

What you'll do

• You will join a growing team of experienced developers building a cross-platform application, backend services and open platform
• You will work closely with our product team, teaming up in small cross-functional teams to bring features from idea to prototype to final implementation
• You will collaborate with your peers to define architecture, quality standards, and best practices and participate in code reviews, design reviews, architecture discussions.

We would love to hear from you if

• You have 1+ years of experience as a software engineer at a SaaS or technology company, including familiarity with the different pieces of technology involved in building modern web applications
• You have a working knowledge of algorithms and data structures with space and memory complexities
• You are proficient in backend development and technologies. You should understand concepts of multithreading, I/O, messaging, instrumentation, and their implementation.
• You have knowledge of Messaging Queues (Kafka/RabitMq/SQS), Dynamodb, Elastic Search, Redis/Memcache/Elasticache
• You have experience in building RESTful APIs, Spring framework, and Mysql/RDS
• You deal well with constant change and high levels of ambiguity (we are a startup)
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• Experience with source control systems (prefer Github)
• Strive to craft clean, reliable, and highly maintainable code
• Experience with test-driven development and pair programming
• To you, technologies and programming languages are about tradeoffs. You may be opinionated, but you're not ideological and can learn new technologies as you go

• Strong in data structure and algorithms
• Experience in Java, Express, API Design & DOM
• Understanding of component based design or other design patterns
• Experience with unit testing, integration testing & continuous integration
• RDBMS and NoSQL databases preferably PostgreSQL, MongoDB
• Good to have passion for investing

• Attractive compensation package - competitive salary, flexible bonus scheme.
• We are always looking for ways to promote and inspire innovation.
• Individual career path - management and technical career growth, enhanced by learning and development program, regular performance assessment, teams of multi-national IT professionals.
• Healthy work environment - company-sponsored medical program, food, and beverage program, open communication.
• Friendly policies to support Work-life balance, team building, and celebrations.

Skills & Abilities:

1. Language: Java, J2EE, springboot, angular, react, node, (CSS: Tailwind CSS + angular Material) etc.

2. OS : Linux, windows

3. Database : Oracle, postgres, PL/SQL

4. Desirable : API integration, CI/CD, automation, working experience in the mobile financial domain

5. Able to mentor and guide juniors

6. Able to resolve customer queries independently

7. Able to write test cases  and execute test plans

8. Added advantage (Good to have): application security, RabbitMQ, Apache Kafka, Grafana, Prometheus, MongoDB, shell scripting basics

Job Purpose: At the Mobiquity project engineering team, our core job is to customize, install, configure and support the customer during the entire project lifecycle.

Principal Accountabilities Development

1. Write code in Java and java based technologies as well as web GUI development using latest technologies like, angular, react, conforming to company guidelines against written requirements & high-level design documents, particularly for complex modules that cannot be handled by junior developers. Work in an IDE while developing code ( especially in Java) and use GIT, SVN or any other CM tool being used in the company, for checking in and checking out the code being developed.

2. Submit developed code for review, incorporate required changes and conduct Unit testing, after preparing Unit Test Plans and necessary stubs.

3. Review code offered by others and document response in assigned format.

4. Participate in (a) the integration of the developed code with code developed by other team members (this could happen on customer premises if appropriate environment is not available in-house) (b) preparation of the environment for integration testing (c) execution of integration testing (d) fixing the problems relating to the offered code as discovered in the integration testing.

5. Participate in load testing conducted on the final product and fix problems encountered.

6. Assist Product Validation Group in setting up the test environment, writing test cases, generating stubs and executing tests.

7. Review test cases written by the Product Validation Group.

8. Install product in customer location, train the customer reps on product features and operation & maintenance procedures, and complete user acceptance testing, making any changes in the final deliverable as required.

9. Handle customer queries and complaints received directly or through the company support organization.

10. Change code to fix reported customer problems after trouble shooting, get the fix reviewed and complete selective regression testing.

11. Draft user documentation for consolidation by the technical documentation team. This could include GUI, API, O&M and technical documentation relating to COTS. Review drafts prepared by junior developers.

12. Help maintain design requirement documents as directed.

13. Participate in the development, release, support & enhancement activity through multiple release cycles and multiple products

14. Proactively seek feedback/reviews on self-development, learning, and developed code. Responsible for completing the assigned task in all aspects by proactively seeking reviews, and updating the status to supervisors.

15. Ensure the task assigned is understood in all respects and communicate effectively and raise necessary alarms to reporting leads if anything is not understood or no progress is possible.

Capability Building

1. Assist junior developers in coding, testing, and troubleshooting.

2. Train and support a new member joining the team with little or no experience in the development environment, technology domain, and the specific work underway. Focus on scope of work familiarization.

Overview

Telstra is Australia’s leading telecommunications and technology company, with operations in more than 20 countries, including In India where we’re building a new Innovation and Capability Centre (ICC) in Bangalore.

We’re growing, fast, and for you that means many exciting opportunities to develop your career at Telstra. Join us on this exciting journey, and together, we’ll reimagine the future.

Why Telstra?

• We're an iconic Australian company with a rich heritage that's been built over 100 years. Telstra is Australia's leading Telecommunications and Technology Company. We've been operating internationally for more than 70 years.
• International presence spanning over 20 countries.
• We are one of the 20 largest telecommunications providers globally and the largest telecom provider.
• At Telstra, the work is complex and stimulating, but with that comes a great sense of achievement. We are shaping the tomorrow's modes of communication with our innovation driven teams.

Telstra offers an opportunity to make a difference to lives of millions of people by providing the choice of flexibility in work and a rewarding career that you will be proud of!

Our GBS team

The mission of the Global Business Services (GBS) unit is to leverage talent, technology and partnership to create growth, value, innovation and differentiation via a service mindset. 

Our focus is to deliver great experiences, to simplify and innovate, and drive Telstra’s profitability across a global operating footprint.

The role with us

As a Senior Software Engineer, you thrive on understanding and translating customer needs into new products and capability. You apply deep technical expertise and experience in software application layer solutions, to develop and deliver scalable design blueprints across the end-to-end software development life cycle. Your continuous learning and improvement mindset, collaboration and influencing skills are critical to success in this role.

What you'll work on

As a Software Engineer, you will be working on development project which will be based on API transitions, API Management ,API Monetization engine (based on Java, Springboot & AWS) and high traffic transactions.

Key responsibilities

As a Senior Software Engineer, you apply deep experience and technical know-how in the Software Engineering domain with-

• 7-10 years of experience

• Design, build and maintain multiple complex software application technologies and their interaction with Telstra processes and systems

• Develop innovative software that maintains data/network security management, and leverage set processes to reduce the time between commission and production

• Authentically engage with and influence a multi-stakeholder landscape to translate customer needs into leading-edge software application products, services or systems that meet Telstra’s time, cost and quality standards 

• Collaborate with team members and key stakeholders, seeking support, direction and buy-in to gather deep insights about the challenges and opportunities of our software application technologies and platforms

• Significantly contribute to continuous improvement initiatives of our systems and processes, to help define ‘best practice’ corporate testing standards and drive improved outcomes (e.g. productivity, customer experience and/or profitability)

• Lead initiatives or components of initiatives in line with the strategic direction of your team/mission, that have a significant degree of impact to the function or cross-functionally

• Take ownership of your own actions and decisions to drive positive outcomes within your team/mission, and provide guidance to more junior engineers in order to support their development and contribution to team/mission outcomes 

Why join us?

The work is complex and challenging, but will put you at the forefront of technological change as it happens and offer you career experiences you won’t find anywhere else.

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We’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce in all its forms. We encourage applicants from diverse gender, cultural and linguistic backgrounds and applicants who may be living with a disability. We also offer flexibility in all our roles, to ensure everyone can participate. 

To learn more about how we support our people, including accessibility adjustments we can provide you through the recruitment process, visit tel.st/thrive.

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Applications, Mathematics, Statistics, or related technical field. Relevant experience of at least 3 years in lieu of above if from a different stream of education.

• Well-versed in and 3+ hands-on demonstrable experience with: ▪ Stream & Batch Big Data Pipeline Processing using Apache Spark and/or Apache Flink.
  ▪ Distributed Cloud Native Computing including Server less Functions
  ▪ Relational, Object Store, Document, Graph, etc. Database Design & Implementation
  ▪ Micro services Architecture, API Modeling, Design, & Programming

• 3+ years of hands-on development experience in Apache Spark using Scala and/or Java.

• Ability to write executable code for Services using Spark RDD, Spark SQL, Structured Streaming, Spark MLLib, etc. with deep technical understanding of Spark Processing Framework.

• In-depth knowledge of standard programming languages such as Scala and/or Java.

• 3+ years of hands-on development experience in one or more libraries & frameworks such as Apache Kafka, Akka, Apache Storm, Apache Nifi, Zookeeper, Hadoop ecosystem (i.e., HDFS, YARN, MapReduce, Oozie & Hive), etc.; extra points if you can demonstrate your knowledge with working examples.

• 3+ years of hands-on development experience in one or more Relational and NoSQL datastores such as PostgreSQL, Cassandra, HBase, MongoDB, DynamoDB, Elastic Search, Neo4J, etc.

• Practical knowledge of distributed systems involving partitioning, bucketing, CAP theorem, replication, horizontal scaling, etc.

• Passion for distilling large volumes of data, analyze performance, scalability, and capacity performance issues in Big Data Platforms.

• Ability to clearly distinguish system and Spark Job performances and perform spark performance tuning and resource optimization.

• Perform benchmarking/stress tests and document the best practices for different applications.

• Proactively work with tenants on improving the overall performance and ensure the system is resilient, and scalable.

• Good understanding of Virtualization & Containerization; must demonstrate experience in technologies such as Kubernetes, Istio, Docker, OpenShift, Anthos, Oracle VirtualBox, Vagrant, etc.

• Well-versed with demonstrable working experience with API Management, API Gateway, Service Mesh, Identity & Access Management, Data Protection & Encryption.

  Hands-on experience with demonstrable working experience with DevOps tools and platforms viz., Jira, GIT, Jenkins, Code Quality & Security Plugins, Maven, Artifactory, Terraform, Ansible/Chef/Puppet, Spinnaker, etc.

• Well-versed in AWS and/or Azure or and/or Google Cloud; must demonstrate experience in at least FIVE (5) services offered under AWS and/or Azure or and/or Google Cloud in any categories: Compute or Storage, Database, Networking & Content Delivery, Management & Governance, Analytics, Security, Identity, & Compliance (or) equivalent demonstrable Cloud Platform experience.

• Good understanding of Storage, Networks and Storage Networking basics which will enable you to work in a Cloud environment.

• Good understanding of Network, Data, and Application Security basics which will enable you to work in a Cloud as well as Business Applications / API services environment.

• A hands-on application developer who is passionate about Java development, building highly scalable and resilient applications, and focused on solving complex business problems
• He/She will have responsibility for unit-level design, coding, unit testing, integration testing, and participating in the full SDLC
• He/She will be expected to produce high-quality code that can pass critical peer review, and to work under a high-pressure and timeline-driven environment.
• Actively participate in development along with team members in creating modules & systems that can be treated as a working reflection of the best practices

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science or Engineering equivalent
• Minimum of 3 years’ experience in Java development
• Responsible, organized and possess critical thinking with good interpersonal and communication skills
• Able to demonstrate good analytical problem-solving abilities and strong leadership aptitude
• Able to work at both abstract and detailed level
• Must be fluent in English, and strong communication skills.
• Motivated self-starter that likes to work as part of a team

Technical Requirements

• Strong experience in Core Java 8 and above, Collections and Data structures.
• Develop solutions using core java, Spring / Spring Boot, JSON, Rest API and other web technologies
• Hands on with UI development with strong experience in HTML5, JavaScript, CSS3, Responsive UIs. Added advantage for exposure to Angular. Knowledge on Liferay will be added advantage. Ability to design and develop UIs and end to end integration.
• Object oriented analysis and design using common design patterns
• Excellent knowledge of Relational Databases, SQL and ORM technologies (Hibernate and Mybatis)
• Strong knowledge of test-driven development and continuous integration
• Preference towards candidates having excellent Java multi-threading skills
• Passion for collaboration and working on agile teams
• Develop and Consume Web Services using REST.
• Enforcing and Writing code following good standards (well documented with good code coverage and properly tested code)

Job Description:

• Resource should be proficient in analyzing, designing and developing applications based on the requirements provided by business counterparts
• Developing and maintaining applications developed in Java, J2EE, Struts and Spring and possessing 3-layer architecture
• Good knowledge in Spring Boot, Hibernate, Angular JS, Docker, VUE JS and AWS
• Applications development or maintenance using ORM tools such as Hibernate
• Database management which includes DB design and maintenance, mostly related to 2016 and Oracle 19c, DB2
• Should have knowledge in Unix / Linux OS.
• Should have good knowledge in Shell scripting language
• Strictly adhere to the internal SDLC process quality standards set but the organization and providing the drive to the team to achieve the KPI and SLA targets
• Flexible to work in extended time
• Candidate should have good experience on Java / J2EE, Springboot, Hibernate / JPA, Oracle query, Web Services and Rabbit MQ.
• Should have minimum of 3 to 5 years of experience. Should be able to work on enhancement, maintenance and production support.
• Good to have hands-on experience on DEVOPS & API development.

• 5+ years experience
• Previously managed a team
• Built & managed backend systems from scratch previously.
• Lead the core backend engineering team, including mentoring, coaching, architecture, devops, code review and software infrastructure
• Should be more proficient with Django.
• Work with the executive team to shape and execute the product roadmap
• Direct our team environment to achieve sprint deliverables and acceptance criteria
• Design and monitor metrics to assess product and infrastructure performance
• Hire, build and shape the team