Java Developer / Architect

About Unilog

Unilog is the only connected product content and eCommerce provider serving the Wholesale Distribution, Manufacturing, and Specialty Retail industries. Our flagship CX1 Platform is at the center of some of the most successful digital transformations in North America. CX1 Platform’s syndicated product content, integrated eCommerce storefront, and automated PIM tool simplify our customers' path to success in the digital marketplace.

With more than 500 customers, Unilog is uniquely positioned as the leader in eCommerce and product content for Wholesale Distribution, Manufacturing, and Specialty Retail.

Unilog’s Mission Statement

At Unilog, our mission is to provide purpose-built connected product content and eCommerce solutions that empower our customers to succeed in the face of intense competition. By virtue of living our mission, we are able to transform the way Wholesale Distributors, Manufacturers, and Specialty Retailers go to market. We help our customers extend a digital version of their business and accelerate their growth.

Job Details

• Designation: Principal Engineer – Solr
• Location: Bangalore / Mysore / Remote
• Job Type: Full-time
• Department: Software R&D

Job Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Principal Engineer with a strong background in Apache Solr and Java to lead our Engineering and customer-led initiatives. The ideal candidate will be responsible for ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of our search platform while providing expert-level troubleshooting and resolution for critical production issues.

This role will involve designing the architecture for new platforms while reviewing and recommending better approaches for existing ones to drive continuous improvement and efficiency.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead Engineering and support activities for Solr-based search applications, ensuring minimal downtime and optimal performance
• Design and develop the architecture of new platforms while reviewing and recommending better approaches for existing ones
• Regularly work towards enhancing search ranking, query understanding, and retrieval effectiveness
• Diagnose, troubleshoot, and resolve complex technical issues in Solr, Java-based applications, and supporting infrastructure
• Perform deep-dive analysis of logs, performance metrics, and alerts to proactively prevent incidents
• Optimize Solr indexes, queries, and configurations to enhance search performance and reliability
• Work closely with development, operations, and business teams to drive improvements in system stability and efficiency
• Implement monitoring tools, dashboards, and alerting mechanisms to enhance observability and proactive issue detection
• Exposure to AI-based search using vector databases, RAG models, NLP, and LLMs
• Collaborate on capacity planning, system scaling, and disaster recovery strategies for mission-critical search systems
• Provide mentorship and technical guidance to junior engineers and support teams
• Drive innovation by tracking latest trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in AI-based Search, Solr, and other search platforms

Requirement

• 8+ years of experience in software development and production support with a focus on Apache Solr, Java, and databases (Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc.)
• Strong understanding of Solr indexing, query execution, schema design, configuration, and tuning
• Experience in designing and implementing scalable system architectures for search platforms
• Proven ability to review and assess existing platform architectures, identifying areas for improvement and recommending better approaches
• Proficiency in Java, Spring Boot, and micro-services architectures
• Experience with Linux / Unix-based environments, shell scripting, and debugging production systems
• Hands-on experience with monitoring tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, ELK Stack) and log analysis
• Expertise in troubleshooting performance issues related to Solr, JVM tuning, and memory management
• Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP and containerization technologies like Docker / Kubernetes
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to work under pressure in a fast-paced environment
• Certifications in Solr, Java, or cloud technologies
• Excellent communication and leadership abilities

About Our Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Health insurance
• Retirement plan
• Paid time off
• Training and development opportunities

We’re looking for an experienced Engineering Manager with strong tech leadership and hands-on expertise in Java + Spring Boot.

What you’ll do:

• Lead high-performing engineering teams

• Drive architecture, system design & scalable backend solutions

• Balance 60% people management + 40% hands-on coding

• Own CI/CD, integrations & high-quality releases

What we need:

• 10+ yrs experience (3+ yrs in EM role)

• Strong in Java, Spring Boot, microservices & cloud

• Startup mindset, ownership & solid communication skills

📍 Location: Bengaluru (On-site)

The ideal candidate should be a self-motivated, multi-tasker, and demonstrated team player. You will be responsible for the production support of software products and coordinating with various teams for support. You should have outstanding communication and Team-Player skills.

Educational Qualification: BCA, MCA or BE/B.Tech (CS)

Must-know technologies: Java,
Good to know technologies: DMN tools
Experience: 02 Years - 05 Years
Skill Level: Good

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to Java development work as well as the latest Decision model and notation tools

   

• Comply with coding standards and directions given by his direct manager Collaborate with an international and diverse team of Data Architects, Business Analysts, and Project Managers

• Tasks will be assigned and after completion, code need to be committed and task assigned for review by Senior Java developer

• Work with technology stakeholders to devise solutions that will fulfill business requirements and meet organizational strategic goals

• Develop application functionality which meets business requirements with high quality within given deadlines - develop maintainable, well-documented application functionality with an eye toward standardization, common components, simplicity, performance, robustness and other attributes of enterprise-strength solutions

• Thoroughly test all functionality - utilize detailed and thorough practices including negative testing, testing of boundary conditions, , and work collaboratively with business areas.

• Support interfaces between the deployment of developed applications and the decommissioning of legacy applications

• Support with the Development and Infrastructure Teams

• Design, and develop scalable, high-performance, highly reliable and secure applications using waterfall and agile methodologies

• Create reusable code

Java with cloud

A highly motivated, skilled, and 3-8 years experienced JAVA Software Engineer to implement innovative solutions with a proven track record developing end-to-end scientific or business applications in JAVA with emphasis on browser-based applications.

You have oodles of experience designing and developing and documenting Enterprise applications using J2EE technologies. You have worked extensively on the new breed of Enterprise applications utilizing cutting edge technologies such as Java, JavaScript, JPA, Hibernate, spring Batch and web services.

 You bring to the table…

• Object oriented skills, including an understanding of common object and web application design patterns.
• Strong in Core Java Concepts, JavaScript, JPA, Hibernate, spring, Batch, web services.
• Hands on experience with SQL
• Should possess hands of experience on Linux.

About Wise

Wise is digital infrastructure for online education. Oversimplified as ‘Shopify for Tutors’ i.e., an easy to use tool for tutors to start teaching online. We have grown to 2mn users in 12 months and have much to do. We are backed by an incredible set of investors and individuals who have built product you already use. We have a small but rockstar team, cheap equity, smart money, opportunity to capture a huge market ($60bn) and a chance to make an impact while doing so.

What we need

We need you, if you are a senior software engineer with 4+ years of experience in building robust scalable systems. Work would involve building things quickly and adapting based on market feedback while ensuring the security and quality of the codebase. If you love coding and building things excites you, we would like to talk to you.

What you will need (Skills)

• Experience building microservices and distributed systems, RESTful APIs, user interfaces
• Knowledge and will of writing unit, integration tests is a must. TDD is a plus
• Preferably a polyglot: Strong command Ruby/Golang/Java/Python
• Some exposure to infra: Deployments, CI/CD setup, security. AWS exposure is good to have
• Strong database concepts. Experience with MongoDB is a plus

What you will do

• Feature analysis, hands on development, code reviews, deployment & rollouts
• Passionately maintain coding practices, quality & good design standards
• Design and develop highly scalable, available, secure and fault tolerant systems
• Actively contribute in assessing & improving/optimizing security & infrastructure

Great to have

• Sense of ownership
• Developers who can talk product and strategy
• Experience in building scalable consumer products
• Strong opinions, loosely held

Good to have

• Interest in mentorship
• Good written communication skills
• Bangalore love

Probably not ideal if

• If you have always been right about stuff in life
• No flexibility around working hours (this doesn’t mean we work long hours but if our systems get attacked in the middle of the night, we would need you to HODORR!)

Definitely get in touch if you

• Would have started the exact same company but willing to build it together with a great team
• Find our current product unbearably slow or inadequate
• Think this company isn’t going to work as it is right now

What we look for:

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Hands on programming work in Advance Java, Springs, Spring Boot framework,
• Ability to independently work on complex business requirements 
• Ability to communicate clearly and concisely 

What will you do:

You will independently work on designing and developing solutions that solve customer’s business problems. You will own the assigned problem statements, evaluate multiple technical approaches and use design-thinking to take independent decisions while implementing the solution. You will also guide junior members of the team and participate in code and design review process.

Who should apply:

You have -

• a graduate degree in BE, BTech, MTech, MCA from a reputed institute
• 5 to 7 years of hands-on experience in programming Core Java 8, Spring Boot, Spring Rest Template, Spring Security, Spring Data, Spring JDBC Template
• Good to Have experience/knowledge on Docker, Oracle, MongoDB, Quartz Scheduler, Shell scripting
• Working experience with Windows, Linux environments