Java Developer

Job Description – Java Senior Developer

Job Title: Java – Senior Developer

Location: Hyderabad (Hybrid)

Job Summary: We are looking for a highly skilled Java Developer to join our team and contribute to the design, development, and maintenance of scalable applications. The ideal candidate should have strong hands-on experience in Core and Advanced Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, and cloud platforms like AWS. They must possess excellent problem-solving skills, clean coding practices, and an understanding of RESTful architecture. This role requires proficiency in front-end technologies (Angular/React), database management, and containerization (Docker/Kubernetes) to build high-performance applications.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop, test, and maintain scalable Java applications with Spring Boot and Microservices architecture.
• Implement OOP principles, design patterns, and clean coding practices to ensure maintainability.
• Work on Spring Security, Spring Data JPA, Hibernate, and ORM frameworks for database management.
• Design and develop RESTful APIs following industry best practices.
• Utilize front-end frameworks (Angular, React, JavaScript, jQuery, HTML, CSS) to build user-friendly interfaces.
• Work with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and containerization tools like Docker and Kubernetes.
• Optimize application performance by writing efficient, scalable, and secure code.
• Implement CI/CD pipelines and automate deployments using Docker, Kubernetes, or EKS.
• Write unit and integration tests to ensure robust and error-free code.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance application functionality and user experience.

Required Qualifications & Skills:

• 5-10 years of hands-on experience in Core and Advanced Java development.
• Strong knowledge of multithreading, exception handling, servlets, and filters.
• Expertise in Object Oriented Design.
• Experience in designing and developing Microservices-based architectures.
• Proficiency in Spring Boot, Spring Security, Spring REST, and Hibernate (JPA).
• Strong SQL scripting skills and knowledge of relational databases (MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle, etc.).
• Hands-on experience with UI frameworks (Angular, React, JavaScript, TypeScript).
• Working experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, Docker, Kubernetes (EKS), and RESTful application integration.
• Understanding of OOP, SOLID principles, and clean code best practices.
• Strong problem-solving, analytical, and debugging skills.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.

About TechGrit:

TechGrit is a custom software development services company dedicated to accelerating business growth through high-performing Agile teams. We specialize in delivering diversified and unique solutions across various industries, including ConstructionTech, HealthTech, FinTech, and HighTech. Our team of champion developers works closely with clients to design and develop custom software solutions that meet their business needs.

Our Mission:

To deliver high-quality and cost-effective software solutions that help companies and entrepreneurs achieve their goals and stay ahead of the competition.

Our Vision:

To be the most trusted technology partner for our customers, accelerating their business growth through innovation, reliability, and excellence by best-in-class people.

Our Core Values:

·      Customer Obsession

·      Excellence

·      Innovation

·      Teamwork

·      Integrity

·      Empathy

Join TechGrit and be part of a team that values innovation, excellence, and teamwork. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment where all employees feel valued and respected. If you are passionate and want to contribute to our mission and vision, we would love to hear from you.

Summary

Miko is an advanced consumer robotics innovation lab focused with the mission of Bringing Robotics and AI to every consumer home. Founded by young and dynamic entrepreneurs from IIT Bombay, Miko is a global deep tech company with offices in US, UK and India, and customer base across 140+ countries. Focused on taking Robotics and AI to every consumer home, Miko is the first of its kind "content on subscription" hardware platform for kids powered by patented technology. 

Our flagship products, Miko 3 and Miko Mini (www.miko.ai), are playful companion robots that engage, educate and entertain kids. Their unique approach is to focus on child learning and development through self-initiated contextual topics that encourage conversational learning. It hosts a powerful marketplace for third party content partners to plug their content and connect with Miko users on subscription. 

Miko is powered by a proprietary emotional intelligence and adaptive personality engine, complex conversational and multilingual AI framework, edge and hybrid speech & vision recognition along with an active learning and behavioral analysis engine. All of this is built over an autonomous navigation system, which enables Miko to offer a range of benefits for the user. 

The team at Miko team is an interdisciplinary team consisting of team members from electronics, embedded system, mechanical, industrial, robotics and AI engineering domains, Human Robot Interface designers, UI/UX designers, mobile and cloud software engineers, content creators, artists, mathematicians, neuropsychologists, marketing and sales mavericks, Customer support professionals and knowledge partners. 

The Role

We are looking for a middleware software engineer to join the team. In this role you will be working on designing, developing and optimizing the middleware stack for current as well as new companion robot products.

Work Experience & Qualifications

2 years or higher industry experience in the Software domain. No restrictions on degree/qualifications; only skills matter. (* for Junior role)

Responsibilities

• Designing and developing software on the product to enhance current functionality and add new features. Lead the technical delivery of assigned tasks/projects.
• Consistent coordination and collaboration with the Backend, AI, Product and QA team for efficient development cycles and testing for new features and improvements.
• Operating in an Agile/Scrum environment to deliver high quality software against aggressive schedules
• Ability to diagnose, troubleshoot and perform root cause analysis of critical business and production issues
• Strong technical leadership with experience building software engineering teams. Demonstrate strong ambiguity resolution skills to be able to break down ambiguous problems into simpler milestones and delegate to junior engineers

Requirements & Skills

• 2+ years of experience as a Software Engineer
• Expertise in C/C++ and Java
• Strong understanding of environment management, release management, code versioning best practices, and deployment methodologies.
• Experience with implementing various communication protocols like I2C, SPI, UART
• Experience working on Embedded Linux OS and Android
• Demonstrated experience in developing multi-threaded applications
• Experience with IPC including socket programming
• Should have hands on experience and thorough knowledge in STL, BOOST understanding of data structures and algorithms
• Experience with using Git as a version control system
• Excellent coding and debugging skills
• Ability to work in a fast paced environment
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• To perform requirement analysis and oversee the implementation of architectures of project scope
• To provide customized reusable solutions of project, program or operational scope
• To develop high-quality and detailed designs
• To conduct unit testing using automated unit test frameworks and identify and address possible risk by conducting mitigation action planning
• Conducting configuration of your own work or from the team and assess the technical impact of multiple technologies/strategies
• Reviewing the work of other developers with feedback for improvement (if applicable)
• Using coding standards and best practices to ensure quality deliverables

Requirement :

• Good knowledge of Java and Spring F/W (Spring Boot, Spring Security, Spring ORM, Spring Rest, Spring Cloud)
• Good knowledge of relational database design and query via both SQL and ORM (hibernate, spring data)
• Good knowledge of ElasticSearch or other document-oriented database
• Good knowledge of Microservice architecture, including REST API design
• Good knowledge of asynchronous data pipelines using Kafka or AWS SNS/SQS or similar modern messaging framework
• Good knowledge of AWS or other public cloud environment
• Hands-on experience with Redis Cache, Memcache or Ehcache
• Good knowledge of domain-driven design is a huge plus
• Web services & API standards (REST/OAuth/JSON)

You Will:

• Lead, coach and mentor a team of 8-10 engineers so they all learn, grow, and succeed.
• Plan and prioritize work for your team, including collaborating with cross border teams.
• Provide oversight and accountability for technical decisions.
• Create an inclusive environment that attracts and retains high-performing engineers.
• You will collaborate with Developers, Program Managers, QA and Devops Engineers in an agile development environment.
• Constantly learn and grow as an engineer and an engineering leader.
• Demonstrate a passion for customers and technology.


You must have:

• Experience in the design, development, and deployment of large-scale enterprise applications with multiple tiers
• Exposure on agile test-driven development for robustness, usability, reliability, security and performance.
• Strong technical aptitude for any programming language, preferred, Core JAVA and Spring Boot and other Spring libraries, Eureka, Hystrix etc.
• Experience of creating architecture or developing web services using Open source technologies and to integrate applications with databases such as Oracle, MySQL, MongoDB, or Cassandra
• Solid understanding of OOPS, algorithms and data structures.
• Experience on Kafka / Scala / Storm / Elastic Search and Web Services like RESTful.
• Experience in building highly scalable distributed systems
• Extensive experience with version control systems (Git is preferred) and issue tracking systems (JIRA is preferred)

Big Pluses if you:

• Have a strong focus on business outcomes
• Are comfortable with collaboration, open communication and reaching across functional borders
• Are self-motivated and can get things done
• Have the ability to communicate and defend your ideas clearly
• Have a strong knowledge of threading, concurrency, scaling, and high availability.
• Have a desire to build products that users love

• Stay current with new and evolving technologies via formal training and self-directed education

EXPERIENCE: 7 to 9 years in Java 2 Enterprise server side development. Must have applied knowledge of design patterns needed for building REST APIs and services for performance and scale.

SKILLS:

- Problem Solving and application of Object Oriented principles to development

- REST API development using Java, JAX-RPC,

- Server side development using Java, Spring Boot, Node.js

- Concurrent programming with Java

- Database programming in SQL with Oracle, MySQL or other RDBMs.

- Deployment to AWS and Kubernetes and building with Maven

- Affinity towards server side development

- Ability to understand existing code and re-engineer/re-factor/redesign.

- Written and spoken English communication and articulation.

NICE TO HAVE:

 - Working knowledge of GO Lang and Python scripting

- AWS Certifications

- Working knowledge of Elastic Search based persistence and search

- Secure coding practices

EDUCATION: Bachelor or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or Information Technology or related disciplines.