Java Developer

Job Title: Senior Software Engineer

Location:PUNE

Job Type: Full-time

About the Role:

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer with at least 1 year of experience in ad tech (preferred) to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will have strong proficiency in Java and possess problem-solving skills to design, develop, and maintain scalable software solutions in the ad tech industry.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain high-quality Java-based applications.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and implement new features.
• Troubleshoot and debug issues, ensuring optimal software performance.
• Write clean, scalable, and efficient code while adhering to best practices.
• Participate in code reviews and provide mentorship to junior engineers.

Requirements:

• Proven experience with Java and software development.
• At least 1 year of experience in ad tech (preferred).
• Strong understanding of object-oriented design and data structures.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Ability to work independently and manage time effectively.

Responsibilities:

• Lead simultaneous development for multiple business verticals.
• Design & develop highly scalable, reliable, secure, and fault-tolerant systems.
• Ensure that exceptional standards are maintained in all aspects of engineering.
• Collaborate with other engineering teams to learn and share best practices.
• Take ownership of technical performance metrics and strive actively to improve them.
• Mentors junior members of the team and contributes to code reviews.

Requirements:

• A passion to solve tough engineering/data challenges.
• Be well versed with cloud computing platforms AWS/GCP
• Experience with SQL technologies (MySQL, PostgreSQL)
• Experience working with NoSQL technologies (MongoDB, ElasticSearch)
• Excellent Programming skills in Python/Java/GoLang
• Big Data streaming services (Kinesis, Kafka, RabbitMQ)
• Distributed cache systems(Redis, Memcache)
• Advanced data solutions(BigQuery, RedShift, DynamoDB, Cassandra)
• Automated testing frameworks and CI/CD pipelines Infrastructure orchestration(Docker/Kubernetes/Nginx)
• Cloud-native tech like Lambda, ASG, CDN, ELB, SNS/SQS, S3 Route53 SES

•  1-3 years of experience in application/web development
• Good experience in working with programming languages Golang.
• Good understanding of REST APIs and the web in general
• Working knowledge of AWS and Kubernetes is a plus
• Understand end user requirements, formulate use cases and come up with effective solutions

Responsibilities:

Lead the design and development of sophisticated, high availability, and secured

server-side applications with a primary focus on Golang.

● Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand requirements, architect

solutions, and deliver high-quality software products.

● Mentor and guide junior engineers, sharing your engineering expertise and best

practices to foster skill development within the team.

● Analyze and optimize performance, scalability, and reliability of existing Golang

applications, making strategic improvements where necessary.

● Design and implement automated unit and integration tests to ensure code quality,

maintainability, and stability.

● Stay up-to-date with the latest advancements in software technologies,

recommending their adoption when appropriate.

● Champion code reviews, architectural discussions, and technical documentation to

maintain high development standards.

● Troubleshoot and resolve complex issues, providing innovative solutions to overcome

challenges.

● Contribute to the recruitment and hiring process by participating in interviews,

evaluating candidates, and providing input on hiring decisions.

Requirements

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, or a related field.

● 3+ years of experience in software development, with substantial experience in

Golang and cloud infrastructure.

● Expert-level proficiency in designing and developing high-performance, concurrent

applications with Golang.

● Experience with distributed systems, microservices architecture, and containerization

(e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).

● Solid knowledge of software testing methodologies and tools, including unit testing

and integration testing for Golang applications.

● Demonstrated ability to lead projects, collaborate effectively with teams, and mentor

junior engineers.

● Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills, with the ability to tackle complex

technical challenges.

● Having prior experience in the FinTech domain would be an added advantage.

Required Skills:

"Overall 5-9 years of experience

Experience of working in Agile projects and aware of key Agile concepts

Good Problem solving and communication skills

Team player, hard working and innovative in his approach

Having stretch mindset and eagerness to learn/adopt new frameworks.

Expertise in Java 8 version or later

Hands on coding experience in Core Java ,Java, J2ee

Should have experience in Spring Boot

Should have good experience in Hibernate, Spring DATA JPA

Experience in RestFull Web services and microservices

Hands on knowledge in JMS and messaging Queues

Hands on Knowledge in Open API spec / swagger 2.0

Hands on knowledge in writing unit test cases using java test framework (Junits, Mockito)

Strong Ability to troubleshoot vulenerabilities and sonar issues and remediate with appropriate sonar rules compliant solution.

Should have hands on experience in SDLC

Should have an excellent client interaction background with Smart, Innovative, Enthusiastic, Proactive

Nice to Have

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Knowledge in kafka integeration

knowledge in OCP4 configs and deployment

Knowledge on secret Vaulting

Experience working in Agile project

• Knowledge on CI/CD process.

Looking to hire a single backend engineer who will become a part of the core team, with the track to become a part of the leadership at our company.

Candidate should have worked in startups, possess strong programming skills in Python, displays a sense of ownership and is highly energetic and eager to learn state-of-the-art tech and ML.

A minimum of 2 years of relevant experience is preferred.

2022 or later year pass outs - please apply only if you have relevant full-time and at least 2 prior internships experience

Representative (not exhaustive) responsibilities:

• Assess the current design and infrastructure of the backend server, and continuously implement enhancements to make the systems more robust, reliable and responsive
• Design, implement, test, and deploy APIs with Python on Linux servers
• Enhance back-end functionality and integrate with the front end to deliver a fully functional product
• Implement and set up automated tests to periodically test backend infrastructure for reliability, security and performance
• Design new data pipelines to enable the production deployment of new models
• Mentor junior employees and interns in the company
• Additionally, interest and ability to contribute to the continuous enhancement of our state-of-the-art NLP model pipeline and Inferencing engine is a big plus
• Be ready to roll up your sleeves and participate in customer calls, understand our ICP well, do research around product features, etc.

Fast Track Your Application

Think about the ICP for ContractKen. Sign up for a trial plan, experience the product and provide feedback on how to improve the current experience of the product to add immediate value to the ICP. We don't need you to fully code any feature in its entirety and are not looking for free work. The idea is to identify folks who get** what we are trying to do with ContractKen and find faster alignment with the right candidate.

Do not apply if

You're looking for your first, real-world model building, ML/AI role. We believe that deploying existing models (open source and proprietary) in production and delivering real business value to our customers is 10x more important than hyperparameter tuning or the latest algorithm implementation. While we'd love to entertain experienced ML data scientists, the emphasis on MLOps is as much as it is on experimentation.

• Involved in entire SDLC lifecycle including analysis, development, fixing and monitoring of issues on the assigned product lines.
• Meets and exceeds standards for the quality and timeliness of the work products.
• Implements, unit tests, debugs and leads integrations of complex code.
• Identify opportunities for further enhancements and refinements to best practices, standards and processes.
• Ensure robust, securely accessible, highly available and highly scalable product that meets or exceeds customer and end-user expectations

Experience

Technical Duties & Responsibilities

3 – 6 Years

With 2-4 years of experience in Scalable Architecture development. We are looking for Independent Contributors, who have good understanding of Microservices based architecture, and a comprehensive awareness of various architectures & their suitability as per product requirements: -

• Can solve problems independently, be responsible for the requirement analysis and design implementation of important business modules, and be familiar with the online deployment environment, able to independently analyse and quickly troubleshoot online faults.

• Familiar with JAVA programming principles, understand their advanced features and class libraries, network and server programming, multi-threaded programming, common open source products
• Experience in SOA EIP using Apache Camel Spring Integration

• High quality coding ability, reusability, low coupling, scalability, high performance, maintainability, high security

• Have the architectural design capabilities of modules and subsystems, master common architectural design methods and patterns

• Understand SOA, event-driven, distributed system principles, large-scale network application structure, message middleware, caching, load balancing, clustering technology, data synchronization, NoSQL

• Have the project experience of RabbitMQ or Kafka

• If the candidate has air fare industry experience, might be priority