Java Developer

Title: Senior Java Developer

Top Skills: Java , Spring boot, Microservices, MYSQL, PL/SQL, NoSQL

Work Mode:- Full time

Location:- Teynampet, Chennai, Tamil Nadu

Employer: Innovating digital experiences with cutting-edge technology, design, and user-focused solutions for global brands

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Sr. Java Developer with a proven track record in

delivering high-quality applications. If you're passionate about building modern, scalable, and

robust software solutions, we want to hear from you!

Required Qualifications

7+ years of software development experience with a focus on delivering robust and

efficient solutions.

Strong proficiency in Java and its latest versions and expertise in developing

Java-based applications.

Hands-on experience with relational databases and proficiency in writing complex SQL

queries.

Familiarity with Enterprise Java (J2EE / Java EE / Spring) application architectures.

Demonstrated history of delivering modern, high-cadence applications using:

Agile methodologies and test-driven development (TDD).

CI/CD pipelines for streamlined deployment and updates.

Git version control for collaborative development.

Job Description

Java Developer Transformational Product Experiences .

Preferred Skills

Knowledge of microservices architectures and Domain-Driven Design (DDD).

Working knowledge of Python and JavaScript/Node.js.

Experience with Object-Relational Mappers (ORMs) such as Hibernate or JPA.

Strong Problem Solving skills

Bonus Skills

Exposure to emerging Generative AI technologies and tools like OpenAI APIs and GPT

large language models (LLMs).

Practical experience with MongoDB or other NoSQL, MySQL databases.

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

Must have experience on Java, Spring MVC / Boot, Hibernate / MyBatis 

- Must have experience on building large scale application 

- Must have experience on RESTful Web-Services 

- Must be good in problem solving, Data structures and Algorithms. 

- Strong understanding of Web Architectures, E-commerce solutions 

- Strong understanding of any MySql / Postgresql 

- Strong understanding of any Redis / Memcached / Mongodb / Elasticsearch 

- Hands-on experience on GCP / AWS would be an added advantage 

- Hands-on experience on Kubernetes / Docker would be an added advantage 

- Basic knowledge of version control system like Git / Mercurial / Bitbucket 

- Writes well managed and clean codes 

We are looking for a highly motivated senior developer with at least 3+ years of strong hands-on experience in Java to join our startup. You would be playing pivotal role in contributing to the initial tech stack. You would be further responsible for designing and implementing product requirements that are highly usable, scalable, extensible and maintainable. You should be comfortable on working across different technologies/frameworks that we work on - Microservices, Java, Spring, Spring Boot, MySQL, Kubernetes, AWS.

Responsibilities and Duties:

• Design and build scalable REST APIs on Spring Boot
• Develop, test, tune for performance and deploy microservices
• Collaborate with the team, optimize and refactor the back-end architecture
• Maintain high standards of quality for code, documentation and other deliverables
• Active cross-team coordination would be expected
• Architecture and tech stack discussions to optimize for increasing server load
• DevOps tasks along with AWS features exploration

What are we looking for?

• Strong 3+ year experience in Core Java & backend technologies
• Good working knowledge of design patterns & OOAD
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• The skills that we consider: Java, MySQL/RDS, Spring/ Play, Maven, Redis, Kafka/SQS, Elasticsearch, AWS
• Experience with designing, implementing and deploying microservices
• Previously worked in a startup

Skills Required:

• Must-Have: Java, Spring/spring-boot, Data structure, Algorithm
• Any 2 (Must) out of the below-mentioned list : 

a.     JPA/Hibernate

b.     Messaging queue/Kafka/SQS/distributed message/SNS/JMS

c.     NoSQL/Aerospike/Reddis/Cassandra

d.     Microservices

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Technical design, implementation, deployment, and support.
• Partner with Business Analysts to review and implement business requirements.
• Perform development and unit testing, working closely with Business.
• Mentors and oversees the development of resources, including reviewing designs and performing code reviews.
• Ensure designs are in compliance with specifications
• Contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle
• Developing high-volume, low-latency applications for mission-critical systems and delivering high availability and performance
• Should have experience of working on Core Java/J2EE & OOPS concept
• Should be well versed with Spring/Struts & Apache Camel (OSGI Framework)
• Should have a good understanding of Hibernate and Other ORMs
• Should have an understanding of working on Web Service (SOAP/REST) and Maven
• Build tools such as Jenkins
• Caching Technique(Radis, Hazlecast, Aerospike)
• Database Knowledge - Oracle, MySQL

1. Design and develop features using Java, Spring, and Hibernate
2. Ability to design database schema, develop views and stored procedures
3. Maintain existing software systems by identifying and

Correcting software defects.

1. Review and analyse business requirements and provide technical software defects.

Key Skills:

1. Good understanding of algorithms, data structures & design patterns
2. Thorough understanding of core Java, Spring framework
3. Experience with Spring Boot to bootstrap applications
4. Good understanding and working experience with RESTful web services
5. Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token and OAuth2 - Familiarity with code versioning tools such as Git, etc.
6. Self-starter who can think outside of the box, and come up with a solution to resolve and mitigate complex problems
7. Experience working in an Agile development environment using methodologies like Scrum and tools like JIRA, Confluence, etc Experience.Comfortable with MYSQL,Mongodb

Role & Responsibilities:

1. Design and develop features using Java, Spring, and Hibernate
2. Ability to design database schema, develop views and stored procedures
3. Maintain existing software systems by identifying and correcting software defects
4. Review and analyze business requirements and provide technical feasibility and estimates
5. 2-4 years of work experience developing Java-based backend applications. Around 1 year of work experience e using Spring Boot, Spring Cloud and Microservices.