Java Developer

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Java Developer with expertise in Microservices architecture and Spring Boot to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will be responsible for designing, developing, and deploying scalable, high-performance backend solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain Java-based applications using Spring Boot and Microservices architecture.
• Develop and implement RESTful APIs and integrate them with front-end components.
• Optimize application performance and ensure high availability and scalability.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather and analyze business requirements.
• Implement security best practices, including authentication and authorization mechanisms.
• Develop and maintain unit and integration tests to ensure robust software quality.
• Work with DevOps teams to automate CI/CD pipelines and ensure smooth deployment processes.
• Monitor and troubleshoot production issues, providing efficient resolutions.
• Stay updated with emerging technologies and best practices in Java development and cloud-native applications.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• 8+ years of hands-on experience in Java development.
• Expertise in Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Cloud, and other Spring frameworks.
• Strong experience with Microservices architecture and API development.
• Proficiency in RESTful services, JSON, and Swagger/OpenAPI.
• Hands-on experience with SQL and NoSQL databases (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis).
• Familiarity with message brokers like Kafka or RabbitMQ.
• Experience with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Solid understanding of CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitLab, or similar tools.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work in an agile development environment.
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills.

Nice-to-Have:

• Experience with GraphQL and event-driven architecture.
• Knowledge of reactive programming using WebFlux.
• Familiarity with observability tools like Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack.

Requirements

• Bachelors/Masters in Computer Science or a related field
• 5-8 years of relevant experience
• Proven track record of Team Leading/Mentoring a team successfully.
• Experience with web technologies and microservices architecture both frontend and backend.
• Java, Spring framework, hibernate
• MySQL, Mongo, Solr, Redis, 
• Kubernetes, Docker
• Strong understanding of Object-Oriented Programming, Data Structures, and Algorithms.
• Excellent teamwork skills, flexibility, and ability to handle multiple tasks.
• Experience with API Design, ability to architect and implement an intuitive customer and third-party integration story
• Ability to think and analyze both breadth-wise (client, server, DB, control flow) and depth-wise (threads, sessions, space-time complexity) while designing and implementing services
• Exceptional design and architectural skills
• Experience of cloud providers/platforms like GCP and AWS

Roles & Responsibilities

• Develop new user-facing features.
• Work alongside the product to understand our requirements, and design, develop and iterate, think through the complex architecture.
• Writing clean, reusable, high-quality, high-performance, maintainable code.
• Encourage innovation and efficiency improvements to ensure processes are productive.
• Ensure the training and mentoring of the team members.
• Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs and optimize applications for maximum speed.
• Research and apply new technologies, techniques, and best practices.
• Team mentorship and leadership.

About Us

Wednesday is a technology consulting and engineering firm based in Pune. We specialise in helping digital-first businesses solve complex engineering problems. Our expertise lies in data engineering, applied AI, and app development. We offer our expertise through our services: Launch, Catalyse, Amplify, and Control.

We're a passionate bunch of people who take their work seriously. We deeply care about each other and are united by the cause of building teams that delivery great digital products & experiences.

Job Description

Wednesday is a technology consulting and engineering firm based in Pune. We specialise in helping digital-first businesses solve complex engineering problems. Our expertise lies in data engineering, applied AI, and app development. We offer our expertise through our services: Launch, Catalyse, Amplify, and Control.

We're a passionate bunch of people who take their work seriously. We deeply care about each other and are united by the cause of building teams that delivery great digital products & experiences

Wednesday works with customers with a high amount of autonomy. We own problem statements and work with them to provide simple solutions to complex and challenging problems. You will be responsible for front-end architecture, delivery and innovation across all pods at Wednesday.

Key Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with UI/UX designers to develop responsive web applications.
• Build, test, and deploy frontend interfaces using React.js.
• Work on fullstack development, integrating frontend with backend (Node.js).
• Optimize applications for performance and scalability.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues in both frontend and backend.

Skills Required:

• Proficiency in React.js, HTML, CSS, JavaScript.
• Basic knowledge of backend technologies (Node.js, Express.js).
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs and databases (MongoDB or MySQL).
• Version control (Git/GitHub).
• Strong problem-solving skills and teamwork.

Nice to Have:

• Familiarity with cloud services (AWS, Azure).
• Building developer libraries and SDKs.

Benefits

• Mentorship: Work next to some of the best engineers and designers.
• Freedom: An environment where you get to practice your craft. No micromanagement.
• Comprehensive healthcare: Healthcare for you and your family.
• Growth: A tailor-made program to help you achieve your career goals. Click here to read more about our career ladder.
• A voice that is heard: We don't claim to know the best way of doing things. We like to listen to ideas from our team.

SKILL AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:

• 2+ years of experience in Java skills.
• 2+ years of hands-on HTML5/CSS3 experience.
• Experience with popular JavaScript frameworks such as ReactJs or Angular 2.0; experience preferred.
• Experience of working with HTTP 1.1, and HTTP/2.
• Experience with RESTful APIs and JSON RPC.
• Ability to write clean, bug-free code that is easy to understand and easily maintainable.
• Experience following Git workflows.
• Working knowledge of DevOps tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Helm and CI/CD pipeline etc.).

Designation - Principal Software Engineer

About Livspace:

Livspace is India’s trusted interior design and renovation platform that connects interior designers, homeowners and vendors. For homeowners, Livspace is their one-stop destination for all things interior. For interior designers and vendors, we’ve streamlined their workflow from design all the way to delivery through powerful and innovative technology.

We’re currently in nine Indian metro areas. We’ve made over 20,000 customers happy by delivering their dream homes to them. With over 3,500 interior designers on board, we’re the largest design community India has seen. We employ over 2000 passionate individuals who continue to grow and be a part of this exciting journey.

Working at Livspace:

Livspace believes in an open, intellectually honest culture where everyone is given the autonomy to contribute and do their life’s best work. As a part of the dynamic team at Livspace, you will have a chance to learn new things, solve new problems, build your competence and be a part of an innovative design-and-tech startup that’s revolutionizing the interiors industry.

If you value autonomy, enjoy challenges, believe in getting things done and can work with minimal supervision, come join us

As a Principal Software Engineer you will:

• Design, implement and enhance new components of the Livspace design platform and supply chain platform.
• Design new features for the e-commerce properties and front-end products and mobile apps
• Maintain engineering infrastructure
• Have significant impact on current and future technology roadmap
• Complete ownership of Service/Services that your team is responsible for
• Lead by example, mentor and guide team members on everything from structured problem solving to development of best practices
• Own large technical deliverables and execute in an exemplary way
• Be able to conceptualize and develop prototype quickly
• Contribute creatively in strategic products that will reach large audience
• Build a web product that users love.

Who you are :

• Deep expertise with any or combination programming languages: Java, Python NodeJS any Object oriented high level proprietary or open source language with strong programming constructs ( Java Preferred ).
• Substantial experience in building complex and scalable solutions.
• Strong object oriented design skills, ability to apply design patterns, and an uncanny ability to design intuitive module and class-level interfaces
• The ability to do deep problem solving and build elegant, maintainable solutions to complex problems.
• Experience leading multi-engineer projects and mentoring junior engineers
• You earned B.Tech or equivalent degree in computer science or related engineering field
• You have at least 6+ years of experience working with large scale web products

Your Array (Nice to Have) :

• Good sense of system characterization and identification of technical requirements
• Good learnability and adopt technologies that help build large scale, performant, reliable and sustainable systems.
• Architectural & Design Choices, Deep knowledge on one or more tech stacks, identify alternative tech choices and trade-offs
• Strong problem Solving skills, Identify feasible alternatives and freeze on the optimal choice of data structures and advanced algorithms
• Ability to work in fuzzy environments and complex environments
• Able to take high ownership of complex system components and drive it to the next level
• Good exposure both with tech breadth and tech depth

We are looking for a skilled Full Stack Developer with experience with ReactJS, Nodejs/Express, working exposure to NoSQL, AWS and Python who will be responsible for developing and designing web applications for our company. In order for you to succeed in this role, you will need to be proficient in JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and have solid knowledge and experience in programming applications.

Responsibilities:

• Build the front-end of applications through appealing visual design
• Design client-side and server-side architecture
• Design, develop and manage well-functioning databases and applications
• Test software to ensure responsiveness and efficiency
• Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade software
• Create security and data protection settings
• Build features and applications with a mobile responsive design
• Write technical documentation
• Work with data scientists and analysts to improve software
• Ship code quickly and iteratively every day working with large real world datasets.

Requirements:

• Proficient in Javascript (React/Angular/Vue) Preferable good experience with Nodejs, Express)
• Bachelor degree in Web development or related field, or relevant experience.
• Solid knowledge and experience in programming applications.
• Proficient in NoSQL (MongoDB) and SQL (MySQL, Postgres)
• Dedicated team player.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment.
• Solid ability in both written and verbal communication.
• Knowledge of programming language and technical terminology.
• Able to develop ideas and processes and clearly express them.
• High degree of independent judgment.
• Able to solve complex problems.
• Experience with Python, RoR and/or PHP desired.

Strong experience on core Java (Version >=1.8 )

Strong experience on Spring ecosystem (Core, MVC, data, JPA, transaction management, security, AOP, Batch & Boot). Comfortable performing integration tests in Spring context.

Strong experience on JDBC and DB concepts.

Experience of TDD/BDD approach and prior experience working with CI/CD tools (Maven, Git, jenkins)

Strong experience on ORM (hibernate) and PL/SQL procedures

Knowledge of some of UI latest languages / frameworks ( Html5, Angular 4+)

Knowledge of SOA/Microservices (REST, Soap) and its challenges

Strong knowledge on APP server (Tomcat, Weblogic)

Strong knowledge on Microservices

Exposure on Digital stack

-          UX/UI

-          API

-          Machine Learning

-          Big Data

-          Cloud/Docker/IaaS/PaaS

Knowledge on Java Swing

Experience delivering sound development, testing, implementation, deployment and support strategies in complex distributed environments.

Knowledge on production monitoring tools.

Good experience in leading change within a team, especially around testing and quality practices.

Team player, who relentlessly involves others and shares knowledge with them

Should have experience of participant in design reviews and code reviews.

Curiosity in all the latest trends and ready to do POCs with new technical stack