Java Developer

Engineering Manager – Backend

Opportunity in this role / Why should you join us?

Series D funded supply chain startup.

Requirements

• Software engineering experience of greater than or equal to 7 years
• Experience managing a technical team of at least 3 people
• Exposure to consumer facing products
• Strong technical background and ability to contribute to design and review
• Familiarity with our tech stack or an analogous tech stack

Technologies Used

• Web application frameworks : Ktor, Spring Boot, Ruby on Rails, Node.js, Java Play, AWS Lambda
• Languages : Kotlin, Java, Ruby, Javascript, Python
• Datastores : PostgreSQL, Aerospike, Redis, DynamoDB, Amazon Redshift
• Communication : HTTP, Amazon SQS, Sidekiq, Amazon SNS
• Server management : Amazon ECS, Docker
• Design frameworks : Domain Driven Design, Clean Architecture, Layered Architecture

Roles and Responsibilities

This role requires a person to drive the engineering of a set of products by aligning with business and product

stakeholders and building and upskilling a team to aid in this. The responsibilities include:

Business and product alignment and planning

• Work closely with business and product stakeholders to understand and align with product initiatives and iterations.
• Help shape the engineering requirement by aligning with the product manager and fleshing out concepts and user flows.
• Formalize business requirements into roadmaps and sprints.

1. Product and system development

• Drive high level modeling and design for projects, also focusing on non-functional aspects, including but not limited to database design, communication protocols, deployment systems, etc.
• Drive adoption of design frameworks like domain driven design, clean architecture, etc., resulting in a robust layered architecture.
• Drive good code review practices, using the review process as a mentoring tool to upskill people.
• Ensure test coverage of systems, partly through unit and integration testing, and partly through blackbox testing by collaborating with the Quality Assurance team, via good testing practices.

1. Project Management

• Drive the execution of the project by delegating tasks effectively.
• Resolve blockers through technical expertise, negotiation and delegation.
• Estimate timelines and ensure adherence to them through effective sync-ups and course corrections.

1. Maintenance

• Formulate SLAs and oversee their adherence for the various systems, effectively tracking issues and performance inefficiencies.
• Performance monitoring and optimization for systems.
• Drive technical re-design, remodeling and refactoring of systems for robustness and sustainability.

1. Team Management

• Typically manage a team of 3 - 6 members and a portfolio of 3 - 6 products.
• Do periodic assessment of reportees, chart their career growth paths and train them.
• Recruit members into the team by collaborating effectively with the recruitment team.

Product Overview

You will be contributing to products concerning both customers and partner drivers. Product sectors

include:

• Growth : You’ll build tools to help boost user growth on the platform including our industry bestdriver on-boarding, training and certification system, referral system, and lead managementmmodels.
• Lifecycle Management : Build tools to help users engage with the platform better, which includes rewards and recognition module, subscription service, account management tools, partner and customer wallets and payout modules, and churn detection systems among others.
• Transaction Experience : You’ll help deliver the most delightful booking experience to our customers and drivers. As part of this team, you’ll be responsible for our core booking system, pricing and payment systems, location tracking and filtering services, fraud prevention systems, and in-app ticketing and support among others.
• Fulfilment : As part of the fulfilment team, you’ll work on systems which ensure high degree of ride fulfilment on the platform. Tools including allocation methodologies and system, dynamic pricing, dynamic partner routing, and partner re-activation tools among others.
• Enterprise Solutions : You’ll help Porter’s enterprise customers achieve delivery excellence. You’ll build tools for contract management, fleet management, fleet and route optimisation tools, alerting and monitoring tools, and analytics suite among others.

• Min 5 years of hands-on experience in Java Spring-boot technologies
• Experience with monolithic applications
• Experience using Redis and RabbitMQ
• Experience with RDBMS such as SQLServer and My SQL
• Strong analytical, problem solving and data analysis
• Excellent communication, presentation and interpersonal skills are a must
• Micro service frameworks such as Java SpringBoot
• Design and implement automated unit and integration tests 

• Proven hands-on Software Development experience
• Proven working experience in Java development
• Hands on experience in designing and developing applications using Java EE platforms
• Object Oriented analysis and design using common design patterns.
• Profound insight of Java and JEE internals (Classloading, Memory Management, Transaction management etc)
• Excellent knowledge of Relational Databases, SQL and ORM technologies (JPA2, Hibernate)
• Experience in the Spring Framework
• Experience as a Sun Certified Java Developer
• Experience in developing web applications using at least one popular web framework (JSF, Wicket, GWT, Spring MVC)
• Experience with test-driven development

Collaborate with clients and internal teams to develop appropriate solutions

• Brainstorm with team members and prove the ability to think on the fly.

Requirements

• Core Java

• Spring Boot, Spring Rest, Spring Data

• Testing framework - Junit, Mockito

• Experience in deploying applications on one of public cloud preferably Microsoft Azure. (Other

- AWS or Google Cloud)

• Experience in one of messaging platform preferably Kafka (Other - Rabbitmq or Active MQ)

• Docker

• Kubernetes

• Others – Linux, Git, Maven, CI/CD pipeline

• Experience in working with Agile teams

Good To Have

• Git (6+ years of experience)

• Develop test cases, conduct SIT, load test, and tune the performance of systems to meet

acceptance criteria.

• Perform and manage stages of the SCRUM and participate in the systems review with Project

Lead/Manager.

• Experience in the development of cloud-native applications is an added advantage.

• Experience working in Agile teams

What We Offer

• National and International Business Trips (if there is an opportunity)

• Culture of Knowledge Sharing and Training

• Modern & lively working environment

• Opportunity to write books, participate in conferences

• International assignment

• Strong Java software development experience – with a focus on Java 8 & 9
• Experience with NoSql databases – ideally with MongoDB
• Experience implementing REST apis – ideally with JAX-RS
• Experience with Reactive Programming – ideally with RxJava
• Experience implementing unit tests

• Experience developing applications in fintech or established financial institutions
• Experience with microservice architectures
• Experience developing systems that can scale to large amounts of data
• Experience working in Agile Scrum
• Experience working on a globally distributed team