Java Developer

Job Title: Java Lead – Software Engineering

Location: Mohali | Panchkula | Gurugram (Onsite)

Experience: 7+ Years

About the Role:

We are seeking a highly skilled and passionate Java Lead who will be responsible for designing, developing, and leading the implementation of scalable and maintainable product features. As a Lead, you will play a key role in guiding a team, ensuring coding best practices, and resolving complex technical challenges. This is a great opportunity for someone who thrives in a fast-paced environment, is passionate about solving technical problems, and is excited about leading product development end-to-end.

Key Responsibilities:

· Lead a team of developers in designing and building micro-services using Java.

· Decompose feature requests into sizable and estimable pieces of work.

· Deliver scalable, maintainable, and high-quality code within defined timelines.

· Conduct code reviews to ensure adherence to coding standards and best practices.

· Collaborate with cross-functional teams to solve complex technical challenges.

· Act as a subject matter expert for specific product components.

· Debug and resolve critical production issues with detailed root cause analysis.

· Drive adoption of Agile practices, ensuring proper planning, estimation, and delivery.

Required Qualifications:

· Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.

· 7+ years of strong experience in Java development.

· 3+ years of hands-on experience in developing and delivering productized software applications.

· Experience in leading teams and mentoring developers.

· Proven ability to design and deliver scalable and maintainable applications.

· Strong problem-solving and analytical skills with a self-driven mindset.

· Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Preferred Skills:

· Hands-on experience with Java micro-services.

· Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines.

· Strong understanding of Agile methodologies.

· Cloud and containerization exposure with AWS and Docker.

Technology Stack:

· Java

· Micro-services

· SQL

· AWS

· Docker

Required Skills:

• 2+ year of experience in Development in JAVA technology.
• Strong Java Basics
• SpringBoot or Spring MVC
• Hands on experience on Relationl Databases (SQL query or Hibernate) + Mongo (JSON parsing)
• Proficient in REST API development
• Messaging Queue (RabitMQ or Kafka)
• Microservices
• Any Caching Mechanism
• Good at problem solving

Good to Have Skills:

• 4+ years of experience in using Java/J2EE tech stacks
• Good understanding of data structures and algorithms.
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills.
• Ability to work in a fast paced internet start-up environment.
• Experience in technical mentorship/coaching is highly desirable.
• Understanding of AI/ML algorithms is a plus.

• Experience in managing medium to large scale application project from beginning to end, with skills in requirement study and functional/detail design, QA, testing, and software change/version control management is advantageous

• Expertise in application development, and familiar with C#, Asp.net, jQuery, Webservice (REST/SOAP), Microservice, WCF
• Basic Equities Trading product knowledge is expected
• Familiarity with Equities/trade processing experience is an advantage
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skill is a must
• Ability to work under pressure, handle multiple tasks and work to tight deadlines.
• High sense of ownership of task assigned, deliver applications with high quality and efficiency.
• Good communication, inter-personnel skills is required
• Team player with strong interpersonal and communications skills
• Looking for 4 – 8 years’ experience in .NET

Desired Skills

1. Expereience in C#, Web API, .NET (Core and Framework), SQL Server.
2. Leading a team designing and implementing software solutions using the Microsoft Azure stack primarily, with scope to also work with open-source technologies.
3. Designing, building, testing, automating, monitoring, and supporting significant components within a modern digital service platform.
4. Helping to build and lead an effective, cross-functional squad practicing agile ways of working (Scrum, DevOps, Design Sprints) in tight collaboration with local and remote teams
5. Microservices and server less architecture with service fabric, functions and API apps, service bus.
6. Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code and GIT, Azure CLI (Cloud Shell), Azure DevOps.
7. Expertise in with Azure Active Directory, VNETs, NSGs, ASGs, OAuth and OpenID Connect, Azure traffic manager, CDN, App Gateway and load balancers.
8. Hands on experience of executing cloud native projects in Azure with DevOps

• You are a great teammate with proven capabilities working on SaaS product and a passion for writing exception code.
• You are hungry for an opportunity to join a start-up and become a member of core platform team driving the company forward.
• Has good analytical and problem-solving skills and is able to break down a solution into smaller units of work and produce a solution roadmap.
• Has written high quality, well-tested shared components that can be leveraged by multiple systems. Can step into specific projects to supply additional management, coding and engineering capacity as needed.
• Has expert knowledge in distributes systems and high-volume transactions.
• Understand the product mission, goals, and tasks and execute with the team to achieve them.
• Understand the design and architecture and build modules in accordance with it or recommend and make the necessary changes that adds more stability to our product.
• Improve the quality of our front-end code and our overall front-end user experience.
• Takes requirements (business features, technical debts and internal enhancements) and designs resilient solutions. 

• 1+ years of hands-on experience in Java/Kotlin.
• Demonstrable understanding of Design Patterns.
• Experience in Context & Dependency Injection or Spring framework, Hibernate/JPA.
• Experience in RESTful/SOAP web services in integrating with 3rd Party API Integrations.
• Proficient in SQL (PostgreSQL) and NoSQL databases.
• Experience in multi-threading and concurrency is a plus Experience in JMS messaging using Apache Zookeeper and Kafka is a plus.
• Experience in Angular is a plus. Knowledge of modern CI/CD environments: Git, Gradle, GitLab Familiarity with tools like Postman, SOAPUI, IntelliJ

• Willing to learn our tech-stack (Kotlin | CDI | Angular).
• Develop API integrations using RESTful/SOAP web services.
• Significant technical academic course work or equivalent work experience
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Knowledge on cloud infrastructure is a plus.

Location: Bangalore

Function: Software Engineering → Backend Development

Requirements:

• 4 + years of experience in Java, Spring, Hibernate, Springboot/microservices
• Good understanding and practical experience in Spring framework ( Spring boot,JPA,MVC)
• Extensively worked on microservices based design architecture
• Strong command on Data Structures, algorithms & Problem Solving
• Very strong on Oops Java Basic,
• Good on Multithreading Concepts
• Should have good exposure on Messaging platform (Kafka,JMS, AMQ etc,)

About Bigbasket.com

At bigbasket.com we believe in being smart, quick and efficient, making your life as leisurely as possible. We understand that in this fast-paced world, time is always of the essence and hence want to make your grocery shopping easy and convenient so that no time is wasted in this process. So, no more hassle of going down to the grocery store and long queues for billing etc. You can browse through our varied range of products at bigbasket.com, order them and get them to be delivered at your own convenient time slot.

We specially hand pick each and every product for you, putting it through a safety packaging process and finding your home, no matter how bad the wind is or how cold the weather is. Our ''No questions asked refund' and ''10% off for a delayed delivery'' policy makes us a customer friendly online food and grocery store. Just follow three simple steps and get your order delivered - simply Browse, Add to cart & Choose delivery slot!

Why Explore a Career at Bigbasket.com

Bigbasket engineering thrives on out of the box thinking and relentless pursuit of excellence. We are looking for senior developers who share our passion for building world class software. If you are excited about the prospect of changing the way India shops for groceries and being a pioneer -- then this a great home for you. Not to mention the thrill of building products that millions use on a daily basis and using cutting edge technology to make the products customers love.

While we are techies at heart -- we don't use technology for the sake of technology, but pride ourselves in solving customer problems in the most efficient and elegant ways. Do the customers really care about efficient implementation of Levenshtein Distance? Well no. But they really appreciate when their typos are pardoned and don't get in the way. Similarly customers don't give a damn that robots efficiently segregate their packets, but they do care about their orders delivered in a timely way.

If you enjoy Coding, Testing and love solving business problems, then we'd like to meet you.

• Have architected /designed at least 2-3 systems/products of enterprise scale from scratch.
• Have banking and Financial service background and preferably worked in Mobile/Digital platform design and development. Payments /OLTP preferred.
• Should have experience of 20+ years with J2ee, REST, Microservice, API, Messaging, Encryption, security, NLP, ML background.
• Have 7+yrs of experience in Architecture field, designing and end to end not from consulting Architecture.
• Responsible for design, architecture, and delivery of a feature or component/product with the highest quality with high-level directions from architects
• Driving innovations in the platform constantly & remaining ahead of the curve
• Development and testing of features/functions delivered via applications and services.
• Prototype ideas quickly using cutting edge technologies.
• Collaborating with peers and Architects both within their team and across the organization to deliver end-to-end products & features
• Working with product managers using agile methodologies to deliver high quality solutions on time
• Provide functional, design, and code reviews in related areas of expertise with-in team and cross-team.
• Working with operations teams to ensure your applications and services are highly available and reliable
• Mentoring junior engineers in the team both in the technical as well as on the product side
• Define and devise processes, tools and methodologies to achieve excellence in software development, testing and deployment, and in the management of the Centre.
• Good experience in working with any of the programming languages like PHP, Python, Django, Golang, Java, C++
• Experience developing applications that use high volume of data along with experience building applications on top of RESTful APIs.
• Solid knowledge of JAVA, J2EE, data stream, processing, big data etc.
• Comfortable with writing unit tests using JUnit
• Worked with Git and are comfortable with Merge/Rebase concepts.
• Worked with tools such as Eclipse, WebStorm, Ant, Maven, Jenkins, Sonar, JSLint, Grunt and App Servers such as Tomcat, Jboss.
• Solid knowledge of algorithms, design patterns, and componentization approaches.
• Experience and knowledge of open source software, frameworks and broader cutting-edge technologies.
• Experience in software design patterns, problem solving and troubleshooting skills.
• Ability to determine impact of architectural solutions and recommendations.
• Must have experience in justification of technology solutions to business leaders.
• Experience in refactoring existing codebase and in understanding existing implementations to decide to refactor or rewrite.
• Know how to identify Performance bottlenecks and use good coding patterns to avoid them in the first place.
• Have strong attention to detail.
• Ability to operate effectively both independently as well and within a team using Agile methodology.
• Proven problem-solving and interpersonal communication skills.
• Knowledge of payment domain will be an added advantage

Qualifications

• BE/BTech/ME/MTech in EE/CS or an equivalent qualification.
• 20+yrs of Experience.
• Minimum 12+years of hands on Java programming experience.