Java Developer

Job Title : Senior Software Engineer – Backend

Experience Required : 6 to 12 Years

Location : Bengaluru (Hybrid – 3 Days Work From Office)

Number of Openings : 2

Work Hours : 11:00 AM – 8:00 PM IST

Notice Period : 30 Days Preferred

Work Location : SmartWorks The Cube, Karle Town SEZ, Building No. 5, Nagavara, Bangalore – 560045

Note : Face-to-face interview in Bangalore is mandatory during the second round.

Role Overview :

We are looking for an experienced Senior Backend Developer to join our growing team. This is a hands-on role focused on building cloud-based, scalable applications in the mortgage finance domain.

Key Responsibilities :

• Design, develop, and maintain backend components for cloud-based web applications.
• Contribute to architectural decisions involving microservices and distributed systems.
• Work extensively with Node.js and RESTful APIs.
• Implement scalable solutions using AWS services (e.g., Lambda, SQS, SNS, RDS).
• Utilize both relational and NoSQL databases effectively.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver robust and maintainable code.
• Participate in agile development practices and deliver rapid iterations based on feedback.
• Take ownership of system performance, scalability, and reliability.

Core Requirements :

• 5+ Years of total experience in backend development.
• Minimum 3 Years of experience in building scalable microservices or delivering large-scale products.
• Strong expertise in Node.js and REST APIs.
• Solid experience with RDBMS, SQL, and data modeling.
• Good understanding of distributed systems, scalability, and availability.
• Familiarity with AWS infrastructure and services.
• Development experience in Python and/or Java is a plus.

Preferred Skills :

• Experience with frontend frameworks like React.js or AngularJS.
• Working knowledge of Docker and containerized applications.

Interview Process :

1. Round 1 : Online technical assessment (1 hour)
2. Round 2 : Virtual technical interview
3. Round 3 : In-person interview at the Bangalore office (2 hours – mandatory)

Experience: 3-10 Years

Qualification- Graduation: Bachelor of Science (B.Sc) / Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) / Bachelor of Computer Applications (BCA)

Post-Graduation: Master of Science (M.Sc) /Master of Technology (M.Tech) / Master of Computer Applications (MCA)

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Must have experience in Microservice architecture with the ability to collaborate effectively with team members and build positive working relationships.
• Design and build and deploy APIs to meet business requirements.
• High level of commitment to business satisfaction and agility.
• Strong work ethic and a passion for the role, with a positive attitude and a willingness to learn.
• Communicate effectively with the tech lead to thoroughly understand the requirements and highlight any blockers immediately.
• Handle programming and software development, including requirement gathering, bug fixing, testing, documenting, and implementation.
• Work in an agile environment to deliver high-quality solutions.
• Understand and implement Security, Logging, Auditing, Policy Management, and Performance Monitoring.
• Familiarity with relational databases (E.g.: Oracle), non-relational databases (E.g.: MongoDB), MSK Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, and CICD Technologies (Jenkins, GitHub, Maven)

At Upswing, we are a passionate and self-driven team of thinkers who aspire to build the rails to connect the legacy financial sector with financial innovators through a simple and powerful banking-as-a-service (BaaS) platform.

We’re building our platform putting the focus on pragmatism, reliability, and maintainability. We believe that keeping the engineering complexity under control is key to preserving the development productivity and long-term evolution of a platform.

To bring this vision to life, we are building the infrastructure using Microservices architecture using the latest set of technologies that are also fun to work with such as Java, Scala, Postgres, Akka, Kafka with a completely automated DevOps pipeline from the get-go using tools like Chef, Jenkins, Grafana, Graylog.

We are looking for motivated engineers who will be working in a highly creative and cutting edge technology environment to build a world-class financial services suite.

Why you should join us:

• You will redefine the financial services landscape for India in the coming years.
• Be part of a core Engineering team that will create innovative and scalable Fintech solutions.
• Work with passionate and experienced engineering, product & business workforce that believes in teamwork, and that helps fast-track your learning on solving complex technical challenges.
• We are funded by the leading fintech VC `QED Investors` and other established Founders and Executives of awesome Indian companies.

What you will do if you join us:

• Propose solutions to solve complex system architecture challenges and actively lead the end-to-end development of the system.
• Create robust, flexible, consistent, and easy-to-use APIs
• Continuously strive for performance improvements, code reusability, and readability

You should have:

• Tech or a higher degree in computer science or a related field.
• 1+ years of experience working on the back-end development for complex distributed systems who are willing to adopt any Programming language as per the requirement.
• Familiarity with any of the following – Java, C++, Scala, Kotlin, and frameworks like Spring, Play, Hibernate, Django, etc.
• Good understanding of Algorithms, Data Structure, OOP, Design patterns, Parallel programming, Multithreading concepts & Event-Driven Systems.
• Experience with Relational databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, or any NoSQL database.

It’s a plus if you have:

• Familiarity with cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud
• Worked on Micro-services architecture

 JD / Skills Sets

1. Good knowledge on Python

2. Good knowledge on My-Sql, mongodb 

3. Design Pattern

4. OOPs

5. Automation

6. Web scraping

7. Redis queue

8. Basic idea of Finance Domain will be beneficial.

9. Git10. AWS (EC2, RDS, S3)

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What you need to have:

Experience: 4 to 7 years

• IMMEDIATE JOINEE.
• Work with other engineers to develop and test tools and applications used by team on daily basis
• Play a significant role in the ongoing evolution and refinement of current tools and applications
• Triage, troubleshoot, escalate and provide resolution to production issues.
• Reproduce, document and escalate product defects to the Engineering Team.
• Provide well-thought out and reliable direction, both in technical and non-technical terms, to help customers.
• Take ownership of customer issues, including initial troubleshooting, identification of root cause and issue resolution or escalation.
• Identify and escalate priority issues that need immediate attention.
• Collaborate with cross functional teams which requires strong presentation skills and attention to details
  
  
• BA/BS degree in Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent work experience. MS degree is preferred.
• 9+ years development experience in JAVA (using OO Design and Analysis, Design Patterns, etc.)
• High experience in Java 8 Required.
• 4+ years’ experience building highly scalable, distributed and reliable Restful Web Services using Spring, Jersey, etc.
• Should have knowledge on Cloud applications preferably on AWS.
• Knowledge on building Front end applications using JavaScript, AngularJS, HTML5, CSS3.
• Experience with relational DBs like MySQL and NoSQL Database like MongoDB, Solr/Lucene will be a plus.
• Experience with Tomcat, Jax-RS, REST, JPA, IntelliJ, Groovy, Hibernate is must.
• Experience with build technologies like Gradle, Jenkins will be a plus.
• Experience with Test Driven Development using TestNG/Junit testing frameworks.
• Experience working with version control like GIT.