Java Developer

TAPPP is leading the charge in bringing premium digital entertainment content & live sports to global consumers via its prepaid platform. TAPPP is available across platforms via the Web, Mobile and Tablets. Building out this brand presents significant product and engineering challenges. At the centre of solving those challenges is the TAPPP Product Engineering team which is responsible for the TAPPP product end to end.

We are looking for a coding enthusiast who love working with code and developing software systems.

You will be a part of the core product development team that is responsible for building different components of the TAPPP platform. You will be responsible for designing, coding, reviewing, testing, bug-fixing different modules of the software product that needs to work seamlessly across different environments.

The organization is flat, process is minimal, individual responsibility is big, and there is an emphasis on keeping non-productive influences out of the everyday technical decision making process. Upholding these philosophies will be imperative as we execute our aggressive plan of global expansion over the next 2 years. The position is based in Mumbai, India.

Here is what we are looking for:

• Deep product development experience and sound understanding into these technologies

• Java/J2EE

• Spring

• Hibernate

• RESTful API's

• MySQL

• Tomcat 7

• Exposure on Grails & Amazon AWS will be a plus point

• Strong independent contributor

• An unquenchable desire to learn, attention to detail with a can-do attitude

• Comfortable working in a start-up environment

Skills & Abilities:

1. Language: Java, J2EE, springboot, angular, react, node, (CSS: Tailwind CSS + angular Material) etc.

2. OS : Linux, windows

3. Database : Oracle, postgres, PL/SQL

4. Desirable : API integration, CI/CD, automation, working experience in the mobile financial domain

5. Able to mentor and guide juniors

6. Able to resolve customer queries independently

7. Able to write test cases  and execute test plans

8. Added advantage (Good to have): application security, RabbitMQ, Apache Kafka, Grafana, Prometheus, MongoDB, shell scripting basics

Job Purpose: At the Mobiquity project engineering team, our core job is to customize, install, configure and support the customer during the entire project lifecycle.

Principal Accountabilities Development

1. Write code in Java and java based technologies as well as web GUI development using latest technologies like, angular, react, conforming to company guidelines against written requirements & high-level design documents, particularly for complex modules that cannot be handled by junior developers. Work in an IDE while developing code ( especially in Java) and use GIT, SVN or any other CM tool being used in the company, for checking in and checking out the code being developed.

2. Submit developed code for review, incorporate required changes and conduct Unit testing, after preparing Unit Test Plans and necessary stubs.

3. Review code offered by others and document response in assigned format.

4. Participate in (a) the integration of the developed code with code developed by other team members (this could happen on customer premises if appropriate environment is not available in-house) (b) preparation of the environment for integration testing (c) execution of integration testing (d) fixing the problems relating to the offered code as discovered in the integration testing.

5. Participate in load testing conducted on the final product and fix problems encountered.

6. Assist Product Validation Group in setting up the test environment, writing test cases, generating stubs and executing tests.

7. Review test cases written by the Product Validation Group.

8. Install product in customer location, train the customer reps on product features and operation & maintenance procedures, and complete user acceptance testing, making any changes in the final deliverable as required.

9. Handle customer queries and complaints received directly or through the company support organization.

10. Change code to fix reported customer problems after trouble shooting, get the fix reviewed and complete selective regression testing.

11. Draft user documentation for consolidation by the technical documentation team. This could include GUI, API, O&M and technical documentation relating to COTS. Review drafts prepared by junior developers.

12. Help maintain design requirement documents as directed.

13. Participate in the development, release, support & enhancement activity through multiple release cycles and multiple products

14. Proactively seek feedback/reviews on self-development, learning, and developed code. Responsible for completing the assigned task in all aspects by proactively seeking reviews, and updating the status to supervisors.

15. Ensure the task assigned is understood in all respects and communicate effectively and raise necessary alarms to reporting leads if anything is not understood or no progress is possible.

Capability Building

1. Assist junior developers in coding, testing, and troubleshooting.

2. Train and support a new member joining the team with little or no experience in the development environment, technology domain, and the specific work underway. Focus on scope of work familiarization.

• 5+ years of software development experience including 4+ years of deep, hands on experience in building highly scalable web-based backend applications using Java and Spring ecosystem
• BE/BTech in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent practical experience
• Great problem-solving skills with solid data structures and algorithms knowledge
• Has extensively used the Spring ecosystem – Spring Boot, REST API Development, ORM tools like Hibernate
• Excellent knowledge of Relational Databases, SQL and ORM technologies (JPA2, Hibernate)
• Profound insight of Java and JEE internals (Class loading, Multi-Threading, Memory Management, Transaction management etc)
• Experience of coaching and mentoring junior developers with good delegation and time-management skills
• Implemented CI/CD in any of the projects done
• Strong understanding of Agile and Lean software development processes and practices
• Excellent knowledge and hands-on experience of Elastic Search
• Has designed relational databases; conversant with SQL
• Knowledge of Jenkins/ Docker and Devops
• Knowledge of Redis or similar technology
• Worked with some or all of these AWS services: EC2; lambda; SQS/SNS; Elastic Search, Transcoder
• Understanding and experience of building services and applications using principles of service-oriented architecture, preferable using REST or SOAP
• Contributed in the creation of end-to-end automation tests (functional or non-functional)
• Worked with WebSocket, Push notifications etc

• Experience in ELK stack
• Knowledge of Video tools like FFMPEG, Wowza / Node Media Streaming
• Understanding of different video formats, streaming, CDN etc
• Understanding of Machine Learning Models, Pipelines etc

MUST HAVE SKILLS
- CORE JAVA & SQL

Desired Skills
Designing, implementing and delivering high quality Software project in JAVA, SQL / Oracle, J2EE and other JAVA technologies.

Job Responsibilities
Participate in detailed level in design, coding, code walk through, peer code reviews and unit testing,  System Testing, UAT, Demos, POCs, installation, maintenance of Software modules. 

❑ Ensures the preparation of the following: 

▪ Software prototype 

▪ System Architecture 

▪ Software Design Document 

▪ User interfaces to be developed as per UX guidelines 

▪ Code files ensuring coding guidelines followed 

▪ Code review artefacts during peer code review 

▪ Test plan and Test Cases 

▪ Installation / Deployment document 

▪ Release Document 

▪ Technical Documentation 

❑ Documents and demonstrates solutions by developing documentations, flowcharts, layouts, diagram, charts,  code. comments and clear code; Ensuring that project task are completed in defined effort and timelines ❑ Prepares and installs solutions by determining and designing system specifications, standards & programming. 

❑ Testing: Writing of test cases, unit testing, system testing, negative testing 

❑ Trouble shooting: Log analysis and database query optimization  

❑ Improves operations by conducting system's analysis. 

❑ Updates job knowledge by studying state of the art development tools, programming techniques & computing equipment; participates in educational opportunities, reads professional publications & maintains  personal networks.  

❑ Protects operations by keeping information confidential. 

❑ Provides information by collecting, analyzing and summarizing development and service issues.  ❑ Develops software solution by studying information needs, conferring with users, studding system flow,  data usage and work processes, investigating problem areas, following delivery cycle. 

• Good academic qualifications
• Experience in developing web applications using Java, Spring, Hibernate, DWR, JSP
• Knowledge in Oracle Database concepts
• Sound knowledge in the following is a must
  o Hibernate
  o Spring
  o Oracle & MongoDb
  o HTML & CSS
  o Javascript
  o Jquery
  o Angular 4
  o Node JS
  
  Knowledge of Japer Reports will be an added advantage
• Good communication skills and be a good listener
• Problem solving skills
• Willingness to learn and do all development activities including quality assurance
• Team player

Key Skills:

1. One or more of Python/PHP/Ruby/NodeJS/Java

2. Sound object-oriented skills, including strong design patterns knowledge

2. REST APIs

3. MVC architecture

4. MySQL/PostgreSQL

5. Exp with at least 1 NoSQL databases MongoDB/Memcache/Redis/

6. Exp with search technologies Elasticsearch/Solr

7. Exp building messaging based asynchrounous systems RabbitMQ/Kafka/SQS/Celery will be added advantage

8. Exp with Django/Flask frameworks will be added advantage

9. Knowledge of software best practices like Test-Driven Development (TDD) and Continuous Integration (CI) will be added adnavtage

Requirements:

1. Developing software solutions in conjunction with Relational theory, Rest APIs and NoSQL database technologies

2. Knowledge of cloud based technologies in AWS or Azure will be added advantage

3. Understanding of RDBMS technologies like MySQL, PostgreSQL.

4. Hands-on with Version control systems (GIT, SVN) and Unix/Ubuntu.

5. Experience in requirement analysis, HLD, LLD, unit & integration testing.

6. Good hands on experience in debugging application issues

TL;DR

1) Top performer in the company

2) Has worked with product based startup company

3) Ambitious and hardworking