Java Developer

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain robust backend services using Core Java and Spring Boot
• Develop and optimize queries in MongoDB, including aggregation and indexing
• Build RESTful APIs and integrate third-party services
• Write clean, maintainable, and scalable code following best practices
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather and implement requirements

Required Skills:

• 5+ years of experience in Core Java
• Strong expertise in Spring Boot (REST APIs, Security, Data)
• Hands-on experience with MongoDB (CRUD operations, schema design)
• Experience with Microservices architecture

Apply Link - https://tally.so/r/wv0lEA

Key Responsibilities:

1. Software Development:

• Design, implement, and optimise clean, scalable, and reliable code across [backend/frontend/full-stack] systems.
• Contribute to the development of micro services, APIs, or UI components as per the project requirements.

1. System Architecture:

• Collaborate and design and enhance system architecture.
• Analyse and identify opportunities for performance improvements and scalability.

1. Code Reviews and Mentorship:

• Conduct thorough code reviews to ensure code quality, maintainability, and adherence to best practices.
• Mentor and support junior developers, fostering a culture of learning and growth.

1. Agile Collaboration:

• Work within an Agile/Scrum framework, participating in sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives.
• Collaborate with Carbon Science, Designer, and other stakeholders to translate requirements into technical solutions.

1. Problem-Solving:

• Investigate, troubleshoot, and resolve complex issues in production and development environments.
• Contribute to incident management and root cause analysis to improve system reliability.

1. Continuous Improvement:

• Stay up-to-date with emerging technologies and industry trends.
• Propose and implement improvements to existing codebases, tools, and development processes.

Qualifications:

Must-Have:

• Experience: 2–5 years of professional software development experience in [specify languages/tools, e.g., Java, Python, JavaScript, etc.].
• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• Technical Skills:
• Strong proficiency in [programming languages/frameworks/tools].
• Experience with cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Knowledge of version control tools (e.g., Git) and CI/CD pipelines.
• Understanding of data structures, algorithms, and system design principles.

Nice-to-Have:

• Experience with containerisation (e.g., Docker) and orchestration tools (e.g., Kubernetes).
• Knowledge of database technologies (SQL and NoSQL).

Soft Skills:

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and manage multiple priorities effectively.

• 3+  years of hands-on experience in ERPNext Platform and Frappe Framework, Python, JavaScript and MySQL/MariaDB
• Strong knowledge of configuration and customisation of the ERPNext platform

Senior Software Engineer, Java/Python (Bangalore, Remote option available)

4+ years of experience 

Zepto 

Why should you look at this role?

Salary 40-55 lakh per annum

Paid leave

Sick leave

Provident Fund

What Else?

• High growth startup in quick commerce space (10 min delivery)
• Given our very high hiring bar, we offer a very competitive salary and substantial equity to create everlasting wealth for our early believers as the company grows.
• Work on real world logistics problems & benefit from the rocket ship Zepto is!

Tech Team: 40-50 (200+ in few months)

About the Employer

Zepto is a fast-growing startup that delivers products in 10 minutes through an optimised network of dark stores that we're building across the country!

Just 6 months after launching, we've raised $160 million from marquee

investors in Silicon Valley and India. Our investors include Y Combinator, Nexus Venture Partners, and many more! We’ve built out one of the best startup teams in India, with Senior Executives from Uber, Flipkart, Dream11, PhonePe, Goldman Sachs, Pepperfry, and institutions like Stanford, INSEAD, IITs, and IIMs.

The magic of Zepto is our ability to consistently deliver 2,500+ products in 10 minutes flat. It's the core of what we do, and the reason why we’ve been able to grow so fast with phenomenal customer love. Our mission is simple: to make 10-minute delivery the new normal.

Funding:

Funding Zepto has raised a total of $160M in funding over 3 rounds.

Their latest funding was raised on Dec 20, 2021 from a Series C round.

Employer Reviews:

“High Ownership, Lots of Learning, Broad Roles, Accessible Leaders”

"Alot of benefits like ZeptoJoy coupon, internet bill reimbursement and cab reimbursement is also taken care of. Overtime is paid."

Reporting structure:

Software Engineer -> Sr Software Engineer -> Lead -> EM -> AD / Director / VP -> Head of Engineering -> CTO

This role would be by and large a Individual Contributor role.

Interview Process:

• Round 1. Problem Solving + CS Fundamentals (60 mins)
  • DS/Algo Problems (30 mins) - You can expect 1-2 Leetcode easy/medium questions
  • CS Fundamentals (30 mins)
• Round 2. Low Level Design (60 mins)
  • You would be given a trivial problem and expected to work through the low level design viz class structure, interfaces, db data models etc.
• Round 3. High Level Design (60 mins)
  • You will be given a trivial problem, where we would work with you to design the system for the problem statement. We expect the detailed flow of the Functionality
    • Extract APIs, if any
    • Database choices
    • Schema design and Scale the system, if time permits

What You will do Everyday?

• Work very closely with the Tech Leadership and lead end-to-end development.
• Closely collaborate with product, design and business teams to understand product ideas and business needs and help deliver these as a series of ultra fast experiments.
• Architect and implement backend services with high reliability and scalability.
• Contribute to system architecture and database design.
• Set up best practices for development and champion their adoption.
• Write quality documentation and handle conflicts well to build consensus.
• Learn about new technologies and incorporate them.
• Mentor young minds and foster team spirit

Your Superpowers

• 4+ years of experience with Java frameworks like Spring / Dropwizard/Play or Python frameworks like Django/Flask/FastApi and databases like PostgreSQL/MySQL/MongoDB
• Experience in building highly scalable customer-facing applications that involve implementing complex business flows and dealing with an ever-increasing scale
• Extensive experience in object-oriented design skills, knowledge of design patterns, and huge passion and ability to design intuitive module and class-level interfaces.
• Experience in service-oriented architecture design.
• Experience building at least one application from scratch.
• Experience with cache store/message broker like Redis / RabbitMQ/Kafka
• Interest in learning new languages/framework as needed.
• Worked in a startup environment with high levels of ownership and commitment.
• A growth mindset and passionate about building things from the ground up and most importantly, you should be fun to work with.

• A minimum of 3 years experience as a Technical Lead in Java., Strong experience in design and implementation of high performing and highly scalable websites/applications
• Strong experience in Spring MVC framework and experience in design patterns, unit testing etc..
• Strong experience in AWS services such as EC2, Lambda, S3, ECS, API Gateway and using tools such as Terraform, Ansible
• Strong experience in Endeca, ATG and BCC, Solr, any Headless CMS
• Considerable experience in databases such as SQL Server/Mongo DB is an added advantage
• Good experience in JavaScript frameworks such as Angular/React/VueJS is an added advantage
• Experience in Adobe AEM is an added advantage
• Creative problem-solving skills and ability to effectively communicate and translate feedback, needs and solutions
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills required

• Provide strategic thinking and leadership pertaining in cloud technologies and building scalable websites
• Provide technical leadership and guidance internally to the team and externally to management
• Communicate effectively across all levels of the organization
• Collaborate within and across teams with strong teamwork orientation
• Help maintain a culture of high quality
• Showcasing excellent work ethic and strong sense of ownership of end result
• Understand the structured software development methodologies including design, development and testing in an Agile environment
• Follow all security practices and identify areas and processes where performance and scalability can be improved
• Make and justify recommendations for improvement., Participate in development of solutions in cases of new technology direction and/or proof of concepts
• Should translate business needs into technical solutions with Strong analytical, conceptual and technical skills
• Support the evaluation, selection, design, development and maintenance of the platforms.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer / Information Science (BE / BTech) or Master’s in Computer Applications (MCA) Experience:
• Two to five years general software engineering experience
• Experience in web development using the Ruby on Rails web application framework
• At least two years of Ruby on Rails programming experience
• Thorough understanding of the philosophy and design of Ruby on Rails
• Desktop publishing skills: HTML5, xHTML, CSS

Knowledge of:

• JavaScript and JavaScript libraries: jQuery, Plugins etc.
• Unix and Linux systems
• Relational databases: SQL, etc.
• Frameworks: Active record, etc.
• Servers: Nginx, Mongrel, Webrick
• Performance management using New Relic, Web Page Test tools
• SEO rules, minification, rails asset pipelines
• REST APIs and their usage

Highly preferred experience:

• Ability to work with the Amazon EC2, S3, and EBS services
• NoSQL databases: MongoDB, Memcached, CouchDB
• Git, SVN
• Proactive and resourceful person who achieves tasks with minimal oversight
• Team player with the ability and desire to become an integral part of a fast-paced team
• Ability to handle multiple tasks in parallel

• Excellent Java programming skills.
• Experience in Web application Technologies like JAVA/JSP, HTML, Javascript, and CSS.
• Development experience using Java Spring Boot, Maven
• Knowledge and Experience in using REST API
• Experience in Database Query Languages.
• Experience in designing new application framework or migrating to new framework architecture, redesign, working on POC
• Should be open for understanding debugging the architecture of legacy systems and suggest changes wherever applicable.
• Experience in frameworks like Spring, Hibernate
• Experience in Multi-tier development/deployment of Web Application
• Experience in Producing and Consuming RESTful Web Services
• Strong in developing complex SQL Scripts to generate reports
• Familiarity in Maven, Gitx
• Familiarity in Unit Testing (JUnit)
• Familiarity with Continuous Integration tools (Jenkins etc)