Java Developer

Lean provides developers with a universal API to access their customers' financial accounts across the Middle East. We recognized that infrastructure barriers were hindering fintech growth in our home markets and set out to build a solution. With Lean, developers at any level can now create advanced financial solutions without grappling with infrastructure complexities, allowing them to focus squarely on customer needs.

Why Join Us?

Our products have garnered enthusiastic feedback from both developers and customers. With Sequoia leading our $33 million Series A round, our debut in the GCC marks just the beginning. We're committed to expanding regionally and enhancing stakeholder value. If you thrive on solving challenges and making a lasting impact, Lean is the place for you.

We offer competitive salaries, private healthcare, flexible office hours, and ensure every team member holds meaningful equity. Join us on our journey of enabling the next wave of financial innovation!

About the Role

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in developing the infrastructure that supports the future of the financial ecosystem. We seek a motivated problem-solver who thrives on challenges and delivers compelling solutions. You'll lead knowledge sharing across our engineering team, mentor individuals, and contribute to complex feature design and development.

Requirements

- 8+ years of professional experience in Java, Spring Boot, and Microservices

- Proficiency in PostgreSQL, Kafka, Scripting, and REST

- Experience as a Squad/Tech Lead, adept at designing and developing complex features

- Worked in distributed teams and with open-source APIs

- Eagerness to learn and implement new technologies

- Familiarity with CI/CD and DevOps systems and processes

- Self-motivated with a preference for autonomy and ownership

- Startup experience and interest in the fintech industry, particularly Open Banking

Bonus

- Experience in developing payment solutions (p2p, B2C, B2B)

- Previous work in the financial sector

Join us and shape the future of fintech with Lean!

Experience:

The candidate should have about 5+ years of experience with design and development in Java/Scala. Experience in algorithm, data-structure, database and architectures of distributed System is mandatory.

Required Skills:

1. In-depth knowledge of Hadoop, Spark architecture and its components such as HDFS, YARN and executor, cores and memory param
2. Knowledge of Scala and Java both
3. Extensive experience in developing spark job. Should possess good Oops knowledge and be aware of enterprise application design patterns.
4. Good knowledge of Unix/Linux.
5. Experience working on large-scale software projects
6. Understanding the big picture and the various uses cases involved while crafting the solution and documenting them in Unified Modeling language.
7. Own and maintain the architecture document.
8. Keep an eye out for technological trends, open-source projects that can be used.
9. Knows common programming languages and Frameworks.
10. Real time streaming data consumption

Good to have :

1. Azure/AWS Cloud Knowledge of Data Storage and Compute side
2. Knowledge Multitenant Architecture
3. Brief idea of Data Science
   
   

About the role:

As a product engineer I/II, you will be responsible for continuous improvement of Cashfree experience for all our customers and end- users. You will dream big but identify and take small steps towards achieving that goal. You will receive great feedbacks at every step of the development cycle from your peers to our customers and end- users.

You may be working on architecting the money disbursement flow or creating most- friendly interface for consumer payment. All our engineers identify as generalist and building products that are useful and delightful are core to our engineering culture.

You're more than a coder. You wil be part of entire product process, from conceptualizing till post- launch evaluation. You should have deep empathy for the users to minimize the gap between what we build and what they need. Have sound judgement to balance between code writing speed and it's maintainability. Knowledge of variety of server- side/ frontend frameworks is desirable but not compulsory

Job Description:

Perform high quality software analysis, development, testing and maintenance for the client’s core technology platform  

* Work with Product owners, Architects and X-Vertical teams to analyse requirements.

* Implement the features based on the design.

* Follow good development practices.

* Product deployment and support.

* Mentor junior developers.

Job Requirements

* Excellent analytical skills and problem solving skills.

* Expert in JEE/ Java programming.

* Competent in delivering a high quality product.

* Competent in software engineering tools and best practices

* Conversant in web front-end technologies - HTML5/CSS/JavaScript
* Object-oriented Design and Analysis (OOA and OOD)

* Estimate engineering effort; plan implementation, and rollout system changes.

* Exhibit creativity and resourcefulness at problem solving while collaborating and working effectively   with best in class designers, engineers of different technical backgrounds, architects and product managers.

* Expert in data structures and algorithms.

* Aware of Agile methodology of Software Development Life Cycle.

* Should be a self-starter and a good team player.

* Great communication skills both verbal and written to ensure effective communication across product teams, functions and locations.

* Can make decisions without always asking others what has to be done.

* Ability to mentor junior developers.

* Experience working with remote teams.

* Flexible to work on any technology as per project demand.

Deep expertise and hands on experience in Core java
∙ Hands-on experience with at least 2 years in Spring, Hibernate & Restful web services.
∙ Hands-on experience with at least 3 years in GUI development using Angular/React

, HTML & JavaScript. Added advantage if worked on Angular 5 and above, NodeJS, Bootstrap, jQuery.
∙ Clear understanding of Software Development life cycle and process Oriented. Would be great if worked on Agile or Continuous Delivery (CD) based projects before.
∙ Good fundamentals in Core Programming, JDBC, Object Oriented design & Design patterns
∙ Should have exposure to Oracle SQL. Any other DB apart from Oracle is also fine, provided the fundamentals of RDBMS are clear. Good to have experience in writing Sqls, stored procedures and functions.
∙ Experience in creating & executing unit tests using test driven approach with JUnit or any other equivalent.