Java Developer

Role Overview:

We are seeking a motivated .NET Developer with around 2 years of experience to join our backend development team. The ideal candidate should have hands-on experience in C#, ASP.NET Core, and SQL, with a strong understanding of object-oriented programming and API development. You will work closely with product, DevOps, and QA teams to build and enhance backend systems

supporting our trading and fintech platforms.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop, maintain, and enhance backend applications using .NET Core / ASP.NET MVC.

• Design and implement RESTful APIs for integration with frontend and third-party systems.

• Write clean, scalable, and efficient code following best practices.

• Work with SQL databases (preferably MS SQL Server) to design schemas, write queries, and

optimize performance.

• Collaborate with product managers and frontend teams to translate requirements into technical solutions.

• Participate in code reviews, debugging, and troubleshooting production issues.

• Contribute to improving application performance, scalability, and security.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.

• 2 years of experience in .NET development.

• Strong proficiency in C# and ASP.NET Core / ASP.NET MVC.

• Experience with Web APIs and RESTful architecture.

• Good knowledge of Entity Framework / LINQ.

• Hands-on experience with MS SQL Server or other relational databases.

• Understanding of OOP principles, design patterns, and software architecture concepts.

• Familiarity with Git or other version control systems.

• Basic understanding of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (for integration purposes)

Pickyourtrail (PYT) is an expert co-creator of super hit customised holidays. We are the perfect partner to the ‘designated travel planner/s’ of every group - big or small. Our service, customisation and expertise help us deliver super hit holidays and make the planner the hero of the holiday. 

PickYourTrail is a technology-driven travel company building personalized, end-to-end travel experiences. Our platform powers dynamic itinerary creation, real-time pricing, booking orchestration, and post-booking workflows at scale. We operate in a high-throughput, real-time environment where backend systems are critical to business success.

What are we looking for in you?

You are enthusiastic about developing highly scalable, foolproof, end-to-end quality software. You have worked on api integrations, have a good understanding of api docs, SOAP, REST, rate limiter and caching. You are very passionate about data structures and algorithms. You are flexible in working with multidisciplinary teams and you push your teammates to their limits & ensure that the work is done. You consider AI as your friend and use them in all facets to augment your work, as your pair programmer, code reviewer and design philosopher. If you feel we are talking about you, contact us asap.

Who will you work with?

Being a part of a small team of backend engineers, you get to solve a wide range of problems in the travel space. Be it feature discussion, solution design, development, dev testing, deployment, enhancement or maintenance, you get to experience everything.

What's in it for you?

• Opportunity to contribute and solve interesting problems in the travel space.
• Solve for scalability, availability and performance along with functional integrations.
• Freedom to explore solutions rather than getting tied down by rigid standards.
• Work with some of the best techies in the industry
• An environment where Attitude is higher than Skill and performance scores over politics
• Take the product to the next level that has an impact on the end customer

What you'll bring to the team?

• Good understanding of data structures and algorithms
• Good experience in System & Solution design.
• Working knowledge of Java, Web Services, SOAP, REST and Spring Boot.
• Experience working with coding assistants like co-pilot, Claude desktop etc.
• Knowledge of GIT version control
• Good knowledge of any database (MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle)
• Knowledge of Unit testing is a must
• Fair debugging skills

Responsibilities:

• Take on complex problems that span multiple components and teams.

• Independently own one or more multiple modules, which include: requirement analysis, design, development, maintenance & support

• Write extensive, efficient code to address complex modules that handle the interaction between multiple components.

• Rapidly iterate to add new functionalities and solves complex problems with simple and intuitive solutions

• Produce architecture with clean interfaces, that are efficient and scalable

• Participate and contribute to architectural discussions

• Solve production issues. Investigate and provide solutions to minimize the business impact due to the outage

• Continuously improve performance metrics of modules you own.

• Collaborate effectively across teams to solve problems, execute and deliver results

Requirements:

• Experience: 3+ years

• A Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Science

• Software engineering and product delivery experience, with a strong background in algorithms

• Experience in architecting & building real-time, large-scale e-commerce applications

• Experience with high-performance websites catering to millions of daily traffic is a plus

• Excellent command over Data Structures and Algorithms

• Experience with web technologies, Go/Java/Python

• Language: GO or Python

• Strong expertise in DS and Algo

• Strong leadership skills - have experience mentoring, building products from scratch or incumbent in design and architecture.

• Have worked in the scaling of the system right from scratch.

• Someone worked in small user base to a large user base and wrote optimized code

• Both HLD and LLD

The ideal candidate is a self-motivated, multi-tasker, and demonstrated team-player. You will be a lead developer responsible for the development of new software products and enhancements to existing products. You should excel in working with large-scale applications and frameworks and have outstanding communication and leadership skills.

Qualifications

• 2-4 years of relevant experience in developing complex enterprise applications using Java, Spring Boot, Message Queues ( like Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc...),Multithreading, and SQL
• Ability to write high-quality code with speed
• Should have experience in building various end to end feature
• Product and startup background is preferred
• Have a good understanding of SDLC, Agile, and design patterns
• Have a working experience with Github and Jira tool
• Should be able to mentor and lead the team in fast-paced environments.
• High growth\Startup mindset
• Open Source contribution\Active Git profile big plus
• Interest in cloud security is a big plus
• Experience developing data center applications in cloud security, backup, and disaster
• recovery, is a big plus
• Knowledge of AWS\Azure is a big plus

• Develop new functionalities on the Company platform, in close collaboration with the Product team
• Analyse and correct anomalies across the various environments
• Propose and participate in the platform evolution
• Contribute to the platform architecture, ensure strong code quality (tests & code reviews) and adherence to best practices
• Mentor and support junior developers

Job Summary:

– We are looking for a kick ass software engineer with exceptional skills in data structures, algorithms, core java, and distributed systems. If you think you have it in you to deliver on aggressive timelines, have the hunger for growth, don’t like giving excuses, contribute to product features, be hands-on and deliver a world-class product, then we want to hear from you.

This is a predominantly back-end engineering role.

– You are a rockstar engineer 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.

– You will be responsible for the delivery of product features as a part of the platform engineering team.

– You will be hands-on working on key features of the product.

– You will be responsible for design of back-end architectural changes and product features.

– You will have plenty of opportunity to learn and implement ideas to build products in efficient and cohesive manner.

– 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.

Eligibility:

– 4+ years of experience with hands-on experience in Core Java/Kotlin

– 2+ years of experience as a technical architect with responsibility for core features 

– 4+ years of working experience in cloud-based systems

– 2+ years of experience working on distributed systems

– 2+ years of experience working on Kafka and Zookeeper

– Experience working on RxJava/ Reactive Programming

– Adept on design patterns and distributed systems

– Excellent verbal and written communication

– Proficient in building REST APIs to interact with relational and non-relational data sources

– Proficient in SQL and RDBMS

– Hands on experience in code and system optimization

– Experience in working with NoSQL databases is a plus