Java Developer

Work Mode: Full-time, in-person

Reporting To: VP – Software

Job Description

We are looking for a hands-on Technical Lead Engineer to lead the design, development, and delivery of our Head-End System (HES), Meter Data Management (MDM), and Smart Metering platform. The role requires strong backend engineering expertise, deep understanding of smart metering and utility systems, and the ability to guide a development team through architecture, implementation, integration, testing, deployment, and production support.

The ideal candidate will have practical experience building scalable IoT or utility platforms involving smart meter communication, DLMS/COSEM protocols, real-time data acquisition, validation, event processing, command execution, and integration with enterprise systems such as billing, NMS, OMS, and analytics platforms.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end technical development of HES, MDM, AMI/AMR, and smart metering modules.
• Design scalable backend architecture for meter communication, data ingestion, validation, processing, storage, and reporting.
• Implement and guide development of DLMS/COSEM IEC 62056 based meter communication.
• Integrate with smart meters, DCUs/gateways, billing systems, NMS, OMS, analytics systems, and third-party utility platforms.
• Lead Java/Spring Boot backend development using REST APIs, messaging queues, socket programming, and distributed system patterns.
• Design high-volume data pipelines for interval data, events, alarms, billing reads, and meter health data.
• Ensure performance, scalability, fault tolerance, database optimization, and reliable production operations.
• Mentor developers, review code, define engineering standards, and guide sprint-level technical execution.
• Work with product, project, QA, deployment, and customer teams to convert utility requirements into robust technical solutions.
• Own technical troubleshooting for production issues, performance bottlenecks, device communication failures, and integration defects.
• Prepare technical documentation, architecture diagrams, API specifications, and deployment guidelines.

Required Skills

• 6+ years of software development experience, including 3+ years in smart metering, HES, MDM, AMI, IoT, or utility platforms.
• Strong hands-on experience with Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs, JDBC/JPA, multithreading, backend system design, debugging, performance tuning, and production support.
• Practical experience with DLMS/COSEM, IEC 62056, Gurux or similar frameworks, smart meter communication, meter reads, events, commands, and remote operations.
• Strong understanding of communication protocols such as TCP/IP, socket programming, FTP/SFTP, MQTT/HTTP, and related integration patterns.
• Experience with Kafka/RabbitMQ, MySQL/MariaDB, MongoDB, Redis, ClickHouse, Apache Solr, or similar messaging and data platforms.
• Knowledge of scalable architecture, including clustering, replication, load balancing, caching, retries, failover, monitoring, and large-scale time-series data handling.
• Experience leading backend engineering teams, owning technical delivery, reviewing code, and mentoring developers.
• Preferred: experience with utility/DISCOM projects, AMISP programs, billing engines, prepaid metering, NMS/OMS, energy accounting, cloud services, CI/CD, Docker/Kubernetes, observability, and cybersecurity for smart metering systems.

Education Requirement

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, Electronics & Communication, Electrical Engineering, or a related engineering discipline is preferred. Candidates with strong hands-on HES/MDM, AMI, DLMS/COSEM, IoT, or utility software experience may be considered even with a different academic background.

Job Description

We are looking for a hands-on Technical Lead Engineer (Full Stack) to spearhead the design, development, and delivery of our scalable web platforms and core application ecosystems. In this role, you will bridge the gap between front-end experiences and robust back-end systems. You will lead an agile development team through technical architecture, feature implementation, integration, testing, deployment, and production support.

The ideal candidate has deep technical expertise in both frontend and backend modern frameworks, a passion for system design, and practical experience building secure, scalable, and high-performance distributed web applications.

Key Responsibilities

• Technical Leadership: Lead end-to-end full-stack software development, architectural design, and system evolution.
• Backend Architecture: Design scalable, fault-tolerant backend architectures, optimizing high-volume data ingestion pipelines and processing engines.
• Frontend Excellence: Direct the development of highly responsive, intuitive, and modular user interfaces that ensure a seamless user experience.
• API & Integrations: Architect secure RESTful APIs and integrate external enterprise platforms, third-party microservices, and identity providers.
• Team Mentorship: Mentor developers, run strict code reviews, define engineering best practices, and guide sprint-level execution.
• Data & Messaging: Maintain and optimize relational, NoSQL, and time-series databases alongside message queues for real-time application events.
• Production Ownership: Own technical troubleshooting for live production bottlenecks, system latency issues, and deployment bugs.
• Documentation: Create clean technical documentation, structural architecture diagrams, and system deployment guidelines.

Required Skills

• Experience: 6+ years of software development experience with at least 2+ years leading engineering teams or owning technical delivery.
• Backend Core: Advanced hands-on experience with Java, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, multithreading, and REST API development.
• Frontend Core: Mastery of modern JavaScript/TypeScript frameworks (such as React, Angular, or Vue.js), HTML5, and responsive CSS architectures.
• Data Platforms: Proficient with relational databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL/Caching systems (Redis, MongoDB).
• Messaging Systems: Experience implementing asynchronous workflows using message brokers like Kafka or RabbitMQ.
• Design Patterns: Strong grasp of microservices patterns, distributed system caching, load balancing, and failover mechanisms.

Preferred / Nice-to-Have Skills

• Experience deploying workloads to Cloud environments (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Familiarity with containerization tools like Docker and orchestration via Kubernetes.
• Hands-on experience setting up continuous integration and automated deployment pipelines (CI/CD).
• Exposure to system observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack).

Education Requirement

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, Electronics, Electrical Engineering, or a related field. Candidates with equivalent exceptional hands-on full-stack engineering experience will be highly considered regardless of formal degree background.

Job Description – Senior Software Developer

 Key Responsibilities:

• Architect, develop and maintain web applications using the MERN stack.
• Design RESTful APIs (and possibly GraphQL) in Node.js/Express, integrate with front-end in React.
• Build and enhance the front-end UI in React, ensuring performance, responsiveness and maintainability.
• Design MongoDB schemas, indexes and queries for high-traffic/scale scenarios.
• Deploy, operate and optimise cloud infrastructure on AWS: e.g., EC2, Lambda, S3, RDS/DynamoDB, VPCs, IAM, autoscaling.
• Ensure high availability, fault-tolerance, and scalability of services in production.
• Set up and maintain CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, automated testing, monitoring & alerting.
• Troubleshoot and fix performance bottlenecks across the stack (front-end, back-end, database, cloud).
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (product, design, QA, DevOps) to deliver features end-to-end.
• Mentor junior/mid-level developers, conduct code-reviews, impart best practices.
• Stay up to date with emerging technologies, propose improvements to architecture and processes.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• 3-5 years of hands-on experience in full-stack web development using the MERN stack (MongoDB, Express.js, React.js, Node.js).
• Strong front-end skills in React: component architecture, hooks, state management, performance optimisation.
• Solid back-end skills in Node.js/Express: API design, middleware, security, robustness.
• Experience with MongoDB (or equivalent NoSQL) including schema design, query optimisation, indexing.
• Proven experience working with AWS cloud services (compute, storage, database, networking, security, monitoring).
• Experience deploying applications at scale: autoscaling, high availability, disaster recovery.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure‐as‐code (CloudFormation, Terraform or similar), containerisation (Docker) is a plus.
• Good understanding of software engineering best practices: code-quality, testing, documentation, version control (Git).
• Excellent communication skills, self-motivation, ability to work remotely and collaborate across time zones.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field (or equivalent experience).
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We enable humans & machines with internet connectivity at a price that they can afford.

The inspiration for Wifi Dabba came from the founders working together for the last decade in the mobile application industry and realising the biggest reason for user churn being access to cheap and affordable internet access. From having worked on ground onboarding users and facing poor connectivity issues all the time, we took it on ourselves to fix the internet access problem for the common citizen.

At Wifi Dabba (YC W17), we are building a low cost, scalable & distributed Wi-Fi infrastructure to connect next billion users online. We do this by deploying a grid of lasers (Free Space Optics) over the cities & town and bring cheap and fast internet for everyone. We enable anyone to buy 1 gig of data access at a time at a price they can afford. Sachetization of internet access is the foundation to rebuilding internet for all. We do this by leveraging crypto and blockchain to truly make internet infrastructure ownership distributed — our vision is to be connectivity layer for the Web3 world.

• You will get the chance to be an early team member at a fast-growth YC startup.
• You get to define the future of telecom infrastructure ownership and operations.
• We’re a tight-knit team where you'll learn a ton and have ownership.
• Opportunity to build for the next billion users.

• Strong engineering background preferably in Computer Science
• Experience architecting, developing, and testing full-stack code end-to-end
• Experience working with relational & NoSQL databases
• Experience with AWS services
• Experience working with MERN Stack, performing unit/feature testing, and managing REST APIs.
• Knowledge of front-end technologies including HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and jQuery.
• Knowledge of any one frontend framework/libraries like Angular/VueJs/ReactJS.
• Knowledge of code versioning tools like GIT, SVN.
• Experience in building user interfaces for websites and/or web applications.
• Experience in designing and developing responsive design websites with any frontend css frameworks like Bootstrap/Tailwind CSS.
• Build backend APIs and services that power new products that interact with Solana (or other) blockchains
• Build front-end Web3 interfaces that interact with your backend code
• Participate in design discussions with business users, web producers and engineering teams.
• Perform requirements analysis, high-level design, effort estimation for new business requirements and feature enhancements.
• Write clean, concise, and sustainable code.
• Team player who enjoys collaborative effort.

• Entrepreneurial mindset (we encourage all employees to be future founders and this can be a great stepping stone towards that)
• You’re passionate about crypto, Web3
• Customer-centric and passionate about working in a small & focused team
• Previous experience building/working in telecom software or infrastructure
• Previous experience building web3 project - DeFi / Blockchain infrastructure
• Previous experience at a high-growth, fast-paced startup

𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭?

You will be part of the founding team at LDU and will be responsible for the end-to-end technology of the company including:

- Formulate long-term technology & product strategy along with implementation roadmap, while envisioning the tech-stack required to scale the business 100X

- Architecting and engineering solutions across the entire technology stack including front-end, back-end, infrastructure, architecture, server-side engineering, UI, etc. in line with the company's strategy.

- Plan and collaborate with the other teams including marketing/ growth, customer success/ sales, design, operations, etc. to implement new product features, growth hacks/ initiatives identified through user interviews/ insights, etc in a timely manner.

- Build processes/mechanisms to track the KPIs across product/ technology and ensure religious execution of the targets

- Build and lead the technology team including the engineering team, product team, Quality Assurance, etc.

- Awesome work-culture (flexible work timings; no need to wear formals; awesome snacks to name a few)

𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫?

We are looking to onboard a Senior Software Engineer, who has a founder's mindset including the following traits:

- Experience of full stack development across web & mobile based technologies and should have scaled a business 

- Ability to build scalable products/ platforms, fully redundant fault-tolerant infrastructure while working on modern technologies.

- Stronghold in both front-end & back-end development/ algorithms with experience of building agile, highly scalable, data-driven platforms from scratch

- Ability to be hands-on with coding across big data, mobile apps, AI & ML, analytics, DevOps, business intelligent solutions, etc. apart from strategically guiding/ mentoring the team

- Ability to manage end-to-end delivery of large-scale initiatives from concept, scope, planning, estimation, project management, and deployment.

- Stronghold in executing stuff on the ground and hustle around to “Get things done”

- Ability to think and see the big picture while focusing on short term goals and deliverables

- Leadership qualities to hire and build a kick-ass technology/ product team going forward

- Experience as a founder/ being part of founding team is huge plus but not mandatory

- Experience in the Fashion/ Apparel industry is a plus but not mandatory

𝐀𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐋𝐃𝐔:

- LDU is has been selected as one of the top 17 startups (amongst 1200+ startups in South-East Asia) by Lightspeed Venture Partners, one of the top VCs in the world. We are building India’s version of Stitch Fix – Personalized clothing (your size, your style) at Scale. We personalize the user experience by building a Designer layer for the user through technology. Also, we leverage technology to aggregate the highly unorganized and broken supply side of tailor-units/ boutiques/ small manufacturers etc.

- LDU is a pre-series A start-up and has closed two rounds of funding. We are backed by India's top VC and angels.

𝐅𝐀𝐐

- Full time role.

- Location: Gurgaon

- CTC : INR 24 Lacs (with hansome Esops/ Equity)

- Experience: Preferably 2-5 years

This is a technolog yagnostic position and you would be viewed as a technolog enthusiast who can work (not code) on architecture and designing of any application immaterial of the technology used.

Your experience as a programmer of a technical lead will benefit a lot. 

If you believe in “ First, solve the problem. Then, write the code. ”, we are looking for you. 

• Atleast 8 years of experience working either in Java/JEE, Python or Ruby on Rails.
• Ability to manage a team and handle clients.
• Very good at Analysis and Design.
• Passion to write good quality code.
• Able to work in a fast paced environment.
• Able to manage multiple tasks with changing priorities in a cross-functional environment
• Team player
• Ability to balance competing priorities.
• Excellent communication skills.

BoTree Technologies was incorporated in 2012 and since then we have constantly worked towards building a place to work which provides each member an opportunity to challenge herself and grow on a day to day basis.