Java Developer

Candidate must have 6+ years of backend engineering experience, with 1–2 years leading engineers or owning major systems.

Candidate must be from a product-based organization with a startup mindset.

Must be strong in one core backend language: Node.js, Go, Java, or Python.

Deep understanding of distributed systems, caching, high availability, and microservices architecture.

Hands-on experience with AWS/GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines.

Strong command over system design, data structures, performance tuning, and scalable architecture

Ability to partner with Product, Data, Infrastructure, and lead end-to-end backend roadmap execution.

Backend – Software Development Engineer II

Experience: 4–7 years

Location: Bangalore

Work Mode - Hybrid

About Wekan Enterprise Solutions

Wekan Enterprise Solutions is a leading Technology Consulting company and a strategic investment partner of MongoDB. We help companies drive innovation in the cloud by adopting modern technology solutions that help them achieve their performance and availability requirements. With strong capabilities around Mobile, IOT and Cloud environments, we have an extensive track record helping Fortune 500 companies modernize their most critical legacy and on-premise applications, migrating them to the cloud and leveraging the most cutting-edge technologies.

Job Description

We are looking for passionate software engineers eager to be a part of our growth journey. The right candidate needs to be interested in working in high-paced and challenging environments. Interested in constantly upskilling, learning new technologies and expanding their domain knowledge to new industries. This candidate needs to be a team player and should be looking to help build a culture of excellence. Do you have what it takes?

You will be working on complex data migrations, modernizing legacy applications and building new applications on the cloud for large enterprise and/or growth stage startups. You will have the opportunity to contribute directly into mission critical projects directly interacting with business stakeholders, customer’s technical teams and MongoDB solutions Architects

What you will do

• Own backend features and migration workstreams end to end, from understanding the existing codebase and data model to delivering production-ready implementations.
• Build and enhance Java/Spring Boot services used in modernization, migration, and cloud transformation projects.
• Design and implement backend flows that are safe under retries and partial failures, with clear thinking around validation, transaction boundaries, idempotency, and downstream side effects.
• Work across application, database, and deployment layers to improve reliability, maintainability, and operational visibility.
• Model data based on access patterns and business workflows, with sound choices around schema design, indexing, and query performance.
• Investigate production issues using logs, request traces, database state, and service behavior; identify root causes and implement durable fixes.
• Collaborate with internal teams, customer engineering teams, architects, and stakeholders to deliver high-quality solutions on mission-critical projects.
• Write clean, modular, testable code and participate actively in sprint ceremonies, code reviews, design discussions, and release activities.

What we’re looking for

• 4–7 years of backend engineering experience, with strong hands-on delivery in Java-based systems.
• Solid experience with Java, Spring Boot, and microservice-style backend development.
• Demonstrated ownership of at least one meaningful backend service or feature area in production.
• Strong understanding of backend engineering fundamentals, including service reliability, data consistency, failure handling, and production-grade design considerations.
• Strong database fundamentals, including schema design, query writing, indexing, and performance reasoning.
• Strong depth in MongoDB or a relational database such as Oracle, with working comfort across both styles being a plus.
• Ability to investigate and resolve real production issues across services and databases, including consistency, performance, and reliability problems.
• Hands-on experience with testing frameworks such as JUnit and Mockito.
• Proficiency with Git, including branching, code review workflows, and conflict resolution.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with engineers, stakeholders, and customers.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience working on legacy modernization, data/service migrations, or decomposition of existing systems into cleaner service boundaries.
• Exposure to both MongoDB and relational databases, including query tuning, indexing, and production troubleshooting.
• Familiarity with Oracle PL/SQL or migration of logic from database-heavy systems into service-layer Java code.
• Exposure to CI/CD deployment and cloud environments like AWS, Azure, or GCP.

• Ruby

• Rails framework

• MySQL

• API development

• Design Patterns

Develop, test, and maintain all APIs

• Manage and maintain SQL and No-SQL tables, data, and stored procedures within all databases

• Compile and analyze data, processes, and codes to troubleshoot problems and identify areas for improvement

• Collaborating with the front-end developers and other team members to establish objectives and design more functional, cohesive code to enhance the user experience and support analytical products

• Troubleshoot and diagnose production issues

• BS in CS or EE or equivalent
• Experience working on large scale systems in rapid growth environments
• Experience with public cloud offerings (AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Solid programming skills; preferred experience in Java, and/or Python
• Experience with modern web frameworks, advanced algorithms/data intelligence, public
• cloud platforms and streaming data pipelines
• Familiarity with containerization, microservices architecture, continuous integration, and delivery
• 5+ years’ experience preferred

What we are looking for

• At-least 3 years of experience of development on backend applications. Full stack experience is a cherry on the top!
• Experience / knowledge of designing robust systems, maintaining & scaling them
• Experience with usage of NoSQL databases like MongoDB & with SQL and RDBMS Systems
• Experience of creating applications with any of the popular frameworks in Python, Java, GoLang, Node
• Experience with JS frontend frameworks like React, Angular, Vue etc is a big plus
• Well versed with versioning systems like git
• Understanding of rest API implementation

Some of the responsibilties you will be taking up are following

• Working on creating performant and fault tolerant systems which are scalable
• Design, build, and maintain high performance, reusable, and reliable codebase
• Effectively work with product to gather requirements, gain deep understanding of use cases and business needs, and translate into design and implementation.
• Maintain code integrity and organization.
• Manage basic devops related to CI/CD
• Creating secure systems
• Lead other junior developers
• Define optimal and minimal architecture to achieve product requirements

Required Skills

• As a Senior Core Java Developer, you will have a range of responsibilities from shaping and implementing strategic products to ensuring that company stays on the leading edge of technology
  • You will have generic capabilities across application development stack and strong technical expertise in one / two application layers
  • Excellent working knowledge of the following technologies:
  • Implementation exp (hands-on) on Server Side Java technologies (Core Java, Multithreading, Concurrent API’s, Executor services, collections, concurrent packages, DS/Algo, design patters/principles, basic data case, Junit/agile)
  • Design Patterns
  • SQL and Relational Databases such as DB2
  • Hands-on experience on Spring and Hibernate