Java Developer

Job Description:

We are looking for a Senior Java Developer with strong expertise in Apache Kafka and backend systems. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience in Java (8/11+), Spring Boot, and building scalable, real-time data pipelines using Kafka.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain backend services using Java and Spring Boot
• Design and implement Kafka-based messaging and streaming solutions
• Optimize Kafka performance (topics, partitions, consumers)
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable microservices
• Ensure code quality and maintain best practices in a distributed environment

Required Skills:

• 6+ years in Java development
• 3+ years of hands-on Kafka experience (producers, consumers, streams)
• Strong knowledge of Spring Boot, REST APIs, and microservices
• Familiarity with Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, and stream processing
• Experience with containerization (Docker), CI/CD, and cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure)

Minimum requirements

5+ years of industry software engineering experience (does not include internships nor includes co-ops)

Strong coding skills in any programming language (we understand new languages can be learned on the job so our interview process is language agnostic)

Strong collaboration skills, can work across workstreams within your team and contribute to your peers’ success

Have the ability to thrive on a high level of autonomy, responsibility, and think of yourself as entrepreneurial

Interest in working as a generalist across varying technologies and stacks to solve problems and delight both internal and external users

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with large-scale financial tracking systems

Good understanding and practical knowledge in cloud based services (e.g. gRPC, GraphQL, Docker/Kubernetes, cloud services such as AWS, etc.)

Experience in Core Java and Spring Boot.

 • Extensive experience in developing enterprise-scale applications and systems. Should possess good architectural knowledge and be aware of enterprise application design patterns. 

• Should have the ability to analyze, design, develop and test complex, low-latency clientfacing applications. 

• Good development experience with RDBMS.

 • Good knowledge of multi-threading and high-performance server-side development. • Basic working knowledge of Unix/Linux. 

• Excellent problem solving and coding skills. 

• Strong interpersonal, communication and analytical skills. 

• Should have the ability to express their design ideas and thoughts

• Java – Spring, Hibernate, Data Structures & Algorithms
  • Knowledge on a Database system.
  3+ years of experience in software development.

Preferably BE/B-Tech engineering degree, but not a must.
• 3 years’ experience developing server-side Java – Spring, Hibernate and REST
• Full-SDLC cycle, with large-scale live roll-out participation as a developer.
• Expert understanding of the object-oriented design and programming concepts
• Good understanding of relational and non-relational database/datastores/caches best practices and challenges
• Have a passion for quality and writing clean, solid, readable code that scales and performs well
• Proficient in Git and familiarity with continuous integration
• A team player who values collaboration, innovation, and inclusion
• Comfortable working in an Agile environment
• Strong verbal and written communication skills

• - 5+ Years working experience as Java Development
• - Hands on using Microservices
• - Extensive experience on Spring boot / spring
• Primary Skill: Java, Microservices

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Looking for someone who can join in a month's notice

Role- Java Developer

Location- Bangalore, Mumbai

Experience- 5-8 yrs

• 5-7 Yrs of experience building enterprise level applications  using Java Restful API’s, Spring(Core, aspect ,boot & batch) and related frame works.
• Development experience in core java
• Expertise in multi-tiered Java EE design and programming , solid understanding and multi-tiered web based applications
• Solid data structures and algorithm experience
• Strong expertise in all the following Java-based technologies
• Spring
• Hibernate Framework (integration layer and Web MVC)

We are looking for a Back-end developer to join our engineering team and help us develop and maintain various software products.

Experience: 0-2 years 

Prerequisites:

• In-depth understanding of web development process 
• Familiarity with Java and Spring frameworks preferably Spring Boot
• Familiarity with Node JS
• Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML, CSS.
• Experience with working on REST API (GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, DELETE, UPDATE)

Job Description

The duties and responsibilities of a selected applicant would include:

• Participate in the entire application lifecycle, focusing on coding and debugging.
• Design and implement low-latency, high-availability, and performance applications.
• Develop back-end components to improve responsiveness and overall performance
• Collaborate with Front-end developers to integrate user-facing elements with server-side logic
• Perform UI tests to optimize performance
• Test and debug programs
• Implement security and data protection solutions

If you have the desire to be a part of an exciting, challenging,+ and rapidly-growing company, and create the finest apps in a flourishing industry, please send in your applications on:

You will get while working with us

• Opportunity to work on highly distributed systems with micro-services architecture and big-data volumes
• Solve challenging real-world problems by leveraging OOP & functional programming concepts
• Opportunity to incubate an open source project
• Get to work with cutting edge technologies to name a few Kafka, Elasticsearch, Postgres, Scala
• Developing scalable, sustainable and reliable enterprise systems
• Hands-on experience of working with TDD and BDD
• Develop environment using practices such as Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery
• Learning opportunity on how to turn complex business requirements into a working product

Roles & Responsibilities

• Requirement understanding & analysis by interacting with client
• Carry out architectural and design discussions with fellow team members and come up with right approach
• Understand system domain, user’s perspective of system and use-cases
• Understand patterns in existing code and effectively leverage and improvise it 
• Develop backend involving Java8 based functional programming and REST services
• Ensure best practices of code reviews, automated testing and CI
• Research new tools & technologies required for the projects
• Mentor fellow team members and bring their level up

Must have

• Strong hold on written/verbal communication
• Strong core Java fundamentals
• Strong Analytical & problem solving skills
• Proactive and inherent nature of working with ownership
• Passion of writing clean code
• Experience in designing relational data model from business requirements

Good to have

• Knowledge of functional programming (Scala or Java 8 lambda)
• Knowledge of NOSQL
• Working knowledge of linux & networking
• Performance optimisation - Optimise/refactor queries, code, stored procedures to take performance next level

Locus is a global decision- making platform in the supply chain that uses deep learning and proprietary algorithms to provide route optimization, real-time tracking, insights and analytics, beat optimization, efficient warehouse management, vehicle allocation and utilization, intuitive 3D packing and measurement of packages. Locus automates human decisions required to transport a package or a person, between any two points on earth, delivering gains along efficiency, consistency, and transparency in operations.

Locus, which has achieved a peak of 1 million orders processed in a day (200,000 orders an hour) and is trained & tested on over 100 million+ order deliveries, works in 75 cities across the globe. Locus works with several large-scale market leaders like Urban Ladder, Tata Group of Companies, Droplet, Licious, Rollick, Lenskart, other global FMCG, pharma, e-commerce, 3PL and logistics conglomerates.

Locus is backed by some of the biggest names in the market and recently raised $22 MN in Series B funding and also $4 Mn in a pre-Series B round. Earlier, In 2016, Locus raised $2.75 Mn (INR 18.3 Cr) in a Series A funding.

Locus was started by Nishith Rastogi and Geet Garg, two ex-Amazon engineers on a mission to democratize logistics intelligence for businesses across industries. Nishith was profiled by Forbes Asia in their ’30 Under 30’ 2018 list. Geet, on the other hand, holds a dual degree (BTech and MTech) in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology. Our team constitutes of engineers from Indian Institute of Technology and Birla Institute of Technology & Science- Pilani, and Data Scientists with PhDs from Carnegie Mellon University and Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. Our multifaced product and business team is led by senior members from Barclays, Google & Goldman Sachs with immense operational execution experience.

Job Description

• Design & implement backend APIs at Locus.sh
• Mentor junior developers technically.
• Actively work to reduce tech debt in the Locus backend
• Work towards more stability & scalability of the backend
• Tech stack - Java, AWS, Aurora etc.

Eligibility

• 4-8 years of product company experience
• OOP implementation experience. Programming language does not matter, We use Java internally but have hired folks from non Java background.
• Hands on experience in SQL, Dynamo DB, Postgres etc preferred.
• Prior experience building REST APIs
• Advanced understanding of AWS stack
• Prior knowledge of solving problems at scale.

Perks:

• Healthy catered meals at office
• You decide your own Work From Home (WFH) and Out Of Office (OOO)
• Pet-friendly - bring your pets to the office any day. Locus family already has a Rottweiler and a Beagle