Java Developer

JOB DESCRIPTION

• Has in-depth understanding of the full software development life cycle. Deep familiarity with data & business analysis, along with modern software design &development concepts encompassing a range of languages & platforms.
• Can work within an Agile team to ensure that all key technical requirements are identified, estimated, designed, implemented, and tested. 
• Can work on a collaborative cross-technology team where Java, APIs (services), PL/SQL interact with a range of business logic interfaces & systems. 
• Can own small to medium scale strategic initiatives/projects, enhances process standards and best practices, and supports issues during UAT/system rollout phases. 
• Understands business needs and priorities and provides thought leadership on potential solutions and the opportunities for technology to create positive impact on the business. 
• Has excellent analytical and problem-solving skills that are coupled with strong communication, anticipates issues, and deals with them proactively.
• Is team oriented, highly collaborative, works effectively to build strong long-term partnerships with stakeholders at all levels of the organization and across a variety of business and IT functions. 
• Self-sufficient and shows ability to lead, given the opportunity 
• Demonstrates a passion for technology innovation balanced with a pragmatic approach to developing and deploying solutions that best benefit the business.
• Nimble, adaptable, able to express ideas in meetings & design discussions, comfortable with ambiguity; course correct when circumstances change.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor of Engineering / 2-3 years of experience
• Willing to work on Testing

PRIMARY SKILLS

• Hands on experience with on Java 11 with Spring Cloud Microservices ecosystem(multi-threading, data structures, design patterns and OOP practices etc).
• Ability to Query Relational Databases like DB2, Sybase and Cloud data sources like snowflake.
• Spring, SOAP & REST Web Services with on XML/JSON based data.
• Experience with DevOps tools and Git.
• Test Driven development (TDD) and experience working in a disciplined development environment.
• Exposure to Azure Cloud experience is a plus.

GOOD TO HAVE SKILLS

• Business analysis – focused on investment management process and tools.
• Some experience into Automation Testing.

About Rocketlane

https://rocketlane.com/">Rocketlane is a SaaS startup founded in April 2020 by https://www.linkedin.com/in/srikrishnang/">Srikrishnan Ganesan, https://www.linkedin.com/in/vignesh-girishankar/">Vignesh Girishankar, and https://www.linkedin.com/in/deepakbsub/">Deepak Balasubramanyam. Before Rocketlane, they built a successful in-app messaging startup that was acquired by Freshworks(NASDAQ: FRSH) in 2015.

Rocketlane launched in June 2021 and washttps://www.producthunt.com/posts/rocketlane"> #1 Product of the day on Product Hunt. It has a fast-growing, global customer base, including LinkSquares, AppCues, ContractPodAI, Chargebee, parcelLab, and many more.

Rapid early traction and customer love has catapulted Rocketlane to be recognized as a Leader in the G2 Category of Client Onboarding. Rocketlane has raised $21M in capital from global VCs such as 8VC, Nexus Venture Partners, Matrix Partners India, and super angels like Gokul Rajaram and Girish Mathrubootham.

Rocketlane offers a first-of-its-kind collaborative customer onboarding platform that enables businesses to onboard their customers better, faster, and smoother. It helps speed up revenue recognition and grow NRR for the vendor and enables faster time-to-value and a delightful customer onboarding experience.

What’s the opportunity?

Are you a backend developer looking to fast-track your learning and growth? Have you looked at world class products like Asana, Notion, or Airtable, and felt “I wish I were part of the early team that built these products”?

At Rocketlane, we’re a team that has previously built and rolled out globally successful SaaS products used by tens of thousands of customers. We’re laser focused on delivering a world class product again, and looking for an ambitious backend engineer to join our existing team of 9 engineers.

If it excites you to think of a fast-paced start-up environment, building something big from scratch, breaking down new problems, creating new APIs, working on performance issues, getting hands-on with devops initiatives, and showcasing demos of your work every Friday with a happy and passionate team, then this is the right opportunity for you.

Some of the tech problems you get to work-on as a backend engineer would be to build the backend for a modern spreadsheet experience from scratch, work on infra as code, write robust code that is fault tolerant, work on performant code that adheres to SLOs set by the organization. 

About you:

• 3 - 7 years of experience
• Expertise in the following areas
• Java
• HTTP Protocol
• You’ve heard of or worked with some of the following tech stacks / products
• Spring
• PostgreSQL
• Redis
• Docker
• Message brokers
• GitHub
• These non-functional areas are familiar to you
• Performance 
• Debugging
• Log management

Nice to have:

• Familiarity with AWS

What’s in it for me?

• Great opportunity: Rocketlane genuinely cares about everyone we hire. You’ll learn new things and grow no matter how experienced you are; you will be working with founders who have more than three decades of collective experience in building significant B2B SaaS startups. 
• Great team: Work with a world-class, high-velocity team that truly embodies the values of empathy, curiosity, and customer-centricity. Check out thehttps://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=rocketlane_meet_the_team"> MTT(Meet The Team) videos on our LinkedIn. 
• Great culture: An open, fun, and exciting startup culture that empowers its people to champion big problems with the freedom to think and innovate.
• Growth:  You could easily and quickly transition into other sales roles you might like.
• Impact: You get to be part of a global, passionate team in a fast-paced and growth-oriented environment. The team has a work philosophy of being high on ambition, ownership, and a bias for action.
• Monetary rewards and benefits: Competitive stipend, flexible leave policy, and more! 

Looking for candidates only with tier 1 colleges OR have experience in a product-based company.

Desired Skills :

● Experience with data modeling and SQL/NoSQL databases

● Experience with distributed systems and microservices

● Good experience in working with any of Java/SpringBoot, GoLang or NodeJS

● Excellent problem solving and debugging skills

● Passionate about the experience of software engineering as much as the output

● A strong sense of ownership

● Ability to communicate your ideas and approach to solving problems with clarity

Requirements:

• 3 -7 years of software development experience.
• Good grasp on programming fundamentals including OOP, Design Patterns and Data Structures.
• Excellent analytical, logical and problem-solving skills.
• Software Development Engineer.
• Good understanding of complexities involved in designing/developing large scale systems.
• Strong system design skills.
• Experience in technologies like Elasticsearch, Redis, Kafka etc.
• Good knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases.
• Familiarity with common machine learning algorithms. In-depth knowledge is a plus.
• Experience of working with big data technologies like Hadoop, Spark, Hive is a big plus.
• Ability to understand business requirements and take ownership of the work.
• Exhibit passion and enthusiasm for building and maintaining large scale platforms.