Java Developer

Review Criteria

• Strong Senior Backend Engineer profiles
• Must have 5+ years of hands-on Backend Engineering experience building scalable, production-grade systems
• Must have strong backend development experience using one or more frameworks (FastAPI / Django (Python), Spring (Java), Express (Node.js).
• Must have deep understanding of relevant libraries, tools, and best practices within the chosen backend framework
• Must have strong experience with databases, including SQL and NoSQL, along with efficient data modeling and performance optimization
• Must have experience designing, building, and maintaining APIs, services, and backend systems, including system design and clean code practices
• Experience with financial systems, billing platforms, or fintech applications is highly preferred (fintech background is a strong plus)
• (Company) – Must have worked in product companies / startups, preferably Series A to Series D
• (Education) – Candidates from top engineering institutes (IITs, BITS, or equivalent Tier-1 colleges) are preferred

Role & Responsibilities

As a Founding Engineer at company, you'll join our engineering team during an exciting growth phase, contributing to a platform that handles complex financial operations for B2B companies. You'll work on building scalable systems that automate billing, usage metering, revenue recognition, and financial reporting—directly impacting how businesses manage their revenue operations.

This role is perfect for someone who thrives in a dynamic startup environment where requirements evolve quickly and problems need creative solutions. You'll work on diverse technical challenges, from API development to external integrations, while collaborating with senior engineers, product managers, and customer success teams.

Key Responsibilities-

• Build core platform features: Develop robust APIs, services, and integrations that power company’s billing automation and revenue recognition capabilities
• Work across the full stack: Contribute to both backend services and frontend interfaces, ensuring seamless user experiences
• Implement critical integrations: Connect company with external systems including CRMs, data warehouses, ERPs, and payment processors
• Optimize for scale: Build systems that handle complex pricing models, high-volume usage data, and real-time financial calculations
• Drive quality and best practices: Write clean, maintainable code while participating in code reviews and architectural discussions
• Solve complex problems: Debug issues across the stack and work closely with teams to address evolving client needs

The Impact You'll Make-

• Power business growth: Your code will directly enable billing and revenue operations for fast-growing B2B companies, helping them scale without operational bottlenecks
• Build critical financial infrastructure: Contribute to systems handling millions in transactions while ensuring accurate, compliant revenue recognition
• Shape product direction: Join during our scaling phase where your contributions immediately impact product evolution and customer success
• Accelerate your expertise: Gain deep knowledge in financial systems, B2B SaaS operations, and enterprise software while working with industry veterans
• Drive the future of B2B commerce: Help create infrastructure powering next-generation pricing models from usage-based to value-based billing.

Job Description:

• Experience in Core Java 5.0 and above, CXF, Spring.
• Extensive experience in developing enterprise-scale n-tier applications for financial domain. 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 client-facing applications.
• Good development experience with RDBMS, preferably Sybase database.
• Good knowledge of multi-threading and high-volume server-side development.
• Experience in sales and trading platforms in investment banking/capital markets.
• Basic working knowledge of Unix/Linux.
• Excellent problem solving and coding skills in Java.
• Strong interpersonal, communication and analytical skills.
• Should have the ability to express their design ideas and thoughts.
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Required Skills: 

• 4+ years of experience designing, developing, and implementing enterprise-level, n-tier, software solutions.  
• Proficiency with Microsoft C# is a must.  
• In-depth experience with .NET framework and .NET Core.  
• Knowledge of OOP, server technologies, and SOA is a must. 3+ Years Micro-service experience .  
• Relevant experience with database design and SQL (Postgres is preferred).  
• Experience with ORM tooling.  
• Experience delivering software that is correct, stable, and security compliant.  
• Basic understanding of common cloud platform. (Good to have)
• Financial services experience is strongly preferred.  
• Thorough understanding of XML/JSON and related technologies.  
• Thorough understanding of unit, integration, and performance testing for APIs.   
• Entrepreneurial spirit. You are self-directed, innovative, and biased towards action. You love to build new things and thrive in fast-paced environments.  
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with an emphasis on strong writing and analytical problem-solving. 

Role Overview

We are seeking a motivated and technically versatile CMS Engineer (IC2) to support our transition from SharePoint to Contentful, while also contributing to the broader CMS ecosystem. This is an excellent opportunity for an early-career engineer to work on enterprise-grade platforms and microservice-based architectures.

Key Responsibilities

·         3-5 years of experience with SharePoint Online and/or enterprise CMS platforms.

·         Familiarity with Contentful or other headless CMS solutions is a strong plus.

·         Hands-on experience with Java, Spring Boot, and relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL).

·         Exposure to Kafka, Elasticsearch, or similar distributed technologies is desirable.

·         Solid problem-solving and communication skills with an eagerness to learn.

What would you do here

SharePoint to Contentful Migration | Backend + CMS Integration

·         Assist in maintaining and enhancing SharePoint Online content and features during the transition period.

·         Support the migration of pages, documents, and metadata from SharePoint to Contentful.

·         Contribute to the design and development of backend services that integrate with Contentful using Java, Spring Boot, and REST APIs.

·         Write reusable services for content delivery, search indexing (via Elasticsearch), and event processing (via Kafka).

·         Help develop APIs for CMS-based applications that interact with PostgreSQL databases.

·         Troubleshoot CMS-related issues and support testing efforts during platform migration.

• New features developed independently with the ability to document the design after understanding and evaluating the requirements with necessary groundwork on required application components
• Hands-on coding to implement the design for feature completion
• Able to write unit tests that ensures bug free code
• Able to handle the multi-tenant and performance requirements of the new features and applications.
• Integrate the new features with existing modules, deliver ready to use code meeting necessary build requirements and CI/CD requirements.
• Work with other functional groups for product, technology, QA, tech support and deployment team.

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The ideal candidate must have the following qualifications.

• BE/B.Tech Degree from a reputed institution with at least 7 years of relevant experience
• Hands-on experience with Core Java, J2EE with a good knowledge of its ecosystem
• Experience with JUnit, JMH like performance tuning test tools preferred
• REST API design and development experience. Usage of Swagger or other API spec tools would be preferred. Working knowledge on Spring Boot is a plus
• Hands-on experience with some of the following application components is a plus: Solr, Kafka, OpenTSDB, Elasticsearch, Janus graph or any graph DB.
• Experience with databases such as MongoDB, MySQL or PostgreSQL required.
• Familiarity with continuous integration and build tools such as Jenkins or CircleCI, Maven, Ant required
• Experience building applications using microservices architecture is highly preferred. Knowledge of Kubernetes, Docker would be ideal
• Working knowledge on public clouds like AWS or Google cloud or Azure is a plus
• Experience building scalable systems
• Strong problem solving skills and ability and interest to solve complex problems
• Interest in machine learning (ML) data science is a plus

Idea Clan is an Internet Marketing company that works with a lot of global ecommerce, Social Media and performance marketing clients. We own an Influencer network called Viral Sparks. We work with huge brands like twentytwowords.com, ranker, diply, littlethings.com, boredometherapy, providr etc. We are a Certified GOLD partner with Microsoft and an expert at CPA (Cost per action) marketing solutions. Everyone that works at IdeaClan is family. And we grow as one.

We are looking for a Java developer responsible for building Java applications. This includes anything between complex groups of back-end services and their client-end (desktop and mobile) counterparts. Your primary responsibility will be to design and develop these applications, and to coordinate with the rest of the team working on different layers of the infrastructure. Thus, a commitment to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and product quality is essential.

- Translate application storyboards and use cases into functional applications

- Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable Java code

- Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the applications

- Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to these problems

- Help maintain code quality, organization, and automatization

- Proficient in Java, with a good knowledge of its ecosystems

- Proficient in Springboot, Hibernate, RabbitMQ

- Solid understanding of object-oriented programming

- Familiar with various design and architectural patterns

- Skill for writing reusable Java libraries

- Knowledge of concurrency patterns in Java

- Familiarity with concepts of MVC, JDBC, and RESTful, GraphQL

- Experience with popular web application frameworks, such as Play and Spark

- Knack for writing clean, readable Java code

- Experience with both external and embedded databases

- Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application

- Basic understanding of the class loading mechanism in Java

- Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes

- Basic understanding of JVM, its limitations, weaknesses, and workarounds

- Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests

- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git

- Familiarity with build tools such as Ant, Maven, and Gradle

- Familiarity with continuous integration