Java Developer

Job Title: Senior Specialist – Software Engineering (P4)

Experience: 8–12 Years

Location: Pune / Chennai / Kolkata / Bhubaneswar

Compensation: Up to 36 LPA

Job Description:

We are looking for an experienced Senior Specialist to lead the design and development of scalable enterprise applications. The ideal candidate should have deep expertise in backend technologies, system design, and distributed systems.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and develop scalable systems using Java & Spring Boot
• Architect and implement microservices-based solutions
• Build high-performance REST APIs
• Work with Kafka for event-driven architecture
• Handle large-scale data processing using Apache Spark
• Optimize database interactions using JPA/Hibernate
• Provide technical leadership and mentor junior engineers
• Collaborate across teams (frontend, DevOps, product)
• Drive system performance, security, and scalability

Required Skills:

• Strong expertise in Java, Spring Boot
• Deep understanding of Microservices Architecture
• Experience with REST APIs & system design
• Hands-on with Kafka & distributed systems
• Experience with Apache Spark (big data)
• Working knowledge of Angular
• Exposure to AI tools / Prompt Engineering / Windsurf

Education:

• BE / B.Tech

Notice Period:

• Immediate to May joiners preferred

Key Responsibilities

• Frontend Development: Designing and building responsive, interactive user interfaces using React.js, HTML5, CSS3, and modern JavaScript (ES6+).
• Backend Development: Developing robust, scalable server-side applications and microservices using Java and the Spring Boot framework.
• API Integration: Creating and consuming RESTful APIs to ensure seamless communication between the React frontend and the Java backend.
• Database Management: Designing and optimizing database schemas and queries using SQL (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle) or NoSQL (e.g., MongoDB) databases.
• State Management: Managing application state in React using tools like Redux, Hooks, or Context API.
• Testing & Quality Assurance: Writing unit and integration tests using frameworks such as JUnit for backend and Jest or React Testing Library for frontend.
• DevOps & Deployment: Collaborating on CI/CD pipelines and using containerization tools like Docker and Kubernetes for application deployment. 
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Required Skills & Qualifications

• Core Technical Skills:
• Deep proficiency in Java (8+) and the Spring ecosystem (Spring Boot, Spring Security, Spring Data JPA).
• Expertise in React.js workflows, component-based architecture, and hooks.
• Strong understanding of Microservices architecture and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Experience & Education:
• Typically requires a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• Proven experience (often 1–5+ years depending on seniority) in full-stack development.
• Tools: Version control systems like Git, build tools like Maven or Gradle, and Agile project management tools like Jira. 
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Typical Salary Ranges (India)

• Freshers: ₹3.8 Lakh to ₹12 Lakh per year.
• Experienced (5+ years): ₹18 Lakh to ₹30 Lakh+ per year.
• Average (General): Approximately ₹29 Lakh per year for high-demand specialized roles. 

WHO YOU ARE

To be successful in this role, you’ll need to have the following skills:

·         Love for coding: A fanatic about writing beautiful and scalable code.

·         A sense of analytics: Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills. Should be resourceful, innovative and inventive.

·         Dynamic: Should be comfortable in dealing with lots of moving pieces. Have exquisite attention to detail, and are comfortable learning new technologies and systems. 

·         Team player: Knack for influencing without being authoritative. Pitch in wherever the team needs help, from writing blog posts to supporting customers.

·         Accountability: High sense of ownership for your code and relentlessness to deliver projects with high business impact. 

KEY QUALIFICATIONS

·         BE/BTech in Computer Science or related field. 

·         5+ years of professional production and development experience with leading-edge server and database technologies (e.g., Python, Java, Node.js, Scala, Spring Boot, MySQL, and NoSQL databases).

KEY SKILLS

·         Strong computer system analysis and design skills in current methodologies and patterns Experience with professional production cloud (AWS preferred).

·         Experience with RESTful Services and APIs.

Responsibilities

• Design and build highly reliable, scalable and performant infrastructure for media heavy workflows.
• Own large technical deliverables and execute in a structured manner.
• Take the accountability of the overall health of the infrastructure you build.
• Platformize components as libraries, utilities and promote reuse.
• Be able to conceptualize and develop prototypes quickly.
• Lead by example, mentor and guide team members on everything from structured problem solving to development of best practices.

Requirements

• 4 to 10 years of industry experience in software engineering with at least 4 years in Video, Audio & Image processing and streaming technologies.
• Deep expertise with various codecs, compute efficiency, streaming protocols and network topologies for media heavy workflows.
• Deep understanding of your tools: Languages, frameworks, libraries and systems.
• Experience with abstracting requirements into frameworks.
• Hungry to learn, share knowledge, and enjoy mentoring others.
• Data driven, having customer empathy, striving to build best of class, performant services.

In this role, you will be responsible for building world-class technology products and platforms that are at the forefront of the technology revolution in the Indian healthcare ecosystem. You are someone who insists on the highest standards for quality, maintainability, and performance.

You, as a Java Engineer and member of this team, would be working on our new and existing projects for our credit, payments, business services, member engagement or financial crime areas. We have a five years roadmap ahead of us with exciting new features and we’ll need you to solve interesting problems. Your fellow team members will get you up to speed in your business area and will help you develop the skills so that eventually you are the one coaching other new joiners. Joining one of our expanding agile teams, you will be required to work closely with product owners, mobile engineers, and other business members to translate requirements into well-engineered solutions.

You will ideally join our backend Community of Practices, learn from them and eventually propose your own to maintain a high quality across the backend. Career progression is as important to you as it is for us. With our expanding teams and business we will encourage you to outgrow your initial responsibilities. This role offers an exceptional opportunity to make a real difference with responsibilities across engineering practices in a rapidly expanding company!

About the Tech

Technology and our people is what makes Tide possible. We work in autonomous teams where backend, iOS, Android, web, QA, DevOps, agile coaches, data experts and product owners solve difficult problems together to get the job done. We self-organise and discuss technical challenges and set our own guidelines in the different Community of Practices.

On the backend we see Java 8 as legacy and use Java 11+ for our micro-services. We provide RESTful APIs to our colleagues in the frontend, but also use gRPC for internal service-to-service communications. Spring Boot is our work horse, but we are open to new experiments. We are cloud-native and run everything on AWS. You’ll see containers (Docker), queues (SNS+SQS) and events everywhere. The nature of our business naturally fits with relational databases, but we have also found some use cases for NoSQL.

Our frontends have done an incredible job at consuming our APIs and providing the best UX to our members. They are fully native Android and iOS apps or Angular 2+ web apps. DevOps provides vital infrastructure and operations support.

About You

We’re an international scale up, we’re busy! If fast paced environments, cross team exposure, inquisitive freedom and the ability to have a real impact on a rapidly growing scale up appeals to you, then you already have the mind of a Tidean. If you have that along with the following experience, we’d love to hear from you.

The non-negotiables:

• Good commercial experience building server-side applications and detailed knowledge of the relevant programming languages for your stack (i.e Java 8 or newer).
• Sound knowledge of a Java backend framework (e.g. Spring/Spring Boot).
• Exposure to microservices and implementing and consuming RESTful APIs.
• A mindset of delivering secure, well-tested and well-documented software.
• Experience with relational databases.

The highly desirables:

• Exposure to continuous integration, delivery and deployment.
• Some experience integrating to third parties.
• Comfortable working in agile methodologies, ideally Scrum.
• Exposure to common development tools such as IntelliJ, Git, Jira, etc.

Why Tide?

Tide is the leading provider of UK SME business accounts and one of the fastest growing FinTechs in the UK. That’s not an unfounded boast - we have over 200,000 members (what we like to call our customers, over two percent market share, and have raised over £120m in funding.

SMEs have been underserved and overlooked by traditional banks for years. In an entrepreneurial age where everyone is expected to take a shot, traditional banks have not evolved with the needs of the market. That’s where Tide comes in. With quick on-boarding, low fees and innovative features, we thrive on making data driven decisions to help SMEs save both time and money.

We’re also one of LinkedIn’s top 10 hottest UK companies to work for, winner of Best Use of Technology (Growth Finance Awards); Best Banking Provider (Contracting Awards); Innovative Product of the Year (Growth Finance Awards) and we’re listed in the Top 100 FinTech Disruptors and The Startups 100. And that’s just for 2019.

We are seeking talented, motivated engineers who will be part of a dynamic global team delivering and supporting technology infrastructure to meet the growth needs of the business. 

As a Product Support Engineer, you will collaborate with the Engineering, Product and Support teams to ensure the designed product and service is fully operational with streamlined processes and procedures for addressing reported bugs and anomalies. Production Support Engineers will take ownership of resolving product issues through its life cycle and communication to multiple stakeholders. 

This is a programming role which requires a good understanding of Java along with solid debugging skills so complex workflows can be debugged and solved. You will own the code you push to production

To be successful, you must be an excellent team player and self motivated person who can carry out duties with minimal supervision.

Skills you need to have:

• A good understanding of SQL

• An understanding of Java and Java design patterns

• L4 support

• Good debugging and problem solving skills

• Excellent communication

Bonus Skills:

• An understanding of SpringBoot and ORM's