Java Developer

Job Description:

As per our conversation, please find below the job description for your review. 

·       Strong written/verbal communication skills

·       Minimum 5-14 Years of Core Java Programming with Collections Framework, Concurrent Programming, Multi-threading (Good knowledge in Executor service, Forkjoin pool and other threading concepts)

·       Good knowledge of the JVM with an understanding of performance and memory optimization.

·       Extensive and expert programming experience in JAVA programming language (strong OO skills preferred).

·       Excellent knowledge on collections like, Array List, Vector, LinkedList, HashMap, Hash Table, HashSet is mandate.

·       Exercised exemplary development practices including design specification, coding standards, unit testing, and code-reviews.

·       Expert level understanding of Object-Oriented Concepts and Data Structures

·       Good experience in Database (Sybase, Oracle, or SQL Server) like indexing (clustered, non clustered), hashing, segmenting, data types like clob / blob, views (materialized), replication, constraints, functions, triggers, procedures etc.

·       While you may already know about Wissen and the company history, here is a quick rundown for you.

Branch Overview

Imagine a world where every person has improved access to financial services. People could start new businesses, pay for their children’s education, cover their emergency medical bills – the possibilities to improve life are endless. 

Branch is a global technology company revolutionizing financial access for millions of underserved banking customers today across Africa and India. By leveraging the rapid adoption of smartphones, machine learning and other technology, Branch is pioneering new ways to improve access and value for those overlooked by banks. From instant loans to market-leading investment yields, Branch offers a variety of products that help our customers be financially empowered.

Branch’s mission-driven team is led by the co-founders of Kiva.org and one of the earliest product leaders of PayPal. Branch has raised over $100 million from leading Silicon Valley investors, including Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and Visa. 

 With over 32 million downloads, Branch is one of the most popular finance apps in the world.

Job Overview

Branch launched in India in early 2019 and has seen rapid adoption and growth. In 2020 we are building out a full Engineering team in India to accelerate our success here. This team will work closely with our engineering team (based in the United States, Nigeria, and Kenya) to strengthen the capabilities of our existing product and build out new product lines for the company.

You will work closely with our Product and Data Science teams to design and maintain multiple technologies, including our API backend, credit scoring and underwriting systems, payments integrations, and operations tools. We face numerous interesting technical challenges ranging from maintaining complex financial systems to accessing and processing creative data sources for our algorithmic credit model. 

As a company, we are passionate about our customers, fearless in the face of barriers, and driven by data. As an engineering team, we value bottom-up innovation and decentralized decision-making: We believe the best ideas can come from anyone in the company, and we are working hard to create an environment where everyone feels empowered to propose solutions to the challenges we face. We are looking for individuals who thrive in a fast-moving, innovative, and customer-focused setting.

Here are some things you’ll do

• Build customer facing and internal products and APIs with industry best practices around security and performance in mind.
• Influence and shape the company’s technical and product roadmap by providing timely and accurate inputs and owning various outcomes.
• Collaborate with peers in other functional areas (Android, Machine Learning, Data, Devops, etc.) to identify potential growth areas and systems needed.
• Guide and mentor other younger engineers around you.
• Scaling our backend services to ever-growing levels of traffic and complexity.

Minimum Requirements

• You have strong experience (8+ years) of designing, coding, and shipping backend software for web-based or mobile products.
• Experience coordinating and collaborating with various business stakeholders and company leadership on critical functional decisions and technical roadmap.
• You have strong knowledge of software development fundamentals, including relevant background in computer science fundamentals, distributed systems, data storage, and agile development methodologies.
• You are able to utlize your knowledge and expertise to code and ship quality products in a timely manner.
• You have functional knowledge of other technical areas such as Android, Machine Learning, DevOps, etc and can contribute to related discussions and decisions.
• You are pragmatic and combine a strong understanding of technology and product needs to arrive at the best solution for a given problem.
• You are highly entrepreneurial and thrive in taking ownership of your own impact. You take the initiative to solve problems before they arise.
• You are an excellent collaborator & communicator. You know that startups are a team sport. You listen to others, aren’t afraid to speak your mind and always try to ask the right questions. 
• You are excited by the prospect of working in a distributed team and company, working with teammates from all over the world.

Benefits of Joining

• Mission-driven, fast-paced and entrepreneurial environment
• Competitive salary and equity package
• A collaborative and flat company culture
• Remote first, with the option to work in-person occasionally
• Fully-paid Group Medical Insurance and Personal Accidental Insurance
• Unlimited paid time off including personal leave, bereavement leave, sick leave
• Fully paid parental leave - 6 months maternity leave and 3 months paternity leave
• Monthly WFH stipend alongside a one time home office set-up budget
• $500 Annual professional development budget 
• Discretionary trips to our offices across the globe, with global travel medical insurance 
• Team meals and social events- Virtual and In-person

Mandatory skills :

• Experience in Java or Core Java 3-11 (5+ years)
• Experience in SpringBoot (4+years)
• Good Knowledge of Microservice, Multithreading, design pattern Concept
• Framework: SpringBoot, Spring Security, JAX-RS, Hystrix, Kafka
• ORM: Spring Data JPA. Hibernate
• Cloud Service: AWS (MSK, S3), Serverless lambda Functions
• Build tools: Maven, Gradle
• Good To Have: Spring Webflux, Web Client, ecommerce domain experience.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Looking for a Spring Boot API Developer who can take responsibility for a full backend stack which includes development to cloud production environments.
• Good knowledge on data structure and algorithms to choose solutions wisely.
• Capability to build self-resilient microservices with non-compromised response time.

Job Title: Jr Software Engr Java

Experience: 2+ Years

CTC: 6-12 LPA

Location: Mumbai
Face-to-face interview at the office

What we want:
We are looking for someone who has has strong knowledge and 2+years’ of experience in Core Java, Spring MVC, Restful API, SOAP, Golang


What you will do:
•Developing REST APIs for the platform
•Developing & maintaining an UX Panel
•Integration with third party applications using APIs
•Design, Develop and execute performance tests to simulate traffic of large-scale events
•Analyse complex problems/issues in load tests, production servers, and identify the bottlenecks and optimize performance.
•Analyse usage patterns, and application behaviours and translate that into performance optimizations.
•Determine how to meet scalability requirements while ensuring reliability within a platform
•Design and maintain tools for reporting on performance metrics.

Detailed Requirements:
Excellent knowledge of Golang, Core Java, Spring MVC, Restful API,SOAP
Additional knowledge of Java internals, GO Lang, plus.
Experience in developing, optimizing and operating high traffic projects/websites is a plus.
Experience in using Java Profilers and performance engineering.
Experience in writing multithreaded web applications.
Good knowledge of basic Linux commands to debug system issues and limitations a must.
Experience in Agile/SCRUM is a big plus
Experience in hibernate and spring MVC framework is a plus.
Ability to manage multiple modules simultaneously
Ability to work under pressure & deal with people diplomatically
Should have experience of leading a team & a strong motivator
Strong academic record is a big plus.