Java Developer

Role & Responsibilities

As a Staff Engineer at Locus, you will play a critical role in defining and driving our backend architecture as we scale globally. You’ll own key systems that handle high volumes of data and transactions, ensuring performance, reliability, and maintainability across distributed environments.

Key Responsibilities-

• Own one or more core applications end-to-end, ensuring reliability, performance, and scalability.
• Lead the design, architecture, and development of complex, distributed systems, frameworks, and libraries aligned with Locus’s technical strategy.
• Drive engineering operational excellence by defining robust roadmaps for system reliability, observability, and performance improvements.
• Analyze and optimize existing systems for latency, throughput, and efficiency, ensuring they perform at scale.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Data, and Infrastructure teams to translate business requirements into technical deliverables.
• Mentor and guide engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and continuous learning.
• Establish and uphold coding standards, conduct design and code reviews, and promote best practices across teams.
• Stay ahead of the curve on emerging technologies, frameworks, and patterns to strengthen Locus’s technology foundation.
• Contribute to hiring by identifying and attracting top-tier engineering talent.

Ideal Candidate

• Strong staff engineer profile
• Mandatory (Experience 1): Must have 9+ years in backend engineering with Java, Spring/Spring Boot, and microservices building large and schalable systems
• Mandatory (Experience 2): Must have been SDE-3 / Tech Lead / Lead SE for at least 2.5 years
• Mandatory (Tech skills 1): Strong in DSA, system design, design patterns, and problem-solving
• Mandatory (Tech skills 2): Proven experience building scalable, reliable, high-performance distributed systems
• Mandatory (Tech skills 3): Hands-on with SQL/NoSQL databases, REST/gRPC APIs, concurrency & async processing
• Mandatory (Tech skills 4): Experience in AWS/GCP, CI/CD pipelines, and observability/monitoring
• Mandatory (Communication): Excellent ability to explain complex technical concepts to varied stakeholders
• Mandatory (Company): Product companies (B2B SAAS preferred)
• Mandatory (Stability): Must have stayed for at least 2 years with each of the previous companies
• Mandatory (Education): B.Tech in computer science from Tier 1, Tier 2 colleges

Hiring for Java Developer

Experience : 5 to 10 yrs

Notice Period : 0 to 15 days

Location : Pune

Work Mode : WFO (5 days)

As Java developer you would be expected to perform many duties throughout the development lifecycle of applications, from concept and design right through to testing. Here are some of the responsibilities you may have:

Develop high-level design and define software architecture

Implement and maintain quality systems within the group

Proficiently estimates, design approaches and nimbly move to alternate apporaches, if needed, develop and execute unit test strategies

Monitor and track tasks, and report status

Assist project heads to conceptualize, design, develop, test and implement technology solutions

Effectively collaborate with stakeholders and users to ensure customer satisfaction

Skill Set :

Java 7 / Java 8 with microservices, Multithreading, Springboot, Junit, kafka, Splunk (Good to have), Open Shift (Good to Have), Authentication/ Spring Security (Good to have)

• Strong experience in developing enterprise web applications. 
• Expertise on the Microsoft technology stack (.NET, C#, ASP.NET, MVC, Web API, SQL Server) 
• Candidates should have solid understanding of object-oriented programming and programming principles NET, C ,MVC, XML, MS Sql Database debugging and analysing code. 
• Candidates should have experience with SDLC to include the following stages requirements analysis design coding testing documentation and implementation. 
• Experience with .Net core Web API MVC C# Entity Framework 
• Troubleshooting & analysing skills. 
• Development experience required for Continuous improvement program. 
• Good problem-solving capabilities in Developed applications. 
• Exposure to Angular is an added advantage 

• Work with product managers to understand product requirements and make them live.
• Ownership of end to end development

• Startup mindset of getting things done and focussing on business goals
• Proven problem solving skills
• 3+ years Hands on experience in designing and developing applications using server side technology (Java, Spring Boot / Node.js, Express)
• Excellent knowledge of Relational Databases, SQL and ORM technologies
• Good knowledge of design patterns
• Proficiency in REST architecture
• Experience with test-driven development
• Experience with Git/CI/CD/Gradle/Maven
• Inclination towards writing quality and performant code

• Experience in Agile development
• Performance tuning, testing, refactoring and automation
• Experience working with AWS Cloud and Devops technologies (terraform , cloudformation, ansible)
• Experience running a production environment
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• must have experience in Java, Spring Boot, Microservices , Kafka, API
• Developing applications that demand high availability and concurrency.
• Good understanding of DevOps concepts and processes
• Ability to write structured and well documented code
• Good knowledge of working with third-party dependencies and debugging dependency conflicts.
• Knowledge of Unit Testing and Build tools.
• Team Leading & Mentoring for Senior Developers
• Retail domain experience is added advantage.