Java Developer

🚀 Key Responsibilities

• Act as the technical owner and point of contact from pre-sales through delivery for enterprise client engagements.
• Translate complex business requirements into scalable, extensible, and secure solution architectures.
• Design and document high-level and low-level architectures using industry best practices and patterns.
• Provide technical leadership across multiple projects, ensuring alignment with architectural standards and delivery goals.
• Conduct architectural assessments, POCs for clients and internal stakeholders.
• Collaborate with product owners, delivery managers, engineers, and clients to ensure architectural integrity throughout the SDLC.
• Evaluate and select appropriate tools, frameworks, platforms, and third-party services.
• Review code, configurations, and deployments for technical consistency and risk mitigation.
• Define and enforce non-functional requirements (performance, scalability, security, resilience).
• Continuously explore new technologies, patterns, and tools to improve architecture effectiveness and team productivity.
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🛠️ Required Skills & Experience

• 12+ years of hands-on software development and architecture experience, with at least 3+ years in a solution or enterprise architect role.
• Strong background in Java and the Spring ecosystem (Spring Boot, Data).
• Deep understanding of API design, integration patterns, message brokers (like Kafka, RabbitMQ), and distributed systems.
• Hands-on experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc.).
• Proficiency in designing systems for high availability, scalability, performance, and security.
• Clear understanding of engineering and build processes and DevOps pipelines.
• Experience in enterprise software domains such as fraud detection, risk management, banking, or financial services is a major plus.
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🔍 Soft Skills & Leadership Qualities

• Strong communication and presentation skills; capable of interfacing with C-level executives and developers alike.
• Demonstrated ability to influence technical direction across diverse teams.
• Proactive, self-starter mindset with a passion for solving complex problems.
• Experience working in agile and cross-functional teams.
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🌟 Preferred/Bonus Skills

• Certifications in cloud platforms (AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Azure Solutions Architect).
• Familiarity with ML/AI model integration and data pipelines.
• Exposure to fraud detection or financial compliance workflows.

Responsibilities include:

• Coordinate and clarify the requirements and technical issues (including client interaction)
• Support creation of high and low level design
• Development and maintenance of automation code
• Build reusable Business objects as required
• Review the automation implemented code
• Deploy the code to multiple environments phase wise
• Provides regular status updates to clients and management
• Participates in research/design/implementation of appropriate automation tools
• Develop .net libraries using C# /.Net
• Design and develop SQL scripts – Stored procedures, queries, and functions
• Perform unit testing, support systems integration testing and UAT testing
• Raise ticket and co-ordinate with IT team and CS team
• Analyze, estimate and implement special projects
• Effectively manage multiple priorities / assist with various projects as they arise.
• Accurately track, monitor, and report progress and obstacles
• Travel requirements will be modest, working hours must be flexible to deal with international time zone and key process owners located throughout the world.

Education, Experience, & Required Skills:

• Bachelor degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent is required
• 7+ years of overall IT experience
• 2+ years of overall development experience with leading RPA tool.
• Certified RPA Tool (UiPath, UiPath X, Blue Prism, Automation Anywhere) as developer
• Programming experience in Java, .Net, C, C#, .Net, Python
• Sufficient knowledge of RDBMS like ORACLE / MS SQL Server and SQL tools
• Knowledge in developing & understanding excel macros codes.
• Knowledge in Power BI, Excel Macro, web forms, mobile applications are preferable.
• Knowledge of service oriented architecture is preferable.
• Knowledge in Finance & Accounting domain is preferable.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent organization and communication skills.
• Effectively interact with various levels of management.
• Ability to multitask.

• 2+ year of experience in Development in JAVA technology.
• Strong Java Basics
• SpringBoot or Spring MVC
• Hands on experience on Relationl Databases (SQL query or Hibernate) + Mongo (JSON parsing)
• Proficient in REST API development
• Messaging Queue (RabitMQ or Kafka)
• Microservices
• Any Caching Mechanism
• Good at problem solving

Good to Have Skills:

• 4+ years of experience in using Java/J2EE tech stacks
• Good understanding of data structures and algorithms.
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills.
• Ability to work in a fast paced internet start-up environment.
• Experience in technical mentorship/coaching is highly desirable.
• Understanding of AI/ML algorithms is a plus.

Primary Responsibilities

• Design, architect and develop advanced software solutions in a cross functional Agile team supporting multiple projects and initiatives
• Collaborate with product owners and/or the business on requirements definition, development of functional specifications, and design
• Collaborate on or lead development of technical design and specifications as required
• Code, test and document new applications as well as changes to existing system functionality and ensure successful completion
• Take on leadership roles as needed

Skills & Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree required, preferably in Computer Science or related field
• 3+ years of software development experience using GoLang/Java programming language
• Experience with cloud technologies (AWS/Azure/GCP/Pivotal Cloud Foundry/any private cloud) and containerization is required
• AWS - experience in extensive use of AWS offerings like Redis, Kafka etc.
• Experience with a micro-services architecture is a plus
• Excellent communication, collaboration, reporting, analytical and problem-solving skills
• Experience with PostgreSQL or other Relational Databases
• Test-driven development mindset and a focus on quality, scalability, and performance
• Strong programming fundamentals and ability to produce high quality code
• Solid understanding of Agile (SCRUM) Development Process required

• Hands on Java experience with minimum 8 yrs. More experience is a plus but need to be hands on.
• Server side programming experience with technologies: Spring, Hibernate & Swing is a plus
• Good DB knowledge, hands on PL/SQL or T-SQL
• Experienced to work on Linux, git, IntelliJ, Eclipse
• Experience of designing and developing end-to-end solutions.

Locus is a global decision- making platform in the supply chain that uses deep learning and proprietary algorithms to provide route optimization, real-time tracking, insights and analytics, beat optimization, efficient warehouse management, vehicle allocation and utilization, intuitive 3D packing and measurement of packages. Locus automates human decisions required to transport a package or a person, between any two points on earth, delivering gains along efficiency, consistency, and transparency in operations.

Locus, which has achieved a peak of 1 million orders processed in a day (200,000 orders an hour) and is trained & tested on over 100 million+ order deliveries, works in 75 cities across the globe. Locus works with several large-scale market leaders like Urban Ladder, Tata Group of Companies, Droplet, Licious, Rollick, Lenskart, other global FMCG, pharma, e-commerce, 3PL and logistics conglomerates.

Locus is backed by some of the biggest names in the market and recently raised $22 MN in Series B funding and also $4 Mn in a pre-Series B round. Earlier, In 2016, Locus raised $2.75 Mn (INR 18.3 Cr) in a Series A funding.

Locus was started by Nishith Rastogi and Geet Garg, two ex-Amazon engineers on a mission to democratize logistics intelligence for businesses across industries. Nishith was profiled by Forbes Asia in their ’30 Under 30’ 2018 list. Geet, on the other hand, holds a dual degree (BTech and MTech) in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology. Our team constitutes of engineers from Indian Institute of Technology and Birla Institute of Technology & Science- Pilani, and Data Scientists with PhDs from Carnegie Mellon University and Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. Our multifaced product and business team is led by senior members from Barclays, Google & Goldman Sachs with immense operational execution experience.

Job Description

• Design & implement backend APIs at Locus.sh
• Mentor junior developers technically.
• Actively work to reduce tech debt in the Locus backend
• Work towards more stability & scalability of the backend
• Tech stack - Java, AWS, Aurora etc.

Eligibility

• 4-8 years of product company experience
• OOP implementation experience. Programming language does not matter, We use Java internally but have hired folks from non Java background.
• Hands on experience in SQL, Dynamo DB, Postgres etc preferred.
• Prior experience building REST APIs
• Advanced understanding of AWS stack
• Prior knowledge of solving problems at scale.

Perks:

• Healthy catered meals at office
• You decide your own Work From Home (WFH) and Out Of Office (OOO)
• Pet-friendly - bring your pets to the office any day. Locus family already has a Rottweiler and a Beagle