
Job Summary:
We are seeking a seasoned Java Backend Developer Lead to drive the design, development, and deployment of robust backend systems. This role requires hands-on coding expertise, architectural vision, and the ability to mentor and lead a team of developers in delivering high-performance, scalable applications.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the backend development team in designing and implementing microservices-based architectures using Java (preferably Java 11+).
- Architect and develop RESTful APIs and backend services using Spring Boot, Hibernate, and related frameworks.
- Collaborate with DevOps teams to streamline CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Docker, and Kubernetes.
- Ensure code quality through code reviews, unit testing (JUnit/TestNG), and integration testing.
- Optimize application performance and scalability through profiling and tuning.
- Guide team members in adopting best practices in software engineering, including Agile methodologies.
- Work closely with product managers, frontend developers, and QA teams to deliver end-to-end solutions.
- Maintain documentation and ensure knowledge sharing across the team.
Required Skills:
- Strong proficiency in Java, Spring Boot, and REST API development.
- Experience with relational databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB, Redis).
- Familiarity with messaging systems like Kafka or RabbitMQ.
- Solid understanding of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
- Experience with containerization and orchestration tools (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Excellent problem-solving, debugging, and analytical skills.
- Strong leadership and communication abilities.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
- 7+ years of backend development experience, with at least 2 years in a lead role.
- Exposure to security best practices and performance testing tools like JMeter.

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Backend - Software Development Engineer III
Experience - 7+ yrs
About Wekan Enterprise Solutions
Wekan Enterprise Solutions is a leading Technology Consulting company and a strategic investment partner of MongoDB. We help companies drive innovation in the cloud by adopting modern technology solutions that help them achieve their performance and availability requirements. With strong capabilities around Mobile, IOT and Cloud environments, we have an extensive track record helping Fortune 500 companies modernize their most critical legacy and on-premise applications, migrating them to the cloud and leveraging the most cutting-edge technologies.
Job Description
We are looking for passionate software engineers eager to be a part of our growth journey. The right candidate needs to be interested in working in high-paced and challenging environments leading technical teams, designing system architecture and reviewing peer code. Interested in constantly upskilling, learning new technologies and expanding their domain knowledge to new industries. This candidate needs to be a team player and should be looking to help build a culture of excellence. Do you have what it takes?
You will be working on complex data migrations, modernizing legacy applications and building new applications on the cloud for large enterprise and/or growth stage startups. You will have the opportunity to contribute directly into mission critical projects directly interacting with business stakeholders, customers technical teams and MongoDB solutions Architects.
Location - Chennai or Bangalore
- Relevant experience of 7+ years building high-performance back-end applications with at least 3 or more projects delivered using the required technologies
- Good problem solving skills
- Strong mentoring capabilities
- Good understanding of software development life cycle
- Strong experience in system design and architecture
- Strong focus on quality of work delivered
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Required Technical Skills
- Extensive hands-on experience building high-performance web back-ends using Node.Js and Javascript/Typescript
- Min two years of hands-on experience in NestJs
- Strong experience with Express.Js framework
- Implementation experience in monolithic and microservices architecture
- Hands-on experience with data modeling on MongoDB and any other Relational or NoSQL databases
- Experience integrating with any 3rd party services such as cloud SDKs (Preferable X), payments, push notifications, authentication etc…
- Hands-on experience with Redis, Kafka, or X
- Exposure into unit testing with frameworks such as Mocha, Chai, Jest or others
- Strong experience writing and maintaining clear documentation
Good to have skills:
- Experience working with common services in any of the major cloud providers - AWS or GCP or Azure
- Technical certifications in AWS / Azure / GCP / MongoDB or other relevant technologies
Job Description
Roles and Responsibilities
· Design, Code, test, debug, implement and document complex WSO2 sequences.
· Monitoring and logging tool stacks - Splunk/ELK/Prometheus, Grafana 4 Design, Code, test, debug, implement and document complex WSO2 sequences.
· Perform Build activities for WSO2 ESB Middleware integration, involves writing XSLT, ESB coding, configuration, and Analysis activities.
· Trouble shooting various problems in different stages of development using logs files, Traces and Log Analyzer.
· Responsible for understanding the requirement, solution design, coordinate the development and testing activities (end to end)
· Guide the team regarding WSO2 platform best practices, framework, reusable artefacts and ensure code quality and timely deliverables.
· Work with functional and technical customers to determine solutions that drive additional business value.
· Work with Github, Azure Devops and CI tools to automate dev, build, deployment and testing.
· Good knowledge in messaging brokers: WSO2 Message Broker, Apache Kafka.
· Monitoring the server (Monitoring logs and WSO2 metrics).
· Desired Candidate Profile
Desired Candidate Profile
· Candidate must have minimum 2+ years of hands-on experience in WSO2, preferably with WSO2 certification.
· Extensive experience in Integration by using WSO2 Product Stack (API Manager 2.6/3.x, Enterprise Integrator 6.5 and Identity Server 5.7.0)
· Experience in Implementing APIs in WSO2 EI and On-boarding APIs into WSO2 API Manager
· Experience in WSO2 API Manager for designing API facades and designing and implementing API Proxies.
· Hands-on experience in designing and developing high volume web services using API Protocols and Data Formats (REST, JSON, SOAP & XML).
· Must have hands on experience / knowledge with CI tools to automate dev, build, deploy.
· Experience in programming languages: Java, JavaScript, Python
· Experience in on boarding web applications into WSO2 Identity Server for authentication and authorizatio
Qualifications
• Minimum of a Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science, or a related four-year degree.
• 4 years of hands on experience in Integration
Our client is a prominent Indian Payment Gateway company and we are seeking a talented Senior Engineer / Architect to join our team and help build robust systems from the ground up.
Experience: 4-10 years [Immediate joiners highly preferred]
Essential: System Design, Java with Spring Boot / microservices and great communication skills.
Should be able to translate user requirements to a blueprint that can drive the implementation phase and in addition mentor junior developers. Would also be actively involved in writing code.
Added advantage:
- Microservices deployment with Docker
- Experience with Spring Cloud would be great
Key Responsibilities:
- Design and develop robust, scalable Java applications
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive innovation
- Participate in code reviews and contribute to best practices
What We Offer:
- Super learning opportunities, being part of hardcore tech team
- Competitive salary
- Freedom to explore and innovate
No FinTech experience? No problem! We value attitude and aptitude.
Location - Pune, MH (Hybrid)
Note - You would be working directly with me to:
- Understand existing systems
- Identify gaps
- Participate in design decisions
- Write code
- Conduct proof of concepts
- Drive improvements


Our client is a rapid growth stage Edtech start-up focused on solving the teacher shortage crisis in the US education system using technology by bringing teachers to the classrooms and giving them access to the right tools to teach students in a highly engaging manner.
They have a development center in Mumbai and they are looking to scale up the teams in Pune and Bangalore as well.
What does the role entail:
● Lead User Stories and guide senior/software engineers in the development process
● Understand architecture principles, design patterns and implement them from architectural artifacts.
● Provide effort estimation of assigned work and be able to complete as per the estimations and timelines
● Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code including unit tests and integration tests to ensure software quality
● Collaborate with cross-functional teams to analyze requirements, design solutions, and implement new features
● Participate in design and code reviews
● Ability to resolve performance issues
● Mentor junior software engineers and help them grow their technical skills
Must Have Skills:
● B.E/B.Tech in computer science
● 8-11 years of experience
● Hands-on experience following skills
MS Technologies: NET CORE 5+, C#
Backend : MSSQL /MySQL/Postgres
● Good understanding of Cloud technologies like Azure/AWS.
● Good understanding of Design Principles, Design patterns and Microservices Architecture.
● Excellent problem-solving, critical thinking, and communication skills
● Worked in an Agile software development environment
Must understand full stack development frameworks including knowledge of building scalable APIs, interfaces, software components, schema design, availability, and latency preferably in a cloud environment.
● Worked in a fast-paced environment preferably in a tech driven startup
● Understanding of different types of architectures.



- Degree in Computer Science (BS/MS), related technical field or equivalent practical experience
- 8+ years of industry experience in product development
- Experience in coaching and mentoring team members
- Must own a specific component of the product. Gathering requirements by working with product management. Working closely with development managers in defining external product interfaces
- Must have excellent written and verbal communication skills. Must articulate various design approaches and design decisions clearly - within the team and across the teams.
- Must work with QA engineers to devise proper test constructs - unit testing and integration tests.
External Title: Backend Developer.
Location: Remote
Year of experience: 4+ years
Job Description:
- Understanding of the working of a web-based application.
- Expert Knowledge of Microservices architecture.
- Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds.
- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git.
- Basic understanding of REST APIs and their concepts.
- Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as HTML5, and CSS3, JavaScript.
• Work with product team to understand product vision and requirements
• Solve complex technical problems and perform the code reviews for junior team members.
• Produce deliverables at a consistently high rate and with consistently excellent quality
• Work with a team of engineering professionals to ensure the highest quality product delivery
As a member of our team, you will be responsible for insuring the successful launch of many product features.
Key responsibilities
• Work in a product based R&D team and collaborate with other teams to integrate.
• Write code that is of high quality and consistent with our coding standards
• Analyze highly complex business requirements, break the requirements to multiple applications; generate technical
specifications to design or redesign complex software components and applications
• Maintain best practices for development/code changes as needed
• Design and architect software applications
• Conducting code reviews and enforcing the quality standards
• Conducting the daily SCRUM meetings and removing the roadblocks
• Performance testing and tuning for scalability
• Develop quick proof of concepts to set the technical direction for rest of the team.
• Work with Devops and Automation team to develop automation strategy for your application.
Requirements
• Bachelor’s Degree (Masters preferred) in Computer Science or related field
• 3+ years of software development experience on web applications
• Experience in working in an onsite and offshore development model
• Must have hands-on design and development experience in Cloud (GCP/AWS/Azure), Kubernetes, Microservices, Java, J2EE, Spring/Boot, Hibernate, JUnit and Integration with front end via rest interfaces.
• Must have Hands-on experience in Multi-threading, Non-blocking IO, Kafka, JMS
• Strong integration background required. Experience with Microservices, REST, JSON and APIs is required
• Experience with as many of the following is highly desirable: Tomcat, Node.js, XML, XSLT, XPath, Web Services, MongoDB, MYSQL, and query performance tuning
• Experience with code management and continuous integration techniques and tools such as Maven, Gradle, Github, JMeter, Jenkins, NPM etc. is highly desirable
• Experience building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers
• Strong Computer Science fundamentals and working knowledge in data structures, algorithms, problem-solving and complexity analysis
• Knowledge of professional software engineering practices and best practices for the full software development life cycle (SDLC), including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
• Proven ability to troubleshoot issues in production including root cause analysis
• Self-directed and capable of working effectively in a highly innovative and fast-paced environment
• Experience with Agile software development in a UNIX/Linux environment
• Experience with system architecture/design
Qualifications
• Passionate about technology and technical challenges of all types excite you
• Eagerness to learn and learn fast, enjoy working in a fast-paced environment
• Ability to develop detailed design and deliver a scalable implementation.
• Mentor developers in analysis, design, coding and unit testing techniques
• Motivated self-starter and team player; you inspire others to achieve great thing

Your Opportunity
- Own and drive business features into tech requirements
- Design & develop large scale real time server side systems
- Quickly create quality prototypes
- Staying updated on emerging technologies
- Ensuring that all deliverables adhere to our world class standards
- Promote coding best practices
- Mentor and develop junior developers in the team
Required Experience
- 4+ years of relevant experience as described below
- Excellent grasp of Core Java, Multi Threading and OO design patterns
- Experience with Scala, functional, reactive programming and Akka/Play is a plus
- Excellent understanding of data structures and algorithms
- Solid grasp of large scale distributed real time systems
- Prior experience on building a scalable and resilient micro service
- Solid understanding of relational databases, NoSQL databases and Caching systems
- Good understanding of Big Data technologies such as Spark, Hadoop is a plus
- Experience on one of AWS, Azure or GCP
Who you are
- You have excellent and effective communication and collaborative skills
- You love problem solving
- You stay up to date with the latest technologies and then apply them in real life
- You love paying attention to detail
- You thrive in meeting tight deadlines and prioritising workloads
- Ability to collaborate across multiple functions
Education
Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or equivalent experience within the field
● A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent combination of technical education and
work experience
● 5 to 9 years of Software Development experience
● Experience in system design, distributed systems, relational and No-SQL databases.
● Strong, object-oriented design and coding skills (C/C++ and/or Java preferably on a UNIX or Linux
platform)
● Solid software development background including design patterns, algorithms, data structures,
test driven development
● Any previous experience in working with Big Data or leveraging machine learning in improving
consumer experience is desirable.
● Excellent verbal and written communication skills


Looking for a proficient Backend Engineer - JAVA for a leading E-Commerce Company.
- Proficient in Java, with a good knowledge of its ecosystems
- Great OO skills, including strong knowledge in design and architectural patterns
- Skill for writing reusable Java libraries
- Experience with Play Framework for Java
- Experience with JavaScript & frameworks like AngularJS
- Knowledge of concurrency patterns in Java
- Familiarity with concepts of MVC, JDBC, and RESTful
- Basic understanding of JVM, its limitations, weaknesses, and workarounds
- Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests
- Working knowledge of NoSQL (preferably MongoDB)
- Proficient understanding of versioning tools, such as Git
- Desire to contribute to the wider technical community through collaboration
- Ability to quickly grasp any new technologies
- Strong communication and collaboration skills

