Java Developer

Senior Software Engineer – Retail Platforms (GCP | Java/Kotlin | MongoDB)

Location

 Kochi or Chennai or Bangalore ,willing to work on Bangalore

Role Overview

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to build and scale next-generation

retail and eCommerce platforms. The role focuses on developing cloud-native, high-

performance backend systems that power customer journeys, order management,

product catalogue, and real-time retail operations.

The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in Java/Kotlin, and MongoDB, along

with experience in GCP, React JS and high-scale, customer-facing applications.

Key Responsibilities

 Design and develop scalable backend systems for eCommerce platforms

 Ensure high availability and low latency for retail workloads

 Enable auto-scaling and high-availability architectures for peak retail

traffic

 Develop and manage microservices architecture for modular retail systems

Required Skills & Qualifications

 4–8 years of experience in backend development

 Strong proficiency in Java and Kotlin.

 Knowledge in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) , React JS and MongoDB /

NoSQL databases (Preferred).

 Experience in eCommerce or retail platforms .

 Strong understanding of microservices and event-driven architecture.

 Experience with REST APIs and distributed systems.

 Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines .

 Understanding of retail analytics and customer behaviour .

 Write clean, maintainable, and testable code

 Ensure adherence to security and data protection standards

DevOps & Release Engineering

 Implement CI/CD pipelines for faster releases

 Use Docker and Kubernetes for containerized deployments

Soft Skills

 Strong collaboration and communication skills

 Strong problem-solving and analytical mindset

 Ability to work in fast-paced, high-scale environments

 Customer-first thinking

What We Offer

 Opportunity to work on large-scale retail and eCommerce platforms

 Exposure to high-traffic, real-time systems

 Collaborative and innovation-driven environment

 Career growth in cloud-native and retail technologies

Job Details

- Job Title: Staff Engineer

- Industry: Technology

- Domain - Information technology (IT)

- Experience Required: 9-12 years

- Employment Type: Full Time

- Job Location: Bengaluru

- CTC Range: Best in Industry

Role & Responsibilities

As a Staff Engineer at company, 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 company’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 company’s technology foundation.
• Contribute to hiring by identifying and attracting top-tier engineering talent.

Ideal Candidate

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

About this roleWe are seeking an experienced MongoDB Developer/DBA who will be

responsible for maintaining MongoDB databases while optimizing performance, security, and

the availability of MongoDB clusters. As a key member of our team, you’ll play a crucial role in

ensuring our data infrastructure runs smoothly.

You'll have the following responsibilities

 Maintain and Configure MongoDB Instances - Responsible for build, design, deploy,

maintain, and lead the MongoDB Atlas infrastructure. Keep clear documentation of the

database setup and architecture.

 Ownership of governance, defining and enforcing policies in MongoDB Atlas.Provide

consultancy in drawing the design and infrastructure (MongoDB Atlas) for use case.

 Service and Governance wrap will be in place to restrict over provisioning for server size,

number of clusters per project and scaling through MongoDB Atlas

 Gathering and documenting detailed business requirements applicable to the data

layer.Responsible for designing, configuring and managing MongoDB on Atlas.

 Design, develop, test, document, and deploy high-quality technical solutions on the

MongoDB Atlas platform based on industry best practices to solve business needs.

Resolves technical issues raised by the team and/or customer and manages escalations as

required.

 Migrate data from on-premise MongoDB and RDBMS to MongoDB AtlasCommunicate

and collaborate with other technical resources and customers in providing timely updates

on status of deliverables, shedding light on technical issues, and obtaining buy-in on

creative solutions.

 Write procedures for backup and disaster recovery.

You'll have the following skills & experience

 Excellent analytical, diagnostic skills, and problem-solving skills

 Should understand the Database concept and develop expertise in designing and

developing NoSQL databases such as MongoDB

 MongoDB query operation, import and export operation in database

 Experience in ETL methodology for performing Data Migration, Extraction,

Transformation, Data Profiling and Loading

 Migrating database by ETL, migrating database by manual process and designing,

development, implementation

 General networking skills, especially in the context of a public cloud (e.g. AWS – VPC,

subnets, routing tables, nat / internet gateways, dns, security groups)

 Experience using Terraform as an IaC tool for setting up infrastructure on AWS

CloudPerforming database backups and recovery

 Competence in at least one of the following languages (in no particular order): Java, C++,

C#, Python, Node.js (JavaScript), Ruby, Perl, Scala, Go

 Excellent communication skills, often being able to compromise but draw out risks and

constraints associated with solutions. Be able to work independently and collaborate with

other teams

 Proficiency in configuring schema and MongoDB data modeling.

 Strong understanding of SQL and NoSQL databases.

 Comfortable with MongoDB syntax.

 Experience with database security management.

 Performance Optimization - Ensure databases achieve maximum performance and

availability. Design effective indexing strategies.

About the role:

As a team member at TrusTrace, you’ll get to solve challenging, real-world problems that truly make a difference to society.

As a Product Developer at TrusTrace, you’ll get to solve challenging and real-time problems using cutting edge technologies. You get to work with industry thought leaders and big-name brands. You will work with the product team to materialize the requirements into pieces of user stories and priorities. You will get hands-on experience in polyglot programming to build solutions and write tests to ensure quality code. (We primarily work on Java, typescript/node, and golang). If you build it, you will own it, i.e . you will be generating metrics, track improvements, and bug fixes for features that are built and shipped by you.

Experience & Skills: (3 – 6 Years) The successful candidate will have

• Passion for problem-solving.
• Flexibility to multitask and re-priorities when necessary.
• Ability to work in an agile and customer-eccentric team.
• Open to learning new technologies.
• Prior saas/start-up experience is preferable, but not mandatory.
• Hands-on experience in back-end technologies and have a strong understanding of core data structure and design patterns.
• Commanding knowledge in HLD/LLD
• Basics of system design and distributed systems
• Strong fundamentals in frameworks like Spring MVC, Spring Security, Spring Data, and Spring-boot.
• Sound knowledge in Java and JVM ecosystem.
• Write the production-grade test code. Junit/ TestNG
• Proficiency with Rest API performance and OpenAPI standards.
• Experience in building cache layers and invalidate them properly ;-)
• Strong knowledge of NoSQL(Mongo) database.
• Experience with Elastic search or Solr is preferred.
• Basics understanding of cloud infrastructures (Preferably AWS) and CI/CD pipelines.
• Should have startup/product Experience

Educational Qualification : Preferably from CS/Circuit Background

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field with 2-5 years hands-on experience with Java based open source tech stack
• Expertise in Core Java, Data Structures, J2EE with proven expertise in Spring MVC, Spring boot, Microservices architecture, Web Services (Rest) in distributed systems
• Practical experience with MySQL and /or NoSQL databases like Couchbase, DynamoDB, Cassandra
• Practical experience with Caching frameworks Memcached/Redis, Message Queues (JMS, RabbitMQ)
• Practical hands-on experience in JavaScript UI preferred
• Experience in building high performance, high availability REST APIs and REST clients
• Expertise with log file analysis using one or more of ELK, or Splunk
• Prior experience with CI/CD, Container architecture - Docker/Jenkins and build scripts Maven/Ant
• Prior experience in transformation to cloud platforms is preferred
• Experience with Kafka is a definite plus
• Experience with building analytics pipeline and analytics DB is a plus
• Strong practical experience in applying design patterns, multithreading concepts to solve complex problems, strong problem solving skills