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

Position : Lead – Java Full Stack Developer

Experience : 7 to 12 Years

Location : Kochi / Thiruvananthapuram / Remote

Notice Period : Immediate to 15 Days

Open Positions : 1

Role Overview :

We are looking for a Lead Java Full Stack Developer with strong expertise in Java (Java 21, Spring Boot, and Hibernate), Angular (v19), and AWS to lead agile scrum teams and drive end-to-end feature delivery.

Key Skills Required :

• Java 21, Spring Boot MVC, Spring Data, Hibernate, Gradle
• Angular 19, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, REST APIs
• PostgreSQL / RDBMS / NoSQL
• AWS services: S3, Secrets Manager, CloudWatch
• CI/CD (Jenkins, GitHub), Docker
• Unit Testing (Jasmine/Karma or Jest)
• Tools: JIRA, Azure DevOps, Confluence
• Strong in design patterns, OOPs concepts, and performance optimization
• Excellent debugging and communication skills

Responsibilities :

• Design, develop, and deploy scalable full stack solutions
• Lead sprint tasks, perform code reviews, and ensure code quality
• Collaborate with stakeholders and convert requirements into technical specs
• Participate in Agile ceremonies and follow DevOps/CI-CD best practices
• Guide team members and promote technical best practices

Interview Process :

1. Technical Round
2. 2–3 Technical Rounds
3. Final Technical Discussion

• Looking for sr.java full stack developer
• java, springboot, angular 2/4/6/8, html and css
• experience with unit testing
• good exposure to oops

• 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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What you need to have:

Job Description

• Design & implement backend APIs 
• Mentor junior developers technically.
• Actively work to reduce tech debt in the 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.

• Translation of complex functional requirements into technical requirements
• Design, develop and maintain complex systems using best of the breed development practices and technology.
• Responsible for the overall software development life cycle.
• Delivery of High Quality & Scalable systems and applications with a sharp focus on timelines.
• Being on the lookout for bettering the software engineering practices and tools within the organization
• Collaboration with other stakeholders to provide robust and well-rounded solutions
• Report on the status of product delivery and quality to management, customer support and product teams.

• Experience of 5+ years in designing & developing highly scalable, performant web applications
• Strong programming, debugging, and problem-solving skills
• Strong Computer Science Fundamentals (Data structures and Algorithms)
• Sound understanding of object-oriented programming and excellent software design skills.
• Good experience of Restful services using Java Springboot
• Strong understanding of database design and SQL (PostgreSQL / MySQL) development
• Good to have knowledge of NoSQL technologies like Redis, MongoDB, Cassandra or any other NoSQL database
• Knowledge of design patterns and good to have experience of large-scale applications
• Should have experience in Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS or other Queueing systems.
• Experience of working with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Computing (GCP) would be considered as an advantage
• Experience of developing with Serverless Model will be an advantage.

We are looking for Product Developers-Java Technology with hands-on experience in Core java and socket programming with the flair for working on cutting-edge solutions.

Responsibilities and duties:

• Responsible for the development and unit testing of various modules in JAVA and other related technologies. 
• Need to do requirement understanding, preparing initial concept and possible architecture design. 
• Responsible for feasibility analysis and POC development. 
• Ability to understand the product architecture and end-to-end system flow. 
• Ability to relate and analyze tasks as per overall product architecture and philosophy. 
• Work in Agile SCRUM development model and be able to plan, estimate, execute and deliver quality work as per committed timeline. 
• Ability to continuously analyze and contribute to lean processes, quality improvements, product growth, and productivity improvements within the team.

Required Skills: 

• JAVA - Core JAVA Concepts, Socket Communication, Multithreading, Exception Handling, Collections Framework, Reflections, I/O, XML, HTML, JSON, YML
• Database version management tools like Liquibase etc.
• Version control system like GIT. Hands-on experience with strong knowledge of branching, merging,
• Build systems like Maven, Gradle, Ant etc.
• Hands-on experience in running development environment on Unix/Linux (Ubuntu, CentOS).
• Cloud computing experience, Integration with third-party devices, experience in writing REST APIs, shell scripting knowledge will be an added advantage.

  We are looking for Product Developers-Java Technology with hands-on experience in Core java and socket programming with the flair for working on cutting-edge solutions.