Java Developer (Contract Role)

About the Company:

Gruve is an innovative Software Services startup dedicated to empowering Enterprise Customers in managing their Data Life Cycle. We specialize in Cyber Security, Customer Experience, Infrastructure, and advanced technologies such as Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. Our mission is to assist our customers in their business strategies utilizing their data to make more intelligent decisions. As a well-funded early-stage startup, Gruve offers a dynamic environment with strong customer and partner networks.

Why Gruve:

At Gruve, we foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive and contribute their best work. If you’re passionate about technology and eager to make an impact, we’d love to hear from you.

Gruve is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and thank all who apply; however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

Position summary:

We are seeking an experienced and highly skilled Technical Lead with a strong background in Java, SaaS architectures, firewalls and cybersecurity products, including SIEM and SOAR platforms. The ideal candidate will lead technical initiatives, design and implement scalable systems, and drive best practices across the engineering team. This role requires deep technical expertise, leadership abilities, and a passion for building secure and high-performing security solutions.

Key Roles & Responsibilities:

• Lead the design and development of scalable and secure software solutions using Java.
• Architect and build SaaS-based cybersecurity applications, ensuring high availability, performance, and reliability.
• Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and guidance to the development team.
• Ensure best practices in secure coding, threat modeling, and compliance with industry standards.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Product Management, Security, and DevOps to deliver high-quality security solutions.
• Design and implement security analytics, automation workflows and ITSM integrations.
•  Drive continuous improvements in engineering processes, tools, and technologies.
• Troubleshoot complex technical issues and lead incident response for critical production systems.

Basic Qualifications:

• A bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, electronics engineering or a related field
• 8-10 years of software development experience, with expertise in Java.
• Strong background in building SaaS applications with cloud-native architectures (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• In-depth understanding of microservices architecture, APIs, and distributed systems.
• Experience with containerization and orchestration tools like Docker and Kubernetes.
• Knowledge of DevSecOps principles, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure as code (Terraform, Ansible, etc.).
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work in an agile, fast-paced environment.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills, with a track record of mentoring engineers.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with cybersecurity solutions, including SIEM (e.g., Splunk, ELK, IBM QRadar) and SOAR (e.g., Palo Alto XSOAR, Swimlane).
• Knowledge of zero-trust security models and secure API development.
• Hands-on experience with machine learning or AI-driven security analytics.

Apply Link - https://tally.so/r/wv0lEA

Key Responsibilities:

1. Software Development:

• Design, implement, and optimise clean, scalable, and reliable code across [backend/frontend/full-stack] systems.
• Contribute to the development of micro services, APIs, or UI components as per the project requirements.

1. System Architecture:

• Collaborate and design and enhance system architecture.
• Analyse and identify opportunities for performance improvements and scalability.

1. Code Reviews and Mentorship:

• Conduct thorough code reviews to ensure code quality, maintainability, and adherence to best practices.
• Mentor and support junior developers, fostering a culture of learning and growth.

1. Agile Collaboration:

• Work within an Agile/Scrum framework, participating in sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives.
• Collaborate with Carbon Science, Designer, and other stakeholders to translate requirements into technical solutions.

1. Problem-Solving:

• Investigate, troubleshoot, and resolve complex issues in production and development environments.
• Contribute to incident management and root cause analysis to improve system reliability.

1. Continuous Improvement:

• Stay up-to-date with emerging technologies and industry trends.
• Propose and implement improvements to existing codebases, tools, and development processes.

Qualifications:

Must-Have:

• Experience: 2–5 years of professional software development experience in [specify languages/tools, e.g., Java, Python, JavaScript, etc.].
• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• Technical Skills:
• Strong proficiency in [programming languages/frameworks/tools].
• Experience with cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Knowledge of version control tools (e.g., Git) and CI/CD pipelines.
• Understanding of data structures, algorithms, and system design principles.

Nice-to-Have:

• Experience with containerisation (e.g., Docker) and orchestration tools (e.g., Kubernetes).
• Knowledge of database technologies (SQL and NoSQL).

Soft Skills:

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and manage multiple priorities effectively.

Job Description:

• Very good Core Java programming skills, with 7+ years of experience, of which 3 - 4 in core
• development programs.
• Expertise on Agile and Build (Jenkins/GIT/Continuous Integration)
• Rich experience in software development SDLC - Requirements, Analysis,
• coding, review process, build and test.
• Fair understanding Linux fundamentals
• Solid understanding of object-oriented programming
• Good English comprehension and communication skills, both oral and written,
• Ability to write routine business correspondence, and technical notes
• Strong customer service orientation, proactive in updates/blockers

• Experience in designing & developing systems/software for large business environments (Java, J2EE).
• Strong design and coding skills in Enterprise Java, REST & SOAP web services, ORM (JPA/Hibernate), Spring, Maven, JMS (ActiveMQ), Caching, XML, JSON.
• Experience with multiple integration technologies / frameworks.
• Must have good experience in Unix/Oracle/SQL.
• Experience in Agile Development, Scrum, and Iterative approaches.
• Experience and exposure to AWS Cloud Services and DevOps mindset and expertise is a plus Experience with Mule or any ESB (Enterprise Service Bus) is a plus.

About the role

Checking quality is one of the most important tasks at Anakin. Our clients are pricing their products based on our data, and minor errors on our end can lead to our client's losses of millions of dollars. You would work with multiple tools and with people across various departments to ensure the accuracy of the data being crawled. You would setup manual and automated processes and make sure they run to ensure the highest possible data quality.

You are the engineer other engineers can count on. You embrace every problem with enthusiasm. You remove hurdles, are a self-starter, team player. You have the hunger to venture into unknown areas and make the system work.

Your Responsibilities would be to:

• Understand customer web scraping and data requirements; translate these into test approaches that include exploratory manual/visual testing and any additional automated tests deemed appropriate
• Take ownership of the end-to-end QA process in newly-started projects
• Draw conclusions about data quality by producing basic descriptive statistics, summaries, and visualisations
• Proactively suggest and take ownership of improvements to QA processes and methodologies by employing other technologies and tools, including but not limited to: browser add-ons, Excel add-ons, UI-based test automation tools etc.
• Ensure that project requirements are testable; work with project managers and/or clients to clarify ambiguities before QA begins
• Drive innovation and advanced validation and analytics techniques to ensure data quality for Anakin's customers
• Optimize data quality codebases and systems to monitor the Anakin family of app crawlers
• Configure and optimize the automated and manual testing and deployment systems used to check the quality of billions of data points of over 1000+ crawlers across the company
• Analyze data and bugs that require in-depth investigations
• Interface directly with external customers including managing relationships and steering requirements

Basic Qualifications:

• 2+ years of experience as a backend or a full-stack software engineer
• Web scraping experience with Python or Node.js
• 2+ years of experience with AWS services such as EC2, S3, Lambda, etc.
• Should have managed a team of software engineers
• Should be paranoid about data quality

Preferred Skills and Experience:

• Deep experience with network debugging across all OSI layers (Wireshark)
• Knowledge of networks or/and cybersecurity
• Broad understanding of the landscape of software engineering design patterns and principles
• Ability to work quickly and accurately in a highly stressful environment during removing bugs in run-time within minutes
• Excellent communicator, both written and verbal

Additional Requirements:

• Must be available to work extended hours and weekends when needed to meet critical deadlines
• Must have an aversion to politics and BS. Should let his/her work speak for him/her.
• Must be comfortable with uncertainty. In almost all the cases, your job will be to figure it out.
• Must not be bounded to comfort zone. Often, you will need to challenge yourself to go above and beyond.

Requirement :

• Good knowledge of Java and Spring F/W (Spring Boot, Spring Security, Spring ORM, Spring Rest, Spring Cloud)
• Good knowledge of relational database design and query via both SQL and ORM (hibernate, spring data)
• Good knowledge of ElasticSearch or other document-oriented database
• Good knowledge of Microservice architecture, including REST API design
• Good knowledge of asynchronous data pipelines using Kafka or AWS SNS/SQS or similar modern messaging framework
• Good knowledge of AWS or other public cloud environment
• Hands-on experience with Redis Cache, Memcache or Ehcache
• Good knowledge of domain-driven design is a huge plus
• Web services & API standards (REST/OAuth/JSON)

Job title: Full Stack Developer

Location : Chandigarh

What you need to have:

Experience: 4 to 8 years

Annual CTC: Rupees 12,00,000 to 20,00,000