Java Developer

We are India’s fastest-growing digital trust platform offering services such as background verifications, reference checks, employee/staff onboarding, etc. We have completed more than 500+ million checks across 3000+ happy clients and since its inception, the company has shown continuous uptrend growth in an ever-changing business environment. As an organization, we are self-sustainable with positive cash flows.

At OnGrid, we are focused on redefining and reimagining Trust. We are leveraging APIs to build a digital trust platform all while being accountable that provides verified credentials instantly coming from the source directly. Having built the basic pillars of trust, we now want our imaginations to be let loose and think of avenues not explored and ways never implemented before. In this pursuit, we are looking for a motivated Staff Engineer (Backend) with experience in building high-performing, scalable, enterprise-grade applications, joining us, driving this vision, and taking it to a larger scale. If you are a visionary, always on the lookout for finding the right solutions, and a technology geek, constantly seeking to learn and improve your skillset, then you are the type of person we are looking for.

Roles & Responsibilities -

● Develop new user-facing features.

● Work alongside product to understand our requirements, and design, develop and iterate, think through the complex architecture.

● Writing clean, reusable, high-quality, high-performance, maintainable code.

● Encourage innovation and efficiency improvements to ensure processes are productive

● Ensure the training and mentoring of the team members

● Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs and optimize applications for maximum speed.

● Research and apply new technologies, techniques, and best practices.

Requirements -

• Bachelors/Masters in Computer Science or a related field

• 5 - 10 years of prior relevant experience

• Experience with web technologies and microservices architecture

• Java, Spring framework

• MySQL, Mongo, Solr, Redis,

• Kubernetes, Docker

• Excellent teamwork skills, flexibility, and ability to handle multiple tasks.

• Experience with API Design, ability to architect and implement an intuitive customer and third-party integration story • Ability to think and analyze both breadth-wise (client, server, DB, control flow) and depth-wise (threads, sessions, space-time complexity) while designing and implementing services

• Exceptional design and architectural skills

• Experience of cloud providers/platforms like GCP and AWS

What’s the opportunity?

Are you a backend developer looking to fast-track your learning and growth? Have you looked at world-class products like Asana, Notion, or Airtable, and felt “I wish I were part of the early team that built these products”?

We’re a team that has previously built and rolled out globally successful SaaS products used by tens of thousands of customers. We’re laser-focused on delivering a world-class product again, and looking for an ambitious backend engineer to join our existing team of 9 engineers. 

If it excites you to think of a fast-paced start-up environment, building something big from scratch, breaking down new problems, creating new APIs, working on performance issues, getting hands-on with DevOps initiatives, and showcasing demos of your work every Friday with a happy and passionate team, then this is the right opportunity for you.

Some of the tech problems you get to work on as a backend engineer would be to build the backend for a modern spreadsheet experience from scratch, work on infra as code, write robust code that is fault-tolerant, work on performant code that adheres to SLOs set by the organization.

About you:

● 3- 5 years of experience

● Expertise in the following areas ○ Java ○ HTTP Protocol

● You’ve heard of or worked with some of the following tech stacks/products ○ Spring ○ PostgreSQL ○ Redis ○ Docker ○ Message brokers ○ GitHub

● These non-functional areas are familiar to you ○ Performance ○ Debugging ○ Log management

Nice to have:

● Familiarity with AWS

What’s in it for me?

● Great opportunity: We genuinely care about everyone we hire. You’ll learn new things and grow no matter how experienced you are; you will be working with founders who have more than three decades of collective experience in building significant B2B SaaS startups.

● Great team: Work with a world-class, high-velocity team that truly embodies the values of empathy, curiosity, and customer-centricity. Check out the MTT(Meet The Team) videos on our LinkedIn.

● Great culture: An open, fun, and exciting startup culture that empowers its people to champion big problems with the freedom to think and innovate.

● Growth: You could easily and quickly transition into other roles you might like.

● Impact: You get to be part of a global, passionate team in a fast-paced and growth-oriented environment. The team has a work philosophy of being high on ambition, ownership, and a bias for action.

● Monetary rewards and benefits: Competitive stipend, flexible leave policy, and more

Roles and Responsibilities:

1. Contribute in all phases of the development lifecycle
2. Write well designed, testable, efficient code
3. Ensure designs comply with specifications
4. Prepare and produce releases of software components
5. Support continuous improvement by investigating alternatives and technologies and presenting these for architectural review
6. Ensure continual knowledge management
7. Adherence to the organizational guidelines and processes

Skills /Competencies: a. Bachelor/Master’s degree with good experience in computer programming b.4+ years working experience in application development using Java

Essential Skills:

1. Hands on experience in designing and developing applications using Java EE platforms
2. Object Oriented analysis and design using common design patterns.
3. Profound insight of Java and JEE internals (Data structure, Algorithm and time complexity, Memory Management, Transaction management etc)
4. Excellent knowledge of Relational Databases, SQL and ORM technologies (JPA2, Hibernate)
5. Experience in the Spring Framework
6. Experience in developing web applications using at least one popular web framework (JSF, Wicket, GWT, Spring MVC) and UI technology (Angular/React JS)
7. Ability to operate independently while establishing strong working relationships with co-workers and cross-functional teams
8. Strong organizational and prioritization skills
9. Demonstrate critical attention to detail and deadlines, and are self-motivated
10. Ability to adapt to changes in direction and priorities in a project and deadline-oriented environment
11. Strong written and verbal English communication skills
12. Problem-solving attitude

Preferred skills Good to have –

1. Knowledge in any UI technology (Angular, React, JS)
2. Intermediate level knowledge of Unix environment (User commands, not System Admin commands)
3. Understanding of capital markets and middle/back office processes in the financial services space

Purpose

 To design, develop, test, and maintain integrated software applications, systems, and platforms

 Responsible for ensuring that the software created is reliable, scalable, and secure

 The candidate should use his/her expertise to maintain enterprise wide upstream and downstream integration

solutions that help organizations achieve their business goals and provide value to end-users

Key Accountabilities

Responsibilities will include but will not be restricted to:

 Designing and developing solutions at middleware and integration layer

 Ensure the best standards are followed for integrating with multiple upstream and downstream

applications

 Documenting and Developing APIs which are fault tolerant, performance oriented and allow for publishing

across multiple sources

 Ensure management of the interfaces on the WSO2 EI platform

 Ensure continuous monitoring, troubleshooting, and debugging

 Ensuring that the integrations development is part of the overall CI/CD pipeline

 Working with stakeholders to ensure that integration solutions meet business requirements and are

delivered on time

Technical Requirements

 A Bachelor’s degree in Computer science, software engineering, or any other equivalent field

 Has 6+ years of experience in the field of software engineering or software development

 Experience with WSO2 middleware technologies like WSO2 Enterprise Integrator (EI), WSO2 API Manager,

and WSO2 Identity Server

 Experience in developing multiple type interfaces such as SOAP, REST, WebHooks, GraphQL and having

knowledge of working on changing one type to other

 Software development skills including proficiency in a modern programming language such as

Java/C++/Python/Golang.

 The ideal candidate should have worked on application development within an enterprise ecosystem.

 The person should also have the necessary knowledge to connect to systems like mail, DB, external

systems, or APIs etc.

 Ideally the person should have demonstrated creating common interfaces or adapters for interactions

between heterogeneous systems with least amount of code change or no code change at all on both the

integrating systems.

 The person needs to be hands on and should be able to write code and review the code of teammates.

Desired Personal Qualities and Behavior

 Excellent relationship management skills with the ability to engage, negotiate and manage key

stakeholders and suppliers.

 Excellent communication, interpersonal and influencing skills.

We are looking for a focussed, energetic and motivated Senior Java Developer. You must have sufficient experience in Java Development, Spring, Spring Boot, AWS and SQS, S3. You will be challenged with complex and robust product development.

As a Senior Java Developer, you will be the most senior developer within the company working alongside other Java Developers, the Engineering Manager, and the CTO.

Senior Java Developer requirements

Solid development experience using Java, Springboot, SQS, S3 and Microservices

Experience working in Swing Java framework

Revises, updates, refactors, and debugs code

Write clear, concise and efficient code and ensure it is fully tested

Service and develop features using Java with AWS, JUnit, SQL and Spring framework

You have a good knowledge of Cloud technologies (ideally AWS)

Participate in peer coding reviews and work in a collaborative, agile environment

Demonstrate technical knowledge and expertise with a clear understanding on the products' technical composition

Senior Java Developer responsibilities

7-9 yrs minimum work experience

Excellent analytical, troubleshooting, and communication skills

Excellent attention to detail and time-management skills

Serves as an expert on developed applications

Ability to adapt and learn new product/technology is key

Collaborates with internal teams to produce software design and architecture

Knowledge of Agile frameworks (i.e. Scrum) and has worked with Jira or Spira

Attend daily stand-up meetings alongside the Scrum Master

A self-starter, hardworking and committed individual

Work UK hours - ideally 9.00am - 6pm with the expectation to work out of ours when needed

As the Java Developer, you will be responsible for developing cutting edge health-tech applications that include high scale transaction processing, intelligent bot based programs and data analytics.

What you will do:

• Building components for the company's advanced health tech platform using Java, Solr, SpringBoot, DialogFlow
• Communicating effectively in a cross-functional product development team and present ideas and solutions effectively
• Participating in technical planning and requirements gathering phases including design, code, test, troubleshoot, and document engineering software applications
• Developing the Code as per the requirements
• Working with product team and constructing the tech roadmap
• Designing, building and scaling the company's backend microservices
• Maintaining code integrity and organization
• Applying all quality requirements to make the code production ready
• Developing and deploying new features to facilitate related procedures and tools if necessary
• Developing documentation related to technical aspects and to facilitate current support, development, upgrades, or migrations
• Designing and building efficient, reusable, and reliable Java code
• Pro actively catching and fixing bugs, and providing support for the back end services
• Managing servers and infrastructure by keeping the lights on and refining the deployment architecture

What you need to have:

• Have at least 3 years work experience in Java 8 or higher / J2EE Java development.

• Have experience of agile systems development methodologies such as SCRUM
• Experience in designing the solution and implementation.
• Is a communicative, positive, outgoing and driven team player.
• Solution-oriented, see opportunities and proactively proposing new solutions, speak and write fluently in English.
• Good to have certifications in Java, Spring etc.
• Experience in Java 8.

• Experience in Spring Boot and other spring framework like Spring data, AOP etc.
• Experience in MongoDB/ Kafka / RabbitMQ etc.
• Experience in REST API
• Have worked on microservices
• Should have worked on minimum 2- 3 projects
• Experience in writing effective Unit test case for better coverage.
• Experience in writing good quality code by following code quality tools likes SonarQube etc.

• 2+ years of experience in Java Development with sound knowledge of core Java
• Should have strong hands on experience with developing web applications using Servlets and JSP, Spring, Hibernate, Web Services, HTML, JavaScript
• Should have experience of working on Tomcat/Glassfish
• Experience of Google App Engine or AWS will be added advantage
• Strong knowledge of OOAD
• Comfortable working on Linux/Unix
• Good communication skills and good organization
• Willingness to work in a team environment, as well as
• Willingness to learn new

• Write production quality code in Java, J2EE, and Spring
• Adhere to software development and source control processes, git is added Advantage
• Design, build, configure, test, and document production quality software on an iterative
• Participate in design and implementation of new software.
• Work closely with users, technical leads, project managers, and other cross-functional development
• Execute on the provided design. Active coding in key technologies is required for this development position and includes: Java/J2EE, Tomcat, Web Services, REST, and spring, Hibernate/Ibatis, XML, UNIX and
• As part of the software development process you will need to create, review, and maintain all required technical documentation related to assigned software to ensure supportability and reuse.
• This individual must develop software using disciplined software development processes, adhering to team/company standards and software best practice guidelines, and corporate policies.