Java Developer Engineer

📍 Position : Java Architect

📅 Experience : 10 to 15 Years

🧑‍💼 Open Positions : 3+

📍 Work Location : Bangalore, Pune, Chennai

💼 Work Mode : Hybrid

📅 Notice Period : Immediate joiners preferred; up to 1 month maximum

🔧 Core Responsibilities :

• Lead architecture design and development for scalable enterprise-level applications.
• Own and manage all aspects of technical development and delivery.
• Define and enforce best coding practices, architectural guidelines, and development standards.
• Plan and estimate the end-to-end technical scope of projects.
• Conduct code reviews, ensure CI/CD, and implement TDD/BDD methodologies.
• Mentor and lead individual contributors and small development teams.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including DevOps, Product, and QA.
• Engage in high-level and low-level design (HLD/LLD), solutioning, and cloud-native transformations.

🛠️ Required Technical Skills :

• Strong hands-on expertise in Java, Spring Boot, Microservices architecture
• Experience with Kafka or similar messaging/event streaming platforms
• Proficiency in cloud platforms – AWS and Azure (must-have)
• Exposure to frontend technologies (nice-to-have)
• Solid understanding of HLD, system architecture, and design patterns
• Good grasp of DevOps concepts, Docker, Kubernetes, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• Agile/Lean development, Pair Programming, and Continuous Integration practices
• Polyglot mindset is a plus (Scala, Golang, Python, etc.)

🚀 Ideal Candidate Profile :

• Currently working in a product-based environment
• Already functioning as an Architect or Principal Engineer
• Proven track record as an Individual Contributor (IC)
• Strong engineering fundamentals with a passion for scalable software systems
• No compromise on code quality, craftsmanship, and best practices

🧪 Interview Process :

1. Round 1: Technical pairing round
2. Rounds 2 & 3: Technical rounds with panel (code pairing + architecture)
3. Final Round: HR and offer discussion

• Software Engineering
  • Design and develop highly scalable, available, reliable, secure and fault tolerant systems with minimal guidance for a market leader in the logistics industry
  • Partner with team members on functional and nonfunctional requirements and spread design philosophy, goals and improve the code quality across the team
  • Research new technologies and tools that enable building the next generation of our services
  • Provide technology leadership to the team and foster engineering excellence
• Product Delivery
  • Partner with product managers to define and execute on the feature roadmap
  • Translate business requirements into scalable and extensible design
  • Coordinate with various cross functional teams on planning and execution
  • Maintaining automated build / test / deployment environments

• Software Engineering
  • Should have at least 3 years of hands-on experience in designing, developing, testing and deploying applications on Java, Ruby, Kotlin, Python, Node or Go for large scale applications
  • Deep knowledge of one of the programming languages they have experience in
  • Proficient in OOP and Design Patterns, experience with functional programming would be a plus
  • Data modelling experience in Relational Databases
  • Ability to design and implement low latency RESTful services
• Product Delivery
  • Ability to scope, review and refine user stories for technical completeness and to alleviate dependency
  • Well versed in working with agile methodologies which includes phases such as design, development, code review, testing and release management
  • Ability to have worked in a CI/CD environment, with hands on experience with Git or any similar source code management tools
• Product Maintenance

• Experience troubleshooting server performance issues such as memory tuning, GC tuning, resource leaks
• Continuously refactor applications to ensure high quality design

What you need to have:

Responsibilities : 

• Design and develop scalable, high performance, and reliable API driven services/applications in Java language that operate whole day.
• Produce high quality software that is unit tested, code reviewed, and checked in regularly for continuous integration.
• Interact with both business, financial research, and technical stakeholders to deliver high quality products and services that meets/exceeds business, customer, and technical requirements.
• Own products and code from cradle to grave including production quality/performance monitoring.

Required Skills :

• Experience building and running high performance enterprise applications developed in Java language.
• Hands on experience developing Java web applications built with modern standards-based APIs including Java based REST APIs and implementations. 
• Experience in Java language APIs, Spring technologies, Hibernate, JDBC, RDBMS and NoSQL based data persistence.
• Experience developing solutions on AWS Cloud leveraging AWS Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, Cloud Formation, and other related AWS technologies. 
• Solid understanding of Domain Modeling with Relational and Non-Relational Databases.
• Excellent debugging and problem-solving skills, including ability to diagnose and fix performance and scalability issues.
• Experience working in an agile methodology-based development environment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• BS/B.Tech/M.Tech in Computer Science or a related field.

About Hop:

We are a London, UK based FinTech startup with a subsidiary in India. Hop is working towards building the next generation digital banking platform for seamless and economical currency exchange, with technology at the crux of it. In a technology driven era, many financial services platforms still lack the customer experience and are cumbersome to use. Hop aims at building a ‘state of the art’ tech-centric, customer focused solution.

moneyHOP is India’s first cross-border neo-bank providing millennials the ability to ‘Send’ & ‘Spend’ conveniently and economically across the globe using HOPRemit (An online remittance portal) and HOP app + Card (A multi-currency bank account).

This position is a crucially important position in the firm and the person hired will have the liberty to drive the product and provide direction in line with business needs.

About Individual

Looking for an enthusiastic individual who is passionate about technology and has worked with either a start-up or a blue-chip firm in the past.

The candidate needs to be a multi-tasker, highly self-motivated, self-starter and have the ability to work in a high stress environment. He/she should be tech savvy and willing to embrace new technology comfortably.

Ideally, the candidate should have experience working with the technology stack in the scalable and high growth mobile application software.

General Skills

• 1-2 years of experience in backend development.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Science, or equivalent practical experience.
• Exposure to Behaviour Driven Development and experience in programming and testing.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Good time management and organizational skills.
• Dependability
• Accountability and Ownership
• Right attitude and growth mindset
• Trust-worthiness
• Ability to embrace new technologies
• Ability to get work done
• Has good code reviewing skills for conformance.
• Has good software testing skills and good code writing skills.

Technical Skills

• Exposure with back-end programming languages with hands on JAVA, Node JS etc along with Spring framework.
• Database administration and management of a hosting environment such as AWS.
• Sound understanding of relational and non-relational DB systems such as MySQL, Post-gres, MongoDB etc.
• Has experience dealing with JIRA (issue tracking tools), Confluence (knowledge management) tools.
• Experience with building and maintaining microservices.
• Experience with building and integrating the core system with external APIS.
• Good to have: Domain knowledge in the BFSI tech stack.
• Has handled scalability and worked on backend security protocols.
• Has worked on both mobile and web development.
• Has experience and inclination to work on architectural design and review.

Day-to-Day Responsibilities 

1. Contribute in all phases of the software development life cycle.
2. Partake in software and architectural development activities.
3. Conduct software analysis, programming, unit-testing and debugging.
4. Transforming requirements into functional modules.
5. Recommend changes to improve established application processes.
6. Work quickly with a clear bias towards actions and continuous development.
7. Participate in regular code reviews of peers and be open to pairing when necessary.

Requirements:

• Academic degree (BE / MCA) with 3-10 years of experience in back-end Development.
• Strong knowledge of OOPS concepts, Analyzing, Designing, Development and Unit testing
• Scala technologies, AKKA, REST Webservices, SOAP, Jackson JSON API, JUnit, Mockito, Maven
• Hands-on experience with Play framework
• Familiarity with Microservice Architecture
• Experience working with Apache Tomcat server or TomEE
• Experience working with SQL databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Cassandra), writing custom queries, procedures, and designing schemas.
• Good to have front end experience (JavaScript, Angular JS/ React JS)

• 5+ years experience
• Previously managed a team
• Built & managed backend systems from scratch previously.
• Lead the core backend engineering team, including mentoring, coaching, architecture, devops, code review and software infrastructure
• Should be more proficient with Django.
• Work with the executive team to shape and execute the product roadmap
• Direct our team environment to achieve sprint deliverables and acceptance criteria
• Design and monitor metrics to assess product and infrastructure performance
• Hire, build and shape the team