Java Developer

Job Description

We are looking for a hands-on Tech Lead – Java with strong software engineering fundamentals, a deep understanding of Java-based backend systems, and proven experience leading agile teams. This role involves a balance of individual contribution and technical leadership — mentoring developers, designing scalable architectures, and driving the success of product delivery in fast-paced environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end design, development, and deployment of Java-based applications and RESTful APIs.
• Collaborate with product managers and architects to define technical solutions and translate business requirements into scalable software.
• Guide and mentor team members in best coding practices, design patterns, and architectural decisions.
• Drive code reviews, technical discussions, and ensure high code quality and performance standards.
• Troubleshoot critical production issues and implement long-term fixes and improvements.
• Advocate for continuous improvement in tools, processes, and systems across the engineering team.
• Stay up to date with modern technologies and recommend their adoption where appropriate.

Required Skills

• 5+ years of experience in Java backend development with expertise in Spring/Spring Boot and RESTful services.
• Solid grasp of Object-Oriented Programming (OOP), system design, and design patterns.
• Proven experience leading a team of engineers or taking ownership of modules/projects.
• Experience with AWS Cloud services (EC2, Lambda, S3, etc.) is a strong advantage.
• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodologies and working in cross-functional teams.
• Excellent problem-solving, debugging, and analytical skills.
• Strong communication and leadership skills.

About HummingWave

HummingWave is a leading IT product development company specializing in building full-scale application systems with robust cloud backends, sleek mobile/web frontends, and seamless enterprise integrations. With 50+ digital products delivered across domains for clients in the US, Europe, and Asia-Pacific, we are a team of highly skilled engineers committed to technical excellence and innovation.

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Good to Have Skills:

• 3+ years of experience in using Java/J2EE tech stacks
• Good understanding of data structures and algorithms.
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills.
• Ability to work in a fast paced internet start-up environment.
• Experience in technical mentorship/coaching is highly desirable.
• Understanding of AI/ML algorithms is a plus.

Job Title: Java Developer
Experience: 1year to 5 years
Location: Chennai

Job Description :

• Design & development of Java applications using Java EE, Spring Boot, Database
•  Experience in designing, analyzing, coding and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems
• Ensuring continuous professional self-development
• Strong core Java skills - Multithreading, Collections, Concurrent programming 
• Should have knowledge of OOPS, Design Patterns and data structure
• Should have strong understanding of databases and its core concept including stored procedure
• Ability to work in team and handle production environment, application maintenance.

Primary Responsibilities

• Design, architect and develop advanced software solutions in a cross functional Agile team supporting multiple projects and initiatives
• Collaborate with product owners and/or the business on requirements definition, development of functional specifications, and design
• Collaborate on or lead development of technical design and specifications as required
• Code, test and document new applications as well as changes to existing system functionality and ensure successful completion
• Take on leadership roles as needed

Skills & Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree required, preferably in Computer Science or related field
• 3+ years of software development experience using GoLang/Java programming language
• Experience with cloud technologies (AWS/Azure/GCP/Pivotal Cloud Foundry/any private cloud) and containerization is required
• Experience with a micro-services architecture is a plus
• Excellent communication, collaboration, reporting, analytical and problem solving skills
• Experience with PostgreSQL or other Relational Databases
• Test-driven development mindset and a focus on quality, scalability and performance
• Strong programming fundamentals and ability to produce high quality code
• Solid understanding of Agile (SCRUM) Development Process required

Responsibilities

• Build and mentor the platform team at Checko.
• Own the design, development, testing, deployment, and craftsmanship of the team’s infrastructure and systems capable of handling massive amounts of requests with high reliability and scalability
• Leverage the deep and broad technical expertise to mentor engineers and provide leadership on resolving complex technology issues
• Entrepreneurial and out-of-box thinking essential for a technology startup
• Guide the team for unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability

Requirements

• Must have design, development, testing, deployment of systems capable of handling massive amounts of requests with high reliability and scalability
• Must have strong command in writing production-level code in Java or Python including skills in debugging, performance analysis/optimization and memory usage optimization
• Must have worked with real-time web/mobile applications and event-driven architectures
• Must have experience working with relational and non-relational databases and understanding their data models and performance tradeoffs.
• Must have solid engineering principles and a clear understanding of data structures and algorithms
• Should have knowledge of service-oriented architecture, caching techniques, micro-services, and distributed systems
• Should have basic understanding of C++/reactJS/Angular/Node

Desired Skills and Experience

Algorithms, debugging, performance optimization on low-end processors, data structures, REST, service-oriented architecture.

Data Platform engineering at Uber is looking for a strong Technical Lead (Level 5a Engineer) who has built high quality platforms and services that can operate at scale. 5a Engineer at Uber exhibits following qualities: 

• Demonstrate tech expertise › Demonstrate technical skills to go very deep or broad in solving classes of problems or creating broadly leverageable solutions. 
• Execute large scale projects › Define, plan and execute complex and impactful projects. You communicate the vision to peers and stakeholders.
• Collaborate across teams › Domain resource to engineers outside your team and help them leverage the right solutions. Facilitate technical discussions and drive to a consensus.
• Coach engineers › Coach and mentor less experienced engineers and deeply invest in their learning and success. You give and solicit feedback, both positive and negative, to others you work with to help improve the entire team.
• Tech leadership › Lead the effort to define the best practices in your immediate team, and help the broader organization establish better technical or business processes.

What You’ll Do

• Build a scalable, reliable, operable and performant data analytics platform for Uber’s engineers, data scientists, products and operations teams.
• Work alongside the pioneers of big data systems such as Hive, Yarn, Spark, Presto, Kafka, Flink to build out a highly reliable, performant, easy to use software system for Uber’s planet scale of data. 
• Become proficient of multi-tenancy, resource isolation, abuse prevention, self-serve debuggability aspects of a high performant, large scale, service while building these capabilities for Uber's engineers and operation folks.

What You’ll Need

• 7+ years experience in building large scale products, distributed systems in a high caliber environment.
• Architecture: Identify and solve major architectural problems by going deep in your field or broad across different teams. Extend, improve, or, when needed, build solutions to address architectural gaps or technical debt.
• Software Engineering/Programming: Create frameworks and abstractions that are reliable and reusable. advanced knowledge of at least one programming language, and are happy to learn more. Our core languages are Java, Python, Go, and Scala.
• Platform Engineering: Solid understanding of distributed systems and operating systems fundamentals such as concurrency, multithreading, file systems, locking etc.
• Execution & Results: You tackle large technical projects/problems that are not clearly defined. You anticipate roadblocks and have strategies to de-risk timelines. You orchestrate work that spans multiple teams and keep your stakeholders informed.
• A team player: You believe that you can achieve more on a team that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. You rely on others’ candid feedback for continuous improvement.
• Business acumen: You understand requirements beyond the written word. Whether you’re working on an API used by other developers, an internal tool consumed by our operation teams, or a feature used by millions of customers, your attention to details leads to a delightful user experience.