Java Developer

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable applications using Java/Kotlin Core Concepts and Spring Boot MVC.
• Build and optimize REST APIs for seamless client-server communication.
• Develop and ensure efficient HTTP/HTTPS request-response mechanisms.
• Handle Java/Kotlin version upgrades confidently, ensuring code compatibility and leveraging the latest features.
• Solve complex business logic challenges with a methodical and innovative approach.
• Write optimized SQL queries with Postgres DB.
• Ensure code quality through adherence to design patterns (e.g., Singleton, Factory, Observer, MVC) and unit testing frameworks like JUnit.
• Integrate third-party APIs and develop large-scale systems with technical precision.
• Debug and troubleshoot production issues.

Requirements:

• 3 to 5 years of hands-on experience in Java/Kotlin Spring Boot development.
• Proven expertise in handling version upgrades for Java and Kotlin with confidence.
• Strong logical thinking and problem-solving skills, especially in implementing complex algorithms.
• Proficiency with Git, JIRA, and managing software package versions.
• Familiarity with SaaS-based products, XML parsing/generation, and generating PDFs, XLS, CSVs using Spring Boot.
• Strong understanding of JPA, Hibernate, and core Java concepts (OOP).

Skills (Good to Have):

• Exposure to Docker, Redis, and Elasticsearch.
• Knowledge of transaction management and solving computational problems.
• Eagerness to explore new technologies.

About the Role 

As a result of our rapid growth, we are looking for a Java Backend Engineer to join our existing Cloud Engineering team and take the lead in the design and development of several key initiatives of our existing Miko3 product line as well as our new product development initiatives. 

Responsibilities 

•  Designing, developing and maintaining core system features, services and engines
• Collaborating with a cross functional team of the backend, Mobile application, AI, signal processing, robotics Engineers, Design, Content, and Linguistic Team to realize the requirements of conversational social robotics platform which includes investigate design approaches, prototype new technology, and evaluate technical feasibility
• Ensure the developed backend infrastructure is optimized for scale and responsiveness 
• Ensure best practices in design, development, security, monitoring, logging, and DevOps adhere to the execution of the project. 
• Introducing new ideas, products, features by keeping track of the latest developments and industry trends 
• Operating in an Agile/Scrum environment to deliver high quality software against aggressive schedules

Requirements 

• Proficiency in distributed application development lifecycle (concepts of authentication/authorization, security, session management, load balancing, API gateway), programming techniques and tools (application of tested, proven development paradigms)  
• Proficiency in working on Linux based Operating system. 
• Working Knowledge of container orchestration platform like Kubernetes
• Proficiency in at least one server-side programming language like Java. Additional languages like Python and PHP are a plus 
• Proficiency in at least one server-side framework like Servlets, Spring, java spark (Java). 
• Proficient in using ORM/Data access frameworks like Hibernate,JPA with spring or other server-side frameworks. 
• Proficiency in at least one data serialization framework: Apache Thrift, Google ProtoBuffs, Apache Avro,Google Json,JackSon etc. 
• Proficiency in at least one of inter process communication frameworks WebSocket's, RPC, message queues, custom HTTP libraries/frameworks ( kryonet, RxJava ), etc.  
• Proficiency in multithreaded programming and Concurrency concepts (Threads, Thread Pools, Futures, asynchronous programming). 
• Experience defining system architectures and exploring technical feasibility tradeoffs (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling)
• Experience developing cloud software services and an understanding of design for scalability, performance and reliability
• Good understanding of networking and communication protocols, and proficiency in identification CPU, memory & I/O bottlenecks, solve read & write-heavy workloads. 
• Proficiency is concepts of monolithic and microservice architectural paradigms. 
• Proficiency in working on at least one of cloud hosting platforms like Amazon AWS, Google Cloud, Azure etc.   
• Proficiency in at least one of database SQL, NO-SQL, Graph databases like MySQL, MongoDB, Orientdb 
• Proficiency in at least one of testing frameworks or tools JMeter, Locusts, Taurus 
• Proficiency in at least one RPC communication framework: Apache Thrift, GRPC is an added plus 
• Proficiency in asynchronous libraries (RxJava), frameworks (Akka),Play,Vertx is an added plus 
• Proficiency in functional programming ( Scala ) languages is an added plus 
• Proficiency in working with NoSQL/graph databases is an added plus 
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git is an added plus 
• Working Knowledge of tools for server, application metrics logging and monitoring and is a plus Monit, ELK, graylog is an added plus 
• Working Knowledge of DevOps containerization utilities like Ansible, Salt, Puppet is an added plus 
• Working Knowledge of DevOps containerization technologies like Docker, LXD is an added plus  

Responsibilities

• Understand existing business operations tool used by customer support and business teams.
• Work with Engineering Manager to upgrade the system to improve system stability and response times.
• Independently lead design and implement new features as per business requirements provided by Product Management team.
• Develop elegant, modular and maintainable solutions. Document all design, operations steps for knowledge sharing purposes.
• Guide junior team members on feature implementation and provide relevant training on existing modules.

Must-know Technologies

• Java EE
• Java Server Facelets (JSF)
• Java Persistence API (JPA), Hibernate
• SQL
• HTML, CSS, JavaScript
• Payara/GlassFish/similar application server environments

Preferred Skills

• 2-8 years of overall experience in software design and development.
• Ability to analyze existing application, implement new features and re-architect the application in case of inefficiencies.
• Strong object-oriented skills and ability to apply design patterns.
• Experience mentoring junior engineers on development, code review, project planning.

Primary responsibilities:

• Architect, Design and Build high performance Search systems for personalization, optimization, and targeting
• Designing systems with Solr, Akka, Cassandra, Kafka
• Algorithmic development with primary focus Machine Learning
• Working with rapid and innovative development methodologies like: Kanban, Continuous Integration and Daily deployments
• Participation in design and code reviews and recommend improvements
• Unit testing with JUnit, Performance testing and tuning
• Coordination with internal and external teams
• Mentoring junior engineers
• Participate in Product roadmap and Prioritization discussions and decisions
• Evangelize the solution with Professional services and Customer Success teams

Minimum requirements:

• Tech/M.Tech in computer Engineering or related fields or MCA
• At least 10-14 years of software development experience
• Expert in Java, Scala or any other object oriented language
• Proficient in SQL concepts (HiveQL or Postgres a plus)
• Additional language skills for scripting and rapid application development

Desired skills and experience:

• Working with large data sets in the PBs
• Familiarity with UNIX (systems skills a plus)
• Working experience in Solr, Cassandra, and Kafka
• Working in a distributed environment and has dealt with challenges around scaling and performance
• Working with distributed teams across multiple locations