Java Developer

Role & Responsibilities

As a Staff Engineer at Locus, you will play a critical role in defining and driving our backend architecture as we scale globally. You’ll own key systems that handle high volumes of data and transactions, ensuring performance, reliability, and maintainability across distributed environments.

Key Responsibilities-

• Own one or more core applications end-to-end, ensuring reliability, performance, and scalability.
• Lead the design, architecture, and development of complex, distributed systems, frameworks, and libraries aligned with Locus’s technical strategy.
• Drive engineering operational excellence by defining robust roadmaps for system reliability, observability, and performance improvements.
• Analyze and optimize existing systems for latency, throughput, and efficiency, ensuring they perform at scale.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Data, and Infrastructure teams to translate business requirements into technical deliverables.
• Mentor and guide engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and continuous learning.
• Establish and uphold coding standards, conduct design and code reviews, and promote best practices across teams.
• Stay ahead of the curve on emerging technologies, frameworks, and patterns to strengthen Locus’s technology foundation.
• Contribute to hiring by identifying and attracting top-tier engineering talent.

Ideal Candidate

• Strong staff engineer profile
• Mandatory (Experience 1): Must have 9+ years in backend engineering with Java, Spring/Spring Boot, and microservices building large and schalable systems
• Mandatory (Experience 2): Must have been SDE-3 / Tech Lead / Lead SE for at least 2.5 years
• Mandatory (Tech skills 1): Strong in DSA, system design, design patterns, and problem-solving
• Mandatory (Tech skills 2): Proven experience building scalable, reliable, high-performance distributed systems
• Mandatory (Tech skills 3): Hands-on with SQL/NoSQL databases, REST/gRPC APIs, concurrency & async processing
• Mandatory (Tech skills 4): Experience in AWS/GCP, CI/CD pipelines, and observability/monitoring
• Mandatory (Communication): Excellent ability to explain complex technical concepts to varied stakeholders
• Mandatory (Company): Product companies (B2B SAAS preferred)
• Mandatory (Stability): Must have stayed for at least 2 years with each of the previous companies
• Mandatory (Education): B.Tech in computer science from Tier 1, Tier 2 colleges

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and deploy scalable Java applications.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and deliver new 

features.

• Solve complex technical problems with innovative, simple solutions.

• Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code.

• Participate in code reviews to maintain code quality.

• Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize 

development efficiency.

• Exhibit ownership and responsibility for assigned deliverables.

Qualifications and Required Skills

• 3 to 6 years of hands-on Java development experience.

• Strong experience in building products or applications from scratch (not just 

maintenance/support).

• Good understanding of object-oriented programming principles.

• Experience with frameworks like Spring, Spring Boot, Hibernate, etc.

• Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and design patterns.

• Should have strong problem-solving abilities.

• Familiarity with RESTful APIs and microservices architecture is a plus.

• Solid understanding of database technologies (SQL, NoSQL).

• Exposure to cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) will be an advantage.

• Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills

🚨 Hiring Alert 🚨

We are Hiring Java Backend Intern for 2 months !

Skills Required:

1. Good understanding of Java 17, Spring and any Sql database

2. Good Understanding on designing low level code from scratch

3. Experience in building database schema and code architecture

4. Familiar with design patterns and willingness to write clean, readable, and well-documented code.

5. Familiarity with tools like postman, STS or intelij

6. Understanding of REST APIs and their role in application development.

7. Good DSA and problem solving skills

Roles & Responsibilities:

1. Assist in developing and maintaining web applications.

2. Learn to utilize open source tools for integration

3. Collaborate with team members to design and implement new features.

4. Contribute to optimizing application performance and resolving bugs.

5. Stay curious and keep learning new technologies relevant to spring boot and spring reactive

6. Exposure to version control systems like Git.

7. Passion for learning and contributing to real-world projects.

Preferred Qualifications:

1. Min exp of 0-2 years.

2. Skills in computer science/IT and relevant.

What You’ll Gain:

1. Stipend - 8k -10k/ month, subjective to your performance

2. Hands-on experience in building production-grade applications.

Job Description:

We are looking for a skilled and enthusiastic Java Developer to join our development team. The ideal candidate should have solid experience in Java and should also be familiar with Kotlin for backend development. You’ll be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining high-performance, scalable applications.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable Java code.
• Work on Kotlin-based backend applications as per project requirements.
• Develop RESTful APIs and backend services.
• Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.
• Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to these problems.
• Participate in code reviews and contribute to team knowledge sharing.

PayPal is Hiring !!

Designation: Java back-end developer

Experience:3-7yrs

Location: Chennai, Tamilnadu (Work from OFFICE)

Job description :

Must have skills

3 to 5 years

Java, Spring Boot, Hibernate, REST API

Design Patterns

SQL, Oracle, Table design

Job Responsibilities:

* Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable Java code

* Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the applications

* Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to these problems

* Help maintain code quality, organization, and automatization

* Prepare the technical design of complex technology components

Mandatory Skills:

* Proficient in Java (JDK 1.7) or above JDK 8 preferable, with a good knowledge of its ecosystems with a knack for writing clean, readable Java code, writing reusable Java libraries along with knowledge of concurrency patterns in Java

* Solid understanding of object-oriented programming along with various design and architectural patterns

* Hands on experience with Spring, Spring Boot, JUnit

* Familiarity with concepts of MVC, Microservices, RESTful

• 2+ year of experience in Development in JAVA technology.
• Strong Java Basics
• SpringBoot or Spring MVC
• Hands on experience on Relationl Databases (SQL query or Hibernate) + Mongo (JSON parsing)
• Proficient in REST API development
• Messaging Queue (RabitMQ or Kafka)
• Microservices
• Any Caching Mechanism
• Good at problem solving

Good to Have Skills:

• 4+ 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.