Java Developer

Responsibilities and Duties:

● Java/Java EE application development while providing expertise in the full software development

life cycle, from concept and design to testing.

● Contribute to all phases of the development life cycle

● Write well designed, testable, efficient code

● Ensure designs are in compliance with specifications

● Prepare and produce releases of software components

● Support continuous improvement by investigating alternatives and technologies and presenting

these for architectural review

Required Skills:

● Should have strong knowledge of Core Java and OOPS concepts

● Sound knowledge of Web application development fundamentals and have worked on Servlets,

JSP and any MVC framework

● Strong analytical and reasoning skills and ability to learn and unlearn new technology on back

end as well as on front end

● Ability to understand functional and requirement specifications and transform them to solution

● Understand the client’s problem domain and suggest and implement solution which brings value

to the business

● Can estimate, develop and deliver project from start to end

● Should have professional service experience with any product

● Experience working with onshore team and ability to communicate with clients and stakeholders

● Ready to travel onshore

● Sound knowledge of RDBMS

● Can communicate well with clients and collaborate with cross functional team to deliver high

quality deliverable

● Should have knowledge of Agile/Scrum methodology

● Ability to work on microservices

Why Work at Staunchsys:

● Family Health Cover & Accidental Insurance

● Constant Learning

● Competitive Pay

● Flexible work timings

● 5 days working

● Complimentary Lunch & Snacks

● Personal accident insurance policy

● Encashment facility for both PL & SL

Role

Backend engineers at AssetSprout work on our products. They include software for Certified Financial Planners, their clients, and also internal admin tools. They work with the CTO, frontend engineers, and other backend engineers to deliver towards the company’s vision.

Responsibilities

• Develop and own product features end to end in a scalable, secure and maintainable way. The buck stops with you on whatever you own.
• Provide technical solutions through design, architecture and implementation. Wear multiple hats in delivering greenfield projects from concept to production. 
• Establish, advocate and bring your experience on coding styles, best practices, and in scaling the product from MVP to production.
• Iterate fast. Display maturity in prioritizing towards velocity while balancing quality. As a startup, we break or make on how fast we deliver.
• Teach and mentor other backend engineers. Focus on providing technical expertise and solutions regardless of how long one has been working professionally.

Requirements

• We are language and framework agnostic as long as you can pick up new technologies.
• Proficient and expert level coding skills with any of the programming languages, preferably Java, Kotlin. Experience in Python, C++, Scala etc. is welcome.
• Develop web applications and services using Spring Boot. Experience with Akka, Play, Flask, Django is welcome.
• Write automated tests with any of the frameworks. We measure success on how well your code is unit tested and integration tested.
• Advanced level understanding of RDMS systems, preferably Postgres. Working knowledge of non-relational databases such as DynamoDB, Cassandra is helpful
• Able to use CI/CD tools such as CircleCI, GitLab, Jenkins etc. and create workflows and pipelines to release to production every other day.
• Expert level understanding of RESTful APIs, pagination, networking concepts around HTTP, thread pools, and other server-side concepts.
• Solid experience of how AWS services work. Some cloud services directly relevant are Lambda, EC2, S3, Dynamo, RDS, Eventbridge, SQS, ElastiCache Redis, Load Balancers etc.

Good-to-haves

• Early or mid-stage startup experience
• Eager to work in a flat organization with no corporate politics
• Positive energy with a get-it-done attitude.
• Worked in a remote environment and high trust and high responsibility role
• Working knowledge of build systems like Gradle, Maven, Bazel, Webpack etc. We use Gradle

• 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.

• 6 to 8 years of experience with the majority as Java engineer
• Strong hands-on experience on building the application using technologies Java, Spring/Springboot/Microservices
• Experience in building Micro Services using Spring Boot would be a plus
• Strong knowledge and experience with SQL queries and databases like Postgre SQL/Oracle.