Java Developer

Job Title: Java Engineering Manager/Lead

Experience range:- 10 + Years

Location:- Pune / Mumbai

Knowledge and Skills:

• Strong proficiency in Core Java, Spring Boot.
• Experience with RESTful APIs, microservices, and multithreading.
• Solid understanding of RDBMS (MySQL/PostgreSQL).
• Exposure to cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools like Jenkins, GitLab, or GitHub Actions.
• Background in Fintech, particularly Digital Lending, Supply Chain Finance, or Banking products.
• Experience working in agile/scrum environments.
• At least 3 years of experience leading/managing a team of Java developers.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead and mentor a team of Java developers, ensuring technical excellence and timely delivery.
• Actively participate in coding, code reviews, architecture decisions, and system design.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Product Managers, QA, and DevOps.
• Maintain a strong hands-on presence in backend Java development and microservices architecture.
• Own the end-to-end lifecycle of features from requirement to deployment and post-release support

Lead Software Engineer - Backend

It is evolving the way people discover the world by connecting them with exceptional experiences in their city at the push of a button. We are building a magical platform that gets everyone to head out and have fun in a matter of seconds; no matter where you are and what you want to do. We are combining a delightful product experience, data-driven decisions, sophisticated supply side logistics network, and world-class operations to solve a huge basic human problem: how do we have a good time?

We’re growing rapidly with over $200M in annualized sales, 150,000 monthly transactions and profitable unit economics. We are backed by some of the finest investors in Silicon Valley & India. 

We like to solve real-world problems in the simplest, most elegant manner possible. We’re looking for a QA Lead with the ability and passion for building solutions to people-centered problems that are created at the intersection of human behavior and technology. You should also be capable of building and mentoring a fast-growing passionate, young, and talented team. We love folks who have a sense of humor and know how to have fun.Dream, build and iterate. That's our mantra. Because good just isn't good enough.

👩‍💻 The Role

• Full responsibility of designing and building core modules on the application and infrastructure layer.
• Lead a fast-growing team of young, passionate, talented and fun loving superstars.
• Solve challenging architectural and design problems.
• Get your hands dirty with clustering, replication, databases, build systems and infrastructure automation etc.
• Be responsible for building concurrent, performant and scalable services which will power the entire Headout ecosystem.
• Build and contribute to open-source libraries and components.

🌟 Our Dream Engineer

• A penchant for learning and building with new technologies and frameworks.
• You love working with people and have worked in a lead position in the past.
• A knack for writing the most performance optimized code along with it being modular and scalable.
• No challenge is too big to solve; love thinking product and excited to ideate & build stuff all by yourself.
• You're interested in being an early employee at a growing company, with the influence and responsibility that entails.
• You have broad and deep knowledge across a variety of contemporary technologies.

💝 We like

• Strong CS fundamentals, good working knowledge of classic algorithms and data structures.
• 2+years experience developing server-side technologies using any language or framework.
• Excellent communication, collaboration and people management skills.
• Experience working with Spring, Relational Databases, Concurrent Programming, NoSQL flavors, AWS.
• Experience designing scalable, fault-tolerant systems and databases.
• Experience with setting setting up systems and infrastructure.
• Solid understanding of how the web works and its underlying communication protocols.
• People who can't live without solving that algorithm problem that they just stumbled upon.
• People who will give up anything to squeeze in that last bit-level performance.
• Anything else than can surprise us.
• Nice to Haves: An interest in travel, local experiences & hospitality.

Your tool box :

 Exp: 4+ Strong C/C++/C#/.net Core development skills with a good understanding of object-

oriented and multi-threaded design.

 Strong background of computer science fundamentals (data structures, algorithms)

 Passionate to learn and explore new technologies and demonstrates good analysis and

problem-solving skills.

 Good written and verbal communication skills, should be a quick learner and a team player.

 B.E. /B-Tech (CS/IT) • MCA/M.E./M-Tech (CS/IT)

Big Plus [ Mastering one or more of below ]:

 Network troubleshooting skills [ TCP/IP, SSH, HTTPS ]

 Hands on Kubernetes and Cloud environment

 Hands On experience on UNIX or LINUX operating systems.

 Strong with VoIP technologies [ SIP and RTP ]

 Good understating of SOA architecture

• Hands-on with Spring boot and Java coding. Core Java- Java 8/1.8.
• Experience should be with Springboot, Hibernate & Microservices
• Should be well versed with Microservices, OOPS, MVC Architecture, Web services & API development.
• Should be really strong in concepts and should be able to work independently
• Experience in web services connection

• Experience in designing & developing systems/software for large business environments (Java, J2EE).
• Strong design and coding skills in Enterprise Java, REST & SOAP web services, ORM (JPA/Hibernate), Spring, Maven, JMS (ActiveMQ), Caching, XML, JSON.
• Experience with multiple integration technologies / frameworks.
• Must have good experience in Unix/Oracle/SQL.
• Experience in Agile Development, Scrum, and Iterative approaches.
• Experience and exposure to AWS Cloud Services and DevOps mindset and expertise is a plus Experience with Mule or any ESB (Enterprise Service Bus) is a plus.

B.Tech./ BE - Computer, IT, Electronics only

Required Skills:

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

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.

• Experience in designing and developing web-based applications using Java, J2EE, Web Services, MVC framework, Servlets Spring, Hibernate, Struts, REST, MYSQL.
• Experience in Database application programming for MySQL server using
  Stored Procedures, Triggers, Views etc.
• Experienced in implementing presentation layer using JSP, HTML, CSS, Ajax, JQuery. Java script.
• Formulated AWS (EC2, S3, Elastic Beanstalk, RDS, Route53, SG, ELB, IAM, CloudWatch). (ABOVE ONLY NEEDED FOR 7+ EXPERIENCE)
• Experienced in Analysis, Design, Development, Integration, Deployment
  and Maintenance of Web services, Client Server and Web based applications.
• Well versed with Agile development process, Scrum.
• Good knowledge in version control system tools like GIT.
• Ability to take independent responsibility as well as ability to contribute and be a productive team member.
• Excellent analytical, logical and programming skills, Self-Motivated, Self-Starter, Team Player can work with minimal supervision with effective Communication
  skills and Organizational skills combined with attention and Time management skills.