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

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced Java + Kafka Developer to design, develop, and maintain high-performance, event-driven applications. The ideal candidate will have strong backend development skills in Java and hands-on experience with Apache Kafka for building scalable, real-time data processing systems.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and develop event-driven microservices using Java and Apache Kafka
• Build and maintain Kafka producers, consumers, topics, and streams
• Implement message processing, retries, error handling, and idempotency
• Develop and integrate RESTful APIs
• Ensure high availability, scalability, and performance of Kafka-based systems
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize Kafka and application performance
• Collaborate with architects, DevOps, and QA teams
• Participate in code reviews and follow best practices
• Contribute to system design and technical discussions

Required Skills

• 6+ years of experience in Java backend development
• Strong hands-on experience with Apache Kafka
• Experience with event-driven and streaming architectures
• Solid understanding of microservices architecture
• Experience with REST APIs
• Good knowledge of multithreading, concurrency, and JVM concepts
• Familiarity with SQL / NoSQL databases
• Strong problem-solving and debugging skills

Context for the Candidates:

Blockchain engineers are tasked with building secure, scalable, and high-performance decentralized applications. This discussion focuses on how to utilize key technologies—Node.js, Rust, Go, TypeScript, Ethers.js, viem, and Hardhat—in smart contract and blockchain system development, while addressing the practical challenges that arise in such projects.

Key Discussion Points:

• How do you integrate Node.js, Rust, Go, and TypeScript in blockchain-backed applications?

• Discuss the trade-offs between using Rust or Go for performance-critical blockchain services.

• What are the key challenges in ensuring the security and scalability of smart contracts using tools like Ethers.js, viem, and Hardhat?

• How do you approach testing, debugging, and deploying smart contracts in a decentralized environment?

• Share best practices for gas optimization, contract upgradability, and backend scalability.

Evaluation Criteria:

1. Technical Knowledge:

• Strong knowledge of Node.js, Rust, Go, and TypeScript with practical experience in blockchain development.

• Proficiency in Ethers.js, viem, Hardhat, and smart contract lifecycle (development, testing, deployment).

• Understanding of security best practices, performance optimizations, and scalability in decentralized systems.

2. Problem-Solving and Integration Skills:

• How candidates approach integrating smart contract solutions with backend services using Node.js, Rust, Go, and TypeScript.

• Solutions proposed for common challenges in blockchain projects such as gas fees, security vulnerabilities, and system bottlenecks.

3. Experience and Expertise:

• Minimum of 2 years of IT experience, including hands-on development with the specified technologies.

• Practical knowledge of blockchain architecture, consensus mechanisms, and decentralized application deployment.

4. Innovation and Critical Thinking:

• Candidates’ ability to think creatively about system architecture, proposing scalable and secure solutions for blockchain-based applications.

• Discussion on the future potential of blockchain technology and how the tech stack can evolve.

5. Communication and Team Collaboration:

• Clear articulation of technical challenges and how to address them in a team setting.

• Ability to lead or contribute to discussions in a way that encourages collaboration and team-driven problem-solving.

Reward360 powers a data-driven customer engagement ecosystem that enables the world’s leading organisations to earn customer loyalty every day. For over 10 years, R360’s loyalty and reward platforms have driven ambitious loyalty programs for some of the world’s biggest brands – including Axis Bank, Standard Chartered Bank, HDFC Bank and Emirates National Dubai Bank. We have 500+ global retail partnerships and offer our clients reward programs, nuanced customer segmentation, data-centric campaigns, and big data analytics.

You will architect, design & build large scale software systems for loyalty, rewards, commerce and payments that are directly used by customers of large banks. You will have the opportunity to build systems end to end and improve & influence customer behavior. You will also influence best practices and drive how we operate large systems in an efficient manner. If you are excited about this opportunity and meet the requirements laid out below, we would like to talk to you! 

What you’ ll do: 

1. Work as Core Java developer with prime focus on Backend 

2. End to end development from design to development 

3. Code & design review of peers 

4. Troubleshoot critical issues and guide team as well 

What we’ll need: 

1. Overall 4-6 years of experience 

2. 3+ years of hands-on experience in Java/J2EE technologies 

3. Strong Data structures & algorithm skill 

4. Strong communication & design skills 

Technical Skills 

1. Core Java (Collection, multi-threading, design patterns) 

2. Frameworks - Hibernate, Spring, REST Jersey 

3. Front end technologies – Java Script, jQuery, Angular 

4. Database – SQL & NoSQL 

5. Modelling – UML & ERD 

Bonus point if: Candidate from product company would be preferred

Qualifications:

• A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (or equivalent experience)
• M-Tech or advanced degree a plus
• Hackathon participation and accolades are a plus

Job Role:

• 4+ years of object-oriented Java / J2EE development
•  Full SDLC experience (requirements gathering, architecture, development, QA, etc)…
•  Experience with Spring (MVC, IOP/DI, REST, Security) & Hibernate/Spring
•  Experience with SOAP / REST web services
•  Knowledge of SQL
•  Knowledge of No SQL concepts, understanding of Solr, Redis and Mongo DB is desirable
•  Must have worked on any one messaging solutions
•  Bonus Points for micro service design and development experience
•  Bonus points for any mobile development experience
•  Used Agile methodology
•  Bonus Points for experience working on Unix, shell scripting & Build Systems
•  Experience in performance optimization is an added advantage

•  5+ years of experience developing web applications using J2EE.
•  5+ years of experience in Spring Boot.
•  Good knowledge of MicroServices.
•  Experience working with tools like Git, Maven.
•  Expertise developing enterprise-level web applications and RESTful APIs using MicroServices, with demonstrable production-scale experience.
•  Working experience in Industry Standard protocols related API Security including OAuth is a must.
•  Demonstrate strong design and programming skills using JSON, Web Services, XML, XSLT, PL/SQL in Unix and Windows environments.
•  Strong background working with Linux/UNIX environments.
•  Strong Shell scripting experience.
•  Working knowledge with Oracle, DB2 or Mongo DB databases.
•  Passion to stay on top of the latest happenings in the tech world and an attitude to discuss and bring those into play.
•  Strong agile/scrum development experience
•  Strong collaboration and communication skills within distributed project team
•  Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Profile: Java developer (2-4 years) - Noida

MUST Have: Core Java, data structure

NP: Immediate to 30 Days

Salary : Upto 9 LPA

MUST Haves: Java 1.8, Core Java, Data structure

Requirements:

• Java 1.8 version with Collections, Multithreading working knowledge –(Mandatory)
• Data Structures, BPM-Alfresco & Groovy 

• Excellent Java programming skills.
• Experience in Web application Technologies like JAVA/JSP, HTML, Javascript, and CSS.
• Development experience using Java Spring Boot, Maven
• Knowledge and Experience in using REST API
• Experience in Database Query Languages.
• Experience in designing new application framework or migrating to new framework architecture, redesign, working on POC
• Should be open for understanding debugging the architecture of legacy systems and suggest changes wherever applicable.
• Experience in frameworks like Spring, Hibernate
• Experience in Multi-tier development/deployment of Web Application
• Experience in Producing and Consuming RESTful Web Services
• Strong in developing complex SQL Scripts to generate reports
• Familiarity in Maven, Gitx
• Familiarity in Unit Testing (JUnit)
• Familiarity with Continuous Integration tools (Jenkins etc)

Role/ Responsibilities

• Lead a team of hard working backend developers. 
• Design APIs, DB, Queues, monitoring for micro services. 
• Writing, deploying and managing micro services. 
• Migrate existing components into distributed micro service architecture. 
• AWS Cloud / Google Cloud Platform (Manage Infrastructure). 
• API integration with 3rd parties. 
• Unit test cases, automation. 
• Database optimisation. 
• Design of highly concurrent backend architecture. 
• Handling high traffic data. 

Experience required: 

• Sound fundamentails in software design. 
• Must have worked on distributed and micro service architecture. 
• Sound fundamentals on scale/ performance/ memory optimisation. 
• Sound fundamentals of authentication, authorization, payment processes, data security. 
• Must have experience in Spring / Spring boot. 
• Good to have experience in Kafka / JMS / RabbitMQ / AWS Elastic queue. 
• Good to have experience in Junit / mockito unit test cases. 
• Good to have knowledge in Mysql (or any RDBMS).