Java Developer

Job Summary

5-6 years of proven and progressive experience using Java, Spring Boot Web, OOP. Experience working with Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes CLI. A strong understanding of Object orientation, SOLID principles, Clean coding, and patterns is desirable.

Job Requirements

● Experience working with Java, Spring Boot Web, Gradle, OOP.

● Experience working with Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes CLI.

● Great OO skills, including strong design patterns knowledge. Understanding functional programming would be a plus.

● Strong understanding of TDD is desirable.

● You have led software development teams using Agile, Lean, and/or Continuous Delivery approaches such as TDD, continuous integration, pairing, and infrastructure automation.

● Passion for software engineering and craftsman-like coding process.

● Experience in developing applications integrating with RDBMS like Postgres.

Job Responsibilities

● You will use continuous delivery practices to deliver high-quality software as well as value to end customers as early as possible.

● You will work in collaborative, value-driven teams to build innovative customer experiences for our clients.

● Create large-scale distributed systems out of microservices.

● Efficiently utilize DevOps tools and practices to build and deploy software.

● You will oversee or take part in the entire cycle of software consulting and delivery from ideation to deployment and everything in between.

● You will act as a mentor for less-experienced peers through both your technical knowledge and leadership skills.

Perks

● Work-Life Balance

● Skill Development

● Object Bootcamp

● Sabbatical Leave

● Parental Leaves

● Office Perks (Free Meal, Snacks)

● Challenging work

Culture

● Open Culture

● Flat Hierarchy

● 360-degree feedback

● Mentorship Program

● People Supportive

● Competitive & Friendly Environment 

Lean provides developers with a universal API to access their customers' financial accounts across the Middle East. We recognized that infrastructure barriers were hindering fintech growth in our home markets and set out to build a solution. With Lean, developers at any level can now create advanced financial solutions without grappling with infrastructure complexities, allowing them to focus squarely on customer needs.

Why Join Us?

Our products have garnered enthusiastic feedback from both developers and customers. With Sequoia leading our $33 million Series A round, our debut in the GCC marks just the beginning. We're committed to expanding regionally and enhancing stakeholder value. If you thrive on solving challenges and making a lasting impact, Lean is the place for you.

We offer competitive salaries, private healthcare, flexible office hours, and ensure every team member holds meaningful equity. Join us on our journey of enabling the next wave of financial innovation!

About the Role

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in developing the infrastructure that supports the future of the financial ecosystem. We seek a motivated problem-solver who thrives on challenges and delivers compelling solutions. You'll lead knowledge sharing across our engineering team, mentor individuals, and contribute to complex feature design and development.

Requirements

- 8+ years of professional experience in Java, Spring Boot, and Microservices

- Proficiency in PostgreSQL, Kafka, Scripting, and REST

- Experience as a Squad/Tech Lead, adept at designing and developing complex features

- Worked in distributed teams and with open-source APIs

- Eagerness to learn and implement new technologies

- Familiarity with CI/CD and DevOps systems and processes

- Self-motivated with a preference for autonomy and ownership

- Startup experience and interest in the fintech industry, particularly Open Banking

Bonus

- Experience in developing payment solutions (p2p, B2C, B2B)

- Previous work in the financial sector

Join us and shape the future of fintech with Lean!

Responsibilities:

• Participation in the requirements analysis, design, development and testing of applications.
• The candidate is expected to write code himself/herself.
• The candidate is expected to write high level code, code review, unit testing and deployment.
• Practical application of design principles with a focus on the user experience, usability, template designs, cross browser issues and client server concepts.
• Contributes to the development of project estimates, scheduling, and deliverables.
• Works closely with QA team to determine testing requirements to ensure full coverage and best quality of product.
• There is also the opportunity to mentor and guide junior team members in excelling their jobs.

Requirements:

• BE/B. Tech. Computer Science or MCA from a reputed University.
• 3.5 - 6.5 Years of experience in software development, with emphasis on JAVA/J2EE Server side programming.
• Hands on experience in Core Java, Multithreading, RMI, Socket programing, JDBC, NIO, webservices and Design patterns.
• Should have Knowledge of distributed system, distributed caching, messaging frameworks ESB etc.
• Knowledge of Linux operating system and PostgreSQL/MySQL/MongoDB/Cassandra database is essential.
• Additionally, knowledge of HBase, Hadoop and Hive are desirable.
• Familiarity with message queue systems and AMQP and Kafka is desirable.
• Should have experience as a participant in Agile methodologies.
• Should have excellent written and verbal communication skills and presentation skills.

We are looking for Advance Java developers who want to help us design cutting edge scalable products to meet our rapidly growing business. We are building out a team and looking for multiple levels but you should have at least 6+ years of programming experience.

Key Responsibilities

• Build high availability and extreme reliable high volume transactional systems.
• Deliver reliable solutions that handle massive data and high traffic.
• Complete ownership of problem-free execution of owned modules and solutions.
• Focus on code optimization, code quality, maintainability etc.

Skills required

• Hands-on experience in Core J2EE or Core Java (collection, multithreading).
• Proficiency in Spring, Hibernate, Kafka, JDBC.
• Excellent data structure & algorithm and problem solving skills.
• Strong working knowledge of Databases – MySQL/NoSQL, OS - Windows/Linux.
• Experience and knowledge of open source tools & frameworks, broader cutting edge technologies around server side development.
• Should be an active contributor to developer communities like Stackoverflow, Topcoder, Github, Google Developer Groups (GDGs).
• Customer-focused, react well to changes, work with teams and able to multi-task.

Key Responsibilities 

Minimum Qualification 

• Involved in entire SDLC lifecycle including analysis, development, fixing and monitoring of issues on the assigned product lines.
• Meets and exceeds standards for the quality and timeliness of the work products.
• Implements, unit tests, debugs and leads integrations of complex code.
• Identify opportunities for further enhancements and refinements to best practices, standards and processes.
• Ensure robust, securely accessible, highly available and highly scalable product that meets or exceeds customer and end-user expectations

Experience

Technical Duties & Responsibilities

3 – 6 Years

With 2-4 years of experience in Scalable Architecture development. We are looking for Independent Contributors, who have good understanding of Microservices based architecture, and a comprehensive awareness of various architectures & their suitability as per product requirements: -

• Can solve problems independently, be responsible for the requirement analysis and design implementation of important business modules, and be familiar with the online deployment environment, able to independently analyse and quickly troubleshoot online faults.

• Familiar with JAVA programming principles, understand their advanced features and class libraries, network and server programming, multi-threaded programming, common open source products
• Experience in SOA EIP using Apache Camel Spring Integration

• High quality coding ability, reusability, low coupling, scalability, high performance, maintainability, high security

• Have the architectural design capabilities of modules and subsystems, master common architectural design methods and patterns

• Understand SOA, event-driven, distributed system principles, large-scale network application structure, message middleware, caching, load balancing, clustering technology, data synchronization, NoSQL

• Have the project experience of RabbitMQ or Kafka

• If the candidate has air fare industry experience, might be priority