Java Developer

We are India’s fastest-growing digital trust platform offering services such as background verifications, reference checks, employee/staff onboarding, etc. We have completed more than 500+ million checks across 3000+ happy clients and since its inception, the company has shown continuous uptrend growth in an ever-changing business environment. As an organization, we are self-sustainable with positive cash flows.

At OnGrid, we are focused on redefining and reimagining Trust. We are leveraging APIs to build a digital trust platform all while being accountable that provides verified credentials instantly coming from the source directly. Having built the basic pillars of trust, we now want our imaginations to be let loose and think of avenues not explored and ways never implemented before. In this pursuit, we are looking for a motivated Staff Engineer (Backend) with experience in building high-performing, scalable, enterprise-grade applications, joining us, driving this vision, and taking it to a larger scale. If you are a visionary, always on the lookout for finding the right solutions, and a technology geek, constantly seeking to learn and improve your skillset, then you are the type of person we are looking for.

Roles & Responsibilities -

● Develop new user-facing features.

● Work alongside product to understand our requirements, and design, develop and iterate, think through the complex architecture.

● Writing clean, reusable, high-quality, high-performance, maintainable code.

● Encourage innovation and efficiency improvements to ensure processes are productive

● Ensure the training and mentoring of the team members

● Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs and optimize applications for maximum speed.

● Research and apply new technologies, techniques, and best practices.

Requirements -

• Bachelors/Masters in Computer Science or a related field

• 5 - 10 years of prior relevant experience

• Experience with web technologies and microservices architecture

• Java, Spring framework

• MySQL, Mongo, Solr, Redis,

• Kubernetes, Docker

• Excellent teamwork skills, flexibility, and ability to handle multiple tasks.

• Experience with API Design, ability to architect and implement an intuitive customer and third-party integration story • Ability to think and analyze both breadth-wise (client, server, DB, control flow) and depth-wise (threads, sessions, space-time complexity) while designing and implementing services

• Exceptional design and architectural skills

• Experience of cloud providers/platforms like GCP and AWS

What’s the opportunity?

Are you a backend developer looking to fast-track your learning and growth? Have you looked at world-class products like Asana, Notion, or Airtable, and felt “I wish I were part of the early team that built these products”?

We’re a team that has previously built and rolled out globally successful SaaS products used by tens of thousands of customers. We’re laser-focused on delivering a world-class product again, and looking for an ambitious backend engineer to join our existing team of 9 engineers. 

If it excites you to think of a fast-paced start-up environment, building something big from scratch, breaking down new problems, creating new APIs, working on performance issues, getting hands-on with DevOps initiatives, and showcasing demos of your work every Friday with a happy and passionate team, then this is the right opportunity for you.

Some of the tech problems you get to work on as a backend engineer would be to build the backend for a modern spreadsheet experience from scratch, work on infra as code, write robust code that is fault-tolerant, work on performant code that adheres to SLOs set by the organization.

About you:

● 3- 5 years of experience

● Expertise in the following areas ○ Java ○ HTTP Protocol

● You’ve heard of or worked with some of the following tech stacks/products ○ Spring ○ PostgreSQL ○ Redis ○ Docker ○ Message brokers ○ GitHub

● These non-functional areas are familiar to you ○ Performance ○ Debugging ○ Log management

Nice to have:

● Familiarity with AWS

What’s in it for me?

● Great opportunity: We genuinely care about everyone we hire. You’ll learn new things and grow no matter how experienced you are; you will be working with founders who have more than three decades of collective experience in building significant B2B SaaS startups.

● Great team: Work with a world-class, high-velocity team that truly embodies the values of empathy, curiosity, and customer-centricity. Check out the MTT(Meet The Team) videos on our LinkedIn.

● Great culture: An open, fun, and exciting startup culture that empowers its people to champion big problems with the freedom to think and innovate.

● Growth: You could easily and quickly transition into other roles you might like.

● Impact: You get to be part of a global, passionate team in a fast-paced and growth-oriented environment. The team has a work philosophy of being high on ambition, ownership, and a bias for action.

● Monetary rewards and benefits: Competitive stipend, flexible leave policy, and more

Role Description

The SDE 2/3 will be part of the engineering/development team in Games24x7 Pvt. Ltd. and will be responsible for taking ownership of the core products of the company. The applicant must have good communication, interpersonal, technical and analytical skills in order to take part in the collaborative and cooperative development process that delivers the high quality software we use to provide the best possible playing experience to our players. He/she must be an expert in the Java programming language and needs to be familiar with popular IDEs, tools and scripting languages on the Linux operating system. Familiarity with an RDBMS, preferably PostgreSQL, is essential to succeed in this position.

General Accountabilities/Job Responsibilities:

• Participate in the requirements analysis, design, development and testing of applications.
• Write clean and efficient code and stay hands-on with it.
• Write high level code, code review, unit testing and deployment.
• Ensure practical application of design principles with a focus on the user experience, usability, template designs, cross browser issues and client server concepts.
• Contribute to the development of project estimates, scheduling, and deliverables.
• Work closely with QA team to determine testing requirements to ensure full coverage and best quality of product.
• Take up the opportunities to mentor and guide junior team members in excelling their jobs.

Requirements:

• B.E. /B.Tech. in Computer Science or MCA from a reputed university.
• 3-12 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.
• Knowledge of distributed system, distributed caching, messaging frameworks, ESB etc.
• Experience in Linux operating system and PostgreSQL/MySQL/MongoDB/Cassandra database
• Additionally, knowledge of HBase, Hadoop and Hive is desirable.
• Familiarity with message queue systems and AMQP and Kafka is desirable.
• Experience as a participant in agile methodologies.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and presentation skills.
• This is not a fullstack requirement, we are looking for a purely backend expert.