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

• Required 4+ years of experience in Java.
• Hands on professional experience using Core Java, Java Restful APIs, Gradle, Spring, Spring Boot and related frameworks.
• Hands on experience creating/consuming web services and data Data queries in SQL
• 2+ years’ experience of working with geographically dispersed teams, that fall across different time zones
• Experience with distributed architecture including web services and technologies
• Developing POCs
• Working knowledge of JIRA or other ALM tools to create a productive, high quality development environment

This is for our Chennai Office , however work from home can be considered during pandemic or lockdowns .

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• Good in Core Java, Multithreading, J2EE, web services (REST, SOAP).
• In-depth knowledge on Java Script and object-oriented technique .
• Should be able to work independently
• Familiar on Front-end technologies like AngularJS framework, HTML5, CSS3 is a real Plus

About theAsianparent : theAsianparent is a reproductive health-tech company that reaches out to 30 million mothers every month through our parenting website and app. Our vision is to improve the overall health of pregnant women, mothers and families in South East Asia by helping them navigate their most important moments with data-driven solutions and information in the form of content, community and physical products.

Headquartered in Singapore, theAsianparent has offices in Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, India, Sri Lanka, Hong Kong and Nigeria. Our investors include Fosun, JD.com,Vertex Ventures and others.

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We are looking for a Backend Engineers with 4+ years of experience to join our team. This is unique opportunity for a driven and insightful Engineer to join the leading growth-stage start up in the most meaningful segment of the economy(parents) in the core market of Singapore. This is a role where careers are made, if you are upto the challenge, and keen to work with world-class teams.

Work Experience : 4 years & above

About the Role :

This role is based in our India Office, reporting to the Head of Development.  

Experience: PHP Developer: 3 - 5 Years

Job Specifications:

• Required (Must Have) skills : Wordpress, Core PHP, OOPS Concept, MySQL, Github
• Desired (Good to have) skills : Linux Command, Basic HTML5 & CSS3, JS/Jquery Ajax, Third-party APIs

Requirements:

1. Must be a self-starter & be able to work with minimum supervision
2. Basic architectural understanding of modern day web applications and enjoy designing a system for speed and scale.
3. Should be able to create a website in HTML, Wordpress, WooCommerce and Laravel (Good to have)
4. Highly Proficient with PHP, MySQL, JQuery, JavaScript, MVC Architecture, OOPs & XSLT
5. Excellent knowledge of PHP frameworks and MVC design patterns
6. Experience of creating database schema
7. Experience with CI/CD tools like jenkins is a plus.
8. Experience with testing and automation frameworks.
9. Good knowledge and experience in AGILE and SCRUM methodologies.
10. Working knowledge of AWS Services, Web Services/REST API etc.
11. Understanding of SEO is plus

What can you expect :

• A fast-paced environment to learn and grow in your career with a market leader with ambitious growth plans.
• Opportunities to learn about and work in different areas of content creation and management and become a well-rounded digital media content professional.
• Dynamic and supportive work culture.
• A passionate team of people working tirelessly to help women across South East Asia and beyond.

About the Role

If you are interested in developing the future architecture of Uber's Rider stack by building its core building blocks, join the Rider Backend Platform team. We build backend architectural components and frameworks comprising of services, libraries, state storage and other building blocks that aim to optimise the core Rider flow and foundational features that are shared among all rider products, including but not limited to, Uber Rider app, UberLite, m.uber.com, etc.

What You'll Do

• Work with Rider product engineering teams to identify, design and build solutions that help scale Rider services and platforms.
• Drive adoption of best practices in code health, testing, and maintainability
• Analyze and decompose complex software systems and collaborate with cross-functional teams to influence design for scalability and testability
• Work with smart and motivated teammates in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
• Build elegant backend platform components for high throughput and low latency distributed systems.
• Solve challenging problems with cutting edge design and algorithms.

What You'll Need

• 4+ years Strong meaningful Individual contributor experience as a software engineer
• Design: Knowledge of data structures and an eye for design. You can discuss the tradeoff between design choices, both on a theoretical level and on an applied level.
• Strong coding/debugging abilities: You have advanced knowledge of at least one programming language, and are happy to learn more. Our core languages are Go and Java.
• Fast learner: We're looking for software engineers who thrive on learning new technologies and don't believe in one-size-fits-all solutions. You should be able to adapt easily to meet the needs of our massive growth and rapidly evolving business environment.
• A team player: You believe that you can achieve more on a team -- that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. You rely on others' candid feedback for continuous improvement.

• Business acumen: You understand requirements beyond the written word. Whether you're working on an API used by other developers, an internal tool consumed by our operation teams, or a feature used by millions of customers, your attention to details leads to a delightful user experience.

About the Team: **Rider Backend Platform**

Builds the core building blocks needed to power the rider experiences on the different Rider facing apps including the core Uber app, Uber Lite, Web as we move on to become the preferred transportation platform for millions of riders all over the world.

Uber

At Uber, we ignite opportunity by setting the world in motion. We take on big problems to help drivers, riders, delivery partners, and eaters get moving in more than 600 cities around the world.

We welcome people from all backgrounds who seek the opportunity to help build a future where everyone and everything can move independently. If you have the curiosity, passion, and collaborative spirit, work with us, and let's move the world forward, together.