Java Developer

Role Description : Senior Java Developer

As a senior developer you will be responsible to manage the software development life cycle from planning to prioritizing to testing and release. Responsibilities includes gathering system and team product requirements, building java modules and testing features before release. Should have hands on experience developing software with agile methodologies and are ready to lead our junior developers.

Responsibilities • Contribute to all phases of development lifecycle. • Planning of API workflow. • Understanding the requirements all the teams involved and planning the development process. • Write well designed, testable, efficient code. • Prepare and produce releases of software components. • Support continuous improvements by investigating alternatives and technologies and presenting these for architecture review. • Designing, implementing, and maintaining java applications that are often high-volume and low latency. • Identify bottlenecks and bugs and advise solutions to these problems. • Develop highly scalable REST APIs to use in our applications. • Guide the team and help them in any complex situations.

Required Qualifications We are looking for individuals who are curious, excited about learning, and navigating through the uncertainties and complexities that are associated with a growing company. Some qualifications that we think would help you thrive in this role are: • Minimum 8+ Years in a Java programming. • Expert hands-on knowledge of latest technology, good exposure to web technologies and open to all technologies like Java, J2EE, Spring Boot, Microservices, Cloud computing, any DB. • Very good exposure to DevOps concepts and tools, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery. • Quick learner believes in continuous learning and acts as a catalyst for building the culture within the organization. 

• Analytical thinking skills, problem solving with strong exposure to root causing tools and techniques and ability to come up with solutions in complex situations. • Familiar with various design and architectural patterns. • Bachelor/Masters of CS/IT Engineering, BCA/MCA, B Sc/M Sc in CS/IT

Preferred Qualifications • Deep insights of Java and J2EE internals such as memory management, transaction management, etc. • Skill for writing reusable Java libraries. • Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git. • Familiarity with build tools such as Ant, Maven, and Gradle. • Ability to work without guidance and under tight deadlines. • Result oriented and focused on meeting deliverable timelines. • Teamwork and willingness to listen to others. • Communicate effectively • Good knowledge of microservices. • Expertise in developing enterprise level web applications and RESTful APIs using Microservices with demonstrable production-scale experience. • Strong background working with Linux/Unix environments. • Working experience in industry standard protocols related API security. • Clear understanding of web services and SOA related standards like REST/OAuth/JSON.

Location: Bengaluru/Udupi (NO WORK FROM HOME OPTION)

Notice Period: Immediate Joining or Maximum 1 Month

Must Have: 

● Experience in Java or Core Java (7+ years) 

● Experience in SpringBoot (4+years) 

● Good Knowledge of Microservice, Multithreading, design pattern Concept 

● Framework: SpringBoot, Spring Security, JAX-RS, Hystrix, Kafka 

● ORM: Spring Data JPA. Hibernate 

● Cloud Service: AWS(MSK, S3), Serverless lambda Functions 

● Build tools: Maven, Gradle 

● Good To Have: Spring Webflux, Web Client, ecommerce domain experience. 

Who are we?  

Whatfix is the #1 Digital Adoption Platform (DAP) for Enterprises. We are disrupting the way Learning, Training and Application Support content is consumed. We provide large enterprises with a SaaS platform that helps accelerate product adoption and reduce support & training efforts by providing contextual and step by step guidance inside any web application at the exact time a task is being performed. The product has redefined the way companies onboard, train, and provide support to users. 

What sets us apart from the rest?

With over 100 of the Fortune 500 companies already onboard as customers, Whatfix has been named among the top 20 B2B tech companies alongside the likes of Adobe, PayPal, and Cisco.

With a YoY growth of 300%, we have also been recognized among the top 50 fastest growing SaaS companies worldwide in the SaaS 1000 list and as a Market Leader by Gartner in the Digital Adoption space. 

We are pleased to have an Employee rating of 4.6 on Glassdoor and our Customer obsession can be seen in our reviews on platforms like G2 Crowd & Gartner Peer Insights.

The employees are happy, the customers are happy, but what about the investors? Take a look for yourself - Sequoia Capital || Stellaris || Cisco || Eight Roads || Helion Ventures

“Hustle Mode ON” is something we live by.

Our Team:

The Engineering team at Whatfix provides end to end engineering throughput that forms part of core platforms and services that drive Whatfix business.

Our team is responsible for creating the Customer Platform and everything around it be it Analytics, Infrastructure or Core Algorithms. The team owns and is responsible for all pieces that we design, build and support end to end for Whatfix product/ business.

 Your Opportunity:

As part of the Core Engineering Team @Whatfix, you’ll have the opportunity to make a difference by being a part of the development team that builds future forward products. At Whatfix it’s all about scale. One of the key attributes of this job is that you are required to continuously innovate and apply technology to provide business 360 views of Whatfix customers.

 Your Responsibility:

1. Define architecture blueprints & take complete technical ownership of high-level design, tech stack, non-functional attributes of one or more components of various platforms
2. Design, build, test and deploy cutting edge solutions at scale, impacting millions of customers worldwide
3. Work closely with other architects in the team and ensure architectural consistency and technical excellence of the products and platforms
4. Work with engineering teams in building high-quality and highly resilient scalable products and platforms at Whatfix
5. Work with cross-functional teams to address all technical dependencies
6. Drive some of the company-wide tech initiatives striving towards continuous technical excellence of our platforms
7. Actively participate in technical innovations, external presentations, technical publications etc.
8. Identify right open source tools to deliver product features by performing research, POC/Pilot and/or interacting with various open-source forums
9. Deploy and monitor products on Cloud platforms

 Our Ideal Candidate:

You have a deep interest and passion for technology. You love writing and owning code and enjoy working with people who will keep challenging you at every stage. You have strong problem solving, analytic, decision-making and excellent communication with interpersonal skills. You are self-driven and motivated with the desire to work in a fast-paced, results-driven agile environment with varied responsibilities.

 Your Qualifications:

1. 11+ years of experience as an Engineer
2. Ability to work with teams in a collaborative and productive manner
3. Strong computer science fundamentals in data structures and algorithms
4. A self-motivated learner and builder with strong customer focus and obsession with quality

 Must-Have:

1. Strong Expertise in Backend Technologies- Java, Spring Boot, etc 
2. Expertise in working with AWS or other cloud infrastructures like Azure or Google Cloud, and using Infrastructure-as-Code tools
3. Analyze Functional & Non-Functional requirements with effort estimation and deployment strategies
4. Hands-on in Architecting and developing large scale applications
5. Hands-on debugging skills
6. Design for performance, scalability, fault tolerance and high availability

 Good to have:

1. Experience in Client-side technologies such as jQuery
2. Experience in Front End Technologies is good to have (Javascript, React)
3. Experience with Storage systems - NoSQL (Cassandra/MongoDB)
4. Leveraging cutting edge technologies like Kubernetes, Docker, etc. to design and build new infrastructure features

  Behavioural traits: 

1. Excellent communication and technical leadership skills
2. Can-do attitude to take BIG problems by their horns and solve them
3. Ability to inspire others & be a role model and mentor for upcoming engineers in the organization
4. Entrepreneurial spirit to conceive ideas, turn challenges into opportunities and build products

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status

Experience: 5+ Years

An  Architect  is a hands-on, talented, innovative, and practical individual with functional experience to design, implement and support the delivery of core products and product components.  

• Capable of working under minimal direction and exercising considerable latitude, they will provide technical expertise in developing solutions to complex software engineering problems, which require frequent use of ingenuity and creativity.
• Experienced in designing application framework solutions, performing architectural analysis, and identifying issues and provide solutions for the business problems.
• Sound functional knowledge of application architecture service architecture, code modularity, data synchronisation, customisable workflow management, partner application integration and API developer frameworks.
• Responsibilities:
• Lead the design and development of new architecture and major functional upgrades for the most advanced capabilities 
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to engineers, designers, and developers.
• Engage cross-organizational teams such as Product Management, Integrations, Services, Support, and Operations, to ensure the success of overall software development, implementation, and deployment.
• Requirements:

Ideal candidate should have

• 7+ years of system implementation experience 
• Experience with any of the following languages like Java / Nodejs / ROR / Python
• Expertise in micro service / Data modelling / AWS / Messaging
• Expertise in building scalable & reliable systems
• Good Experience in working with technologies like AWS, Redis,
• Experience in messaging systems like SQS/RabbitMQ
• Good knowledge of caching, Databases, distributed systems.
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills
• Good experience with Devops

You Will:

• Lead, coach and mentor a team of 8-10 engineers so they all learn, grow, and succeed.
• Plan and prioritize work for your team, including collaborating with cross border teams.
• Provide oversight and accountability for technical decisions.
• Create an inclusive environment that attracts and retains high-performing engineers.
• You will collaborate with Developers, Program Managers, QA and Devops Engineers in an agile development environment.
• Constantly learn and grow as an engineer and an engineering leader.
• Demonstrate a passion for customers and technology.


You must have:

• Experience in the design, development, and deployment of large-scale enterprise applications with multiple tiers
• Exposure on agile test-driven development for robustness, usability, reliability, security and performance.
• Strong technical aptitude for any programming language, preferred, Core JAVA and Spring Boot and other Spring libraries, Eureka, Hystrix etc.
• Experience of creating architecture or developing web services using Open source technologies and to integrate applications with databases such as Oracle, MySQL, MongoDB, or Cassandra
• Solid understanding of OOPS, algorithms and data structures.
• Experience on Kafka / Scala / Storm / Elastic Search and Web Services like RESTful.
• Experience in building highly scalable distributed systems
• Extensive experience with version control systems (Git is preferred) and issue tracking systems (JIRA is preferred)

Big Pluses if you:

• Have a strong focus on business outcomes
• Are comfortable with collaboration, open communication and reaching across functional borders
• Are self-motivated and can get things done
• Have the ability to communicate and defend your ideas clearly
• Have a strong knowledge of threading, concurrency, scaling, and high availability.
• Have a desire to build products that users love

• Stay current with new and evolving technologies via formal training and self-directed education

Responsibilities:

• Crawl the internet/intranet for issues people are facing and convert them in to stuctured data that would be consumed downstream.
• Familiar with the software development life cycle (SDLC) from analysis to deployment.
• Comply with coding standards and technical design.
• Adapts structured coding styles for easy review, testing, and maintainability of the code.
• Integrate the developed functionality and/or component into a fully functional system.
• Ensure unit and integration level verification plans are in place and adheres to the great quality of code at all times.
• Actively participate in troubleshooting, debugging and updating current live system.
• Verify user feedback in making the system more stable and easy.
• Work closely with analysts, designers, and other peer developers.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent practical experience.
• Understanding of OOPS concepts, Persistence, Threading.
• Good understanding of version control system (GIT).
• Knowledgeable in data structures and algorithms.
• A background in Engineering with sound oral and written communication skills.
• 6+ years of experience working on the server-side.
• Exposure to API designing, scalable architecture, and thorough understanding of systems.
• Great database modeling skills.
• Working knowledge of Databases, both relational (such as PostgreSQL) and in-memory database (such as Redis).
• Good understanding of web stack and how all the pieces fit together.
• Experience with open-source projects.
• Experience in designing interactive applications.