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

About Root Node

We’re an early-stage startup building intelligent tools for planning, scheduling, and optimization—starting with timetabling and warehouse logistics. Backed by deep domain expertise and a growing customer pipeline, we’re now building our core tech team. This is not just a coding job — it's a chance to build something meaningful from the ground up.

About the job

• Design and implement robust backend systems and APIs using Java or similar backend language and Spring Boot or equivalent frameworks
• Integrate backend services with existing custom ERP systems 
• Work closely with the founder on product architecture, feature prioritization, and go-to-market feedback
• Take full ownership of features — from system design and development to deployment and iterative improvements
• Help shape our engineering culture and technical foundations

You're a Great Fit If You:

• Have 3+ years of experience in backend development
• Are strong in Java or similar languages (e.g., Kotlin, Go, Node.js)
• Have solid experience with Spring Boot or equivalent backend frameworks
• Have integrated with ERP or enterprise systems in production environments
• Are comfortable with both SQL (PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB)
• Understand REST API development, authentication, Docker
• Have an entrepreneurial mindset — you're excited about ownership, ambiguity, and making decisions that shape the product and company
• Want more than just a job — you want to build, solve, and learn rapidly

What We Offer

• Competitive salary
• High degree of ownership and autonomy
• Ability to shape the tech and product direction from Day 1
• Transparent and fast decision-making culture
• A builder’s environment — solve real-world problems with real impact

Opportunity Summary

We are looking for an enthusiastic engineer with experience building Salesforce AppExchange apps to lead the development of Salesforce connectors for our marketing technology products.

What would you do?

·      Collaborate with stakeholders in establishing application requirements, determining features, creating customer-friendly solutions, and determining support needs and performance requirements. 

·      Plan, design, develop, test, and deploy software to satisfy these requirements. 

·      Work according to the agile programming application development methodology adhered to including test-first, iterative development, and continuous re-prioritization.  

·      Support the maintenance of our hosted technology solutions. 

·      Work with other team members in accomplishing group objectives and participating in code reviews. 

·      Ensure timely and robust implementation of the company’s development plans.

·      Ensure that all relevant parties are kept up to date on progress of projects and give feedback on an ongoing basis. 

·      Contribute to the review, selection, and adoption of proprietary tools and technologies. 

·      Use specialist knowledge and experience of information technology to provide technical advice and vision.

Technical Skills

The following skills are needed for this role.

Experience

·      3+ years’ experience in web application design and development 

·      Bachelor’s Degree in relevant discipline or equivalent experience 

Primary Skills

·      Strong background in Java development

·      Experience working with databases and/or CRM systems. 

·      Experience with, or willingness to learn the Salesforce platform

Secondary Skills (nice to have)

·      Experience with Salesforce APEX, VisualForce, SOQL, etc. 

·      Experience building and maintaining Salesforce AppExchange apps. 

·      AWS ecosystem and tools, developing for serverless environments. 

·      Front-end expertise: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, etc. 

·      Other languages such as JavaScript, Typescript, C#, Ruby, Python, PHP, etc. are all valuable. 

Soft Skills

·      Thrives collaborating in a team environment with a diverse range of people.

·      Passionate about delivering an amazing customer experience.

·      Able to have a change of mind, and able to change the minds of others.

·      Writes clearly and concisely.

·      Capable of working without a company office, with a fully remote team.

Growth Skills

·      Possesses a good work ethic; a self-starter with a desire to grow.

·      Always looking for better ways to get the job done.

Applicant must have a min of 4 years of experience as a Java Developer and a Min of 2 years on Spring boot, Augular knowledge must, having an experience in Angular would be an added advantage.

Detailed JD

Resources with below skill sets :

- Angular JS

- Spring MVC

- Spring Boot

- Hibernate

- PostgreSQL

- Drools

- SVN

- Jenkins

- SonarQube

- Foresighted & good judgement in problem solving.

- Capable of paying attention to detail.

- Good analytical and logical thinking.

- Prioritizing and organizing

- Team Player with positive attitude.

- Process knowledge/Technical expertise

- Good Written and Verbal communication Skills

- Analyse & understanding of the SRS.

- Report queries on the SRS/Requirement.

- Prepare low level design document

- Prepare Unit test cases

Job Summary:

• Willingness to work on highly scalable cloud-native solutions based on microservices.
• Quickly learn the technologies and deliver using the same.
• Take complete ownership of the customer requirements.
• Motivated to deliver world-class quality.
• Inclined to bring new ways of thinking, working and providing solutions.
• Drive the concept of quality into everybody and have a zero-tolerance towards bad quality.

• Understand requirements from product management, customer and able to comprehensively break this down to manageable tasks.

Experience:

● 3-9 years of development experience.

Technical Skills:

Mandatory:

• Java - Advanced concepts concurrency, reflection, lambda, Java Springboot, Spring security,
• Actuator/Prometheus/Grafana/Servo (metrics),
• EFK/ELK stack (log analysis)
• OpenAPI/Swagger (documentation)
• RDBMS (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Maria or any other)
• NoSQL (Anyone of Mongo DB, Redis, Cassandra, Neo4J or other DBs)
• Automated unit tests/e2e tests (JUnit, TestNG, RestAssured etc)
• CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Sonar, Maven/Gradle etc)

Optional: (But highly recommended)

• NewSQL DB (TiDB, CockroachDB)
• AMQP/RabbitMQ
• Kafka
• Docker
• Kubernetes