Java Developer

Job Description:

We are looking for a Senior Java Developer with strong expertise in Apache Kafka and backend systems. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience in Java (8/11+), Spring Boot, and building scalable, real-time data pipelines using Kafka.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain backend services using Java and Spring Boot
• Design and implement Kafka-based messaging and streaming solutions
• Optimize Kafka performance (topics, partitions, consumers)
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable microservices
• Ensure code quality and maintain best practices in a distributed environment

Required Skills:

• 6+ years in Java development
• 3+ years of hands-on Kafka experience (producers, consumers, streams)
• Strong knowledge of Spring Boot, REST APIs, and microservices
• Familiarity with Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, and stream processing
• Experience with containerization (Docker), CI/CD, and cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure)

About Sun King

Sun King is the world’s leading off-grid solar energy company, delivering energy access to 1.8 billion people without reliable grid connections through innovative product design, fintech solutions, and field operations.

Key highlights:

• Connected over 20 million homes to solar power across Africa and Asia, adding 200,000 homes monthly.
• Affordable ‘pay-as-you-go’ financing model; after 1-2 years, customers own their solar equipment.
• Saved customers over $4 billion to date.
• Collect 650,000 daily payments via 28,000 field agents using mobile money systems.
• Products range from home lighting to high-energy appliances, with expansion into clean cooking, electric mobility, and entertainment.

With 2,800 staff across 12 countries, our team includes experts in various fields, all passionate about serving off-grid communities.

Diversity Commitment:

44% of our workforce are women, reflecting our commitment to gender diversity.

About the role:

The Backend Developer works remotely as part of the technology team to help Sun King’s EasyBuy business unit design and develop software to improve its field team operations.

What you will be expected to do

• Design and develop applications/systems based on wireframes and product requirements documents. 
• Design and develop logical and physical data models to meet application requirements. 
• Identify and resolve bottlenecks and bugs based on operational requirements.
• Perform unit tests on code to ensure robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability. 
• Write reusable and easily maintainable code following the principles of DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself). 
• Integrate existing tools and business systems, both in-house and external services, such as ticketing software and communication tools. 
• Collaborate with team members and product managers to understand project requirements and contribute to the overall system design. 

You might be a strong candidate if you have/are

• Have development experience: 1-2 years backend development experience and have strong problem-solving abilities, proficiency in data structures, and algorithms. 
• Have a profound grasp of object-oriented programming (OOPS) standards and expertise in Core Java. 
• Have knowledge of SQL, MySQL, or similar database management. 
• Have Experience in integrating web services, such as SOAP, REST, JSON, and XML. 
• Have familiarity with RESTful APIs for linking Android applications to backend services. 
• Have preferred experience with version control systems like Git, but not mandatory. 
• Have additional knowledge of web technologies like HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and frameworks like Spring or Hibernate would be advantageous. 

What we offer (in addition to compensation and statutory benefits):

• A platform for professional growth in a rapidly expanding, high-impact sector.
• Immerse in a collaborative culture, energized by employees of Sun King who are collectively motivated by fostering a transformative, sustainable venture.
• A genuinely global environment: Engage and learn alongside a diverse group from varied geographies and backgrounds.
• Tailored learning pathways through the Sun King Center for Leadership to elevate your leadership and managerial capabilities.

Overview

Telstra is Australia’s leading telecommunications and technology company, with operations in more than 20 countries, including In India where we’re building a new Innovation and Capability Centre (ICC) in Bangalore.

We’re growing, fast, and for you that means many exciting opportunities to develop your career at Telstra. Join us on this exciting journey, and together, we’ll reimagine the future.

Why Telstra?

• We're an iconic Australian company with a rich heritage that's been built over 100 years. Telstra is Australia's leading Telecommunications and Technology Company. We've been operating internationally for more than 70 years.
• International presence spanning over 20 countries.
• We are one of the 20 largest telecommunications providers globally and the largest telecom provider.
• At Telstra, the work is complex and stimulating, but with that comes a great sense of achievement. We are shaping the tomorrow's modes of communication with our innovation driven teams.

Telstra offers an opportunity to make a difference to lives of millions of people by providing the choice of flexibility in work and a rewarding career that you will be proud of!

Our GBS team

The mission of the Global Business Services (GBS) unit is to leverage talent, technology and partnership to create growth, value, innovation and differentiation via a service mindset. 

Our focus is to deliver great experiences, to simplify and innovate, and drive Telstra’s profitability across a global operating footprint.

The role with us

As a Senior Software Engineer, you thrive on understanding and translating customer needs into new products and capability. You apply deep technical expertise and experience in software application layer solutions, to develop and deliver scalable design blueprints across the end-to-end software development life cycle. Your continuous learning and improvement mindset, collaboration and influencing skills are critical to success in this role.

What you'll work on

As a Software Engineer, you will be working on development project which will be based on API transitions, API Management ,API Monetization engine (based on Java, Springboot & AWS) and high traffic transactions.

Key responsibilities

As a Senior Software Engineer, you apply deep experience and technical know-how in the Software Engineering domain with-

• 7-10 years of experience

• Design, build and maintain multiple complex software application technologies and their interaction with Telstra processes and systems

• Develop innovative software that maintains data/network security management, and leverage set processes to reduce the time between commission and production

• Authentically engage with and influence a multi-stakeholder landscape to translate customer needs into leading-edge software application products, services or systems that meet Telstra’s time, cost and quality standards 

• Collaborate with team members and key stakeholders, seeking support, direction and buy-in to gather deep insights about the challenges and opportunities of our software application technologies and platforms

• Significantly contribute to continuous improvement initiatives of our systems and processes, to help define ‘best practice’ corporate testing standards and drive improved outcomes (e.g. productivity, customer experience and/or profitability)

• Lead initiatives or components of initiatives in line with the strategic direction of your team/mission, that have a significant degree of impact to the function or cross-functionally

• Take ownership of your own actions and decisions to drive positive outcomes within your team/mission, and provide guidance to more junior engineers in order to support their development and contribution to team/mission outcomes 

Why join us?

The work is complex and challenging, but will put you at the forefront of technological change as it happens and offer you career experiences you won’t find anywhere else.

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We’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce in all its forms. We encourage applicants from diverse gender, cultural and linguistic backgrounds and applicants who may be living with a disability. We also offer flexibility in all our roles, to ensure everyone can participate. 

To learn more about how we support our people, including accessibility adjustments we can provide you through the recruitment process, visit tel.st/thrive.

Role: Senior Software Engineer – Backend                                            Location: Bangalore / Gurgaon / Pune

About the Role

The successful backend engineer will work closely and collaboratively with cross functional teams during all phases of the software development lifecycle.

The incumbent should be competent to provide quick solutions to problems and taking a product or a product’s component through the entire life cycle, optimize the space / time complexity and improve on usability and reliability.

What you’ll be doing:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field from top notch colleges 
• 4 + years of software development engineering.
• Understanding of fundamental design principles (including MVC).
• Good hands on in AWS scalable environment.
• Experience with different RDBMS and No SQL databases like MySQL, mongo, etc.
• Experience in designing scalable micro-services required.
• Strong knowledge of CS fundamentals including data structures, algorithm design and complexity analysis.
• Proficiency in one language that emphasizes class abstractions (for e.g. Java) and have coded in it for at least 4 years.
• Excellent communication, analytical and problem solving skills.
• Strong organizational skills and the ability to prioritize and work with clients with great efficiency.
• Excellent written and oral communication and presentation skills and the ability to express thoughts logically and succinctly.
• Open minded, Team builder, Good communicator and ability to lead and inspire teams.
• Demonstrated ability to achieve stretch goals in a highly innovative and fast paced environment.
• Experience in dealing with ambiguous/undefined problems; ability to think abstractly

What are we looking for?

• 4 to 10 years of hands on design / development experience. 
• Tech / M.Tech Computer Science or equivalent field from a premier institutes. 
• Proficient in Java OR C/C++, data structures, algorithms and OO design / design patterns. 
• Strong understanding of Computer Science fundamentals. 
• Technical depth in OS, computer architecture and OS internals. 
• Ability to write scalable and maintainable code. 
• Self-starter and goal-oriented with strong analytical and problem-solving skills. 
• Must be able to work cooperatively within a strong diverse technical community to expedite development tasks.
• Experience in Machine Learning is a plus

 
What we offer

• Competitive salary and excellent benefits, in a diverse working environment with inspiring and hardworking colleagues
• A positive, get-things-done workplace.
• An inclusive environment that ensures we listen to a diverse range of voices when making decisions.
• Ability to learn cutting edge concepts and innovation in an agile start-up environment with a global scale.
• A flexible working environment where you can drive your outcomes.

About us

At PayU, we are a global fintech investor and our vision is to build a world without financial borders where everyone can prosper. We give people in high growth markets the financial services and products they need to thrive. Our expertise in 18+ high-growth markets enables us to extend the reach of financial services. This drives everything we do, from investing in technology entrepreneurs to offering credit to underserved individuals, to helping merchants buy, sell, and operate online. Being part of Prosus, one of the largest technology investors in the world, gives us the presence and expertise to make a real impact. Find out more at www.payu.com

Our Commitment to Building A Diverse and Inclusive Workforce

As a global and multi-cultural organization with varied ethnicities thriving across locations, we realize that our responsibility towards fulfilling the D&I commitment is huge. Therefore, we continuously strive to create a diverse, inclusive, and safe environment, for all our people, communities, and customers. Our leaders are committed to create an inclusive work culture which enables transparency, flexibility, and unbiased attention to every PayUneer so they can succeed, irrespective of gender, color, or personal faith. An environment where every person feels they belong, that they are listened to, and where they are empowered to speak up. At PayU we have zero tolerance towards any form of prejudice whether a specific race, ethnicity, or of persons with disabilities, or the LGBTQ communities.

As Back end developer, we expect you to be motivated in solving real-life complex problems and create compelling experiences for our Resellers. Being a small company we have a culture of creative problem solving, intellectual design, fast-paced development, and passionate product delivery. Enhance or build Restful web services for our mobile app.

Responsibilities:

• Develop server-side components, REST APIs
• Assume ownership for existing and new modules including design, development, and unit testing for enhancements of existing modules and development of new modules.
• Analyse problems logically and exercise sound judgment in defining, evaluating, and solving difficult technical and operational problems where solutions may be of a precedent-establishing nature.
• Lead the design and architectural improvements
• Participate and collaborate with team members in design discussions, determines areas of complexity, potential risks to successful implementation, suggest enhancements to architecture, implement POCs, and enhance application.
• Reduce technical debt with quality coding

Requirements:

• A solid grounding in Computer Science fundamentals (based on a BS or MS in CS or related field) from IITs and Premier Engineering College.
• Excellent Object Orientation, coupled with excellent problem solving and debugging skills.
• Highly skilled at Java and related technologies, including Java Frameworks like Spring-boot or Drop wizard, RESTful web services, JSON, Servlet, JSP, MySQL, MongoDB, Kafka, AWS Solr.
• Must have hands-on experience in building scalable and secure back end systems.
• Have hands-on experience with systems that are asynchronous, RESTful and demand concurrency
• Good to have knowledge of best software engineering practices for all stages of the software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, testing, deployment.