Java Developer

We’re looking for an Engineering Manager to guide our micro-service platform and mentor a fully remote backend team. You’ll blend hands-on technical ownership with people leadership—shaping architecture, driving cloud best practices, and coaching engineers in their careers and craft.

Key Responsibilities:

Area

What You’ll Own

Architecture & Delivery

• Define and evolve backend architecture built on Java 17+, Spring Boot 3, AWS (Containers, Lambdas, SQS, S3), Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL/MySQL, Databricks, Redis etc...

• Lead design and code reviews; enforce best practices for testing, CI/CD, observability, security, and cost-efficient cloud operations.

• Drive technical roadmaps, ensuring scalability (billions of events, 99.9 %+ uptime) and rapid feature delivery.

Team Leadership & Growth

• Manage and inspire a distributed team of 6-10 backend engineers across multiple time zones.

• Set clear growth objectives, run 1-on-1s, deliver feedback, and foster an inclusive, high-trust culture.

• Coach the team on AI-assisted development workflows (e.g., GitHub Copilot, LLM-based code review) to boost productivity and code quality.

Stakeholder Collaboration

• Act as technical liaison to Product, Frontend, SRE, and Data teams, translating business goals into resilient backend solutions.

• Communicate complex concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences; influence cross-functional decisions.

Technical Vision & Governance

• Own coding standards, architectural principles, and technology selection.

• Evaluate emerging tools and frameworks (especially around GenAI and cloud-native patterns) and create adoption strategies.

• Balance technical debt and new feature delivery through data-driven prioritization.

Required Qualifications:

● 8+ years designing, building, and operating distributed backend systems with Java & Spring Boot

● Proven experience leading or mentoring engineers; direct people-management a plus

● Expert knowledge of AWS services and cloud-native design patterns

● Hands-on mastery of Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL/MySQL, and Redis for high-volume, low-latency workloads

● Demonstrated success scaling systems to millions of users or billions of events Strong grasp of DevOps practices: containerization (Docker), CI/CD (GitHub Actions), observability stacks

● Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills in a remote-fi rst environment

Nice-to-Have:

● Hands-on experience with Datadog (APM, Logs, RUM) and a data-driven approach to debugging/performance tuning

● Startup experience—comfortable wearing multiple hats and juggling several projects simultaneously

● Prior title of Principal Engineer, Staff Engineer, or Engineering Manager in a high-growth SaaS company

● Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools (Copilot, CodeWhisperer, Cursor) and a track record of introducing them safely

Job Title: Engineering Manager (Java / Spring Boot, AWS) – Remote

Leadership Role

Location: Remote

Employment Type: Full-time

Founded in 2012,leader in high-assurance digital identity verification technology.  Named to Forbes’ 2019 AI 50 list as one of America’s most promising AI companies, and a recent winner of API World’s Best Data API, technology applies artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques with trusted online/offline data intelligence from email, address, phone, IP, social media and the broader Internet to verify identities in real-time. Customers include three of the top five U.S. banks, seven of the top 10 U.S. card issuers, as well as the majority of leading digital banks, lenders and insurers across the U.S. We are funded by some of the world's best investors and entrepreneurs including Scale Venture Partners, Commerce Ventures, Work-Bench, Santander InnoVentures and Two Sigma Ventures.

The only way we can further our mission of becoming the single, trusted source of identity verification and eliminating identity fraud is by building the best team on the planet. This is where you come in!

We are hiring Software Engineers across all levels in Chennai!

What You'll Be Doing:

• You will partner with our globally distributed cross-functional teams (Product, Infrastructure, Engineering, Data Science) to conceptualize and develop new features and products in an Agile environment. 
• You will own end-to-end delivery of software components all the way to production, owning team features or systems. 
• You will be building web services and REST APIs at scale, and producing high-quality results with direct business impact. 
• You will be monitoring and improving existing deployments, ensuring that we are continuously improving our product. 
• You will be assisting our QA and support team in triaging and resolving production issues and addressing bugs.

What You'll Bring:

• You are interested in our tech stack (Java or Scala, SQL Databases, NoSQL, Microservices, and AWS)
• You will have strong computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, various programming languages, distributed systems, etc. 
• You understand engineering best practices and seek to improve engineering standards, tooling and processes. 
• You write “good code” - easily understandable, secure and testable! 
• You are comfortable helping drive technical decisions within our Engineering team. 
• You have experience building applications at scale.

Perks & Benefits:

• Competitive base salary
• Equity - every employee is a stakeholder in our enormous upside
• A tech-first company culture driven by entrepreneurial thinking and talent
• A great team working in unison towards the same mission
• Transparency is what our product is built on—and so is our culture
• Daily catered lunch and snacks
• Generous health insurance for employees and dependents
• Flexible work schedule and work-from-home options
• Flexible PTO

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity of all kinds 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. 

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.

Responsibilities

• Understand existing business operations tool used by customer support and business teams.
• Work with Engineering Manager to upgrade the system to improve system stability and response times.
• Independently lead design and implement new features as per business requirements provided by Product Management team.
• Develop elegant, modular and maintainable solutions. Document all design, operations steps for knowledge sharing purposes.
• Guide junior team members on feature implementation and provide relevant training on existing modules.

Must-know Technologies

• Java EE
• Java Server Facelets (JSF)
• Java Persistence API (JPA), Hibernate
• SQL
• HTML, CSS, JavaScript
• Payara/GlassFish/similar application server environments

Preferred Skills

• 2-8 years of overall experience in software design and development.
• Ability to analyze existing application, implement new features and re-architect the application in case of inefficiencies.
• Strong object-oriented skills and ability to apply design patterns.
• Experience mentoring junior engineers on development, code review, project planning.

We are a Fintech Start up targeting to capture $ 900 BN consumer payment &lending opportunity. We are building platform of the future in which the offline / online merchants would be able to expand their consumer base. We also empower merchants to collect payment digitally and help build their identity through our offerings.

Consumers would be able to make their purchase decisions and would get the options to convert their purchases in to easy EMIs

• Developing front end website architecture
• Designing user interactions on web pages
• Developing back end website applications
• Creating servers and databases for functionality
• Ensuring cross-platform optimization for mobile phones
• Ensuring responsiveness of applications
• Working alongside graphic designers for web design features
• Seeing through a project from conception to finished product
• Designing and developing APIs
• Meeting both technical and consumer needs
• Staying abreast of developments in web applications and programming languages.

• Java 8 and above
• Experiencein databases Mongodb, MySQL, SQL Oracle etc.
• Working knowledge in IOC Container / Spring boot& ORM, Spring Security, AOP JMS.
• Experience in Microservices, Eureka, Zuul, Ribbon would be an added advantage.
• Experience with build tools like Ant, Gradle or Maven and troubleshoot build issues.
• Should have exposure to GIT, Jira etc..
• Develops resealable frameworks/components and POCs based on Product Architecture RoadMap.
• Uses best practices during web services implementations and works with the REST
• Strong analytic problem-solving skills.
• Proactive work ethic.

Locus is a global decision- making platform in the supply chain that uses deep learning and proprietary algorithms to provide route optimization, real-time tracking, insights and analytics, beat optimization, efficient warehouse management, vehicle allocation and utilization, intuitive 3D packing and measurement of packages. Locus automates human decisions required to transport a package or a person, between any two points on earth, delivering gains along efficiency, consistency, and transparency in operations.

Locus, which has achieved a peak of 1 million orders processed in a day (200,000 orders an hour) and is trained & tested on over 100 million+ order deliveries, works in 75 cities across the globe. Locus works with several large-scale market leaders like Urban Ladder, Tata Group of Companies, Droplet, Licious, Rollick, Lenskart, other global FMCG, pharma, e-commerce, 3PL and logistics conglomerates.

Locus is backed by some of the biggest names in the market and recently raised $22 MN in Series B funding and also $4 Mn in a pre-Series B round. Earlier, In 2016, Locus raised $2.75 Mn (INR 18.3 Cr) in a Series A funding.

Locus was started by Nishith Rastogi and Geet Garg, two ex-Amazon engineers on a mission to democratize logistics intelligence for businesses across industries. Nishith was profiled by Forbes Asia in their ’30 Under 30’ 2018 list. Geet, on the other hand, holds a dual degree (BTech and MTech) in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology. Our team constitutes of engineers from Indian Institute of Technology and Birla Institute of Technology & Science- Pilani, and Data Scientists with PhDs from Carnegie Mellon University and Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. Our multifaced product and business team is led by senior members from Barclays, Google & Goldman Sachs with immense operational execution experience.

Job Description

• Design & implement backend APIs at Locus.sh
• Mentor junior developers technically.
• Actively work to reduce tech debt in the Locus backend
• Work towards more stability & scalability of the backend
• Tech stack - Java, AWS, Aurora etc.

Eligibility

• 4-8 years of product company experience
• OOP implementation experience. Programming language does not matter, We use Java internally but have hired folks from non Java background.
• Hands on experience in SQL, Dynamo DB, Postgres etc preferred.
• Prior experience building REST APIs
• Advanced understanding of AWS stack
• Prior knowledge of solving problems at scale.

Perks:

• Healthy catered meals at office
• You decide your own Work From Home (WFH) and Out Of Office (OOO)
• Pet-friendly - bring your pets to the office any day. Locus family already has a Rottweiler and a Beagle