Java Developer

At Upswing, we are a passionate and self-driven team of thinkers who aspire to build the rails to connect the legacy financial sector with financial innovators through a simple and powerful banking-as-a-service (BaaS) platform. We’re building our platform putting the focus on pragmatism, reliability, and maintainability. We believe that keeping the engineering complexity under control is key to preserving the development productivity and long-term evolution of a platform.

To bring this vision to life, we are building the infrastructure using Microservices architecture using the latest set of technologies that are also fun to work with such as Java, Scala, Postgres, Akka, Kafka with a completely automated DevOps pipeline from the get-go using tools like Chef, Jenkins, Grafana, Graylog.

We are looking for motivated engineers who will be working in a highly creative and cutting-edge technology environment to build a world-class financial services suite.

Why you should join us:

• You will redefine the financial services landscape for India in the coming years.
• Be part of a core Engineering team that will create innovative and scalable Fintech solutions.
• Work with passionate and experienced engineering, product & business workforce that believes in teamwork, and that helps fast-track learning on solving complex technical challenges.
• We are funded by the leading fintech VC `QED Investors` and other established Founders and Executives of awesome Indian companies.

What you will do if you join us:

• Propose solutions to solve complex system architecture challenges and actively lead the end-to-end development of the system.
• Create robust, flexible, consistent, and easy-to-use APIs
• Continuously strive for performance improvements, code reusability, and readability
• Understand the product in detail and predict potential issues in feature development.
• Mentor and lead junior members of the team

You should have:

• Ability to think of out of the box
• Tech or a higher degree in computer science or a related field.
• 3+ years of experience working on the back-end development for complex distributed systems who are willing to adopt any Programming language as per the requirement.
• Familiarity with any of the following – Java, C++, Scala, Kotlin, and frameworks like Spring, Play, Hibernate, Django, etc.
• Good understanding of Algorithms, Data Structure, OOP, Design patterns, Parallel programming, Multithreading concepts & Event-Driven Systems.
• Understanding of micro-services architecture and best practices.
• Experience with Relational databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, or any NoSQL database.

It is a plus if you have:

• Familiarity with cloud platforms like AWS (Amazon Web Services), Azure or Google Cloud

• 2+ year of experience in Development in JAVA technology.
• Strong Java Basics
• SpringBoot or Spring MVC
• Hands on experience on Relationl Databases (SQL query or Hibernate) + Mongo (JSON parsing)
• Proficient in REST API development
• Messaging Queue (RabitMQ or Kafka)
• Microservices
• Any Caching Mechanism
• Good at problem solving

• 4+ years of experience in using Java/J2EE tech stacks
• Good understanding of data structures and algorithms.
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills.
• Ability to work in a fast paced internet start-up environment.
• Experience in technical mentorship/coaching is highly desirable.
• Understanding of AI/ML algorithms is a plus.

Desired Candidate Profile

• A team focus with strong collaboration and communication skills
• Exceptional ability to quickly grasp high-level business goals, derive requirements, and translate them into effective technical solutions
• Exceptional object-oriented thinking, design and programming skills (Java 8 or 11)
• Expertise with the following technologies : Data Structures, Design Patterns ,Code Versioning Tools(Github/bitbucket/..), XML, JSON, Spring Batch Restful, Spring Cloud, Grafana(Knowledge/Experience), Kafka, Spring Boot, Microservices, DB/NoSQL, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS/GCP, Architecture design (Patterns) Agile, JIRA.
• Penchant toward self-motivation and continuous improvement; these words should describe you: dedicated, energetic, curious, conscientious, and flexible.

We are looking for a Java backend developer who would be working on the bleeding edge of technologies. We work primarily with a fully reactive stack powered by Spring Webflux and Reactive MongoDb Repository in AWS. Our services follow both event based approaches as well as workflow based depending on the use case.

Responsibilities

• Understand why a particular design was chosen and code accordingly
• Will have to deliver clean bug free unit tested code with minimal guidance
• Strive for continuous improvement by refactoring and applying best practices
• Learn and adapt to new technologies as necessary.
• Capable of working in both client side and server side technologies

Requirements

• Must have a Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent
• Must have 2-3 years experience as a software developer
• Must be proficient in Core Java and Spring/Springboot. Knowledge of Webflux is not mandatory.
• Must have developed RESTful services
• Should understand git

Added Bonus

• Experience working with microservices
• Experience in a NoSql solution like MongoDB
• Experience working with Python

Position Responsibilities:
1.     Design, implementation, and deployment of applications
2.     Expert knowledge in performance, scalability, enterprise system architecture, and engineering best practices.
3.     Functionally decompose complex problems into simple, straight-forward solutions.
4.     Work extensively with cross-functional teams across.
5.     Work with the business team and project managers to convert functional requirements into detailed technical specifications.
6.     The ideal candidate will be a leader, builder, and operator. He/she should be able to operate in a very fast-paced environment where time to hit the market is supercritical.

Desired Candidate profile: 
1.     A Bachelor's/Master’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent combination of technical education from Elite College or institution and work experience.
2.     4+ years of Software Development experience.
3.     Excellent object-oriented design and coding skills (Java, C++ on a UNIX or Linux platform).
4.     Very strong software development background including design patterns, data structures, test-driven development.
5.     Ability to design and implement systems end to end on your own while maintaining highest coding standards.
6.     Excellent knowledge of design patterns and ability to reflect it in their code.
7.     Ability to lead projects and mentor junior engineers on the same.
8.     Mandatory work experience in skills sets: REST API, JDBC, RDBMS (PostgreSQL, MySQL)
9.     Solid Experience with distributed (multi-tiered) systems, algorithms, and relational databases.
10.  Software development experience in Servlet, JSP, Spring, AWS, S3, SQS, building web services and highly scalable applications or Google Cloud Suite.
11.  Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Job Type: Full-time

CTC Offering : 3.6L PA to 6L PA

Job Location: Remote for 6-9 months due to the pandemic, then Mumbai, Maharashtra

Required experience:

• Minimum 1.5 to 2 year of experience in Web & Backend Development using Python with experience in some form of Machine Learning ML Algorithms

Overview

We are looking for Python developers with a strong understanding of object orientation and experience in web and backend development. Experience with Analytical algorithms and mathematical calculations using libraries such as Numpy and Pandas are a must. Experience in some form of Machine Learning. We require candidates who have working experience using Django Framework

Key Skills required (Items in Bold are mandatory keywords) :

1. Proficiency in Python 3.x based web and backend development

2. Solid understanding of Python concepts

3. Experience with some form of Machine Learning (ML)

4. Experience in using libraries such as Numpy and Pandas

5. Some form of experience with NLP and Deep Learning using any of Pytorch, Tensorflow, Keras, Scikit-learn or similar

6. Hands on experience with RDBMS such as Postgres or MySQL

7. Experience building REST APIs using DRF or Flask

8. Comfort with Git repositories, branching and deployment using Git

9. Working experience with Docker

10. Basic working knowledge of ReactJs

11. Experience in deploying Django applications to AWS,Digital Ocean or Heroku

KRAs includes:

1. Understanding the scope of work

2. Understanding and adopting the current internal development workflow and processes

3. Understanding client requirements as communicated by the project manager

4. Arriving on timelines for projects, either independently or as a part of a team

5. Executing projects either independently or as a part of a team

6. Developing products and projects using Python

7. Writing code to collect and mathematically analyse large volumes of data.

8. Creating backend modules in Python by building or reutilizing existing modules in a manner so as to

provide optimal deliveries on time

9. Writing Scalable, maintainable code

10. Building secured REST APIs

11. Setting up batch task processing environments using Celery

12. Unit testing prepared modules

13. Bug fixing issues as reported by the QA team

14. Optimization and performance tuning of code

Bonus but not mandatory

1. Nodejs

2. Redis

3. PHP

4. CI/CD

5. AWS

Job Title : Sr Java Developer

Job Description 

We are seeking a well experienced full stack Java developer for our product. As a member of the software engineering division, you will assist in defining and developing software for tasks associated with the developing, debugging or designing of software applications or operating systems. Provide technical leadership to other software developers. Specify, design and implement modest changes to existing software architecture to meet changing needs. 
  Roles and responsibilities? 

• Design, develop and implement software programming applications.
• Build highly scalable product.
• Participate in gathering business requirements and assessing existing architectures and resources.
• Work with application development team in delivering the project and deliverable within time and with good quality.
• Perform unit testing, oversee quality assurance of applications through system testing.
• Establishes processes for performance and conducts code review.
• Manage and mentor junior members of the team on good coding practice

Skills and experiences would I bring into this role? 

1. E/ B.Tech / MCA in computer science or a related field
2. 4+ Years of Java/J2EE work experience.
3. Object-Oriented design, patterns, algorithms, data structures
4. Well knowledge about Spring Hibernate framework.
5. Exposure to React JS / Angular JS.
6. Experience with SQL/No-SQL database technologies – MySQL, Mongo dB, Cassandra, Redis, PostgreSQL, etc.
7. Experience in Web services (REST or SOAP)
8. End to end web development experience is highly preferred
9. Good understanding of unit testing methodologies.
10. Good analytical and communication skills
11. Startup work culture mindset.