Java Developer

Strong Full stack/Backend engineer profile

Mandatory (Experience): Must have 2+ years of hands-on experience as a full stack developer (backend-heavy)

Mandatory (Backend Skills): Must have 1.5+ strong experience in Python, building REST APIs, and microservices-based architectures

Mandatory (Frontend Skills): Must have hands-on experience with modern frontend frameworks (React or Vue) and JavaScript, HTML, and CSS

Mandatory (Database Skills): Must have solid experience working with relational and NoSQL databases such as MySQL, MongoDB, and Redis

Mandatory (Cloud & Infra): Must have hands-on experience with AWS services including EC2, ELB, AutoScaling, S3, RDS, CloudFront, and SNS

Mandatory (DevOps & Infra): Must have working experience with Linux environments, Apache, CI/CD pipelines, and application monitoring

Mandatory (CS Fundamentals): Must have strong fundamentals in Data Structures, Algorithms, OS concepts, and system design

Mandatory (Company) : Product companies (B2B SaaS preferred)

Preferred

Preferred (Location) - Mumbai

Preferred (Skills) : Candidates with strong backend or full-stack experience in other languages/frameworks are welcome if fundamentals are strong

Preferred (Education) : B.Tech from Tier 1,Tier 2 institutes

As an engineer, you will help with the implementation, and launch of many key product features. You will get an opportunity to work on a wide range of technologies (including Spring, AWS Elastic Search, Lambda, ECS, Redis, Spark, Kafka etc.) and apply new technologies for solving problems. You will have an influence on defining product features, drive operational excellence, and spearhead the best practices that enable a quality product. You will get to work with skilled and motivated engineers who are already contributing to building high-scale and high-available systems.

If you are looking for an opportunity to work on leading technologies and would like to build product technology that can cater millions of customers inclined towards providing them the best experience, and relish large ownership and diverse technologies, join our team today!

What You'll Do:

• Creating detailed design, working on development and performing code reviews.
• Implementing validation and support activities in line with architecture requirements
• Help the team translate the business requirements into R&D tasks and manage the roadmap of the R&D tasks.
• Designing, building, and implementation of the product; participating in requirements elicitation, validation of architecture, creation and review of high and low level design, assigning and reviewing tasks for product implementation.
• Work closely with product managers, UX designers and end users and integrating software components into a fully functional system
• Ownership of product/feature end-to-end for all phases from the development to the production.
• Ensuring the developed features are scalable and highly available with no quality concerns.
• Work closely with senior engineers for refining the and implementation.
• Management and execution against project plans and delivery commitments.
• Assist directly and indirectly in the continual hiring and development of technical talent.
• Create and execute appropriate quality plans, project plans, test strategies and processes for development activities in concert with business and project management efforts.

The ideal candidate is a passionate engineer about delivering experiences that delight customers and creating solutions that are robust. He/she should be able to commit and own the deliveries end-to-end.

What You'll Need:

• A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline.
• 2-3+ years of Software Development experience with proficiency in Java or equivalent object-oriented languages, coupled with design and SOA
• Fluency with Java, and Spring is good.
• Experience in JEE applications and frameworks like struts, spring, mybatis, maven, gradle
• Strong knowledge of Data Structures, Algorithms and CS fundamentals.
• Experience in at least one shell scripting language, SQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL and data modeling skills
• Excellent analytical and reasoning skills
• Ability to learn new domains and deliver output
• Hands on Experience with the core AWS services
• Experience working with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, Spinnaker, Nexus, GitLab, TeamCity, GoCD, etc.)

• Expertise in at least one of the following:

    - Kafka, ZeroMQ, AWS SNS/SQS, or equivalent streaming technology

    - Distributed cache/in memory data grids like Redis, Hazelcast, Ignite, or Memcached

    - Distributed column store databases like Snowflake, Cassandra, or HBase

    - Spark, Flink, Beam, or equivalent streaming data processing frameworks

• Proficient with writing and reviewing Python and other object-oriented language(s) are a plus
• Experience building automations and CICD pipelines (integration, testing, deployment)
• Experience with Kubernetes would be a plus.
• Good understanding of working with distributed teams using Agile: Scrum, Kanban
• Strong interpersonal skills as well as excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Attention to detail and quality, and the ability to work well in and across teams

Company Description

Miko is an advanced artificial intelligence innovation lab with a mission to bring AI and robotics to every consumer home. Headquartered in Mumbai, India, our workforce spans several countries, including the

United States, Canada, Europe, and the Middle East. To check out various product offerings, visit Miko's website.

Position Overview:

We seek a highly skilled and experienced Senior/ Lead Software Engineer to join our innovative team. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in Java development and be proficient in various backend technologies and frameworks. The role involves designing, developing, and maintaining high-performance, scalable backend systems. The candidate should be comfortable working in a Linux environment and have hands-on experience with both SQL and NoSQL

databases, as well as modern containerization and orchestration tools.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain backend services using Java, Spring Boot, and Vert.x.

• Implement and manage database solutions using SQL and NoSQL databases.

• Work with Hibernate for ORM (Object-Relational Mapping).

• Develop and manage caching mechanisms with Redis.

• Implement messaging and streaming solutions using Kafka.

• Utilize Docker for containerization and Kubernetes for orchestration.

• Perform system designing to ensure high availability, scalability, and reliability of applications.

• Design and develop microservices or monolithic architectures based on project requirements.

• Collaborate with front-end developers and other team members to establish objectives and design more functional, cohesive code to enhance the user experience.

• Write clean, scalable code using Java programming languages.

• Revise, update, and debug code.

• Improve existing software.

• Develop documentation throughout the software development life cycle (SDLC).

• Serve as an expert on applications and provide technical support.

Mandatory Skills and Qualifications:

• Proven experience as a Java Backend Developer.

• Strong expertise in Java, Spring Boot, and Vert.x.

• Proficient in using Hibernate for ORM.

• Extensive experience with Linux operating systems.

• Hands-on experience with Git version control system.

• Solid understanding of SQL and NoSQL databases.

• Experience with Redis for caching.

• Practical knowledge of Kafka for messaging and streaming.

• Proficiency with Docker for containerization and Kubernetes for orchestration.

• Strong understanding of system designing principles.

• Experience with microservices or monolithic architecture.

• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.

• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.

• Strong communication skills.

Preferred Skills:

• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines.

• Knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).

• Understanding of network protocols and security.

Educational Qualifications:

• Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.

Why Miko?

• Cutting-Edge Technology: Work with the latest in AI, robotics, and software development.

• Dynamic Work Environment: Collaborative and inclusive culture encouraging creativity and innovation.

• Career Growth: Opportunities for continuous learning, mentorship, and professional advancement.

• Impactful Work: Contribute to products that enhance the learning and play experiences of children worldwide.

• Global Reach: Be part of a brand that has a significant international presence.

• Innovative Products: Develop revolutionary products like the Miko robot.

• Supportive Culture: Enjoy a diverse, inclusive, and well-balanced work-life environment.

• Competitive Compensation: Receive competitive salaries and benefits packages.

• Entrepreneurial Spirit: Bring your ideas to life in a company that values initiative.

• Community Engagement: Participate in outreach programs and initiatives that give back to the community.

Role & Responsibilities :

- Individuals are responsible for all traditional development activities analysis, design, coding, testing, and documentation.

- Add new features to existing Windows and Web-based applications in Visual Studio 2019. Interacting with internal team.

- Transform business and design needs into innovative products.

- Drive all projects to completion within deadlines.

- Perform thorough testing to find issues ahead of time.

- Engineering software needs more precise analysis & coding skillset.

- Enhance skillset by working with fortune 500 clients.

- Interacting with internal team.

Qualifications :

- B.E in computer science or related fields.

- Excellent programming & communication skills Strong problem solving, judgmental, and decision-making skills.

- Ability to work at the tactical and strategic levels of IT initiatives.

- Impressive hands-on experience in Java, database(Oracle), OOPS, Java Swing, Javafx

- Self-Motivated, flexible & Innovative.

• The Architect/ Lead Backend Engineer will handle the digital experience from inception to go-live model.
• The role holder is expected to create a vision and roadmap for the digital experience to provide best in class customer experience for each of the product solutions handled.  The role holder will play a critical role in leading the innovation and growth of our front end web and mobile platforms.
• Must be from Good Companies and have been working on high Scale of Traffic
• Proficiency in engineering practices and writing high quality code, with expertise in either one of Java or Groovy or Go.
• 3+ years of experience building microservices.
• Strong experience in architecting and building distributed systems, scalability, and availability
• Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and designing for performance
• Strong knowledge of cloud technologies like AWS/Google Cloud/Azure
• Good understanding of RxJava or Actors framework
• Proficient with RDBMS
• Strong knowledge on data stores, database design, data modelling and SQL queries
• Extensive experience building and owning large- scale distributed backend systems
• Experience working with three or more of : Unix/Linux environments, Distributed and parallel systems, Workflow automation, CI/CD Platform development, Cloud platforms development e.g. AWS/GCP, Kubernetes/Container platforms based development 

Key Responsibilities:
● Node.js Developer responsible for managing the interchange of data between the server and the users.
● Your primary focus will be the development of all server-side logic, definition and maintenance of the central database, and ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end.
● You will also be responsible for integrating the front-end elements built by your co-workers into the application. Therefore, a basic understanding of front-end technologies is necessary as well.
● Strong proficiency with JavaScript
● Knowledge of Node.js core and frameworks Express, StrongLoop, koa, hapi etc
● Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds
● Good understanding of server-side templating languages
● Good understanding of server-side CSS preprocessors
● Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as HTML5, and CSS3
● Understanding accessibility and security compliance
● Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system
● Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
● Understanding differences between multiple delivery platforms, such as mobile vs. desktop, and optimizing output to match the specific platform
● Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes
● Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests
● Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git.

Technical Skills:
● Expert knowledge of key Web technologies as HTML5, CSS3,
● Expert in JavaScript / AJAX, NodeJS, React.
● Expert knowledge of OO Analysis and Design,
● Expert on Design Patterns and Frameworks as NodeJS, React.
● Knowledge of Agile methodologies (Scrum).
Soft Skills:
● Self-motivation to work independently and strong work ethic.
● Ability to work in a team, and adapt to new and evolving processes.
● Flexibility and adaptable
● Deep experience with Agile

• 5 +yrs of ITExperience
• A candidate with strong OOP skills as well as strong web front end skills(HTML, CSS, Javascript, jQuery etc.)and a lot of MySQL/MsSQL exposure and ideally stored procedureGood Experience in Core PHP and any PHP Frameworks (Laravel/Symphony/Zend).
• Experience in AngularJs & AWS is plus