Java Developer with AWS

Role & Responsibilities

Design, develop, and implement high-quality software solutions for payment processing.

Maintain a regular release cadence and manage the product backlog.

Ensure timely and lossless communication across teams.

Uphold engineering values and best practices.

Collaborate with international teams to ensure successful product development and delivery.

Ideal Candidate

A strong technical background in software engineering and architecture, with experience in modern programming language

Ability to work independently with very little direction, taking full ownership of projects.

Identifying blind spots, anticipate challenges, and prioritize work effectively

Exceptional communication and organizational skills.

A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.

8+ years of relevant experience preferred

Proficiency using Python, Kafka, Kubernetes, and AWS

Experience with Distributed Task Queues such as Celery and RabbitMQ is preferred.

Experience with RDBMS/SQL is also preferred.

About the role: In this role, you will be responsible for the end-to-end development of software solutions related to banking, payments, investments, wallets, and other fintech products. You will work closely with software engineers, test engineers, researchers, designers, and the management team.

You will be responsible for enforcing software development best practices in a fast-paced Agile/DevOps environment, while always focusing on delivering high-value. In the process, you will work with primarily fintech technologies and other distributed systems-related tools,
techniques and methodologies.

If you want to join an early-stage startup that values you and your skills, and gives you the freedom to work at your pace while delivering a fantastic all-in-one financial app for all Indians, this is the perfect role for you.

About us: Mool is an all-in-one financial app where you can save, spend and invest your money with confidence. We understand that everyone deserves a good relationship with their money and growing your wealth should not be a difficult process. To help you gain financial freedom, we bring together champions of the financial service industry to champion you with best-in-class products.

Our ideal candidates will:
• Be highly experienced in Golang. So, if you have at least 1 year of active golang development experience, we want you!
• Have a good understanding of the MVC framework and also proficiency in using advanced JavaScript libraries and frameworks such as ExpressJS, FastifyJS and other backend and frontend frameworks
• Understand and experience with cloud technologies: AWS (Must have) and Azure.
• Be knowledgeable in code versioning tools and dev ops methodologies such as Git.
• Highly experienced with various databases such as MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MYSQL
• Have worked on Relational Database and can figure out where to add Indexes in DB to optimise the performance
• Know how Cache Layer works (e.g. Redis)
• Have experience with queuing services and frameworks such as KafkaRabbit MQ. We prefer it if you have experience with fintech systems and applications
• Expected to have a good understanding of security practices for financial systems.
• Have experience in writing Unit and E2E test cases
• Have experience with Network Security or Ethical Hacking
• Experience with integrating banking APIs

Roles and responsibilities:
• Take an active part in the design process of the architecture of the mobile application
• Maintain quality and ensure responsiveness of applications
• Collaborate with the rest of the engineering team to design and launch new features
• Maintain code integrity and organization
• Working with the design team to convert designs to visual elements
• Implement security and data protection systems and processes to ensure information security compliance
• Oversee full software development lifecycle for the product

• 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

Good to Have Skills:

• 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.

About KAFQA

At Kafqa, we are building the next generation performing arts platform. Our mission is to transform how India learns, performs & watchers performing arts. We are currently in stealth mode with a target public launch date in April. Our launch services consist of technology enabled dance classes in our proprietary studios, production facilities and social media broadcasting & competitions.

Founder & Team

The founder is Shariq Plasticwala. He is a graduate of IIT Bombay & Stanford GSB. He was part of the founding team of Amazon India where he played a key role for over 8 years. Among his roles at Amazon, he was the CEO of Amazon’s first joint venture in India and a Board Member of Amazon’s payments business. The other members of the founding team consist of senior executives from Shiamak Davar & Byju’s.

Background

• At least 1+ years’ experience in back-end development in a fast-paced environment, working in Python & Django Framework
• Deep understanding of technologies used in web-deployed SaaS products, including Rest APIs
• Exposure to AWS, Azure or other cloud providers

Opportunity

We will share our workload as a team and we expect you to work on a broad range of tasks. Here’s are some of the things you might have to do on any given day:

• Developing APIs and endpoints for deployments of our product
• Infrastructure Development such as building databases, creating and maintaining automated jobs
• Build out the back-end to deploy and scale our product
• Build POCs for client deployments
• Document your code, write test cases, etc.

Skills

• Hands-on experience with Python (1+ years)
• Sound understanding of Postgres and NoSQL databases such as MongoDB
• Deep familiarity with UNIX, major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure), DevOps
• Understanding of databases, and related tools, paradigms

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent
• 8-12 years’ of industry experience in programming web applications, mobile and/or large scale enterprise products
• Deep knowledge of C#, ASP, .NET, MVC, .Net core
• Deep knowledge and extensive experience working on Ruby or React and JavaScript, as required
• Experience with XML, ADO/ADO.NET, LINQ, AJAX, IIS
• Extended experience with SQL, relational and non-relational databases
• Experience in TFS and Visual Studio
• Hands on experience with SDLC and programming design patterns
• Experience with Agile methodology
• Skillful at reviewing new feature impact on an application and recognizing potential risks
• Uses time effectively and efficiently
• Quickly learns new technologies
• Detailed oriented, professional and possesses a positive work attitude
• Communicate professionally both verbally and in writing
• Effective time management skills
• Knowledge on UI technologies will be plus

PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Develops software solutions by studying information needs, conferring with users, studying systems flow, data usage, and work processes, investigating problem areas, following the software development lifecycle.
• Conducts systems analysis and makes recommendations to improve the system to achieve an outcome.
• Promotes internal best practices and coding conventions to write and execute tests for your own code, including creating comprehensive unit tests.
• Contributes to Technical Requirements Documents.
• Requests constructive feedback for designs early in the process.
• Communicates successfully with large teams and many stakeholders.
• Provides mentorship for Software Engineers and participates in interview panels to hire new Software Engineers.
• Assists in removing obstacles for the team to yield successful sprints.
• Performs peer code reviews to ensure quality of the codebase.
• Ability to decompose and delegate work to junior engineers.
• Updates job knowledge by studying state-of-the-art development tools, programming techniques and computing equipment; participating in educational opportunities, reading professional publications, maintaining personal networks, participating in professional organizations.
• Works effectively with multiple projects and features.
• All other duties as assigned.

We are looking for strong Backend developers to join our growing Team and help build Software applications and Tools that help streamline enterprise processes and build efficiency.

Roles & Responsibilities:

-Well versed with Javascript / Typescript, Node.js, Node.js frameworks like Nest.js, express.js, Postgres DB (relational databases), Redis / Memcache, Queues.