Java Development Engineer

🚀 We're Hiring | Java Lead | Bangalore

Are you an experienced Java Lead passionate about building scalable, cloud-native enterprise applications? We're looking for a hands-on leader with strong expertise in Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, and modern backend technologies to drive high-impact development initiatives.

📍 Location: Bangalore

💼 Employment Type: Contract to Hire (C2H)

🧑‍💻 Experience: 8+ Years

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain high-performance Java-based applications using modern frameworks.
• Lead the development of scalable microservices and RESTful APIs.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver robust, secure, and high-quality software solutions.
• Build and optimize backend services with Spring Boot, Spring MVC, and Spring Security.
• Develop efficient database solutions using SQL and ORM frameworks such as Hibernate/JPA.
• Integrate messaging systems like Kafka or RabbitMQ for event-driven applications.
• Participate in architecture discussions, code reviews, and technical mentoring.
• Implement CI/CD pipelines and containerized deployments using Docker, Kubernetes, and Jenkins.
• Ensure adherence to coding standards, best practices, and Agile methodologies.

Required Skills

• Strong hands-on experience with Java 8/11/17
• Expertise in Spring Boot, Spring MVC, and Spring Security
• Strong understanding of Microservices Architecture
• Experience in developing REST APIs
• Hands-on experience with Hibernate/JPA
• Strong SQL skills with MySQL, PostgreSQL, or Oracle
• Experience with Kafka or RabbitMQ
• Proficiency with Git, Maven, and Gradle
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes
• Exposure to AWS, Azure, or GCP
• Experience with Jenkins and CI/CD pipelines
• Strong knowledge of design patterns and data structures

Preferred Skills

• Experience with Spring WebFlux and reactive programming
• Knowledge of MongoDB or other NoSQL databases
• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodologies
• Experience with JUnit and Mockito for unit testing

Educational Qualification

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

📩 Interested candidates, please share your updated resume.

About Us:

Tradelab Technologies Pvt Ltd is not for those seeking comfort—we are for those hungry to make a mark in the trading and fintech industry. If you are looking for just another backend role, this isn’t it. We want risk-takers, relentless learners, and those who find joy in pushing their limits

every day. If you thrive in high-stakes environments and have a deep passion for performance driven backend systems, we want you.

What We Expect:

• You should already be exceptional at Backend. If you need hand-holding, this isn’t the place for you.

• You thrive on challenges, not on perks or financial rewards.

• You measure success by your own growth, not external validation.

• Taking calculated risks excites you—you’re here to build, break, and learn.

• You don’t clock in for a pay check; you clock in to outperform yourself in a high-frequency trading

environment.

• You understand the stakes—milliseconds can make or break trades, and precision is everything.

What You Will Do:

• Develop and optimize high-performance backend systems in for trading platforms and financial services.

• Architect low-latency, high-throughput microservices that push the boundaries of speed and efficiency.

• Build event-driven, fault-tolerant systems that can handle massive real-time data streams.

• Own your work—no babysitting, no micromanagement.

• Work alongside equally driven engineers who expect nothing less than brilliance.

• Learn faster than you ever thought possible.

Must-Have Skills:

• Proven expertise in Backend (if you need to prove yourself, this isn’t the role for you).

• Deep understanding of concurrency, memory management, and system design.

• Experience with Trading, market data processing, or low-latency systems.

• Strong knowledge of distributed systems, message queues (Kafka, RabbitMQ), and real-time processing.

• Hands-on with Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines.

• A portfolio of work that speaks louder than a resume.

Nice-to-Have Skills:

• Past experience in fintech, trading systems, or algorithmic trading.

• Contributions to open-source projects.

• A history of building something impactful from scratch.

• Understanding of FIX protocol, WebSockets, and streaming APIs.

Why Join Us?

• Work with a team that expects and delivers excellence.

• A culture where risk-taking is rewarded, and complacency is not.

• Limitless opportunities for growth—if you can handle the pace.

• A place where learning is currency, and outperformance is the only metric that matters.

• The opportunity to build systems that move markets, execute trades in microseconds, and redefine fintech.

Requirements:

• Strong understanding of Nodejs & front-end Technology.

• Strong understanding of MEAN or MERN Stack.

• Strong knowledge of HTML, CSS, RWD, Javascript, and JQuery.

• Bring 1+ years of Experience in Node with typescript or React.

• Strong OOPS ( Object Oriented Programming ) concepts.

• Good knowledge of browser caching, working with cookies and Java scripts for faster website loads.

• Mean/Mern Stack Developer with hands-on experience in Node.js, typescript, and angular.

• Experience developing and improving REST APIs.

• Experience working with AWS Clouds/Azure.

• Experience building web UI dashboards and other self-service solutions.

• Relational DB knowledge (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, or SQL Server).

• NoSQL knowledge (MongoDB, Redis, Cassandra, or Hadoop).

• Ability to recite design patterns.

• Experience leading Agile projects and getting results in Scrum or Kanban teams and workflows.

• Experience with practices such as Test-Driven Development (TDD) is a plus

About the role:

As a team member at TrusTrace, you’ll get to solve challenging, real-world problems that truly make a difference to society.

As a Product Developer at TrusTrace, you’ll get to solve challenging and real-time problems using cutting edge technologies. You get to work with industry thought leaders and big-name brands. You will work with the product team to materialize the requirements into pieces of user stories and priorities. You will get hands-on experience in polyglot programming to build solutions and write tests to ensure quality code. (We primarily work on Java, typescript/node, and golang). If you build it, you will own it, i.e . you will be generating metrics, track improvements, and bug fixes for features that are built and shipped by you.

Experience & Skills: (3 – 6 Years) The successful candidate will have

• Passion for problem-solving.
• Flexibility to multitask and re-priorities when necessary.
• Ability to work in an agile and customer-eccentric team.
• Open to learning new technologies.
• Prior saas/start-up experience is preferable, but not mandatory.
• Hands-on experience in back-end technologies and have a strong understanding of core data structure and design patterns.
• Commanding knowledge in HLD/LLD
• Basics of system design and distributed systems
• Strong fundamentals in frameworks like Spring MVC, Spring Security, Spring Data, and Spring-boot.
• Sound knowledge in Java and JVM ecosystem.
• Write the production-grade test code. Junit/ TestNG
• Proficiency with Rest API performance and OpenAPI standards.
• Experience in building cache layers and invalidate them properly ;-)
• Strong knowledge of NoSQL(Mongo) database.
• Experience with Elastic search or Solr is preferred.
• Basics understanding of cloud infrastructures (Preferably AWS) and CI/CD pipelines.
• Should have startup/product Experience

Educational Qualification : Preferably from CS/Circuit Background

Basic Qualifications

Candidates for this role must have:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field
• At least three years of experience writing production code of increasing complexity
• Strong understanding of computer science fundamentals, including algorithms, complexity analysis, data structures, problem solving, and object-oriented analysis and design
• Proficiency in at least one of the following: Java, C, C++, C#, Ruby, Scala, Python
• Experience refactoring code and evolving architectures
• Experience crafting unit, integration, functional and regression tests

 Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in computer science or a related field
• Experience developing in a Linux environment
• Experience applying service-oriented architecture techniques to production use cases
• Experience in developing secure, multi-platform mobile applications

• Develop, record and maintain cutting edge web-based PHP applications on portal plus premium service platforms
• Build innovative, state-of-the-art applications and collaborate with the User Experience (UX) team
• Ensure HTML, CSS, and shared JavaScript is valid and consistent across applications
• Prepare and maintain all applications utilizing standard development tools
• Utilize backend data services and contribute to increase existing data services API
• Lead the entire web application development life cycle right from concept stage to delivery and post launch support
• Convey effectively with all task progress, evaluations, suggestions, schedules along with technical and process issues
• Document the development process, architecture, and standard components
• Coordinate with co-developers and keeps project manager well informed of the status of development effort and serves as liaison between development staff and project manager
• Keep abreast of new trends and best practices in web development

At BACQ, our mission is to build financial services that are simple, accessible and affordable.

BACQ is founded by Sachin Bansal & Ankit Agarwal to build consumer-centric and technology-driven businesses in the BFSI (Banking, Financial Services & Insurance) space.

• Work on the development backend systems for our first product
• Build reliable, secure and performant backend systems
• Drive test coverage and continuous delivery automation within the team
• Mentor and provide feedback to teammates

• 2+ years of software development experience
• Strong computer science fundamentals
• Good knowledge of Java ecosystem
• Can write code that is readable, maintainable and performant
• Know the importance of tests and how to approach writing different types of tests
• Good understanding of relational databases, transactions, entity-relationship modeling
• Comfortable writing multi-threaded programs

• Understanding of domain-driven design concepts like ubiquitous language, bounded contexts, aggregates and domain events
• Know how to use test driven development as a design tool 
• Good intuition for the principles underlying object-orientation, particularly encapsulation
• Understand the importance of immutability and of reducing the state-space of objects
• Seek to identify key underlying ideas and use those as building blocks before reaching for shiny new tools
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