Java Engineer - Spring/Hibernate

Role & Responsibilities

As a Staff Engineer at Locus, you will play a critical role in defining and driving our backend architecture as we scale globally. You’ll own key systems that handle high volumes of data and transactions, ensuring performance, reliability, and maintainability across distributed environments.

Key Responsibilities-

• Own one or more core applications end-to-end, ensuring reliability, performance, and scalability.
• Lead the design, architecture, and development of complex, distributed systems, frameworks, and libraries aligned with Locus’s technical strategy.
• Drive engineering operational excellence by defining robust roadmaps for system reliability, observability, and performance improvements.
• Analyze and optimize existing systems for latency, throughput, and efficiency, ensuring they perform at scale.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Data, and Infrastructure teams to translate business requirements into technical deliverables.
• Mentor and guide engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and continuous learning.
• Establish and uphold coding standards, conduct design and code reviews, and promote best practices across teams.
• Stay ahead of the curve on emerging technologies, frameworks, and patterns to strengthen Locus’s technology foundation.
• Contribute to hiring by identifying and attracting top-tier engineering talent.

Ideal Candidate

• Strong staff engineer profile
• Mandatory (Experience 1): Must have 9+ years in backend engineering with Java, Spring/Spring Boot, and microservices building large and schalable systems
• Mandatory (Experience 2): Must have been SDE-3 / Tech Lead / Lead SE for at least 2.5 years
• Mandatory (Tech skills 1): Strong in DSA, system design, design patterns, and problem-solving
• Mandatory (Tech skills 2): Proven experience building scalable, reliable, high-performance distributed systems
• Mandatory (Tech skills 3): Hands-on with SQL/NoSQL databases, REST/gRPC APIs, concurrency & async processing
• Mandatory (Tech skills 4): Experience in AWS/GCP, CI/CD pipelines, and observability/monitoring
• Mandatory (Communication): Excellent ability to explain complex technical concepts to varied stakeholders
• Mandatory (Company): Product companies (B2B SAAS preferred)
• Mandatory (Stability): Must have stayed for at least 2 years with each of the previous companies
• Mandatory (Education): B.Tech in computer science from Tier 1, Tier 2 colleges

About Us

Euphoric Thought Technologies is a fast-growing technology company focused on delivering scalable, high-performance digital solutions. We are looking for a skilled Backend Developer to join our dynamic team and contribute to building robust and efficient systems.

Key Responsibilities

 Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs

 Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code

 Collaborate with frontend developers, DevOps, and product teams

 Optimize applications for maximum speed and scalability

 Troubleshoot, debug, and upgrade existing systems

 Implement security and data protection best practices

 Participate in code reviews and technical discussions

Required Skills & Qualifications

 4–5 years of hands-on experience in backend development

 Strong proficiency in at least one backend language such as Java and Core Java

 Experience with frameworks like Spring Boot, Django, Express.js, etc.

 Good understanding of RESTful APIs and Microservices architecture

 Strong experience with databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB)

 Familiarity with version control systems (Git)

 Experience with cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP) is a plus

 Knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines is an added advantage

 Strong problem-solving and analytical skills

Job Title

Java Developer - R11729

Job Description

Job Description

Experience: 5 -7 Years

Job Type: Contract (6 Months - extendable)

Location: Bengaluru, Pune, Chennai, Hyderabad, Gurgaon

Experience developing microservices and cloud native apps using Java/J2EE, REST APIs, Spring Core, Spring MVC Framework, Spring Boot Framework JPA (Java Persistence API) (Or any other ORM), Spring Security and similar tech stacks

(Open source and proprietary)

Experience working with Unit testing using framework such as Junit, Mockito, JBehave

Build and deploy services using Gradle, Maven, Jenkins etc. as part of CI/CD process

Experience working in Google Cloud Platform 

GCP knowledge is mandatory for offshore

GCP knowledge is preferred for onshore but any one cloud knowledge is mandatory

Experience with any Relational Database (Oracle, PostgreSQL etc.)

Soft skills

Designing, developing, and implementing custom software and database application capabilities with limited oversight.

Excellent communication skills – design-related conversations, ability to build and nurture good relationships and foster an environment for collaboration.

Acting as a member of the team supporting teammates and collaborating with a do what it takes attitude to ensure project and team success

Responsibilities

Be part of a team of engineers in developing elegant and high performant code

Ensure quality practices – unit testing, code reviews / leading tests

Optimize application for non-functional requirements

Build and deploy components as part of CI/CD process

Will be responsible for end-to-end application delivery including coordination with required teams for production deployment.

Continuously monitors application health and KPIs (Key Performance Indicators), support triage of any production issues as and when needed.

Collaborate in troubleshooting complex data, features, service, platform issues and perform root cause analysis to proactively resolve product and operational issues.

Be an advocate of security best practices, champion and support the importance of security within engineering.

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Skills

java, SPRING BOOT, MYSQL, MICROSERVICES, GCP

As a Backend Engineer you will be responsible for creating REST APIs which are used to drive the User Interface. Given the nature of the application, these APIs need to be very efficient and high performing. This requires optimizing queries for faster execution and introducing database changes that may be required. We are looking for individuals with great attention to detail, who are genuine, confident, committed and not only passionate about technology, but excited to work in a fun and friendly start-up environment. The ideal candidate will be passionate about technology and GETTING IT DONE.

Responsibilities:

• Develop, test, implement and maintain application software
• Take part in software and architectural development activities
• Debug application issues and helping support respond to client queries
• Participate in application development meetings
• Provide accurate estimates, clearly communicate status of tasks and identification of risks
• Commitment to accomplishing the task at hand and identify the fastest and most reliable way to solve a problem
• Performance tuning of application code at different service levels
• Interact with customers of the application and help address issues reported

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent
• 3+ years of experience with Java and Spring frameworks.
• Having good knowledge in a scripting language like python is a plus
• Experience with Spring and Hibernate/ ORM
• Understanding of relational database and normal forms
• Understanding of NoSQL / RDBMS (Mongo or Postgres) and ability to write optimized and high performing queries
• Strong understanding of Java concurrency, concurrency patterns, experience building thread safe code
• Experience building RESTful web services
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Strong interpersonal skills and time management skills
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills
• Experience with GIT as a VCS, Unix based systems
• Experience with NoSQL Database is a plus
• Following are a set of 'good to have' skills React AWS Bitbucket, JIRA

Job Description

·       Strong Core Java / C++ experience with Strong Handson Coding

·       Excellent understanding of Logical ,Object-oriented design patterns, algorithms and data structures.

·       Sound knowledge of application access methods including authentication mechanisms, API quota limits, as well as different endpoint REST, Java etc

·       Strong exp in databases - not just a SQL Programmer but with knowledge of DB internals

·       Sound knowledge of Cloud database available as service is plus (RDS, CloudSQL, Google BigQuery, Snowflake )

·       Experience working in any cloud environment and microservices based architecture utilizing GCP, Kubernetes, Docker, CircleCI, Azure or similar technologies

• Collaborate with teams to develop and support the smooth 24x7 operation of our service.
• Create prototypes and proofs-of-concept for iterative development.
• Stay updated with emerging tech cultures and implement them in production systems.
• Develop scalable, long-term strategies to aid the company’s 10X growth.
• Ensure content quality and consistency of the brand.
• Reduce technical debt with quality coding

• BTech degree in computer science or related field.
• 4-10 years of relevant work experience.
• Strong knowledge of any of the databases like MySQL, NoSQL, SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL.
• Experience in Java and web technologies.
• Experience in scripting languages like Python, PHP, etc.
• Hands-on experience with systems that are asynchronous, RESTful and demand concurrency.
• Knowledge of best software engineering practices for all stages of software development life cycle