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About Gradera
At Gradera, we’re defining a new category of enterprise transformation called Software-Orchestrated Services™ (SoS™) — a governed blend of human expertise and digital intelligence that transforms how enterprises operate.
Our mission is to build intelligent digital workers that augment teams and automate work across the value chain, helping organizations become more efficient, agile, and resilient.
We don’t believe in one-size-fits-all solutions. Every engagement is tailored to the unique needs of each enterprise — grounded in governance, security, and reliability. By aligning technology with strategy, we empower our clients to achieve measurable outcomes and lead with confidence in a rapidly evolving digital landscape.
Lead – API Engineer
Overview
Key Responsibilities
•Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and guidance to the API engineering team
•Lead the design, implementation, and evolution of API architecture and backend services
•Champion API-first development, ensuring clear contracts and comprehensive documentation (OpenAPI/Swagger)
•Lead the implementations of APIs conforming to all NFRs including security, scalability, and performance.
•Ensure robust authentication, authorization, and data protection for all endpoints
•Drive adoption of best practices in API design, versioning, and integration
•Optimize API performance for low-latency, high-frequency interactions
•Oversee observability, monitoring, and alerting for all APIs and backend services
•Collaborate closely with product, UI, and runtime teams to deliver integrated solutions
•Collaborate with the SDET to ensure comprehensive test coverage and effective test data creation
•Lead the adoption of modern API tools, frameworks, and best practices
•Ensure engineering rigor, code quality, and documentation standards are met
•Facilitate clear communication, knowledge sharing, and effective documentation within the team
•Support team growth through coaching, feedback, and skills development
Core Qualities & Skills
•Proven experience leading API or backend engineering teams and delivering complex API projects
•Deep expertise in API architecture, design, and implementation (RESTful, GraphQL, gRPC etc.)
•Strong programming skills in relevant backend languages (e.g., Node.js, Python, Java, Go, etc.)
•Experience with API security, authentication, and authorization (OAuth, JWT, RBAC, PKCE, define fine-grained access controls using ReBAC)
•Experience with API documentation and standards (OpenAPI/Swagger, Use Case, JSON Schemas, etc.)
•Familiarity with data serialization with Protofbuf
•Experience with some API gateway is a must
•Strong understanding of performance optimization, scalability, and reliability for APIs
•Experience with observability, monitoring, and troubleshooting for backend services
•Strong collaboration and alignment skills across disciplines
•Willingness to learn, share knowledge, and adapt to evolving technologies
•System design skills and awareness of technical debt and tradeoffs
•Excellent communication, documentation, and stakeholder management abilities
•Comfort with ambiguity, discovery, and rapid change
•Commitment to engineering excellence, security, and responsible practices
Preferred Qualifications
•7+ years of hands-on API or backend engineering experience, with 2+ years in a technical leadership role
•Track record of architecting and delivering scalable, reliable API systems
•Experience with modern development practices (CI/CD, automated testing, code reviews)
•Demonstrated ability to mentor and grow engineers
•Experience working in cross-functional, agile teams
Highly Desirable
•Experience with API gateways (e.g., Envoy, Kong, Apigee) and service mesh patterns (e.g., Istio)
•Experience with event-driven and streaming architectures (pub/sub, callbacks, Kafka, etc.)
•Experience with cloud-native infrastructure and automated provisioning (e.g., Terraform)
•Experience building developer portals and self-service onboarding for APIs
•Experience with API Gateways (Apache APISIX, KrakenD, …)
•Ability to perform API Domain Modelling with a strong product orientation, aligning technical design with user and business needs
•Experience thriving in fast-paced, ambiguous environments and balancing rapid delivery with technical excellence
•Experience leading or working with distributed, multidisciplinary teams
Success Metrics
•API response time (median and p95)
•Uptime and reliability of critical services
•Test coverage for API and backend logic
•Developer velocity and time from API design to production
•Time to First Prototype (TTFP)
•Integration lead time for API consumers
•Technical debt reduction and architectural alignment
•Team growth, engagement, and retention
•Stakeholder satisfaction and cross-team collaboration
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Job Title -Senior Java Developers
Job Description - Backend Engineer - Lead (Java)
Mumbai, India | Engineering Team | Full-time
Are you passionate enough to be a crucial part of a highly analytical and scalable user engagement platform?
Are you ready learn new technologies and willing to step out of your comfort zone to explore and learn new skills?
If so, this is an opportunity for you to join a high-functioning team and make your mark on our organisation!
The Impact you will create:
- Build campaign generation services which can send app notifications at a speed of 10 million a minute
- Dashboards to show Real time key performance indicators to clients
- Develop complex user segmentation engines which creates segments on Terabytes of data within few seconds
- Building highly available & horizontally scalable platform services for ever growing data
- Use cloud based services like AWS Lambda for blazing fast throughput & auto scalability
- Work on complex analytics on terabytes of data like building Cohorts, Funnels, User path analysis, Recency Frequency & Monetary analysis at blazing speed
- You will build backend services and APIs to create scalable engineering systems.
- As an individual contributor, you will tackle some of our broadest technical challenges that requires deep technical knowledge, hands-on software development and seamless collaboration with all functions.
- You will envision and develop features that are highly reliable and fault tolerant to deliver a superior customer experience.
- Collaborating various highly-functional teams in the company to meet deliverables throughout the software development lifecycle.
- Identify and improvise areas of improvement through data insights and research.
What we look for?
- 5-9 years of experience in backend development and must have worked on Java/shell/Perl/python scripting.
- Solid understanding of engineering best practices, continuous integration, and incremental delivery.
- Strong analytical skills, debugging and troubleshooting skills, product line analysis.
- Follower of agile methodology (Sprint planning, working on JIRA, retrospective etc).
- Proficiency in usage of tools like Docker, Maven, Jenkins and knowledge on frameworks in Java like spring, spring boot, hibernate, JPA.
- Ability to design application modules using various concepts like object oriented, multi-threading, synchronization, caching, fault tolerance, sockets, various IPCs, database interfaces etc.
- Hands on experience on Redis, MySQL and streaming technologies like Kafka producer consumers and NoSQL databases like mongo dB/Cassandra.
- Knowledge about versioning like Git and deployment processes like CICD.
What’s in it for you?
- Immense growth, continuous learning and deliver the best to the top-notch brands
- Work with some of the most innovative brains
- Opportunity to explore your entrepreneurial mind-set
- Open culture where your creative bug gets activated.
If this sounds like a company you would like to be a part of, and a role you would thrive in, please don’t hold back from applying! We need your unique perspective for our continued innovation and success!
So let’s converse! Our inquisitive nature is all keen to know more about you.
Skills
JAVA, MONGO, Redis, Cassandra, Kafka, rabbitMQ
- Be proficient in server-side development and optimization of data, including database creation and management and debugging
- Integrate data from various back-end services and databases
- Create and maintain software documentation
- Create user-friendly and intuitive interfaces
- Create and analyze reliable and secure back-end functionality
- Maintain, expand, and scale our website
- Remain knowledgeable of emerging technologies/industry trends and apply them into operations and activities
- Collaborate with front-end developers and web designers to match visual design intent
- Bachelor of Engineering/Technology in computer science, software engineering, programming, or equivalent
- Proficiency with languages such as Python, Golang, and Javascript (Node.js, Vue.js)
- Proficiency with MongoDB and MySQL
- Understanding of object-oriented programming
- Experience with the design and implementation of APIs
- Understanding of code versioning and management with Git
- Understanding of code deployment tools such as Jenkins, Capistrano, and ElectricFlow
- Track record of successfully managing multiple company or customer websites
- Excellent time-management and communication skills
- Contribute to architectural and design discussions.
- Design, Develop & Unit test features in the product.
- Ensure smooth and timely communication with both the internal and external stakeholders.
- Participate in estimations and ensure timely delivery of the features.
- Conduct peer reviews and ensure the quality of committed code.
Essential Experience And Skill-Set You Should Have
- Should have at least 2-4 years of experience in software development.
- Should have at least 2 years of hands-on experience in Java as a programming language.
- Should be well versed with Java 8 or above.
- Strong foundation in computer science, with strong competencies in Data Structures, algorithms, and their space-time complexities.
- Expertise in developing and consuming RESTful, micro-services using Spring Framework.
- Expertise with Spring data persistence frameworks such as JPA, -Repositories, Entities, Entity Manager etc.
- Exposure to Spring Cloud Frameworks such as Discovery, Config, Spring Cloud Gateway, Ribbon.
- Good to have knowledge on other Spring Frameworks such as Spring Security, Spring AOP.
- Must be proficient with the Linux commands.
- Strong debugging and troubleshooting expertise
- Good working knowledge of Relational and Non-Relational Databases.
- Sound understanding of Agile Software Development Processes like Scrum & Kanban.
- Deep practical knowledge of Domain Driven Design approach to software design.
- Experience writing and maintaining Unit and Integration tests.
Additional Desirable Qualifications
- Good to have knowledge on Java reactive framework.
- Understanding of CI/CD (Jenkins, Maven, Docker, Kubernetes).
- Knowledge on message queueing frameworks like RabbitMQ / ActiveMQ/ Kafka will be add-on.
- Identity & Security Domain Knowledge covering OAuth2, OpenId - Connect, Digital Signatures & Certificates.
- Domain knowledge of Ed-tech industry will be a plus
Required Soft Skills
- A self-starter attitude, the ability to work independently and in a group, demonstrated initiative, and good writing/briefing skills are great to have.
- Should be good at analytical thinking and breaking down large problems into solvable chunks.
- Demonstrated the ability to think creatively and come up with ideas/thoughts with significant business/ organizational impact.
- Ability to quickly adapt to changing technological trends.
Role: Backend Engineer
About Saras Analytics:
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You are a great teammate with proven capabilities working on SaaS product and a passion for writing exception code.
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You are hungry for an opportunity to join a start-up and become a member of core platform team driving the company forward.
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Has good analytical and problem-solving skills and is able to break down a solution into smaller units of work and produce a solution roadmap.
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Has written high quality, well-tested shared components that can be leveraged by multiple systems. Can step into specific projects to supply additional management, coding and engineering capacity as needed.
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Has expert knowledge in distributes systems and high-volume transactions.
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Understand the product mission, goals, and tasks and execute with the team to achieve them.
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Understand the design and architecture and build modules in accordance with it or recommend and make the necessary changes that adds more stability to our product.
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Improve the quality of our front-end code and our overall front-end user experience.
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Takes requirements (business features, technical debts and internal enhancements) and designs resilient solutions.
Requirements
- 1+ years of hands-on experience in Java/Kotlin.
- Demonstrable understanding of Design Patterns.
- Experience in Context & Dependency Injection or Spring framework, Hibernate/JPA.
- Experience in RESTful/SOAP web services in integrating with 3rd Party API Integrations.
- Proficient in SQL (PostgreSQL) and NoSQL databases.
- Experience in multi-threading and concurrency is a plus Experience in JMS messaging using Apache Zookeeper and Kafka is a plus.
- Experience in Angular is a plus. Knowledge of modern CI/CD environments: Git, Gradle, GitLab Familiarity with tools like Postman, SOAPUI, IntelliJ
- Willing to learn our tech-stack (Kotlin | CDI | Angular).
- Develop API integrations using RESTful/SOAP web services.
- Significant technical academic course work or equivalent work experience
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Knowledge on cloud infrastructure is a plus.
- Required 4+ years of experience in Java.
- Hands on professional experience using Core Java, Java Restful APIs, Gradle, Spring, Spring Boot and related frameworks.
- Hands on experience creating/consuming web services and data Data queries in SQL
- 2+ years’ experience of working with geographically dispersed teams, that fall across different time zones
- Experience with distributed architecture including web services and technologies
- Developing POCs
- Working knowledge of JIRA or other ALM tools to create a productive, high quality development environment













