Java Lead

Pickyourtrail (PYT) is an expert co-creator of super hit customised holidays. We are the perfect partner to the ‘designated travel planner/s’ of every group - big or small. Our service, customisation and expertise help us deliver super hit holidays and make the planner the hero of the holiday. 

PickYourTrail is a technology-driven travel company building personalized, end-to-end travel experiences. Our platform powers dynamic itinerary creation, real-time pricing, booking orchestration, and post-booking workflows at scale. We operate in a high-throughput, real-time environment where backend systems are critical to business success.

What are we looking for in you?

You are enthusiastic about developing highly scalable, foolproof, end-to-end quality software. You have worked on api integrations, have a good understanding of api docs, SOAP, REST, rate limiter and caching. You are very passionate about data structures and algorithms. You are flexible in working with multidisciplinary teams and you push your teammates to their limits & ensure that the work is done. You consider AI as your friend and use them in all facets to augment your work, as your pair programmer, code reviewer and design philosopher. If you feel we are talking about you, contact us asap.

Who will you work with?

Being a part of a small team of backend engineers, you get to solve a wide range of problems in the travel space. Be it feature discussion, solution design, development, dev testing, deployment, enhancement or maintenance, you get to experience everything.

What's in it for you?

• Opportunity to contribute and solve interesting problems in the travel space.
• Solve for scalability, availability and performance along with functional integrations.
• Freedom to explore solutions rather than getting tied down by rigid standards.
• Work with some of the best techies in the industry
• An environment where Attitude is higher than Skill and performance scores over politics
• Take the product to the next level that has an impact on the end customer

What you'll bring to the team?

• Good understanding of data structures and algorithms
• Good experience in System & Solution design.
• Working knowledge of Java, Web Services, SOAP, REST and Spring Boot.
• Experience working with coding assistants like co-pilot, Claude desktop etc.
• Knowledge of GIT version control
• Good knowledge of any database (MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle)
• Knowledge of Unit testing is a must
• Fair debugging skills

• Should be comfortable working in support with development projects
• Experience working on Spring (MVC, Boot, Batch, Security, Data)
• 4-5 years experience in Java-J2EE Development.
• Individual contributor.
• Extensive technical experience and development expertise in Core Java, J2EE.
• Experience working with and applying Design patterns to solve problems.
• Good in development code in Java/J2EE, new oracle query, procedures, functions, design the page, validate of java/Script
• Should be able to identify, track and mitigate risks to the product.

Idea Clan is an Internet Marketing company that works with a lot of global ecommerce, Social Media and performance marketing clients. We own an Influencer network called Viral Sparks. We work with huge brands like twentytwowords.com, ranker, diply, littlethings.com, boredometherapy, providr etc. We are a Certified GOLD partner with Microsoft and an expert at CPA (Cost per action) marketing solutions. Everyone that works at IdeaClan is family. And we grow as one.

We are looking for a Java developer responsible for building Java applications. This includes anything between complex groups of back-end services and their client-end (desktop and mobile) counterparts. Your primary responsibility will be to design and develop these applications, and to coordinate with the rest of the team working on different layers of the infrastructure. Thus, a commitment to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and product quality is essential.

- Translate application storyboards and use cases into functional applications

- Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable Java code

- Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the applications

- Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to these problems

- Help maintain code quality, organization, and automatization

- Proficient in Java, with a good knowledge of its ecosystems

- Proficient in Springboot, Hibernate, RabbitMQ

- Solid understanding of object-oriented programming

- Familiar with various design and architectural patterns

- Skill for writing reusable Java libraries

- Knowledge of concurrency patterns in Java

- Familiarity with concepts of MVC, JDBC, and RESTful, GraphQL

- Experience with popular web application frameworks, such as Play and Spark

- Knack for writing clean, readable Java code

- Experience with both external and embedded databases

- Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application

- Basic understanding of the class loading mechanism in Java

- Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes

- Basic understanding of JVM, its limitations, weaknesses, and workarounds

- Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests

- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git

- Familiarity with build tools such as Ant, Maven, and Gradle

- Familiarity with continuous integration

• Java 8, Spring Boot, Java Microservices
• REST API’s
• Angular 11, HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap
• SQL DB
• Azure/AWS
• Kafka