Java Lead

As a seasoned professional, your influence extends beyond development; you will be instrumental in orchestrating rollout plans and adoption blueprints, thereby shaping our forward-thinking roadmap. Envision yourself leading and contributing to groundbreaking projects such as:

• Crafting a robust infrastructure adept at managing a surge of notifications with negligible latency.
• Building an auto-scaled system from scratch, integrating elements like queuing and caching to address pressing business needs.
• Engaging in profound dialogues to weigh the pros and cons of microservices versus monolithic architectures, steering the team towards the most beneficial approach.
• Overseeing systems that cater to millions of requests per second, enhancing performance through scalable strategies.
• Orchestrating a smooth database transition from self-hosted to managed setups, ensuring uninterrupted service.
• Designing a multi-cloud framework that amalgamates the prowess of diverse cloud platforms, guaranteeing reliability and efficiency.
• Leveraging AI to develop models capable of discerning patterns in creative content, including artworks and designs.
• Developing a swift and efficient data pipeline that can handle the ingestion and processing of millions of records without compromising on speed and performance.
• Excel in Customer Support by analyzing trends and proposing solutions, improve on-call processes, collaborates cross-functionally on bug fixes, and employs advanced debugging strategies for complex issues.
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Who You Are

• 4+ years of solid experience as a Backend Engineer, with expertise in handling large-scale projects using TypeScript/JavaScript, Python.
• Comprehensive understanding of database systems and adeptness in query optimization.
• Skilled in establishing and following best practices in API development and integration.
• A penchant for crafting simple, sustainable, and scalable solutions, with a proven track record of developing enduring systems.
• Agile learner with a proactive stance in adapting to the evolving SaaS landscape, prioritizing substantial business impact over mere code expansion.
• Proven leadership in fostering collaboration and drawing actionable insights from various organizational sectors, steering teams with a visionary and inclusive approach.
• Trusted figure in building and nurturing cross-functional relationships, commanding respect and trust across all organizational levels.
• Source of inspiration and motivation for new team members, often being the catalyst for engineers opting to join your team.
• Dedicated mentor with a deep-seated commitment to nurturing the growth of both engineers and managers, emphasizing personal development and mentorship.

A top of the line, premium software advisory & development services firm. Our customers include promising early stage start ups, fortune 500 enterprises and investors. We draw inspiration from Leonardo Da Vinci's famous quote - Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Domains we work in

Multiple; publishing, retail, banking, networking, social sector, education and many more.

Tech we use

Java, Scala, Golang, Elixir, Python, RoR, .Net, JS frameworks

More details on tech

You name it and we might be working on it. The important thing is not technology here but what kind of solutions we provide to our clients. We believe to solve some of the most complex problems, holistic thinking and solution design is of extreme importance. Technology is the most important tool to implement the solution thus designed.

Who should join us

We are looking for curious & inquisitive technology practitioners. Our customers see us one of the most premium advisory and development services firm, hence most of the problems we work on are complex and often hard to solve. You can expect to work in small (2-5) people teams, working very closely with the customers in iterative developing and evolving the solution. We are continually on the search for passionate, bright and energetic professionals to join our team.

So, if you are someone who has strong fundamentals on technology and wants to stretch, beyond the regular role based boundaries, then Sahaj is the place for you. You will experience a world, where there are no roles or grades and you will play different roles and wear multiple hats, to deliver a software project.

• Work on complex, custom-designed, scalable, multi-tiered software development projects
• Work closely with clients (commercial & social enterprises, start ups), both Business and Technical staff members * Be responsible for the quality of software and resolving any issues regards the solution
• Think through hard problems, not limited to technology and work with a team to realise and implement solutions
• Learn something new everyday

• Development and delivery experience in any of the programming languages
• Passion for software engineering and craftsman-like coding prowess
• Great design and solutioning skills (OO & Functional)
• Experience including analysis, design, coding and implementation of large scale custom built object-oriented applications
• Understanding of code refactoring and optimisation issues
• Understanding of Virtualisation & DevOps. Experience with Ansible, Chef, Docker preferable * Ability to learn new technologies and adapt to different situations
• Ability to handle ambiguity on a day to day basis

Skills:- J2EE, Spring Boot, Hibernate (Java), Java and Scala

Desired Experience

3+ years

Job Description

What You’ll Do

• Design financial systems for scale. Measure, plan, iterate.
• Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code
• Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications
• Setup and own the engineering architectures built around event sourcing, application sharding, database sharding, service communication mesh, etc.
• The tech: Go, Google Cloud Spanner, Kafka, Redis

What you bring to the table

• 3+ years of experience. Relevant experience is preferred.
• Knowledge of 2 common programming languages - Java & Node / Rust /Python & Go
• Comfortable in linux command line, AWS or GCP
• Strong unit test and debugging skills
• Great communication skills

Bonus if you have…

• Love building great products and engineering systems from scratch
• Are a Self-starter, Hustler and Curious to Learn
• Have an understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
• Thrive in an early-stage startup environment with less stability and more ambiguity
• Have an interest in financial products and/or cryptocurrency

Good to Have Skills:

• 3+ 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.

• 8+ years of hands-on experience in enterprise software development using Java, and J2EE Framework. 
• Experience with http://react.js/">React.js, AngularJS, strong knowledge of JavaScript, CSS, HTML5
• Passion for building enterprise web applications leveraging modern architecture principles, strong prior experience as a full stack developer. 
• Expertise with CSS and building responsive pages, with a keen eye for UI design and usability
• Experience with web-accessibility/WCAG standards
• Experience working collaboratively with a globally distributed team.
• Experience with agile methodologies and good exposure to DevOps/CICD models.
• Passion for keeping up with new trends and developments in the programming community and is eager to find ways to incorporate these new ideas into our codebase.

About US: Newbie Soft Solutions is an IT service provider focused on providing solutions in niche areas to support and build future -ready, resilient solutions for medium sized industries and growth-focused technology organizations.

The name NEWBIE signifies a new chapter, a new beginning in the field of staffing solutions. Founded in 2015, we have grown from strength to strength with a strong presence across India, United States and Australia. Our offerings include Staffing Solutions, IT Consulting, Business Intelligence, Security Solutions, Legacy Application Management and Modernization. We value consistency, which is our core principle, to reach the end goal of complete user satisfaction. We constantly strive to outperform our competitors to become the leaders in digital revolution.

• Clear understanding of end to end communication of service calls via API Gateway/Service Mesh/Service Registry
• Experience on Springboot/SpringCloud/Restful Webservices
• Experience in containerisation (Docker) and Kubernetes in terms of creating container images and writing manifest files/helm charts on designing PODs/Side-car patterns etc.
• Good design experience on Web Applications (backend) & since we operate as a DevOps pod we would expect the person be involved in production deployments/support.
• Exposure to usage of CI-CD tools like Git/Jenkins/Maven/Sonar/Junit/CheckMarx/Netsparker/Cucumber

• Participate with the senior developer in the entire application lifecycle, designing, coding, testing, debugging to deployment.
• Implementing designs and coordinating the frontend development and required backend for it.
• Work on back-end development tasks and designing the architecture for the same.
• Efficient usage of database technologies such as MySQL, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, Redis etc. as part of the dev work.
• Perform research and find opportunities to utilise web development best practices, form guidelines to improve system productivity, and work on scaling and monitoring.
• Work with cross-functional teams to maintain and make sure the product should be scalable, maintainable and secure.
• Coordinate with multiple junior team members for the development of the tasks & projects.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 3+ years of experience working as a Full-stack developer or Backend but knows Frontend technology.
• Proficiency in Javascript Frameworks like React and thorough knowledge in CSS skills is an added advantage.
• Built an application from scratch earlier.
• Strong fundamental knowledge of any backend language such as Python, Java etc.
• Experience with Backend Web development.
• Strong computer science fundamentals.
• The ability to own end to end responsibility - right from the requirement to release.
• Willingness and enthusiasm drive to learn new technologies.
• The ability to pick the right tools for the job.
• Desire and ability to play different roles as necessary.

• Developing user interface components and implementing them following well-known React.js workflow.
• Architect the application out in clean MVC kind of architectures in ReactNative for Android/iOS app development.
• Developing APIs with MVC frameworks in Java / Python.
• Designing and building REST APIs.
• Building on and maintaining services on cloud platforms.
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use.

• Self-motivated, team player, action-and-results oriented.
• Well organised, good communication and reporting skills.
• Ability to successfully work under tight project deadlines.