Java Lead

• Strong Experience in Java and related frameworks such as EJB, Spring and Spring Boot
• Strong Experience in REST API based Microservices development & integration that includes long running orchestration services
• Experience implementing services with modern authentication using OAuth 2.0, SAML, JWT
• Implementation Experience in RDBMS (DB2/PostgreSQL) and good SQL query knowledge
• Strong CI/CD experience with GitHub CI/CD or Jenkins or Maven
• Creating custom, general use modules and components which extend the elements and modules of core

Job Responsibilities:

* 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

* Prepare the technical design of complex technology components

Mandatory Skills:

* Proficient in Java (JDK 1.7) or above JDK 8 preferable, with a good knowledge of its ecosystems with a knack for writing clean, readable Java code, writing reusable Java libraries along with knowledge of concurrency patterns in Java

* Solid understanding of object-oriented programming along with various design and architectural patterns

* Hands on experience with Spring, Spring Boot, JUnit

* Familiarity with concepts of MVC, Microservices, RESTful

Role - Lead- Backend Engineering

Work Mode- Hybrid

Location- Thane, Mumbai.

About the Company: 

Ventura is an omnichannel trading and investment platform with a network of branches, sub-brokers and Digital Channels. Founded in 1994, the company is now entering the next phase of growth by pivoting to a digital-first approach and strengthening its direct-to-consumer franchise. The company has now carved out a separate fintech vertical tasked with digital transformation using cutting-edge technology and bringing in fresh talent. 

Job Description: 

We are looking for a Backend Engineering lead whose highly talented individuals come from diverse backgrounds and are looking to solve real client problems at scale. We are looking for passionate techies with skills primarily around AWS and the latest tech stack who are aspiring for a fast-track career.

Join us if you like to:

· Build out a next-gen fintech product from ground 0

· Opportunity to influence the design of the product

· Flexible and Hybrid work environment running out of Slack

· Flat org structure

· Stay up-to-date on industry trends and emerging technologies

We’ll need you to bring:

· Bachelor's degree in Engineering or Master's degree in CS/ IT.

· 7+ years of experience 

· Clean coding skills around C++/Python/NodeJS/Go.

· Knowledge of Redis.

· Experienced in SQL with Postgres and Good to have Influx DB.

· Knowledge of NGINX or any other API gateway.

· Strong AWS skills, techies with certifications from AWS are particularly encouraged to apply - AWS API Gateway, Route53, Lambda, EC2, RDS, SQS, CloudWatch, Cognito, QuickSight

Demonstratable experience around writing testable code, working with git, doing peer-level code review, daily standups, and generally championing software excellence

Responsibilities:

• Design and create services and system architecture for your projects, while working.
• Closely with the product, design and engineering team.
• Participate in brainstorming sessions and contribute ideas to our technology, algorithms and products.
• Dive into difficult problems and successfully deliver results on schedule.
• Own services related to OkCredit features in active development.
• Develop and deploy required services responsible for evolution of the overall product.
• Do server side development in golang/python preferably (or any other language).
• Deploying stuff in production in docker containers.
• Write tests.
• Invent awesome stuff to make your job easier

• Motivation to design and build reliable, elegant backend services.
• At least 2 - 5 years of backend development experience.
• Proficiency in GoLang is MANDATORY.
• Familiarity with infrastructure concepts related to docker, kubernetes is preferred.
• Familiarity with Protocol buffers. Protocol buffers are now OkCredit's lingua franca for data.
• Familiarity with message-oriented middleware like rabbitmq, google pubsub.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms like gcp, aws etc.

• 2+ years of experience on Java, Spring Boot, Hibernate in medium to large-scale projects
• Must have experience with at least some flavours of both SQL (MySQL, Postgres) and NoSQL (Kafka, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, NoSQL distributed cache system, DynamoDB etc), datastores in production
• Must have experience with Kafka or similar message queue systems in production
• Stellar problem solving skills
• Hunger to learn new things and ability to grasp new concepts quickly
• Ability to move quickly without breaking things too much (we are dreamers)
• Ability to work under immense pressure which is balanced by a sense of responsibility and ownership
• Should be able to groom juniors and take them to the next level