Java Lead

We are looking for passionate people who love solving interesting and complex technology challenges, who are enthusiastic about building an industry first innovative product to solve new age real world problems. This role requires strategic leadership, the ability to manage complex technical challenges, and the ability to drive innovation while ensuring operational excellence. As a Backend SDE-2, you will collaborate with key stakeholders across the business, product management, and operations to ensure alignment with the organization's goals and play a critical role in shaping the technology roadmap and engineering culture.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategic Planning: Work closely with senior leadership to develop and implement engineering strategies that support business objectives. Understand broader organization goals and prepare technology roadmaps.
• Technical Excellence: Guide the team in designing and implementing scalable, extensible and secure software systems. Drive the adoption of best practices in technical architecture, coding standards, and software testing to ensure product delivery with highest speed AND quality.
• Project and Program Management: Setting up aggressive as well as realistic timelines with all the stakeholders, ensure the successful delivery of engineering projects as per the defined timelines with best quality standards ensuring budget constraints are met. Use agile methodologies to manage the development process and resolve bottlenecks.
• Cross-functional collaboration: Collaborate with Product Management, Design, Business, and Operations teams to define project requirements and deliverables. Ensure the smooth integration of engineering efforts across the organization.
• Risk Management: Anticipate and mitigate technical risks and roadblocks. Proactively identify areas of technical debt and drive initiatives to reduce it.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• 1-3 years of experience in software engineering
• Excellent problem-solving skills, with the ability to diagnose and resolve complex technical challenges.
• Proven track record of successfully delivering large-scale, high-impact software projects.
• Strong understanding of software design principles and patterns.
• Expertise in multiple programming languages and modern development frameworks.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS), microservices, and distributed systems.
• Experience with releational and non-relational databases.
• Experience with Redis, ElasticSearch.
• Experience in DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure automation.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and inspire teams and stakeholders at all levels.

Skills:- MySQL, Python, Django, AWS, NoSQL, Kafka, Redis, ElasticSearch

• Strong experience in Java programming.
• Must have experience on MicroServices using Spring boots /Jersy /Swagger / any other Microservices technology stack
• Good experience in either Spring or Hibernate
• Must have at least 1to 2 years’ experience in Web application
• Knowledge of OOP concepts, industry best practices, and design
• Good understanding of web technology/enterprise-level applications
• Good to have experience in JavaScript frameworks
• Good to have experience in Agile Methodology

• Self-motivated and a Quick Learner
• Creative ideas with a problem-solving mindset.
• Ability to consistently perform and meet deadlines
• Attention to detail and follow-through
• A good understanding of customer satisfaction
• Ability to work effectively in a team as well as in an individual environment
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Requirement:

- Must have 5+ years Drupal programming experience.
- Good experience in Drupal 7 and 8 implementations.
- Good understanding of MY SQL and relational databases.
- Should have a good understanding of OOPs concept and latest features.
- Should have an understanding of Design Patterns like Singleton, factory, etc.
- Should have at least worked on MVC frameworks like CodeIgniter,CakePHP, Laravel.
- Good understanding of web technologies
- Good understanding of front-end development HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, Jquery skills.
- Good Git version control knowledge.
- Contribution to open source community.
- Experience in Drupal 7 of 5+ years.
- Good with RDBMS & writing custom SQL
- Drupal API experience
- Must have PHP, JavaScript, AJAX, HTML and CSS experience
- Should be able to code as per Drupal standard coding
- Should be well versed with implementation and configuration of most commonly used modules
- Experience with CSS Frameworks such as Twitter Bootstrap. Communication Responsibilities:
- Deliver engaging, informative and well-organized presentations.
- Strong command of English language (both verbal and written).
- Resolves and/or escalates issues in a timely fashion.

Other Skills

• Disseminate technology best practices.
• Work with senior developers in adoption of new technologies within our Technology practice
• Good team player with ability to lead multiple technical teams.
• Excellent relationship building skills.
• Ability to work under pressure with a solid sense for setting priorities.

Job Title: Jr Software Engr Java

Experience: 2+ Years

CTC: 6-12 LPA

Location: Mumbai
Face-to-face interview at the office

What we want:
We are looking for someone who has has strong knowledge and 2+years’ of experience in Core Java, Spring MVC, Restful API, SOAP, Golang


What you will do:
•Developing REST APIs for the platform
•Developing & maintaining an UX Panel
•Integration with third party applications using APIs
•Design, Develop and execute performance tests to simulate traffic of large-scale events
•Analyse complex problems/issues in load tests, production servers, and identify the bottlenecks and optimize performance.
•Analyse usage patterns, and application behaviours and translate that into performance optimizations.
•Determine how to meet scalability requirements while ensuring reliability within a platform
•Design and maintain tools for reporting on performance metrics.

Detailed Requirements:
Excellent knowledge of Golang, Core Java, Spring MVC, Restful API,SOAP
Additional knowledge of Java internals, GO Lang, plus.
Experience in developing, optimizing and operating high traffic projects/websites is a plus.
Experience in using Java Profilers and performance engineering.
Experience in writing multithreaded web applications.
Good knowledge of basic Linux commands to debug system issues and limitations a must.
Experience in Agile/SCRUM is a big plus
Experience in hibernate and spring MVC framework is a plus.
Ability to manage multiple modules simultaneously
Ability to work under pressure & deal with people diplomatically
Should have experience of leading a team & a strong motivator
Strong academic record is a big plus.

Responsibilities:

• The candidate will get an opportunity to work on AI/ML technologies using NodeJS for web applications.
• Deliver high-quality code in a fast-paced customer-facing product.
• Specify, design, and implement the functionality and behaviors of the web infrastructure.
• Be involved in the full life-cycle of development from concept through integration, test, and high web traffic deployments.
• Interface with the firmware team as well as clients and end-users of the products.
• API development using REST JSON/XML, and security standards like OAuth.

Requirements:

• BTech or MTech in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or other similar majors.
• Experience building products with full-stack technologies, and an excellent understanding of computer science fundamentals, data structures, and algorithms.
• Must have experience in version control systems like GIT.
• Strong in NodeJS, MySQL, MongoDB, Kafka, Elasticsearch.

Minimum of 4+ years of experience in Java development

• Experience delivering Services (REST, SOAP) and Web applications in Micro services architecture
• Experience developing and deploying Java solutions to cloud
• Experience in Spring Boot and components of Spring framework
• Experience in a JavaScript framework such as Angular or React
• Experience in TDD using Junit or similar frameworks

·       Experience in Design Patterns and service oriented architectural principles, Data structures and Algorithms.

·       Individual should be an active participant in the product design and code reviews for self and team and can competently review any aspect of their product or major sub-system.

·       Experience in SQL, Unix skills.

·       Good communication Skill

Merkle|Sokrati, a leader in Paid Search & Social Advertising, provides a sophisticated technology solution to efficiently manage Digital Marketing campaigns for several brands in India. The technology developed takes a beating of serving and tracking 20M+ impressions a day. It runs crunching algorithms and keyword discovery routines using distributed computing, housing the entire data in distributed caches and sharded MySQL databases.

To be a geek at Merkle|Sokrati you need to know how to build scalable and high-performance systems. Nothing at Sokrati is small. We start with a proof of concept that demands a traffic rate of 10M+! To achieve any of this you need to understand Distributed Systems, Distributed Caching, High-scale Databases. And we possess the skills to create software that makes this entire heterogeneous system function together even if it runs on 100 boxes. A system that is so widely used cannot sustain any downtime and hence it uses elegant high-availability techniques to survive an outage. Not many startups can say “been there, done that”!

@Merkle|Sokrati, you will:

• Implement solutions for broadly defined problems
• Drive best practices and engineering excellence
• Be involved in the development of code in object-oriented languages like Java etc and build large scale robust distributed systems
• Be involved in full fledged product development.
• Build New Features, Push them to production fast.
• Debug production issues across services and levels of the stack
• Build services or APIs which will for easy application integrations at Sokrati to develop applications faster.
• Build scalable/fault-tolerant backend systems that process and analyze billions of data points every day.

You'd fit right in if you have:

• 2-4 years of experience in building successful production software systems
• A solid grounding in Computer Science fundamentals (based on a BE/BTech or MS in Computer Science)
• Experience developing software services and an understanding of design for scalability, performance and reliability.
• Mastery of the tools of the trade, including a variety of modern programming languages (Python, Java, JavaScript, C/C++) and open-source technologies (Linux, Spring)
• Proven ability to work in a fast paced, agile and in an ownership and results oriented culture

If you are excited about:

• Having an unmatched startup experience that allows you to work on bleeding-edge technologies.
• Making a splash in a multi-billion dollar Digital Advertising industry
• Learning & Growing far beyond your current horizon
• A place full of like-minded & ridiculously smart folks
• A start-up culture that you'd cherish forever in your work life

Feel like you are a good fit? We would love to hear from you!