Java Microservices Developer

Required Skills:

• 3+ year of experience in Development in JAVA technology.
• Strong Java Basics
• SpringBoot or Spring MVC
• Hands on experience on Relational Databases (SQL query or Hibernate) + Mongo (JSON parsing)
• Proficient in REST API development
• Messaging Queue (RabitMQ or Kafka)
• Microservices
• Any Caching Mechanism
• Good at problem solving

Good to Have Skills:

• 4+ 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.

Lead Software Engineer - Backend

It is evolving the way people discover the world by connecting them with exceptional experiences in their city at the push of a button. We are building a magical platform that gets everyone to head out and have fun in a matter of seconds; no matter where you are and what you want to do. We are combining a delightful product experience, data-driven decisions, sophisticated supply side logistics network, and world-class operations to solve a huge basic human problem: how do we have a good time?

We’re growing rapidly with over $200M in annualized sales, 150,000 monthly transactions and profitable unit economics. We are backed by some of the finest investors in Silicon Valley & India. 

We like to solve real-world problems in the simplest, most elegant manner possible. We’re looking for a QA Lead with the ability and passion for building solutions to people-centered problems that are created at the intersection of human behavior and technology. You should also be capable of building and mentoring a fast-growing passionate, young, and talented team. We love folks who have a sense of humor and know how to have fun.Dream, build and iterate. That's our mantra. Because good just isn't good enough.

👩‍💻 The Role

• Full responsibility of designing and building core modules on the application and infrastructure layer.
• Lead a fast-growing team of young, passionate, talented and fun loving superstars.
• Solve challenging architectural and design problems.
• Get your hands dirty with clustering, replication, databases, build systems and infrastructure automation etc.
• Be responsible for building concurrent, performant and scalable services which will power the entire Headout ecosystem.
• Build and contribute to open-source libraries and components.

🌟 Our Dream Engineer

• A penchant for learning and building with new technologies and frameworks.
• You love working with people and have worked in a lead position in the past.
• A knack for writing the most performance optimized code along with it being modular and scalable.
• No challenge is too big to solve; love thinking product and excited to ideate & build stuff all by yourself.
• You're interested in being an early employee at a growing company, with the influence and responsibility that entails.
• You have broad and deep knowledge across a variety of contemporary technologies.

💝 We like

• Strong CS fundamentals, good working knowledge of classic algorithms and data structures.
• 2+years experience developing server-side technologies using any language or framework.
• Excellent communication, collaboration and people management skills.
• Experience working with Spring, Relational Databases, Concurrent Programming, NoSQL flavors, AWS.
• Experience designing scalable, fault-tolerant systems and databases.
• Experience with setting setting up systems and infrastructure.
• Solid understanding of how the web works and its underlying communication protocols.
• People who can't live without solving that algorithm problem that they just stumbled upon.
• People who will give up anything to squeeze in that last bit-level performance.
• Anything else than can surprise us.
• Nice to Haves: An interest in travel, local experiences & hospitality.

Job description:

• Develop, implement, and maintain Java application phases, code, and software
• Work as part of a software development team
• Contributing to all phases of the development lifecycle
• Write well-designed, testable, efficient code per specifications and test to ensure designs are in compliance with the specifications
• Analyze user requirements to determine how to translate into Java
• Debug and resolve technical issues
• Develop documentation to track

Technical Skill (Must have)

• Java, JSP-Servlets, Spring MVC, Sprint REST, Spring Boot
• Hibernate, Unit testing framework i.e., JUnit
• SQL, Database i.e MySQL, Oracle
• Cloud computing platform understanding i.e., AWS
• Project Management tools like Jira, Mantis
• Source-Code Control System (GIT, SVN)
• Web services
• Agile Methodology
• Web/Application Servers i.e., Tomcat
  
  

Employee perks & benefits:

• 5 days a week work culture 
• Health insurance (for employees and family) 
• Performance awards and rewards 
• Flexible work hours

You will get while working with us

• Opportunity to work on highly distributed systems with micro-services architecture and big-data volumes
• Solve challenging real-world problems by leveraging OOP & functional programming concepts
• Opportunity to incubate an open source project
• Get to work with cutting edge technologies to name a few Kafka, Elasticsearch, Postgres, Scala
• Developing scalable, sustainable and reliable enterprise systems
• Hands-on experience of working with TDD and BDD
• Develop environment using practices such as Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery
• Learning opportunity on how to turn complex business requirements into a working product

Roles & Responsibilities

• Requirement understanding & analysis by interacting with client
• Carry out architectural and design discussions with fellow team members and come up with right approach
• Understand system domain, user’s perspective of system and use-cases
• Understand patterns in existing code and effectively leverage and improvise it 
• Develop backend involving Java8 based functional programming and REST services
• Ensure best practices of code reviews, automated testing and CI
• Research new tools & technologies required for the projects
• Mentor fellow team members and bring their level up

Must have

• Strong hold on written/verbal communication
• Strong core Java fundamentals
• Strong Analytical & problem solving skills
• Proactive and inherent nature of working with ownership
• Passion of writing clean code
• Experience in designing relational data model from business requirements

Good to have

• Knowledge of functional programming (Scala or Java 8 lambda)
• Knowledge of NOSQL
• Working knowledge of linux & networking
• Performance optimisation - Optimise/refactor queries, code, stored procedures to take performance next level

About the Role

The Engineering team in Bangalore, India is building products for the Martial Arts

fans across the world. As part of the engineering team, you would be expected to have

deep technology expertise with a passion for building highly scalable products.

This is a unique opportunity where you can impact the lives of people across 150+

countries!

Responsibilities

Own architecture, design, development, and implementation of different

modules/features of the services

Design, develop, deploy and support web applications.

Discover opportunities for performance improvements

Recommend ways to improve reliability, efficiency and code quality

Focus on continuous delivery and reducing complexity

Carry out code reviews and manage pull requests

Build applications based on micro-services architecture.

Requirements

Overall 1~3 years of experience in Backend development.

B. E/B. Tech in CS or equivalent streams from institute of repute (IITs, NITs, BITs,

IIITs or equivalent)

Strong object oriented design skills & knowledge of design patterns

Experience designing & developing distributed systems involving multiple web

services, databases (both SQL and NoSQL), caches, queues, etc. taking into

consideration scalability, availability, fault tolerance, consistency, etc. of the

overall system

Well-aware of and enforces development best practices: Unit Tests, Code Reviews,

Integration Tests, CI/CD, Monitoring, Alerting, etc.

Preferred Skills: 

We want to really emphasize Spring Boot (2+ years although 1+ if candidate particularly strong) Using Redis as a caching technology with Spring Boot would be a strong plus 

Using Redisson (a particular java client library that can be easily configured with Spring Boot) would be a strong plus 

Knowledge of event based messaging systems (Amazon SNS, Amazon MQ, or Kafka (in AWS) Data Cleaning tools and techniques in CSV and Excel 

Strong Knowledge of Spring Boot Dependency Injection and Configuration 

Experience with APIs for popular e-commerce platforms (Magento, Shopify, Big Commerce, etc.) 

SDLC (Software Development Lifecycle) Tools in the context of AWS. (Tools classified under DevOps) 

Experience with managing AWS EC2 VM instances and using AWS managed Services (like S3, MySQL, VPC/Networking, Lambda, etc) 

Performance Analysis Tools (Code Profiling) on Java VM and particularly Spring Boot 

Nice to Have: 

Experience with Cassandra or MongoDB with Spring Boot 

Horizontal Scaling with Spring Boot (considerations running multiple instances of Spring Boot instances) 

Experience with placing Spring Boot applications in Docker/Kubernetes container ecosystems (especially in AWS)