Java Microservices Developer

Role & Responsibilities

As a Software Development Engineer - 3, Backend Engineer , you will play a critical role in architecting, designing, and delivering robust backend systems that power our platform. You will lead by example, driving technical excellence and mentoring peers while solving complex engineering problems. This position offers the opportunity to work with a highly motivated team in a fast-paced and innovative environment.

Key Responsibilities:

Technical Leadership-

• Design and develop highly scalable, fault-tolerant, and maintainable backend systems using Java and related frameworks.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior developers, fostering a culture of learning and growth.
• Review code and ensure adherence to best practices, coding standards, and security guidelines.

System Architecture and Design-

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product managers and frontend engineers, to translate business requirements into efficient technical solutions.
• Own the architecture of core modules and contribute to overall platform scalability and reliability.
• Advocate for and implement microservices architecture, ensuring modularity and reusability.

Problem Solving and Optimization-

• Analyze and resolve complex system issues, ensuring high availability and performance of the platform.
• Optimize database queries and design scalable data storage solutions.
• Implement robust logging, monitoring, and alerting systems to proactively identify and mitigate issues.

Innovation and Continuous Improvement-

• Stay updated on emerging backend technologies and incorporate relevant advancements into our systems.
• Identify and drive initiatives to improve codebase quality, deployment processes, and team productivity.
• Contribute to and advocate for a DevOps culture, supporting CI/CD pipelines and automated testing.

Collaboration and Communication-

• Act as a liaison between the backend team and other technical and non-technical teams, ensuring smooth communication and alignment.
• Document system designs, APIs, and workflows to maintain clarity and knowledge transfer across the team.

Ideal Candidate

• Strong Java Backend Engineer.
• Mandatory (Experience 1): Must have 5+ years of backend development with strong focus on Java (Spring / Spring Boot)
• Mandatory (Experience 2): Must have been SDE-2 for at least 2.5 years (title should be there in resume)
• Mandatory (Tech skill 1) : Hands-on experience with RESTful APIs and microservices architecture
• Mandatory (Tech skill 2): Strong understanding of distributed systems, multithreading, and async programming
• Mandatory (Tech skill 3): Experience with relational and NoSQL databases
• Mandatory (Tech skill 4) : Exposure to Kafka/RabbitMQ and Redis/Memcached
• Mandatory (Tech skill 5): Experience with AWS / GCP / Azure, Docker, and Kubernetes
• Mandatory (Tech skill 6) : Familiar with CI/CD pipelines and modern DevOps practices
• Mandatory (Tech skill 7): Must have worked on core product/platform teams rather than support or internal tooling
• Mandatory (Ownership & Impact): Candidate should demonstrate end-to-end ownership of backend systems, including architecture/design decisions (HLD/LLD), scalability improvements, or measurable production impact (resume should clearly mention metrics such as scale, throughput, latency improvements, reliability, cost optimization, or user impact)
• Mandatory (Company): Top product companies (logistics, supply chain, e-commerce, or B2B SaaS at large scale)
• Mandatory (Stability): Must have stayed for at least 2 years with each of the previous companies
• Mandatory (Education): B.Tech in computer science or related field from Tier 1, Tier 2 colleges

Specific Knowledge/Skills

1. 4-6 years of experience
2. Proficiency in Python programming.
3. Basic knowledge of front-end development.
4. Basic knowledge of Data manipulation and analysis libraries
5. Code versioning and collaboration. (Git)
6. Knowledge for Libraries for extracting data from websites.
7. Knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases
8. Familiarity with RESTful APIs
9. Familiarity with Cloud (Azure /AWS) technologies

About The Team

We are striving to create the best productivity tools which will help small businesses to go online and scale their growth consistently with the bleeding edge of technology. Our backend team is looking for a solid Rockstar engineer who can hack around multiple technologies and build highly scalable, low latency, distributed systems. You will work closely with our product team to build new and compelling experiences for our customers!

We place special emphasis on the continuous growth of each team member - and we do this with regular 1-1s and open communication. As Software Engineer - Backend, you will be part of self-starters who thrive on teamwork and constructive feedback.

About The Role

As a Software Engineer - Backend, you will solve real-life complex problems and create compelling experiences for our users. In this role, you will ensure that the solutions and processes that we create are of the highest quality. And in doing so, you will champion a seamless app experience for all our users. You will also collaborate with your fellow engineers to create scalable solutions that are pertinent to Product IO's overall growth.

If you are confident about solving hard, interesting and UNIQUE problems, and creating an impact within an entrepreneurial environment, then you might just be our next Software Engineer - Backend

What You'll Do:

• Lead, build, test, and release mobile application features using cross-platform tools.
• Collaborate with the front-end team to expose weaknesses and problems
• Build out our APIs and tools using Python & Firebase libraries on the backend.
• Experience with NodeJS and deployment in Serverless
• Experience with NoSql(MongoDB) and SQL(PostregSQL)
• Work closely with Product, Design, Platform, and other cross-functional groups to drive product vision.
• Previous experience helping shape API structures and building REST APIs.
• Understanding of accessibility and server compliance (GCP)

Required Qualifications:

• 2+ years professional software development experience, preferably mobile apps with a cloud backend. Example projects in (Python, Firebase)
• 6 months experience in Google Cloud Platform
• Excellent communication skills are a must, and experience with estimating and managing project tasks is important, too
• Highly driven, naturally curious, and comfortable working in a fast-paced environment

Bonus points:

• 1+ years of experience in developing Firebase apps.
• Experience in developing or designing APIs and web applications.
• Deployment in Cloud Environment.
• Familiarity with Flutter.

Why join us:

• 👫 A fast-moving, fun, growth-oriented company made up of skillful team players
• 💬 Transparent, open, and collaborative work environment
• 🌟 An opportunity to work closely with a proven executive team, board, and serial entrepreneurs

• 8+ Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent combination of technical education and work experience;
• 7+ years of Software Development experience and at least 1+ years of experience in building and leading strong engineering teams
• Deep hands-on technical expertise on server side technologies.
• Solid software development background including design patterns, data structures, test driven development, experience in building microservices and highly scalable and performant applications.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, and effective stakeholder management, in cross functional teams.
• Managed a team of 5+ engineers, taking care of the delivery planning, resource alignments, prioritization, performance management(including managing appraisal cycles), and effective feedback for the team and individuals.
  
  

Job description

Do you want to work with high traffic OLTP and OLAP systems that provide real value to retailers? Want to build real web applications that work across multiple channels and devices? In this critical role, the right candidate should have an entrepreneurial mind-set, have experience working across an application stack and a strong background in developing complex web experiences that are rich, responsive and interactive. The individual should have exhibited good technical leadership skills and be a highly motivated individual.

Role & Responsibility

• Exhibit strong technical knowledge, leadership skills and independent execution.
• A keen eye for good experiences. Understanding the experience from a customer perspective.
• Drive design discussion of complex features and own development of these modules across the application stack.
• Ability to adapt to changing business and product needs.
• Experience evolving the design and operation scale as new features are added to the product
• Mentor junior developers and ensure quality code output (via code reads, reading references, etc.) from them.
• Co-ordinate with internal teams and external partners in ensuring we build the best solution on time for the customer. Constantly looking at ways to innovate and improve the product.
• 8+ years of experience in Java & J2EE based Web Technologies & Frameworks with a focus in either Service Oriented Architecture or APIs. 
• Experience in designing scalable solutions in a large-scale distributed environment.
• Strong knowledge of web technologies, common web frameworks, networking, SQL and database technologies
• Well versed in software engineering principles, frameworks and technologies
• Strong debugging / troubleshooting skills.
• Ability to propose and defend solutions.
• Ability to work closely with product management, customer support, and  other engineering teams to continuously evolve and innovate the enterprise-class Products.