Java Product Lead

Job description

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain serverless applications using AWS services such as Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, and S3.
• Collaborate with front-end developers to integrate user-facing elements with server-side logic.
• Build and maintain RESTful APIs to support web and mobile applications.
• Implement security best practices for AWS services and manage IAM roles and policies.
• Optimize application performance, scalability, and reliability through monitoring and testing.
• Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code following best practices and design patterns.
• Participate in code reviews, providing constructive feedback to peers.
• Troubleshoot and debug applications, identifying performance bottlenecks and areas for improvement.
• Stay updated with emerging technologies and industry trends related to serverless architectures and Python development.

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• Proven experience as a Python backend developer, with a strong portfolio of serverless applications.
• Proficiency in AWS services, particularly in serverless architectures (Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, etc.).
• Solid understanding of RESTful API design principles and best practices.
• Familiarity with CI/CD practices and tools (e.g., AWS CodePipeline, Jenkins).
• Experience with containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes) is a plus.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently and collaboratively.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with frontend technologies (JavaScript, React, Angular) is a plus.
• Knowledge of data storage solutions (SQL and NoSQL databases).
• AWS certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Developer Associate) are a plus.

LogiNext is looking for a technically savvy and experienced senior developer to lead development efforts. You will help the team grow in size and skills, optimizing their code while working on your own. You will design, and develop products that exceed client expectations in terms of value and benefit. You will collaborate on scalability issues involving access to massive amounts of data and information.

You have hands-on experience in building secure, high-performing and scalable systems in Java. Your design intuition inclines toward usability, elegance and simplicity. You are biased towards open-source tools and existing frameworks. You have successfully shipped applications with a beautiful front-end and intelligent backend. You have demonstrated strong interpersonal and communication skills.

Responsibilities

Design and development efforts for high-volume, low-latency applications for real-time event based systems Deliver high-availability and high-performance platform using microservices architecture Identify bottlenecks and inefficiencies in code, and devise solutions to production and non-production issues Keep an eye out for open source projects and technology trends that can be introduced in the products Transform business functionalities and production specifications into technical requirements and low level design Be hands-on, adopt a practical approach to software and technology Work with product management and other teams to build highly scalable products

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or a related field 0 to 1 years of design and development experience in scalable and distributed enterprise applications using Java/J2EE, JPA, Spring framework and RESTful web services Excellent coding skills in Java Experience in managing, implementing and optimizing big data stores such as MySQL, MongoDB, Elasticsearch Experience in deploying applications and using various managed services provided by cloud platforms (AWS, Azure) Experience in front-end technologies HTML5, CSS3, jQuery, AngularJS and D3.js is preferred Strong foundation in computer science, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms and software design Proven ability to drive large scale projects with deep understanding of Agile SDLC, high collaboration and leadership

As an engineer, you will help with the implementation, and launch of many key product features. You will get an opportunity to work on a wide range of technologies (including Spring, AWS Elastic Search, Lambda, ECS, Redis, Spark, Kafka etc.) and apply new technologies for solving problems. You will have an influence on defining product features, drive operational excellence, and spearhead the best practices that enable a quality product. You will get to work with skilled and motivated engineers who are already contributing to building high-scale and high-available systems.

If you are looking for an opportunity to work on leading technologies and would like to build product technology that can cater millions of customers inclined towards providing them the best experience, and relish large ownership and diverse technologies, join our team today!

What You'll Do:

• Creating detailed design, working on development and performing code reviews.
• Implementing validation and support activities in line with architecture requirements
• Help the team translate the business requirements into R&D tasks and manage the roadmap of the R&D tasks.
• Designing, building, and implementation of the product; participating in requirements elicitation, validation of architecture, creation and review of high and low level design, assigning and reviewing tasks for product implementation.
• Work closely with product managers, UX designers and end users and integrating software components into a fully functional system
• Ownership of product/feature end-to-end for all phases from the development to the production.
• Ensuring the developed features are scalable and highly available with no quality concerns.
• Work closely with senior engineers for refining the and implementation.
• Management and execution against project plans and delivery commitments.
• Assist directly and indirectly in the continual hiring and development of technical talent.
• Create and execute appropriate quality plans, project plans, test strategies and processes for development activities in concert with business and project management efforts.

The ideal candidate is a passionate engineer about delivering experiences that delight customers and creating solutions that are robust. He/she should be able to commit and own the deliveries end-to-end.

What You'll Need:

• A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline.
• 2-3+ years of Software Development experience with proficiency in Java or equivalent object-oriented languages, coupled with design and SOA
• Fluency with Java, and Spring is good.
• Experience in JEE applications and frameworks like struts, spring, mybatis, maven, gradle
• Strong knowledge of Data Structures, Algorithms and CS fundamentals.
• Experience in at least one shell scripting language, SQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL and data modeling skills
• Excellent analytical and reasoning skills
• Ability to learn new domains and deliver output
• Hands on Experience with the core AWS services
• Experience working with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, Spinnaker, Nexus, GitLab, TeamCity, GoCD, etc.)

• Expertise in at least one of the following:

    - Kafka, ZeroMQ, AWS SNS/SQS, or equivalent streaming technology

    - Distributed cache/in memory data grids like Redis, Hazelcast, Ignite, or Memcached

    - Distributed column store databases like Snowflake, Cassandra, or HBase

    - Spark, Flink, Beam, or equivalent streaming data processing frameworks

• Proficient with writing and reviewing Python and other object-oriented language(s) are a plus
• Experience building automations and CICD pipelines (integration, testing, deployment)
• Experience with Kubernetes would be a plus.
• Good understanding of working with distributed teams using Agile: Scrum, Kanban
• Strong interpersonal skills as well as excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Attention to detail and quality, and the ability to work well in and across teams

-          Experience of Core Java, REST-API and Micro-Services development,

-          Experience of Spring boot framework

-          Strong Object-oriented concepts, Design Patterns

-          Experience of SQL/NoSQL

-          Well versed with Cloud Development technologies and Microservices architecture.

-          CICD pipeline understanding, CICD tools such as Jenkin, Github etc.

-          Experience designing data flows e.g. streaming, batch processing, parallel  execution (Kafka, Kinesis, etc.)  

Collaborate with clients and internal teams to develop appropriate solutions

• Brainstorm with team members and prove the ability to think on the fly.

Requirements

• Core Java

• Spring Boot, Spring Rest, Spring Data

• Testing framework - Junit, Mockito

• Experience in deploying applications on one of public cloud preferably Microsoft Azure. (Other

- AWS or Google Cloud)

• Experience in one of messaging platform preferably Kafka (Other - Rabbitmq or Active MQ)

• Docker

• Kubernetes

• Others – Linux, Git, Maven, CI/CD pipeline

• Experience in working with Agile teams

Good To Have

• Git (6+ years of experience)

• Develop test cases, conduct SIT, load test, and tune the performance of systems to meet

acceptance criteria.

• Perform and manage stages of the SCRUM and participate in the systems review with Project

Lead/Manager.

• Experience in the development of cloud-native applications is an added advantage.

• Experience working in Agile teams

What We Offer

• National and International Business Trips (if there is an opportunity)

• Culture of Knowledge Sharing and Training

• Modern & lively working environment

• Opportunity to write books, participate in conferences

• International assignment

JAVA, JSP, jQuery, Servlet, Hibernate, Spring MVC, Spring boot, SOAP and REST Web Services, Microservices, knowledge of SQL query, build tool like Ant and Maven, very good analytical and logical skills.

Good to have: Redis and Memcached cache management, JBOSS 7 and above, API gateway, Apache, EJB

Design and develop robust services in coordination with front-end developers, ensuring the production and development of high-quality and well-tested code

Design, develop and test features alongside other technical departments

Lead the department in the design, development, deployment, and operation of services used by our users

Optimise APIs for any applications while creating and maintaining unit tests for new code as well as fix defects

Participate in the continuous integration of automated builds and deployments, ensuring that deliverables meet functional and design requirements and specifications of the site/software. Work with engineering leadership in solving and architecting solutions for challenging or complex site/software development issues.

Take initiatives in developing and maintaining integrations of best practices within the backend department