Java Team Lead

Company Description

NonStop io Technologies, founded in August 2015, is a Bespoke Engineering Studio specializing in Product Development. With over 80 satisfied clients worldwide, we serve startups and enterprises across prominent technology hubs, including San Francisco, New York, Houston, Seattle, London, Pune, and Tokyo. Our experienced team brings over 10 years of expertise in building web and mobile products across multiple industries. Our work is grounded in empathy, creativity, collaboration, and clean code, striving to build products that matter and foster an environment of accountability and collaboration.

Role Description

This is a full-time hybrid role for a Java Software Engineer, based in Pune. The Java Software Engineer will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining software applications. Key responsibilities include working with microservices architecture, implementing and managing the Spring Framework, and programming in Java. Collaboration with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features is also a key aspect of this role.

Responsibilities:

● Develop and Maintain: Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code for Java-based applications 

● Collaborate: Work with cross-functional teams to gather requirements and translate them into technical solutions 

● Code Reviews: Participate in code reviews to maintain high-quality standards 

● Troubleshooting: Debug and resolve application issues in a timely manner 

● Testing: Develop and execute unit and integration tests to ensure software reliability

● Optimize: Identify and address performance bottlenecks to enhance application performance 

Qualifications & Skills:

● Strong knowledge of Java, Spring Framework (Spring Boot, Spring MVC), and Hibernate/JPA 

● Familiarity with RESTful APIs and web services 

● Proficiency in working with relational databases like MySQL or PostgreSQL 

● Practical experience with AWS cloud services and building scalable, microservices-based architectures

● Experience with build tools like Maven or Gradle 

● Understanding of version control systems, especially Git 

● Strong understanding of object-oriented programming principles and design patterns 

● Familiarity with automated testing frameworks and methodologies 

● Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail 

● Strong communication skills and ability to work effectively in a collaborative team environment 

Why Join Us? 

● Opportunity to work on cutting-edge technology products 

● A collaborative and learning-driven environment 

● Exposure to AI and software engineering innovations 

● Excellent work ethic and culture 

If you're passionate about technology and want to work on impactful projects, we'd love to hear from you

Job Title: Java Backend Developer

Experience: ~3-6 years (Mid-to-Senior)

Employment Type: Full-time, Permanent

Location : Bangalore

Role Overview

As a Java Backend Developer, you’ll be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining scalable backend systems and microservices. You’ll work with cross-functional teams to build high-performance distributed services, APIs, and data-driven applications that power business solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement microservices and backend components using Java (8+) and Spring Boot.
• Build and consume RESTful APIs and integrate with internal/external services.
• Work with event-driven systems and messaging using Apache Kafka (producers/consumers).
• Develop and optimize databases, including SQL (e.g., MySQL/PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (e.g., MongoDB/Cassandra).
• Participate in CI/CD pipelines, automated builds, and deployments using tools like Git, Maven, Jenkins.
• Ensure code quality through unit and integration testing, documentation, and code reviews.
• Collaborate with frontend developers, QA, DevOps, and product teams following Agile methodologies.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field.
• Proven hands-on experience with Core Java and Spring Boot development.
• Strong understanding of microservices architecture, REST APIs, and distributed systems.
• Experience with message queues/event streaming (Apache Kafka).
• Skilled in relational and NoSQL databases and writing optimized queries.
• Comfortable with CI/CD tools (e.g., Git, Maven, Jenkins) and version control.
• Good problem-solving, debugging, and collaboration skills.

Preferred / Nice-to-Have

• Cloud platform experience (AWS / Azure / GCP).
• Familiarity with containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes).
• Knowledge of performance tuning, caching strategies, observability (metrics/logging).
• Agile/Scrum development experience.

JD

·       Minimum 4-18 Years of Core Java Programming with spring boot Framework,Design patterns Concurrent Programming, Multi-threading (Good knowledge in Executor service, Forkjoin pool and other threading concepts)

·       Good knowledge of the JVM with an understanding of performance and memory optimization.

·       Extensive and expert programming experience in JAVA programming language (strong OO skills preferred).

·       Excellent knowledge on collections like, Array List, Vector, LinkedList, Hashmap, HashTable, HashSet is mandate.

·       Exercised exemplary development practices including design specification, coding standards, unit testing, and code-reviews.

·       Expert level understanding of Object Oriented Concepts and Data Structures

Location - Only Bangalore

Notice period - Immediate or Serving

Job Title: Senior Software Engineer

Division/ Department: Technology

Reports to: Engineering Manager

Work Location: Noida

Desired Work Experience: 4+ years

Weekly Off: Saturday & Sunday

About Aakash Technology Innovation Lab

Are you passionate about transforming the field of education as we know it?

The way education is imparted has been disrupted massively due to forces such as ed-tech digital revolution, the advancement in artificial intelligence technology and the pandemic. Given the rapid pace of transformation, the vision of the Technology Innovation Lab at Aakash is to make the education of the future a reality. The Technology Innovation Lab aims to leverage state-of-the-art technologies to develop industry-defining bleeding-edge solutions for a student-first world-class hybrid learning experience. This involves -

• Reimagining and conceptualizing how education will be imparted in the future in the omni-channel and immersive learning environment
• Building data platforms such as Power BI dashboards to facilitate students, parents, teachers and the business 
• Creating applications to support the futuristic tech-enabled smart classrooms
• Conceptualizing and developing mobile and web applications for seamless customer experience
• Developing Internet of Things (IoT) driven integrations into applications to build futuristic learning experience
• Leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) to identity interventions to boost student performance

If this excites you, we might have the perfect opportunity for you in the world’s most valued ed-tech company!

About Aakash - AESL

Aakash Educational Services Limited (AESL), commonly known as Aakash, is one of the most leading educational services institution providing comprehensive test preparatory services for students preparing for medical and engineering entrance examinations, school/board exams and competitive and scholarship exams such as NTSE, KVPY, and Olympiads. 

AESL also partnered with Blackstone, a global investment management firm. 

With more than 32 years of operational experience in the test preparatory coaching industry, the company has a pan India network of 220+ Aakash centres with an annual student base 2,50,000+ students and an employee count of more than 4700.

Purpose of the Role

Develop software solutions that enable the students, parents and teachers to have superior learning and teaching experiences, both inside and outside the classroom.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop state-of-the-art high performance and low latency software applications for mission critical systems
• Contribute in all the phases of the software development lifecycle
• Craft a well-designed, testable, efficient code
• Perform object-oriented analysis and design using common design patterns.
• Effectively and seamlessly manage communication with all stakeholders.
• Manage and provide live support to the developed applications

Qualification/ Experience

Must-Have Preferred

Education B.E / B.Tech Information Technology / Computer Science/ Information Science

• Experience 4+ years of hands-on experience in designing and developing applications using Java EE, Spring, Spring MVC, Spring Boot Frameworks
• Experience with test-driven development
• Experience with relational databases (MySql, Oracle, Postgres) or NoSql Databases (Cassandra, MongoDb, CouchDb) .
• Agile programming (Sprint, Scrum) experience
• Skills Understands version control branching strategies
• Understands different major language paradigms (object oriented /functional /reactive)
• Understanding and some experience in programming with AWS SDK
• Knowledge of Kafka and Redis

Competencies

Behavioral Competencies Level Functional Competencies Level

1 Team Player Written and Verbal Communication

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What We Offer

As a technology professional in Aakash Technology Innovation Lab we offer you an opportunity to - 

• Become a pioneer of the education of the future by reimagining and building innovative solutions for the ed-tech industry leading hybrid learning experience
• Be a force of technological disruption as a part of a passionate and high growth team on an exciting endeavor to transform the education industry
• Belong to an upbeat, flexible and relaxed work culture with a specific focus on collaboration
• Craft an excellent career at Aakash through a broad realm of career tracks and opportunities
• Excel in your chosen stream and become a renowned technologist in the ed-tech industry with heavy investment from the business into your learning, exposure and growth
• Have a highly competitive compensation and benefits package 

Egen is a data engineering and cloud modernization firm helping industry-leading companies achieve digital breakthroughs and deliver for the future, today. We are catalysts for change who create digital breakthroughs at warp speed. Our team of cloud and data engineering experts are trusted by top clients in pursuit of the extraordinary. An Inc. 5000 Fastest Growing Company 7 times, and recently recognized on the Crain’s Chicago Business Fast 50 list, Egen has also been recognized as a great place to work 3 times.

You will join a team of insatiably curious data engineers, software architects, and product experts who never settle for "good enough". Our Java Platform team's tech stack is based on Java8 (Spring Boot) and RESTful web services. We typically build and deploy applications as cloud-native Kubernetes microservices and integrate with scalable technologies such as Kafka in Docker container environments. Our developers work in an agile process to efficiently deliver high value data driven applications and product packages.

Required Experience:

• Minimum of Bachelor’s Degree or its equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, Information Technology and Management, Electrical Engineering or a related field.
• Have experience working and strong understanding of object-oriented programing and cloud technologies
• End to end experience delivering production ready code with Java8, Spring Boot, Spring Data, and API libraries
• Strong experience with unit and integration testing of the Spring Boot APIs.
• Strong understanding and production experience of RESTful API's and microservice architecture.
• Strong understanding of SQL databases and NoSQL databases and experience with writing abstraction layers to communicate with the databases.

Nice to have's (but not required):

• Exposure to Kotlin or other JVM programming languages
• Strong understanding and production experience working with Docker container environments
• Strong understanding and production experience working with Kafka
• Cloud Environments: AWS, GCP or Azure

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in the Development of JAVA technology.
• Strong Java Basics
• Linux
• SpringBoot or Spring MVC
• Hands-on experience in Relational Databases (SQL query or Hibernate) + Mongo (JSON parsing)
• Proficient in REST API development
• Messaging Queue (RabitMQ or Kafka)
• Microservices
• Java 8
• Any Caching Mechanism
• Good at problem-solving

Good to Have Skills:

• 3+ 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 AI/ML algorithms is a plus.

• Expertise in software design and development.
• Proficiency with at least one Object Oriented language(e. g. Java)
• Experience with building high-performance, highly available and scalable distributed systems
• Experience with API Design, ability to architect and implement an intuitive customer and third-party integration story.

• Independently own one or more multiple modules, which includes: requirement analysis, design, development, maintenance & support
• Write extensive, efficient code to address complex modules and that handles interaction between multiple components. 
• Rapidly iterate to add new functionalities and solves complex problems with simple and intuitive solutions
• Produce architecture with clean interfaces, that are efficient and scalable
• Participate and contribute to architectural discussions
• Perform design and code reviews
• Perform technical feasibility and trade off studies & guides others to perform these studies
• Solve production issues. Investigate and provide solutions to minimize the business impact due to outage
• Continuously improve performance metrics of modules you own.
• Actively mentor and develop junior developers in all software development practices
• Participate in the hiring process (referrals, interviews, attending recruiting events or writing blogs)
• Onboard and mentors new team members, helps shape the culture of the team