Java - Team Lead

ROLE: Ai ML Senior Developer

Exp: 5 to 8 Years

Location: Bangalore (Onsite)

About ProductNova

ProductNova is a fast-growing product development organization that partners with

ambitious companies to build, modernize, and scale high-impact digital products. Our teams

of product leaders, engineers, AI specialists, and growth experts work at the intersection of

strategy, technology, and execution to help organizations create differentiated product

portfolios and accelerate business outcomes.

Founded in early 2023, ProductNova has successfully designed, built, and launched 20+

large-scale, AI-powered products and platforms across industries. We specialize in solving

complex business problems through thoughtful product design, robust engineering, and

responsible use of AI.

Product Development

We design and build user-centric, scalable, AI-native B2B SaaS products that are deeply

aligned with business goals and long-term value creation.

Our end-to-end product development approach covers the full lifecycle:

1. Product discovery and problem definition

2. User research and product strategy

3. Experience design and rapid prototyping

4. AI-enabled engineering, testing, and platform architecture

5. Product launch, adoption, and continuous improvement

From early concepts to market-ready solutions, we focus on building products that are

resilient, scalable, and ready for real-world adoption. Post-launch, we work closely with

customers to iterate based on user feedback and expand products across new use cases,

customer segments, and markets.

Growth & Scale

For early-stage companies and startups, we act as product partners—shaping ideas into

viable products, identifying target customers, achieving product-market fit, and supporting

go-to-market execution, iteration, and scale.

For established organizations, we help unlock the next phase of growth by identifying

opportunities to modernize and scale existing products, enter new geographies, and build

entirely new product lines. Our teams enable innovation through AI, platform re-

architecture, and portfolio expansion to support sustained business growth.

Role Overview:

We are seeking an experienced AI / ML Senior Developer with strong hands-on expertise in large language models (LLMs) and AI-driven application development. The ideal candidate will have practical experience working with GPT and Anthropic models, building and training B2B products powered by AI, and leveraging AI-assisted development tools to deliver scalable and intelligent solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Model Analysis & Optimization

Analyze, customize, and optimize GPT and Anthropic-based models to ensure reliability, scalability, and performance for real-world business use cases.

2. AI Product Design & Development

Design and build AI-powered products, including model training, fine-tuning, evaluation, and performance optimization across development lifecycles.

3. Prompt Engineering & Response Quality

Develop and refine prompt engineering strategies to improve model accuracy, consistency, relevance, and contextual understanding.

4. AI Service Integration

Build, integrate, and deploy AI services into applications using modern development practices, APIs, and scalable architectures.

5. AI-Assisted Development Productivity

Leverage AI-enabled coding tools such as Cursor and GitHub Copilot to accelerate development, improve code quality, and enhance efficiency.

6. Cross-Functional Collaboration

Work closely with product, business, and engineering teams to translate business requirements into effective AI-driven solutions.

7. Model Monitoring & Continuous Improvement

Monitor model performance, analyze outputs, and iteratively improve accuracy, safety, and overall system effectiveness.

Qualifications:

1. Hands-on experience analyzing, developing, fine-tuning, and optimizing GPT and Anthropic-based large language models.

2. Strong expertise in prompt design, experimentation, and optimization to enhance response accuracy and reliability.

3. Proven experience building, training, and deploying chatbots or conversational AI systems.

4. Practical experience using AI-assisted coding tools such as Cursor or GitHub Copilot in production environments.

5. Solid programming experience in Python, with strong problem-solving and development fundamentals.

6. Experience working with embeddings, similarity search, and vector databases for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG).

7. Knowledge of MLOps practices, including model deployment, versioning, monitoring, and lifecycle management.

8. Experience with cloud environments such as Azure, AWS for deploying and managing AI solutions.

9. Experience with APIs, microservices architecture, and system integration for scalable AI applications.

Why Join Us

• Build cutting-edge AI-powered B2B SaaS products

• Own architecture and technology decisions end-to-end

• Work with highly skilled ML and Full Stack teams

• Be part of a fast-growing, innovation-driven product organization

If you are a results-driven AiML Senior Developer with a passion for developing innovative products that drive business growth, we invite you to join our dynamic team at ProductNova.

Description:

JOB RESPONSIBILITY

• Candidate should be good in both Backend side and Front-end side as well.

• Build front end of applications through appealing visual design

• Experience in writing SQL queries is must.

• Candidate should be good at understanding, analyzing and developing the business requirements and should be able to deliver them with in the given time

• Candidate should have good problem-solving skills.

• Good knowledge on Agile and Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) process.

• Candidate should be able to contribute at Individual level and Team Level.

• Should be able to communicate with the business team for requirements gathering and providing solutions for the same.

QUALIFICATION

• B.Tech /B.E /MCA

EXPERIENCE

• 4 + years’ experience as a full stack developer

• 5 - 7 working years of strong experience on Java 8, Angular 7 or above

SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES

• 4+ years’ experience as a full stack developer

• 6+ working years of strong experience on Java 8, Angular 7 or above

• Working knowledge on HTML5, CSS3 or above, Bootstrap.

• Strong experience on Spring MVC, Spring Core, Spring Data JPA/Hibernate/JPA, Spring Boot, Spring Transactions, Spring Security.

• Experience on Oracle Database SQL Developer or any SQL tools and should be good at writing SQL Queries

• Strong experience on developing web services (RESTFUL Web services/API’s) using Java.

• Good Communication and Teamwork skills.

• Good to have knowledge on AWS, React Js, Node Js, Java Script.

Enable Skills-Based HiringNoPrimary Skill Set Angular, Java, Microservices, Spring Boot

Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain high-quality, efficient, and scalable backend applications.
• Participate in all phases of the software development lifecycle (SDLC)
• Write clean, well-documented, and testable code adhering to best practices.
• Collaborate with team members to ensure the successful delivery of projects.
• Debug and troubleshoot complex technical problems.
• Identify and implement performance optimizations.
• Participate in code reviews
• Hands-on experience with Springboot, Java 8 and above.
• 2-5 years of experience developing Java applications.
• Knowledge about at least one messaging system like Kafka, RabbitMQ etc.
• Required React developer requirements, qualifications & skills:
• Proficiency in React.js and its core principles
• Strong JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3 skills
• Experience with popular React.js workflows (such as Redux)
• Strong understanding of object-oriented programming (OOP) principles.
• Experience with design patterns and best practices for Java development.
• Proficient in unit testing frameworks (e.g., JUnit).
• Experience with build automation tools (e.g., Maven, Gradle).
• Experience with version control systems (e.g., Git).
• Experience with one of these databases – Postgres, MongoDb, Cassandra
• Knowledge on Retail or OMS is a plus.
• Experienced in containerized deployments using Docker, Kubernetes and DevOps mindset
• Ability to reverse engineer existing/legacy and document findings on confluence.
• Create automated tests for unit, integration, regression, performance, and functional testing, to meet established expectations and acceptance criteria.

• Java,Jdbc,J2ee,Ajax,jquery,Spring,Hibernate, Restful Web Services, JAVASCRIPT, HTML, CSS 
• T-SQL and PL/SQL 
• Strong experience in core java 
• Experience in OOAD frameworks, Spring Integration, Hibernate, JSP, Tiles, Applets, Servlets 
• Extensive development experience with PL/PGSQL (PostgreSQL) 
• Good experience in code optimization, performance tuning, debugging 
• Web/App server: TOMCAT/JBOSS/WAS 
• Knowledge of OOPS concepts, SDLC, and design patterns 
• Good Analytical ability and Problem Solving Skills 
• Good communication skills in both written and verbal 
• Java Certification will be an added advantage 

Fullstack (Java with AngularJS or Node JS )

Primary Skill: JAVA,J2EE,AgularJS,WebServices

Secondary Skill: Post gres, Angual/React, AWS/GCP, Docker, API, Unix, Node JS, AWS, Docker, quartz, Shell script

Experience: 3 – 7 years

Notice: Immediate to 15 Days Max

Job Description:

Strong organizational and coding skills. Proficiency with fundamental front-end languages such as HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Hands-on experience and strong knowledge in
JavaScript frameworks such as Angular JS/React JS/Node JS and good coding skills in server-side development – Spring Framework, Spring Boot (latest 2.3.1), Core Java (Java 8 & above). Preferable skills in Microservices, Web services, Rest API and design patterns. Hands-on experience in Unix shell script. DevOps – Docker, Any Cloud Platform (AWS/GCP). Strong Integration knowledge in Java preferably in SAP interfacing - Good to have (for eg https://github.com/SAP/cloud-rest-api-client). Familiarity with database technology such as Hibernate/JPA (ORM), PostgreSQL. Good knowledge of designing and developing APIs. Good problem-solving skills. Excellent verbal communication skills.

Requirements

• Minimum 2+ years' experience as a software developer.
• Highly experienced with backend programming languages - NodeJs or Java etc, Highly experienced with front-end programming languages - HTML, CSS JavaScript, etc Proficient experience using - advanced JavaScript libraries and frameworks.
• Familiarity with Git.
• Experience consuming API endpoints.
• Good to have - Kafka/queuing system
• Should be well-versed in using multiple Databases - SQL/NO SQL.
• Should have experience using in- memory Data Bases-Redis.
• Experience with Unit-Testing.
• Experience building web applications with responsive design.
• Experience with Node.js and/or other server-side JavaScript technologies and tools.
• Strong knowledge of design principles, user interfaces, web standards and usability.
• ES6 React JS/JSX, Redux, Web pack, Immutable.js .

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Who you are

• You have 2 - 7 years experience. 
• You love the buzz of a highly productive and fast moving team. 
• You have a github profile that you want to show off. 
• You love coding and look forward to taking on complex, abstract features. 
• You don't care about front end, backend kinda titles. You like working anywhere in the "stack". 
• You are looking to grow fast with a company that's on a rapid growth path.

What will excite us

• Previous startup experience or experience being part of early teams.
• Experience with the Django & Python universe. 
• Experience with both Relational and NoSQL DBs. 
• Competitive Programming experience. 
• A keen desire to problem solve, brainstorm and debate during the interview. 

What will excite you

• Complete ownership
• Experiment, fail and learn.
• High pedigree, high caliber team. 
• Contribute to every area of our business. Have a real impact with your work. 
• Top of the line compensation.

Our interview process is designed to help you show the best version of yourself. Once your candidature is finalized, we'll send you a short video explaining the interview process.

Look forward to speaking with you soon!