Java Tech Lead

Job Duties and Responsibilities:

• Technical Leadership:
• Provide technical leadership by guiding and mentoring software engineers in creating robust and scalable solutions.
• Lead the recruitment process to identify and onboard top-tier engineering talent.
• Foster a culture of continuous learning and growth within the technical team.
• Architectural Vision:
• Collaborate closely with engineering leadership, senior technical stakeholders, and product managers to shape the architectural vision and ensure alignment with business goals.
• Actively participate in code reviews and technical design discussions and contribute hands-on expertise to development efforts.
• Drive the evolution of development processes, establish meaningful metrics, and cultivate a team culture emphasizing technical excellence.
• Lead POCs and technical evaluations
• Hands-on Technical Involvement:
• Demonstrate deep technical involvement through direct contributions to the codebase, technical design discussions, and the development of domain expertise.
• Utilize your extensive experience to guide the team in developing large-scale distributed systems, employing languages such as Java, Python, C++, Ruby, Go, or JavaScript.
• Process Evolution and DevOps:
• Innovate and evolve development processes to enhance efficiency and agility.
• Leverage a background in DevOps to oversee the operational aspects of widely deployed SaaS products.
• Implement and optimize CI/CD environments for seamless software delivery.

Must-Have:

• Managerial and Technical Expertise:
• Possess 3+ years of managerial experience and a solid 10+ years of professional experience in software engineering.
• Demonstrate prior success in leading and growing cross-functional development teams of 10-20 individual contributors.
• Software Delivery Excellence:
• Proven track record of delivering high-quality software within tight deadlines, emphasizing agility in a collaborative and cross-functional environment.
• Technical Proficiency:
• Hands-on experience developing and designing large-scale distributed systems using languages like Java, Python, C++, Ruby, Go, or JavaScript.
• DevOps and SaaS Background:
• Background in DevOps with experience in the operation of widely deployed SaaS products.
• Communication and Organization:
• Exceptional organizational skills and effective interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills.

Nice to Have:

• CI/CD and Cloud Platform Experience:
• Previous experience in designing CI/CD environments.
• Familiarity with Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services, or equivalent cloud platforms.
• Data-Driven Decision Making:
• Demonstrated experience using data to measure success, drive improvements, and inform strategic decisions.
• Global Team Collaboration:
• Previous experience working on geographically dispersed teams.

Founding Engineer:

As a Founding Engineer, you'll be responsible for designing, building, and launching our product to customers. Specifically,

• Since our team is lean and we plan to keep it that way - you’ll be one of the first five engineers in leading the zero-to-one journey of a product our customers are hungry for
• Lead technical design and implementation of the frontend and backend of the product with coaching and mentorship from world-class technical architects
• Have knowledge of (or learn) how to work with Shopify’s CLI
• Iterate quickly to create delightful user experiences, working closely with customers/ design partners
• Help us hire a world-class engineering team in the months ahead
• Our team is currently fully remote (with offices to be opened in Bangalore and Mumbai over next few months) and cross-border across San Francisco, Boston, and India - help us cultivate a remote-first, inclusive, diverse, and friendly culture
• Work directly with the founders with an ownership mindset

Skills and Experience:

• Prior experience working with backend tech stacks (e.g. Spring Boot, Ruby on Rails, Django, Laravel)
• Experience with service service-oriented architecture, writing REST APIs, unit testing, and architectural design
• Understanding of modern web stacks and architecture (HTTP, REST, GraphQL, WebSockets)
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases and other technologies (e.g. Mysql, Redis, Kafka)
• Prior experience working with frontend tech stacks (e.g. React, Angular, Vue.js)
• Prior experience working with frontend UI frameworks (e.g. Bootstrap, Tailwind CSS)

Minimum of 6 years of experience in software development. Proficiency in developing declarative and component-based SPAs using Vue.js. Experience with front-end technologies such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and TypeScript. Expertise in Vue.js, including Vuex for state management and Vue Router for navigation. Strong understanding of Java and experience with Spring Boot framework. Knowledge of RESTful APIs and microservices architecture. Knowledge of Spring Security framework for implementing authentication and authorization in Spring-based applications. Experience with Keycloak and access management solutions for securing web applications. Understanding of OAuth and OpenID Connect protocols for single sign-on (SSO) authentication. Ability to integrate and configure Keycloak with Spring Boot applications to manage user authentication and authorization. Experience with JSON Web Tokens (JWT) for secure transmission of authentication data between client and server. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.

Nature of Work:

This being an advanced level position in the S/W development team the individual is expected to:
Participate as a team member in all phases of the S/W lifecycle, including the analysis and design of S/W systems.

Participate in a detailed level of coding, code walk – through and unit testing of S/W modules.
Participate in integrated testing of product/ package.

Participate in difficult and typical coding assignments with responsibility of a small module consisting of 3 – 5 members.

Participate in exploration/ feasibility study of products.
Have a thorough understanding of the assigned product/ project.

Participate in generating technical documentation of products/ packages.

Providing technical training to the juniors.
Manage allocated resources, keep compliance with discipline and decorum of the organization.

Keep compliance with Systems and Procedures.

Reports to:

Project Manager
Skill Set:
Thorough knowledge of current technological trends in Web based Software 

Strong Working knowledge of JSF/JSP, Servlets, Spring, Web application development and Core Java

• Working knowledge of working with databases using EJB.
• Knowledge of Bug Tracking tool such as Jira, Bugzilla and source code version control systems (SVN, GIT)
• Knowledge of working in Scrum methodology.
• Good to have knowledge of SonarQube and Web Security Aspects.
• Knowledge of Responsive Front End Development using HTML5, JavaScript, CSS3, JQuery, Ajax and JSON.
• Should be able to write test cases for the feature.
• Ability to gather and analyze data & draw logical conclusions

∙         Understanding of company’s vision & goals, business operations

and market

∙         Clear and concise oral and written communication skills

∙         Ability to establish and maintain effective work relationships at

all levels

∙         Great passion for S/W development.

∙         Ability to mentor and guide the juniors.

Office Address:

Tech Mahindra Ltd

• Liaise with fellow developers.
• Designing and implementing microservices which use the spring boot framework.
• Working in compliance with the full Software Development Life Cycle.
• Connecting microservices to interact with databases.
• Understanding of how streaming technologies work such as Kafka.
• Identifying and finding solutions to bugs.
• Ensure you've written adequate test cases to verify design requirements are being met.
• Create well written documentation for the individual microservices.

Designation    : Java Developer

Experience      : 3 - 10 Yrs

Location           : Baner, Pune

• Strong at Core Java and OOPs concepts
• Exposure to Spring, Spring Boot and Spring Security

• Exposure to implementation of RESTful APIs
• Exposure to programming using Queues and No SQL database
• Good understanding about JavaScript, JQuery and HTML
• Good understanding about Data Structures and Multithreaded Programming
• Good understanding about Design Patterns

• Should possess a minimum of 7-9 years of experience
• 2+ Years in Angular 4 / Angular 6 - Required
• Knowledge of Core Java
• Spring Boot - atleast 1 year experience (mandatory)
• Hibernate - atleast 1 year experience (mandatory)
• Microservices - atleast 1 year experience (mandatory)
• 3 Years in Database – Oracle/SQL – Required
• 2 Years Web API / Restful Services - Required
• 3 Years in using any of IDE (Visual Studio Code, Eclipse, IntelliJ IDEA) and debugging skills - Required
• Knowledge in using Git, SVN, Maven, Unit testing and deployment tools - Required
• Should have some experience in multithreaded/asynchronous programming – Good to have
• Knowledge on ELK Stack is good to have
• Knowledge on Angular 4/6/8+ is good to have