Java Technical Architect/ Java Architect - (US Shift/ Night shift)

About Unilog

Unilog is the only connected product content and eCommerce provider serving the Wholesale Distribution, Manufacturing, and Specialty Retail industries. Our flagship CX1 Platform is at the center of some of the most successful digital transformations in North America. CX1 Platform’s syndicated product content, integrated eCommerce storefront, and automated PIM tool simplify our customers' path to success in the digital marketplace.

With more than 500 customers, Unilog is uniquely positioned as the leader in eCommerce and product content for Wholesale Distribution, Manufacturing, and Specialty Retail.

Unilog’s Mission Statement

At Unilog, our mission is to provide purpose-built connected product content and eCommerce solutions that empower our customers to succeed in the face of intense competition. By virtue of living our mission, we are able to transform the way Wholesale Distributors, Manufacturers, and Specialty Retailers go to market. We help our customers extend a digital version of their business and accelerate their growth.

Job Details

• Designation: Principal Engineer – Solr
• Location: Bangalore / Mysore / Remote
• Job Type: Full-time
• Department: Software R&D

Job Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Principal Engineer with a strong background in Apache Solr and Java to lead our Engineering and customer-led initiatives. The ideal candidate will be responsible for ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of our search platform while providing expert-level troubleshooting and resolution for critical production issues.

This role will involve designing the architecture for new platforms while reviewing and recommending better approaches for existing ones to drive continuous improvement and efficiency.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead Engineering and support activities for Solr-based search applications, ensuring minimal downtime and optimal performance
• Design and develop the architecture of new platforms while reviewing and recommending better approaches for existing ones
• Regularly work towards enhancing search ranking, query understanding, and retrieval effectiveness
• Diagnose, troubleshoot, and resolve complex technical issues in Solr, Java-based applications, and supporting infrastructure
• Perform deep-dive analysis of logs, performance metrics, and alerts to proactively prevent incidents
• Optimize Solr indexes, queries, and configurations to enhance search performance and reliability
• Work closely with development, operations, and business teams to drive improvements in system stability and efficiency
• Implement monitoring tools, dashboards, and alerting mechanisms to enhance observability and proactive issue detection
• Exposure to AI-based search using vector databases, RAG models, NLP, and LLMs
• Collaborate on capacity planning, system scaling, and disaster recovery strategies for mission-critical search systems
• Provide mentorship and technical guidance to junior engineers and support teams
• Drive innovation by tracking latest trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in AI-based Search, Solr, and other search platforms

Requirement

• 8+ years of experience in software development and production support with a focus on Apache Solr, Java, and databases (Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc.)
• Strong understanding of Solr indexing, query execution, schema design, configuration, and tuning
• Experience in designing and implementing scalable system architectures for search platforms
• Proven ability to review and assess existing platform architectures, identifying areas for improvement and recommending better approaches
• Proficiency in Java, Spring Boot, and micro-services architectures
• Experience with Linux / Unix-based environments, shell scripting, and debugging production systems
• Hands-on experience with monitoring tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, ELK Stack) and log analysis
• Expertise in troubleshooting performance issues related to Solr, JVM tuning, and memory management
• Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP and containerization technologies like Docker / Kubernetes
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to work under pressure in a fast-paced environment
• Certifications in Solr, Java, or cloud technologies
• Excellent communication and leadership abilities

About Our Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Health insurance
• Retirement plan
• Paid time off
• Training and development opportunities

Good to have would be AWS Architect Certification.

Must Have

• NodeJS / TypeScript experience 3+ years
• AWS experience 3+ years using AWS SDK
• Lamba
• API Gateway
• Event based architecture like Kinesis, MSK (Kafka)
• Database Sql / NoSql

Considered a plus:

• Frontend development React / Angular
• AWS IoT Core, Kafka, Kinesis
• Elastic Search

Should have experience in Device Provisioning / Device management with PKI (Public Key Infrastructure)

Role

Backend engineers at AssetSprout work on our products. They include software for Certified Financial Planners, their clients, and also internal admin tools. They work with the CTO, frontend engineers, and other backend engineers to deliver towards the company’s vision.

Responsibilities

• Develop and own product features end to end in a scalable, secure and maintainable way. The buck stops with you on whatever you own.
• Provide technical solutions through design, architecture and implementation. Wear multiple hats in delivering greenfield projects from concept to production. 
• Establish, advocate and bring your experience on coding styles, best practices, and in scaling the product from MVP to production.
• Iterate fast. Display maturity in prioritizing towards velocity while balancing quality. As a startup, we break or make on how fast we deliver.
• Teach and mentor other backend engineers. Focus on providing technical expertise and solutions regardless of how long one has been working professionally.

Requirements

• We are language and framework agnostic as long as you can pick up new technologies.
• Proficient and expert level coding skills with any of the programming languages, preferably Java, Kotlin. Experience in Python, C++, Scala etc. is welcome.
• Develop web applications and services using Spring Boot. Experience with Akka, Play, Flask, Django is welcome.
• Write automated tests with any of the frameworks. We measure success on how well your code is unit tested and integration tested.
• Advanced level understanding of RDMS systems, preferably Postgres. Working knowledge of non-relational databases such as DynamoDB, Cassandra is helpful
• Able to use CI/CD tools such as CircleCI, GitLab, Jenkins etc. and create workflows and pipelines to release to production every other day.
• Expert level understanding of RESTful APIs, pagination, networking concepts around HTTP, thread pools, and other server-side concepts.
• Solid experience of how AWS services work. Some cloud services directly relevant are Lambda, EC2, S3, Dynamo, RDS, Eventbridge, SQS, ElastiCache Redis, Load Balancers etc.

Good-to-haves

• Early or mid-stage startup experience
• Eager to work in a flat organization with no corporate politics
• Positive energy with a get-it-done attitude.
• Worked in a remote environment and high trust and high responsibility role
• Working knowledge of build systems like Gradle, Maven, Bazel, Webpack etc. We use Gradle

An opportunity to revolutionize the restaurant industry

Here, at Rebel Foods, we are using technology and automation to disrupt the traditional food industry. We are focused on building an operating system for Cloud Kitchens - using the most innovative technologies - to provide the best food experiences for our customers. 

You will enjoy working with us, if:

• You are passionate about using technology to solve customer problems
• You are a software craftsman or craftswoman who is obsessed with high quality software
• You have a flair for good design and architecture
• You are unafraid of rearchitecting or refactoring code to improve it
• You are willing to dive deep to solve complex software issues
• You are a teacher and mentor

Our technology ecosystem:

• Languages: Java, Typescript, Javascript, Ruby
• Frameworks, environments: Spring Boot, NodeJS, ExpressJS
• Databases: AWS Aurora MySQL, MongoDB
• Cloud: AWS
• Microservices, Service Oriented Architecture, REST APIs, Caching, Messaging, Logging, Monitoring and Alerting
• CI/CD and DevOps
• Bitbucket, Jira

You will mostly spend time on the following:

• Leading the design and implementation of software systems
• Driving engineering initiatives across teams with a focus on quality, maintainability, availability, scalability, security, performance and stability
• Writing efficient, maintainable, scalable, high quality code
• Reviewing code and tests
• Refactoring and improving code
• Teaching and mentoring team members

We’re excited about you if you have:

• At least 8 years of experience in software development, including experience building microservices and distributed systems
• Excellent programming skills in one or more languages: Java, C#, C++, Typescript, Javascript, Python or Ruby
• Experience working in Cloud environments: AWS, Azure, GCP
• Experience building secure, configurable, observable services
• Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
• The ability to work in an Agile environment
• The ability to collaborate effectively within and across engineering, product and business teams

We value engineers who are:

• Crazy about customer experience
• Willing to challenge the status quo and innovate
• Obsessed with quality, performance and frugality
• Willing to take complete responsibility and ownership of results
• Team players, teachers, mentors

• Building scalable web applications
• Integrating UI elements with server-side
• Handling Security and Data Protection
• Integrating front- end with SQL and NoSQL databases and ensuring its consistency
• Building reusable code and libraries
• Optimizing the code to improve its quality and efficiency

• 2+ yrs of Backend development experience
• You have excellent programming skills in python, ORM libraries and Django
• You have experience inbuilt tools like Git, Jenkins, Ansible, Rundeck
• You have experience in cross-browser/cross-platform front-end development with HTML/CSS/Javascript in Angular or similar frameworks
• You are an expert in SQL (Redshift, PostgreSQL, MySql, or similar) and NoSQL (MongoDB, ElasticSearch)
• You design, build and test RESTful web services.
• You have experience with Apache HTTP, NGINX, Tomcat or Jetty.

• Deep understanding of technologies and architecture for a scalable and highly available set-up
• Experienced in Java/Golang and related Technologies like Spring/Hibernate
• Strong networking and Operating Systems fundamentals
• Experienced in Streaming technologies like Kafka
• Experience working with SQL and NoSQL Databases
• Experienced in developing the long-term tech strategy for analytics and translate that into an achievable roadmap

• Candidate should have Good Communication and Presentation Skills.
• Candidate should have very Good Logical and Analytical Skills
• Candidate should have Programmatic and Management Skills
• An understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle as well as the business approach for the product.
• Ability to work in a team as well as an individual
• Ability to work under pressure and maintain deadlines
• Knowledge of open source tools and utilities
• Ability to understand Project Requirements