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

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Freecharge a subsidiary of Axis Bank Limited founded in 2010, is a Fin-Tech organisation revolutionizing Financial Products through technology.

At our core, we’re a creative company. Ideas and pixels is where we live and we love building magical products that make our users feel ‘wow’. At Freecharge, you'll have the chance to do the best work of your life. We’re on a journey to build something new, something different and something innovative & that requires passion to build such incredible products.

Come join us and shape the future of Fin-Tech.

 

Do You Make The Cut?

We are looking for a motivated developer to join our agile team of developers as a Lead to mentor and as an individual contributor to drive best practices in the product.

You will be responsible for the design, architecture, and delivery of a feature/product with the highest quality. Providing the product with visible benefit to end-users in an iterative fast-paced environment by creating solutions suitable for the job in real-time.

Title: Lead SDE (Backend)

Location: Gurugram

Experience: 3-7 Yrs.

Education: Bachelor’s / Master’s in Software Engineering

 

Responsibilities

• In this lead role, you will be designing and developing complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers.
• Ensure the quality of design of systems by serving as a technical lead on our most demanding, cross-functional teams
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use.
• Build highly available, high performance, scalable software and you will work on distributed systems for massive-scale systems
• Responsible for code quality of the product being developed along with unit and integration testing.
• Mentor junior developers to improve their skills, and make them more effective, product software engineers.
• Communicate with technical teams, and senior management to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy.

 

Sounds Like You?

 

• 4+ years of software development experience with Enterprise Java (JDK 8 and above), Spring (Boot, MVC, AOP, DI), ORM Frameworks.
• 1+ years of experience contributing to the architecture and design (LLD, HLD, Solid principles and design patterns and scaling) of new and current systems.
• Strong experience in technically leading junior developers with a focus on the goal.
• Strong experience in data structures & algorithms and their space & time complexities.
• Solid understanding of multithreading, microservices, MVC and strong OO skills with demonstrated experience in developing complex and reusable APIs.
• Strong experience working with Databases like SQL & NoSQL.
• Experience working with microservices-based architecture.
• Experience in high traffic, highly scalable distributed system designs, complex web applications, and code reviews.
• Experience working in an Agile environment.
• Solid understanding of the full software development life cycle and the domain.
• Good to have knowledge of messaging systems like SNS/ SQS /Kafka etc.

Life at Freecharge!

Our Playground!

• 450+ FCian’s, at Gurugram & Bengaluru locations
• Collaboration spaces & A flat and transparent culture
• Wow Corners, fun & reading Zone
• Best learning and development opportunities

 

Benefits

• Day-care facility
• Comprehensive Insurance Policy
• Wellness Benefits like Health check-ins
• 26 Weeks Maternity & 2 Weeks Paternity Leaves
• Adoption Assistance Program
• On-Site Parking at all locations
• A chance to have a big impact early in your career

 

ARE YOU READY?

TO

#ChargeYourFuture

Experience: 2 years - 4 years
providing 100% remote 

 

We love solving hard problems together because the hardest challenges are often the most rewarding. You will have an opportunity to create products that will disrupt the industry. Providing customer delight is not just a phrase for us - It’s our mantra, Voice will always be heard - we encourage different points of view. 

Do you aspire to be a tech ninja?

Do you have a passion for building products in India and changing the worldview that we are just about services?

We want people who go deep and understand the fundamentals

 

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Development and maintenance of automatic regression tests suites used in the product delivery process
• Development and maintenance of testing frameworks supporting the automatic regression testing
• Management and tracking of automatic regression test suite execution
• You will own some or all of a product/feature. You will also mentor others, read and review code, maintain code, deploy code, and tune the performance of systems.

 

SKILLS AND ABILITIES:

• We’re looking for 2 - 4 years of experience. However, the number is irrelevant if you have the necessary skills.
• Strong proficiency in Java, J2EE, JDBC, Spring MVC & Boot, Hibernate, PL/SQL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript and JQuery, Ajax
• Good exposure to RESTful API concept and JSON
• Experience with cloud-based technologies such as AWS.
• Proficient understanding of development tools such as SVN, GIT
• Good communication skills with proficiency in English (Oral and Writing) / banking knowledge. 

 

Plus Points:

• Product experience
• Startup experience
• Technologies that are Self-taught
• Contributed to stock exchange etc
• Open source contributions
• Any of your work in public that we can see

Task:

• Design, implement and maintain Java application phases
• To take part in software and architectural development activities
• Conduct software analysis, programming, testing and debugging
• Identifying production and non-production application issues
• Transforming requirements into stipulations
• Develop, test, implement and maintain application software
• Recommend changes to improve established Java application processes
• Develop technical designs for application development
• Develop application code for Java programs

We wish:

• Minimum 7 years of experience with excellent Java development skills
• Demonstrable hands-on experience of delivering solutions in a JavaEE 6 environment
• Open-source frameworks and standards Hibernate, Spring JDBC
• Hands-on experience with tools such as: Ant, Eclipse, Maven, SVN, SoapUI, JIRA, Bamboo
• WS concepts and protocols: WSDL, REST, SOAP, JMS, XSLT, XML Schema
• Experienced with one or more open-source ESB products (JBOSS FUSE ESB, Apache Camel, Apache servicemix) and / or message-oriented middleware and Active MQ, JMS
• Strong Java unit test skills
• Good experience in design patterns & design principles
• Experience with Webservices, PLSQL and SQL (Oracle 10g or above)
• Experience in Oops development with Core Java
• Desirable:
  • Experience with: Elastic Search, Smooks, Lucene, Jasper, Report
  • Domain driven design
  • Experience with NoSQL technologies: Casandra, Mongo DB
  • Experience with agile development practices (Eg Scrum) and continues integration environment
  • J2EE application and web containrs such as GlassFish, Jetty, Tomcat
  • CMMi-5 level process experience advantage

We Offer:

• Freedom to realize your own ideas & individual career & development opportunity.
• A motivating work environment, flat hierarchical structure, numerous company events which cannot be forgotten and fun at work place with flexibilities.
• Professional challenges and career development opportunities.

Must-Have Technology Skills:

• OOP Concept, Java 8+, Spring Boot, API development, Agile Scrum knowledge, Strong Databases design concepts of RDBMS, and capable of writing and optimizing complex queries.
  Good understanding of any Database tool e.g. Postgres, MySQL, etc.,
• DevOps basic knowledge e.g. implementation of logging in the code, Application Performance Management.
• Basic API & Application security, and Basics of tuning application performance.
• Basic Understanding of DevOps concepts e.g. CI & CD, Deployment lifecycle, Basic understanding of unit testing concepts e.g. TDD (test-driven development).
• A basic understanding of Microservices patterns
• A basic understanding of Java scripting.
• Good understanding of UI Frameworks like Angular 8+

 

Must-Have Soft Skills:

• Verbal & Written English communication, Good Problem-solving skills,
• Good Planning skills,
• Team Player,
• Good leadership skills
• Good written and verbal communication

 

Job Description

 

• Good experience as a full-stack developer in DB-centric applications and should be able to write and optimize complex database queries
• Requirement gathering & understanding, effort estimation, technical design, project planning, and monitoring in an Agile environment.
• Work proactively & independently to address project requirements, and articulate issues/challenges with enough lead time to address project delivery risks.
• Providing expertise in technical analysis and solving technical issues during project delivery.
• Customer interfacing - understand customer requirements, and propose technical solutions.
• Full Software Development Lifecycle (Agile).
• Code reviews, test case reviews and ensure code developed meets the requirements.
• Component Design/ Coding/ Unit Testing/ Debugging / Test Driven Development / Continuous Integration.
• Carry out adaptive changes necessitated by changes in Business Requirements and Technology

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

- Working on Spring/Hibernate/JPA/JUnit.
- Working on test-driven development.
- Working on continuous integration and continuous development pipeline.

We are hiring for a Software Engineer Team Lead - Backend, to join our education-focused fintech lending startup, GrayQuest. Our core product is a combination of a lending product, a rewards product and an insurance product to redefine the education fees payment across the country.

 

You will be joining a young and vibrant team of developers who are pushing the boundaries of consumer financing through technology.

Key Responsibilities :

• Participate in all stages of the Software Development Lifecycle
• Develop back-end components, services, and APIs. Support integration of user-facing elements, and collaborate closely with the design and front-end development team.
• Write elegant, effective, and scalable code while maintaining the highest level of coding standards.
• Take complete ownership of projects and ensure timely deliveries
• Ability to debug, refine, review, and deploy code
• Work closely with the QA team to test, and document project features.
• Ability to interact with all stakeholders. Understand business requirements, and effectively convert them into technical specifications
• Mentor junior developers and participate in peer Review

Requirements:

• Demonstrable experience as a Python Developer (3+ years)
• Strong knowledge of Python frameworks (Django Rest, Flask)
• Experience working on REST APIs
• Strong knowledge of SQL and JavaScript
• Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Working knowledge of React
• Familiarity with Agile development methodology
• Good understanding of task breakup, milestone definition, and work delegation.
• Past experience of working in a fintech/financial services domain or a consumer internet startup will be preferable but not required
• Work experience in early-stage startups (0 ->1) is a big plus
• Bachelors or equivalent degree from premier institutes is a plus
• Most importantly, the biggest skill we look for our prospective candidates is "Learnability" - how quickly can you learn. 

Why is this a great opportunity for the right candidate:

 

1. Work with a young dynamic core team backed by marquee investors from the financial services space
2. Work on a product/business that has achieved product market fit and take it to scale
3. Equity compensation and competitive market salaries
4. Work environment that prioritizes talent, hustle and dedication
   
   

We will also ensure we give a preference to applicants who directly email us with their background/context and why they think they should be a strong candidate for this position at GrayQuest. Email us at work (at the rate) grayquest (dot) com and cc Sonal (at the rate)grayquest (dot) com

Architectural:

Design and implement a software architecture

Select a technology stack

Design and configure infrastructure

Select a development toolkit (IDE, etc.)

Design and implement a database design

Improve and optimise the application architecture

Ensure scalability of the application

Ensure scalability of the infrastructure

Explore new technologies and decide whether to implement them

 

Strategy, planning, and design:

• Take end-to-end ownership of the product, identify technology requirements, define the future product vision, create preliminary design concepts for add-on modules and shape overall technology and product roadmap by collaborating with the founders, business development, and marketing team.
• Ensure user oriented design is the primary approach to product development across multiple screens, based on user behaviour data and direct customer feedback.

 

Implementation and deployment:

• Manage Product Release, QA cycles, feature implementation and on time delivery through in-house team and vendors.
• Collaborate with team and customers to define use cases.
• Creation of wireframes/prototypes, site maps and user-flows for web and mobile platforms.

 

Operational management :

• Support marketing by implementing technical requirements for SEO/product analytics.
• Establish and supervise a quality assurance process, including integration & system testing.
• Rigorously monitor key performance metrics and coordinate with various teams to take corrective actions if needed.
• Establish and forecast ROI of features and succinctly articulate competitive advantage.
• Set-up data collection and analysis system in collaboration with CEO to track key performance.

metrics.

Strong fundamentals in computer science/engineering and algorithm design.

Practical knowledge of computer software algorithms in machine/deep learning, NLP, Computer Vision etc.

 

Personal Requirements:

• Min of 7+ years of Hands on experience in Web app development, payment gateways implementation, architecture design, product management, databases and UI/UX in consumer facing applications.
• Experience on projects involving engineering and algorithmic functions, machine learning, deep learning and artificial intelligence is very advantageous.
• Creative self-starter who is comfortable with both taking initiative and working in teams.
• Strong communication skills.
• Willingness to learn and utilise emerging technologies.
• Sincere passion to use disruptive technologies that can be globally significant

You Will:
• Build out our web architecture allowing new feature modules to be sent to production, while having
strategic foresight on long term product vision.
• Software development project management from transforming requirements into technical specifications,
design, code, and tested systems.
• Closely involved in development life cycle right from concept stage to delivery and post- launch support.
• Keep abreast of new trends and best practices in web development and explore new technologies.
• Document the development process, architecture, and standard components.
• Coordinate with co-developers and actively participate in code reviews , bug fixing code /architecture.
• Brainstorm and solve problems and put effort in constant improvement in technical front .
• Perform frequent peer reviews.
• Participate actively in demos / S&T.
• Share knowledge through collaboration, training, peer review, presentations, and articles.
• Track record of delivering in Scrum, Agile and other methodologies.
• Proficiency in establishing processes and tools to enable team productivity when developing websites
(version control, automatic build, code review).
• Strong verbal and written communication skills and cognitive ability.
• Contribute towards a positive healthy fun and creativity driven culture.
Must Have:
• Strong aptitude towards problem solving with a hacker mindset.
• Should have infinite love towards Linux and respect open-source development.
• Should have sound knowledge of core PHP, MVC Frameworks Laravel preferred.
• Familiarity with limitations of PHP as a platform and its workarounds.
• Should be excellent in SQL/NoSql database (Surprise us we are constantly pushing out DB architecture).
• Basic Knowledge of Frontend Technologies to easily communicate in terms of Front end Lingos.
• Experience with Agile development methodologies.
• Experience in building high secure components, encryption techniques.
• Experience in building event based and queue based Infrastructure.
• Experience with multi-tier system and service design and development for large scale systems.
• Extensive, real-world experience designing technology components for enterprise solutions and defining
solution architectures and reference architectures with a focus on cloud technologies.
• Passion for best design and coding practices and a desire to develop new bold kickass ideas.
• Experience with caching and scaling techniques.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure is must AWS/GCP/DO.
• Good to have experience with any tool such as Jenkins, Gitlab Devops building pipelines, CI/CD automation.
• Eager to learn new languages and experiment / explore new technologies.

About PhonePe : Our goal is to make digital payments so easy, safe and universally accepted that
people never feel the need to carry cash or cards again. We believe India is at the cusp of a new
mobile revolution, which will change the way we manage our money on the go. We see ourselves
facilitating this change, through technology and dogged customer centricity.

At PhonePe, we take extra care to make sure you give your best at work, Everyday! And creating the
right environment for you is just one of the things we do. We empower people and trust them to do
the right thing. Here, you own your work from start to finish, right from day one.Being enthusiastic
about tech is a big part of being at PhonePe.

If you like building technology that impacts millions, ideating with some of the best minds in the
country and executing on your dreams with purpose and speed, join us!

Role
As a senior software engineer,
● You will build Robust and scalable web-based applications
● You will need to think of platforms & reuse
● Build abstractions and contracts with separation of concerns for a larger scope
● Drive problem solving skills for high-level business and technical problems.

● Do high level design with guidance; Functional modelling, break-down of a module
● Do incremental changes to architecture: impact analysis of the same
● Do performance tuning and improvements in large scale distributed systems
● Mentor young minds and foster team spirit
● Breaks down execution into phases to bring predictability to overall execution
● Work closely with Product Manager to derive capability view from features/solutions
● Lead execution of medium sized projects
● Work with broader stakeholders to track impact of projects/features and proactively
iterate to improve them

As a senior software engineer, you must have
● Extensive and expert programming experience in at least one general programming
language (e.g. Java, C, C++) & tech stack to write maintainable, scalable, unit-tested
code.
● Experience with multi-threading and concurrency programming
● Extensive experience in object oriented design skills, knowledge of design patterns, and
huge passion and ability to design intuitive module and class-level interfaces
● Excellent coding skills – should be able to convert design into code fluently
● Knowledge of Test Driven Development
● Good understanding of databases (e.g. MySQL) and NoSQL (e.g. HBase, Elasticsearch,
Aerospike etc)
● Strong desire to solving complex and interesting real world problems
● Experience with full life cycle development in any programming language on a Linux
platform
● Go-getter attitude that reflects in energy and intent behind assigned tasks

● Worked in startup like environment with high levels of ownership and commitment
● BTech, MTech, or PhD in Computer Science or related technical discipline (or
equivalent).
● Experience in building highly scalable business applications, which involve
implementing large complex business flows and dealing with huge amount of data.
● 5+ years of experience in the art of writing code and solving problems for large Scale.
● Open communicator who shares thoughts and opinions frequently, listens intently and
takes constructive feedback
As a senior software engineer, good to have
● Ability to drive design and architecture of multiple subsystems
● Ability to break-down larger/fuzzier problems into smaller ones in the scope of the
product
● Understanding of the industry’s coding standards and an ability to create appropriate
technical documentation.