Java Technical Lead - Spring/Hibernate

Job Description:

We are looking for a skilled and enthusiastic Java Developer to join our team in Chennai. The ideal candidate should have strong hands-on experience in Java development with a focus on backend frameworks such as Spring Boot and Hibernate. If you’re passionate about clean code, scalable applications, and delivering robust software solutions—this is the role for you.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, test, and maintain backend applications using Java, Spring Boot, and Hibernate.
• Write efficient, scalable, and reusable code.
• Participate in design discussions, code reviews, and deliver high-quality software.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.
• Troubleshoot, debug, and upgrade existing systems.
• Ensure best practices in software development and Agile methodologies.

Required Skills:

• Strong proficiency in Core Java (Java 8 or above).
• Hands-on experience with Spring Boot and Hibernate.
• Proficient in working with RESTful APIs and Web Services.
• Experience with SQL and relational databases (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL).
• Familiarity with version control tools like Git.
• Knowledge of software development lifecycle and Agile practices.

Desired Candidate :

• Experience in Node.JS working with large scale backend applications
• Expertise in any Relational or NoSQL databases and any of caching databases
• Experience in integrating with RESTful/GraphQL APIs and Microservice APIs
• Good problem solving and debugging skill
• Good knowledge of engineering excellence: Unit Testing/TDD, Code quality,
• Documentation, CI&CD
• Exposure on event-driven, asynchronous I/O
• Experience in Linux development and AWS ecosystem tools
• Experience in non-functional requirements (Scalability, Performance optimisation, Security)

What you can achieve :

• Empowering Entrepreneurial Spirit: Whatever your role is, we'll encourage you to reinvent and reinvigorate; achieving the best for CaratLane and you.
• Celebrating Your Contribution: We recognize and reward everyone who approaches their job with true passion, and drives performance.
• The Best of Tanishq and CaratLane: Work with a disruptive, new-age omni-channel brand, while being a part of India's most trustworthy organisation - the Tata Group.

About the role:

We are looking for an experienced Software Development Engineer II (SDE2) to help deliver high visibility and impact features for the ChakraHQ Platform. ChakraHQ Platform is the world's first Omnichannel Process Automation Platform. Imagine AWS but for operations and business teams; built on cutting edge technology stacks, to solve problems for modern businesses.

Technology specialists at ChakraHQ are at the core of the company's decisions and vision. As an SDE2, you will contribute to the design and development of the core technology stack of the ChakraHQ Platform. Working closely with Engineering, Product Management, Sales and Customer Success you will take ownership to develop features, plugins and custom fixes that will materially impact customer’s and ChakraHQ’s business. You will also be responsible for maintaining a streamlined build and CI/CD system. You will help coordinate the incorporation of upstream features into the ChakraHQ Platform. 

Technologies you will work with: NodeJs, PostgreSQL, Serverless, Elasticsearch, Kibana, AWS, Google Cloud

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop and maintain features, services, products that are part of ChakraHQ
• Own delivery of said features and services
• Own success of the products by tracking its lifecycle with customers
• Build systems that scale horizontally
• Write automated tests to ensure code quality
• Work with customers to build a product roadmap
• Work with sales & marketing to sell your product to end-users
• Work as an integral part of an agile software development team to build features end-to-end
• Support those features in the ChakraHQ production environment by participating in an on-call rotation

Position Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science.
• 3+ years of experience working on teams to develop and deploy web or mobile applications
• Extensive experience in any one backend programming language - Java, NodeJS
• A solid foundation in computer science, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, and software design
• Experience in building highly scalable business applications, which involve implementing large complex business flows and dealing with huge amounts of data.
• Proficiency with git and Github workflows
• Expertise with test-driven development and automated testing
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent communication skills and fluent English
• Open to learn and work on new technologies

Equal parts creative agency, engineering firm, and consultancy, Grappus has a reputation of doing things differently. We work with brands big and small, far and wide, helping them understand, prototype and deploy a broad range of custom tech. We value design and we cringe at bad UX. Each project is a clean slate, we don’t have frameworks, or any pre-made formulas. We’re not here to just grow big, make money and win awards. We’re here to crack the process of building truly innovative products from scratch. Products that make people say ‘damn’.

People at Grappus usually experience a highly accelerated career growth well beyond the narrow constraints of their ‘job description’. Here, the growth ladder is tailored to you. It operates exactly as fast as you can manage to grow. We think it's a waste when smart people are unable to make an impact. Our aim is to unleash your potential by giving you massive challenges and the freedom to solve them.

We’re in a fluid world, where we don’t know what technologies we’ll use next, or the projects we’ll work on. We’re actively searching for ways to shine a light on our blind spots, whether it is in the products we want to build, the problems we like to solve, or the company culture we try to create. That’s what makes life at Grappus so exciting. Grappus is an ongoing experiment and you are a part of it. We'll be a different company a few years from now because you are going to change it for the better. We can’t wait to see where you take us

Learn more about us: https://grappus.com/">https://grappus.com/

We are seeking a Senior Java Developer who has a knack for coming up with creative solutions to unique problems, planning development cycles and writing technical documentation while leading a team of developers. You can get in where needed to write clean, reusable, and performant code, with creative sensibilities to push projects towards perfection. You should have good time management skills and be able to work both autonomously and collaboratively with a cross-discipline team of product managers, strategists, UX designers, art directors, and developers. Most importantly, you have an eye for detail and the ability to make beautiful designs come to life through code.

• Ability to write elegant and readable code
• Excellent problem solving skills and love technical challenges
• Comfortable working in a team-oriented and collaborative environment
• Strong understanding of Agile and Lean software development processes and practices
• Stays plugged into emerging technologies/industry trends and applies them proactively
• Knowledge of software best practices, like test driven development and continuous integration

• BE/BTech in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent practical experience

• 2+ years of software development experience including deep, hands on experience in building back end applications using Java and Spring ecosystem
• Strong command over core Java:
  • Understands the application of java best practices including logging & exception handling
  • Familiar with the Java Concurrency model
  • Understands Java collections, generics and java 8 based functional programming features
• Has extensively used the Spring ecosystem:
  • Spring Boot
  • HTTP/REST API development
  • Spring Data (JPA)
  • ORM tools like Hibernate (can fine tune mappings for performance)
  • Unit and integration testing facilities of Spring Boot
• Experience coaching and mentoring junior developers
• Aggressive problem diagnosis and creative problem solving skills and client handling skills
• Ability to work and thrive in a fast-paced environment, learn rapidly and master diverse web technologies and techniques
• Excellent knowledge of Relational Databases, SQL and ORM technologies (JPA2, Hibernate)
• Implemented CI/CD in any of the projects done and experience with Test Driven Development

• Understanding of API Development best practices
• Knowledge of Kubernetes/Docker and Devops
• Some or all of these AWS services: EC2/ECS; lambda; SQS/SNS; API Gateway, Cognito; Elastic Search
• Has contributed to the development or enhancement of CI/CD pipelines in a previous project
• Contributed in the creation of end-end automation tests (functional or non-functional)
• Has designed relational databases; conversant with SQL
• Personal projects or contributions to the open source community
• Strong organizational skills to juggle multiple tasks within the constraints of timelines
• Team player (those great personality types that people love to work with)
• Great communication skills