Java developer

Pickyourtrail (PYT) is an expert co-creator of super hit customised holidays. We are the perfect partner to the ‘designated travel planner/s’ of every group - big or small. Our service, customisation and expertise help us deliver super hit holidays and make the planner the hero of the holiday. 

PickYourTrail is a technology-driven travel company building personalized, end-to-end travel experiences. Our platform powers dynamic itinerary creation, real-time pricing, booking orchestration, and post-booking workflows at scale. We operate in a high-throughput, real-time environment where backend systems are critical to business success.

What are we looking for in you?

You are enthusiastic about developing highly scalable, foolproof, end-to-end quality software. You have worked on api integrations, have a good understanding of api docs, SOAP, REST, rate limiter and caching. You are very passionate about data structures and algorithms. You are flexible in working with multidisciplinary teams and you push your teammates to their limits & ensure that the work is done. You consider AI as your friend and use them in all facets to augment your work, as your pair programmer, code reviewer and design philosopher. If you feel we are talking about you, contact us asap.

Who will you work with?

Being a part of a small team of backend engineers, you get to solve a wide range of problems in the travel space. Be it feature discussion, solution design, development, dev testing, deployment, enhancement or maintenance, you get to experience everything.

What's in it for you?

• Opportunity to contribute and solve interesting problems in the travel space.
• Solve for scalability, availability and performance along with functional integrations.
• Freedom to explore solutions rather than getting tied down by rigid standards.
• Work with some of the best techies in the industry
• An environment where Attitude is higher than Skill and performance scores over politics
• Take the product to the next level that has an impact on the end customer

What you'll bring to the team?

• Good understanding of data structures and algorithms
• Good experience in System & Solution design.
• Working knowledge of Java, Web Services, SOAP, REST and Spring Boot.
• Experience working with coding assistants like co-pilot, Claude desktop etc.
• Knowledge of GIT version control
• Good knowledge of any database (MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle)
• Knowledge of Unit testing is a must
• Fair debugging skills

Key Responsibilities:

●    Design, develop, and maintain high-performance, scalable, and secure backend systems using Java.

●    Build and maintain RESTful APIs and microservices to support application functionality.

●    Collaborate closely with frontend developers to ensure smooth integration with React/Angular-based frontend systems.

●    Work with both relational databases (SQL) and NoSQL databases to design data schemas, optimize queries, and maintain data integrity.

●    Leverage cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) to deploy, monitor, and scale applications.

●    Implement and maintain containerization using Docker and Kubernetes (K8S).

●    Write unit tests for both backend and frontend code to ensure code quality and reliability.

●    Participate in code reviews to maintain code quality standards and mentor junior developers.

●    Contribute to a culture of continuous improvement, proposing and driving best practices in backend development, testing, and deployment.

Required Skills And Experience

●    Bachelors or Masters in computer science or related fields.

●    5+ years of experience in backend development, with strong expertise in Java (must-have).

●    Solid experience with frontend frameworks such as React or Angular.

●    Hands-on experience with RESTful APIs, Docker, and NoSQL databases (such as MongoDB, Cassandra, etc.).

●    Strong experience with SQL databases (such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc.), including database design, optimization, and query writing.

●    Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) and Kubernetes (K8S).

●    Experience in writing unit tests and understanding of test-driven development (TDD) principles.

●    Strong understanding of Agile/Scrum methodologies.

Nice to Have:

●    Exposure to Automation Testing Frameworks (e.g., Selenium, Cypress).

●    Experience working in a SaaS (Software as a Service) environment.

●    Knowledge of Agile/Scrum methodologies.

The firm :

It’s an amazing time to be joining SalaryBox as we continue to transform attendance and payroll for over 60 million MSME’s in India.

We launched the app in Jan 2021, and now have more than 2 million downloads of the app. We support more than 200k businesses and operate at scale.

Backed by Y-Combinator, SalaryBox is India’s leading attendance and payroll app. Considered to be the engine of economies around the world, the MSME segment in India alone has ~63 million units, and employs ~100 million people. The sector accounts for 27% of GDP and is crucial to the functioning of the economy.

We are on a mission to make work easier for these business owners, managers, and employees so that they can focus on the things they do best.

Today, SalaryBox is a fun bunch of analytical and ambitious folks building the first-of-its-kind technologies for the MSME ecosystem. We are here to enhance the employee experience of over 10 million end consumers in the next twelve months. Our mission is big, so we act with urgency in everything we do. We find creative ways to test ideas and learn today so that we focus on the right things tomorrow.

About the Role

We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer with at least 6 years experience. You will be an integral part of building the back-end architecture and developing core systems.

Responsibilities:

• Architect and develop our core systems from scratch.
• Deploy and maintain the product on AWS.
• Make strategic technical decisions.
• Commit to best practices for testing, logging, and deployments
• Help build the engineering team & subsequently mentor junior developers.

Requirements:

• 6+ years’ experience as a backend engineer.
• Expert in Python and Django.
• Experience with databases (Postgres, Redis etc. ).
• Good understanding of platforms (Docker, AWS).
• Basic understanding of Dev Ops.
• Previous experience architecting and scaling back-end systems
• Hands-on attitude and ability to drive solutions to completion.

Job Description - Blueprism Developer / RPA Developer

• Design technical specifications for RPA (Blue Prism) that meets the requirements and handled all the non functional requirements of concurrency, scalability, security requirements, restart and recovery.
• Develops and configures automation processes as per the technical design document to meet the defined requirements. Works on the coding the more complicated automations or reusable components, and delegates and mentors junior developers for the less complex components.
• Develops new processes/tasks/objects using core workflow principles that are efficient, well structured, maintainable and easy to understand.
• Complies with and helps to enforce design and coding standards, policies and procedures.
• Ensures documentation is well maintained.
• Ensures quality of coded components by performing thorough unit testing.
• Works collaboratively with test teams during the Product test and UAT phases to fix assigned bugs with quality.
• Reports status, issues and risks to tech leads on a regular basis
• Improves skills in automation products by completing automation certification.
• Mentors junior developers and performs code reviews for quality control.

Qualifications

Bachelor degree in Engineering / Computer Science

Additional Information

•  5- 8 years of IT experience and having good understanding of programming concepts.  Should be from a programming background on any coding language (.Net, Java).
• Working experience in RPA for a minimum of 2 years and having project experience of a minimum 3 RPA implementations.
• Understands development methodology and lifecycle
• Should be trained on RPA tools (Blue Prism).
• Self-motivated, team player, action and results oriented.
• Well organized, good communication and reporting skills.

Notice Period : 1 Month or Immediate joiner  preferred

Core Responsibilities:

• Design and build solutions for complex business workflows
• Understanding the user persona and deliver a slick experience
• Take end to end ownership of components and be responsible for the subsystems that you work on from
• design, code, testing, integration, deployment, enhancements, etc.
• Write high-quality code and taking responsibility for their task
• Solve performance bottlenecks
• Mentor junior engineers
• Deliver with quality, on-time in a fast-paced start-up environment

Required Skills:

• Bachelor/Master's in computer science or relevant fields
• 4+ years of relevant experience
• Strong sense of ownership
• Excellent Java and object-oriented development skills
• Experience in building and scaling microservices
• Strong problem-solving skills, technical troubleshooting and diagnosing
• Expected to be a role model for young engineers, have a strong sense of code quality and enforce code
• quality within the team
• Strong knowledge in RDBMS and NOSQL technologies
• Experience in developing backends for enterprise systems like eCommerce / manufacturing / supply chain etc
• Excellent understanding of Debugging performance and optimization techniques
• Experience in Java, Mongo, MySQL, AWS technologies, ELK stack, Spring boot, Kafka
• Experience in developing any large scale Experience in cloud technologies
• Demonstrated ability to deliver in a fast-paced environment

As an SDE, you will develop a deep understanding of our business, work closely with development teams and own the architecture and end-to-end delivery of software components.

Requirements:

• Exp: 3 - 8 years.
• 4 + years' experience building successful production software systems.
• A solid grounding in Computer Science fundamentals (based on a BS or MS in CS or related field).
• The ability to take convert raw requirements into good design while exploring technical feasibility tradeoffs.
• Expertise in System design (design patterns, LLD, HLD, Solid principle, OOAD, Distributed systems etc. ), Architecture (MVC/Micro services).
• Excellence in technical communication.
• Has experience in mentoring other software developers.
• BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent.
• Experience developing service oriented architectures and an understanding of design for scalability, performance and reliability.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor other software developers to maintain architectural vision and software quality.
• Demonstrated ability to achieve stretch goals in a highly innovative and fast paced environment.
• Expertise in delivering high-quality, innovative application.
• Strong desire to build, sense of ownership, urgency, and drive.
• Strong organisational and problem solving skills with great attention to detail.
• Ability to triage issues, react well to changes, work with teams and ability to multi-task on multiple products and projects.
• Experience building highly scalable, high availability services.
• The ideal candidate will be a visionary leader, builder and operator.
• He/she should have experience leading or contributing to multiple simultaneous product development efforts and initiatives.
• He/she needs to balance technical leadership with strong business judgment to make the right decisions about technology choices.
• He/she needs to be constantly striving for simplicity, and at the same time demonstrate significant creativity, innovation and judgme.
• Proficiency in, at least, one modern programming language.
• Experience in SQL or Non-SQL database.
• Strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive.
• Demonstrated leadership abilities in an engineering environment in driving operational excellence and best practices.
• Demonstrated ability to achieve stretch goals in a highly innovative and fast paced environment.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, reporting, analytical and problem solving skills.
• Good understanding of at least some of the modern programming languages (Java) and open-source technologies