Java developer

Senior Java Backend Engineer

Experience: 6-8 Years 

Location: Pune / Bangalore

Type: Full-time

Tech Stack: Java, AWS, Spring boot, Postgres, NO/SQL 

About Digit88

Digit88 empowers digital transformation for innovative and high growth B2B and B2C SaaS companies as their trusted offshore software product engineering partner!

We are a lean mid-stage software company, with a team of 75+ fantastic technologists, backed by executives with deep understanding of and extensive experience in consumer and enterprise product development across large corporations and startups. We build highly efficient and effective engineering teams that solve real and complex problems for our partners.

With more than 50+ years of collective experience in areas ranging from B2B and B2C SaaS, web and mobile apps, e-commerce platforms and solutions, custom enterprise SaaS platforms and domains spread across Conversational AI, Chatbots, IoT, Health-tech, ESG/Energy Analytics, Data Engineering, the founding team thrives in a fast paced and challenging environment that allows us to showcase our best.

The Vision: To be the most trusted technology partner to innovative software product companies world-wide

The Opportunity

Digit88 is expanding the extended software product engineering team for its partner, a US-based Energy Analytics SaaS platform company. Our partner is building a suite of cloud-based business operation support platforms in the Utilities Rate Lifecycle space in the Energy sector/domain. This is a bleeding edge AI and Big Data platform that helps large energy utility companies in the US plan, manage, review and optimize their new product and rate design, billing, rate analysis, forecasting, and CRM. The candidate would be joining an existing team of product engineers in the US, China and Pune/India and help us establish an extended product engineering team at Digit88.

Job Profile

Digit88 is looking for a Sr Java Engineer with excellent hands-on experience in Java, AWS, and Springboot experience. You will be designing solutions around large enterprise and distributed systems. You will collaborate with a multi-disciplinary team of engineers and architects on a wide range of problems, bringing technical direction, architecture and design decisions, solving technical problems ultimately enabling the product team to build, develop and improve products that will revolutionize the energy industry.

To be successful in this role, you should possess

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field with 6-8 years hands-on experience with Java based technologies.
• Expertise in Core Java, Data Structures, J2EE with proven expertise in Spring MVC, Spring boot, Microservices architecture, Web Services (Rest) in distributed systems
• Practical experience with MySQL and/or NoSQL databases like Postgres, Cassandra
• Practical experience with Caching frameworks Memcached/Redis, Message Queues
• Experience in building high performance, high availability REST APIs and REST clients
• Expertise with log file analysis using one or more of ELK, Splunk, Kibana 
• Prior experience in building solutions in AWS, using managed services.
• Experience with Kafka is a definite plus
• Strong practical experience in applying design patterns, multithreading concepts to solve complex problems, strong problem solving skills
• Excellent communication (oral and written) and interpersonal skills and an ability to effectively communicate with both business and technical teams.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills for presenting findings to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Possess strong organizational and time management skills, with attention to detail.
• Good understanding in CI/CD, Container architecture - Docker/Jenkins and build scripts Maven/Ant 
• Experience with Kubernetes

Roles and responsibilities

• Develop Java solutions on AWS with Springboot, microservices.
• Work closely with the US and India engineering teams to help build the Java/Spring based backend and REST APIs. 
• Technical excellence and ownership of critical modules; own the development of new modules and features 
• Troubleshoot live production server issues 
• Able to work as a part of a team, be able to contribute independently and drive the team to exceptional contributions with minimal team supervision
• Perform Unit Testing and Integration testing in a Continuous Deployment scenario 
• Follow Agile methodology, JIRA for work planning, issue management/tracking 
• Bring Technical direction, design considerations and decisions as part of solutioning

Good to have/Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in the utility or energy industries.
• Experience working with a start-up.

Additional Project/Soft Skills:

• Should be able to work independently with India & US based team members.
• Strong verbal and written communication with ability to articulate problems and solutions over phone and emails.
• Strong sense of urgency, with a passion for accuracy and timeliness.
• Ability to work calmly in high pressure situations and manage multiple projects/tasks.
• Ability to work independently and possess superior skills in issue resolution.

Benefits/Culture @ Digit88:

• Comprehensive Insurance (Life, Health, Accident)
• Flexible Work Model
• Accelerated learning & non-linear growth
• Flat organization structure driven by ownership and accountability.
• Global Peers - Working with some of the best engineers/professionals globally from the likes of Apple, Amazon, IBM Research, Adobe and other innovative product companies
• Ability to make a global impact with your work, leading innovations in Conversational AI, Tele-Medicine, Healthcare and more.

You will work with a founding team of serial entrepreneurs with multiple successful exits to their credit. The learning will be immense just as will the challenges.

This is the right time to join us and partner in our growth!

Egen is a data engineering and cloud modernization firm helping industry-leading companies achieve digital breakthroughs and deliver for the future, today. We are catalysts for change who create digital breakthroughs at warp speed. Our team of cloud and data engineering experts are trusted by top clients in pursuit of the extraordinary. An Inc. 5000 Fastest Growing Company 7 times, and recently recognized on the Crain’s Chicago Business Fast 50 list, Egen has also been recognized as a great place to work 3 times.

You will join a team of insatiably curious data engineers, software architects, and product experts who never settle for "good enough". Our Java Platform team's tech stack is based on Java8 (Spring Boot) and RESTful web services. We typically build and deploy applications as cloud-native Kubernetes microservices and integrate with scalable technologies such as Kafka in Docker container environments. Our developers work in an agile process to efficiently deliver high value data driven applications and product packages.

Required Experience:

• Minimum of Bachelor’s Degree or its equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, Information Technology and Management, Electrical Engineering or a related field.
• Have experience working and strong understanding of object-oriented programing and cloud technologies
• End to end experience delivering production ready code with Java8, Spring Boot, Spring Data, and API libraries
• Strong experience with unit and integration testing of the Spring Boot APIs.
• Strong understanding and production experience of RESTful API's and microservice architecture.
• Strong understanding of SQL databases and NoSQL databases and experience with writing abstraction layers to communicate with the databases.

Nice to have's (but not required):

• Exposure to Kotlin or other JVM programming languages
• Strong understanding and production experience working with Docker container environments
• Strong understanding and production experience working with Kafka
• Cloud Environments: AWS, GCP or Azure

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

• Skilled in Java / J2EE including frameworks like Microservices, Spring boot, hibernate etc
• Experience with microservices-based architecture including building
• Good knowledge of SQL (MySQL / Oracle / SQL Server / Postgres), NoSQL (MongoDB / Cassandra), App server Knowledge (Tomcat/JBoss etc.), OSGi, REST Web Services
• Working / Usage experience of Docker, Microservices, Jenkins, Multithreading, Design patterns, Java 1.8 and Container
• Experience with Cloud computing in added advantage (AWS / Azure)
• Strong Debugging and Troubleshooting Expertise.
• Strong communication skills (oral and written)