
Key Skills - Java , Hibernate , Spring , Maven, MVC Framework ,Spring Boot , J2EE

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About the Company:
India's #1 Customer Experience Platform For Direct Commerce Empowering over 2.5 Lakh eCommerce Sellers.
Shiprocket is India's leading e-commerce enablement platform, revolutionizing the way businesses handle logistics and fulfillment. Founded in 2012, the company has evolved into a comprehensive technology-driven platform that empowers over 250,000 sellers who generate more than $2.5B in annual GMV. Shiprocket provides end-to-end solutions including shipping, fulfillment, and technology integration services, making it easier for businesses of all sizes to manage their e-commerce operations efficiently.
About the Founders:
Shiprocket was co-founded by Saahil Goel and Gautam Kapoor. Saahil Goel, serving as the CEO, brings extensive expertise with his MBA and MS degrees from the University of Pittsburgh. Under their leadership, the company has transformed from a small business with big dreams into a unicorn, driven by their vision to democratize e-commerce for entrepreneurs across India.
About Funding:
Shiprocket's funding journey reflects its remarkable growth story. The company has raised over $357 million across 14 funding rounds 4. A significant milestone was achieved in August 2022 when it attained unicorn status with a valuation of $1.3 billion. The company continues to attract investor confidence, with its most recent funding round of $26 million in December 2024, demonstrating strong market faith in its business model and growth potential.
About Milestones/Achievements:
Shiprocket has achieved several remarkable milestones in its journey:
- Reached unicorn status in 2022 with a $1.3 billion valuation 5
- Demonstrated strong financial growth with a 21% increase in operating revenue for FY24, reaching ₹1,316 crore 6
- Successfully expanded its service portfolio to include Shiprocket Fulfillment, Shiprocket Capital, and Shiprocket Engage 360
- Built a network serving 250,000+ active sellers across India 1
- Achieved operational profitability in the first two quarters of FY25 7
- Established itself as a comprehensive e-commerce enablement platform with multiple product offerings and technology integrations
Candid answers by the company
Shiprocket is one of India's largest data-driven logistics aggregation platforms. They provide end-to-end logistics and fulfillment solutions for e-commerce businesses and D2C brands, helping them manage their shipping and fulfillment operations efficiently.
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We are looking for a highly motivated senior developer with at least 3+ years of strong hands-on experience in Java to join our startup. You would be playing pivotal role in contributing to the initial tech stack. You would be further responsible for designing and implementing product requirements that are highly usable, scalable, extensible and maintainable. You should be comfortable on working across different technologies/frameworks that we work on - Microservices, Java, Spring, Spring Boot, MySQL, Kubernetes, AWS.
Responsibilities and Duties:
- Design and build scalable REST APIs on Spring Boot
- Develop, test, tune for performance and deploy microservices
- Collaborate with the team, optimize and refactor the back-end architecture
- Maintain high standards of quality for code, documentation and other deliverables
- Active cross-team coordination would be expected
- Architecture and tech stack discussions to optimize for increasing server load
- DevOps tasks along with AWS features exploration
What are we looking for?
- Strong 3+ year experience in Core Java & backend technologies
- Good working knowledge of design patterns & OOAD
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
- The skills that we consider: Java, MySQL/RDS, Spring/ Play, Maven, Redis, Kafka/SQS, Elasticsearch, AWS
- Experience with designing, implementing and deploying microservices
- Previously worked in a startup
What You'll Do:
- Understand the upcoming development requirement of product in depth.
- Design product architecture as per vision, insights and concurred direction.
- Design and develop the APIs using Java, Spring, and Hibernate required for the product and expose them to be used by the front-end developers.
- Design the database and tables in MySQL/PostGreSQL/NoSQL (whichever is suitable for the need of the product) and guide the team to utilize them in the best possible way.
- Get involved in continuous maintenance of the product and get the bugs fixed in time.
- Coordinate the workflow between the UX Designers and front-end developers.
- Work on integrating flows with external tools - Segment, Branch, Clevertap.
Ideal Profile:
- Proficiency in Core Java & Spring framework.
- Expertise in Web Service technologies.
- Experience in building the architecture as per the product’s need.
- Experience in building REST APIs using Java/Spring.
- Excellent knowledge in Databases and code integrations such as Postgres SQL, SQL Server, MySQL.
- Experience in full life cycle development of a product (specifically mobile products) is a plus.
- Experience with Java/Spring-Boot, Hibernate Cloud Services, AWS.
- Experience with security principles and frameworks.
- Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token and OAuth2 - Familiarity with code versioning tools (primarily Git).
- Essential skills are Core Java/J2EE, functional aspects, Spring Framework, Tomcat, SVN, Git, Postman/Newman.
- Should have worked in Agile methodologies.
- Good object-oriented and problem-solving skills.
- Strong communication skills along with the ability to work in a highly collaborative environment.
- Working on test-driven development.
- Working on continuous integration and continuous development pipeline.
Work closely with Product Manager to derive capability view from features/solutions, Lead execution of medium-sized projects Work with broader stakeholders to track the 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 the 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 a startups environment with high levels of ownership and commitment BTech, MTech, or Ph.D. 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 a huge amount of data. An open communicator who shares thoughts and opinions frequently listens intently and takes constructive feedback. As a Software Engineer, good to have The ability to drive the 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. PhonePe Full Time Employee Benefits Insurance Benefits - Medical Insurance, Critical Illness Insurance, Accidental Insurance, Life Insurance Wellness Program - Employee Assistance Program, Onsite Medical Center, Emergency Support System Parental Support - Maternity Benefit, Paternity Benefit Program, Adoption Assistance Program, Day-care Support Program Mobility Benefits - Relocation benefits, Transfer Support Policy, Travel Policy Retirement Benefits - Employee PF Contribution, Flexible PF Contribution, Gratuity, NPS, Leave Encashment Other Benefits - Higher Education Assistance, Car Lease, Mobile & Broadband Reimbursements, Salary Advance Policy
● Strong knowledge of data structures and designing for performance, scalability and availability.
● Solid understanding of multithreading, MVC, and strong OO skills.
● Good understanding of micro services architecture.
● Good understanding of development tools and processes.
● Good knowledge of cloud environment GCP, AWS
● Code, develop, design and architect the product.
● Design, implement and maintain highly scalable, multi-tier, distributed server software applications.
● Deliver across the entire product life cycle, design, build, deploy, test, release and support.
● Working directly with developers and product managers to conceptualize, build, test and release
products
system performance.
Experience with JSP & Servlet.
Experience with open source frameworks/libraries like Spring, Hibernate, Struts, JUnit etc.
Experience with MVC frameworks like Spring MVC, Struts, JSF etc.
Experience with XML and webservices (SOAP/REST).
Experience with application Servers like Web logic, WebSphere and Jboss.
Experience with JavaScript, Jquery, AJAX, CSS, HTML.
Knowledge of Messaging (JMS,MDB etc.) is a plus.
Knowledge of build tools like Maven and ANT is a plus.
Good understanding of object oriented methodologies and design principles.
Knowledge of the PTC/Servigistics/Click Commerce/Xelus “Service Depot
Management/SL/Repairs and Returns/XDR” application is a plus.
Experience working with large amounts of data.
Able to work with and participate within a small multicultural professional team.
Understanding of performance profiling / tuning.
Familiar with Agile methodologies/tools.
Experience with SQL.
Experience in analysis, design, coding, and implementation of enterprise Java web
applications.
General understanding of scalability and high-availability systems.
Excellent communication/documentation skills
Ability to work effectively under pressure with constantly changing priorities and deadlines
As a Senior Software Engineer - I,you'll take on complex problems that span multiple components and teams. As SSE - I, you could expect to:
- Independently own one or more multiple modules, which includes: requirement analysis, design, development, maintenance & support
- Write extensive, efficient code to address complex modules and that handles interaction between multiple components.
- Rapidly iterate to add new functionalities and solves complex problems with simple and intuitive solutions
- Produce architecture with clean interfaces, that are efficient and scalable
- Participate and contribute to architectural discussions
- Perform design and code reviews
- Perform technical feasibility and trade off studies & guides others to perform these studies
- Solve production issues. Investigate and provide solutions to minimize the business impact due to outage
- Continuously improve performance metrics of modules you own.
- Actively mentor and develop junior developers in all software development practices
- Participate in the hiring process (referrals, interviews, attending recruiting events or writing blogs)
- Onboard and mentors new team members, helps shape the culture of the team
- Collaborate effectively across teams to solve problems, execute and deliver results
Minimum Requirements:
- A minimum of 4 years of relevant software development experience









