Java fullstack engineer

Senior Software Engineer

Location: On-site, Panaji, Goa

About Joyful

Joyful is a leading AI-powered stakeholder communication management platform for voice of stakeholder analysis and contact center solutions. Our mission is to use AI to make all interactions between a company and its stakeholders joyful by removing friction. Joyful is a part of Germinait Solutions Pvt. Ltd.

Our  Joyful modules, Engage and Listen, help businesses understand and manage stakeholder interactions across digital channels. We enable companies to provide exceptional customer experiences while maximizing the productivity and efficiency of their support teams, all through one seamless platform.

At Joyful, we're committed to fostering meaningful interactions between stakeholders and brands by providing actionable insights, personalized replies, and a joyful experience for customers, users, and employees alike.

The Opportunity

We’re seeking a Senior Software Engineer who thrives on solving complex problems, architecting scalable systems, and bringing innovative AI-powered features to life. You will work on a modern, cloud-native stack—leveraging serverless deployment, microservices, and AI/ML integrations to build resilient, high-performance solutions.

In addition to delivering high-quality code, you’ll contribute to Joyful’s Vibe Coding culture—our approach to writing code that’s clean, collaborative, and a joy to work with.

What You'll Do

• Backend & Cloud Development
• Design, develop, and maintain scalable microservices for Joyful’s Engage and Listen platforms
• Build serverless applications and functions (AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, or GCP Cloud Functions) for rapid, cost-effective deployments
• Implement robust APIs and data pipelines optimized for performance and reliability
• Ensure security, compliance, and data privacy in all backend services
• AI-Powered Solutions
• Integrate AI/ML models into production workflows to enhance automation, personalization, and analytics
• Collaborate with data scientists to operationalize AI models for real-time and batch processing
• Build features that leverage NLP, sentiment analysis, and predictive analytics for stakeholder communication insights
• Vibe Coding Culture
• Write clean, well-structured, and maintainable code that engineers enjoy working with
• Participate in pair programming, peer reviews, and collaborative debugging sessions
• Share best practices and mentor junior engineers to raise the technical bar across the team
• Help maintain a development atmosphere that’s positive, creative, and focused on continuous improvement
• DevOps & Deployment
• Work closely with DevOps teams to optimize serverless deployments, CI/CD pipelines, and automated testing
• Ensure observability, monitoring, and alerting systems are in place for all deployed services
• Contribute to cost optimization strategies for serverless architectures
• Collaboration & Problem-Solving
• Partner with product managers, architects, and designers to translate business requirements into technical solutions
• Participate in sprint planning, backlog refinement, and retrospectives
• Troubleshoot production issues and drive root cause analysis for lasting fixes

What You'll Need

• 3+ years of experience in software development, preferably in SaaS or AI-driven products
• Strong expertise in backend development using Java (Spring Boot), Node.js, or Python
• Experience with serverless architectures (AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, or GCP equivalents)
• Solid understanding of cloud services (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and microservices design patterns
• Hands-on experience integrating AI/ML models into applications
• Familiarity with NLP, speech-to-text, or sentiment analysis APIs is a plus
• Knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases (PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, MongoDB, etc.)
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and monitoring tools
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work in fast-paced, collaborative environments
• Passion for clean, maintainable code and contributing to a healthy team culture

Why Join Joyful?

• Work on AI-powered solutions that transform how businesses connect with their stakeholders
• Be part of a team that embraces serverless-first development and modern cloud-native architectures
• Thrive in a Vibe Coding culture where great engineering meets great energy
• Collaborate with talented peers in a supportive, innovation-driven environment
• Enjoy professional growth opportunities in a fast-scaling company
• Work from our beautiful Goa office while building solutions used worldwide

At Joyful, we believe that combining AI innovation, scalable cloud design, and a joyful coding culture leads to exceptional products. If you’re passionate about building intelligent, high-performance systems while keeping the engineering vibe positive, we’d love to hear from you!

Lead Java Developer for Chennai based Product Company

About the Role

We are looking for a highly experienced Lead Java Developer with 8 to 15 years of expertise in Java development, AWS cloud infrastructure management and product development for 3 products. There is a clear path to leadership role within the organization. If you are not from Chennai, you should be willing to relocate to Chennai.

The ideal candidate will have a strong technical background with hands-on experience in Java, Spring Boot, and AWS or other cloud infrastructure management. This role requires a strategic thinker who can drive product vision, align cross-functional teams, and ensure the successful execution of cloud-based solutions, while providing the necessary support to the team in planning, coordination, and execution of various projects, ensuring they are completed on time, within scope, and within budget.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage product road map ensuring alignment with business goals.
• Collaborate with engineering teams, and the stakeholders to design & develop scalable cloud solutions.
• Lead product development lifecycle, from ideation to deployment and iteration.
• Stay updated with industry trends and emerging technologies to drive innovation.
• Develop technical documentation, user guides, and best practices for cloud infrastructure management.
• Ensure compliance with security, governance, and best practices in cloud deployments.
• Act as a liaison between business and technical teams to balance priorities and manage expectations.
• Conduct research on technical solutions and present findings to the project team.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• At least 8 to 10 years of experience in product management, & handling multiple projects simultaneously.
• More than 5 years of hands-on experience in Java, Spring Boot & related technologies.
• Strong technical background with hands-on experience in AWS OR Azure, OR Google Cloud Platform.
• Knowledge of cloud infrastructure, networking, security, and scalability best practices.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
• Experience working with google play store, app store, setting up app store accounts and handling deployments.
• Experience identifying, studying documentation and integrating with third parties for various needs such as identity verification, SMS integration and many such requirements.
• Proven ability to define product strategy and execute on complex technical roadmaps.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate business requirements to user stories.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum methodologies.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work in a fast-paced environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools such as AWS CloudWatch, or ELK stack.
• Familiarity and experience with React Native architecture and libraries.
• Prior experience in a SaaS, PaaS, or cloud-native environment.
• Certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), or PMP.

Remuneration

• Base Salary + Annual Performance Bonus (tied to KPIs, roadmap execution, team performance, delivery milestones)
• Equity/ESOPs - After 1st year of employment, Vesting: 4 years with 1-year cliff

Benefits

• Work-Life Balance & Paid time off
• Flexible working hours
• Work-from-home allowance (1–2 days a week or for emergencies)
• Company sponsored team offsites / retreats

About Merchandise Operation (Merch Ops): Merchandise Operations (Merch Ops) is a merchandise management system, it is positioned as a host system in the retail solutions, it has ability to maintain the Master/Foundation data, create and manage Purchase Orders, create, and manage Prices & Promotions, perform Replenishment, effective inventory control and financial management. Merc Ops provides Business users with consistent, accurate, and timely data across an enterprise by allowing them to get the:

Right Goods in the...

• Right Silhouettes, Sizes and Colors; at the...

• Right Price; at the...

• Right Location; for the...

• Right Consumer; at the...

• Right Time; at the...

• Right Quantity.

About Team:

• Proven, passionate bunch of disruptors providing solutions that solve real-time supply chain problems.

• Well mixed experienced team with young members and experienced in product, domain, and Industry knowledge.

• Gained Expertise in designing and deploying massively scalable cloud native SaaS products

• The team currently comprises of associates across the globe and is expected to grow rapidly.

Our current technical environment:

• Software: React JS, Node JS, Oracle PL/SQL, GIT, Rest API. Java script.

• Application Architecture: Scalable three tier web application.

• Cloud Architecture: Private cloud, MS Azure (ARM templates, AKS, HD insight, Application gateway, Virtue Networks, Event Hub, Azure AD) • Frameworks/Others: Tomcat Apache, RDBMS, Jenkins, Nginx, Oracle Type ORM, Express.

What you'll be doing:

• As a Staff Engineer you will be responsible for the design of the features in the product roadmap

• Creating and encouraging good software development practices engineering-wide, driving strategic technical improvements, and mentoring other engineers.

• You will write code as we expect our technical leadership to be in the trenches alongside junior engineers, understanding root causes and leading by example

• You will mentor engineers

• You will own relationships with other engineering teams and collaborate with other functions within Blue Yonder

• Drive architecture and designs to become simpler, more robust, and more efficient.

• Lead designs discussion and come up with robust and more efficient designs to achieve features in product roadmap

• Take complete responsibility of the features developed right from coding till deployments

• Introduce new technology and tools for the betterment of the product

• Guides fellow engineers to look beyond the surface and fix the root causes rather than symptoms.

What we are looking for:

• Bachelor’s degree (B.E/B.Tech/M.Tech Computer science or related specialization) and minimum 7 to 10 years of experience in Software development, has been an Architect, within the last 1-2 years minimum. • Strong programming experience and background in Node JS and React JS.

• Hands-on development skills along with architecture/design experience.

• Hands-on experience on designing, building deploying and maintenance of enterprise cloud solutions.

• Demonstrable experience, thorough knowledge, and interests in Cloud native architecture, Distributed micro-services, Multi-tenant SaaS solution and Cloud Scalability, performance, and High availability

• Experience with API management platforms & providing / consuming RESTful APIs

• Experience with varied tools such as REST, Hibernate, RDBMS, Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka, React.

• Hands-on development experience on Oracle PL/SQL.

• Experience with DevOps and infrastructure automation.

Requirement :- Java Tech Lead (with knowledge of Angular)

• 5+ years of experience into Java 6/7/8, J2EE, EJB, Servlets, JSP, JDBC, LOG4J, JSON, XML
• 3+ years of experience in Spring Boot, Sprint Rest, Spring MVC.
• 5+ years of experience in REST, Micro service Development
• Knowledge of Design Patterns (Good to Have).
• Proven Experience in building complex web systems that have been successfully delivered to customers
• Experience in writing SQL-queries and knowledge of PL/SQL
• Experience in working with databases Oracle 10g, 11g, Postgres, Cassandra etc
• Exposure/Experience in working/setting up CI and CD environments (DevOps).
• Knowledge of development lifecycle, standards, approaches, utilities and environment: shells, version control systems, IDEs, project assembling tools;

Responsibilities:

•Participate in requirement, design, implementation, testing and support of custom banking solutions, which include features enhancements, new functionalities, and back-end systems integration.

•Define and manage resource plan together with the Project Manager aligning to the project schedule.

•Plan and drive the project's technical execution to achieve the committed scope and timeline.

•Monitor and report technical execution progress as well as all technical issues, risk or mitigation plan in a timely manner.

•Ability to coordinate multi-teams (e.g. customers, internal functional and technical SMEs), to understand business requirements, technical design and preparing of technical specifications.

•Assist in estimation of efforts and timescales for tasks delegated to the team.

•Contribute to design/code reviews for quality assurance and conformance to Company standards / guidelines.

•Hands-on participate in development and bugs fixing.

•Commit to continuous improvement and refinement of delivery.

•Strong technical knowledge and skills, consistently provide technical guidance and develop team members.

•Responsible for forward resource management, team building and staff career growth.

Requirements:

•Degree in Computer Sciences / Software Engineering / Information Technology.

•At least 5 years of working experience in Java EE development (preferably in the financial industry).

•Individual that is optimistic, proactive, good initiative, passionate, strives to achieve more as a team, and is able to motivate others.

•Understand design documentation standards such as Unified Modelling Language.

•Experience in various Java EE frameworks and design patterns. Preferably on Micro services architecture.

•Exposure in Java MVC frameworks such as Spring Boot.

We are looking for Full Stack Developers. Candidate should be hands on with front end and backend Java technologies.( 2-10 years of exp).Designation will be Java Developer, Sr.Java Developer and Java Lead basis the years of experience.

We are Looking for below skills,

Must Have’s

1. JSP, JS, Servlets, CSS, HTML, JQUERY
2. MVC, Struts, Application Servers ( JBOSS/WebSphere), REST Services
3. OOPS Concepts & Core JAVA
4. Basic SQL
5. Good Analytical Skills

Good to Have

1. REACT, ANGULAR
2. Explain Plan/ Query Tuning
3. Jenkins, Maven

Job Description

The ideal candidate is a self-motivated, multi-tasker, and demonstrated team-player. You will be a responsible developer helping our clients, either developing new products or enhancing products. You should be able to contemplate and communicate as much as possible!

Responsibilities

• Writing clean, maintainable, desired quality, desired performing code.
• Develop and support software including applications, database integration, interfaces, and new functionality enhancements
• Coordinate cross-functionally to ensure project meets business objectives and compliance standards
• Support test and deployment of new products and features
• Participate in feature brainstorm, code reviews
• Explore cutting edge technologies and taking up PoC line up.

Qualifications

• Team player
• Passion to solve problems
• Constant learner
• A degree in Computer Science (or related field)
• 4-7 years of relevant work experience
• Able to code in JAVA (with Spring framework)
• Ability to organize, and prioritize work
• Good at Object Oriented Design, Database Design(SQL/NoSQL), and Microservices
• Exposure to UI framework (React/Angular/Vue/Next)
• Exposure with Agile software development methodologies
• Exposure to any one public cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure)
• Exposure to cache, messaging systems, docker, API gateway

What we will not ask from you?

• Your current CTC, you'll be paid for what you deserve!
• If you had breaks in your career that's okay! We will not poke you on why you had your break blah blah...!
• Your notice period in current organization! If everything goes well, you let us know your joining date we will roll out the offer with joining the date as you say!

What's onboard for you as an employee?

• Empathy
• Generous package.
• Variable pay as low as possible (max 15% of your CTC)
• Medical Insurance (limited to spouse & kids) is not part of your CTC.
• Tax beneficial salary structure.
• Comprehensive leave policy
• Flexible Remote working
• Weekly Social Hour on working days
• Open-source Hour on working days
• Flat organization structure
• 15 days notice period (we wanted to keep it as same day exit! we would love to have you with us as long as possible.)

Next steps:

• Feel free to apply for this job if you like this JD.

Experience in Java (2+ years)

• Experience in SprintBoot(2+years)
• Good Knowledge of Microservice Concept
• Framework: Springboot, Spring Security, JAX-RS, Hystrix, Kafka
• ORM: Spring Data JPA. Hibernate
• Cloud Service: AWS(MSK, S3), Serverless lambda Functions
• Build tools: Maven, Gradle