Java lead, Java architect, Senior Java developer

About Blitzy

Blitzy is a Cambridge, MA based AI software development platform on a mission to revolutionize the software development life cycle by autonomously building custom software to unlock the next industrial revolution. We're transforming how enterprises build software, turning enterprise requirements into production-ready code with an agentic software development platform that can autonomously execute 80% of the quantum of software development work. We're backed by multiple tier 1 investors, and have proven success as founders of previous start-ups.

The Role

We're seeking an experienced POC Engineer to join our India HQ2 team. This critical role sits at the intersection of cutting-edge AI technology and enterprise customer success. You'll lead the technical design, development, and delivery of proof-of-concept implementations that demonstrate the transformative power of Blitzy's agentic software development platform to Fortune 500 clients. This role requires deep technical expertise, strong customer-facing skills, and the ability to rapidly prototype and iterate on complex AI-driven solutions.

What You'll Do

• Lead Technical Pilots and POCs: Design, architect, and implement end-to-end proof-of-concept solutions that showcase Blitzy's platform capabilities to enterprise customers
• Customer Collaboration: Work directly with Fortune 500 clients to understand their technical requirements, challenges, and success criteria for POC engagements
• Rapid Prototyping: Build functional demonstrations and prototypes that prove technical feasibility and business value, often under tight timelines
• AI/ML Integration: Leverage LLMs, agentic workflows, and multimodal AI capabilities to solve complex customer use cases
• Technical Architecture: Design scalable, production-grade architectures that can transition from POC to full implementation
• Performance Optimization: Conduct performance analysis, identify bottlenecks, and optimize solutions for speed, efficiency, and reliability
• Documentation & Knowledge Transfer: Create comprehensive technical documentation and effectively communicate architecture decisions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Partner with Sales, Product, and Engineering teams to refine platform capabilities based on customer feedback
• Innovation Leadership: Stay at the forefront of AI/ML advances and identify opportunities to incorporate new techniques into POC solutions

What We're Looking For

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience with proven track record in enterprise software development and production systems
• Deep expertise in AI/ML technologies, particularly with LLMs, agentic systems, and generative AI applications
• Strong background in building enterprise-grade solutions that have shipped to production
• Extensive experience with modern software architecture, including cloud-based platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
• Proficiency in multiple programming languages (Python, TypeScript/JavaScript, Go, Java, or C++)
• Demonstrated experience leading technical teams and mentoring engineers
• Proven ability to translate complex technical concepts for diverse audiences
• Track record of working directly with enterprise customers in technical consulting or solutions engineering capacity
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with focus on performance optimization
• Excellent communication skills with ability to present to C-level executives

Preferred Qualifications

• Background in developing AI agentic workflow orchestrators or similar multi-agent systems
• Experience with GPU-based computing and optimization
• Experience with sequence-to-sequence models and deep neural network architectures
• M.S. or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
• Experience leading distributed teams across geographies
• Track record of innovation (patents, publications, or open-source contributions)
• Experience with Responsible AI practices and frameworks

Key Success Metrics

• Successfully deliver POCs that convert to paid customer engagements
• Achieve high customer satisfaction scores and build strong customer relationships
• Reduce time-to-value for POC implementations through reusable frameworks and components
• Contribute technical insights that improve core platform capabilities
• Build scalable POC processes and best practices for the India team

Our Culture

Who we are: Led by two pioneering co-founders we are one of the fastest growing companies in the U.S., creating our own category of enterprise autonomous software development. We automate thousands of hours of software development for our customers, which includes strong representation within the Fortune 500.

How we work:

• We move Blitzy Fast: Time is both our company's and our clients' most precious asset. We move quickly and decisively to innovate internally and deliver exceptional software externally.
• Championship Mindset: We operate like a professional sports team. We win as a team by holding ourselves and each other to high standards, collaborating in-person, and remaining focused on the mission.
• Passion for Invention: We're pushing the frontier of what's possible, requiring constant innovation and iteration.
• We Work for the Customer: We focus on delivering outsized value to the customers we work with and expanding those relationships into deep, meaningful partnerships.

We believe in being 'everyday athletes'—taking care of ourselves so we can bring our best minds to work. We promote great sleep, movement, and restorative activities for optimal mental performance. It makes for a happier and more productive team.

What We Offer

• Opportunity to shape Blitzy's expansion in India as a founding member of HQ2
• Work with cutting-edge AI technology and Fortune 500 enterprise clients
• Competitive compensation package including equity
• Collaborative, high-performance team environment
• Professional growth opportunities in a fast-scaling startup
• Chance to make significant impact on product direction through customer insights
• Culture that values innovation, technical excellence, and work-life balance

Job Description

· Design technical specifications for RPA (Uipath) 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 (Uipath).

· Self-motivated, team player, action and results oriented.

· Well organized, good communication and reporting skills.

Job Description:

Engage in code design, testing, integration, deployment, and enhancements

Write high-quality code and take responsibility for tasks

Solve performance bottlenecks

Communicate and collaborate with product manager, QA, and UI/UX teams

Deliver with quality, on-time in a fast-paced start-up environment

Have a strong sense of code quality

Candidate Profile:

Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science (or equivalent experience)

At least 5+ years of relevant experience as a back-end engineer

Excellent Java and object-oriented development skills

Experience in building and scaling microservices

Strong problem-solving skills, technical troubleshooting, and diagnosing

Solid knowledge of RDBMS and NoSQL technologies

Experience in developing back-ends for enterprise systems

Knowledge of debugging performance and optimization techniques

Experience in Java, Mongo, MySQL, AWS technologies, ELK stack, Spring boot, Kafka

Good knowledge of cloud technologies eg. AWS

Demonstrated ability to deliver in a fast-paced environment

Job Summary :

      As a Software Development Engineer, you will be responsible for end-to-end delivery of software components all the way to production. In this position you will partner with our globally distributed cross-functional teams, product managers and other internal stakeholders. This position requires understanding business & technical requirements, designing clean solutions, implementing them and managing these systems. A key aspect of the role is to understand the digital commerce businesses part of KBX and implement technology systems that favourably align with business initiatives and requirements. The position will be evaluated in terms of the quality of the technology development, ongoing management of the systems and impact on business metrics.

Responsibilities :

• Work closely with cross functional teams to and deliver quality technology solutions
• Operational rigor for a rapidly growing tech stack and live portals
• Regular communication with management on status and risks.
• Measure success metrics and influence evolution of the tech product
• Be resourceful and find creative solutions to complex technical challenges.

Basic Qualifications :

• Ability to understand business requirements and build technology solutions that factor in the business requirements completely
• Possess an extremely sound understanding of basic areas of Computer Science such as Algorithms, Data Structures, Object Oriented, Databases.
• Excellent coding skills 
• Great problem solving skills and propensity to learn and develop tech talent.
• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science and years of Software Development experience

Preferred Qualifications :

• Understanding on Web programming is must; full stack experience would be a plus.
• Understanding on AWS Cloud Stack (EC2, Lambda, Dynamo DB, Aurora) would be a plus
• Knowledge of serverless development
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills. 

We are looking for motivated individuals who are keen to work on Cloud or Big Data services or have worked on Cloud and Big Data. If you want to work in a start-up culture and are ready for the challenge, then join us on our exciting journey.

Responsibilities:

• Design, code and debug cloud-native applications.
• Evaluate and identify new technologies for implementation
• Determine operational feasibility by evaluating analysis, problem definition, requirements, solution development and proposed solutions
• Write well designed, testable, efficient code
• Develop software verification plans and quality assurance procedures
• Serve as a subject matter expert

• 5+ years of relevant experience in software development

• Deep understanding of public cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure or Google)

• Experience with large scale distributed systems

• Ability to troubleshoot distributed systems

• Prior experience with data encryption, TLS/SSL is a strong plus

• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes is a plus

• Deep experience with Java

• Excellent communication (writing, conversation, presentation) skills, consensus building, Quick learner
  Good to have experience in Production support - Tier 4
  
  Experience with these technologies are a plus: AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Cloudera, Snowflake, Mongo DB, Oracle, Databricks, Datastax, Confluent

• You will design, build and own APIs and Services, which will be the core of the product.
• You will participate in continuing education and training to remain current on best practices, learn new programming languages, and better assist other team members.
• You will part of developing ideas for new programs, products, or features by monitoring industry developments and trends.
• You will have to take lead on projects, compile and analyze data, processes, and codes to troubleshoot problems and identify areas of improvement.

REQUIREMENTS

• 3-5 years of experience in building highly scalable backend systems.
• Fluency or understanding of specific languages, such as JAVA, Operating System may be required, and Experience in Databases such as MySQL or Postgre SQL
• Strong understanding of Computer Science Fundamentals, Data Structures and Algorithms, SOLID Design Principles, and REST Patterns.
• Focus on efficiency, user experience, and process improvement.
• Excellent project and time management skills.
• Strong problem-solving and communication skills.
• Ability to work independently or with a group

• Build data pipelines for structured/unstructured, real-time/batch, events/synchronous/asynchronous using MQ, Kafka, Steam processing using Java / Python
• Design the Data stores for Big Data systems with expertise in Cassandra, HBase
• Implementation of Indexing and Search using Elasticsearch
• Setup and Deployment of Cassandra, Elasticsearch clusters

• Strong hands-on experience with Cassandra, data modeling, data replication, clustering, indexing for handling for large data sets
• Experience with SQL, NoSQL, relational database design, and methods for efficiently retrieving data for Time Series Analytics
• Strong understanding of CQL, Data Modeling in-order to achieve highly performant data access
• Strong experience in data modeling in Cassandra to design efficient storage model to meet variety of business needs
• Should have Elasticsearch skill with significant experience working with large Elasticsearch clusters, cluster performance optimisation, capacity planning, enhancing monitoring capabilities for early issue detection, driving operational readiness and ongoing maintenance
• Strong hands-on experience of programming with Java / Python
• Ability to troubleshoot and investigate stability, performance issues