Jr Backend Engineer

Job Role : IBM Sterling OMS Solution Architect

Experience : 15+ Years

Notice period : Immediate

Location : Trivandrum / Kochi / Remote

Note : OMS & Retail domain Experience is mandatory

Job Description :

As a Software Architect – IBM Sterling OMS, you will lead the design and delivery of high-quality enterprise-class OMS solutions and play a crucial role in guiding teams through architecture, implementation, and optimization of the Sterling platform

Mandatory Skills :

IBM Sterling OMS Architecture, Retail Domain Experience, Advanced Java, Sterling OMS Configuration & Customization, APIs (REST/WebServices), DB2/Oracle, XML/JSON, MQ Integration.

Responsibilities include :

• Define solution architecture and detailed technical design for IBM Sterling OMS initiatives across programs and projects.
• Lead and mentor development teams in designing, coding, customizing, and deploying Sterling OMS solutions.
• Translate functional requirements into scalable, resilient, and maintainable Sterling OMS architecture.
• Oversee end-to-end development for IBM OMS including design, development, deployment, debugging, and documentation.
• Ensure all OMS enhancements meet performance, scalability, and security standards aligned with stakeholder KPIs.
• Manage and evaluate technical requirements related to Sterling OMS (v10.0) including configurations, APIs, workflows, and database extensions.
• Estimate effort, cost, dependencies, and timelines for new features and architectural components.
• Provide architectural governance and conduct design and code reviews to ensure consistency with best practices.
• Lead integration architecture involving OMS and external systems (WMS, ERP, Commerce, TMS, Inventory).
• Guide OMS implementation efforts (across SL, BT, or custom OMS setups) and ensure the adoption of best practices.
• Collaborate with cross-functional IT teams across logistics, order orchestration, and fulfillment applications.]
• Drive secure, scalable, cloud-ready OMS development aligned with Agile methodologies.
• Contribute to continuous improvements through automation, reusable components, and standardized technical artifacts.

Primary Skills :

Experience :

• 15+ years of IT experience, including significant hands-on architecture and solution design experience with IBM Sterling OMS.
• Strong background in Java development at an advanced level.

Technical Skills :

• Advanced expertise in IBM Sterling Order Management System including configurations, customizations, workflows, SDF, DB extensions, and APIs.
• Strong experience with DB2 and Oracle databases, including performance tuning, indexing, and complex queries.
• Proficiency in XML, JSON, and integration patterns involving MQ, WebServices, and REST APIs.
• Experience with Linux/Unix environments (Intermediate/Advanced).
• Hands-on exposure to GCP (GKE, Artifact Registry, Compute Engine) or equivalent cloud platforms.
• Strong knowledge of Git and modern DevOps practices.

Secondary Skills :

• Experience integrating Sterling OMS with MQ, WebServices, and cloud-native components.
• Knowledge of Kubernetes and Docker for OMS deployment and troubleshooting.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar tools.
• Strong soft skills : Self-learning, collaboration, planning, and organization. 

Role Overview

We are seeking a technically strong Java Support Engineer who combines solid development knowledge with a passion for support and operational excellence. The ideal candidate should have hands-on experience in Java, Spring Boot, and Angular, along with a strong understanding of application engineering concepts, and must be comfortable working in a production support environment handling incidents, troubleshooting, monitoring, and system stability.

Work Location: Hyderabad or Chennai

Key Responsibilities

· Provide L2/L3 production support for enterprise applications.

· Troubleshoot, debug, and resolve application issues within defined SLAs.

· Analyze logs, identify root causes, and implement fixes or workarounds.

· Collaborate with development teams for permanent issue resolution.

· Monitor application health, performance, and availability.

· Support deployments, releases, and environment validations.

· Perform minor code fixes and enhancements when required.

· Document issues, solutions, and support procedures.

· Participate in on-call rotations and handle incident management.

Required Skills & Qualifications

· Strong hands-on experience in Java and Spring Boot.

· Working knowledge of Angular for frontend understanding.

· Good understanding of application architecture, APIs, microservices, and debugging techniques.

· Experience with log analysis tools, monitoring tools, and ticketing systems.

· Knowledge of SQL databases and query troubleshooting.

· Familiarity with Linux/Unix environments.

· Understanding of CI/CD, release processes, and version control (Git).

· Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills

Requirements

• Design and implement a full-stack web application using Python Django framework and ReactJS.
• 1+ years of experience in building and deploying web applications.
• Experience in designing and using RESTful APIs.
• Basic knowledge in front-end technologies such as JavaScript, , ReactJS, HTML5, and CSS3.
• Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application.
• Understanding of databases, SQL and non-relational, plus the Django ORM.
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model.
• Experience in web mark-up like HTML and CSS.
• Experience with data structure libraries.
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs.
• A knack for bench marking and optimization.
• Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token.
• Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools.
• Experience with common front-end development tools such as NPM etc.
• Strong knowledge of Git version control.
• Experience deploying Python applications into production.
• Amazon Web Services (AWS) knowledge is a plus.
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Responsibilities

• Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code.
• Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performance applications using Django framework in Python.
• Create and use the REST APIs for communicating with other apps.
• Assess and prioritize feature requests and work in Agile framework.
• Implementation of security and data protection algorithms.
• Integration of data storage solutions like databases, key-value stores, blob stores, S3 etc.
• Improve the functionality of existing systems and applications.
• High commitment to work and taking ownership of deliverables.
• Help to research and influence our path forward with strategic technology initiatives.

As a Senior Principal Engineer, you’ll lead a team of engineers through challenging development projects. Come join a highly collaborative team of skilled engineers with a passion for quality. 

What You’ll do:

• Work in an agile environment, orchestrating a group mostly comprised of skilled PHP engineers of various levels to complete User Stories authored by professional Product Managers
• Architect highly scalable/transaction heavy web/API applications
• Work with 1-2 Frontend resources (in addition to backend PHP) through projects in React, Angular (maintenance), MooTools/Jquery (deprecation), Socket.io and serverside NodeJS
• Work with Product and QA Managers in multiple grooming sessions and sprint planning for your team
• Collaborate/coordinate with other Engineering Managers and Leads
• Work with QA and Application Support teams to triage bugs
• Work with DevOps to automate deployment and monitoring of applications
• Design and develop Restful APIs using frameworks with design patterns
• Design JSON payloads and various payload contexts
• Convert complex business rules and workflows from User Story requirements into SalesForce type CRM applications and client facing web portals
• Work with monolithic legacy codebases, along with design patterns in newer repositories
• Work with large database schemas of 500+ tables 
• Write complex queries. Efficiently joining upwards of 20 tables, some containing +10m rows. In T-SQL or Doctrine ORM
• Integrate 3rd party platforms via APIs and callbacks
• Write Unit tests and documentation 

What You Have:

• 10+ years professional experience developing APIs & web based applications in PHP as an individual contributor
• Prior experience working with organized development teams (5+ member pods)
• Prefer hands-on experience using MS SQL Server, CosmosDB, but other relational databases/NoSQL ok (MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB)
• Professional experience using open source PHP frameworks. Symfony3+ preferred (Laravel, CodeIgniter - ok) 
• Experience scaling in LAMP, but also leveraging Redis, RabbitMQ, Elastic Search (ELK), SupervisorD, Socket.io, centralized Session stores
• Prefer experience designing fault tolerant architecture on cloud deployments (loadbalancing, clustering, reducing/eliminating single points of failure, etc)
• Understand branching, merging, pull requests and conflict resolution in Git (Bitbucket or Github)
• Experienced in leveraging issue tracking systems and wikis for documentation (Jira/Confluence)
• Comfortable on CentOS Linux, command line, SSH, SFTP, SCP…
• Full stack is a plus (JavaScript, CSS, HTML, React/Angular/Vue)
• Able to onboard self and others while working entirely remotely in EST
• Experience in Azure PaaS and IaaS
• Experience crafting architecture diagrams in Visio or LucidChart
• Problem solving skills and a proactive work style
• Strong interpersonal & communication skills

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, or related field.
• Experience working with ruby on rails as well as libraries like Resque and RSpec.
• Ability to write clean ruby code.
• Proficiency with code versioning tools including Git, Github, SVN, and Mercurial.
• Familiarity with MVC, Mocking, RESTful, and ORM.
• Good understanding of front-end technologies including HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS3.
• Knowledge of server-side templating languages including Slim and Liquid.
• Familiarity with testing tools.

Overall Purpose of the Role:

We are looking for a self-motivated Unreal Engine developer who understands the value of working on unique applications and is extremely passionate about innovating and inventing/discovering new things. The candidate will be responsible for developing and maintaining our platform lineup. The key responsibilities of the job are:

• Perform full life-cycle software development
• (Requirements: analysis, Tech design, implementation, integration, testing, debugging, and support).
• Work directly with researchers and project stakeholders to ensure proper software design and delivery.
• Design and develop modular platforms.
• Stay updated on current trends in AR/VR/MR/XR.
• Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code in rapid timing.
• Writing unit tests for important logic and services.
• Implementation of security and data protection.

Credentials we are looking for:

• (Senior UE Developer) 5 years+ of experience with game development and at least 3 years of experience with Unreal Engine
• An entrepreneurial spirit that drives innovation within a target industry.

Skills essential to the role:

• High proficiency with Unreal Engine 4 Blueprints
• High-Level C++ skills within Unreal Engine 4 and outside.
• Extremely good problem-solving skills
• Networking, replication, and multiplayer integrations with VOIP services and video.
• Knowledge of the Google and Apple app store functionality and build processes.
• Core knowledge of how Unreal Engine 4 works internally
• Ability to modify API’s to get the desired result within Unreal Engine 4
• Ability to create and modify plugins within the Unreal Engine framework
• Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable and modular application.

• Skills that will add value:
• AWS and Gamelift
• PHP, databases and Web Integrations
• Understanding of live streaming formats such RTMP. 
• Basic design skills and minimalist sensibilities. No major design skills required, but an understanding of what makes something look good.
• Basic cross-platform CG asset implementation skill
• Collaborative working using version control tools such as Git and project management applications.
• Low-level project planning and estimation skills.
• Strong leadership skills.
• A wicked sense of humor (you’ll need it).

• Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code.
• Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications
• Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers with server-side logic
• Implementation of security and data protection
• Integration of data storage solutions

Skills And Qualifications

• Practical knowledge and understanding of web applications.
• 3+ years of good hands-on experience in Python, with knowledge of Django
• Good hands-on experience in SQL Database (MYSQL / Postgres)
• Knowledge of user authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
• Able to create database schemas that represent and support business processes.
• Strong unit test and debugging skills
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools GIT.
• Has experience of working in an Agile Environment. Fluent in English (written and oral) Fluency in a second language is preferred.
• Comfortable working remotely with great communication skills for a remote work environment.

Bonus Qualifications

• Knowledge of any cloud. ( Especially Azure )