Junior Java Developer

Java/J2EE Developer:

SquareShift is a young and fast-growing cloud consulting company, solving cloud challenges through excellence in technology, thought leadership, and quality in execution. We are based in Singapore, with a world-class engineering team in India. 

Founded by serial entrepreneurs, we are a team of tech-enthusiasts who have strong expertise in enterprise product development and cloud technologies. As an early and core member of the team, you will work with founders and will own the organization's business development efforts.

• 5+ years of experience in Java and J2EE
• Expertise in Object Oriented Programming and Design Patterns
• Experience with Web Services (SOAP/REST), JMS, XML
• Experience working with relational databases like Oracle, MSSQL
• Proficient in writing SQL Queries and knowledge on PL/SQL
• Experience with multi-tiered application architecture
• Knowledge of writing secure and optimized code
• Experience with Version Control Systems preferably GIT
• Working experience of build and continuous integration tools – MAVEN and JENKINS
• Strong knowledge of unit testing technologies – JUNIT
• Exceptional defect analysis, triaging and fixing skills
• Experience in Agile Software Development (Scrum or Kanban)

Job Location

Bengaluru, India

Job Type

Contractual Position with Potential for Full-Time Employment Based on Performance Review

Experience Required

4 years of experience in Java & Technologies

Company Description

Welcome to Unitalks Technologies! We are a managed services provider that helps our clients hire top-quality talent. We are hiring for one of our clients in Bengaluru, more details will be provided about the company and culture later in the process.

Role Description

This is a contract role for a Senior Java Software Engineer. As a Senior Java Software Engineer, you will be responsible for designing and developing software solutions, building and maintaining Microservices architectures, and programming using Spring Boot. This role is based in Bengaluru and is an on-site position.

Qualifications

• Software Development and Programming skills
• Experience with Microservices and the Spring Boot
• Proficiency in Java, SQL and UNIX
• Good in deployment on different platforms like AWS, Azure, etc.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
• Excellent communication and teamwork abilities
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field
• Experience with Agile methodologies and CI/CD pipelines
• Knowledge of cloud platforms and containerization technologies is a plus

Summary

Miko is an advanced consumer robotics innovation lab focused with the mission of Bringing Robotics and AI to every consumer home. Founded by young and dynamic entrepreneurs from IIT Bombay, Miko is a global deep tech company with offices in US, UK and India, and customer base across 140+ countries. Focused on taking Robotics and AI to every consumer home, Miko is the first of its kind "content on subscription" hardware platform for kids powered by patented technology. 

Our flagship products, Miko 3 and Miko Mini (www.miko.ai), are playful companion robots that engage, educate and entertain kids. Their unique approach is to focus on child learning and development through self-initiated contextual topics that encourage conversational learning. It hosts a powerful marketplace for third party content partners to plug their content and connect with Miko users on subscription. 

Miko is powered by a proprietary emotional intelligence and adaptive personality engine, complex conversational and multilingual AI framework, edge and hybrid speech & vision recognition along with an active learning and behavioral analysis engine. All of this is built over an autonomous navigation system, which enables Miko to offer a range of benefits for the user. 

The team at Miko team is an interdisciplinary team consisting of team members from electronics, embedded system, mechanical, industrial, robotics and AI engineering domains, Human Robot Interface designers, UI/UX designers, mobile and cloud software engineers, content creators, artists, mathematicians, neuropsychologists, marketing and sales mavericks, Customer support professionals and knowledge partners. 

The Role

We are looking for a middleware software engineer to join the team. In this role you will be working on designing, developing and optimizing the middleware stack for current as well as new companion robot products.

Work Experience & Qualifications

2 years or higher industry experience in the Software domain. No restrictions on degree/qualifications; only skills matter. (* for Junior role)

Responsibilities

• Designing and developing software on the product to enhance current functionality and add new features. Lead the technical delivery of assigned tasks/projects.
• Consistent coordination and collaboration with the Backend, AI, Product and QA team for efficient development cycles and testing for new features and improvements.
• Operating in an Agile/Scrum environment to deliver high quality software against aggressive schedules
• Ability to diagnose, troubleshoot and perform root cause analysis of critical business and production issues
• Strong technical leadership with experience building software engineering teams. Demonstrate strong ambiguity resolution skills to be able to break down ambiguous problems into simpler milestones and delegate to junior engineers

Requirements & Skills

• 2+ years of experience as a Software Engineer
• Expertise in C/C++ and Java
• Strong understanding of environment management, release management, code versioning best practices, and deployment methodologies.
• Experience with implementing various communication protocols like I2C, SPI, UART
• Experience working on Embedded Linux OS and Android
• Demonstrated experience in developing multi-threaded applications
• Experience with IPC including socket programming
• Should have hands on experience and thorough knowledge in STL, BOOST understanding of data structures and algorithms
• Experience with using Git as a version control system
• Excellent coding and debugging skills
• Ability to work in a fast paced environment
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Senior Software Developers collaborate with Business and Quality Analysts, Designers, Project Managers and more to design software solutions that will create meaningful change for our clients. They listen thoughtfully to understand the context of a business problem and write clean and iterative code to deliver a powerful end result whilst consistently advocating for better engineering practices. By balancing strong opinions with a willingness to find the right answer, Senior Software Developers bring integrity to technology, ensuring all voices are heard.

For a team to thrive, it needs collaboration and room for healthy, respectful debate. Senior Developers are the technologists who cultivate this environment while driving teams toward delivering on an aspirational tech vision and acting as mentors for more junior-level consultants. You will leverage deep technical knowledge to solve complex business problems and proactively assess your team’s health, code quality and nonfunctional requirements.

Job responsibilities

• You will learn and adopt best practices like writing clean and reusable code using TDD, pair programming and design patterns
• You will use and advocate for continuous delivery practices to deliver high-quality software as well as value to end customers as early as possible
• You will work in collaborative, value-driven teams to build innovative customer experiences for our clients
• You will create large-scale distributed systems out of microservices
• You will collaborate with a variety of teammates to build features, design concepts and interactive prototypes and ensure best practices and UX specifications are embedded along the way.
• You will apply the latest technology thinking from our Technology Radar to solve client problems
• You will efficiently utilize DevSecOps tools and practices to build and deploy software, advocating devops culture and shifting security left in development
• You will oversee or take part in the entire cycle of software consulting and delivery from ideation to deployment and everything in between
• You will act as a mentor for less-experienced peers through both your technical knowledge and leadership skills

Job qualifications:

Technical Skills

• You have experience using one or more development languages (Java, Nodejs, React, TypeScript, JavaScript, etc.) with experience in Object-Oriented programming
• You can skillfully write high-quality, well-tested code and you are comfortable with Object-Oriented programming
• You are comfortable with Agile methodologies, such as Extreme Programming (XP), Scrum and/or Kanban
• You have a good awareness of TDD, continuous integration and continuous delivery approaches/tools
• Bonus points if you have working knowledge of cloud technology such as AWS, Azure, Kubernetes and Docker

Professional Skills

• You enjoy influencing others and always advocate for technical excellence while being open to change when needed
• Presence in the external tech community: you willingly share your expertise with others via speaking engagements, contributions to open source, blogs and more
• You’re resilient in ambiguous situations and can approach challenges from multiple perspectives

Other things to know:

Learning & Development

There is no one-size-fits-all career path at Thoughtworks: however you want to develop your career is entirely up to you. But we also balance autonomy with the strength of our cultivation culture. This means your career is supported by interactive tools, numerous development programs and teammates who want to help you grow. We see value in helping each other be our best and that extends to empowering our employees in their career journeys.

• Assist in project scoping and interact with users to gather requirements
• Must have skills: Java,Spring,SQL,Web App development
• Produce well-planned, well-structured, high-quality codes that have been independently unit tested
• Design, develop, implement and maintain multi-tier web based applications using Java, J2EE, Struts, MVC, Weblogic, XML, Spring, Hibernate, and Oracle, to support business requirements (angular will be advantage)
• Participate and contribute actively in the complete software development lifecycle, including performance analysis, design, development, and testing
• Ensure well designed, testable, efficient codes by performing unit testing with test cases and through rigorous integration testing of the entire application
• Ensure designs are in compliance with specifications
• Support users by developing design documentation and assistance tools
• Interact regularly with internal and external teams to address technical issues and provide appropriate solutions through debugging, research, and investigation
• Develop configuration tools for internal teams to further automate programming tasks that are repetitive
• Engage in and lead application performance tuning

• Graduate/Post Graduate degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject
• Proven working experience in Java development, application of standard software development principles and designing and developing applications using Java EE platforms
• Experience in developing web applications using at least one popular web frameworks using MVC
• Object oriented analysis and design using common design patterns
• Able to respond to technical queries / requests from team members and customers
• Profound insight of Java and JEE internals (Classloading, Memory Management, Transaction management etc.)
• Excellent knowledge of Relational Databases, SQL and ORM technologies (Oracle, Hibernate)
• Experience in the Spring Framework
• Experience with test-driven development