Kafka Developer

About Sun King

Sun King is the world’s leading off-grid solar energy company, providing affordable solar solutions to the 1.8 billion people without reliable access to electricity. By combining product design, fintech, and field operations, Sun King has connected over 20 million homes to solar power across Africa and Asia, adding more than 200,000 new homes each month. Through ‘pay-as-you-go’ financing, customers make small payments to eventually own their solar systems, saving money and reducing reliance on harmful energy sources like kerosene.

Sun King employs 2,800 staff across 12 countries, with expertise in product design, data science, logistics, customer service, and more. The company is expanding its product range to include clean cooking, electric mobility, and entertainment solutions, all while supporting a diverse workforce — with women making up 44% of the team.

About the role

The Senior Software Developer - Backend will work as part of the Digitization and Automation team to support Sun King design, develop, and implement intelligent, tech-enabled solutions to help solve a large variety of our business problems. We are looking for candidates with an affinity for technology and automations, curiosity towards advancement in products, and strong coding skills for our in-house software development team.

What you will be expected to do:

• Design and build applications/systems based on wireframes and product requirements documents.
• Design and develop coherent and physical data models to meet application requirements. 
• Identify and correct bottlenecks/bugs according to operational requirements.
• Focus on scalability, performance, service robustness, and cost trade-offs.
• Create prototypes and proof-of-concepts for iterative development.
• Take complete ownership of projects (end to end) and their development cycle.
• Mentoring and guiding team members.
• Unit test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability.
• Integrate existing tools and business systems (in-house tools or business tools like ticketing software and communication tools) with external services.
• Coordinate with Product Manager, development team, & business analysts.

You might be a strong candidate if you have/are:

• A minimum of 4 years of experience.
• Deep knowledge of OOPS concepts and programming skills in Core Java, Spring Framework.
• Experience in web service development and integration (SOAP, REST, JSON, XML).
• Should be very strong in problem solving, data structures, and algorithms.
• Strong experience in SQL.
• Experience in the AWS suite (Ec2, RDS, Lambda, API Gateway).
• Experience in scripting languages like Python.
• Experience in Microservice Architecture.
• Prior managing/mentoring experience.
• Knowledge of best software engineering practices for all stages of the software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, testing, and deployment. 

Good to have:

• Knowledge on messaging systems RabbitMQ, Kafka.
• Container-based application deployment (Docker or equivalent)
• Willing to learn new technologies and implement them in products.

What Sun King offers:

• Professional growth in a dynamic, rapidly expanding, high-social-impact industry.
• An open-minded, collaborative culture made up of enthusiastic colleagues who are driven by the challenge of innovation towards profound impact on people and the planet.
• A truly multicultural experience: you will have the chance to work with and learn from people from different geographies, nationalities, and backgrounds.
• Structured, tailored learning and development programs that help you become a better leader, manager, and professional through the Sun King Center for Leadership.

Looking for PHP Developer responsible for managing back end services and the interchange of data between the server and the users. Your primary focus will be the development of all server-side logic, definition and maintenance of the central database, and ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end.

You will also be responsible for integrating the front-end elements built by your co-workers into the application.

Therefore, a basic understanding of front-end technologies is necessary as well.

Responsibilities :

- Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers

- Build efficient, testable, and reusable PHP modules

- Solve complex performance problems and architectural challenges

- Integration of data storage solutions

Skills And Qualifications :

- Strong knowledge of PHP web frameworks especially Laravel

- Understanding the fully synchronous behavior of PHP

- Understanding of MVC design patterns

- Understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML 5, and CSS 3

- Knowledge of object oriented PHP programming

- Understanding accessibility and security compliance

- Strong knowledge of the common PHP or web server exploits and their solutions

- Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application

- User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments

- Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system

- Familiarity with limitations of PHP as a platform and its workarounds

- Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes

- Familiarity with SQL/NoSQL databases and their declarative query languages

- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git

1. Interested in exploring integration technologies 
2. Understand the business complexities of airline & hotel domain and system integration, their business process
3. Explore new technology stacks for integration and 
4. Many more opportunities .

JEE Technologies: Java,Servlet

Database: SQL.JDBC

Tools : GIT

Web Services: REST based API or XML based web services

Others : design Patterns, UML

• Design, develop and maintain applications and features.
• work on a huge dataset of IoT data and create algorithms to extract meaningful information.
• Adding features to the existing applications for monitoring and supporting field operations.
• Implementing application testability and diagnostics and fixing bugs.
• Create/ deploy and follow CI/CD pipelines to manage deliveries

• Bachelor/Master's in computer science or relevant fields
• 10+ years of Relevant Experience
• Strong sense of ownership
• Excellent Java and object-oriented development skills
• Experience in building and scaling microservices
• Strong Knowledge in RDBMS & NoSQL databases
• Strong problem-solving skills, technical troubleshooting and diagnosing
• Expected to be a role model for young engineers, have a strong sense of code quality, and enforce code quality within the team
• Excellent understanding of Debugging performance and optimization techniques
• Experience in Java, Mongo, MySQL, AWS technologies, ELK stack, Spring boot, Kafka
• Experience in developing any large scale Experience in cloud technologies
• Demonstrated ability to deliver in a fast-paced environment

Job Title: Senior Java Developer

Department: Technology and Research

Reports to:  Technical Lead

Context

Sampana Digital (SDPL) (http://www.sampanadigital.com">www.sampanadigital.com)  is a digital technology company that provides end-to-end product engineering and digital transformation services. Our engineering services includes web & mobile application development, user experience design, cloud, testing and infrastructure managed services to transform businesses digitally. We also enable enterprises with contextual and personalized two-way multi-channel mobile communications, including SMS, voice, email and PWA technology.

We believe in small teams of smart, committed, and diverse individuals coming together and form a breakthrough insight. We are a team of passionate professionals to craft an unbeatable culture and services.

Come and join us!   

Role Description

We are looking for a Senior Java Developer with experience in building high-performing, scalable, enterprise-grade applications.

You will be part of a talented software team that works on mission-critical applications, and your roles and responsibilities include managing Java/Java EE application development while providing expertise in the full software development lifecycle, from concept and design to testing.

Job Responsibilities:

• Work with and direct the team’s software engineers in setting the standards for coding, testing and software quality
• Collaborate closely with the team’s BAs on the efficient transition of BDD’s and Swaggers to the engineers as part of the overall workflow.
• Oversee and manage the scope, timeline, and goals forth delivery of working software
• Oversee and assist in the production of comprehensive documentation
• Oversee and provide support to production cutovers and migrations as required
• Lead the analysis and resolution of technical and application problems
• Supporting the Scrum Master
• Participate in and support backlog grooming, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, reviews, retrospectives, release planning, demos and other Scrum related meetings
• Provide clear reporting on the status of the scope, timeline and progress for the delivery of working software
• Assist in setting up a robust out of hours support process
• Assist in the prioritisation of bugs and defects
• Providing Guidance and Mentoring
• Participate in peer reviews of solution designs and related code
• Provide technical leadership to the teams’ software engineers through coaching and mentorship
• Identify and encourage areas for growth, education and development within the team

General

• Self-Starting Leader capable or working under pressure
• Curious and engaged in Continuous Learning and Professional Development
• Strong DevOps experience
• Java and Spring Developer with +5 years’ experience with the following skills
• Java 1.8+
• Spring
• Microservices with Spring-boot
• Spring cloud config
• Unit tests with Spring-boot
• Docker
• Openshift/Kubernetes
• Basic understanding of API gateways
• OpenAPI (Swagger) specification.

Understanding of basic networking concepts

• Integration into backends via various protocols (SOAP,REST, XML-RPC etc) 
• CI/CD (Jenkins, pipelines etc)

The following additional skills would be advantageous:

• Spring reactive
• APIGEE
• Azure DevOps
• Pivotal Kubernetes
• Linux
• Azure Pipelines

About Alore

Alore brings revenue velocity to businesses by being their dependable growth operating system.

For further information on what Alore can do for growing businesses, please visit http://alore.io">alore.io

Alore is based out of Singapore with an office at Bangalore.

Who should not apply for this job

• If you are looking for a 100% hike in your salary but can't commit to what value you will bring on the table
• If you never read books
• If you jump companies every 11-12 months
• If you are not comfortable working on Saturdays
• If you have less than 2 years of experience
• If you have more than 4 years of experience
• If you have never worked in a product-led company

CTC:

8.5-10.5 LPA based on experience and on performance in the interview round (70% Fixed - 30% Variable Incentive based on delivery schedule) (We do ZERO deductions since the salary will be paid from Singapore)

At this position you will:

• Get solid experience with high-load distributed architecture using REST and Kafka services.
• Work with automated CI/CD processes, AWS cloud, and VoIP.
• Implement and support microservices based on Spring MVC, Camel, MySQL, Mongo, and Kafka.

Requirement

• At least 1 year of experience with Java Core, Java EE, Spring Core, Spring Boot.
• Not more than 3 years of experience in Java Core, Java EE, Spring Core, Spring Boot.
• Deep understanding of SQL database technologies.
• Experience with Scrum / Agile methodology.
• Willingness to learn and explore new technologies.
• Git: merge, rebase, cherry-pick should be fluent.
• Good level of English B1 or higher.

It would be a nice bonus to have:

• Experience with distributed architecture.

• Hands-on experience with Kafka, MongoDB, and Apache Camel.

• Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, Heroku, etc.).

• Experience with client-side development (we use Angular8 for website).

• A degree in computer science.