Kafka developer (Kafka, KSQL + DB2)

Position Title : Java Full Stack Developer

Location : Noida Sector 125

Experience : 5+ Years

Availability : Immediate

Job Summary :

We are looking for a Java Full Stack Developer with expertise in Microservices architecture to join our team.

The ideal candidate should have hands-on experience in Java, Spring Boot, Hibernate, and front-end technologies like Angular, JavaScript, and Bootstrap. You will work on enterprise-grade applications that enhance patient safety worldwide.

Key Responsibilities :

• Design, develop, and maintain applications based on Microservices architecture.
• Work with Java, Spring Boot, Hibernate, Angular, Kafka, Redis, and Hazelcast to build scalable solutions.
• Utilize AWS, Git, Nginx, Tomcat, Oracle, Jira, Confluence, and Jenkins for development and deployment.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop enterprise applications.
• Develop intuitive UI/UX components using Bootstrap, jQuery, and JavaScript.
• Ensure applications meet performance, scalability, and security requirements.
• Participate in Agile development while efficiently handling changing priorities.
• Conduct code reviews, debugging, and performance optimization.

Required Skills & Qualifications :

✔ 5+ Years of hands-on experience in Java 7/8, Spring Boot, and Hibernate.

✔ Strong understanding of OOP concepts and Design Patterns.

✔ Experience working with relational databases like Oracle/MySQL.

✔ Proficiency in Bootstrap, JavaScript, jQuery, HTML, and Angular.

✔ Hands-on experience in Microservices-based application development.

✔ Strong problem-solving, debugging, and analytical skills.

✔ Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

✔ Ability to adapt to new technologies and handle multiple priorities.

✔ Experience in developing high-quality web applications.

Good to Have :

➕ Exposure to Kafka, Redis, and Hazelcast.

➕ Experience working with cloud-based solutions (AWS preferred).

➕ Familiarity with DevOps tools like Jenkins, Docker, and Kubernetes.

Why Join Us?

✅ Work on cutting-edge technologies and enterprise-level applications.

✅ Collaborative and innovative work environment.

✅ Competitive salary and career growth opportunities.

Your Opportunity Join our dynamic team as a Full Stack Software Dev, where you'll work at the intersection of innovation and leadership. You'll be part of a passionate group of engineers dedicated to building cutting-edge SaaS solutions that solve real customer challenges. This role is perfect for an experienced engineer who thrives on managing teams, collaborating with leadership, and driving product development. You’ll work directly with the CEO and senior architects, ensuring that our products meet the highest design and performance standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead, manage, and mentor a team of engineers to deliver scalable, high-performance solutions.
• Coordinate closely with the CEO and product leadership to align on goals and drive the vision forward.
• Collaborate with distributed teams to design, build, and refine core product features that serve a global audience.
• Stay hands-on with coding and architecture, driving key services and technical initiatives from end to end.
• Troubleshoot, debug, and optimize existing systems to ensure smooth product operations.
• Requirements & Technical Skills
• Bachelor's/Master’s/PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or related fields (B.Tech, M.Tech, B.CA, B.E./M.E).
• 4 to 8 years of hands-on experience as a software developer, ideally in a SaaS environment.
• Proven track record in developing scalable, distributed systems and services.
• Solid understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC).
• Strong programming experience in Spring & Hibernate with Kotlin, React, Nest.js, Python, and Shell scripting.
• Expertise in Unix-based systems, container technologies, and virtual machines.
• Knowledge of both relational and non-relational databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, DocumentDB). Preferred Qualifications
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies.
• Experience working on both structured and unstructured data sources. Soft Skills
• Strong leadership, coaching, and mentoring capabilities to inspire and guide a team of engineers.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to present complex technical concepts clearly to non-technical stakeholders.
• Adaptable to new technologies in a fast-paced environment.

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.

Required a full stack Senior SDE with focus on Backend microservices/ modular monolith with 3-4+ years of experience on the following:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent industry technical skills
• Mandatory In-depth knowledge and strong experience in Python programming language.
• Expertise and significant work experience in Python with Fastapi and Async frameworks. 
• Prior experience building Microservice and/or modular monolith.
• Should be an expert Object Oriented Programming and Design Patterns.
• Has knowledge and experience with SQLAlchemy/ORM, Celery, Flower, etc.
• Has knowledge and experience with Kafka / RabbitMQ, Redis.
• Experience in Postgres/ Cockroachdb.
• Experience in MongoDB/DynamoDB and/or Cassandra are added advantages.
• Strong experience in either AWS services (e.g, EC2, ECS, Lambda, StepFunction, S3, SQS, Cognito). and/or equivalent Azure services preferred.
• Experience working with Docker required.
• Experience in socket.io added advantage
• Experience with CI/CD e.g. git actions preferred. 
• Experience in version control tools Git etc.

This is one of the early positions for scaling up the Technology team. So culture-fit is really important.

• The role will require serious commitment, and someone with a similar mindset with the team would be a good fit. It's going to be a tremendous growth opportunity. There will be challenging tasks. A lot of these tasks would involve working closely with our AI & Data Science Team.
• We are looking for someone who has considerable expertise and experience on a low latency highly scaled backend / fullstack engineering stack. The role is ideal for someone who's willing to take such challenges.
• Coding Expectation – 70-80% of time.
• Has worked with enterprise solution company / client or, worked with growth/scaled startup earlier.
• Skills to work effectively in a distributed and remote team environment.

EXPERTISE AND QUALIFICATIONS

• 14+ years of experience in Software Engineering with at least 6+ years as a Lead Enterprise Architect preferably in a software product company
• High technical credibility - ability to lead technical brainstorming, take decisions and push for the best solution to a problem
• Experience in architecting Microservices based E2E Enterprise Applications
• Experience in UI technologies such as Angular, Node.js or Fullstack technology is desirable
• Experience with NoSQL technologies (MongoDB, Neo4j etc.)
• Elastic Search, Kibana, ELK, Logstash.
• Good understanding of Kafka, Redis, ActiveMQ, RabbitMQ, Solr etc.
• Exposure in SaaS cloud-based platform.
• Experience on Docker, Kubernetes etc.
• Experience in planning, designing, developing and delivering Enterprise Software using Agile Methodology
• Key Programming Skills: Java, J2EE with cutting edge technologies
• Hands-on technical leadership with proven ability to recruit and mentor high performance talents including Architects, Technical Leads, Developers
• Excellent team building, mentoring and coaching skills are a must-have
• A proven track record of consistently setting and achieving high standards

Five Reasons Why You Should Join Zycus

1. Cloud Product Company: We are a Cloud SaaS Company, and our products are created by using the latest technologies like ML and AI. Our UI is in Angular JS and we are developing our mobile apps using React.

2. A Market Leader: Zycus is recognized by Gartner (world’s leading market research analyst) as a Leader in Procurement Software Suites.

3. Move between Roles: We believe that change leads to growth and therefore we allow our employees to shift careers and move to different roles and functions within the organization

4. Get a Global Exposure: You get to work and deal with our global customers.

5. Create an Impact: Zycus gives you the environment to create an impact on the product and transform your ideas into reality. Even our junior engineers get the opportunity to work on different product features.

About Us

Zycus is a pioneer in Cognitive Procurement software and has been a trusted partner of choice for large global enterprises for two decades. Zycus has been consistently recognized by Gartner, Forrester, and other analysts for its Source to Pay integrated suite. Zycus powers its S2P software with the revolutionary Merlin AI Suite. Merlin AI takes over the tactical tasks and empowers procurement and AP officers to focus on strategic projects; offers data-driven actionable insights for quicker and smarter decisions, and its conversational AI offers a B2C type user-experience to the end-users.

Zycus helps enterprises drive real savings, reduce risks, and boost compliance, and its seamless, intuitive, and easy-

to-use user interface ensures high adoption and value across the organization.

Start your #CognitiveProcurement journey with us, as you are #MeantforMore

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Building a website based on the given requirements and ensure it’s successfully deployed
• Responsible for designing, planning, and testing new web pages and site features
• A propensity for brainstorming and coming up with solutions to open-ended problems
• Work closely with other teams, and project managers, to understand all stakeholders’ requirements and ensure that all specifications and requirements are met in final development
• Troubleshoot and solve problems related to website functionality
• Takes ownership of initiatives and drives them to completion.
• Desire to learn and dive deep into new technologies on the job, especially around modern data storage and streaming open source systems
• Responsible for creating, optimizing, and managing REST APIs
• Create website content and enhance website usability and visibility
• Ensure cross-browser compatibility and testing for mobile responsiveness
• Ability to integrate payment processing and search functionality software solutions
• Stay up-to-date with technological advancements and the latest coding practices
• Collaborate with the team of designers, content managers, and developers to determine site goals, functionality, and layout
• Monitor website traffic and overall system’s health with Google analytics to ensure high GTmetrix score
• Build the front-end of applications through appealing visual design
• Design client-side and server-side architecture
• Develop server-side logic and APIs that integrate with front-end applications.
• Architect and design complex database structures and data models.
• Develop and implement backend systems to support scalable and high-performance web applications.
• Create automated tests to ensure system stability and performance.
• Ensure security and data privacy measures are maintained throughout the development process.
• Maintain an up-to-date changelog for all new, updated, and fixed changes.
• Ability to document and manage all the software design, requirements, reusable & transferable code, and other technical aspects of the project.
• Create and convert storyboards and wireframes into high-quality full-stack code
• Write, execute, and maintain clean, reusable, and scalable code
• Design and implement low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications
• Implement security and data protection
• Ensure code that is platform and device-agnostic

EDUCATION & SKILLS REQUIREMENT

• B.Tech. / BE / MS degree in Computer Science or Information Technology
• Expertise in MERN stack (MongoDB, Express.js, React.js, Node.js)
• Should have prior working experience of at least 3 years as web developer or full stack developer
• Should have done projects in e-commerce or have preferably worked with companies operating in e-commerce
• Should have expert-level knowledge in implementing frontend technologies
• Should have worked in creating backend and have deep understanding of frameworks
• Experience in the complete product development life cycle
• Hands-on experience with JavaScript, HTML, CSS, JQuery, JSON, PHP, XML
• Proficiency in databases, including analytical (e.g., mySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Redis, Hive, Elastic etc.)
• Knowledge of architecting or implementing search APIs
• Great understanding of data modeling and RESTful APIs
• Strong knowledge of CS fundamentals, data structures, algorithms, and design patterns
• Strong analytical, consultative, and communication skills
• Excellent understanding of Microsoft office tools : excel, word, powerpoint etc.
• Excellent organizational and time management skills
• Experience with responsive and adaptive design (Web, Mobile & App)
• Should be a self starter and have ability to work without being supervised
• Excellent debugging and optimization skills
• Experience building high throughput/low latency systems.
• Knowledge of big data systems such as Cassandra, Elastic, Kafka, Kubernetes, and Docker
• Should be willing to be a part of a small team and working in fast-paced environment
• Should be highly passionate about building products that create a significant impact.
• Should have experience in user experience design, website optimization techniques and different PIM tools

• Someone’s traveling to airport/office/home - can we suggest them public transport routes with first mile & last mile and accurate tracking of the individual leg of the journey
• Someone’s new in the city - can we help them travel from A to B in the most efficient way
• Someone’s planning to not use their private vehicle for the commute - can we design an efficient and reliable system to plan their commute with accurate information of public and private transport
• Transition people from private to hybrid multimodal commute
• Someone's traveling home late at night - can we give their friends, family peace of mind?
• Build a single mobile ticket for the entire journey

What you’ll do

• Build the backend and deploy systems powering the app
• Improve routing across 10+ cities for everything from walking to trains to electric scooters to metro to bus to auto to bike
• Integrate new private transport companies and new ways of getting about our cities
• Develop smarter ways of integrating the payment systems with the app
• Extract, process and crunch together departure times, travel habits, and pricing information and suggest reliable results to users
• Create experiences that delight your friends, family, and millions of new commuters when they come and visit your city
• Design and build systems that scale on demand and are secure
• Deploy and support your code on AWS
• Best practices: code reviews, tests, CI
• Teach us how to be better our Stack (Required) Java (Spring Boot), Postgres, MongoDB, ReactJs, Golang Microservice Nginx, API Gateway, Load Balancer, Kafka, Redis, Websockets, Docker, Kubernetes, Git, AWS - EC2, RDS, s3, lambda Optional Nodejs(Express)

• Design and code feature in the front-end and back-end as per the specifications provided by the Product and Design teams.
• Ship features in fast-moving agile sprints.
• Work closely with Product Design and Product Management teams to brainstorm and chalk out details of features.
• Ability to build a feature from scratch & drive it to completion

Skills Must have:

• Good understanding of Javascript and Clean architecture.
• Good understanding of asynchronous programming, callback, and closures
• Experience in developing applications that use queues like SQS, RabbitMQ, Kafka, etc
• Experience with AWS services like S3, EC2, etc
• Strong experience with Javascript frontend framework/libraries like ReactJS
• Good knowledge of CSS and its preprocessors like SASS/LESS
• Good understanding of server-side templates.
• Experience with creating cross-browser compatible web apps
• Should be Strong in MySql / Postgres database
• Stronghold in Data structure and processing JSON

Good to have

• Basic knowledge of CI, CD
• Intermediate knowledge in any cloud services(AWS, GCP)
• Familiar with testing frameworks like Mocha, Cypress