Lead Backend Developer

Job Role Java lead

Experience 8+ years

Notice period Immediate

Location Bangalore

Note: OMS & Retail domain Experience is mandatory

Introduction

We are seeking a Development Lead (Dev Lead / Technical Lead) with strong hands-on experience in Java and

Microservices to lead a team of developers in designing, developing, and delivering high-quality, scalable

applications. The role requires a balance of coding, technical decision-making, and team mentorship.

Job Description

• Create, design, and implement layouts for new and existing software solutions.

• Must be able to lead a team of engineers and ensure high quality software delivery from the team. Be

approachable to the team members.

• Take complete ownership of the Design that they are responsible for.

• Ability to understand business requirements of clients and translate them into technical requirements.

• Identify impacts of planned work on existing functionality.

• Plan and estimate work to be completed.

• Conduct code reviews to ensure that the software deliverables are of the highest quality.

• Keep an eye on the Tech Debt and plan for managing at an acceptable level.

• Lead interactions with clients from a Tech team perspective.

Certifications :

• Oracle Certified Java Professional

• Spring Certified Professional

• Any NoSql / Cassandra / MongoDB certified developer

• GCP, AWS, & Azure Certified (Mandatory)

• Any retail OMS / Supply Chain product certifications

Primary Skills :

• 8+ years of proven experience in the industry, with at least 2 years as an Lead or similar role designing

and developing enterprise-scale applications.

• Bachelors in engineering / technology (4 year) or master's in computer applications (2 year)

• Must possess at least 6+ years of Software development experience.

• Expert knowledge in at least one object-oriented programming language like Java, one backend

framework like Spring Boot / Node JS, one UI framework like React JS / Angular JS and RDBMS or NoSQL

database.

• Excellent knowledge of front-end programming languages, such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and AngularJS,

with the ability to render server-side and client-side content.

• Helps identify newer practices and adoption of existing ones. Ensure that the code quality is maintained

via own and/or peer code reviews.

• Can lead the team in delivery of backend and user interface code. Ensure that the DevOps tasks are

executed well.

• Ensure that the software has the correct level of logging & monitoring in Production and LLEs.

• Exceptional problem-solving skills.

• Excellent written and verbal communication. Must understand the client’s business requirements and

translate them into software requirements. Has a view of the deliverable timeline and escalates when

needed.

• Ability to articulate technical designs & develop documentation, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts etc.

• Experience in implementing OMS products for retail customers will be an added advantage.

• Ability to do estimation for the given requirements.

• Ability to lead technical discussions with clients.

• Must be able to do quick proofs of concepts and demos based on client requirements.

• Provide timely feedback on the performance of team members.

• Conduct interviews & provide feedback to achieve hiring objectives.

• Contributes to organization building functions such as hiring, training, mentoring, team building.

Secondary Skills:

• Participate in daily scrum calls and provide status updates, address issues proactively, and timely

reporting of risks to project managers.

• Take complete ownership of the non-functional requirements around Performance, Security/Compliance,

i18n/l10n, etc.

• Capable of leading a high-performance team in a two-week iteration cadence with frequent product

deliveries.

• Ability to socialize designs/ideas and collaborate with stakeholders.

• Self-motivated and works with minimal direction.

Responsibilities

• Design and build highly reliable, scalable and performant infrastructure for media heavy workflows.
• Own large technical deliverables and execute in a structured manner.
• Take the accountability of the overall health of the infrastructure you build.
• Platformize components as libraries, utilities and promote reuse.
• Be able to conceptualize and develop prototypes quickly.
• Lead by example, mentor and guide team members on everything from structured problem solving to development of best practices.

Requirements

• 4 to 10 years of industry experience in software engineering with at least 4 years in Video, Audio & Image processing and streaming technologies.
• Deep expertise with various codecs, compute efficiency, streaming protocols and network topologies for media heavy workflows.
• Deep understanding of your tools: Languages, frameworks, libraries and systems.
• Experience with abstracting requirements into frameworks.
• Hungry to learn, share knowledge, and enjoy mentoring others.
• Data driven, having customer empathy, striving to build best of class, performant services.

In this role, you will be responsible for building world-class technology products and platforms that are at the forefront of the technology revolution in the Indian healthcare ecosystem. You are someone who insists on the highest standards for quality, maintainability, and performance.

Please find below updated JD for Java requirement.

-Work with a performance-oriented team driven by ownership and open to experiment.

• -6+ years of Java advanced software development experience, with concurrent (multi-threaded) programming highly desirable.
• -Strong experience on Core Java 8, Java EE, Spring Boot, Maven and Docker including Multi-threading.

.          -Strong problem solving skills, computer science fundamentals, data structures and algorithms.

• -Hands on experience with any SQL Database.
• -Ability to learn new technologies like ELK, stack, redis etc.
• -Must have expert level knowledge in Java, Springboot.
• -Must have knowledge or hands on experience in microservices, apache kafka and distributed caching.

.           -Experience in distributed/scalable systems

• -Strong knowledge of design patterns and software engineering best practices.
• -Familiarity with standard development tools and processes: Git, Eclipse, JUnit test, debugging, profiling, etc.

.           -Familiarity with CI/CD and DevOps

.           -Strong knowledge and previous experience in end-to-end design, development and subsequent

             support of large-scale data processing systems

.           - Familiarity and confidence working in an agile development environment.

.           - Good Problem solving skills

• - Good oral and written communication skills.
• - Strong debugging skills.

Roles and Responsibilities :

• Design, Develop, test and maintain software applications with MVC architectures, Microservices and scalable cloud-native apps.
• Perform hands-on coding and provide thoughtful code reviews
• Mentor and lead team members to continuously improve the quality and productivity of deliverables
• Demonstrate ability to work within an agile team as well as collaborate with many other teams on design and implementation strategies. Follow SCRUM Agile Development methodology
• Effective Communication Skills- An ability to express your ideas to the recipient & Co-ordinate and communicate with the cross-functional team along with the client's team
• Problem Solving, Hustler - Get Stuff Done, Self-Disciplined Open-minded, User-Focused, Adaptive
• Lean Principles & Analytical Thinking
• Project planning, timelines and milestones for execution and deliverables
• Participate in the Evaluation Review of your team member

Primary Skills

• Expert in Python with experience on Django.
• Expert in server programming, you should be able to implement complex business logic.
• Good understanding of the threading limitations of Python, and multi-process architecture.
• Good understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application.
• Knowledge of event-driven programming in Python.
• Experience with python packages like Numpy, pandas, flask, Pyspark, pymongo, os, logging, re, pyyaml.
• Experience with swagger io module to expose API
• Strong unit test and debugging skills.
• At least 2 years of experience in RESTful API/HTTP/JSON`
• Knowledge of AWS cloud and python Boto lib.
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools Like Git.
• Good understanding of Linux OS.

Secondary Skills:

• AWS Kinesis
• Web Sockets
• RAbbitMQ
• AWS Cloud formation

•  5-10 years of experience in building API services using NodeJS Express and related frameworks
• Expert level understanding of NodeJS asynchronous runtime
• Expert level understanding of Javascript concepts on callbacks and closures
• Experience with Postgres, NoSQL, Redis, and Firebase real-time database
• Experience with AWS services like Elastic Beanstalk, Cloudfront, S3, EC2, Lambda, API Gateway, SQS, etc
• Understanding of patterns and techniques for building scalable back-end infrastructure including caching, rate limiting, authentication, and authorization schemes.
• Experience in building highly scalable and high throughput services with millisecond response times
• Experience working in a collaborative team environment
• Excellent communication & interpersonal skills
• Willingness to learn and pick up new technology along with patience to mentor

Bonus skills – 

• Experience with Elastic Search, Puppeteer
• Experience writing unit test