Lead Backend Developer
We are looking for talented and self-motivated engineers to come join us on our mission.
We have a team culture that encourages collaboration and innovation at all levels and we expect developers to take a high level of ownership for the execution of tasks assigned to them.
Roles and responsibilities:
● Understand and derive requirements from product managers and customers
● Able to design APIs and modules for scale.
● Participate in design reviews and look at opportunities to continuously improve on practices
and quality.
● Own end-to-end implementation of modules and drive the project
● Debug prod issues and solve them efficiently and quickly. Customer obsession is key
● Automate recurring day-to-day tasks.
● Show initiative to drive topics to resolution and able to collaborate with multiple teams in
delivering the project
● Mentor junior team members
● Own project deadlines and seeing through project go-live.
Job Requirements Skills
● Good problem-solving skills and ability to understand and use the right data structures and algorithms
● Use design patterns and best engineering practices to design scalable and extensible
solutions. Working knowledge of microservices and/or event-driven architecture is plus
● Working knowledge of relational databases esp PostgreSQL.
● Advanced expertise in Java/server-side technologies. Working knowledge of Spring Boot is desirable
● Should have designed and implemented REST APIs. Good working knowledge of HTTP(S),Web servers desired
● Should have worked in Linux environments and understanding of GIT or any other source code versioning is a must
● Understanding of ORMs, Caching, Object storage, Queues is a must. Exposure to AWS S3, SQS components, Redis is a plus
● Own and write tests using Unit and integration testing frameworks
● Ability to work independently and/or with a team in a fast-paced, rapidly changing
environment
● Should do code reviews.
● Server-side application deployment experience is a plus.
Qualifications
● Experience - A minimum 6+ yrs of relevant experience.
About A Series-B funded, fintech company based out of Bangalore
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Responsibilities
- Backend Development: Design, develop, and maintain backend systems and RESTful APIs using Xano, a NoCode backend platform. Ensure scalability, performance, and reliability of server-side applications.
- Database Design: Work with relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL) to design, create, and optimize database structures, and implement data models.
- API Development: Build and maintain REST APIs, integrating third-party services to enhance functionality and user experience.
- Performance Optimization: Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks and ensure the efficient use of resources.
- Security: Implement best practices for data security and access control, including user authentication and authorization.
- Documentation: Maintain detailed technical documentation, including API documentation and database schemas.
- Code Reviews: Participate in code reviews and mentor junior developers to ensure code quality and best practices are followed.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
- 4-6 years of proven experience in backend development using Java or PHP (Laravel) or Node.js.
- Solid experience with relational databases, including database design, managing optimization and performance at scale.
- Skilled in building REST APIs and integrating with third-party services.
- Willingness to learn and adapt to NoCode tools such as Xano and others.
- Proficiency in cloud services (AWS/GCP), including setup and management of various cloud-based resources.
- Experience in implementing API caching using Redis or similar.
- Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
- Excellent communication and teamwork skills.
- Ability to work in a collaborative, fast-paced environment.
Nice to Have
- Familiarity with NoCode platforms
- Knowledge of containerization and orchestration technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
- Experience with batch processing and implementing queue management systems such as RabbitMQ, Kafka, SQS.
- Knowledge of DevOps and CI/CD practices.
Relevant Experience: 5+ Years
Location: PAN India
Client: IBM
Purpose
To design, develop, test, and maintain integrated software applications, systems, and platforms
Responsible for ensuring that the software created is reliable, scalable, and secure
The candidate should use his/her expertise to maintain enterprise wide upstream and downstream integration
solutions that help organizations achieve their business goals and provide value to end-users
Key Accountabilities
Responsibilities will include but will not be restricted to:
Designing and developing solutions at middleware and integration layer
Ensure the best standards are followed for integrating with multiple upstream and downstream
applications
Documenting and Developing APIs which are fault tolerant, performance oriented and allow for publishing
across multiple sources
Ensure management of the interfaces on the WSO2 EI platform
Ensure continuous monitoring, troubleshooting, and debugging
Ensuring that the integrations development is part of the overall CI/CD pipeline
Working with stakeholders to ensure that integration solutions meet business requirements and are
delivered on time
Technical Requirements
A Bachelor’s degree in Computer science, software engineering, or any other equivalent field
Has 6+ years of experience in the field of software engineering or software development
Experience with WSO2 middleware technologies like WSO2 Enterprise Integrator (EI), WSO2 API Manager,
and WSO2 Identity Server
Experience in developing multiple type interfaces such as SOAP, REST, WebHooks, GraphQL and having
knowledge of working on changing one type to other
Software development skills including proficiency in a modern programming language such as
Java/C++/Python/Golang.
The ideal candidate should have worked on application development within an enterprise ecosystem.
The person should also have the necessary knowledge to connect to systems like mail, DB, external
systems, or APIs etc.
Ideally the person should have demonstrated creating common interfaces or adapters for interactions
between heterogeneous systems with least amount of code change or no code change at all on both the
integrating systems.
The person needs to be hands on and should be able to write code and review the code of teammates.
Desired Personal Qualities and Behavior
Excellent relationship management skills with the ability to engage, negotiate and manage key
stakeholders and suppliers.
Excellent communication, interpersonal and influencing skills.
Key Skills - Java , Hibernate , Spring , Maven, MVC Framework ,Spring Boot , J2EE
You will:
- Be actively involved in strategic direction and product decisions.
- Architect and design new services and features
- Be the go-to person for debugging performance issues on the platform and customer environments
- Dive deep into open source data engines and work on optimizing their performance.
- Design, build, and maintain low latency APIs.
- Mentor and guide the engineering team on best practices and software architecture
- Work closely with our customers and sales teams on a regular basis to carve out new features and use cases
- Develop services that will be consumed by frontend and solution engineers.
You need:
- 12+ years of strong development experience in one or more general programming languages. JVM (Java, Scala, Kotlin) or Golang
- Strong Computer Science fundamentals in data structures, algorithm design, and problem-solving.
- Strong distributed systems knowledge, and experience shipping enterprise software
- SQL mastery and overall experience working with Data storage and retrieval systems
- Organized, thorough, and detail-oriented
Good to have:
-
Contribution to open-source projects.
- Background in enterprise software
- JVM performance tuning and debugging
2. Design software and make technology choices across the stack (from data storage to application to front-end)
3. Understand a range of tier-1 systems/services that power our product to make scalable changes to critical path code
4. Own the design and delivery of an integral piece of a tier-1 system or application
5. Work closely with product managers, UX designers, and end users and integrate software components into a fully functional system
6. Work on the management and execution of project plans and delivery commitments
7. Take ownership of product/feature end-to-end for all phases from the development to the production
8. Ensure the developed features are scalable and highly available with no quality concerns
9. Work closely with senior engineers for refining and implementation
10. Manage and execute project plans and delivery commitments
11. Create and execute appropriate quality plans, project plans, test strategies, and processes for development activities in concert with business and project management efforts
• Excellent interpersonal/communication skills, both verbal and written •
• 7+ years of experience in Java/Node.js, REST/Graph QL, Redis on AWS Fargate • Design and develop high quality back-end code (Node.js/Go/JAVA) • Excellent in one or more Go, Java, Node.js skills • In-depth knowledge of Restful / GraphQL API, JSON.
• Experience with CI/CD and tools like Git, Bitbucket and Jenkins.
• Solid understanding of relational databases (e.g., Postgres, MySQL) and experience in NoSQL (e.g., Graph DB, MongoDB, DynamoDB).
• Developing new software applications, features, and distributed services that support a high-scale web application
• Experience working in a fast-paced environment; continuous deployment, test-driven development, agile methodologies
• Stay current with the latest back-end technologies and best practices and share your findings with the team
• Help evolve our backend stack and mentor our other developers when it comes to patterns and best practices
• Work as part of an agile team across a variety of application domains
• Write structured, tested, readable and maintainable code • Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and distributed knowledge
• Ability to contribute to each step of the product development process (ideation, implementation, and release)
• Experience with performance tuning, profiling, and debugging applications
• Architect, develop and maintain highly scalable, reliable and secure distributed backend
systems on Cloud (AWS or Azure) or on-premises environments for Mihup, its customers
and partners.
• Work closely with your fellow engineers to develop systems capable of concurrently
processing massive amounts of voice data both in online real-time as well as offline
environments.
• Drive accountability for test driven development, delivery of high-quality features and
resilient enterprise class solutions.
• Lead a culture of team ownership and direct individual and team accountability to
continuously improve how they work to achieve results.
• Work in a startup environment, pushing boundaries with deep involvement with business.
Requirements (what we are looking for)
The right person is better than the right set of experiences and these are the traits we’ve
identified make great additions to our team.
• BE//BTech/ME/MTech in Computer Science or a related field from a Tier I or Tier II
University.
• 6-8 years of hands-on software development and deployment experience (experience of
working in a consumer product startup during its growth phase will be a plus) of which 1
– 2 years of experience would be in leading a team of software developers.
• Expertise in Java 8+ and Spring Boot is a must
• Good experience in messaging platforms like RabbitMQ/Kafka
• Good experience in distributed systems and relational & NoSQL databases like
PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, MongoDB, etc.
• Expertise in one or more of: Java, NodeJS, GoLang, Python would be preferred
• Must have hands on experience in products which handle multiple concurrent calls (API),
handle CPU intensive jobs, consist of multiple asynchronous system calls.
• Worked on microservices based architecture and design
• Managed/ Owned infrastructure on AWS/Microsoft Azure/private clouds and setup high
availability systems
• Knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes
• Knowledge of RESTful APIs, caching concepts, the HTTP protocol and general web
architecture
Pluses
1. Anything that will let us know more about who you are that you would like to share such
as Blogs, Twitter, Medium, GitHub etc.