Lead Backend Engineer

 Profile: Senior Java Developer

🔷 Experience: 5+ Years

🔷 Location: Remote

🔷 Shift: Day Shift

(Only immediate joiners & candidates who have completed notice period)

✨ What we want:

✅ AWS cloud services (MANDATORY)

✅ Docker containerization (MANDATORY)

✅ Spring/Spring Boot framework

✅ RESTful API development

✅ Microservices architecture

✅ Database experience (SQL/NoSQL)

✅ Git version control & CI/CD

✅ Kubernetes orchestration

• We are looking for a strong backend developer with good experience in AWS.
• Should be able to write solid and clean code.
• Should be good with algorithms and architecture.

Company Overview 

McKinley Rice is not just a company; it's a dynamic community, the next evolutionary step in professional development. Spiritually, we're a hub where individuals and companies converge to unleash their full potential. Organizationally, we are a conglomerate composed of various entities, each contributing to the larger narrative of global excellence.

Redrob by McKinley Rice: Redefining Prospecting in the Modern Sales Era

Backed by a $40 million Series A funding from leading Korean & US VCs, Redrob is building the next frontier in global outbound sales. We’re not just another database—we’re a platform designed to eliminate the chaos of traditional prospecting. In a world where sales leaders chase meetings and deals through outdated CRMs, fragmented tools, and costly lead-gen platforms, Redrob provides a unified solution that brings everything under one roof.

Inspired by the breakthroughs of Salesforce, LinkedIn, and HubSpot, we’re creating a future where anyone, not just enterprise giants, can access real-time, high-quality data on 700 M+ decision-makers, all in just a few clicks.

At Redrob, we believe the way businesses find and engage prospects is broken. Sales teams deserve better than recycled data, clunky workflows, and opaque credit-based systems. That’s why we’ve built a seamless engine for:

• Precision prospecting
• Intent-based targeting
• Data enrichment from 16+ premium sources
• AI-driven workflows to book more meetings, faster

We’re not just streamlining outbound—we’re making it smarter, scalable, and accessible. Whether you’re an ambitious startup or a scaled SaaS company, Redrob is your growth copilot for unlocking warm conversations with the right people, globally.

EXPERIENCE

Duties you'll be entrusted with:

• Develop and execute scalable APIs and applications using the Node.js or Nest.js framework
• Writing efficient, reusable, testable, and scalable code.
• Understanding, analyzing, and implementing – Business needs, feature modification requests, and conversion into software components
• Integration of user-oriented elements into different applications, data storage solutions
• Developing – Backend components to enhance performance and receptiveness, server-side logic, and platform, statistical learning models, highly responsive web applications
• Designing and implementing – High availability and low latency applications, data protection and security features
• Performance tuning and automation of applications and enhancing the functionalities of current software systems.
• Keeping abreast with the latest technology and trends.

Expectations from you:

Basic Requirements

• Minimum qualification: Bachelor’s degree or more in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, or a related field.
• Experience with Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Strong understanding of monitoring, logging, and observability practices.
• Experience with event-driven architectures (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ).
• Expertise in designing, implementing, and optimizing Elasticsearch.
• Work with modern tools including Jira, Slack, GitHub, Google Docs, etc.
• Expertise in Event driven architecture.
• Experience in Integrating Generative AI APIs.
• Working experience in high user concurrency.
• Experience in scaled databases for handling millions of records - indexing, retrieval, etc.,

Technical Skills

• Demonstrable experience in web application development with expertise in Node.js or Nest.js.
• Knowledge of database technologies and agile development methodologies.
• Experience working with databases, such as MySQL or MongoDB.
• Familiarity with web development frameworks, such as Express.js.
• Understanding of microservices architecture and DevOps principles.
• Well-versed with AWS and serverless architecture.

Soft Skills

• A quick and critical thinker with the ability to come up with a number of ideas about a topic and bring fresh and innovative ideas to the table to enhance the visual impact of our content.
• Potential to apply innovative and exciting ideas, concepts, and technologies.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest design trends, animation techniques, and software advancements.
• Multi-tasking and time-management skills, with the ability to prioritize tasks.

THRIVE

Some of the extensive benefits of being part of our team:

• We offer skill enhancement and educational reimbursement opportunities to help you further develop your expertise.
• The Member Reward Program provides an opportunity for you to earn up to INR 85,000 as an annual Performance Bonus.
• The McKinley Cares Program has a wide range of benefits:
• The wellness program covers sessions for mental wellness, and fitness and offers health insurance.
• In-house benefits have a referral bonus window and sponsored social functions.
• An Expanded Leave Basket including paid Maternity and Paternity Leaves and rejuvenation Leaves apart from the regular 20 leaves per annum. 
• Our Family Support benefits not only include maternity and paternity leaves but also extend to provide childcare benefits.
• In addition to the retention bonus, our McKinley Retention Benefits program also includes a Leave Travel Allowance program.
• We also offer an exclusive McKinley Loan Program designed to assist our employees during challenging times and alleviate financial burdens.

Experience: 4+ years

We are looking for a NodeJS / full stack developer responsible for the development and maintenance of scalable backend applications. Your primary focus will be the development of NodeJS applications and their integration with frontend services like React Web App. You will be working alongside other engineers and developers working on different layers of the infrastructure. Therefore, a commitment to collaborative problem-solving, sophisticated design and the creation of quality products is essential.

• 3+ years of experience in Nodejs
• Having a good understanding & hands-On of AWS services like – IAM, Lambda, DynamoDB, ElasticCache, OpenSearch and AppSync 
• Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers with server side logic
• Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code
• Strong proficiency with JavaScript.
• Knowledge of Node.js + Express and frameworks available for it.
• Experienced with NoSQL DB
• Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications
• Implementation of security and data protection

• Highly proficient in JavaScript and Typescript, PassportJs, Sequelize.
• Working knowledge of Node.js frameworks such as ExpressJs, SailsJs, VueJs and  ElectronJs.
• Good understanding of server-side templating languages such as Jade, EJS, Mustache etc.
• Good understanding of server-side CSS preprocessors such as Stylus, Less,Sass etc.
• Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as HTML5, and CSS3
• Sound knowledge of Testing frameworks such as Mocha, Chai, Jasmine, Cucumber etc.
• Experience of writing unit, integration and E2E tests.
• Experience of working with SQL databases.
• Experience of integrating third party APIs.
• Good understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git.
• Good Communication Skills.

A tick against the following skill sets would surely strengthen the candidature

• Strong PHP, JS fundamentals
• PHP frameworks: PHP Laravel
• JS frameworks: Vue.JS
• RDBMS: MySQL, Mongo DB

Required Education:

B.Tech./ BE - Computer, IT, Electronics only

Required Skills:

• 2+ year of experience in Development in JAVA technology.
• Strong Java Basics
• SpringBoot or Spring MVC
• Hands on experience on Relationl Databases (SQL query or Hibernate) + Mongo (JSON parsing)
• Proficient in REST API development
• Messaging Queue (RabitMQ or Kafka)
• Microservices
• Any Caching Mechanism
• Good at problem solving

Good to Have Skills:

• 4+ years of experience in using Java/J2EE tech stacks
• Good understanding of data structures and algorithms.
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills.
• Ability to work in a fast paced internet start-up environment.
• Experience in technical mentorship/coaching is highly desirable.
• Understanding of AI/ML algorithms is a plus

Node.js Developer Requirements:

1. Bachelor's degree in computer science, information science, or similar.

2. At least two years' experience as a Node.js developer.

3. Extensive knowledge of JavaScript, web stacks, libraries, and frameworks.

4. Knowledge of front-end technologies such as HTML5 and CSS3.

5. Superb interpersonal, communication, and collaboration skills.

6. Exceptional analytical and problem-solving aptitude.

7. Great organizational and time management skills.

8. Availability to resolve urgent web application issues outside of business hours.

About Strata

Strata is a commercial real estate investment platform that offers investors the opportunity to invest in pre-leased commercial assets such as offices, warehouses, and retail spaces across India.

We are one of the fastest-growing Fintech platforms in India and are backed by Elevation Capital, Mayfield, Kotak Investment Advisors, Gruhas (a venture by Nikhil Kamath of Zerodha), and DLF Family Office.

Our headquarter is in Bangalore, India.

We are a small yet close-knit team of 35+ people.

Job Description 

• Collaborate with a team of engineers and managers to create applications used by our Investors, Channel Partners and Operations Team
• Write clean, self-documenting code that follows best practices and design patterns
• Provide creative ideas to improve our product and technology
• Think beyond the specifics of a ticket in order to delight customers or grow the business
• Be a self-starter that can, at times, take initiative and execute on projects with little direction

Minimum qualifications

• 3-5 years of experience
• Expert in Python with knowledge on at least one industry standard framework like Django, Flask, etc.
• Solid knowledge of developing backend applications
• Have a strong demonstrated ability to ship high-quality products
• Self-motivated, collaborative, and diligent work ethic
• Experience using Docker and cloud technologies such as Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Database design skills