Lead Developer (Java)

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

You'll work closely with our team to implement best practices, improve our architecture, and create a high-performance engineering culture. Over a 6–9-month period, you'll also immerse yourself in game development, Unity, and C# to become a well-rounded technical leader in the gaming space.

• Drive maximum development velocity through direct involvement in development sprints, ensuring developers work as efficiently and effectively as possible.
• Lead and mentor a team of engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous improvement.
• Drive architectural decisions that ensure scalable, maintainable, and high-performance game products.
• Foster a high-performance engineering culture aligned with ambitious goals, accountability, and proactive problem-solving.
• Implement and enforce engineering best practices (e.g., code reviews, testing, documentation) and the adoption of new tools, technologies including AI, and methodologies to optimize team efficiency.
• Transition our team to a high-performance culture aligned with our ambitious, venture-backed goals.

IDEAL CANDIDATE:

• 8+ years of software engineering experience with at least 3+ years in a technical leadership role
• Ability to reasonably estimate and plan tasks and features.
• Strong programming fundamentals and hands-on coding abilities
• Strong grasp of software architecture, TDD, code reviews, and clean coding principles.
• Proficient at profiling games to identify bottlenecks and performance issues.
• Experience building complex, scalable software systems
• Proven track record of driving architectural decisions and technical excellence
• Experience mentoring and developing engineering talent
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail
• Excellent communication skills and ability to explain complex technical concepts
• Experience with agile development methodologies
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience

PERKS, BENEFITS AND WORK CULTURE:

• We foster a culture of continuous learning.
• We value talent and the ability for significant self-improvement.
• Honest feedback and transparency across all departments allow for rapid skill development.
• You will have the opportunity to work on an exciting new game development product with complete autonomy.

InnovationM is looking for a Java Developer with experience in Spring Boot, Microservices, and MongoDB to join our team. The ideal candidate should have hands-on experience in designing and developing REST APIs using Spring Boot, building microservices-based applications, working with MongoDB and have experience in deploying applications in AWS.

What you must be good at:

● Develop and maintain REST APIs using Spring Boot framework

● Build microservices-based applications using Spring Boot and related frameworks

● Design and develop data models and queries for MongoDB database

● Deploy applications in AWS using EC2, ECR, and other relevant AWS services

● Work in an Agile development environment

● Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality software

What you must be good at:

● 4+ years of experience in Java development

● Strong experience in Spring Boot and related frameworks

● Hands-on experience in building microservices-based applications

● Proficient in designing and developing REST APIs

● Strong experience in MongoDB, including data modeling and query optimization

● Good understanding of AWS services and deployment methodologies

● Experience working in an Agile development environment

● Proficient in Git and version control systems

We are looking for Advance Java developers who want to help us design cutting edge scalable products to meet our rapidly growing business. We are building out a team and looking for multiple levels but you should have at least 6+ years of programming experience.

Key Responsibilities

• Build high availability and extreme reliable high volume transactional systems.
• Deliver reliable solutions that handle massive data and high traffic.
• Complete ownership of problem-free execution of owned modules and solutions.
• Focus on code optimization, code quality, maintainability etc.

Skills required

• Hands-on experience in Core J2EE or Core Java (collection, multithreading).
• Proficiency in Spring, Hibernate, Kafka, JDBC.
• Excellent data structure & algorithm and problem solving skills.
• Strong working knowledge of Databases – MySQL/NoSQL, OS - Windows/Linux.
• Experience and knowledge of open source tools & frameworks, broader cutting edge technologies around server side development.
• Should be an active contributor to developer communities like Stackoverflow, Topcoder, Github, Google Developer Groups (GDGs).
• Customer-focused, react well to changes, work with teams and able to multi-task.

Java, J2EE, Spring Boot, REST services, PostgreSQL

Experience with Elastic Search or any NoSQL DB is preferable

• Have at least 3 years work experience in Java 8 or higher / J2EE Java development.

• Have experience of agile systems development methodologies such as SCRUM
• Experience in designing the solution and implementation.
• Is a communicative, positive, outgoing and driven team player.
• Solution-oriented, see opportunities and proactively proposing new solutions, speak and write fluently in English.
• Good to have certifications in Java, Spring etc.
• Experience in Java 8.

• Experience in Spring Boot and other spring framework like Spring data, AOP etc.
• Experience in MongoDB/ Kafka / RabbitMQ etc.
• Experience in REST API
• Have worked on microservices
• Should have worked on minimum 2- 3 projects
• Experience in writing effective Unit test case for better coverage.
• Experience in writing good quality code by following code quality tools likes SonarQube etc.

About us:

NetCracker Technology, a subsidiary of NEC Corporation, is the leading provider of BSS/OSS solutions to service providers around the world. From billing, customer care, and real-time charging and policy solutions, to resource and network management, service fulfillment & assurance, our comprehensive software and services capabilities enhance the customer experience through content-rich offerings and reduced costs.

NetCracker's innovative end-to-end BSS/OSS solutions enable service providers to operationalize next-generation connectivity, maximize the convergence of Network and IT, monetize content, and deliver a compelling customer experience.

Founded in 1993, NetCracker became a subsidiary of NEC Corporation in 2008 and acquired the Convergys Information Management division in 2012. We are CMML 5, Product based company. 

Job Responsibilities:

• Work as a member of development team towards the Product Suite
• Estimating efforts and duration on development
• Involved in solution implementation projects
• Interaction with Business Analysts, Quality Assurance and Customer Support teams
• Provide expertise and best practices on technical aspects of product development and implementation projects including performance
• Introduce new development technologies, instruments and techniques

Job Requirements:

• Experience in writing technical design and development of the application
• Good understanding and hands-on work experience in Core Java/J2EE & concepts such as OOPS, multithreading, Collections, Concurrency, Exception Handling, JDBC, File I/O, XML APIs etc
• Should have worked on Java 1.8
• Design skills –Design Patterns, hands on in restful services
• Working experience on spring core
• Hands on in writing complex SQL queries
• Knowledge of web-services (REST and SOAP);
• Familiarity with NOSQL [eg. Mongo DB] is preferred;
• Familiarity with message queues like Kafka.
• Know-how on containerization applications like Docker, Kubernetes is preferred.
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tool – SVN.
• Hands-on experience in writing Unit tests using Junit.
• Working experience in Jenkins, Maven, SonarQube.
• Experience in tuning applications based on Performance tests/ Load tests/ Stress tests is preferred.
• Knowledge of development lifecycle, standards, approaches, utilities and environment: shells, IDEs.
• Familiarity with JIRA / JQL is an added advantage 

Experience:

• 5 to 11 years of core development / Product experience

Education:

• BE/Btech/MCA