Lead Engineer (Java)

JOB DETAILS:

* Job Title: Engineering Manager (Client facing)

* Industry: Technology

* Salary: Best in Industry

* Experience: 8-12 years

* Location: Bengaluru

Role & Responsibilities

We are seeking a visionary and decisive Engineering Manager to join our dynamic team. In this role, you will lead and inspire a talented team of software engineers, driving innovation and excellence in product development efforts. This is an exciting opportunity to influence and shape the future of our engineering organization.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to a high-performing team of software engineers.
• Develop and implement engineering strategies that align with organizational goals.
• Manage multiple concurrent projects, ensuring timely delivery and high-quality outcomes.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to define and prioritize product features.
• Implement and uphold Agile methodologies to optimize team performance and efficiency.
• Conduct regular performance evaluations, fostering continuous professional growth within the team.
• Oversee the entire software development lifecycle, from initial conception through to deployment.
• Manage budgets, resources, and capacity planning for engineering projects.
• Stay up-to-date with emerging technologies, ensuring the team is equipped with the latest industry trends.
• Ensure adherence to best engineering practices, maintaining high coding standards.
• Hands-on coding experience required – actively contribute to coding and technical design decisions.
• Tech stack: Java, Spring, microservices, cloud technologies, and building large-scale systems.
• Experience in collaborating directly with clients – ensuring client requirements are met and managing relationships effectively.

Ideal Candidate

• Strong Client-Facing Engineering Manager Profile
• Must have 8+ years of engineering experience, with substantial exposure to back-end development, scalable distributed systems, and modern web services
• Must have 2+ years of experience in people and delivery leadership, owning engineering execution and leading teams to deliver complex products
• Must have proven experience working directly with external stakeholders / clients, translating client requirements into engineering plans and delivering solutions with high customer impact
• Strong technical foundation with experience in backend engineering, REST APIs, databases (SQL/NoSQL), and building reliable, high-performance systems
• Strong problem-solving and design capabilities; experience with system design, architecture reviews, and engineering best practices
• Must have expertise in agile methodologies and project management tools
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with a track record of presenting technical solutions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• (Cross-Functional Collaboration): Must be skilled in working with product, design, sales, and client teams to drive requirements, delivery, and client success
• (Execution & Delivery): Demonstrated ability to manage end-to-end delivery, coordinate releases, prioritise effectively, and deliver results in time
• (Company): Product companies
• (Stability): Must have stayed for at least 2 years with each of the previous companies
• (Education): B.Tech in computer science, engineering or a related field from Tier 1, Tier 2 colleges (Master's preferred)

Responsibilities include:  

• Develop and maintain data validation logic in our proprietary Control Framework tool 
• Actively participate in business requirement elaboration and functional design sessions to develop an understanding of our Operational teams’ analytical needs, key data flows and sources 
• Assist Operational teams in the buildout of Checklists and event monitoring workflows within our Enterprise Control Framework platform 
• Build effective working relationships with Operational users, Reporting and IT development teams and business partners across the organization 
• Conduct interviews, generate user stories, develop scenarios and workflow analyses  
• Contribute to the definition of reporting solutions that empower Operational teams to make immediate decisions as to the best course of action 
• Perform some business user acceptance testing 
• Provide production support and troubleshooting for existing operational dashboards  
• Conduct regular demos and training of new features for the stakeholder community 

Qualifications  

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Business, Accounting, Finance, MIS, Information Technology or related field of study 
• Minimum 5 years’ of SQL required 
• Experience querying data on cloud platforms (AWS/ Azure/ Snowflake) required 
• Exceptional problem solving and analytical skills, attention to detail and organization 
• Able to independently troubleshoot and gather supporting evidence  
• Prior experience developing within a BI reporting tool (e.g. Spotfire, Tableau, Looker, Information Builders) a plus  
• Database Management and ETL development experience a plus 
• Self-motivated, self-assured, and self-managed  
• Able to multi-task to meet time-driven goals  
• Asset management experience, including investment operation a plus 

JioTesseract, a digital arm of Reliance Industries, is India's leading and largest AR/VR organization with the mission to democratize mixed reality for India and the world. We make products at the cross of hardware, software, content and services with focus on making India the leader in spatial computing. We specialize in creating solutions in AR, VR and AI, with some of our notable products such as JioGlass, JioDive, 360 Streaming, Metaverse, AR/VR headsets for consumers and enterprise space.

Mon-Fri, In office role with excellent perks and benefits!

Key Responsibilities:

1. Design, develop, and maintain backend services and APIs using Node.js or Python, or Java.

2. Build and implement scalable and robust microservices and integrate API gateways.

3. Develop and optimize NoSQL database structures and queries (e.g., MongoDB, DynamoDB).

4. Implement real-time data pipelines using Kafka.

5. Collaborate with front-end developers to ensure seamless integration of backend services.

6. Write clean, reusable, and efficient code following best practices, including design patterns.

7. Troubleshoot, debug, and enhance existing systems for improved performance.

Mandatory Skills:

1. Proficiency in at least one backend technology: Node.js or Python, or Java.

2. Strong experience in:

i. Microservices architecture,

ii. API gateways,

iii. NoSQL databases (e.g., MongoDB, DynamoDB),

iv. Kafka

v. Data structures (e.g., arrays, linked lists, trees).

3. Frameworks:

i. If Java : Spring framework for backend development.

ii. If Python: FastAPI/Django frameworks for AI applications.

iii. If Node: Express.js for Node.js development.

Good to Have Skills:

1. Experience with Kubernetes for container orchestration.

2. Familiarity with in-memory databases like Redis or Memcached.

3. Frontend skills: Basic knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, or frameworks like React.js.

Job Description :

- We are a Fintech Company based in Pune, a B2B Trade Digitization platform for SMEs and Corporates to collaborate and work with Financial Institutions to raise short term fundings for payables and receivables financing.

- We are thus well placed to help Corporates and their Supply Chains to meet their GST needs.

Technologies :

- The platform is built using a polygot technology stack 

- Platform Backend : JVM 

- Web Layer : ReactJS and related ecosystem, HTML, Javascript, CSS, Bootstrap 

- API & Business Layer : Kotlin and functional programming 

- Client Apps and Customer Integrations: Kotlin, Jersey ReST Framework, home grown optimized HTTP and SQL libraries 

- Mobile Apps: Android, iOS 

- Database : MySQL - JVM - Hibernate & Exposed as ORM library - Python - SQLAlchemy as ORM library 

- Build Tools : Gradle, Shell Scripting, AWS Code Build, Jenkins

- Ops Automation : Ansible, Terraform 

- Servers : Ubuntu Linux 

- Version Control : GIT 

- Test Automation : Python - unittest, pyhamcrest, freshen, nose. JVM - Junit, Kotlin Test 

- Cloud Providers : Amazon AWS, Linode

Requirements :

- We are a self organized engineering team with a passion for programming and solving business problems for our customers.

- We are looking to add 2 members in our team having hands on technical experience of 2-6 years.

- We encourage our team to continuously learn new technologies and apply the learnings in the day to day work even if the new technologies are not adpopted.

- We strive to continuously improve our DevOps practices and expertise to form a solid backbone for the product, customer relationships and sales teams which enables them to add new customers every week to our financing network.

As an engineering team member, you will :

- Work collaboratively with product, customer support and DevOps team to build, enhance, maintain, deploy and operate our systems. 

- Continuously automate operational processes to improve efficiencies and productivity and enhance customer experience 

- Work closely with the architect to continuously refactor the system architecture and design to meet the changing landscape triggered by technology changes and business growth 

- Work with the DevOps team to build and maintain tools for deployment, monitoring and operations. 

- Ensure that development processes and deliverables always adhere to the mandates laid down for various certifications (PCI and ISO 27001 in particular)

Skills required :

- Pre-requisites : Competent in Java, database, HTML, Javascript, CSS 

- Should be passionate about technology and ready to deep dive into programming 

- Should have sound expertise of writing testable code and appreciate defect free coding 

- Should be willing to handle Ops automation and production support 

- Should be able to reason/argue/discuss/suggest solutions and alternatives

- Should be able to decipher the core problem to be solved during discussions with product team and/or customers 

- Should have good communication skills and experience working in teams

- Knowledge of Python will be an added advantage

- Experience of working in financial domain will help but not a necessity

Job Description

• Participate with the senior developer in the entire application lifecycle, designing, coding, testing, debugging to deployment.
• Implementing designs and coordinating the required backend for it.

• Work on back-end development tasks and designing architecture for the

• Efficient usage of database technologies such as MySQL, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Redis etc. as part of the dev work.
• Perform research and find opportunities to utilise web development best practices, form guidelines to improve system productivity, and work on scaling and monitoring.
• Work with cross-functional teams to maintain and make sure the product should be scalable, maintainable and secure.
• Coordinate with multiple junior team members for the development of the tasks & projects.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.
• Experience 2 - 6
• Built an application from scratch
• Strong fundamental knowledge of any backend language such as Java,            NodeJS, Spring Boot etc.
• Experience with Backend Web
• Strong computer science fundamentals.
• The ability to own end to end responsibility - right from requirement to release. Willingness and enthusiasm drive to learn new technologies

• Develop, maintain and support company
• Assist in technical specification and solution design documentation to address customer needs
• Ensure customer implementations are delivered to meet/exceed customer expectations
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams on project delivery, solution development, and deployment as needed

Requirements:

• 2+ years experience in a software development/consulting role, preferably in comprehensive eBusiness and Supply Chain Solutions
• 2+ years experience in Software Analysis, Design, and Development using J2EE technology stacks (Core Java, JSP, XML, Hibernate & Java scripts) and Oracle database (PL/SQL)
• 2+ years experience with the configuration and Installation of J2EE servers like Web logic, Web Sphere, and Oracle
• 2+ years experience with integration technology (knowledge of EAI and B2B tools)
• 2+ years working knowledge of UNIX system (Solaris and Linux)
• Exceptional verbal and written communications skills
• Excellent interpersonal & planning skills and cross-group coordination at all levels
• Bachelor Degree in Computer Science, or equivalent
• Willing to travel when needed.

Preferred (Optional) Skills:

• Supply-chain domain experience implementing and integrating Global Trade Management solutions
• Experience in the integration, deployment or support of an ERP, SCM, or similar systems from SA

What you bring to the table

• Education: Bachelor's degree in IT, computer science or related
• Experience: 5-9 years of relevant experience for SSE role
• Exposure to microservices, API management tools like Swagger
• Must have experience in working on Agile Scrum teams in the past and exposure to any of the Agile project management tools like Jira, Mingle, RTC, TFS etc.
• Proficient in application log analysis.
• Experience Java/JEE Development - especially EJB 2.1 / 3.0, JDBC
• Experience with application servers such as JBoss AS or IBM WAS is an advantage
• Experience in SQL programing using PostgreSQL / MySQL /Maria DB and JPA (Annotation Based)
• Knowledge of build tools such as Maven or Gradle and of continuous integration tools such as Jenkins, Nexus
• Basic knowledge of web services (SOAP or REST) and web technologies (HTML, CSS, JS)
• Basic knowledge of containers like Dockers, basic knowledge of cloud infrastructure
• Ability to interact and coordinate with employees at different levels, different groups, and different geographical locations within the company
• Ability to support multiple existing applications as well as work on building new ones
• Ability to provide accurate project estimates and make recommendations on specific technologies to use based on business requirements
• Good verbal and written Communication.
• Readiness for short term Domestic and International Travels

Preferred

• Industry knowledge with respect to payments systems and processing in the Debit/Credit and Account based payments (EFT Switching) from different channels like POS, ATM or ecommerce, Card Management System and Real Time Payment Systems.
• Exposure to the Interchange Interfaces like Visa Net, MasterCard, BankNet
• Exposure to Interchange Simulators and Mandates Management.