Lead Engineer - Java

Role & Responsibilities

What You'll Do

• Design, build, and ship production-grade backend services in a microservices environment
• Work directly with clients to understand requirements, solution their use cases, and integrate/deploy our product in their environment
• Own problems end-to-end — build, deploy, debug in the client's setup, and see it through to production
• Lead technical discussions with client engineering and business teams, translating their needs into working solutions
• Build integrations with third-party systems and APIs within customer environments
• Collaborate cross-functionally with internal product and engineering teams to feed client learnings back into the product

Ideal Candidate

• Strong Backend Engineer with robust Micro-services experience
• Mandatory (Experience): Must have 4+ years of hands-on experience in backend software engineering with 2+ years in a product company
• Mandatory (Skill 1): Must have hands-on experience building and running applications in a Micro-services setup - designing services, REST APIs, and service-to-service communication
• Mandatory (Skill 2): Must have strong production-grade experience in building and shipping real services in Java or Node.js (Java is highly preferred)
• Mandatory (Company): Product companies (B2B SaaS is preferred)
• Mandatory (Education): B.Tech / B.E. in Computer Science from Tier-1 institutes (IITs, BITS Pilani)
• Preferred (Experience): Must have worked directly with external customers in an engineering capacity - solutioning, integrating, or deploying the product in the customer's environment and handling technical discussions with their teams
• Preferred (Databases): Comfortable with both SQL and NoSQL databases

Experience: 6+ Years

Location: Chennai & Pune

Work Model: Hybrid

Notice Period: Immediate Joiners Preferred

Role Overview

We are looking for a highly skilled Senior Python Engineer to design, develop, and scale robust backend systems and data-driven applications. The ideal candidate should have strong problem-solving skills, experience with modern Python frameworks, and exposure to cloud and emerging technologies like Generative AI and LLMs.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable applications using Python
• Build and optimize RESTful APIs using Flask or FastAPI
• Work on data manipulation, processing, and transformation using Python libraries
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and deliver high-quality solutions
• Develop efficient, reusable, and reliable code with strong attention to performance
• Implement containerization and orchestration using Docker and Kubernetes
• Ensure application security, data protection, and compliance best practices
• Manage code versioning using Git and follow CI/CD best practices
• Contribute to cloud-based deployments and infrastructure
• Explore and implement solutions using Generative AI and Large Language Models (LLMs)

Required Skills & Qualifications

• 6+ years of hands-on experience in Python development
• Strong understanding of Python fundamentals and problem-solving skills
• Experience with data manipulation libraries (e.g., Pandas, NumPy)
• Expertise in building REST APIs using Flask or FastAPI
• Solid understanding of ORM frameworks (e.g., SQLAlchemy, Django ORM)
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes
• Strong knowledge of application security principles
• Proficiency in Git and version control practices
• Exposure to Generative AI concepts and working with LLMs

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Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer (.NET Core)

Location: Nashik, India

Employment Type: Full time

Experience: 8+ years

The job  

We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer (.NET Core) to join our team. This is a hands-on individual contributor role with additional responsibility to guide and mentor backend engineers across senior, mid, and junior levels.

The ideal candidate should have strong experience in .NET Core (8.0+), microservices architecture, API design, and cloud-native development on Azure. The candidate will actively contribute to platform-level backend services, shared components, and integrations across EcoTools and Unify initiatives, while helping establish backend engineering best practices across the team.

Key responsibilities 

- Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs using .NET Core (8.0+).

- Build microservices-based backend APIs and tools aligned with EcoTools platform architecture.

- Develop secure and high-performance REST APIs used by micro frontend applications and other services.

- Contribute to backend architecture decisions, including service design, API standards, authentication, and data access patterns.

- Integrate backend services with platform services such as authentication, messaging, logging, and shared Unify components.

- Ensure backend solutions meet non-functional requirements (performance, scalability, reliability, and security).

- Guide and mentor backend engineers through code reviews, design discussions, and architectural best practices.

- Collaborate with frontend engineers, DevOps, and platform teams to ensure seamless system integration.

- Implement unit and integration tests to ensure high code quality and reliability.

- Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and observability improvements.

- Participate in technical documentation, ADR discussions, and architectural governance reviews.

- Support engineering teams in troubleshooting production issues and improving system stability. 

Essential requirements

- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

- 6–9 years of hands-on backend development experience using .NET Core / ASP.NET Core.

- AI Skill Level: Has built or contributed to AI-powered features. Understands prompt, design, evaluation, guardrails, and failure modes.

- Have hands on in spec/skill driven agentic AI development. 

- Strong expertise in REST API design, microservices architecture, and distributed systems.

- Experience working with Azure cloud services (App Services, Azure SQL, Event Hub, Service Bus, or similar).

- Solid understanding of authentication and authorization mechanisms (OAuth2, JWT, OpenID Connect).

- Experience with database technologies such as SQL Server, PostgreSQL, or NoSQL systems.

- Strong knowledge of clean architecture principles, SOLID design patterns, and scalable backend design.

- Experience working in Agile software development environments.

- Strong communication and collaboration skills.

- Strong problem-solving skills, debugging, and performance optimization skills, ownership mindset, and ability to collaborate across teams. 

- Experience working in Agile software development methodologies.

- Ability to manage responsibilities independently and deliver results within deadlines.

Desired skills and competencies

- Experience with distributed application frameworks such as Dapr.

- Exposure to event-driven architectures and messaging systems.

- Familiarity with API Management, gateway patterns, and platform integrations.

- Experience working with large-scale SaaS platforms and micro services architectures.

- Exposure to AI-assisted development tools and modern engineering practices.

Strong Senior Backend Engineer profiles

Mandatory (Experience 1) – Must have 5+ years of hands-on Backend Engineering experience building scalable, production-grade systems

Mandatory (Experience 2) – Must have strong backend development experience using one or more frameworks (FastAPI / Django (Python), Spring (Java), Express (Node.js).

Mandatory (Experience 3) – Must have deep understanding of relevant libraries, tools, and best practices within the chosen backend framework

Mandatory (Experience 4) – Must have strong experience with databases, including SQL and NoSQL, along with efficient data modeling and performance optimization

Mandatory (Experience 5) – Must have experience designing, building, and maintaining APIs, services, and backend systems, including system design and clean code practices

Mandatory (Domain) – Experience with financial systems, billing platforms, or fintech applications is highly preferred (fintech background is a strong plus)

Mandatory (Company) – Must have worked in product companies / startups, preferably Series A to Series D

Mandatory (Education) – Candidates from top engineering institutes (IITs, BITS, or equivalent Tier-1 colleges) are preferred

A backend developer is an engineer who can handle all the work of databases, servers,

systems engineering, and clients. Depending on the project, what customers need may

be a mobile stack, a Web stack, or a native application stack.

You will be responsible for:

 Build reusable code and libraries for future use.

 Own & build new modules/features end-to-end independently.

 Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders.

Required Skills :

 Thorough understanding of Node.js and Typescript.

 Excellence in at least one framework like strongloop loopback, express.js, sail.js, etc.

 Basic architectural understanding of modern day web applications

 Diligence for coding standards

 Must be good with git and git workflow

 Experience of external integrations is a plus

 Working knowledge of AWS or GCP or Azure - Expertise with linux based systems

 Experience with CI/CD tools like jenkins is a plus.

 Experience with testing and automation frameworks.

 Extensive understanding of RDBMS systems

Sr. Software Developer

Work Experience: 8+ Years

The Number of Vacancies: 2

Location:  

CTC: As per industry standards

About the Job Description

Senior software developers are responsible for designing, testing, and implementing new and updated software programs. They take on a managerial role and lead the development team with all software development tasks. Their job is to ensure all projects are completed on time and to company specifications.

What We Are Seeking

• Hands-on experience in Core Java and Advanced Java.
• Hands-on Java Framework-Architecture and Advanced Concepts Understanding and Implementation in Real-Time Projects
• Knowledge of Weblogic, Microservices
• Experience in developing APIs and RESTful services using Node JS.
• Strong understanding of the usage and implementation of JWT tokens and access control API development.
• Knowledge of AWS, SSL integration, Docker, Postman
• Extensive knowledge of MongoDB, MySQL, Redis, and Oracle.
• Understanding of how to integrate third-party APIs such as Payment Gateway
• Knowledge of code versioning tools such as GIT
• Must have good analytical, debugging, and problem-solving skills.
• Good communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Produce high-quality code and experience with security implementations.
• Collaborating with front-end developers on the integration of elements.
• Running diagnostic tests, repairing defects, and providing technical support.
• Documenting Node.js processes, including database schemas, as well as preparing reports.
• Work with the QA Team to develop testing protocols to identify and correct challenges.

You, as a Java Engineer and member of this team, would be working on our new and existing projects for our credit, payments, business services, member engagement or financial crime areas. We have a five years roadmap ahead of us with exciting new features and we’ll need you to solve interesting problems. Your fellow team members will get you up to speed in your business area and will help you develop the skills so that eventually you are the one coaching other new joiners. Joining one of our expanding agile teams, you will be required to work closely with product owners, mobile engineers, and other business members to translate requirements into well-engineered solutions.

You will ideally join our backend Community of Practices, learn from them and eventually propose your own to maintain a high quality across the backend. Career progression is as important to you as it is for us. With our expanding teams and business we will encourage you to outgrow your initial responsibilities. This role offers an exceptional opportunity to make a real difference with responsibilities across engineering practices in a rapidly expanding company!

About the Tech

Technology and our people is what makes Tide possible. We work in autonomous teams where backend, iOS, Android, web, QA, DevOps, agile coaches, data experts and product owners solve difficult problems together to get the job done. We self-organise and discuss technical challenges and set our own guidelines in the different Community of Practices.

On the backend we see Java 8 as legacy and use Java 11+ for our micro-services. We provide RESTful APIs to our colleagues in the frontend, but also use gRPC for internal service-to-service communications. Spring Boot is our work horse, but we are open to new experiments. We are cloud-native and run everything on AWS. You’ll see containers (Docker), queues (SNS+SQS) and events everywhere. The nature of our business naturally fits with relational databases, but we have also found some use cases for NoSQL.

Our frontends have done an incredible job at consuming our APIs and providing the best UX to our members. They are fully native Android and iOS apps or Angular 2+ web apps. DevOps provides vital infrastructure and operations support.

About You

We’re an international scale up, we’re busy! If fast paced environments, cross team exposure, inquisitive freedom and the ability to have a real impact on a rapidly growing scale up appeals to you, then you already have the mind of a Tidean. If you have that along with the following experience, we’d love to hear from you.

The non-negotiables:

• Good commercial experience building server-side applications and detailed knowledge of the relevant programming languages for your stack (i.e Java 8 or newer).
• Sound knowledge of a Java backend framework (e.g. Spring/Spring Boot).
• Exposure to microservices and implementing and consuming RESTful APIs.
• A mindset of delivering secure, well-tested and well-documented software.
• Experience with relational databases.

The highly desirables:

• Exposure to continuous integration, delivery and deployment.
• Some experience integrating to third parties.
• Comfortable working in agile methodologies, ideally Scrum.
• Exposure to common development tools such as IntelliJ, Git, Jira, etc.

Why Tide?

Tide is the leading provider of UK SME business accounts and one of the fastest growing FinTechs in the UK. That’s not an unfounded boast - we have over 200,000 members (what we like to call our customers, over two percent market share, and have raised over £120m in funding.

SMEs have been underserved and overlooked by traditional banks for years. In an entrepreneurial age where everyone is expected to take a shot, traditional banks have not evolved with the needs of the market. That’s where Tide comes in. With quick on-boarding, low fees and innovative features, we thrive on making data driven decisions to help SMEs save both time and money.

We’re also one of LinkedIn’s top 10 hottest UK companies to work for, winner of Best Use of Technology (Growth Finance Awards); Best Banking Provider (Contracting Awards); Innovative Product of the Year (Growth Finance Awards) and we’re listed in the Top 100 FinTech Disruptors and The Startups 100. And that’s just for 2019.

• 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.