Lead Engineer- Java

We are India’s fastest-growing digital trust platform offering services such as background verifications, reference checks, employee/staff onboarding, etc. We have completed more than 500+ million checks across 3000+ happy clients and since its inception, the company has shown continuous uptrend growth in an ever-changing business environment. As an organization, we are self-sustainable with positive cash flows.

At OnGrid, we are focused on redefining and reimagining Trust. We are leveraging APIs to build a digital trust platform all while being accountable that provides verified credentials instantly coming from the source directly. Having built the basic pillars of trust, we now want our imaginations to be let loose and think of avenues not explored and ways never implemented before. In this pursuit, we are looking for a motivated Staff Engineer (Backend) with experience in building high-performing, scalable, enterprise-grade applications, joining us, driving this vision, and taking it to a larger scale. If you are a visionary, always on the lookout for finding the right solutions, and a technology geek, constantly seeking to learn and improve your skillset, then you are the type of person we are looking for.

Roles & Responsibilities -

● Develop new user-facing features.

● Work alongside product to understand our requirements, and design, develop and iterate, think through the complex architecture.

● Writing clean, reusable, high-quality, high-performance, maintainable code.

● Encourage innovation and efficiency improvements to ensure processes are productive

● Ensure the training and mentoring of the team members

● Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs and optimize applications for maximum speed.

● Research and apply new technologies, techniques, and best practices.

Requirements -

• Bachelors/Masters in Computer Science or a related field

• 5 - 10 years of prior relevant experience

• Experience with web technologies and microservices architecture

• Java, Spring framework

• MySQL, Mongo, Solr, Redis,

• Kubernetes, Docker

• Excellent teamwork skills, flexibility, and ability to handle multiple tasks.

• Experience with API Design, ability to architect and implement an intuitive customer and third-party integration story • Ability to think and analyze both breadth-wise (client, server, DB, control flow) and depth-wise (threads, sessions, space-time complexity) while designing and implementing services

• Exceptional design and architectural skills

• Experience of cloud providers/platforms like GCP and AWS

Role: Java Developer

Experience: 7+ years 

Work Location: Chennai 

Notice Period: Immediate Joiner 

About Us

Fleet Studio, Inc. has worked with leading global consumer brands, startups, and agencies on cutting-edge technology products and solutions in mobile and web applications for a global audience for over 16 years. Our clear understanding of both design and technology combined with our emphasis on culture and consumer behaviors enhances communication and the final product. The products and solutions that we build are widely used by millions of users including companies of all sizes, from SMB to the enterprise as well as direct consumers. 

Java Developer – Senior Level

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Java Developer with a proven track record in delivering high-quality applications. If you're passionate about building modern, scalable, and robust software solutions, we want to hear from you!

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of software development experience with a focus on delivering robust and efficient solutions.
• Strong proficiency in Java and its latest versions and expertise in developing Java-based applications.
• Hands-on experience with relational databases and proficiency in writing complex SQL queries.
• Familiarity with Enterprise Java (J2EE / JavaEE / Spring) application architectures.
• Demonstrated history of delivering modern, high-cadence applications using:
• Agile methodologies and test-driven development (TDD).
• CI/CD pipelines for streamlined deployment and updates.
• Git version control for collaborative development.

Preferred Skills

• Knowledge of microservices architectures and Domain-Driven Design (DDD).
• Working knowledge of Python and JavaScript/Node.js.
• Experience with Object-Relational Mappers (ORMs) such as Hibernate or JPA.
• Strong Problem Solving skills

Bonus Skills

(If you don't possess these, we provide rapid onboarding to bring you up to speed!)

• Exposure to emerging Generative AI technologies and tools like OpenAI APIs and GPT large language models (LLMs).
• Practical experience with MongoDB or other NoSQL, MySQL databases.

Why Join Us?

We are at the forefront of innovation, blending cutting-edge technology with a dynamic and collaborative work environment. Joining our team means you'll have opportunities to work on exciting projects, grow your expertise, and make a significant impact.

Core Experience:

•Experience in Core Java, J2EE, Spring/Spring Boot, Hibernate, Spring REST, Linux, JUnit, Maven, Design Patterns.

• Sound knowledge of RDBMS like MySQL/Postgres, including schema design.

• Exposure to Linux environment.

• Exposure to Docker and Kubernetes.

• Basic Knowledge of Cloud Services of AWS, Azure, GCP cloud provider.

• Proficient in general programming, logic, problem solving, data structures & algorithms

• Good analytical, grasping and problem-solving skills.

Secondary Skills:

• Agile / Scrum Development Experience preferred.

• Comfortable working with a microservices architecture and familiarly with NoSql solutions.

• Experience in Test Driven Development.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Hands-on skills in configuration of popular build tools, like Maven and Gradle

• Good knowledge of testing frameworks such as JUnit.

• Good knowledge of coding standards, source code organization and packaging/deploying.

• Good knowledge of current and emerging technologies and trends.

Job Responsibilities:

• Design, Development and Delivery of Java based enterprise-grade applications.

• Ensure best practices, quality and consistency within various design and development phases.

• Develop, test, implement and maintain application software working with established processes.

Work with QA and help them for test automation

• Work with Technical Writer and help them documenting the features you have developing.

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s / master’s degree in computer science or information technology or related field

Technical Overview:

● You will be expected to design, develop and maintain large-scale complex backend web applications.

● You will be expected to rapidly learn and apply relevant new technologies.

● You will be having a high level of interaction with business and product stakeholders.

● You will be working on the entire web application stack, which includes:

      o Web server hosting

      o RESTful communication

      o Message brokering

      o Backend application layer, which includes the service and domain layers

     o Data layer for persistence or caching

● You will be participating in an agile software development cycle, which includes:

     o Design

     o Development

     o Code Review

     o Unit and Integration Testing

     o Release

● As a Staff Engineer, you will be expected to contribute to design, code review, refactoring, and project management.

● You will be exposed to the following technologies:

     o Web application frameworks: Ruby on Rails, Node.js, Java Play, Vert.x, AIOHTTP, AWS Lambda

     o Languages: Ruby, Java, Kotlin, Javascript, Python

     o Data stores: PostgreSQL, Aerospike, Redis, Amazon Redshift

     o Communication: HTTP, Amazon SQS, Sidekiq, Amazon SNS

     o Server Management: Amazon ECS, Docker

Product Overview:

You will be contributing to products concerning both customers and partner drivers.

Product sectors include:

1) Growth: You’ll build tools to help boost user growth on the platform including our industry-best driver onboarding, training and certification system, referral system, and lead management models.

2) Lifecycle Management: Build tools to help users engage with the platform better, which include rewards and recognition modules, subscription services account management tools, partner and customer wallets and payout modules, and churn detection systems among others.

3) Transaction Experience: You’ll help deliver the most delightful booking experience to our customers and drivers. As part of this team, you’ll be responsible for our core booking system, pricing and payment

systems, location tracking and filtering services, fraud prevention systems, and in-app ticketing and support among others.

4) Fulfilment: As part of the fulfillment team, you’ll work on systems that ensure a high degree of ride fulfillment on the platform. Tools include allocation methodologies and systems, dynamic pricing, dynamic partner routing, and partner re-activation tools among others.

5) Enterprise Solutions: You’ll help Porter’s enterprise customers achieve delivery excellence. You’ll build tools for contract management, fleet management, fleet and route optimization tools, alerting and monitoring tools, and analytics suite among others.

• Experience building large scale, large volume services & distributed apps., taking them through production and post-production life cycles
• Experience in Programming Language: Java 8, Javascript
• Experience in Microservice Development or Architecture
• Experience with Web Application Frameworks: Spring or Springboot or Micronaut
• Designing: High Level/Low-Level Design
• Development Experience: Agile/ Scrum, TDD(Test Driven Development)or BDD (Behaviour Driven Development) Plus Unit Testing
• Infrastructure Experience: DevOps, CI/CD Pipeline, Docker/ Kubernetes/Jenkins, and Cloud platforms like – AWS, AZURE, GCP, etc
• Experience on one or more Database: RDBMS or NoSQL
• Experience on one or more Messaging platforms: JMS/RabbitMQ/Kafka/Tibco/Camel
• Security (Authentication, scalability, performance monitoring)

Experience:

The candidate should have about 1+ years of experience with design and development in Java/Scala. Experience in algorithm, data-structure, database is mandatory.

Required Skills:

1. Java or Scala
2. Extensive experience in developing web applications. Should possess good Oops knowledge and be aware of enterprise application design patterns.
3. Should have the ability to analyze, design, develop and test complexity of spark job.
4. Basic working knowledge of Unix/Linux.

Good To have: -

1. Python
2. Distributed Computing

Qualifications & Responsibilities 

• Strong hands-on experience with Java; full-stack development
• Designs, codes, tests, debug, and documents software, and enhance existing components to ensure that software meets business needs
• Deploy and maintain Applications/Systems
• Work with other software engineers for one or more Agile scrum teams assigned to work on the project · Contribute to the design and architecture to enable secure, scalable, and maintainable software and should be able to clearly articulate the implications of design/architectural decisions, issues, and plans to technology leadership
• Develop reusable patterns and encourage innovation that will enhance team velocity · Collaborate on the design with other team members and product owners, both inside and outside the scrum team
• Estimate engineering work effort for the engineering team and effectively identify and prioritize the high impact tasks
• Conduct design and code reviews to ensure code developed meets coding best practices guidelines, unit testing, security, and scalability and maintainability guidelines
• Drive a quality mindset within the team

Skills: 

• 2+ years of full Software Development Life Cycle experience
• 2+ years of experience working as a full-stack java developer
• 1+ years of web development with AngularJS
• Experience or familiarity with technologies such as WSDL, REST and/or SOAP web services, XML, JBoss, Adobe CQ5 DAM, HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap, Hibernate, Spring.

Requirements:

• Experience in Enterprise Java building restful microservices
• Strong Exposure to any of the Java Enterprise frameworks such as Spring, Vert. x, Quarkus or others
• Good exposure to databases such as PostgreSQL, MongoDB etc
• Good analytical and problem-solving capabilities along with excellent communication skills.
• Any exposure to UI programming using REACT JS or AngularJS is a plus
• Preferred candidate who can join in 15 days or max 30 days.