Lead Java Developer

Job Title: Java Spring Boot Engineer

📍 Location: Bangalore

🧾 Experience: 3–4 Years

📝 Employment Type: Contract (1 Year + Extendable)

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• Strong expertise in Java, Spring Boot, and backend development.
• Hands-on experience with PHP.
• Good understanding of data structures and algorithms.
• Experience with GraphQL and RESTful APIs.
• Proficiency in working with SQL & NoSQL databases.
• Experience using Git for version control.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure).
• Exposure to monitoring and logging tools like Grafana, New Relic, and Splunk.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work in a collaborative team environment.

Required Skills

• 4-6 years of professional experience building server applications with Node.js and the Spring framework.
• Experience working with the AWS Development stack, including: Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, Cognito, Mobile Analytics, EC2 and RDS

Experience working with a handful of the following:

• relational databases: MySQL, or PostgreSQL or Oracle
• document-based data stores: MongoDB or CouchDB,
• key-value stores: DynamoDB, Redis, Memcached
• column-stores: Cassandra, Vertica
• Ability to work with front-end web technologies, like: HTML5/CSS3/Angular/Bootstrap
• Strong familiarity with *nix command line operations

• 2.5+ 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:

• 3+ 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.

• Own and drive business features into tech requirements
• Design & develop large scale real time server side systems
• Quickly create quality prototypes
• Staying updated on emerging technologies
• Ensuring that all deliverables adhere to our world class standards
• Promote coding best practices
• Mentor and develop junior developers in the team

• 4+ years of relevant experience as described below
• Excellent grasp of Core Java, Multi Threading and OO design patterns 
• Experience with Scala, functional, reactive programming and Akka/Play is a plus
• Excellent understanding of data structures and algorithms
• Solid grasp of large scale distributed real time systems

• Prior experience on building a scalable and resilient micro service

• Solid understanding of relational databases, NoSQL databases and Caching systems
• Good understanding of Big Data technologies such as Spark, Hadoop is a plus
• Experience on one of AWS, Azure or GCP 

• You have excellent and effective communication and collaborative skills
• You love problem solving
• You stay up to date with the latest technologies and then apply them in real life
• You love paying attention to detail
• You thrive in meeting tight deadlines and prioritising workloads
• Ability to collaborate across multiple functions

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or equivalent experience within the field

Responsibilities:

• Resolve complex technical issues and make design decisions to meet the critical requirements of scalable, highly available, multi-tenant enablement of services in the cloud.
• Independently investigate, present options, review and implement completely new functionality OR re-architect an existing solution to meet growing needs
• You will work closely with other development teams, product management, UX, and QA to define and implement a new product offering while ensuring continued functionality.
• Work with various external (application) teams to integrate with the product and help guide the integration.
• You will implement solutions that include database schema, business logic, and some presentation layer work.
• You will use existing methods and best practices in the software industry to create features and platforms with the highest levels of security, reliability, efficiency, and scalability.
• Experience mentoring senior developers.

Requirements:

• 8+ years of experience in software development experience with a proven track record of making technical decisions
• 8+ years of experience in coding in more than one programming language, e.g. Python, GoLang, node.js, etc
• Intimate working understanding of modern web applications from the database to browser
• Intimate understanding of MongoDB and extensive experience with database-driven applications
• Great problem-solving skills and ability to abstract functional requirements
• Excellent communicator in both technical and non-technical contexts
• Experience designing and improving complex software applications
• Experience coaching and mentoring developers at various levels of experience
• You have a sound understanding of programming fundamentals & their application to highly scalable web-based systems.
• You have successfully led a small agile team.