Lead Java Developer

Senior Java Backend Engineer

Experience: 6-8 Years 

Location: Pune / Bangalore

Type: Full-time

Tech Stack: Java, AWS, Spring boot, Postgres, NO/SQL 

About Digit88

Digit88 empowers digital transformation for innovative and high growth B2B and B2C SaaS companies as their trusted offshore software product engineering partner!

We are a lean mid-stage software company, with a team of 75+ fantastic technologists, backed by executives with deep understanding of and extensive experience in consumer and enterprise product development across large corporations and startups. We build highly efficient and effective engineering teams that solve real and complex problems for our partners.

With more than 50+ years of collective experience in areas ranging from B2B and B2C SaaS, web and mobile apps, e-commerce platforms and solutions, custom enterprise SaaS platforms and domains spread across Conversational AI, Chatbots, IoT, Health-tech, ESG/Energy Analytics, Data Engineering, the founding team thrives in a fast paced and challenging environment that allows us to showcase our best.

The Vision: To be the most trusted technology partner to innovative software product companies world-wide

The Opportunity

Digit88 is expanding the extended software product engineering team for its partner, a US-based Energy Analytics SaaS platform company. Our partner is building a suite of cloud-based business operation support platforms in the Utilities Rate Lifecycle space in the Energy sector/domain. This is a bleeding edge AI and Big Data platform that helps large energy utility companies in the US plan, manage, review and optimize their new product and rate design, billing, rate analysis, forecasting, and CRM. The candidate would be joining an existing team of product engineers in the US, China and Pune/India and help us establish an extended product engineering team at Digit88.

Job Profile

Digit88 is looking for a Sr Java Engineer with excellent hands-on experience in Java, AWS, and Springboot experience. You will be designing solutions around large enterprise and distributed systems. You will collaborate with a multi-disciplinary team of engineers and architects on a wide range of problems, bringing technical direction, architecture and design decisions, solving technical problems ultimately enabling the product team to build, develop and improve products that will revolutionize the energy industry.

To be successful in this role, you should possess

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field with 6-8 years hands-on experience with Java based technologies.
• Expertise in Core Java, Data Structures, J2EE with proven expertise in Spring MVC, Spring boot, Microservices architecture, Web Services (Rest) in distributed systems
• Practical experience with MySQL and/or NoSQL databases like Postgres, Cassandra
• Practical experience with Caching frameworks Memcached/Redis, Message Queues
• Experience in building high performance, high availability REST APIs and REST clients
• Expertise with log file analysis using one or more of ELK, Splunk, Kibana 
• Prior experience in building solutions in AWS, using managed services.
• Experience with Kafka is a definite plus
• Strong practical experience in applying design patterns, multithreading concepts to solve complex problems, strong problem solving skills
• Excellent communication (oral and written) and interpersonal skills and an ability to effectively communicate with both business and technical teams.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills for presenting findings to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Possess strong organizational and time management skills, with attention to detail.
• Good understanding in CI/CD, Container architecture - Docker/Jenkins and build scripts Maven/Ant 
• Experience with Kubernetes

Roles and responsibilities

• Develop Java solutions on AWS with Springboot, microservices.
• Work closely with the US and India engineering teams to help build the Java/Spring based backend and REST APIs. 
• Technical excellence and ownership of critical modules; own the development of new modules and features 
• Troubleshoot live production server issues 
• Able to work as a part of a team, be able to contribute independently and drive the team to exceptional contributions with minimal team supervision
• Perform Unit Testing and Integration testing in a Continuous Deployment scenario 
• Follow Agile methodology, JIRA for work planning, issue management/tracking 
• Bring Technical direction, design considerations and decisions as part of solutioning

Good to have/Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in the utility or energy industries.
• Experience working with a start-up.

Additional Project/Soft Skills:

• Should be able to work independently with India & US based team members.
• Strong verbal and written communication with ability to articulate problems and solutions over phone and emails.
• Strong sense of urgency, with a passion for accuracy and timeliness.
• Ability to work calmly in high pressure situations and manage multiple projects/tasks.
• Ability to work independently and possess superior skills in issue resolution.

Benefits/Culture @ Digit88:

• Comprehensive Insurance (Life, Health, Accident)
• Flexible Work Model
• Accelerated learning & non-linear growth
• Flat organization structure driven by ownership and accountability.
• Global Peers - Working with some of the best engineers/professionals globally from the likes of Apple, Amazon, IBM Research, Adobe and other innovative product companies
• Ability to make a global impact with your work, leading innovations in Conversational AI, Tele-Medicine, Healthcare and more.

You will work with a founding team of serial entrepreneurs with multiple successful exits to their credit. The learning will be immense just as will the challenges.

This is the right time to join us and partner in our growth!

Software Engineer

Opportunity in this role / Why should you join us?

- You are your own master.  We don't preach you, we just allow you to Innovate, Iterate, Learn and Adapt

- Work with one of India's leading fintech unicorn company

- ESOPs in the company

Requirements

• 3+ years and above exposure in the art of writing codes and solving problems for large scale
• Extensive and expert programming experience in any one programming language (strong OOPS skills preferred). Deep experience in a java programming language
• A solid foundation in computer science, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, and software design.
• Have a penchant for solving complex and interesting problems.
• BE/BTech, MTech in Computer Science or related technical discipline (or equivalent).
• Excellent coding skills – should be able to convert the design into code fluently Good skills to write unit & integration tests with reasonable coverage of code & interfaces - TDD is a plus
• Experience in building highly scalable business applications, which involve implementing large complex business flows and dealing with the huge amount of data. Experience with

multi-threading and concurrency programming

• Ability to switch between the technologies and learn new skills on the go.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Drive discussions to create/improve the product, process and technology
• Build abstractions and contracts with separation of concerns for a larger scope
• Rapid prototyping
• Robust and scalable web-based applications
• Do high-level design with guidance; Functional modelling, break-down of a module
• Thinking platforms & reuse, the open-source contribution will be a plus
• Do incremental changes to architecture: impact analysis of the same
• Do performance tuning and improvements in large scale distributed systems
• Mentor young minds and foster team spirit.

Java developer roles will vary greatly depending on companies and job positions. Here are some typical roles and responsibilities of java developers:

• Contribute to all stages of software development lifecycle
• Design, implement and maintain Java-based applications that can be high-volume and low-latency
• Analyze user requirements to define business objectives
• Envisioning system features and functionality
• Define application objectives and functionality
• Ensure application designs conform with business goals
• Develop and test software
• Identify and resolve any technical issues arising
• Create detailed design documentation
• Propose changes to current Java infrastructure
• Develop technical designs for application development
• Develop multimedia applications
• Write well designed, testable code
• Conducting software analysis, programming, testing, and debugging
• Manage Java and Java EE application development
• Develop documentation to help users
• Transforming requirements into stipulations
• Prepare and produce releases of software components
• Support continuous improvement, investigating alternatives and technologies, and presenting for architectural review

Job Description

Who are we looking for?

A senior level Java-J2EEE lead to manage a critical project for one of the biggest clients in banking domain. The Individual should be passionate about technology, experienced in developing and managing cutting edge technology applications.
We are looking for people from the trading background

Technical Skills: 

• An excellent tech Lead or application architect with strong experience in monolithic Java legacy applications, modern cloud-native

• Strong hands-on experience in Spring, Core Java specifically on multi-threading, concurrency, memory management process, and fair understanding on network communication & protocols. 

• experience working in software development on low-latency and high performing systems

• Experienced to guide & mentor the offshore team members, validating application deliverables on regular basis

• Ability to work in a collaborative manner with peers across different time zones. 

• Passionate about good design and code quality and have strong engineering practices

• Experience working on GCP will be preferred. 

Process Skills: 

• Experience in analyzing requirements and develop software as per project defined software process
• Develop and review design, code
• Develop and document architecture framework, technical standards, and application roadmap
• Guide development teams to comply with the architecture and development standards and ensure quality application is designed, developed, and delivered
• Must   have excellent communication skills.

Behavioral Skills:

• Resolve technical issues of projects and Explore alternate designs
• Effectively collaborates and communicates with the stakeholders and ensure client satisfaction
• Mentor, Train and coach members of project groups to ensure effective knowledge management activity.

Certification:

• Ultimate sun Java and GCP Certified 

About us:-

Zupee is India's hottest Real Money Gaming Platform

With in 1 yr of start, we just had an initial team of around 30 people, these 30 were successful to bring 10 Million+ users and an overall consumer spend of 1.5 Billion USD on the platform, the journey which needed years to be covered was covered with in 1yr. As we speak today, Zupee has been profitable for almost an year now and has ended the year 2020 with a team size of 70+ and over all growth rate was mapped around 20X.

Our user base has significantly gone up and we have invested highly in technology and have got best in class tech stack, it's time to add the backend developers who can help us scale up the platform so that we can drive profitable growth and become the market leader in our space.

Backend Developer :- (3 - 12 yrs)

What You'll Need?

• Knowledge of languages (JavaScript, Python) and frameworks/systems (nodejs)
• Strong analytical skills and aptitude
• Understanding of data architecture, software design and best coding practices
• Understanding of TCP/IP networking concepts and technologies
• Ability to learn new languages and technologies
• Experience with databases (both SQL and NoSQL)
• Familiarity with Agile development methodologies
• Working knowledge of Linux

· 3+ years java development experience with JSE/JEE, Java based Micro-services framework and implementation, Spring framework, Hibernate framework, SQL etc

· Hands on experience on Spring boot & Microservices .

· Strong knowledge of micro-service logging, monitoring, debugging and testing

· Implementations experience of micro-service integration, packaging, build automation and deployment.

· Object Oriented analysis and design using common design patterns.

Basic Qualifications

• Solid knowledge of algorithms/data structures is a must
• Strong Java software development experience – with a focus on Java 8 & 9
• Experience with NoSql databases – ideally with MongoDB
• Experience implementing REST apis – ideally with JAX-RS
• Experience with Reactive Programming – ideally with RxJava
• Experience implementing unit tests

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience developing applications in fintech or established financial institutions
• Experience with microservice architectures
• Experience developing systems that can scale to large amounts of data
• Experience working in Agile Scrum
• Experience working on a globally distributed team

Experience with Hibernate and Spring.

•   Experience with Spring-boot, spring MVC
• Experience with all phases of the Software Development Lifecycle, including system analysis, design, coding, testing, debugging and documentation
• Teamwork & collaboration skills to work across organizations
• Problem solving skills to develop quick yet sound solutions to resolve complex issues
• Programming Language(s): Java, J2EE, JSON, HTML, DHTML, HTML 5, XML, EXTJS.
• Experience with XML/HTTP and Web Services
• Experience with HTML, JSP, CSS, JQuery / Ajax / JSON,
•     Experience /Knowledge of Angular, React.
• Experience building J2EE based Web Applications
• Experience with MySql.