Lead Software Developer

Job Title: Backend Engineer – Python / Golang / Rust

Location: Bangalore, India

Experience Required: Minimum 2–3 years

About the Role

We are looking for a passionate Backend Engineer to join our growing engineering team. The ideal candidate should have hands-on experience in building enterprise-grade, scalable backend systems using microservices architecture. You will work closely with product, frontend, and DevOps teams to design, develop, and optimize robust backend solutions that can handle high traffic and ensure system reliability.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs.

• Architect and implement microservices-based systems ensuring modularity and resilience.

• Optimize application performance, database queries, and service scalability.

• Collaborate with frontend engineers, product managers, and DevOps teams for seamless delivery.

• Implement security best practices and ensure data protection compliance.

• Write and maintain unit tests, integration tests, and documentation.

• Participate in code reviews, technical discussions, and architecture design sessions.

• Monitor, debug, and improve system performance in production environments.

Required Skills & Experience

• Programming Expertise:

• Advanced proficiency in Python (Django, FastAPI, or Flask), OR

• Strong experience in Golang or Rust for backend development.

• Microservices Architecture: Hands-on experience in designing and maintaining distributed systems.

• Database Management: Expertise in PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, including schema design and optimization.

• API Development: Strong experience in RESTful APIs and GraphQL.

• Cloud Platforms: Proficiency with AWS, GCP, or Azure for deployment and scaling.

• Containerization & Orchestration: Solid knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes.

• Messaging & Caching: Experience with Redis, RabbitMQ, Kafka, and caching strategies (Redis, Memcached).

• Version Control: Strong Git workflows and collaboration in team environments.

• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, and cloud-native deployments.

• Proven experience working on production-grade, high-traffic applications.

Preferred Qualifications

• Understanding of software architecture patterns (event-driven, CQRS, hexagonal, etc.).

• Experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies.

• Contributions to open-source projects or strong personal backend projects.

• Experience with observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Jaeger).

Why Join Us?

• Work on cutting-edge backend systems that power enterprise-grade applications.

• Opportunity to learn and grow with a fast-paced engineering team.

• Exposure to cloud-native, microservices-based architectures.

• Collaborative culture that values innovation, ownership, and technical excellence.

Company: Fineline Technologies (www.finelinetech.com)

Founded: 1998

Headquarters: Norcross, Georgia, USA.

Global Presence: Operations in the U.S., Canada, China, Europe, India, and Africa

Work Mode: Hybrid

We are looking for a highly skilled Java Developer to join our team for permanent, long-term projects, focusing on managing IoT and RFID projects as well as barcode printing solutions. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in Java development, particularly with Spring Boot, Angular, and RESTful services. They should excel in designing and implementing scalable, reliable, and efficient Java applications. This role involves designing, developing, and maintaining high-quality software solutions, ensuring high performance and responsiveness. Additionally, the candidate will collaborate with stakeholders to understand business requirements, propose optimal solution approaches, and ensure the successful implementation of Java-based solutions.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Develop, test, and maintain Java applications using modern frameworks like Spring Boot.
• Design and implement RESTful services and web applications.
• Troubleshoot, debug, and optimize application performance.
• Actively engage in product design discussions and contribute to application architecture development.
• Participate in code reviews and pair programming sessions.
• Stay updated with the latest industry trends and technologies.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Qualifications: B.E/B.S/ M.S in Computer Science, B. Tech/M. Tech in Information Technology, MCA
• Experience: Advanced knowledge of Java programming with 8+ years of experience
• Java Programming: Proficiency in Java and its associated technologies, such as J2EE, JDBC, Servlets, JSP, and JavaFX.
• Spring Framework: (Nice to have UX/UI experience) Expertise in Spring Boot, Spring MVC, and other Spring modules for building robust applications.
• Web Services: Experience with RESTful and SOAP web services, including designing and implementing APIs.
• Front-End Technologies: Knowledge of front-end technologies like Angular 16+, React, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
• Database Management
• Microservices Architecture: Understanding of microservices architecture and containerization tools like Docker and Kubernetes.
• Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) Agile
• Code Quality and Testing: Familiarity with Test Driven Development (TDD), unit testing, and code review processes.

Nice to Have skills

• Experience with barcode printing and scanning.
• Understanding of RFID encoding and scanning technologies.
• Experience with cloud platforms like AWS, Azure.

Salary

As per industry standard

Role – Senior Developer (Back End)

Location - Bangalore

Experience 5+ Years

Responsibilities

• Responsible for design & developing products involving Java, JEE, Springboot.
• Object-oriented analysis and design using common design patterns.
• Deep insight of Java and JEE internals such as memory management, transaction management, etc.
• Design and develop features and modules for mission-critical applications.
• Contribute in all phases of the development lifecycle.
• Ensure designs are in compliance with specifications.
• Prepare and produce releases of software components.
• Mentoring and guiding the team members.
• An ability to perform well in a fast-paced environment and bring in optimal flow for rapidly changing design/ technology.
• Implementation of API.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in strong core java & J2EE skill
•  5+ years of experience in Spring Boot.
• 5+ years of experience in Spring and REST/SOAP services
• Strong knowledge in Java web application design and development
• Strong knowledge of Spring frameworks (Spring Boot, Spring integration, Spring Security, etc.), JPA, RESTful APIs
• Experience with design and development of highly available, distributed and scalable transactional enterprise systems
• Results oriented and focused on meeting deliverable timelines.
• A team player with excellent communication skills.

Java with cloud

Senior Software Engineer, Java/Python (Bangalore, Remote option available)

4+ years of experience 

Zepto 

Why should you look at this role?

Salary 40-55 lakh per annum

Paid leave

Sick leave

Provident Fund

What Else?

• High growth startup in quick commerce space (10 min delivery)
• Given our very high hiring bar, we offer a very competitive salary and substantial equity to create everlasting wealth for our early believers as the company grows.
• Work on real world logistics problems & benefit from the rocket ship Zepto is!

Tech Team: 40-50 (200+ in few months)

About the Employer

Zepto is a fast-growing startup that delivers products in 10 minutes through an optimised network of dark stores that we're building across the country!

Just 6 months after launching, we've raised $160 million from marquee

investors in Silicon Valley and India. Our investors include Y Combinator, Nexus Venture Partners, and many more! We’ve built out one of the best startup teams in India, with Senior Executives from Uber, Flipkart, Dream11, PhonePe, Goldman Sachs, Pepperfry, and institutions like Stanford, INSEAD, IITs, and IIMs.

The magic of Zepto is our ability to consistently deliver 2,500+ products in 10 minutes flat. It's the core of what we do, and the reason why we’ve been able to grow so fast with phenomenal customer love. Our mission is simple: to make 10-minute delivery the new normal.

Funding:

Funding Zepto has raised a total of $160M in funding over 3 rounds.

Their latest funding was raised on Dec 20, 2021 from a Series C round.

Employer Reviews:

“High Ownership, Lots of Learning, Broad Roles, Accessible Leaders”

"Alot of benefits like ZeptoJoy coupon, internet bill reimbursement and cab reimbursement is also taken care of. Overtime is paid."

Reporting structure:

Software Engineer -> Sr Software Engineer -> Lead -> EM -> AD / Director / VP -> Head of Engineering -> CTO

This role would be by and large a Individual Contributor role.

Interview Process:

• Round 1. Problem Solving + CS Fundamentals (60 mins)
  • DS/Algo Problems (30 mins) - You can expect 1-2 Leetcode easy/medium questions
  • CS Fundamentals (30 mins)
• Round 2. Low Level Design (60 mins)
  • You would be given a trivial problem and expected to work through the low level design viz class structure, interfaces, db data models etc.
• Round 3. High Level Design (60 mins)
  • You will be given a trivial problem, where we would work with you to design the system for the problem statement. We expect the detailed flow of the Functionality
    • Extract APIs, if any
    • Database choices
    • Schema design and Scale the system, if time permits

What You will do Everyday?

• Work very closely with the Tech Leadership and lead end-to-end development.
• Closely collaborate with product, design and business teams to understand product ideas and business needs and help deliver these as a series of ultra fast experiments.
• Architect and implement backend services with high reliability and scalability.
• Contribute to system architecture and database design.
• Set up best practices for development and champion their adoption.
• Write quality documentation and handle conflicts well to build consensus.
• Learn about new technologies and incorporate them.
• Mentor young minds and foster team spirit

Your Superpowers

• 4+ years of experience with Java frameworks like Spring / Dropwizard/Play or Python frameworks like Django/Flask/FastApi and databases like PostgreSQL/MySQL/MongoDB
• Experience in building highly scalable customer-facing applications that involve implementing complex business flows and dealing with an ever-increasing scale
• Extensive experience in object-oriented design skills, knowledge of design patterns, and huge passion and ability to design intuitive module and class-level interfaces.
• Experience in service-oriented architecture design.
• Experience building at least one application from scratch.
• Experience with cache store/message broker like Redis / RabbitMQ/Kafka
• Interest in learning new languages/framework as needed.
• Worked in a startup environment with high levels of ownership and commitment.
• A growth mindset and passionate about building things from the ground up and most importantly, you should be fun to work with.

As a Software Development Engineer at Amazon, you have industry-leading technical abilities and demonstrate breadth and depth of knowledge. You build software to deliver business impact, making smart technology choices. You work in a team and drive things forward.

Top Skills

• You write high quality, maintainable, and robust code, often in Java or C++/C/Python/ROR/C#
• You recognize and adopt best practices in software engineering: design, testing, version control, documentation, build, deployment, and operations.
• You have experience building scalable software systems that are high-performance, highly-available, highly transactional, low latency and massively distributed.

Roles & Responsibilities

• You solve problems at their root, stepping back to understand the broader context.
• You develop pragmatic solutions and build flexible systems that balance engineering complexity and timely delivery, creating business impact.
• You understand a broad range of data structures and algorithms and apply them to deliver high-performing applications.
• You recognize and use design patterns to solve business problems.
• You understand how operating systems work, perform and scale.
• You continually align your work with Amazon’s business objectives and seek to deliver business value.
• You collaborate to ensure that decisions are based on the merit of the proposal, not the proposer.
• You proactively support knowledge-sharing and build good working relationships within the team and with others in Amazon.
• You communicate clearly with your team and with other groups and listen effectively.

Skills & Experience

• Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science or relevant technical field.
• Experience in software development and full product life-cycle.
• Excellent programming skills in any object oriented programming languages - preferably Java, C/C++/C#, Perl, Python, or Ruby.
• Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and designing for performance, scalability, and availability.
• Proficiency in SQL and data modeling.

Job Description

• Design & implement backend APIs 
• Mentor junior developers technically.
• Actively work to reduce tech debt in the backend
• Work towards more stability & scalability of the backend
• Tech stack - Java, AWS, Aurora etc. 

Eligibility

• 4-8 years of product company experience
• OOP implementation experience. Programming language does not matter. We use Java internally but have hired folks from non Java background.
• Hands on experience in SQL, Dynamo DB, Postgres etc preferred. 
• Prior experience building REST APIs
• Advanced understanding of AWS stack
• Prior knowledge of solving problems at scale.

• You’ve been building web applications professionally for 4+ years
• You’re proficient in NodeJS, TypeScript, MySQL, and MongoDB
• You possess strong OOP and design pattern knowledge
• Familiar with modern engineering practices: Code Reviews, Continuous Deployment, Automated Testing, etc
• You write understandable, testable code with an eye towards maintainability and experience with TDD (Test Driven Development)
• You have the ability to build RESTful APIs
• Explaining complex technical concepts to designers, support team, and fellow engineers is not a problem for you
• Well versed with the fundamentals of computer science and distributed systems
• Frontend experience; (Good to have) Angular
• Start-up experience, preferably a tech start-up
• Open-Source contributor
• You have experience with other programming languages -- e.g., Python, Ruby, PHP, Go, C, etc.
• Passionate about/experienced with open source and developer tools
• You have a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent training, fellowship, or work experience

Qualifications

• BE/ B. Tech/ MSc/MTech
• Candidate should possess the degree from a recognized University/ Institution only

Preferred Skills: 

We want to really emphasize Spring Boot (2+ years although 1+ if candidate particularly strong) Using Redis as a caching technology with Spring Boot would be a strong plus 

Using Redisson (a particular java client library that can be easily configured with Spring Boot) would be a strong plus 

Knowledge of event based messaging systems (Amazon SNS, Amazon MQ, or Kafka (in AWS) Data Cleaning tools and techniques in CSV and Excel 

Strong Knowledge of Spring Boot Dependency Injection and Configuration 

Experience with APIs for popular e-commerce platforms (Magento, Shopify, Big Commerce, etc.) 

SDLC (Software Development Lifecycle) Tools in the context of AWS. (Tools classified under DevOps) 

Experience with managing AWS EC2 VM instances and using AWS managed Services (like S3, MySQL, VPC/Networking, Lambda, etc) 

Performance Analysis Tools (Code Profiling) on Java VM and particularly Spring Boot 

Nice to Have: 

Experience with Cassandra or MongoDB with Spring Boot 

Horizontal Scaling with Spring Boot (considerations running multiple instances of Spring Boot instances) 

Experience with placing Spring Boot applications in Docker/Kubernetes container ecosystems (especially in AWS)