
Lead Software Engineer - Backend
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Lead Software Engineer - Backend
It is evolving the way people discover the world by connecting them with exceptional experiences in their city at the push of a button. We are building a magical platform that gets everyone to head out and have fun in a matter of seconds; no matter where you are and what you want to do. We are combining a delightful product experience, data-driven decisions, sophisticated supply side logistics network, and world-class operations to solve a huge basic human problem: how do we have a good time?
We’re growing rapidly with over $200M in annualized sales, 150,000 monthly transactions and profitable unit economics. We are backed by some of the finest investors in Silicon Valley & India.
We like to solve real-world problems in the simplest, most elegant manner possible. We’re looking for a QA Lead with the ability and passion for building solutions to people-centered problems that are created at the intersection of human behavior and technology. You should also be capable of building and mentoring a fast-growing passionate, young, and talented team. We love folks who have a sense of humor and know how to have fun.Dream, build and iterate. That's our mantra. Because good just isn't good enough.
👩💻 The Role
- Full responsibility of designing and building core modules on the application and infrastructure layer.
- Lead a fast-growing team of young, passionate, talented and fun loving superstars.
- Solve challenging architectural and design problems.
- Get your hands dirty with clustering, replication, databases, build systems and infrastructure automation etc.
- Be responsible for building concurrent, performant and scalable services which will power the entire Headout ecosystem.
- Build and contribute to open-source libraries and components.
🌟 Our Dream Engineer
- A penchant for learning and building with new technologies and frameworks.
- You love working with people and have worked in a lead position in the past.
- A knack for writing the most performance optimized code along with it being modular and scalable.
- No challenge is too big to solve; love thinking product and excited to ideate & build stuff all by yourself.
- You're interested in being an early employee at a growing company, with the influence and responsibility that entails.
- You have broad and deep knowledge across a variety of contemporary technologies.
💝 We like
- Strong CS fundamentals, good working knowledge of classic algorithms and data structures.
- 2+years experience developing server-side technologies using any language or framework.
- Excellent communication, collaboration and people management skills.
- Experience working with Spring, Relational Databases, Concurrent Programming, NoSQL flavors, AWS.
- Experience designing scalable, fault-tolerant systems and databases.
- Experience with setting setting up systems and infrastructure.
- Solid understanding of how the web works and its underlying communication protocols.
- People who can't live without solving that algorithm problem that they just stumbled upon.
- People who will give up anything to squeeze in that last bit-level performance.
- Anything else than can surprise us.
- Nice to Haves: An interest in travel, local experiences & hospitality.

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Description: Design, build and configure applications to meet business process and application
requirements.
JOB DESCRIPTION
- Has in-depth understanding of the full software development life cycle. Deep familiarity with data & business analysis, along with modern software design &development concepts encompassing a range of languages & platforms.
- Can work within an Agile team to ensure that all key technical requirements are identified, estimated, designed, implemented, and tested.
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- Bachelor of Engineering / 2-3 years of experience
- Willing to work on Testing
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- Ability to Query Relational Databases like DB2, Sybase and Cloud data sources like snowflake.
- Spring, SOAP & REST Web Services with on XML/JSON based data.
- Experience with DevOps tools and Git.
- Test Driven development (TDD) and experience working in a disciplined development environment.
- Exposure to Azure Cloud experience is a plus.
GOOD TO HAVE SKILLS
- Business analysis – focused on investment management process and tools.
- Some experience into Automation Testing.
Java back end developer
Chennai
3+yrs
3 to 5 years Java,
Sprint Boot, Hibernate,
REST API Design Patterns SQL,
Oracle,
Table design
What You'll Do:
- Understand the upcoming development requirement of product in depth.
- Design product architecture as per vision, insights and concurred direction.
- Design and develop the APIs using Java, Spring, and Hibernate required for the product and expose them to be used by the front-end developers.
- Design the database and tables in MySQL/PostGreSQL/NoSQL (whichever is suitable for the need of the product) and guide the team to utilize them in the best possible way.
- Get involved in continuous maintenance of the product and get the bugs fixed in time.
- Coordinate the workflow between the UX Designers and front-end developers.
- Work on integrating flows with external tools - Segment, Branch, Clevertap.
Ideal Profile:
- Proficiency in Core Java & Spring framework.
- Expertise in Web Service technologies.
- Experience in building the architecture as per the product’s need.
- Experience in building REST APIs using Java/Spring.
- Excellent knowledge in Databases and code integrations such as Postgres SQL, SQL Server, MySQL.
- Experience in full life cycle development of a product (specifically mobile products) is a plus.
- Experience with Java/Spring-Boot, Hibernate Cloud Services, AWS.
- Experience with security principles and frameworks.
- Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token and OAuth2 - Familiarity with code versioning tools (primarily Git).
- Essential skills are Core Java/J2EE, functional aspects, Spring Framework, Tomcat, SVN, Git, Postman/Newman.
- Should have worked in Agile methodologies.
- Good object-oriented and problem-solving skills.
- Strong communication skills along with the ability to work in a highly collaborative environment.
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- J2EE - Sprint Boot Microservices
- 2+ years of experience in Java, Spring and Spring boot development (J2EE, J2SE 8)
- Degree, diploma or Certificate in Computer Science or IT.
- Extensive experience with Spring, Spring Boot Micro Services, JPA, Hibernate
- Understanding of Spring Boot 2.x , Microservices and higher with the ability to create an initial project with the correct starter modules.
- Extensive experience in REST and SOAP Webservices Services • Excellent knowledge of databases( PostgreSQL, My SQL)
- Experience in testing tools (JUnit, SOAP UI, Postman)
- Experience in building tools – Maven, Gradle
- Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token
- Experience in web application servers - Tomcat etc
- Understanding of Agile Development methodology – SCRUM
- Understanding of continuous integration - Jenkins and Code versioning tools - Git
Greetings from Ellixtra Technologies Private Limited!
Ellixtra technologies is a bunch of young, self- motivated individuals that came together to create something significant for our society. A start up where we develop new business models for the pharmacy industry to keep our customers engaged on the right track. Our key components are authenticity and affordability, and we continue to look forward to a society in which access to affordable healthcare is no longer an issue.
We are looking to hire a Backend Engineer with outstanding organizational and research skills with 2 years experience,
About The Role
- Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and improve software and new user-facing features across Ellixtras products and services.
- Optimize applications for maximum speed and scalability and analyze feedback from customers and internal teams to identify issues and improvement opportunities.
- Champion a passion for engineering best practices such as code quality, linting, and testing.
- Ensure our software is reliable, extensible, maintainable, debuggable, secure, well-tested and performs well under load.
- Stay engaged with the latest technologies and evaluate strategies to keep the Novo technology stack up to date.
Requirements for the Role
- 2+ years experience in a highly technical role at a hyper-growth startup or fast-paced company.
- Extensive background in designing, developing, testing, deploying, maintaining, and improving the software.
- Good understanding of Node.js & Javascript ecosystem.
- Demonstrated ability to translate business goals and initiatives into technical requirements.
- Strong understanding of SQL database.
- Demonstrable experience architecting scalable and cost-effective solutions to ensure and support customer growth.
- Understanding of system design and architecture.
- Interest in engaging with the latest technologies and evaluating strategies to keep the Novo technology stack up to date.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to collaborate with both technical and non-technical teams effectively.
Main Duties
Contribute in all phases of the development lifecycle
Write well designed, testable, efficient code
Ensure designs are in compliance with specifications
Support continuous improvement by investigating alternatives and technologies and presenting these for architectural review
Prepare and produce releases of software components
Role & Relationships
We consider ourselves a team & you will be a valuable part of it. You could be reporting to a Senior member or directly to our Founder, CEO
Educational Qualifications
We don’t discriminate. As long as you have the required skill set & the right attitude
Experience
Upto seven years of experience, preferably working on Java.
Skills
Good
Strong understanding of Core Java , Servlet, JSP
Knowledge of RDBMS (MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server), NoSQL
Knowledge of RESTful Web Services, XML, JSON, Spring
Good team player
Even better
Familiarity with the software development lifecycle
Strong Full stack developer development background with frontend and backend web applications
Competencies
An aptitude to solve problems & learn something new
Highly self-motivated
Analytical frame of mind
Ability to work in fast-paced, dynamic environment
Location
Currently in Pune
Remuneration
Once we meet, we shall make an offer depending on how good a fit you are & the experience you already have
About us
Aikon Labs Pvt Ltd is a start-up focused on Realizing Ideas. One such idea is iEngage.io, our Intelligent Engagement Platform. We leverage Augmented Intelligence, a combination of machine-driven insights & human understanding, to serve a timely response to every interaction from the people you care about.


