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Job Title: Lead Java Developer
Experience Required: 7+ Years
Location: Mumbai
About the Role
We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Backend Developer with deep expertise in building scalable, high-performance applications. The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on experience with Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, and distributed systems. You will play a key role in designing and optimizing APIs, architecting robust systems, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver innovative solutions.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend systems using Java, Spring Boot, and Microservices architecture.
- Build and optimize APIs for large-scale applications ensuring high performance and reliability.
- Apply clean coding principles, SOLID design patterns, and clean architecture to deliver maintainable and robust code.
- Work with distributed systems technologies (Kafka, ELK, in-memory databases, Cassandra, or similar).
- Write efficient SQL queries and integrate with relational and NoSQL databases.
- Collaborate with product managers, architects, and other developers to define and align on technical decisions.
- Identify and solve complex problems with innovative and scalable solutions.
- Drive best practices in coding standards, system design, and performance optimization.
- Communicate complex technical concepts clearly across teams and stakeholders.
Skills & Qualifications
- 7+ years of experience as a Backend Developer.
- Strong expertise in Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, SQL.
- Significant experience in API design and optimization for enterprise-scale applications.
- Proficiency in distributed systems & related technologies (Kafka, ELK, in-memory DBs, Cassandra, etc.).
- Strong understanding of object-oriented engineering principles (SOLID, clean architecture).
- Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills with the ability to simplify complex concepts.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to influence and align teams.
Required Skills:
- 3+ year of experience in Development in JAVA technology.
- Strong Java Basics
- SpringBoot or Spring MVC
- Hands on experience on Relational 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:
- 4+ 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.
About the role:
You will own a functional area - from product conception to its delivery to customers. You are expected to design and code independently in multiple tech components related to your functional area. You must also develop a deep understanding of non-functional requirements, such as reliability and availability, scale, horizontal scalability, etc. over time to make tech stack decisions accordingly. You are expected to actively mentor junior engineers. You own
the codebase quality.
We are looking for seasoned engineers who are quality-conscious, product thinkers, business cognizant and smart. Engineers get to significantly amplify the impact of their work or creations with scale. The scale also demands that engineers to produce super-efficient solutions.
What you’ll do
- Strong experience with Java 8, Spring and Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Data,
- Working experience in Microservices
- Version Control: Git
- Strong understanding of functional/reactive programming, OOP, design
- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
- SDLC: Working experience in Agile methodology
- Strong interpersonal skills and time management skills
What you’ll need
- B.Tech or M.Tech equivalent with at least 3 years of experience
- Deep expertise in at least one programming language & tech stack.
- Strong object-oriented design skills, ability to apply design patterns, and an uncanny ability to design intuitive module and class-level interfaces
- Experience in building data-driven web application design and development is a plus
- Good understanding of multiple tech solutions and ability to pick the correct one for the given situation
- Prior work experience in an agile environment or continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI or CD)
- Ability and experience in designing high-level software designs of the scalable system, taking NFR (non-functional requirement) into consideration
Required Skills:
- 3+ year of experience in Development in JAVA technology.
- Strong Java Basics
- SpringBoot or Spring MVC
- Hands on experience on Relational 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.
Basic Qualifications:
- 2+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- Programming experience with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
- 1+ years of experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems.
Additional Job requirements
- BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science/Math or equivalent
- BS in computer science or related field.
- 2+ years of relevant professional software development experience: designing, developing, and delivering software written in Java, C#, or C++, web development.
- Knowledgeable in object-oriented design patterns.
- Experience building highly scalable and distributed systems
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with service-oriented architecture and application/services development
- Passion for performance debugging and benchmarking
Skills Needed: Java,Spring,Springboot,Microservices
Should have hands-on experience with Java
Should have hands-on experience with technologies like spring & springboot
Should have hands-on experience with Microservices Architecture
Experience:2 Yrs to 5 Yrs
Notice Period: Immediate to 10 Days(Max)
Location: Bangalore
Work from Home till Pandemic End
● Partner with the product/business teams to understand the product features and
specifications, translate them into high level and low-level design
● Participate in all stages of the Software Development Lifecycle
● Develop back-end components, services, and APIs. Support integration of user-
facing elements, and collaborate closely with the design and front-end development
team
● Write elegant, effective, and scalable code while maintaining the highest level of
coding standards
● Take ownership of the work and ensure timely deliveries
● Drive innovation in product development, while relentlessly improving performance,
scalability, and maintainability
Requirement
● Strong problem solving and analytical skills with a minimum of 2-4 years of
experience in backend development
● 1+ experience as a Java Developer, with strong knowledge of Java web frameworks
like Spring Boot, Hibernate, etc. and experience working in Microservices
architecture
● Hands-on experience of working with Linux/Unix platform
● Strong knowledge of SQL and RDBMS like PostgreSQL/MySQL etc.
● Experience in - Python, Git
● Strong technical aptitude and good knowledge of CS fundamentals
● Sound knowledge and application of algorithms and data structures with space and
time complexities
● Strong design skills involving data modelling and low-level class design
● Follow industry coding standards and responsible for writing maintainable, scalable,
and efficient code to solve business problems
Good to have
● B. Tech./M. Tech. in Computer Science or equivalent from a reputed college
● Prior experience working in a startup environment
● Experience in setting up an entire product from scratch
● Develop, record and maintain cutting edge web-based PHP SAAS applications on portal plus
premium service platforms.
● Should be individual contributor and able to handle frontend and backend.
● Build innovative, state-of-the-art applications and collaborate with the User Experience (UX) team,
testing teams.
● Strong knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, JQuery and Microservices
● Prepare and maintain all applications utilizing standard development tools
● Utilize backend data services and contribute to increase existing data services API
● Lead the entire web application development life cycle right from concept stage to delivery and post
launch support
● Good knowledge of GIT, Digital Ocean or AWS servers
● Convey effectively with all task progress, evaluations, suggestions, schedules along with technical
and process issues.
● Document the development process, architecture, and standard comp
Requirements:
- Academic degree (BE / MCA) with 3-10 years of experience in back-end Development.
- Strong knowledge of OOPS concepts, Analyzing, Designing, Development and Unit testing
- Scala technologies, AKKA, REST Webservices, SOAP, Jackson JSON API, JUnit, Mockito, Maven
- Hands-on experience with Play framework
- Familiarity with Microservice Architecture
- Experience working with Apache Tomcat server or TomEE
- Experience working with SQL databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Cassandra), writing custom queries, procedures, and designing schemas.
- Good to have front end experience (JavaScript, Angular JS/ React JS)









