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You'll work closely with our team to implement best practices, improve our architecture, and create a high-performance engineering culture. Over a 6–9-month period, you'll also immerse yourself in game development, Unity, and C# to become a well-rounded technical leader in the gaming space.
- Drive maximum development velocity through direct involvement in development sprints, ensuring developers work as efficiently and effectively as possible.
- Lead and mentor a team of engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous improvement.
- Drive architectural decisions that ensure scalable, maintainable, and high-performance game products.
- Foster a high-performance engineering culture aligned with ambitious goals, accountability, and proactive problem-solving.
- Implement and enforce engineering best practices (e.g., code reviews, testing, documentation) and the adoption of new tools, technologies including AI, and methodologies to optimize team efficiency.
- Transition our team to a high-performance culture aligned with our ambitious, venture-backed goals.
IDEAL CANDIDATE:
- 8+ years of software engineering experience with at least 3+ years in a technical leadership role
- Ability to reasonably estimate and plan tasks and features.
- Strong programming fundamentals and hands-on coding abilities
- Strong grasp of software architecture, TDD, code reviews, and clean coding principles.
- Proficient at profiling games to identify bottlenecks and performance issues.
- Experience building complex, scalable software systems
- Proven track record of driving architectural decisions and technical excellence
- Experience mentoring and developing engineering talent
- Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail
- Excellent communication skills and ability to explain complex technical concepts
- Experience with agile development methodologies
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
PERKS, BENEFITS AND WORK CULTURE:
- We foster a culture of continuous learning.
- We value talent and the ability for significant self-improvement.
- Honest feedback and transparency across all departments allow for rapid skill development.
- You will have the opportunity to work on an exciting new game development product with complete autonomy.
Java Developer (Backend) – 3+ Years Experience | Bangalore |
We are looking for a passionate and driven Backend Java Developer who thrives in building scalable systems from the ground up. If you enjoy solving complex problems, working in fast-paced environments, and owning your work end-to-end, this role is for you.
Key Responsibilities:
Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend systems using Java and Spring Boot.
Build and optimize RESTful APIs and microservices architectures.
Write clean, efficient, and high-performance code that can handle large-scale applications.
Collaborate closely with product and business teams to translate requirements into technical solutions.
Take ownership of features from design to deployment, ensuring reliability and performance.
Continuously improve system architecture, performance, and scalability.
Required Skills & Experience:
3+ years of experience in backend development using Java.
Strong hands-on experience with Spring Boot framework.
Proven experience working in product-based startups or fintech environments (preferred).
Solid understanding of microservices architecture and distributed systems.
Expertise in designing modular, scalable, and maintainable systems.
Strong problem-solving skills and ability to write optimized, production-grade code.
Ability to balance technical decisions with business impact.
Who Should Apply:
Candidates who enjoy building systems from scratch and working in early-stage/startup environments.
Individuals with a high sense of ownership, accountability, and initiative.
Developers who are self-driven, adaptable, and eager to learn.

Core Focus:
- Operate with a full DevOps mindset, owning the software lifecycle from development through production support.
- Participate in Agile ceremonies and global team collaboration, including on-call support.
Mandatory/Strong Technical Skills (6–8+ years of relevant experience required):
- Java: 4.5 to 6.5 years experience
- AWS: Strong knowledge and working experience with Cloud technologies minimum 2 years.
- Kafka: 2 years of Strong knowledge and working experience with data integration technologies
- Databases: Experience with SQL/NoSQL databases (e.g., Postgres, MongoDB).
Other Key Technologies & Practices:
- Python, Spring Boot, and API-based system design.
- Containers/Orchestration (Kubernetes).
- CI/CD tools (Gitlab, Splunk, Datadog).
- Familiarity with Terraform and Airflow.
- Experience in Agile methodology (Jira, Confluence).
• 3 - 6 Years of Experience in Golang Development
• Understands requirements well and comes up with efficient design
• Develops complex, well backed and bug-free products.
• Estimates accurately.
• Takes well-reasoned tech decisions keeping in mind goals and trade-offs
• Becomes a go-to person in more than one area. Provide technical mentoring to team
• Communicates clearly, gets clarifications and establishes expectations for all parties
• Helps establish SDLC best practices and high standards of code quality
• Demonstrates excellent problem solving & debugging skills
• Proactively identifies and resolves issues in requirements, design and code
Ideal Candidate Profile:
• Solid experience in Golang is must.
• Solid understanding of Apache Products.
• Should have experience in cloud computing (AWS is desired).
• Has an ability to quickly learn and contribute in multiple codebase
• Overcomes roadblocks and requires minimal oversight
• Takes initiatives to fix issues/tech debts before assigned to him/her
• Able to deep dive into codebase and advise QA of possible regression impact
• Communicates tech decisions through design docs and tech talks
• Has delivered projects with end-to-end accountability
• Keeps track of industry trends and introduces right tech/ tools for a given job
• Excellent understanding of software engineering practices,
• Design Patterns, Data Structures, Algorithms
• Experience in product driven organisation.
Experience using, operating, and developing on top of cloud infrastructures and services
Experience in Kubernetes/openshift
Dynamic personality who is able to be proactive and adapt to the evolving architectural and technological directions.
Goal-oriented with the ability to work as part of a team; flexible, with the ability to work on different topics at the same time
Excellent communication skills; knowledge of and experience with agile programming practices and pair programming practices
Experience in multiple modern programming languages like Go, Python, React.Js, etc
UI Experience will be an added advantage to enable Gitops UI workflows.
Experience with test-driven development, continuous integration (CI) and delivery (CD), committer or contributor model and pair programming, and experience using Git
Working experience of distributed systems

As part of the engineering team, you would be expected to have
deep technology expertise with a passion for building highly scalable products.
This is a unique opportunity where you can impact the lives of people across 150+
countries!
Responsibilities
● Own architecture, design, development, and implementation of different modules/features of the services
● Design, develop, deploy and support web applications.
● Discover opportunities for performance improvements
● Recommend ways to improve reliability, efficiency and code quality
● Focus on continuous delivery and reducing complexity
● Carry out code reviews and manage pull requests
● Build applications based on micro-services architecture
Requirements
● Overall 1-3 years of experience in Backend development.
● B.E/B.Tech in CS or equivalent streams from institute of repute (IITs, NITs, BITs,
IIITs or equivalent)
● Strong object oriented design skills & knowledge of design patterns
● Experience designing & developing distributed systems involving multiple web services, databases (both SQL and NoSQL), caches, queues, etc. taking into consideration scalability, availability, fault tolerance, consistency, etc. of the overall system
● Well-aware of and enforces development best practices: Unit Tests, Code Reviews,
Integration Tests, CI/CD, Monitoring, Alerting, etc
Responsibilities
- Lead the development of the backend systems for our first product
- Build reliable, secure and performant backend systems
- Drive test coverage and continuous delivery automation within the team
- Mentor and provide feedback to teammates
Requirements
- 5+ years of software development experience
- Strong computer science fundamentals
- Deep and wide knowledge of Java ecosystem
- Can write code that is readable, maintainable, secure and performant
- Know the importance of tests and how to approach writing different types of tests
- Good intuition for REST API design
- Deep understanding of relational databases, transactions, entity-relationship modeling
- Comfortable writing highly concurrent systems
- Experienced in using profilers, tuning garbage collection, optimizing SQL queries
Desired Skills and Experience
- Golang , Java , Python , Ruby
Qualification & Experience:
- Bachelor of Engineering, preferably in Computer Science/or related fields or Masters, from a premier college
- 2 to 6 years overall software development experience
- Proven hands-on Software Development experience
- Ability to work with an agile mindset
- Having a polyglot mindset to think beyond one programming language/framework to choose the right tech stack for the right problem and exhibit learnability to pick up new technologies
- Proven working experience in Java development/Python development with reasonable exposure to Python/Java respectively or willingness to learn Python/Java
- Hands on experience in designing and developing applications using Java EE platforms/Python Frameworks
- Object Oriented analysis and design using common design patterns
- Good Understanding of Data Structures & Algorithms
- Hands on multi-threading
- Experience in the Relational Databases, SQL and ORM technologies (e.g. JDBC, JPA2, Hibernate, Django ORM)
- Experience with test-driven development
Location: Hyderabad, India
Nisum is a leading global digital commerce firm headquartered in California, with services spanning digital strategy and transformation, insights and analytics, blockchain, business agility, and custom software development. Founded in 2000 with the customer-centric motto “Building Success Together®,” Nisum has grown to over 1,400 professionals across the United States, Chile, India, and Pakistan. A preferred advisor to leading Fortune 500 brands, Nisum enables clients to achieve direct business growth by building the advanced technology they need to reach end customers in today’s world, with immersive and seamless experiences across digital and physical channels.
What You’ll Do
Coding in Java8, Spring, Microservices, WebFlux/Reactive Programing, Rest services, Kafka, PCF, Azure, Spring Cloud Config and NoSQL technologies.
Solve technical problems using cutting-edge technologies and best practices.
Ensure code meets the required development standards and is optimized for performance.
Unit testing for each line of new code introduced (JUnit/Mockito)
Peer code review process using GIT pull requests and Crucible (for SVN)
Propose multiple solutions to a problem, show how one option is better than another.
Ensure all aspects of technical design are correctly incorporated.
Contribute in research and implementing POC’s as required.
Collaborating with onsite team in scrum ceremonies.
Who you are
Senior developer using technical skills in Java8, J2EE, Spring boot(rest services), Web Services(Rest & SOAP), WebFlux, Spring Cloud Config, Maven/Gradle, JUNIT/TestNG, Mockito/JMock/EasyMock, JIRA, XML, JSON, EhCache/MemCache/Redis with skills in JMS, Kafka
Experience with hands on any one of the cloud platforms like PCF, Azure
Need hands on skills using NoSQL databases (Cassandra, MongoDB), SQL(Oracle/DB2/MySQL)
Experience with UI development skills to the level of debugging and enhancements.
Experience with expertise in code quality and coding standards.
Need to applying different design patterns, especially GoF, J2EE and Integration design patterns.
Making sure implementing unit testing for each line of new code introduced (JUnit/Mockito).
Ensuring the code meets the required development standards and is optimized for performance.
Education
Bachelor’s / Master’s degree in specific technical fields like computer science, math, statistics preferred; or equivalent practical experience.





