Principal Architect

TECHNICAL MANAGER

Department: Product Engineering Location: Noida/Chennai

Experience: 12+ years with 2+ years in a similar role

Job Summary:

We are looking for an inspiring leader to lead a dynamic R&D team with a strong “Product & Customer” spirit. As an Engineering Manager, you will be responsible for the entire process, from design and specification to code quality, process integration and delivery performance

Key Responsibilities:

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Collaborate closely with Product Management teams to design and develop business modules.

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As a manager, coordinate a diverse team and ensure collaboration between different departments. Empathetic and fair yet demanding management with particular attention to operational excellence.

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Actively participate in resolving technical issues and challenges that the team encounters during development and escalated client implementation and production issues

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Anticipate technical challenges and work to address them proactively to minimize disruptions to the development process. Guides the team in making architectural choices

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Promote and advocate for best practices in software development, including coding standards, testing practices, and documentation.

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Make informed decisions on technical trade-offs and communicate those decisions to the team and stakeholders.

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Be on top of critical client/ implementation issues and keep stakeholders informed.

PROFILE

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Good proficiency overlaps with technologies like: Java17, Spring, SpringMVC, RESTful web services, Hibernate, RDBMS, Spring Security, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, JMeter, Angular.

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Strong experience in development tools, CI/CD pipelines. Extensive experience with Agile.

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Deep understanding of cloud technologies on at least one of the cloud platforms AWS, Azure or Google Cloud

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Strong communicator with ability to collaborate cross-functionally, build relationships, and achieve broader organizational goals.

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Proven leadership skills

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Product development experience preferred. Fintech or lending domain experience is a plus.

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Engineering degree or equivalent.

As a Backend Engineer you will be responsible for creating REST APIs which are used to drive the User Interface. Given the nature of the application, these APIs need to be very efficient and high performing. This requires optimizing queries for faster execution and introducing database changes that may be required. We are looking for individuals with great attention to detail, who are genuine, confident, committed and not only passionate about technology, but excited to work in a fun and friendly start-up environment. The ideal candidate will be passionate about technology and GETTING IT DONE.

Responsibilities:

• Develop, test, implement and maintain application software
• Take part in software and architectural development activities
• Debug application issues and helping support respond to client queries
• Participate in application development meetings
• Provide accurate estimates, clearly communicate status of tasks and identification of risks
• Commitment to accomplishing the task at hand and identify the fastest and most reliable way to solve a problem
• Performance tuning of application code at different service levels
• Interact with customers of the application and help address issues reported

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent
• 3+ years of experience with Java and Spring frameworks.
• Having good knowledge in a scripting language like python is a plus
• Experience with Spring and Hibernate/ ORM
• Understanding of relational database and normal forms
• Understanding of NoSQL / RDBMS (Mongo or Postgres) and ability to write optimized and high performing queries
• Strong understanding of Java concurrency, concurrency patterns, experience building thread safe code
• Experience building RESTful web services
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Strong interpersonal skills and time management skills
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills
• Experience with GIT as a VCS, Unix based systems
• Experience with NoSQL Database is a plus
• Following are a set of 'good to have' skills React AWS Bitbucket, JIRA

We’re looking for a Java Backend Developer with strong experience in Spring Boot, AWS, and Microservices to join our growing team. If you're passionate about scalable backend systems and love working in a fast-paced environment, we want to hear from you!

What You’ll Bring:

• 4+ years of backend development experience
• Strong hands-on expertise in Core Java and Spring Boot
• Experience designing and developing Microservices architecture
• Solid working knowledge of AWS services
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs, version control (Git), and CI/CD
• Strong problem-solving and debugging skills
• Ability to work independently and in a collaborative team environment
• Immediate joiners are highly preferred

Required Skills and Experience:

Proficient in Java (Java 8 and above), with a strong understanding of object-oriented programming.

Knowledge in the trading domain, including familiarity with trading systems and protocols.

Strong skills in SQL and PL/SQL for database management and query optimization.

Hands-on experience with Linux and Windows operating systems for application deployment and maintenance.

Proficiency in scripting languages (e.g., Bash, PowerShell, or similar).

Knowledge of Python programming for auxiliary development and analytics tasks.

Familiarity with multithreading, concurrency, and low-latency application development.

Experience with CI/CD pipelines, version control systems (e.g., Git), and deployment workflows.

About Our Client

It is a last-mile tech-logistics solution provider for intra-state deliveries based in Bangalore. It offers reliable, affordable, and professional services, structured to serve enterprises.

Our Client aggregates light commercial vehicles for urban logistics and has onboarded 55,000+ truckers on its platform across 14 cities. Our Client works across industry sectors like organized retail, FMCG and e-commerce, distribution and 3PL companies. Some of its clients include Amazon, Flipkart, Bisleri, Vishal Mega Mart, Future Supply Chain, Coca-Cola, Delhivery, and Udaan.

The company offers customized logistics solutions for clients, along with other value-added services such as screened drivers, audited and GPS-enabled vehicles, point-to-point billing, status updates, 24x7 service, and greater efficiency, all at transparent and economical pricing.

Our Client, as a brand, is known as one of the market leaders in the enterprise segment, and first movers to identify and empathize with the underserved urban trucker community, playing a huge role in making them a part of the mainstream economy. This series-B funded tech-logistics company aims to disrupt the primitive $35bn+ urban-logistics industry by leveraging technology and help enterprises to reach consumers faster.

Our Client is India's largest enterprise urban-logistics provider in India, with 55,000+ Light Commercial Vehicles on its platform.

Why Our Client?

1) Young Startup growing and well funded.

What will I do?

- Designing user flows and converting them into logical entities in the code.

- Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers with server-side logic.

- Designing Database schemas.

- Building reusable code and libraries for future use

- Optimization of the application for maximum speed and scalability

- Implementation of security and data protection

- Design and implementation of data storage solutions

What skills should I have?

- 3+ years of experience in Backend Development.
- Language: NodeJs
- Additional knowledge of Python will be a plus
- Understanding of microservices architecture.
- User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
- Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system

- Management of hosting environment, including database administration and scaling an application to support load changes

- Data migration, transformation, and scripting

- Understanding differences between multiple delivery platforms such as mobile vs desktop, and optimizing output to match the specific platform
- Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes
- Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests
- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git

Technical Competencies

• Strong Java/J2EE development experience with demonstrated ability to develop and troubleshoot large mission applications & Software Products
• Experience on exception handling, correct use of data structures, multi-threaded programming, memory management and application tuning
• Excellent exposure in Object Oriented Design skills using Java/J2ee along with:
• Core Java Language (Collections, Concurrency/Multithreading)
• JDBC concepts (connection pooling, statement, result set)
• Web Technologies (Struts/Struts 2, Spring (IOP, MVC, AOP), Hibernate, JSP, Web services)
• Database optimization and profiling
• Core/JEE/Integration Design patterns/UML
• Should have experience in Unit Testing
• Good hands on experience with RDBMS like MySQL/Oracle with ability to write SQL Queries/Stored Procedures/Triggers/Joins/View etc
• Practical application of software product development standards and methodologies including Agile, XP, Kanban, RUP and UML
• Ability to apply design patterns consistently and also accurate when building per design requirements
• Good experience in source control, unit testing, code verification, documentation, automated build, continuous integration, metrics, and code reviews.
• Demonstrated problem solving, analytic and troubleshooting skills.
• Strong written and oral communication skills are required to effectively engage internal stakeholders and their technical representatives.