Principal Architect-Java and Microservices

Job Details

- Job Title: Lead I - Software Engineering - Java, J2Ee, Spring

- Industry: Technology

- Domain - Information technology (IT)

- Experience Required: 6-12 years

- Employment Type: Full Time

- Job Location: Bangalore

- CTC Range: Best in Industry

Job Description:

Role Summary:

We are looking for an experienced Senior Java Developer with expertise in building robust, scalable web applications using Java/J2EE, Spring Boot, REST APIs, and modern microservices architectures. The ideal candidate will be skilled in both back-end and middleware technologies, with strong experience in cloud platforms (AWS), and capable of mentoring junior developers while contributing to high-impact enterprise projects.

The developer will be responsible for full-cycle application development: from interpreting specifications and writing clean, reusable code, to testing, integration, and deployment. You will also work closely with customers and project teams to understand requirements and deliver solutions that optimize cost, performance, and maintainability.

Key Responsibilities:

Application Development & Delivery

• Design, code, debug, test, and document Java-based web applications aligned with design specifications.
• Build scalable and secure microservices using Spring Boot and RESTful APIs.
• Optimize application performance, maintainability, and reusability by using proven design patterns.
• Handle complex data structures and develop multi-threaded, performance-optimized applications.
• Ensure code quality through TDD (JUnit) and best practices.

Cloud & DevOps

• Develop and deploy applications on AWS Cloud Services: EC2, S3, DynamoDB, SNS, SES, etc.
• Leverage containerization tools like Docker and orchestration using Kubernetes.

Integration & Configuration

• Integrate with various databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, NoSQL).
• Configure development environments and CI/CD pipelines as per project needs.
• Follow configuration management processes and ensure compliance.

Testing & Quality Assurance

• Review and create unit test cases, scenarios, and support UAT phases.
• Perform defect root cause analysis (RCA) and proactively implement quality improvements.

Documentation

• Create and review technical documents: HLD, LLD, SAD, user stories, design docs, test cases, and release notes.
• Contribute to project knowledge bases and code repositories.

Team & Project Management

• Mentor team members; conduct code and design reviews.
• Assist Project Manager in effort estimation, planning, and task allocation.
• Set and review FAST goals for yourself and your team; provide regular performance feedback.

Customer Interaction

• Engage with customers to clarify requirements and present technical solutions.
• Conduct product demos and design walkthroughs.
• Interface with customer architects for design finalization.

Key Skills & Tools:

Core Technologies:

• Java/J2EE, Spring Boot, REST APIs
• Object-Oriented Programming (OOP), Design Patterns, Domain-Driven Design (DDD)
• Multithreading, Data Structures, TDD using JUnit

Web & Data Technologies:

• JSON, XML, AJAX, Web Services
• Database Technologies: PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, NoSQL (e.g., DynamoDB)
• Persistence Frameworks: Hibernate, JPA

Cloud & DevOps:

• AWS: S3, EC2, DynamoDB, SNS, SES
• Version Control & Containerization: GitHub, Docker, Kubernetes

Agile & Development Practices:

• Agile methodologies: Scrum or Kanban
• CI/CD concepts
• IDEs: Eclipse, IntelliJ, or equivalent

Expected Outcomes:

• Timely delivery of high-quality code and application components
• Improved performance, cost-efficiency, and maintainability of applications
• High customer satisfaction through accurate requirement translation and delivery
• Team productivity through effective mentoring and collaboration
• Minimal post-production defects and technical issues

Performance Indicators:

• Adherence to coding standards and engineering practices
• On-time project delivery and milestone completion
• Reduction in defect count and issue recurrence
• Knowledge contributions to project and organizational repositories
• Completion of mandatory compliance and technology/domain certifications

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
• Relevant certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Developer, Oracle Certified, Scrum Master)

Soft Skills:

• Strong analytical and problem-solving mindset
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Team leadership and mentorship abilities
• High accountability and ability to work under pressure
• Positive team dynamics and proactive collaboration

Skills

Java, J2Ee, Spring

Must-Haves

Java, J2Ee, Spring

Machine Learning + Aws+ (EKS OR ECS OR Kubernetes) + (Redshift AND Glue) + Sagemaker

NP: Immediate – 30 Days

java developer,You will design and develop high-quality scalable microservices in a cloud environment.

● You will be required to quickly perform POCs to evaluate different tools, technologies or products.

● You will proactively be learning and adopting the industry best practices of software development.

● You will raise the bar on quality, testability and performance of the module.

● You will be collaborating with other team members and stake-holders for the delivery. skills - java , system design, microservices, aws, springboot, cloud.

The key skills and expertise needed are:

1. eCommerce/Retail experience can be optional but needs to have experience with any high volume customer facing web/mobile site

2. Web Development, Front End Development, AND In the browser performance profiling

3. Java, Spring Boot, React, Node, Redux, Webpack, Microservices, AND experience with AWS technologies to make the overall application stack more resilient

4. Performance Profiling of web/mobile experiences and experience with working in CICD environment

5. Experience working with Web based and mobile ecommerce sites or similar public facing websites with high customer volume

6. Needs to be able to work at the code level doing performance profile to evaluate how the website and associated digital platform is built to find performance improvement opportunities

• Be responsible for engineering road map, architecture and scalability/quality of products.
• Effectively collaborate with Product managers, Business teams to develop long-term product roadmap and own release planning - in a fast-paced, evolving environment.
• Perform well in ambiguous situations. We are a startup with a significant product suite.
• Mentor and guide a team of engineers across various levels and areas of expertise. Help engineers make good architectural decisions, improve code quality and delivery.
• Be responsible for tech solutioning, architecture being deployed maintaining right balance b/w short term and long term outcomes – speed vs quality.
• Establish strong engineering best practices and champion their adoption.
• Define career trajectory for your team and share feedback regularly to help them grow.

• 7+ years of experience in end to end cloud software development with exposure in building scalable, fault tolerant and secure large scale distributed systems. At least 1-2 years managing eng. teams.
• Bachelors or Masters degree in engineering (preferably computer science or sister branches) from a reputed institute (preferably IITs, NITs, or other top engineering institutes).
• Deep expertise in Java & tech stack (Springboot) & micro service based architecture writing maintainable, scalable, unit-tested code. This position requires a good mix of hands-on and people management.
• Hands-on experience in low-level and high-level design with the ability to propose and validate system design.
• You are comfortable jamming on code refactoring, architecture and design principles.
• Sound understanding of web technologies (JS, HTML5 CSS), databases - SQL & NoSQL (e.g. Cassandra), distributed caches (e.g. Redis), message queues (e.g. Kafka).
• Knowledge of UI architectural patterns like MVVM, MVC, MVP etc is useful.
• Exposure to android app development is a good plus.
• You have working knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure tools such as Docker, Kubernetes, Gradle, GIT, Jenkins, ELK, Prometheus, Grafana or equivalents.
• You are an opensource enthusiast with the curiosity to stay abreast of latest tech.
• Must be comfortable working in fast paced agile environments. Ability to plan, prioritise, estimate and execute releases with strong degree of predictability.
• Excellent people & communication skills.
• Experience with AWS stack is preferred.
• Experience with a high-growth startup is a plus.

• You will be responsible for the delivery of the application/ feature/ module your team will be working on.
• Write/Review Code every day in addition to pairing with team members on functional and non-functional requirements and spread design philosophy, goals, and improvements to code quality across the team
• Work with development teams and product managers to ideate software solutions
• Design client-side and server-side architecture
• Build the front-end of applications through appealing visual design
• Develop and manage well-functioning databases and applications
• Write effective APIs
• Ensure all code is thoroughly covered by automated tests and that all features meet quality checks before deployment.
• Contributing to the constant improvement of practices and processes in the team.
• Building and managing automated build/test/deployment environments
• Coordinate with cross-functional teams (Sales, Marketing, Product, Mobile, DevOps, UX, Data Science, Data Engineering, QA, etc.) to define and execute the feature roadmap.
• Research new technologies and tools and share your learning with the rest of the team.
• Provides mentoring and guidance to other team members, including new hires.

What makes you a great fit for our team:

• 5-8 years of overall experience with at least 2+ years of full-stack experience. 
• Proven experience as a Full Stack Developer or similar role
• Experience developing desktop and mobile applications
• Familiarity with common stacks
• Knowledge of multiple front-end languages and libraries (e.g. HTML/ CSS, JavaScript, XML, jQuery)
• Experience in NodeJS for at least two years and exposure to Python, Go, etc will be a huge plus and JavaScript frameworks (e.g. Angular, ReactJs(preferred), VueJs)
• Familiarity with databases (e.g. MySQL, MongoDB) and UI/UX design
• Experience and knowledge of open source tools & frameworks, broader cutting edge technologies around server-side development.
• Data modeling experience in both Relational and NoSQL databases.
• Experience in building microservices-based architectures
• Knowledge of or experience with at least one or more of PaaS environments - AWS, Google App Engine, Windows Azure Cloud Services or similar
• Ability to deliver in a global team environment with members working remotely in various time zones and locations
• You are a problem solver with exceptional analytical skills and high attention to detail
• Good knowledge of data structures(list, graphs, maps) and their advantages or disadvantages.
• You thrive in a fast-paced environment, successfully handle ambiguity, and have experience working with Agile methodologies, TDD and Test Engineering and Automation
• You have excellent written and oral communication skills, with an ability to handle both executive-level discussions as well as technical deep dives
• Excellent understanding of interactive application development paradigm, memory management, performance/resource optimizations, database interactions, concurrency and multithreading, fault tolerance, monitoring, security, operability, and scalability of systems.
• Able to occasionally travel to our USA headquarters in Redwood Shores, CA

Education: 

• Bachelors - (Preferably from Tier-1 College)

Keywords:

• Node, NodeJS, AWS, Full Stack, Serverless, Amazon Web Services, Lambda, REST APIs, Webservices, Microservices, ReactJs, VueJs, AngularJs

About the Company

Leap Info Systems Pvt. Ltd. - A software product company with its products and solutions in the convergent lighting controls and automation. Recently Leap acquired elitedali – worlds first Niagara based lighting controls and automation solution, from one of the leading US organization.

We are a passionate team on a mission to develop innovative controls and automation products. We are expanding our product development team and are in search of like-minded highly passionate team members who would like to contribute to the leading lighting controls and automation product. We have customers in India, Europe, USA, and Australia.

Eligibility

Any suitable graduates (0 to 2 years experienced) who meet prescribed qualities and job responsibilities. Preferred but not limited to engineering graduate in Computer/IT/Instrumentation/EnTC etc.
Job Responsibilities

Be a part of the product development team for maintaining as well as developing new products based on JAVA and Niagara Software framework.

Qualities

• Self-Learner
• Analytical skills
• Able to work with Cross-functional team
• Problem-solving approach
• Good Team Player with Positive vibes

What you must have,

• Hands-on programming at academic or at the hobby level.
• Good knowledge of Java/J2EE related technologies
• Good knowledge of solution-based approaches
• Good communication skills - phone, email and in-person.

What you can expect from LEAP,

• Positive conducive working environment to grow with cross-functional team members.
• Flexi working hours with defined responsibilities.
• Opportunity to work with leading open standard automation framework like Niagara Software, Lighting controls technologies like DALI, Wireless etc
• Be the active part of an emerging global product company