Principal Software Engineer

Job Description – Technical Lead (Java Spring Boot + Angular)

Role Overview

We are looking for a highly skilled Technical Lead with strong experience in Java Spring Boot and Angular to lead a team of developers for a client project based out of Whitefield, Bangalore. The role requires hands-on development, design, architecture understanding, code review, and team coordination.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead a team of 9 developers and provide technical guidance.
• Perform hands-on development using Java, Spring Boot, Angular.
• Drive solution design, code quality, best practices, and performance optimization.
• Work closely with the client’s product owners and architects.
• Conduct code reviews, technical grooming, and sprint planning.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues.
• Ensure timely delivery of modules with high quality.
• Mentor team members and support them in solving technical blockers.

Technical Skills Required

• Strong expertise in Java 8+, Spring Boot, REST APIs.
• Strong front-end experience with Angular 8+, TypeScript, HTML, CSS.
• Experience with SQL/NoSQL databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, etc.).
• Hands-on with Git, Maven/Gradle, Jenkins, CI/CD.
• Knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS) is an added advantage.
• Experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies.

Soft Skills

• Excellent communication and client-facing skills.
• Ability to lead, mentor, and motivate the team.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.

About Gate6

At Gate6, we’re more than a tech company — we’re a team that grows together. Many of our people have been with us for over 10, even 20 years — a rare legacy in the fast-changing digital world. Why? Because we believe in challenging work, creative freedom, and building real impact through innovation.

With offices in Scottsdale, AZ and Indore, India, we craft cutting-edge digital solutions while nurturing a culture where talent thrives, ideas matter, and careers last. If you’re ready to grow with a team that’s in it for the long run — Gate6 is your place.

About the Role

We are hiring an experienced Senior Python Developer to design and build high-quality web applications and APIs. You will play a key role in system architecture & code quality. The ideal candidate has hands-on experience with backend frameworks, frontend integration, and cloud deployments.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement end-to-end web applications using Python (Django, Flask, or FastAPI).
• Develop and consume RESTful APIs and ensure security (JWT, OAuth2).
• Integrate with third-party services such as payment gateways or CRMs.
• Work with relational and NoSQL databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB).
• Optimize backend performance and database queries.

Required Skills

• Strong knowledge of Python frameworks, JavaScript (Angular), and SQL.
• Hands-on experience with API development and version control (Git).
• Understanding of Microservices architecture.
• Familiarity with AWS cloud.

Responsibilities:

• Work as part of a collaborative, agile team to deliver industry-leading engagement capabilities on the web.
• Integrate with other services to help the client seamlessly provide value to more companies.
• Design and develop feature enhancements that continue to deliver value and provide an excellent customer experience.
• Troubleshoot and resolve emergency server or code issues at any stack level.

Requirements:

• Ability to empathize with end-users; build with scale and ease of adoption in mind.
• Experience building in an agile setting with code reviews and quality as a priority.
• Strong design skills for separation and modularity of code; aversion to overly complex, spaghetti code.
• A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, related technical field, or commensurate experience.
• 3 years experience in production web application development.
• 5 years of experience working with NodeJS or an equivalent web framework and language.
• Experience writing JavaScript code, either vanilla JS or using a framework such as Node.js or React, or Redux.
• Unit testing experience (Jest).
• 3rd-party API usage and integration experience.
• RDBMS usage (e. g., MySQL, PostgreSQL).

Interview Process:

• Introductory Round
• Technical Round - Algo/low level coding round based on real world scenario
• Technical Round - System Design or High level design coding round and AWS
• Offer discussion

Primary Skill

• UI (Vue JS or Angular JS)
• Server Side (Java or Python) & AWS serverless framework.
• Must have hands-on experience on serverless framework.
• Experience on AWS.
• Must have good experience on AWS (Overall knowledge, EC2 Volume, EC2 SecurityGroup, EC2 AMI, Lambda, S3, AWSbackup, CloudWatch, CloudFormation, CloudTrail, IAM, SecretsManager, StepFunction, CostExplorer, KMS, VPC/Subnet)
• Working experience on development/staging/production servers.
• Good testing and verification skills
• Knowledge on SSL certificates and encryption.

Secondary Skill

• Scripting using Python
• Good to have knowledge of identity management.

Soft Skills

• Excellent interpersonal, oral and writing communication skills.
• Strong Analytical and Problem-solving skills.
• Should have skills to understand and analysis customers requirements and expectations.
• Must have experience in interaction with customer
• Work experiences with international cross-culture teams (Good to have)

Position Overview :

As an Intermediate Software Engineer, you will design, develop, and maintain high-performance and scalable applications for Membership, Marketing, and Map services. Your role involves coding, unit testing, and building applications to meet the needs of millions of Sam's members. You should be intellectually curious, passionate about technology, and a supportive team player.

Key Responsibilities :

- Design, code, and test scalable applications in Java and React.

- Ensure high performance and maintainability of applications.

- Participate in peer code reviews and support team deliverables.

- Manage applications to meet engineering and operational excellence criteria.

- Collaborate with team members to align efforts with business needs.

Required Skills and Experience :

- Java : Experience with Java 8 or above, including lambda functions and streams.

- React : Proficiency in React, including tools like Flux, Flow, and Redux.

- Testing : Strong in writing modular and testable code with frameworks like JUnit, Mockito, and Mock MVC.

- Front-End : In-depth knowledge of JavaScript, CSS, HTML, and React fundamentals.

- Micro-Services : Experience with micro-services architecture and distributed systems.

- Spring Boot : Hands-on experience with Spring Boot and related technologies.

- Databases : Experience with relational and NoSQL databases (e.g., Cosmos DB).

- Caching : Knowledge of caching technologies like Redis or Memcached.

- Monitoring : Experience with monitoring tools like Prometheus and Splunk.

- CI/CD : Familiarity with CI/CD tools like Jenkins, Git, Maven, and Gradle.

- Containerization : Experience with Docker, Helm, and Kubernetes.

- Cloud Platforms : Experience with Azure, GCP, or similar public cloud platforms.

- Performance Testing: Experience with performance testing tools like JMeter is a plus.

- Retail Domain Knowledge : Good understanding of the retail domain is beneficial.

Qualifications :

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.

- 7+ years of experience in software engineering or a related field.

Additional Information :

- Strong problem-solving skills and analytical thinking.

- Ability to work effectively in a team environment

• Working knowledge of NodeJS, and JAVASCRIPT, is a must.
• Working knowledge of AWS cloud concepts is a must.
• Must be familiar with AWS serverless architecture.
• Must be familiar with data structure & algorithm concepts.
• Design, develop, and implement beautiful UI components to support business requirements.
• Follows approved life cycle methodologies, creates design documents, and performs program coding and testing.
• Resolves technical issues through debugging, research, and investigation.
• Own & Develop the REST APIs.
• Stay updated with new technologies and of changes in technologies that affect front-end web development.

**Work remotely / Work From Home with BigStep Technologies throughout your tenure**

Desired candidates must have 7+ years of total experience in backend development with good expertise in MEAN Stack (MongoDB, ExpressJS, AngularJS, Node.js) and JavaScript, along with strong development and coding skills, good analytical and problem-solving skills.

Roles and Responsibilities :

What You'll Do

• Create the system architecture for any product from scratch as well as drive it for more than one development teams
• Design and deliver solutions that enable fast and efficient deployment of quality code to production
• Document the architectural blueprint and end to end design through flowcharts and diagrams.
• Set coding standards for development teams and ensure all released code is following standards
• Oversee the code review process, performing reviews when necessary
• Establish strong communication channels and relationships with the development teams, supporting them throughout the release cycle
• Continuously evaluate the existing software to identify areas of improvement and ensure architectural integrity as additional features are added.
• Lead DevOps and implement tooling and process improvements when you identify gaps
• Work with various stakeholders and identify the scope of the work, provide high level estimations, create a timeline and come up with the approach and design for the same.
• Evaluate and recommend tools, technologies and processes to ensure the highest quality product platform.
• Coach and mentor the development teams to improve the overall expertise and skills of the team.
• Take care of the development of critical components and POCs for new technologies to be used.
• Deliver high quality deliverables individually/as a team adhering to industry best practices.
• Troubleshoot any errors or issues that arise in the application/infrastructure components quickly and efficiently.

What You Bring

• 7+ years in software development or product engineering
• Proficient in MEAN Stack
• Good experience in backend development with Node.js
• Expertise in developing RESTful APIs
• Have created multi-transactional and highly redundant systems from ideation to production
• Customer-centric mindset
• Expertise in Agile SCRUM best practices
• Expertise in implementing front-end of applications using HTML5, Angular.js
• Proficient in MVC, OOPS concepts, Web Development Concepts, HTML, JSON, REST API development
• Strong coding skills, good analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to break down complex technical concepts into something digestible by non-technical stakeholders

Our ideal candidate is someone who is an exceptional JS developer with significant experience on React and Node. You should be able to build and support complex applications single-handedly with a keen eye towards UX, design, security and performance. Additionally you will need to have a basic understanding of microservices, API integrations to aid in achieving our vision of building the most robust and scalable integration platform in the B2B Retail + Food verticals. You will be responsible for architecture, design and implementation of the entire system to support thousands of customers globally. Our stack is primarily built around Node, PHP, React, Angular, Mongo, PHP and advanced Infra and DevOps tools such as Kubernetes, Grafana, Prometheus, ELK and more.

Mentoring should come naturally to you, as well as finding the right balance towards process and documentation.

Highlights:
1) You will be working on interesting technical challenges in a product centric and open-source driven environment.
2) You will help set a very high bar on code quality with a focus on test driven development and writing highly performant, fault tolerant and secure code.
3) You will take ownership of product features from conception to implementation, testing deployment and support.
4) A lot of freedom on when and where you work from - just get stuff done.
5) You will open source as much as possible, and blog about cool things that you learnt and built.
6) You will help define who we become as a company.
7) You will get stock options in line with silicon valley standards.


Caveats:
1) We have a strict no-divas rule. There are a lot of smart engineers on the team but no one with an attitude / superiority complex.
2) If you think writing tests for your code, writing docs, doing customer support etc are not your cup of tea, this isn't the right role for you.
3) Similarly, if you're viewing this just as a 20-40% increment opportunity over your current compensation, this isn't the right role or company for you.


This role can be the growth opportunity of a lifetime for anyone who has been operating as a backend lead and wants to grow into a fullstack CTO. Check out the links below if you'd like to learn more about us. We encourage people from underrepresented groups to apply.

1) Why ShoppinPal? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cE7DgtwA0ws" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cE7DgtwA0ws
2) Our hiring philosophy and process http://techstory.in/building-startup-team/" target="_blank">http://techstory.in/building-startup-team/
3) Our culture- https://www.shoppinpal.com/culture">https://www.shoppinpal.com/culture

About the Role:

We are looking for passionate and highly motivated Technologist who has delivered rock solid software solutions for industry leading enterprises with lean and agile teams. We are looking for an engineer with a strong technical background, thorough understanding of testing methodologies, a passion for quality, and a desire to make a positive change in our products. 

Roles & Responsibilities

• Work on FieldEZ product development
• Perform requirements analysis, design, coding, unit testing, reviewing and implementation
• Work closely with the manager to prioritize the requirements based on technical dependencies for product development
• Provide mentoring and coaching to junior team members
• Team management and customer management

Skills & Experience

• 5 to 7 years of experience in Information Technology
• Deep understanding and hands on experience in Core Java, J2EE, JavaScript, HTML, Spring, Spring Security, Spring Boot, Microservices, Hibernate, JPA, CSS3, Angular 2+, Jquery, SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Scripting, Stored Procedures, Jenkins, Git
• Experience with REST APIs
• Work on Design patterns, UML Design (Any UML tool is fine), Application and DB clustering.
• Very good understanding of database (MySQL or Oracle), knowledge in query performance optimization
• Knowledge of development lifecycle, standards, approaches, utilities, and environment
• Exposure to responsive / progressive web development would be an added advantage.

Educational Qualification

B.Tech/ B.E or M.Tech/M.E (Computer Science/Information Technology/Electronics & Communication/ Information Science) , MCA from a reputed School and University.