Primary responsibilities:
- Architect, Design and Build high performance Search systems for personalization, optimization, and targeting
- Designing systems with Solr, Akka, Cassandra, Kafka
- Algorithmic development with primary focus Machine Learning
- Working with rapid and innovative development methodologies like: Kanban, Continuous Integration and Daily deployments
- Participation in design and code reviews and recommend improvements
- Unit testing with JUnit, Performance testing and tuning
- Coordination with internal and external teams
- Mentoring junior engineers
- Participate in Product roadmap and Prioritization discussions and decisions
- Evangelize the solution with Professional services and Customer Success teams
Minimum requirements:
- Tech/M.Tech in computer Engineering or related fields or MCA
- At least 10-14 years of software development experience
- Expert in Java, Scala or any other object oriented language
- Proficient in SQL concepts (HiveQL or Postgres a plus)
- Additional language skills for scripting and rapid application development
Desired skills and experience:
- Working with large data sets in the PBs
- Familiarity with UNIX (systems skills a plus)
- Working experience in Solr, Cassandra, and Kafka
- Working in a distributed environment and has dealt with challenges around scaling and performance
- Working with distributed teams across multiple locations

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Role Overview
We are seeking a technically strong Java Support Engineer who combines solid development knowledge with a passion for support and operational excellence. The ideal candidate should have hands-on experience in Java, Spring Boot, and Angular, along with a strong understanding of application engineering concepts, and must be comfortable working in a production support environment handling incidents, troubleshooting, monitoring, and system stability.
Work Location: Hyderabad or Chennai
Key Responsibilities
· Provide L2/L3 production support for enterprise applications.
· Troubleshoot, debug, and resolve application issues within defined SLAs.
· Analyze logs, identify root causes, and implement fixes or workarounds.
· Collaborate with development teams for permanent issue resolution.
· Monitor application health, performance, and availability.
· Support deployments, releases, and environment validations.
· Perform minor code fixes and enhancements when required.
· Document issues, solutions, and support procedures.
· Participate in on-call rotations and handle incident management.
Required Skills & Qualifications
· Strong hands-on experience in Java and Spring Boot.
· Working knowledge of Angular for frontend understanding.
· Good understanding of application architecture, APIs, microservices, and debugging techniques.
· Experience with log analysis tools, monitoring tools, and ticketing systems.
· Knowledge of SQL databases and query troubleshooting.
· Familiarity with Linux/Unix environments.
· Understanding of CI/CD, release processes, and version control (Git).
· Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills
Role: Senior Backend Developer
Exp: 4 - 7 Years
CTC: up to 22 LPA
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable applications using Java (Spring Boot) and Python (Flask).
- Build RESTful APIs and microservices following best practices.
- Implement event-driven architecture leveraging NATS messaging server.
- Deploy, manage, and optimize applications in Kubernetes and containerized environments.
- Develop and manage CI/CD pipelines, ensuring smooth deployment and delivery.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality solutions.
- Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code.
- Participate in code reviews and contribute to architectural decisions.
- Troubleshoot, debug, and optimize application performance.
You will break down business opportunities and problems into software solutions. You will work closely with the CTO to help product and marketing stakeholders distill the product vision and roadmap, into a technology vision. You will be responsible for the evolution of an already bleeding-edge highly distributed systems at the back-end, and would need to work withfront-end architects to come up with the best user experience for the gaming platform. You will be required to make decisions quickly, and work under strict timelines. You would lead technology strategy through analysis of market trends and product requirements. You would help set coding guidelines and help bring the most modern tools to keep engineering processes most efficient.
Requirements:
● B.E/MS in Computer Science or equivalent.
● 10+ years or more of progressive software technology experience with at least 3 years
in an architectural role.
● Completely hands on with technology and architecture. Start-up experience is a huge
plus.
● Ability to quickly prototype and demonstrate technology value adds and educate + drive
adoption within the extended technology team
● Excellent and robust understanding of scalable product system architecture(s),
platforms and core technologies
● Demonstrated problem-solving and leadership skills to pursue correct engineering
process in adverse conditions. Ability to embrace and demonstrate leadership beyond
ownership
● Work with engineering leadership to setup and manage processes.
● Track record of thought leadership and out of the box thinking in the technology arena.
● Ability to work efficiently in an entrepreneurial and in a start-up environment
● A Java/Spring/Akka, Javascript or Golang rockstar.
● Deep and hands on knowledge of some of these technologies - MySQL, NodeJS,
message brokers such as Kafka/RabbitMQ, NoSQL datastore such as Mongo, Cassandra,
Arango, distributed caches such as Redis/memcached, container technology such as
Docker and Kubernetes etc.
● Great proficiency in distributed systems design, with an ability to make the right
trade-offs for creating future-proof solutions.
● Building quick PoCs and full-fledged solutions with various AWS managed services would
be a big plus.
It is a SaaS startup founded in April 2020 by Srikrishnan Ganesan, Vignesh Girishankar, and Deepak Balasubramanyam. Before Rocketlane, they built a successful in-app messaging startup that was acquired by Freshworks(NASDAQ: FRSH) in 2015.
They launched in June 2021 and was #1 Product of the day on Product Hunt. It has a fast-growing, global customer base, including LinkSquares, AppCues, ContractPodAI, Chargebee, parcelLab, and many more.
Rapid early traction and customer love has catapulted Rocketlane to be recognized as a Leader in the G2 Category of Client Onboarding. They has raised $21M in capital from global VCs such as 8VC, Nexus Venture Partners, Matrix Partners India, and super angels like Gokul Rajaram and Girish Mathrubootham.
We offers a first-of-its-kind collaborative customer onboarding platform that enables businesses to onboard their customers better, faster, and smoother. It helps speed up revenue recognition and grow NRR for the vendor and enables faster time-to-value and a delightful customer
onboarding experience.
Description:
Are you a backend developer looking to fast-track your learning and growth? Have you looked at world class products like Asana, Notion, or Airtable, and felt “I wish I were part of the early team that
built these products”?
At Rocketlane, we’re a team that has previously built and rolled out globally successful SaaS products used by tens of thousands of customers. We’re laser focused on delivering a world class product
again, and looking for an ambitious backend engineer to join our existing team of 9 engineers.
If it excites you to think of a fast-paced start-up environment, building something big from scratch, breaking down new problems, creating new APIs, working on performance issues, getting hands-on
with devops initiatives, and showcasing demos of your work every Friday with a happy and passionate team, then this is the right opportunity for you.Some of the tech problems you get to work-on as a backend engineer would be to build the backendfor a modern spreadsheet experience from scratch, work on infra as code, write robust code that is fault tolerant, work on performant code that adheres to SLOs set by the organization.
About you:
● 2 - 4 years of experience
● Expertise in the following areas
○ Java
○ HTTP Protocol
● You’ve heard of or worked with some of the following tech stacks / products
○ Spring
○ PostgreSQL
○ Redis
○ Docker
○ Message brokers
○ GitHub
● These non-functional areas are familiar to you
○ Performance
○ Debugging
○ Log management
Nice to have:
● Familiarity with AWS
Benefits
Rocketlane genuinely cares about everyone we hire. You’ll learn new things and grow no matter how
experienced you are. If you are eager, check out the MTT(Meet The Team) videos on our LinkedIn.
Benefits of working at Rocketlane include:
● Competitive salary in a fast-growing startup.
● MacBooks are our standard, but we’re happy to get you whatever equipment helps you get
your job done
● Comprehensive health insurance for you and your dependents
● Flexible leave policy so you can take time off when you need it
Paid time off
5 years of architecture, design and programming experience preferably in fast-paced dynamic environment
Strong application design and implementation skills, solid understanding of the entire development cycle.
Strong background in Java/J2EE based application
Strong background in Spring/Spring boot based application
Strong background in Microservices based application
Experience working with Apache and/or Tomcat
Experience in transforming requirements to software design
Strong Experience with developing Java SAAS web applications.
Working experience in Industry Standard protocols related API Security including OAuth
Demonstrate strong design and programming skills using JSON, Web Services, XML, XSLT, PL/SQL in Unix and Windows environments.
Strong background working with Linux/UNIX environments.
Strong Shell scripting experience.
Working knowledge with Oracle, DB2 or MongoDB databases.
Passion to stay on top of the latest happenings in the tech world and an attitude to discuss and bring those into play. Strong agile/scrum development experience
Strong collaboration and communication skills within distributed project teams
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Exp :5-7 Yrs
Skills : Java, Spring, Hibernate
5years of hands-on experience in software development/product development
Hands-on experience in designing and developing of Java-based products using Spring MVC, Hibernate technology
Must have handled projects in Core Java/ J2EE / JSP, Servlets, JavaScript/JQuery, Json, CSS, AJAX & Spring, Hibernate frameworks








