Product Engineer I/II

Job Role Java lead

Experience 8+ years

Notice period Immediate

Location Bangalore

Note: OMS & Retail domain Experience is mandatory

Introduction

We are seeking a Development Lead (Dev Lead / Technical Lead) with strong hands-on experience in Java and

Microservices to lead a team of developers in designing, developing, and delivering high-quality, scalable

applications. The role requires a balance of coding, technical decision-making, and team mentorship.

Job Description

• Create, design, and implement layouts for new and existing software solutions.

• Must be able to lead a team of engineers and ensure high quality software delivery from the team. Be

approachable to the team members.

• Take complete ownership of the Design that they are responsible for.

• Ability to understand business requirements of clients and translate them into technical requirements.

• Identify impacts of planned work on existing functionality.

• Plan and estimate work to be completed.

• Conduct code reviews to ensure that the software deliverables are of the highest quality.

• Keep an eye on the Tech Debt and plan for managing at an acceptable level.

• Lead interactions with clients from a Tech team perspective.

Certifications :

• Oracle Certified Java Professional

• Spring Certified Professional

• Any NoSql / Cassandra / MongoDB certified developer

• GCP, AWS, & Azure Certified (Mandatory)

• Any retail OMS / Supply Chain product certifications

Primary Skills :

• 8+ years of proven experience in the industry, with at least 2 years as an Lead or similar role designing

and developing enterprise-scale applications.

• Bachelors in engineering / technology (4 year) or master's in computer applications (2 year)

• Must possess at least 6+ years of Software development experience.

• Expert knowledge in at least one object-oriented programming language like Java, one backend

framework like Spring Boot / Node JS, one UI framework like React JS / Angular JS and RDBMS or NoSQL

database.

• Excellent knowledge of front-end programming languages, such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and AngularJS,

with the ability to render server-side and client-side content.

• Helps identify newer practices and adoption of existing ones. Ensure that the code quality is maintained

via own and/or peer code reviews.

• Can lead the team in delivery of backend and user interface code. Ensure that the DevOps tasks are

executed well.

• Ensure that the software has the correct level of logging & monitoring in Production and LLEs.

• Exceptional problem-solving skills.

• Excellent written and verbal communication. Must understand the client’s business requirements and

translate them into software requirements. Has a view of the deliverable timeline and escalates when

needed.

• Ability to articulate technical designs & develop documentation, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts etc.

• Experience in implementing OMS products for retail customers will be an added advantage.

• Ability to do estimation for the given requirements.

• Ability to lead technical discussions with clients.

• Must be able to do quick proofs of concepts and demos based on client requirements.

• Provide timely feedback on the performance of team members.

• Conduct interviews & provide feedback to achieve hiring objectives.

• Contributes to organization building functions such as hiring, training, mentoring, team building.

Secondary Skills:

• Participate in daily scrum calls and provide status updates, address issues proactively, and timely

reporting of risks to project managers.

• Take complete ownership of the non-functional requirements around Performance, Security/Compliance,

i18n/l10n, etc.

• Capable of leading a high-performance team in a two-week iteration cadence with frequent product

deliveries.

• Ability to socialize designs/ideas and collaborate with stakeholders.

• Self-motivated and works with minimal direction.

Are you looking for a super-challenging role designing backend systems that scale to 1000+ TPSs in one of India's fastest growing, profitable near-Unicorns with businesses spanning Lending, E-comm and UPI? Then this is the role for you.

Client Company is a profitable, rapidly scaling unicorn which is extremely well capitalized. Client has a very strong moat in the consumer lending space on the back of which it is entering into additional large markets such as E-comm and UPI.

Client company is now entering its next phase of growth from a fast-scaling startup to a robust, high-scale financial platform serving millions of users daily.

You'll design systems built for 10x100x growth, make the key technical trade-off calls, and stay deeply hands-on. Beyond building, you'll mentor engineers and work directly with founders and product teams to translate business goals into scalable, reliable systems.

This role is an opportunity to:

• Shape the next-generation architecture for a high-throughput fintech system
• Build systems designed to scale 10x100x from current volumes
• Solve real-world problems across performance, reliability, and financial-grade security

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve the platform architecture to support 10x100x growth
• Own systems end-to-end from the first design decision to production impact
• Lead system design discussions and set the long-term technical direction for the platform
• Identify scale bottlenecks early and drive solutions
• Mentor and elevate engineers through design reviews, code quality, and architectural thinking
• Partner directly with founders and product teams to turn business priorities into scalable systems
• Operate with high ownership in a fast-paced environment where priorities evolve quickly
• Drive projects independently own timelines, coordinate with teams, and see delivery
• Conduct rigorous code reviews and champion engineering best practices across the team
• Proactively identify gaps in the system and come up with concrete approaches to address them
• Solve technical problems across the company not just confined to a single pod
• Challenge existing architecture with data and reasoning push back when its the right call, and drive adoption of better approaches.

Requirements

• 7-12 years of experience in backend or platform engineering
• Strong computer science fundamentals (preferably from IIT, BITS, NITs)
• Strong proficiency in backend development (Node.js, Java, Go, or equivalent)
• Proven experience scaling systems through high-growth startup phases (1→10 or beyond)
• Track record of building and owning critical platforms or systems from scratch
• Exposure to high-volume transactional systems; fintech or lending is a strong plus
• Bias for action - moves fast, makes sound decisions, owns outcomes end-to-end
• Comfortable navigating ambiguity and evolving priorities in a startup environment
• Strong problem-solving skills ability to break down complex technical challenges and arrive at pragmatic, well-reasoned solutions
• Hands-on experience with platform engineering developer tooling, shared services, infrastructure abstractions, or internal platforms

Skill required:)

• Expert in writing clean, test-driven, easily maintainable, and modular code.
• Having a good working knowledge of database design and maintenance.
• Able to build reusable code and libraries for future use.
• Knowing troubleshooting and debugging applications is essential.
• Should have great performance in UI or backend tests to optimize performance.
• Capable of designing and developing web applications for the PHP platform (Laravel)
• Preferred to collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.
• Able to ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of web applications.
• Having sound working knowledge of identifying and correcting bottlenecks and fixing bugs.
• Able to work on bug fixing and improving application performance
• Able to constantly discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency.

We are looking for a PHP Developer with knowledge of the laravel framework and a minimum of 2+ years of work experience in developing PHP-based applications for the specified designs and standards.

* Developing web solutions in PHP/Laravel on the LAMP stack

* Understanding the eCommerce domain and working in close proximity with the Business Owners to discuss requirements and quickly prototype business ideas into applications

* Make the best use of the ORM capability of Laravel and develop project solutions that are independent of the hosting environment and underlying database

* Integrations with 3rd party tools and services

* Troubleshooting and resolution of website performance issues

* Hands-on experience in Core PHP, Laravel, HTML, CSS

* Must be capable to handle projects alone.

* Should have handled projects in Agile methodology

Basic Qualifications:

• 2+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• Programming experience with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
• 1+ years of experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems.

Additional Job requirements

• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science/Math or equivalent
• BS in computer science or related field.
• 2+ years of relevant professional software development experience: designing, developing, and delivering software written in Java, C#, or C++, web development.
• Knowledgeable in object-oriented design patterns.
• Experience building highly scalable and distributed systems

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with service-oriented architecture and application/services development
• Passion for performance debugging and benchmarking
• Ability to clearly and concisely communicate with technical and non-technical stakeholders across all levels of the organization

• 4+ years of professional development experience in an agile software engineering role
• Strong development skills in Java or Groovy
• Experience with Jenkins, bamboo and CI/CD environments
• Familiarity with Guice or similar dependency injection frameworks
• Familiarity with relational database technology
• Familiarity with document store database technology such as ElasticSearch or Cassandra
• Experience with design and testing of RESTful APIs
• Familiarity with cross platform development on Linux, OSX and Windows
• Strong understanding of Git version control system
• Knowledge of JavaScript (Node.js)
• Familiarity with Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Familiarity with Docker / Kubernetes
• Experience with continuous integration and build systems such as Jenkins or Bamboo
• Experience with Jira or other project management, issue-tracking or bug-tracking tools
• Should have knowledge of RDBMS
• Familiarity with Node.js, Kotlin, Kafka, DynamoDB
• Previous experience with SaaS or cloud development, Micro-services

Java
J2ee
working experience with one or more clouds

Understanding of design architecture

Experience with Traditional databases and nosql databases

Sound in Algorithms,data structures and problem solving 

Good at coding and design