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Senior Technologist / Technical Lead - Java, OOAD  (Individual Contributor) at Bangalore.

Looking for a Senior Java technologist at Bangalore.

This position is with a fast growing Ecommerce Startup.

Kindly Refer To The Below Pointers :

- Hands on experience in developing Java with OOAD, Datastructures, Mullithreading

Technical Architect responsible for SDLC, designs, developer mentoring, code reviews, hands on implementations.

- Strong proficiency in Java, design patterns.

• Strong experience in core Java programming.
• Good experience in Spring and Hibernate 
• Proficiency with JSF/third party JSF components framework
• Must have at least 2+ years exp. of Web application development with exp. in using any MVC framework
• Knowledge of OOP concepts, industry best practices, and design 
• Professional, precise communication skills
• Work experience writing Unit tests 
• Good understanding of web technology and enterprise-level applications 
• Work experience in applying the best practices of Web Application development
• Working experience in an Agile team especially with SCRUM
• Good to have experience in JavaScript frameworks
• Good to have experience in JSON, HTML5, CSS and XML

Following Skills will be an added advantage 

• Working experience of Prime-Faces
• Knowledge of Spring Web Flow

Behavioral Skill

• Should be self-motivated and a quick learner with a problem-solving mind-set
• Attention to detail and follow-through to achieve good quality and meet deadlines.
• Ability to work effectively in a team as well as in an individual environment
• Should have excellent written and verbal communication skills

 

• Development experience in Java / J2EE development environment.
• Experience in JSP & Servlets, Struts, Hibernate, MVC, EJB, Spring Framework, J2ME (LWUIT Lightweight user interface is added advantage),
• Android, AJAX, jQuery, Java Web services, Dynamic Reports are desirable.
• A good understanding of OOP concepts, MVC architecture, and RDBMS is desirable.
• Exposure to all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) is a plus. ● Web Technologies like HTML, CSS, Javascript and JQuery

Essential duties and responsibilities include the following.

• Design, create and maintain databases through multiple product lifecycle environments, from development to production systems
• Configure and maintain database servers and processes, monitor system health and performance, to ensure high levels of performance, availability, and security.
• Convert complex business requirements into technical specifcations to build scalable and reliable data solutions 
• Apply data modelling techniques to ensure development and implementation support efforts meet integration and performance expectations.
• Independently analyse, solve, and correct issues in real time on production, providing problem resolution end-to-end.
• Refine and automate regular processes, track issues, and document changes.
• Develop complex query, performance tuning, stored procedures and triggers, scheduled jobs, schema refinement.
• Flexibility to work after office hours for any production issue or production deployment.
• Perform scheduled maintenance and support release deployment activities after hours.
• Share domain and technical expertise, providing technical mentorship and cross-training to other peers and team members.

Qualifications include:

• 4+ years of database and backend development experience
• Good understanding of database systems and architectures
• Expertise in writing complex SQL queries and stored procedures
• Hands on experience with RDBMS and NoSQL data stores like  MySQL and MongoDB
• Experience working with Python scripting and application development
• Experience working with Cloud applications and data stores like AWS RDS is a plus
• In-depth understanding of data management and ETL processes

Exceptional coding skills in JavaScript (both front-end and backend)
Advanced proficiency in MEAN Stack (NodeJS, MongoDB, Express, Angular JS)
Proficiency and hands-on experience with one or more of the following: Backbone / Knockout JS / Ember JS / React JS
Knowledge of JQuery would be an added advantage
Thorough knowledge of software development best practices, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build process, continuous integration and continuous delivery
Thorough knowledge of Node.JS, MongoDB, Angular JS, Express JS and JavaScript
Ability to plan core architecture, and to enhance it from time to time
Strong analytical mindset to derive actionable analytics from data

Role: The role of lead is not a textbook checklist, however, there are technical responsibilities that a team must fulfill and we expect the tech lead to ensure these responsibilities are covered and be able to cover them themselves if needed.
We expect tech leads to taking a collaborative approach to leading their team. This is especially important when considering the amount of experience that each of our consultants brings.
Given this, we expect you to:
● Respect the other members of your team and recognize you don’t always know best.
● Spot gaps in team capability and figure out how to fix them as a team.
● Be hands-on, able and willing to contribute to development, however, don’t expect to be coding all of the time.
● Encourage the team to be proactive, give them responsibility

Responsibilities
● Have a clear understanding of the deployment architecture
● Have a clear understanding of the build pipeline
● Understand how you get changes into production
● Understand how all parts of the system work together
● Facilitate technical communication with other teams, both within your engagement and across other EE clients.
● Actively seek to remove knowledge silos within the team
● Ensure you have a release / branching strategy in place
● Act as the primary point of contact for your team when communicating with other teams
● Ensure there is a technical vision for the team
● Liaise with environment specialists to ensure smooth deployments to production
● Encourage the team to follow good development practices aligned to EE technical values
● Feedback to the delivery lead or engagement manager on the quality of your team (good and bad)
● Recognize team members that have the potential to grow into team leads
● Ensure the use of new technologies or dependencies does not block the team.
● Ensure the team keeps ​necessary ​ architectural documents up to date
● Keep an eye on the long term consequences of architectural choices, and remind others when necessary
● Build good relationships with your team members. Act as a mentor when required
● Keep the client informed and engaged in the technical side of the project
● Build relationships across your client community

Technologies / Experience  The successful candidate must have the following experience:
● Worked as the tech lead of a development/delivery team in a large organization
● Have worked with a variety of different technical architect roles
● Be deeply proficient in at least one programming language
● Be comfortable using other languages and evidence using multiple languages
● Have hands-on experience with some form of configuration management tooling, e.g. Ansible, Chef, Puppet
● Have hands-on experience of at least one continuous integration and continuous delivery technology, e.g. Jenkins, Go, Team City or Bamboo.
● Full-stack development experience from the user interface through to data persistence
● A strong proponent of XP practices such as TDD
● Working with a delivery team to formulate an automated test strategy
● Worked as part of a number of agile delivery teams and seen a number of different approaches to delivery
● Good appreciation of secure coding practices and end to end system security

The following exposure will also be looked on favorably:
● Performing an ‘architect’ role, while retaining hands-on involvement
● Working with cloud hosting platforms such as AWS, Rackspace, Azure etc.
● Infrastructure management technologies such as Cloud Formation or Terraform

Who are we? BlueOptima provides industry-leading objective metrics in software development using our proprietary Coding Effort Analytics. We enable large organisations to deliver better software, faster and at lower cost. Founded in 2006, BlueOptima is a profitable, high-growth independent software company. Our unique technology was initially devised in seminal research carried out at Cambridge University. We are headquartered in London with offices in New York, Bangalore, Gurgaon and Guadalajara. BlueOptima’s technology is deployed by global enterprises to drive value from their software development activities. We work with nine of the world’s top twelve largest Universal Banks (by revenue) and three of the world’s top ten telecommunications companies (by revenue, excl. China). Our technology is pushing the limits of complex analytics on large data-sets with more than 15 billion static source code metric observations of software engineers working in an Enterprise software development environment. BlueOptima is an Equal Opportunities employer. Whom are we looking for? Our groundbreaking technology, requires highly skilled and talented Web Backend Developers to understand the depth of the problem and device a solution for it. We are seeking a Software Engineer, with a depth of experience in developing Web Applications enabled using REST APIs and backed by a data warehouse solution, to join our growing company and be a part of our success story. We are looking for individual with great attention to detail, who is 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 things to work while at the same time being able to mentor (and lead) other engineers by way of example to achieve excellence in their work. What does the role involve? As a Web Backend Principal Software 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 needs to be very efficient and high performing. This requires optimising queries for faster execution and introducing database changes that may be required. You would be working with a complex technology stack which includes (but is not limited to) Spring, Hibernate, HornetQ, Quartz, etc. This requires extensive understanding of transaction management and data handling across different application layers. In addition to the technical ownership, you will also be involved in detailing requirements for requested functionalities and be responsible for providing technical insight into how requirements will be implemented and made available to users. Accurate estimation of tasks and planning are qualities we look for in our engineers.  Responsibilities include: Develop, test, implement and maintain application software Take part in software and architectural development activities Transform requirements into implementation details Debug application issues and helping support respond to client queries May lead and provide mentoring and guidance to less senior developers 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 Incorporate design changes to improve performance of the application Interact with customers of the application and help address issues reported Interact with customers of the application and collect requirements or potential uses cases and draft technical and user requirements ESSENTIAL SKILLS / EXPERIENCE REQUIRED: Minimum Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent Minimum 8+ years experience with Java and J2EE/Java EE Minimum 8+ years experience with Spring MVC, Spring Security and Hibernate 2+ years experience managing in colocated and remote teams Strong understanding of relational database and normal forms Strong understanding of SQL concepts and ability to write optimised and high performing queries Strong understanding of Java concurrency, concurrency patterns, experience building thread safe code Experience building RESTful web services Experience with web application servers like JBoss Strong written and verbal communication skills Strong interpersonal skills and time management skills Strong problem solving and analytical skills Experience using task tracking systems e.g. Jira and distributed version control systems e.g. Git Understanding of testNg/JUnit Unix/Windows shell and related command line tools Experience with database partitioning and column Indexing Experience with query optimisation techniques Why work for us? Above market remuneration Stimulating challenges that fully utilise your skills Work on real-world technical problems to which solution cannot simply be found on the internet Working alongside other passionate, talented engineers Hardware of your choice Our fast-growing company offers the potential for rapid career progression