SDE - I/II/III

We’re seeking a highly skilled, execution-focused Senior Backend Engineer with a minimum of 5 years of experience to join our team. This role demands hands-on expertise in building and scaling distributed systems, strong proficiency in Java, and deep knowledge of cloud-native infrastructure. You will be expected to design robust backend services, optimize performance across storage and caching layers, and enable seamless integrations using modern messaging and CI/CD pipelines.

You’ll be working in a high-scale, high-impact environment where reliability, speed, and efficiency are paramount. If you enjoy solving complex engineering challenges and have a passion for distributed systems, this is the right role for you.

Responsibilities—

• Design, develop, and maintain distributed backend systems at scale.
• Write high-performance, production-grade code in Java.
• Architect and optimize storage systems, ensuring efficient query performance and scalable data models.
• Implement caching strategies to reduce latency and improve system throughput.
• Build and manage services leveraging AWS cloud infrastructure.
• Develop resilient messaging pipelines using Kafka (or equivalent) for real-time data processing.
• Define and streamline CI/CD pipelines, ensuring rapid and reliable deployment cycles.
• Collaborate with product managers, frontend engineers, and DevOps to deliver end-to-end solutions.
• Monitor system performance, identify bottlenecks, and apply proactive fixes.
• Drive best practices in software engineering, testing, and code reviews. 

Requirements—

• 5+ years of experience in backend engineering, with deep hands-on coding experience.
• Strong proficiency in Java and familiarity with modern frameworks.
• Proven track record in building scalable distributed systems.
• Hands-on expertise with AWS services (e.g., EC2, S3, Lambda, DynamoDB, RDS).
• Solid understanding of messaging systems like Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar.
• Strong grasp of query performance optimization and storage system design.
• Experience with caching solutions (Redis, Memcached, etc.).
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, etc.).
• Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to thrive in fast-paced environments.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with a proactive mindset.

Benefits—

• Best in class salary: We hire only the best, and we pay accordingly.
• Proximity Talks: Meet other designers, engineers, and product geeks — and learn from experts in the field.
• Keep on learning with a world-class team: Work with the best in the field, challenge yourself constantly, and learn something new every day.

About us—

Proximity is the trusted technology, design, and consulting partner for some of the biggest Sports, Media, and Entertainment companies in the world. We’re headquartered in San Francisco and have offices in Palo Alto, Dubai, Mumbai, and Bangalore.

Since 2019, Proximity has built high-impact, scalable products used by millions of users every day. Today, we are a global team of engineers, designers, product managers, and experts solving complex problems and building cutting-edge technology at scale.

Join our product development team at Planview as a Senior Software Engineer I and become a pivotal force on the Viz Core Team. This role offers the unique opportunity to shape and lead the development of data-processing pipelines and APIs that are at the heart of our software solutions. These solutions are designed to streamline and enhance the efficiency of software delivery, resonating deeply with software engineers who strive to build better and faster.

At Planview Viz, which is powered by the innovative “Flow Framework,” you will tackle complex data challenges and develop scalable solutions within an AWS cloud environment. Your efforts will be crucial in revolutionizing how businesses harness and interpret vast amounts of workflow data, transforming it into actionable insights that propel organizational efficiency and effectiveness.

Responsibilities (What you'll do)

• Create and refine powerful data-processing architectures that integrate seamlessly with a diverse array of external tools, enhancing the way software is delivered across industries.
• Drive operational excellence by critically analyzing problems, defining requirements, and devising robust solutions that push the boundaries of technology.
• Lead and inspire a team of talented engineers, promoting a culture of ownership, meticulous attention to quality, and proactive problem-solving.
• Stay at the cutting edge of technology by updating and expanding your team’s knowledge of cloud architectures, data processing, and advanced analytics, ensuring that you and your team remain leaders in technological innovation.
• Make a direct impact on the efficiency and effectiveness of software delivery worldwide through innovation and leadership.

Qualifications (What you'll bring)

Who We’re Looking For

The ideal candidate is a seasoned professional in cloud software development with a strong foundation in data processing and scalable software systems. You thrive in collaborative environments and are passionate about advancing cloud technology and data architecture to new heights. You are a leader who enjoys mentoring, guiding, and inspiring others.

Preferred Qualifications

Skills, Knowledge, and Expertise

• A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 6+ years of experience with a modern programming language, with a focus on back-end systems and cloud-based technologies.
• Strong capability in architecting and designing robust, scalable software systems.
• Proficiency in AWS or another popular cloud platform.

Additional Qualifications

• Experience with big-data technologies such as Spark and Apache Kafka.
• Experience with Java (version 17), Scala, or other JVM programming languages.
• Experience with tools such as Amazon Redshift and MongoDB.
• Experience with continuous integration and continuous deployment tools such as GitHub, Jenkins, Travis CI, or similar platforms.
• Proficiency in test-driven development.
• Experience with containers and orchestration tools such as Kubernetes.
• Experience working on remote or distributed teams and projects.

Senior Software Engineer – Backend

Company: House of EdTech (Goenka Kachave LLP)

Location: Bangalore, Hybrid

Job Type: Full-Time

Experience: 5+ Years

About the Role

House of EdTech is looking for a Senior Software Engineer – Backend to design, develop, and scale high-performance backend services and APIs supporting products used by millions of learners.

You’ll work closely with Product, Frontend, Data, and Engineering teams while taking end-to-end ownership of backend features and contributing to system architecture and technical decisions.

What You'll Do

• Design and develop scalable backend services and REST APIs.
• Build reliable systems capable of handling high traffic and large data volumes.
• Own backend features from design and development through deployment and monitoring.
• Work with microservices, databases, and distributed systems.
• Identify and solve performance, scalability, reliability, and security challenges.
• Participate in system design and architecture discussions.
• Conduct code reviews and contribute to engineering best practices.
• Mentor junior and mid-level engineers.
• Monitor production systems and troubleshoot incidents.

What We're Looking For

• 5+ years of professional backend development experience.
• Strong hands-on experience with Java, Python, Scala, C++, or a similar language.
• Experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems.
• Strong understanding of REST APIs, microservices, and databases.
• Experience with cloud/infrastructure technologies such as GCP, Docker, or Kubernetes.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals, including security, reliability, testing, and code quality.
• Experience with system design, architecture, and technical decision-making.
• Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Experience mentoring engineers is a plus.

Why Join House of EdTech?

• Work on products impacting millions of learners.
• Solve challenging backend and scalability problems.
• Take significant ownership of architecture and engineering decisions.
• Opportunity to grow into technical leadership and architectural ownership.
• Work in a fast-growing technology environment.

About the role

We are hiring a Principal Engineer to own the hardest technical problems in our product and see them through from first sketch to stable production. You will set technical direction, design systems that scale, and raise the engineering bar through your own work and the people around you. This is a hands-on leadership role: you write code, review designs, and ship.

What will you do?

You will own outcomes, not just tasks. Expect to spend your time on the following.

• Own projects end to end. Take an ambiguous problem, shape the requirements, design the solution, break down the work, deliver it to production, and stay accountable for how it runs afterwards.

• Lead system design. Author and review architecture for services, data pipelines and integrations, with clear trade-offs on scale, latency, cost, consistency and reliability.

• Write and review critical code. Build the hardest components yourself, and set standards for code quality, testing and maintainability through code and design reviews.

• Own deployment and operations. Design CI/CD, infrastructure and release strategies. Drive observability, on-call readiness, incident response and post-incident learning.

• Solve hard problems. Debug production issues across the stack, and find root causes in performance, concurrency, data and scaling problems.

• Mentor and multiply. Coach senior and junior engineers, grow future tech leads, and make the whole team faster and more confident.

• Partner across functions. Work with product, design, data and business teams to turn goals into technical plans, and to say no or reshape scope when needed.

• Shape technical strategy. Guide build-versus-buy decisions, manage tech debt, evaluate new technologies, and contribute to the engineering roadmap.

• Raise the bar. Help define engineering practices, hiring standards and culture, and take part in interviewing.

What are we looking for?

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Core engineering

• 10+ years of professional software engineering, with a track record of shipping and running production systems.

• Strong computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms and complexity, operating systems, networking, databases and concurrency.

• Fluency in at least one major backend language (for example Python, Go, Java, or Node.js/ TypeScript) and the ability to pick up others quickly.

• Deep knowledge of relational and NoSQL data stores: schema design, indexing, transactions, query tuning and replication.

System design and problem solving

• Proven ability to design distributed systems that are scalable, fault tolerant and cost aware, and to explain the trade-offs clearly.

• Experience with APIs, event-driven and asynchronous architectures, queues, caching and service-to-service communication.

• A structured approach to ambiguous problems: break them down, test assumptions, decide with incomplete data, and measure results.

• Strong debugging instincts, including performance profiling and production troubleshooting.

Delivery and operations

• Have led at least two significant projects from inception to production, including planning, milestones, risk management and launch.

• Hands-on experience with deployment: CI/CD pipelines, containers (Docker, Kubernetes), a major cloud (AWS, GCP or Azure), and infrastructure as code.

• Practical experience with monitoring, logging, alerting, SLOs and incident management.

• Habit of writing tests and automation, and of leaving systems more reliable than you found them.

Leadership and communication

• Experience leading engineers without formal authority, through influence, mentoring and clear technical writing.

• Excellent written and verbal communication: design docs, RFCs and concise updates to non-technical stakeholders.

• Ownership mindset, sound judgment on priorities, and comfort working in a fast-moving environment.

Nice to have

• Experience in fintech, lending or another regulated, data-heavy domain.

• Exposure to AI/ML or LLM-based systems in production: model serving, evaluation, retrieval, and cost and latency management.

• Deep experience with data engineering: streaming, batch pipelines, warehouses or search systems.

• Security and compliance awareness: authentication, encryption, audit trails, secure SDLC.

• Experience with multi-tenant SaaS, high-throughput systems or zero downtime migrations.

• Open-source contributions, conference talks, or technical writing.

• Experience scaling an engineering team or helping set up hiring and onboarding practices.

Total Experience: 2+ years

Mode Of Hire: Permanent

Required Skills Set (Mandatory): Object Oriented Programming, data structures, algorithms, software design, and database systems.

Desired Skills (Good if you have): Springboot, ElasticSearch, MongoDB, MySQL, Redis, Crawling/ Web Scraping, Programming languages(Java, Python, C, C++)

Job Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Managers and other Engineers to help define, scope, and implement high-quality features that solve critical user needs.
• Break down requirements into architecture and deliver code, while keeping operational issues in mind.
• The ability to own end-to-end responsibility right from the requirement to release.
• Write clear documentation so that other engineers can jump in and get things done.
• Actively participate in design and code reviews.
• Help take Tracxn to the next level as a world-class engineering team

Job Requirements

• ​​Experience with building backend services. Strong algorithm and CS skills.
• Experience designing and implementing large‐scale distributed systems.
• Experience with multiple programming languages (Java, Python) and data stores (MongoDB, MySQL, Redis, etc)
• Proven ability to work in a fast-paced, agile, and in ownership, and results-oriented culture.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.

Culture

• Work with performance-oriented teams driven by ownership and passion.
• Learn to design systems for high accuracy, efficiency, and scalability.
• No strict deadlines focus on delivering quality work.
• Meritocracy-driven, candid culture. No politics.
• Very high visibility regarding which startups and markets are exciting globally.

About Tracxn

Tracxn (Tracxn.com) is a Bangalore-based product company providing a research and deal sourcing platform for Venture Capital, Private Equity, Corp Dev, and professionals working around the startup ecosystem. We are a team of 800+ working professionals serving customers across the globe. Our clients include Funds like Andreessen Horowitz, Matrix Partners, GGV Capital, and Large Corporations such as Citi, Embraer & Ferrero.

Founders

• Neha Singh (ex-Sequoia, BCG | MBA - Stanford GSB)
• Abhishek Goyal (ex-Accel Partners, Amazon | BTech - IIT Kanpur)

About Technology Team

Tracxn's Technology team is 50+ members strong and growing. The technology team is subdivided into multiple smaller teams, each of which owns one or more services/components of the technology platform. Ours is a young team of motivated engineers with a minimal management structure where almost everyone is actively involved in technical development and design activities. We have a team-centric culture where the ownership and responsibility of a feature or module lie with a team as compared to an individual.

We work on an array of technologies, including but not limited to Spring, Elastic Stack, Kafka, Mongo, MySQL, Redis, ReactJS, Next.js, Node, AWS Lambda, Ansible, etc. 

We value ownership, continuous learning, consistency, and discipline as a team.

ABOUT THE ROLE

The Principal Software Engineer – Java will play a pivotal role in designing, developing, mentoring and maintaining high-performance IT system for Hapag-Lloyd. The role requires deep expertise in Java and microservices-based architecture, along with a strong focus on code quality, performance, and scalability. The ideal candidate will be a passionate engineer who thrives in a Java development agile environment and brings a solution-oriented mindset to collaborative product development. As a senior technical expert, you will be responsible for low-level and high-level architectural design, mentoring developers, and working closely with team in Hamburg & Chennai. The ideal candidate is a passionate, solution oriented engineer with a proven track record in leading technical projects within an agile environment.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

9–14 years of hands-on experience in development using Java, JEE, JPA, JUnit, Kafka, and Microservices. Good Experience in AWS. Strong experience in architectural design – both low-level and high-level. Experience building distributed systems and working in microservices-based architecture. Proficient with Kafka and message-driven architecture. Strong experience with relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL). Sound understanding of modern DevOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines, containerization, and cloud deployment. Experience working in Agile/Scrum-based teams with exposure to software lifecycle tools (e.g., Git, Jenkins, JIRA).

Technical Skills Java, JEE, JPA, JUnit, Microservices Kafka (Desired), REST API development SQL, PostgreSQL Git, Maven, Jenkins (Desired), Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms (eg. AWS)

EDUCATION & QUALIFICATIONS Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or related discipline

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES & TASKS

Software Development & Design Design and develop scalable, reliable, and high-performance applications using Java, JPA, Kafka, Microservices, Junit, API and PostgreSQL. Lead low-level and high-level design discussions and decisions for scalable architecture. Build and maintain microservices architecture using industry best practices. Drive technology innovation. Write clean, efficient, well-documented code with high unit test coverage using JUnit.

Mentorship :

Mentor and guide developers and team members in coding standards, best practices, and problem-solving. Conduct regular code reviews, peer programming, and provide technical leadership to ensure code quality and continuous improvement.

Systems Integration & Tools:

Work with messaging systems such as Kafka to build real-time data processing services. Implement and optimize data access using SQL /PostgreSQL databases. Participate in the design and implementation of DevOps pipelines for CI/CD.

Quality, Testing & Documentation:

Conduct regular code reviews and participate in peer programming and Peer coding Review. Perform system testing, validation, and verification across development stages. Contribute to technical documentation throughout the software development lifecycle

Agile Collaboration & Continuous Improvement:

Collaborate closely with Product Managers, Engineering Managers, Scrum Masters, and developers in agile teams. Participate in sprint planning, retrospectives, and demos. Remain current on new technologies and drive adoption of best engineering practices across the team.

BEHAVIOURS & APPROACH

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills Team-oriented with excellent communication and collaboration skills Passion for clean code, architecture, and continuous learning Ability to work independently with a proactive approach to problem-solving

We are looking for an experienced Sr. Software Engineer to drive the design, architecture, and delivery of scalable B2B products from our Bangalore office. This role requires a strong hands-on technologist who can lead a team of engineers, make sound architectural decisions, and collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Design, DevOps, and Customer Success teams.

As a Sr. Software Engineer, you will play a critical role in shaping the technical direction of our platform, ensuring high-quality engineering practices, and delivering enterprise-grade solutions to our customers. This job can quickly grow into a Technical Lead position.

**Key Responsibilities**

🔹 Technical Leadership

Own end-to-end technical architecture and system design for core product modules.

Drive scalable, secure, and high-performance backend and frontend solutions.

Conduct design reviews, code reviews, and ensure adherence to engineering best practices.

Evaluate and introduce new technologies where appropriate.

🔹 Team Management

Lead, mentor, and grow a team of 5–6 engineers.

Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, and innovation.

Support hiring, onboarding, and mentoring.

🔹 Product Delivery

Collaborate closely with mangement to translate business requirements into technical solutions.

Drive sprint planning, estimations, and delivery timelines.

Ensure predictable, high-quality releases aligned with business goals.

🔹 Quality & DevOps

Champion CI/CD practices, automated testing, and DevOps processes.

Ensure system reliability, uptime, security, and performance monitoring.

Participate in incident management and root cause analysis.

🔹 Stakeholder Collaboration

Work cross-functionally with Sales, Customer Success, and Support teams for enterprise deployments.

Communicate technical decisions clearly to non-technical stakeholders.

**Required Qualifications**

4+ years of software development experience in product-based companies.

Strong experience with modern backend technologies (e.g., Java, Node.js, Python, or similar technologies).

Experience with frontend frameworks (React, Angular, or similar).

Solid understanding of microservices architecture and RESTful APIs.

Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).

Strong knowledge of databases (SQL and NoSQL).

Experience building scalable B2B SaaS products.

**Preferred Qualifications**

Experience with multi-tenant SaaS architecture.

Familiarity with enterprise integrations (SSO, APIs, third-party systems).

Experience handling high-scale systems with large enterprise clients.

Exposure to security and compliance standards (ISO, SOC2, GDPR).

**Key Competencies**

Strong problem-solving and system design skills.

Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Ability to balance hands-on coding with leadership responsibilities.

Strong ownership mindset with attention to detail.

Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, product-driven environment.

**What We Offer**

Competitive compensation and performance bonuses.

Opportunity to work on cutting-edge B2B products.

Collaborative and growth-oriented culture.

Health insurance and wellness benefits.

If you are passionate about building scalable B2B platforms and leading high-performing engineering teams, we would love to hear from you.

Experience and Required Skill Sets: 

1      Solid experience in software design and development using Microsoft ASP.NET framework, C#, Visual Studio, and in writing clean, readable, and easily maintainable code

2      5+ years of experience in WCF, WPF, VB.NET, SQL Server, JQuery, Angular 10 and above.

3      5+ years of experience in developing highly scalable REST/Web APIs

4      5+ years of experience in developing highly efficient SQL/NoSQL Queries

5      5+ years of experience in Relational and Document databases

6      Strong understanding of object-oriented programming and possess strong fundamental design principles for building a scalable application.

7      Experience in using the MVC framework, working knowledge in APIs, and Service Oriented Architecture

8      Strong understanding of object-oriented programming and possess strong fundamental design principles for building a scalable application.

9      Experience in Angular version 10 and above is required 

10   Expert in SQL programming & Database Design (Stored procedure, Function, Trigger, Constraints, Replication) 

11   Strong ability in HTML and JavaScript (AJAX, DOM)

12   Development experience with data integration technologies including REST, SOAP, JSON, XML

13   Expertise in programming and usage of any unit testing framework. Expertise in integration testing and continuous integration.

14   Experience working in a DevOps environment will be an added advantage.

Responsibilities: 

•       Ability to create complex, enterprise-transforming applications that meet and exceed client expectations. 

•       Responsible for the bottom line. Strong project management abilities. Ability to encourage the team to stick to timelines.

•       Follow best-in-class coding practices and review the solutions vis-à-vis the requirements and technical specifications.

•       Should demonstrate strong client interfacing capabilities like emails and calls with clients in the US/UK

Strong Backend Software Engineer Profile with strong Core Java expertise

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Mandatory (Experience 1): Must have 2+ years of hands-on backend software engineering experience.

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Mandatory (Experience 2): Must be able to design and implement moderately complex features with minimal supervision, and contribute to system design and architecture discussions.

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Mandatory (Experience 3): Must be comfortable owning business-critical production components — maintaining connectors, handling customer escalations, security fixes, bug fixes, and building new features end-to-end.

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Mandatory (Tech skill 1): Must have strong, current Core Java depth with solid, clear coding fundamentals — Java is the primary skill for this role. Deep hands-on core engineering strength matters more than framework knowledge.

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Mandatory (Tech skill 2): Must have strong core backend engineering fundamentals and experience with scalable systems (connectors handle millions of events/data points daily across customers).

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Mandatory (Tech skill 3): Must have microservices experience.

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Mandatory (AI Fluency 1): Must have demonstrated, hands-on use of AI coding assistants (Claude, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, etc.) as a core part of the daily workflow — scaffolding, writing tests, reviewing code, and debugging.

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Mandatory (AI Fluency 2): Must be able to write precise, effective prompts for production-quality output, decompose tasks so AI assistance is effective, and critically evaluate AI-generated code for correctness, security, and standards before merging.

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Mandatory (Company): Must come from a product company background (B2B SaaS or B2C both acceptable).

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Mandatory (Note1): This is a 3-month contract role. Candidate must be comfortable with the contract engagement and able to join immediately (urgent — onboarding within ~a week)

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Mandatory (Note 2): Must be based in or near Chennai, Bangalore, or Ahmedabad (Chennai: hybrid, Tue & Thu in office)

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Preferred (Backend): Hands-on Python experience is a plus.

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Preferred (Database): Hands-on database / JDBC integration experience in a production environment.

Strong Backend Software Engineer Profile with strong Core Java expertise

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Mandatory (Experience 1): Must have 2+ years of hands-on backend software engineering experience.

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Mandatory (Experience 2): Must be able to design and implement moderately complex features with minimal supervision, and contribute to system design and architecture discussions.

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Mandatory (Experience 3): Must be comfortable owning business-critical production components — maintaining connectors, handling customer escalations, security fixes, bug fixes, and building new features end-to-end.

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Mandatory (Tech skill 1): Must have strong, current Core Java depth with solid, clear coding fundamentals — Java is the primary skill for this role. Deep hands-on core engineering strength matters more than framework knowledge.

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Mandatory (Tech skill 2): Must have strong core backend engineering fundamentals and experience with scalable systems (connectors handle millions of events/data points daily across customers).

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Mandatory (AI Fluency): Must have demonstrated, hands-on use of AI coding assistants (Claude, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, etc.) as a core part of the daily workflow — scaffolding, writing tests, reviewing code, and debugging — with the ability to write precise, effective prompts for production-quality output, decompose tasks so AI assistance is effective, and critically evaluate AI-generated code for correctness, security, and standards before merging.

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Mandatory (Database): Hands-on database / JDBC integration experience in a production environment.

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Mandatory (Company): Must come from a product company background (B2B SaaS or B2C both acceptable).

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Mandatory (Note1): This is a 3-month contract role. Candidate must be comfortable with the contract engagement and able to join immediately (urgent — onboarding within ~a week)