Technical Overview:
● You will be expected to design, develop and maintain large-scale complex backend web applications.
● You will be expected to rapidly learn and apply relevant new technologies.
● You will be having a high level of interaction with business and product stakeholders.
● You will be working on the entire web application stack, which includes:
o Web server hosting
o RESTful communication
o Message brokering
o Backend application layer, which includes the service and domain layers
o Data layer for persistence or caching
● You will be participating in an agile software development cycle, which includes:
o Design
o Development
o Code Review
o Unit and Integration Testing
o Release
● As a Staff Engineer, you will be expected to contribute to design, code review, refactoring, and project management.
● You will be exposed to the following technologies:
o Web application frameworks: Ruby on Rails, Node.js, Java Play, Vert.x, AIOHTTP, AWS Lambda
o Languages: Ruby, Java, Kotlin, Javascript, Python
o Data stores: PostgreSQL, Aerospike, Redis, Amazon Redshift
o Communication: HTTP, Amazon SQS, Sidekiq, Amazon SNS
o Server Management: Amazon ECS, Docker
Product Overview:
You will be contributing to products concerning both customers and partner drivers.
Product sectors include:
1) Growth: You’ll build tools to help boost user growth on the platform including our industry-best driver onboarding, training and certification system, referral system, and lead management models.
2) Lifecycle Management: Build tools to help users engage with the platform better, which include rewards and recognition modules, subscription services account management tools, partner and customer wallets and payout modules, and churn detection systems among others.
3) Transaction Experience: You’ll help deliver the most delightful booking experience to our customers and drivers. As part of this team, you’ll be responsible for our core booking system, pricing and payment
systems, location tracking and filtering services, fraud prevention systems, and in-app ticketing and support among others.
4) Fulfilment: As part of the fulfillment team, you’ll work on systems that ensure a high degree of ride fulfillment on the platform. Tools include allocation methodologies and systems, dynamic pricing, dynamic partner routing, and partner re-activation tools among others.
5) Enterprise Solutions: You’ll help Porter’s enterprise customers achieve delivery excellence. You’ll build tools for contract management, fleet management, fleet and route optimization tools, alerting and monitoring tools, and analytics suite among others.

About Porter.in
About
Company Overview:
At Porter, we are passionate about improving productivity. We want to help businesses, large and small, optimize their last-mile operations and empower them to unleash the growth of their core functions. Last-mile delivery logistics is one of the biggest and fastest-growing sectors of the economy with a market cap upwards of 50 billion USD and a growth rate exceeding 15% CAGR.
Porter is the fastest-growing leader in this sector with operations in 14 major cities, a fleet size exceeding 1L registered and 50k active driver-partners and a customer base with 3.5M being monthly active. Our industry-best technology platform has raised over 50 million USD from investors including Sequoia Capital, Kae Capital, Mahindra Group and LGT Aspada. We are addressing a massive problem and going after a huge market. We’re trying to create a household name in transportation and our ambition is to disrupt all facets of last-mile logistics including warehousing and LTL transportation. At Porter, we’re here to do the best work of our lives. If you want to do the same and love the challenges and opportunities of a fast-paced work environment, then we believe Porter is the right place for you.
Company URL: https://porter.in
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Experience Required : 8 to 15 Years
Open Positions : 5
Location : Any major metro city (Bengaluru, Pune, Chennai, Kolkata, Hyderabad)
Work Mode : Open to Remote / Hybrid / Onsite
Notice Period : Immediate Joiner/30 Days or Less
About the Role :
- We are looking for experienced Lead Java Developers who bring not only strong backend development skills but also a product-oriented mindset and leadership capability.
- This is an opportunity to be part of high-impact digital transformation initiatives that go beyond writing code—you’ll help shape future-ready platforms and drive meaningful change.
- This role is embedded within a forward-thinking digital engineering team that thrives on co-innovation, lean delivery, and end-to-end ownership of platforms and products.
Key Responsibilities :
- Design, develop, and implement scalable backend systems using Java and Spring Boot.
- Collaborate with product managers, designers, and engineers to build intuitive and reliable digital products.
- Advocate and implement engineering best practices : SOLID principles, OOP, clean code, CI/CD, TDD/BDD.
- Lead Agile-based development cycles with a focus on speed, quality, and customer outcomes.
- Guide and mentor team members, fostering technical excellence and ownership.
- Utilize cloud platforms and DevOps tools to ensure performance and reliability of applications.
What We’re Looking For :
- Proven experience in Java backend development (Spring Boot, Microservices).
- 8+ Years of hands-on engineering experience with at least 2+ years in a Lead role.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Good understanding of containerization and orchestration tools like Docker and Kubernetes.
- Exposure to DevOps and Infrastructure as Code practices.
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to design solutions from first principles.
- Prior experience in product-based or startup environments is a big plus.
Ideal Candidate Profile :
- A tech enthusiast with a passion for clean code and scalable architecture.
- Someone who thrives in collaborative, transparent, and feedback-driven environments.
- A leader who takes ownership beyond individual deliverables to drive overall team and project success.
Interview Process
- Initial Technical Screening (via platform partner)
- Technical Interview with Engineering Team
- Client-facing Final Round
Additional Info :
- Targeting profiles from product/startup backgrounds.
- Strong preference for candidates with under 1 month of notice period.
- Interviews will be fast-tracked for qualified profiles.
Toast is driven by building the restaurant platform that helps restaurants adapt, take control, and get back to what they do best: building the businesses they love.
As a Principal Engineer / Architect you will be responsible for creating a technical strategy and coordinating the designs for meeting the needs of Toast’s largest restaurant brands. You will partner with Product Managers to develop the technology roadmap that enables enterprise customers to leverage the power of Toast. You will also work closely with technical leaders and implementation teams across the organization to deliver robust, scalable solutions with integrations to customers’ external systems.
As the engineering leader on the Pricing & Funds Management team, you will be responsible for evolving our Funds Management platform (processing >$150B in annual GPV) to meet Toast’s growing needs across the world by both delivering best-in-class customer facing Fintech products and foundational capabilities that enable partner teams to accelerate their products time-to-market & scale.
If you’re a technical leader or a solutions architect, experienced with enterprise SaaS, passionate about customer value, and a great collaborator, read on!
About this roll*:
- Design mission critical platform components at scale to ensure Toast’s Funds Management platform accurately distributes funds to beneficial party in a timely manner
- Develop an expert understanding of Toast’s payments processing platform & adjacent products to enable funds flows across Toast’s financial product suite in a seamless manner
- Document solution design, write & review code, test and rollout solutions to production, capturing & actioning customer feedback to iteratively enhance customer experience
- Collaborate with peers to optimise for solution design performance, flexibility and scalable, including enablement of multi-product & engineering teams on a common framework & platform
- Partner with UX, Product Management, QA and adjacent engineering teams to build best-in-class solutions in a complex and fast-moving environment
- Champion best practices such as quality integration and unit testing
Do you have the right ingredients*?
- Strong technologist with 12+ years experience defining and implementing high scale SaaS solutions. Experience with a broad set of technologies that includes those used at Toast - tiered web applications, microservices, API design patterns, Java, Kotlin and data analytics
- Experience with integration design patterns across high-scale Fintech platforms
- Strong interpersonal skills and a proven track record of building partnerships across engineering, product, customer success, and other stakeholders.
- Experience shipping iterative value using agile or lean software delivery methods.
- Experience of tackling complex and ambiguous problems, communicate clearly with others to solve the problem, and share knowledge to help the whole team succeed
- Experience building payments & Fintech products, with at least 10+ years in the payments industry
Our Tech Stack
Toast’s products run on a stack that ranges from guest and restaurant-facing Android tablets to backend services in Java to internal, guest-facing and restaurant-facing web apps. Our backend services follow a microservice architecture written using Java 8 and DropWizard; we use AWS extensively, ranging from S3 to RDS to Lambda. We have our own platform for dealing with user management, service elevations and robust load balancing. Toast stores data in a set of sharded Postgres databases and utilizes Apache Spark for large scale data workloads including query and batch processing. The front-end is built primarily using React and ES6. The main Toast POS application is an Android application written in Java and Kotlin. For data between tablets and our cloud platform we operate RabbitMQ clusters as well as direct tablet communication to the back end.
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is Baked into our Recipe for Success
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- 3+ years of experience in the Development in JAVA technology.
- AWS or cloud Experience
- Strong Java Basics
- SpringBoot or Spring MVC
- Hands on experience on Relationl Databases (SQL query or Hibernate) + Mongo (JSON parsing)
- Proficient in REST API development
- Messaging Queue (RabitMQ or Kafka)
- Microservices
- Any Caching Mechanism
- Good at problem-solving
Good to Have Skills:
- 3+ years of experience in using Java/J2EE tech stacks
- Good understanding of data structures and algorithms.
- Excellent analytical and problem solving skills.
- Ability to work in a fast paced internet start-up environment.
- Experience in technical mentorship/coaching is highly desirable.
- Understanding of AI/ML algorithms is a plus.
- Strong experience in Java programming.
- Must have experience on MicroServices using Spring boots /Jersy /Swagger / any other Microservices technology stack
- Good experience in either Spring or Hibernate
- Must have at least 1to 2 years’ experience in Web application
- Knowledge of OOP concepts, industry best practices, and design
- Good understanding of web technology/enterprise-level applications
- Good to have experience in JavaScript frameworks
- Good to have experience in Agile Methodology
- Self-motivated and a Quick Learner
- Creative ideas with a problem-solving mindset.
- Ability to consistently perform and meet deadlines
- Attention to detail and follow-through
- A good understanding of customer satisfaction
- Ability to work effectively in a team as well as in an individual environment
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Shift: 11 am to 8 pm
Hands on skills on the following technologies:
- Kafka Streams
- CassandraDB
- MS SQL SERVER
- Liquibase
- Maven, GIT, JUNITS
Mandatory skills:
- Java 17
- Spring Boot
- Spring Cloud
- Spring JPA
- Apache Kafka
- Microservices
● Proficiency in RESTful API, microservices architecture and containerization technologies
(Docker)
● Strong programming, problem solving skills, data structures and algorithms.
● Solid foundation in Computer Science, distributed systems and web technologies.
● Proficient in one or more Java based backend programming frameworks - Ex - Java spring,
Java spring boot, Java vert.x
● Knowledge of one or more SQL (mySQL, postgres) and noSQL data stores (mongDB or
Cassandra)
● Knowledge of observability systems
● Knowledge of managed cloud services like AWS / Azure / GCP
● Experience with distributed messaging technologies like RabbitMQ, Google PubSub etc.
- Proficiency in Java, with a good understanding of its ecosystems
- Sound knowledge of https://www.simplilearn.com/tutorials/java-tutorial/oops-interview-questions" target="_blank">Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) Patterns and Concepts
- Familiarity with different design and architectural patterns
- Skill for writing reusable Java libraries
- Knowhow of Java concurrency patterns
- Basic Understanding of the concepts of MVC (Model-View-Controller) Pattern, JDBC (Java Database Connectivity), and RESTful web services
- Experience in working with popular web application frameworks like Play and Spark
- Relevant Knowledge of Java GUI frameworks like Swing, SWT, AWT according to project requirements
- Ability to write clean, readable Java code
- Basic knowhow of class loading mechanism in Java
- Experience in handling external and embedded databases
- Understanding basic design principles behind a scalable application
- Skilled at creating database schemas that characterize and support business processes
- Basic knowledge of https://www.simplilearn.com/jvm-and-the-implications-of-sandbox-model-rar41-article" target="_blank">JVM (Java Virtual Machine), its drawbacks, weaknesses, and workarounds
- Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests
- In-depth knowledge of code versioning tools, for instance, Git
- Understanding of building tools like Ant, Maven, Gradle, etc
- Expertise in continuous integration
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
Location: Sargasan, Gandhinagar
Experience – 3 to 5 years
Education –ME, BE in computer science , BCA & MCA
Salary Budget – Based on experience and interview ( normally 10% to 15% hike in current salary )
Job Description
We are looking for an analytical, results-driven Back-end Developer who will work with team members to troubleshoot and improve current back-end applications and processes. The Back-end Developer will use his or her understanding of programming languages and tools to analyze current codes and industry developments, formulate more efficient processes, solve problems, and create a more seamless experience for users. You should have excellent communication, computer, and project management skills.
To succeed as a Backend Developer, you should be focused on building a better, more efficient program and creating a better end-user experience. You should be knowledgeable, collaborative, and motivated.
Back-end Developer Responsibilities:
Compile and analyze data, processes, and codes to troubleshoot problems and identify areas for improvement.
Collaborating with the front-end developers and other team members to establish objectives and design more functional, cohesive codes to enhance the user experience.
Developing ideas for new programs, products, or features by monitoring industry developments and trends.
Recording data and reporting it to proper parties, such as clients or leadership.
Participating in continuing education and training to remain current on best practices, learn new programming languages, and better assist other team members.
Taking lead on projects, as needed.
Implement complex business application using Java (Spring Boot)
Build REST APIs that serve our frontend apps as well as other clients
Create scalable and distributed microservices
Rearchitect existing applications to move to a future-proof architecture
Streamline automated deployment and DevOps flow
Deploy on AWS
Back-end Developer Requirements:
Bachelor’s degree in computer programming, computer science, or a related field.
Design & development of J2EE applications using Java EE, Spring, hibernate & Linux
Should have exposure to multithreading and Concurrent Programming.
Extensive experience in application development using Java (Spring Boot and Spring REST)
Exposure to a microservices architecture
Exposure to RabbitMQ or Kafka is highly desirable
Experience in Hibernate or equivalent ORM Framework
Experience with CICD using Gitlab or AWS CodePipeline or AWS CodeDeploy
Familiarity with NoSQL Databases like MongoDB or Cassandra
Exposure to AWS is highly desirable
Exposure to Kubernetes is highly desirable
Strong understanding of the web development cycle and programming techniques and tools.
Focus on efficiency, user experience, and process improvement.
Excellent project and time management skills.
Strong problem solving and verbal and written communication skills.
Ability to work independently or with a group.
Willingness to sit at desk for extended periods.
Job Summary:
- Willingness to work on highly scalable cloud-native solutions based on microservices.
- Quickly learn the technologies and deliver using the same.
- Take complete ownership of the customer requirements.
- Motivated to deliver world-class quality.
- Inclined to bring new ways of thinking, working and providing solutions.
- Drive the concept of quality into everybody and have a zero-tolerance towards bad quality.
- Understand requirements from product management, customer and able to comprehensively break this down to manageable tasks.
Experience:
● 3-9 years of development experience.
Technical Skills:
Mandatory:
- Java - Advanced concepts concurrency, reflection, lambda, Java Springboot, Spring security,
- Actuator/Prometheus/Grafana/Servo (metrics),
- EFK/ELK stack (log analysis)
- OpenAPI/Swagger (documentation)
- RDBMS (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Maria or any other)
- NoSQL (Anyone of Mongo DB, Redis, Cassandra, Neo4J or other DBs)
- Automated unit tests/e2e tests (JUnit, TestNG, RestAssured etc)
- CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Sonar, Maven/Gradle etc)
Optional: (But highly recommended)
- NewSQL DB (TiDB, CockroachDB)
- AMQP/RabbitMQ
- Kafka
- Docker
- Kubernetes

