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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Skills Required:
- Experience of more than 4 to 6 years in software development.
- Very Strong Experience in Core Java.
- Excellent Java Programming skills Experience in Data Structures, Algorithms and Design Patterns.
- Strong in Problem solving, Analytical skill and logical thinking.
- Skill to be trained: java, spring, mango db, cassandra.
- Strong experience in Spring Boot, Restful API
- Looking for shorter notice period candidates only.
Job Role
· Position Title: Expert Java Engineer
· Experience Range: 9 to 12 yrs
· Location: Pune
Notice Period : Immediate Joiner
Must have Requirements
● 9+ years’ of experience working as a software developer.
● Strong proficiency in Java and Spring Boot.
● Strong experience in building applications that interact with relational databases using SQL.
● Some experience of Enterprise Java (J2EE / JavaEE / Spring) application architectures.
● History of delivering high-cadence modern applications with applied Agile methodologies, test-first development approaches, adopting CI/CD pipelines and using Git version control.
Java Tech Lead (5–6 Years Experience)
About the Role
We are seeking a highly skilled Java Tech Lead with 5–6 years of hands-on experience in backend engineering, architecture design, and leading development teams.
The ideal candidate will combine strong technical expertise in Java frameworks with a deep understanding of system design, scalability, and performance optimization.
This role involves technical leadership, code reviews, and architectural decision-making for complex enterprise systems — with occasional exposure to analytics-driven and Python-based components.
Key Responsibilities
- Architect, design, and develop scalable backend systems using Java (Quarkus, Spring Boot, Spring, Java EE).
- Own the architecture — ensure modular, extensible, and high-performance service design.
- Lead and mentor a team of developers; conduct code reviews, enforce best practices, and ensure high code quality.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams (frontend, DevOps, product, data) to deliver integrated, end-to-end solutions.
- Design and optimize database schemas (MySQL, PostgreSQL) and ensure efficient query performance.
- Implement and maintain microservices and distributed systems with strong fault tolerance and observability.
- Drive the adoption of modern development workflows — Git branching strategy, CI/CD, and code quality automation.
- Analyze system performance bottlenecks, implement monitoring, and ensure smooth production deployments.
- Contribute to architecture reviews, technical documentation, and design discussions.
- Occasionally contribute to Python-based analytics modules or automation scripts.
- Work with AWS cloud services (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda) for deployment, scaling, and infrastructure automation.
Required Skills & Qualifications
- 5–6 years of professional experience in backend application development using Java.
- Strong proficiency in Java frameworks: Quarkus, Spring Boot, Spring, Java EE.
- Proven experience in architecture design, system decomposition, and microservices design principles.
- Solid understanding of object-oriented design (OOD), design patterns, and SOLID principles.
- Strong experience with relational databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL) and query optimization.
- Good understanding of event-driven systems, RESTful APIs, and asynchronous processing.
- Proficiency in Git for version control and team collaboration.
- Strong analytical and debugging skills; ability to diagnose complex production issues.
Good to Have
- Hands-on experience with Python for data processing or analytics integrations.
- Familiarity with AWS cloud architecture and cost optimization practices.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI).
- Knowledge of Docker/Kubernetes for containerized deployments.
- Exposure to NoSQL databases (MongoDB, DynamoDB, Cassandra).
- Experience with message queues (Kafka, RabbitMQ, or AWS SQS).
- Understanding of system scalability, caching (Redis/Memcached), and observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK).
Soft Skills
- Strong leadership, mentoring, and communication skills.
- Proven ability to drive technical decisions and balance short-term delivery with long-term architectural health.
- Collaborative mindset — works closely with product, design, and operations teams.
- Passion for clean architecture, high performance, and continuous improvement.
- Self-driven with a strong sense of ownership and accountability.
2. Spring boot/ Spring or any variations of Spring
3. MySQL
4. Mentions of, distributed systems, scalable systems
5. Mentions of ElasticSearch, Kafka or Redis
6. NoSQL databases like Cassandra/DynamoDB/MongoDB/Hbase etc
7. Mentions of Handling scale/scalable systems
9. Mentions of AWS or Amazon web services.
Job Description:
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Key Responsibility Areas: |
· Design, build and deliver Enterprise software solutions. · Write code with standards and conventions and follow best practices. · Encourage and lead innovation and solid lifecycle processes. · Collaborate with development teams on work definition, estimation and prioritization · Lead and grow as a professional software engineer. · Full ownership of product deliveries and mentoring junior team members. · Preparing curriculum to train junior developers for Java Web Development · Strong client interactions to provide excellent Quality of Service. · Owning the code base and making sure all code is reviewed and is of very high quality. · Write and modify coding conventions and standards documents for all development |
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Required Skills: |
Technologies/Frameworks – · Core Java, J2EE, · Spring Core and Spring MVC, Sprint Boot, Spring Security, · JDBC, Hibernate, RESTful APIs, SOAP WebServices · Knowledge of JavaScript, JQuery, AJAX, HTML5, and CSS3, Angular is added advantage · Junit or Mockito frameworks · Maven, Git · Knowledge Data Structures, · SQL, MySQL · Designing relational database schemas · Basics of AWS, Cloud, Microservices
· BFSI, FinTech |
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Qualification |
B.E., B.Tech. from reputed institutes with good academic record |
Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science or relevant technical field.
Experience in software development and full product life-cycle.
Excellent programming skills in any object oriented programming languages - preferably Java, C/C++/C#, Perl, Python, or Ruby.
Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and designing for performance, scalability, and availability.
Proficiency in SQL and data modeling.
Roles & Responsibilities
You solve problems at their root, stepping back to understand the broader context.
You develop pragmatic solutions and build flexible systems that balance engineering complexity and timely delivery, creating business impact.
You understand a broad range of data structures and algorithms and apply them to deliver high-performing applications.
You recognize and use design patterns to solve business problems.
You understand how operating systems work, perform and scale.
You continually align your work with Amazon’s business objectives and seek to deliver business value.
You collaborate to ensure that decisions are based on the merit of the proposal, not the proposer.
You proactively support knowledge-sharing and build good working relationships within the team and with others in Amazon.
You communicate clearly with your team and with other groups and listen effectively.
About Amazon.com
“Many of the problems we face have no textbook solution, and so we-happily-invent new ones.” – Jeff Bezos
Amazon.com – a place where builders can build. We hire the world's brightest minds and offer them an environment in which they can invent and innovate to improve the experience for our customers. A Fortune 100 company based in Seattle, Washington, Amazon is the global leader in e-commerce. Amazon offers everything from books and electronics to apparel and diamond jewelry. We operate sites in Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, Spain, United Kingdom and United States, and maintain dozens of fulfillment centers around the world which encompass more than 26 million square feet.
Technological innovation drives the growth of Amazon, offering our customers more selection, convenient shopping, and low prices. Amazon Web Services provides developers and small to large businesses access to the horizontally scalable state of the art cloud infrastructure like S3, EC2, AMI, CloudFront and SimpleDB, that powers Amazon.com. Developers can build any type of business on Amazon Web Services and scale their application with growing business needs.
We want you to help share and shape our mission to be Earth's most customer-centric company. Amazon's evolution from Web site to e-commerce partner to development platform is driven by the spirit of invention that is part of our DNA. We do this every day by inventing elegant and simple solutions to complex technical and business problems. We're making history and the good news is that we've only just begun.
About Amazon India
Amazon teams in India work on complex business challenges to innovate and create efficient solutions that enable various Amazon businesses, including Amazon websites across the world as well as support Payments, Transportation, and Digital products and services like the Kindle family of tablets, e-readers and the store. We are proud to have some of the finest talent and strong leaders with proven experience working to make Amazon the Earth’s most customer-centric company.
We made our foray into the Indian market with the launch of Junglee.com, enabling retailers in India to advertise their products to millions of Indian shoppers and drive targeted traffic to their stores. In June 2013, we launched www.amazon.in for shoppers in India. With www.amazon.in, we endeavor to give customers more of what they want – low prices, vast selection, fast and reliable delivery, and a trusted and convenient online shopping experience. In just over a year of launching our India operations, we have expanded our offering to over 18 million products across 36 departments and 100s of categories! Our philosophy of working backwards from the customers is what drives our growth and success.
We will continue to strive to become a trusted and meaningful sales and logistics channel for retailers of all sizes across India and a fast, reliable and convenient online shopping destination for consumers. For us, it is always “Day 1” and we are committed to aggressively invest over the long-term and relentlessly focus on raising the bar for customer experience in India.
Amazon India offers opportunities where you can dive right in, work with smart people on challenging problems and make an impact that contributes to the lives of millions. Join us so you can - Work Hard, Have Fun and Make History.
scale distributed systems
You will
- Work closely in the respective software engineering team in design and development of
high scale mission critical applications.
- Drive the design and development of one or more components/applications in your
product by establishing robust low level design, good code practices, and unit testing.
- Partner with cross functional teams like product management, operations and business
to propose and influence the design of platforms/systems for higher scale and
complexity.
- Mentor software engineers in the team in solving complex problems and delivering
great quality software, do regular code reviews and play a key role in overall
deliverables.
What do we look for
While we are quite technology agnostic, we particularly look for some concepts that go behind
building high quality products for our consumers.
Coding : Extensive coding in one the following: Java/Python/ROR/Golang
Design : System design, design patterns, designing data structures, source code and
performance algorithms.
Cross functional : Ability to work with diverse teams like Products, business and
operations. Your ability to gather requirements, attention to detail and learnability
would really matter
Experience :4 to 7 years of experience in consumer internet companies or high
scale SAAS
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
About the Company
Based in California’s Silicon Valley, WebShar is focused on enabling innovative teams to bring their ideas to life. WebShar provides software development consulting services to innovative companies around the world. Through years of cutting edge technical expertise, the WebShar team utilizes their extensive knowledge of modern software development methodologies to help companies create innovative software solutions.
About the Job Role
Skills
Primary
- Java, J2EE, Spring MVC
- Hibernate or other ORM
- Web technology and security, REST framework
- Any one UI technology and ready to learn a new one.
- Database knowledge (MySQL, Oracle, Postgres)
- Unit testing frameworks
- Version Control (Eg., Git)
Good To Have
- Microservices architecture implementation using docker and kubernetes
- Web technologies like HTML, CSS and Javascript
- Python, Shell Scripting
Key Responsibilities
- Identify and analyze user requirements
- Prioritize, assign and execute tasks throughout the software development life cycle
- Document development phases
- Design database architecture
- Develop Java EE applications
- Write well-designed, efficient code
- Review, test and debug team members’ code
- Schedule product releases with internal teams
- Ensure our applications are secure and up-to-date
- Stay up-to-date on emerging technologies
Requirements
- 6 to 8 years of work experience as a Senior Java Developer or similar role
- Experience designing, building and testing Java EE applications
- In-depth knowledge of popular Java frameworks like Spring MVC
- Experience with Object-Oriented Design (OOD)
- Good delegation and time management skills
- Problem-solving abilities
- BSc in Computer Science, Engineering or relevant field










