SDE-JAVA Backend

Senior Backend Engineer

What You'll Do :

- Build and scale the core backend and infrastructure powering a customer feedback intelligence platform - owning systems from data ingestion through real-time analytics.

- Harden ML and NLP infrastructure, including pipelines, model serving, and data flows, so features remain reliable in real-world production environments at scale.

- Own critical infrastructure decisions around data models, event flows, and service boundaries, with strong correctness and data-integrity guarantees.

- Instrument systems deeply for observability, ensuring failures surface early and production behavior becomes a source of continuous learning.

- Balance speed, cost, and long-term system health, making pragmatic, cost-effective trade-offs while shipping continuously.

- Partner closely with Product, Design, and the founding team to turn ambiguous problem statements into clear, scalable infrastructure.

- Raise the engineering bar through clean code, thorough design reviews, mentorship, and platform-level improvements.

What It Takes :

- 6-8 years of software engineering experience, with a proven track record of building and shipping reliable systems in production.

- 3+ years at a single organization where you've built infrastructure from the ground up and owned complex projects end to end.

- Deep expertise in infrastructure, including data pipelines, event-driven and microservices architectures, observability, reliability, and cost optimization.

Tech Stack :

-serverless computing, SQL/NoSQL databases, Elasticsearch, or GraphQL.

Bonus :

- Experience building or operating ML/NLP infrastructure such as data pipelines, model serving, feature stores, or inference systems.

Why This Opportunity :

- High Impact : Build foundational backend and infrastructure systems at an early-stage, high-growth technology company.

- Ownership : Take end-to-end responsibility for critical features, systems, and infrastructure.

- Complex Challenges : Work across ML/NLP infrastructure, distributed systems, data pipelines, and real-time analytics.

- Growth : Deepen your technical expertise while having the opportunity to grow into a technical leadership path.

- Culture : Work in an open, collaborative, and values-driven environment with significant autonomy.

- Benefits : Competitive compensation, equity, hybrid work setup, premium healthcare, and more.

Job Description:

As per our conversation, please find below the job description for your review. 

·       Strong written/verbal communication skills

·       Minimum 5-14 Years of Core Java Programming with Collections Framework, Concurrent Programming, Multi-threading (Good knowledge in Executor service, Forkjoin pool and other threading concepts)

·       Good knowledge of the JVM with an understanding of performance and memory optimization.

·       Extensive and expert programming experience in JAVA programming language (strong OO skills preferred).

·       Excellent knowledge on collections like, Array List, Vector, LinkedList, HashMap, Hash Table, HashSet is mandate.

·       Exercised exemplary development practices including design specification, coding standards, unit testing, and code-reviews.

·       Expert level understanding of Object-Oriented Concepts and Data Structures

·       Good experience in Database (Sybase, Oracle, or SQL Server) like indexing (clustered, non clustered), hashing, segmenting, data types like clob / blob, views (materialized), replication, constraints, functions, triggers, procedures etc.

·       While you may already know about Wissen and the company history, here is a quick rundown for you.

Responsibilities:

• Good understanding of programming language
• Concepts of Java, Maven
• Source Control
• Logically Strong in coding practices
• Data structure Understanding.
• Security encryption and decryption
• Data encoding decoding

Requirements:

• Strong core Java development skills.
• Exposure to security tools.
• Experience in working with customers, understanding business requirements
• Good analytical and troubleshooting skills.
• Working knowledge of Jenkins/Maven
• Key requirements: Core Java, CI/CD, Docker, Maven, Jenkins, REST API, Kafka, Redis, cache, elastic cache

Job Location

Bengaluru, India

Job Type

Contractual Position with Potential for Full-Time Employment Based on Performance Review

Experience Required

4 years of experience in Java & Technologies

Company Description

Welcome to Unitalks Technologies! We are a managed services provider that helps our clients hire top-quality talent. We are hiring for one of our clients in Bengaluru, more details will be provided about the company and culture later in the process.

Role Description

This is a contract role for a Senior Java Software Engineer. As a Senior Java Software Engineer, you will be responsible for designing and developing software solutions, building and maintaining Microservices architectures, and programming using Spring Boot. This role is based in Bengaluru and is an on-site position.

Qualifications

• Software Development and Programming skills
• Experience with Microservices and the Spring Boot
• Proficiency in Java, SQL and UNIX
• Good in deployment on different platforms like AWS, Azure, etc.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
• Excellent communication and teamwork abilities
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field
• Experience with Agile methodologies and CI/CD pipelines
• Knowledge of cloud platforms and containerization technologies is a plus

Job Description

We are looking for Advance Java developers who want to help us design cutting edge scalable products to meet our rapidly growing business. We are building out a team and looking for multiple levels but you should have at least 4-6 years of programming experience.

Key Responsibilities

         Build high availability and extreme reliable high volume transactional systems.

         Deliver reliable solutions that handle massive data and high traffic.

         Complete ownership of problem-free execution of owned modules and solutions.

         Focus on code optimization, code quality, maintainability etc.

         Team Handling.

Skills required

         MS or BS/B.Tech / MCA in computer science.

         Hands-on experience in Core J2EE or Core Java (collection, multithreading).

         Proficiency in Struts 2.0 & Springs, Hibernate, JDBC, JSP, Servlets , JMS / Radius, Redis , Microservices , 

         Strong working knowledge of Databases – MySQL, OS - Linux.

         Experience and knowledge of open source tools & frameworks, broader cutting edge          technologies around server side development.

         Excellent data structure & algorithm and problem solving skills.

         Customer-focused, react well to changes, work with teams and able to multi-task.

         Must be a proven performer and team player that enjoy challenging assignments in a high-energy, fast growing and start-up workplace.

         Must be a self-starter who can work well with minimal guidance and in fluid environment.

Note: Must have worked on Payment Gateway Development.

Must be willing to work in a startup fast paced environment.

Joining : Immediate

Role: Senior Software Engineer – Backend                                            Location: Bangalore / Gurgaon / Pune

About the Role

The successful backend engineer will work closely and collaboratively with cross functional teams during all phases of the software development lifecycle.

The incumbent should be competent to provide quick solutions to problems and taking a product or a product’s component through the entire life cycle, optimize the space / time complexity and improve on usability and reliability.

What you’ll be doing:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field from top notch colleges 
• 4 + years of software development engineering.
• Understanding of fundamental design principles (including MVC).
• Good hands on in AWS scalable environment.
• Experience with different RDBMS and No SQL databases like MySQL, mongo, etc.
• Experience in designing scalable micro-services required.
• Strong knowledge of CS fundamentals including data structures, algorithm design and complexity analysis.
• Proficiency in one language that emphasizes class abstractions (for e.g. Java) and have coded in it for at least 4 years.
• Excellent communication, analytical and problem solving skills.
• Strong organizational skills and the ability to prioritize and work with clients with great efficiency.
• Excellent written and oral communication and presentation skills and the ability to express thoughts logically and succinctly.
• Open minded, Team builder, Good communicator and ability to lead and inspire teams.
• Demonstrated ability to achieve stretch goals in a highly innovative and fast paced environment.
• Experience in dealing with ambiguous/undefined problems; ability to think abstractly

What are we looking for?

• 4 to 10 years of hands on design / development experience. 
• Tech / M.Tech Computer Science or equivalent field from a premier institutes. 
• Proficient in Java OR C/C++, data structures, algorithms and OO design / design patterns. 
• Strong understanding of Computer Science fundamentals. 
• Technical depth in OS, computer architecture and OS internals. 
• Ability to write scalable and maintainable code. 
• Self-starter and goal-oriented with strong analytical and problem-solving skills. 
• Must be able to work cooperatively within a strong diverse technical community to expedite development tasks.
• Experience in Machine Learning is a plus

 
What we offer

• Competitive salary and excellent benefits, in a diverse working environment with inspiring and hardworking colleagues
• A positive, get-things-done workplace.
• An inclusive environment that ensures we listen to a diverse range of voices when making decisions.
• Ability to learn cutting edge concepts and innovation in an agile start-up environment with a global scale.
• A flexible working environment where you can drive your outcomes.

About us

At PayU, we are a global fintech investor and our vision is to build a world without financial borders where everyone can prosper. We give people in high growth markets the financial services and products they need to thrive. Our expertise in 18+ high-growth markets enables us to extend the reach of financial services. This drives everything we do, from investing in technology entrepreneurs to offering credit to underserved individuals, to helping merchants buy, sell, and operate online. Being part of Prosus, one of the largest technology investors in the world, gives us the presence and expertise to make a real impact. Find out more at www.payu.com

Our Commitment to Building A Diverse and Inclusive Workforce

As a global and multi-cultural organization with varied ethnicities thriving across locations, we realize that our responsibility towards fulfilling the D&I commitment is huge. Therefore, we continuously strive to create a diverse, inclusive, and safe environment, for all our people, communities, and customers. Our leaders are committed to create an inclusive work culture which enables transparency, flexibility, and unbiased attention to every PayUneer so they can succeed, irrespective of gender, color, or personal faith. An environment where every person feels they belong, that they are listened to, and where they are empowered to speak up. At PayU we have zero tolerance towards any form of prejudice whether a specific race, ethnicity, or of persons with disabilities, or the LGBTQ communities.