• Experience working with SQL databases, query optimisation and designing schemas
• High coding standards - understanding of test coverage best practices & test pyramid concept.
• Design, analyze, code, test, and deploy applications to satisfy business requirements for large, complex projects.

About Acko General Insurance Company Limited.
About
Acko is your new age insurance company. With killer prices and a hassle-free experience, we are out there to redefine insurance for everyone.
Acko General Insurance, an independent general insurer whose entire operations are through the digital
platform has raised $30 million in a seed round, making it one of the largest seed rounds for a start-up
in India.
Set up by Varun Dua, previously founder of Coverfox, Acko General Insurance has received in-principle
regulatory approval to launch general insurance business in India.
Acko is backed by Narayanmurthy’s Catamaran Ventures, Venk Krishnan and Subba Rao of NuVentures,
Kris Gopalakrishnan, Co-founder Infosys, Hemendra Kothari of DSP Blackrock, Atul Nishar, Founder and
Chairman of Hexaware Technologies, Rajeev Gupta, veteran investment banker and Founder of
Arpwood Capital, Accel and SAIF Partners.
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What you will be doing
- Building and maintaining Java micro services.
- Develop new features and improve existing features of the application.
- Coding, Implementing, Unit Testing and Documenting Java based services.
- Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable Java code.
- Code reviews and ensuring adherence to software development standards.
- Contribute to team and organizational improvements in process and infrastructure.
- Participating in requirements gathering and functional specification activities.
- Resolving and helping to mitigate production issues.
What you need to be successful
- Has proven himself as a solid individual contributor and has some initial management ability
- Understands the culture and upholds it
- Well respected with the team
- Looking to grow more as a manager than as an engineer
- Split time b/w hands-on technical work and people management of a small team
- Be a role model for the people in your team
- Responsible for team mentorship, technical planning, resource allocation & project delivery
- Build solid working relationships with counterparts outside engineering
- If we shortlist you for a lead role, then you'll have to mentor SDE-1 towards their SDE-2 journey.
- Progress up to manager in 2-3 years
- Strong Data Structure and Algorithms
- Experience of building micro services architectures, developing RESTful services,continuous integration, unit and integration testing.
- Proficient with SpringBoot, Hibernate, JUnit and other Java frameworks apart from RDBMS and NoSQL databases - PostgreSQL, MongoDB
- Gauge or other BDD frameworks and experience in Fintech would be preferred.
- Strong experience in Core Java, Multi-Threading, data structures (List/Map/Set) and unit testing with (Junit, Mockito)
- Strong experience with Spring Framework (Spring MVC, Spring REST, Spring Data), ORM frameworks (JPA, Hibernate) and RDBMS (Oracle/MySQL/Postgres)
- Strong experience in applying Object-Oriented design principles and Design Patterns
- Good knowledge of Multi-Tier architecture, Micro Services architecture and Service Oriented Architecture
- Exposure to AWS Cloud, NoSQL Database (Mongo, Cassandra), Message Broker (Active
- MQ/RabbitMQ/Apache Kafka) and Big Data Technologies (Hadoop/Hive/Spark)
- Additionally, must possess capability to review code, produce technical specification document
- and knowledge of code quality tools (PMD/FindBugs/Sonar)
Location: Remote
Experience : 4Y - 15 Y
• Strong hands-on experience in multiple WebSphere Commerce subsystems, i.e., Catalog, Order Management, Member, Marketing, etc.
• Worked on data load, WCS REST based web service development
• Having experience on WCS Data model & customization
• Strong experience in user interface design and web development with DoJo, JavaScript, jQuery, HTML, CSS and Ajax
• Significant experience with Struts and Spring application frameworks
• Strong experience with application servers such as WebSphere, JBoss and Weblogic in relation to packaging and deploying Java applications.
• Strong experience in development and deployment in a multi-tiered and multi-server application architecture
Java Developer
As a senior technical member of the team, you will be expected to lead the team in the design, architecture, and implementation of high-quality, well-architected software products with a specific focus on cloud, distributed systems, scalability, elasticity and SLA rollups into each component. In this role, you are expected to interact with Senior Architects, Product Managers, Solution Architects and occasionally, with Partners and customers to discuss and collaborate on strategies for enhancing features and coming up with next-generation products. Critical thinking and strong leadership skills are a must as the candidate will be involved in leading a team and making crucial road map decisions.
The Work: What type of work will you be doing? What assignments, requirements, or skills will you be performing on a regular basis?
- 8+ years of hands-on experience with Java-based development projects using RESTful APIs, SpringBoot, horizontal scalability, microservices, high availability principles
- You master the entire life-cycle including research, design, application and deployment architecture, development, testing (dev owns quality), continuous deployment and continuous delivery up until to production.
- You will develop complex, highly available, distributed, cloud-based solutions, and maintain its high level of quality software.
- Solid background in OOP, object and data modelling using SQL and NoSQL databases
- Experience using containers, Kubernetes and developing services on AWS
- Monitor resource allocation, consumption, and performance.
- Engage in service software performance analysis and system tuning.
- Challenge yourself to walk in a different path and to deliver quickly while maintaining a high quality
- Experience with automation tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI
- Excellent communication skills essential
Responsibilities
Design, code, test and manage various applications
Collaborate with the engineering team and product team to establish the best products
Follow outlined standards of quality related to code and systems
Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or relevant field
2+ years of experience working with .NET C#
Experience developing web-based & desktop based applications in C#, HTML, JavaScript, VBScript/ASP, or .NET
Experience working with MS SQL Server and MySQL Knowledge of practices and procedures for full software design life cycle
Experience working in an agile development environment
Job Details:
- Three plus years of experience in IT systems analysis and application program development
- Experience in an Object Oriented Programming language such as Java is a must
- The candidate must be a hands-on coder doing active development
- Extensive experience programming in Java Application Development & RESTful API
- Experience in AWS Cloud technologies is optional but good to have
- Proficient in Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) concepts, workflows, and design patterns
REQUIRED SKILLS:
- 8+ years experience in web application development and architecture.
- ·Extensive experience using open source software libraries
- Strong experience in at least one MVC architecture or application of the pattern
- Solid hands on experience with Java
- Strong experience with SQL ( Oracle, MySQL, Postgres)
- Strong experience in Data Structures & Algorithms
- ·Must have built end to end continuous integration and deployment infrastructure for micro services
- Strong commitment to good engineering discipline and process including code reviews and delivering unit tests in conjunction with feature delivery
- Must possess excellent communication and teamwork skills. Strong presentation and facilitation skills are required.
- Self-starter that is results focused with the ability to work independently and in teams.
GOOD TO HAVE:
- Prior experience building modular, common and scalable services
- Experience using chef, puppet or other deployment automation tools
- Experience working within a distributed engineering team including offshore
- Bonus points if you have contributed to an open source project
- Familiarity and experience with agile (scrum) development process
- Proven track record of identifying and championing new technologies that enhance the end-user experience, software quality, and developer productivity
• Solid experience with application frameworks such as Springboot and strong familiarty with micro services architecture and design patterns
• Familiarity with databases like MySQL, MongoDB, Redis etc
• Hands-on experience in analysis, design, coding, and implementation of complex, custom-built applications
• Exposure to CI/CD using Gitlab, Jenkins preferred
• Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, EFK Stack is highly desired
• Broad knowledge of web standards relating to APIs (OAuth, SSL etc.)
• Exposure to product development.
• Understand Architecture Requirements and ensure effective design, development and maintenance of multiple micro services in Java Springboot deployed in cloud within containers consuming data present in relational as well as NoSQL databases.
o The microservices shall expose APIs which allow ease of integration with variety of client apps
o Microservices should handle a scale of thousands of requests per second
• Develop communication patterns between microservices which are efficient, lightweight and secured using Kafka
• Debugging issues on a live setup
• Lead a small team of engineers
• Create test cases and technical documentation
• Maintain a high level of code quality and consistency by adhering to and enhancing the coding standards, design methodology and programming practices
We are looking for an experienced Java Developer who will work closely with the
technical lead to identify and establish best practices in the company.
Requirements & Responsibilities :
● Design and develop features using Core Java, Spring Boot, and Hibernate
● Ability to design database schema, develop views and stored procedures
● Participate in user story grooming, design discussions and proposal of solutions
● Maintain existing software systems by identifying and correcting software defects
● Practice standard development process leveraging agile methodologies such as
SCRUM and TDD
● Review and analyze business requirements and provide technical feasibility and
estimates
● Manage development / support functions etc
● Excellent in OOPS concepts, system design
● Strong knowledge of Core Java, Spring, Hibernate and Microservices
● Hands-on experience in DB design, SQL, UI Technologies like HTML/CSS,
JavaScript, jQuery, etc.
● Good knowledge of design patterns
● Excellent knowledge of JSP, Servlets, WebServices, JUnit
● Experience in Agile software development
● Familiarity with JIRA, GIT, Maven
● Experience in working directly with a client
● Good knowledge in requirement gathering, analysis, and designing










