SENIOR DEVELOPER ASSOCIATE

📍 Position : Java Architect

📅 Experience : 10 to 15 Years

🧑‍💼 Open Positions : 3+

📍 Work Location : Bangalore, Pune, Chennai

💼 Work Mode : Hybrid

📅 Notice Period : Immediate joiners preferred; up to 1 month maximum

🔧 Core Responsibilities :

• Lead architecture design and development for scalable enterprise-level applications.
• Own and manage all aspects of technical development and delivery.
• Define and enforce best coding practices, architectural guidelines, and development standards.
• Plan and estimate the end-to-end technical scope of projects.
• Conduct code reviews, ensure CI/CD, and implement TDD/BDD methodologies.
• Mentor and lead individual contributors and small development teams.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including DevOps, Product, and QA.
• Engage in high-level and low-level design (HLD/LLD), solutioning, and cloud-native transformations.

🛠️ Required Technical Skills :

• Strong hands-on expertise in Java, Spring Boot, Microservices architecture
• Experience with Kafka or similar messaging/event streaming platforms
• Proficiency in cloud platforms – AWS and Azure (must-have)
• Exposure to frontend technologies (nice-to-have)
• Solid understanding of HLD, system architecture, and design patterns
• Good grasp of DevOps concepts, Docker, Kubernetes, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• Agile/Lean development, Pair Programming, and Continuous Integration practices
• Polyglot mindset is a plus (Scala, Golang, Python, etc.)

🚀 Ideal Candidate Profile :

• Currently working in a product-based environment
• Already functioning as an Architect or Principal Engineer
• Proven track record as an Individual Contributor (IC)
• Strong engineering fundamentals with a passion for scalable software systems
• No compromise on code quality, craftsmanship, and best practices

🧪 Interview Process :

1. Round 1: Technical pairing round
2. Rounds 2 & 3: Technical rounds with panel (code pairing + architecture)
3. Final Round: HR and offer discussion

Responsibilities:

• Develop, test, implement and maintain application software
• Take part in software and architectural development activities
• Debug application issues and helping support respond to client queries
• Participate in application development meetings
• Provide accurate estimates, clearly communicate status of tasks and identification of risks
• Commitment to accomplishing the task at hand and identify the fastest and most reliable way to solve a problem
• Performance tuning of application code at different service levels
• Interact with customers of the application and help address issues reported

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent
• 1-3 years of experience with Java and Spring frameworks.
• Having good knowledge in a scripting language like python is a plus
• Experience with Spring and Hibernate/ ORM
• Understanding of relational database and normal forms
• Understanding of NoSQL / RDBMS (Mongo or Postgres) and ability to write optimized and high performing queries
• Strong understanding of Java concurrency, concurrency patterns, experience building thread safe code
• Experience building RESTful web services
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Strong interpersonal skills and time management skills
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills
• Experience with GIT as a VCS, Unix based systems
• Experience with NoSQL Database is a plus
• Following are a set of 'good to have' skills React AWS Bitbucket, JIRA

Responsibilities: 

• Ensure the quality of architecture and design of systems. 
• Functionally decompose complex problems into simple, straight-forward solutions. 
• Analyze and improve data quality and metrics. 
• Fully and completely understand system interdependencies and limitations. 
• Leverage knowledge of internal and industry in design decisions. 
• Assist in the career development of others, mentoring on advanced technical issues and helping managers guide the career growth of their team members. 
• Exert technical influence over multiple teams, increasing their productivity and effectiveness by sharing your deep knowledge and experience. 
• Skilled in translating high level abstract business requirements into software design, designing systems specifications, standards, and programming 
• Contribute to Architectural blueprints and Design for the software solutions 
• Mentor team on engineering best practices such as writing clean code, designing scalable, reliable and performant software solutions, set and ensure compliance to software quality standards etc. 
• Be a role model for the team with innovative thinking, passion for continuous learning and contributions to the project. 

Qualifications, Skills & Experiences 

• BE / B.Tech /M.Tech in Computer Science or a related field 
• Minimum 7+/5+ years of experience building large scalable systems 
• Minimum 2+ years of recent experience in building products on cloud is a plus 
• Knowledge of asynchronous programming and WebAPI development is required 
• Knowledge and awareness of cloud/ application security is must (OWASP at the minimum) 
• Strong knowledge in OOPS with C#, .Net(or Java) with SQL Server or any RDBMS 
• Strong experience in architecting and building multi-threaded, distributed systems. 
• Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and designing for performance. 
• Ability to achieve stretch goals in a highly innovative and fast paced environment. 
• Extensive experience of mentoring junior engineers to success. 
• Experience with Microservices Architecture is a plus 
• Working knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and AWS/Azure cloud services is plus 
• Hands on experience of building products for unix systems in addition to windows is a plus 
• Excellent Communication 

Responsibilities:

• Define the code review process for the team to follow and perform code reviews.
• Design, implement, and maintain Java-based applications that can be high-volume and low-latency.
• Ensure application designs conform with business goals.
• Develop and test software & Identify and resolve any technical issues arising.

Required Skills:

• 7+ years of experience developing web applications using J2EE / Java.
• Possess knowledge and skills in software programming in Core Java, J2EE, Microservices-related technologies, Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Rest API, JavaScript, and XML.
• Experience developing enterprise-level web applications and RESTful APIs using Microservices.
• Excellent in design patterns, data structures & algorithms, and OOAD.
• Experience in working with the E-Government Projects/ CCTNS application.

What You'll Do:

• Understand the upcoming development requirement of product in depth.
• Design product architecture as per vision, insights and concurred direction.
• Design and develop the APIs using Java, Spring, and Hibernate required for the product and expose them to be used by the front-end developers.
• Design the database and tables in MySQL/PostGreSQL/NoSQL (whichever is suitable for the need of the product) and guide the team to utilize them in the best possible way.
• Get involved in continuous maintenance of the product and get the bugs fixed in time.
• Coordinate the workflow between the UX Designers and front-end developers.
• Work on integrating flows with external tools - Segment, Branch, Clevertap.

Ideal Profile:

• Proficiency in Core Java & Spring framework.
• Expertise in Web Service technologies.
• Experience in building the architecture as per the product’s need.
• Experience in building REST APIs using Java/Spring.
• Excellent knowledge in Databases and code integrations such as Postgres SQL, SQL Server, MySQL.
• Experience in full life cycle development of a product (specifically mobile products) is a plus.
• Experience with Java/Spring-Boot, Hibernate Cloud Services, AWS.
• Experience with security principles and frameworks.
• Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token and OAuth2 - Familiarity with code versioning tools (primarily Git).
• Essential skills are Core Java/J2EE, functional aspects, Spring Framework, Tomcat, SVN, Git, Postman/Newman.
• Should have worked in Agile methodologies.
• Good object-oriented and problem-solving skills.
• Strong communication skills along with the ability to work in a highly collaborative environment.

• Candidate should have Good Communication and Presentation Skills.
• Candidate should have very Good Logical and Analytical Skills
• Candidate should have Programmatic and Management Skills
• An understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle as well as the business approach for the product.
• Ability to work in a team as well as an individual
• Ability to work under pressure and maintain deadlines
• Knowledge of open source tools and utilities
• Ability to understand Project Requirements