SMTS - Java Developer

Position-Tech Lead

Experience: 8-10

Job Location: Pune 

We are seeking a highly skilled Tech Lead with strong expertise in Java, microservices architecture, and cloud-native application development. The ideal candidate will bring hands-on leadership experience in designing scalable solutions, guiding development teams, and collaborating with DevOps engineers on OpenShift (OCP) platforms. This role requires a blend of technical leadership, solution design, and delivery ownership.

Key Responsibilities

Lead the design and development of Java / Spring Boot based microservices in a cloud-native environment.

Provide technical leadership to a team of developers, ensuring adherence to coding, security, and architectural best practices.

Collaborate with architects and DevOps engineers to deploy and manage microservices on Red Hat OpenShift (OCP).

Oversee end-to-end delivery including requirement analysis, design, development, code review, testing, and deployment.

Define and implement API specifications, integration patterns, and microservices orchestration.

Work closely with DevOps teams to integrate CI/CD pipelines, containerized deployments, Helm, and GitOps workflows.

Ensure application performance, scalability, and reliability with proactive observability practices (Grafana, Prometheus, etc.).

Required Skills & Qualifications

8-10 years of proven experience in Java application development with at least 4+ years in microservices architecture.

Strong expertise in Spring Boot, REST APIs, JPA/Hibernate, and messaging frameworks (Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc.).

Hands-on experience with containerization (Docker) and orchestration (OpenShift/Kubernetes).

Familiarity with OCP DevOps practices including CI/CD (ArgoCD, Tekton, Jenkins), Helm, and YAML deployments.

Good understanding of observability stacks (Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, Alertmanager) and logging practices.

Solid knowledge of cloud-native design principles, scalability, and fault tolerance.

Exposure to security best practices (OAuth, RBAC, secrets management via Vault or similar). 

• Experience in API development using Java will be a plus.

• Excellent knowledge and experience in writing testable, scalable, flexible, robust and efficient web applications using JavaEE 6/7 technologies, specifically, Spring core, Spring Boot Spring Data, spring batch and JPA
• Experience in successfully deploying Java-based applications in production and understanding load-balancing, authentication, and fault tolerance through Tom Cat.
• Experience in database modeling (MySQL/NoSQL databases such as Mongo DB)

• Knowledge of integrating with Ant, Maven, GIT and Shell scripting.
• Strong backend experience to develop Data Layer using at least one of the ORM frameworks like Hibernate, JPA etc.
• Strong RDBMS Skills and SQL skills. Experience in MySQL, Teradata and warehousing databases.

• Experience in Analytics frameworks and visualization products.

• Excellent knowledge and experience of Maven, Continuous Integration, and Continuous Delivery with Jenkins.
  • Experience with JavaScript frameworks, especially Angular is a definite plus.

Java 8, J2EE , Spring Boot, Microservices, Apache Spark, DevOps, Advanced SQL, preferably with

expertise in Data engineering/Data analytics,

ELK(Elastic Search, Logstash , Kibana) stack, Teradata, any No SQL database, Hands on experience in

maintaining products on Cloud Technologies like PCF, Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, etc, NodeJS,

Angular 2x, GitLab with CI/CD, Hands on experience in Unix server, Shell scripting, Large data

processing, Performance tuning, Experience in working in various Test Automation frameworks like

Selenium, Test NG, Python, Cucumber, Karma, Karate/ Jasmine, etc

Experience in using Eclipse, Spring tool suite, Project building tools - Maven, Gradle, etc, JIRA for ALM.

Engineering Manager – Backend

Opportunity in this role / Why should you join us?

Series D funded supply chain startup.

Requirements

• Software engineering experience of greater than or equal to 7 years
• Experience managing a technical team of at least 3 people
• Exposure to consumer facing products
• Strong technical background and ability to contribute to design and review
• Familiarity with our tech stack or an analogous tech stack

Technologies Used

• Web application frameworks : Ktor, Spring Boot, Ruby on Rails, Node.js, Java Play, AWS Lambda
• Languages : Kotlin, Java, Ruby, Javascript, Python
• Datastores : PostgreSQL, Aerospike, Redis, DynamoDB, Amazon Redshift
• Communication : HTTP, Amazon SQS, Sidekiq, Amazon SNS
• Server management : Amazon ECS, Docker
• Design frameworks : Domain Driven Design, Clean Architecture, Layered Architecture

Roles and Responsibilities

This role requires a person to drive the engineering of a set of products by aligning with business and product

stakeholders and building and upskilling a team to aid in this. The responsibilities include:

Business and product alignment and planning

• Work closely with business and product stakeholders to understand and align with product initiatives and iterations.
• Help shape the engineering requirement by aligning with the product manager and fleshing out concepts and user flows.
• Formalize business requirements into roadmaps and sprints.

1. Product and system development

• Drive high level modeling and design for projects, also focusing on non-functional aspects, including but not limited to database design, communication protocols, deployment systems, etc.
• Drive adoption of design frameworks like domain driven design, clean architecture, etc., resulting in a robust layered architecture.
• Drive good code review practices, using the review process as a mentoring tool to upskill people.
• Ensure test coverage of systems, partly through unit and integration testing, and partly through blackbox testing by collaborating with the Quality Assurance team, via good testing practices.

1. Project Management

• Drive the execution of the project by delegating tasks effectively.
• Resolve blockers through technical expertise, negotiation and delegation.
• Estimate timelines and ensure adherence to them through effective sync-ups and course corrections.

1. Maintenance

• Formulate SLAs and oversee their adherence for the various systems, effectively tracking issues and performance inefficiencies.
• Performance monitoring and optimization for systems.
• Drive technical re-design, remodeling and refactoring of systems for robustness and sustainability.

1. Team Management

• Typically manage a team of 3 - 6 members and a portfolio of 3 - 6 products.
• Do periodic assessment of reportees, chart their career growth paths and train them.
• Recruit members into the team by collaborating effectively with the recruitment team.

Product Overview

You will be contributing to products concerning both customers and partner drivers. Product sectors

include:

• Growth : You’ll build tools to help boost user growth on the platform including our industry bestdriver on-boarding, training and certification system, referral system, and lead managementmmodels.
• Lifecycle Management : Build tools to help users engage with the platform better, which includes rewards and recognition module, subscription service, account management tools, partner and customer wallets and payout modules, and churn detection systems among others.
• 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.
• Fulfilment : As part of the fulfilment team, you’ll work on systems which ensure high degree of ride fulfilment on the platform. Tools including allocation methodologies and system, dynamic pricing, dynamic partner routing, and partner re-activation tools among others.
• Enterprise Solutions : You’ll help Porter’s enterprise customers achieve delivery excellence. You’ll build tools for contract management, fleet management, fleet and route optimisation tools, alerting and monitoring tools, and analytics suite among others.

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES 

• Proven working experience in backend app development and experience with Node JS.  
• Build advanced ecommerce backend applications for the multiple client platforms (both React and Android).  
• Understanding of design principles and good architecture patterns.  
• Proper Data Structures and Algorithm knowledge is a must.  

• Graph QL and Apollo Server knowledge.  
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features. Work with outside data sources and APIs like the one of Unicommerce.  
• Create Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability.  
• Work on bug fixing and improving application performance.  
• Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency.  

• Translate designs and wireframes into high quality code.  
• Have a good understanding of CI/CD tools (any).  
• Robust knowledge of popular databases like MongoDB, Elastic Search, DynamoDB, Redis etc;  
• Knowledge about AWS Services like EC2, Lambda, Kinesis, Redshift, S3 is super plus. 
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CANDIDATES MUST HAVE  

• Node JS. 
• Data Structures and Algorithm  
• HTML5 and CSS3 
• Graph QL and Apollo Server  
• MongoDB, Elastic Search, DynamoDB, Redis 

• AWS Services like EC2, Lambda, Kinesis, Redshift, S3  

REQUIREMENTS  

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information science, or similar.  
• Extensive knowledge of JavaScript, web stacks, libraries, and frameworks.  
• Knowledge of front-end technologies such as HTML5 and CSS3.  

• Superb interpersonal, communication, and collaboration skills.  
• Exceptional analytical and problem-solving aptitude.  
• Great organisational and time management skills.  
• Availability to resolve urgent web application issues outside of business hours 

Responsibilities Include

You will break down business opportunities and problems into software solutions. You will work closely with the CTO to help product and marketing stakeholders distill the product vision and roadmap, into a technology vision. You will be responsible for the evolution of an already bleeding-edge highly distributed systems at the back-end, and would need to work with front-end architects to come up with the best user experience for the gaming platform. You will be required to make decisions quickly, and work under strict timelines. You would lead technology strategy through analysis of market trends and product requirements. You would help set coding guidelines and help bring the most modern tools to keep engineering processes most efficient.

Requirements

• B.E/MS in Computer Science or equivalent.
• 10+ years or more of progressive software technology experience with at least 3 years in an architectural role.
• Completely hands on with technology and architecture. Start-up experience is a huge plus.
• Ability to quickly prototype and demonstrate technology value adds and educate + drive adoption within the extended technology team
• Excellent and robust understanding of scalable product system architecture(s), platforms and core technologies
• Demonstrated problem-solving and leadership skills to pursue correct engineering process in adverse conditions. Ability to embrace and demonstrate leadership beyond ownership
• Work with engineering leadership to setup and manage processes.
• Track record of thought leadership and out of the box thinking in the technology arena.
• Ability to work efficiently in an entrepreneurial and in a start-up environment
• A Java/Spring/Akka, Javascript or Golang rockstar.
• Deep and hands on knowledge of some of these technologies - MySQL, NodeJS, message brokers such as Kafka/RabbitMQ, NoSQL datastore such as Mongo, Cassandra, Arango, distributed caches such as Redis/memcached, container technology such as Docker and Kubernetes etc.
• Great proficiency in distributed systems design, with an ability to make the right trade-offs for creating future-proof solutions.
• Building quick PoCs and full-fledged solutions with various AWS managed services would be a big plus.

• Good academic qualifications
• Experience in developing web applications using Java, Spring, Hibernate, DWR, JSP
• Knowledge in Oracle Database concepts
• Sound knowledge in the following is a must
  o Hibernate
  o Spring
  o Oracle & MongoDb
  o HTML & CSS
  o Javascript
  o Jquery
  o Angular 4
  o Node JS
  
  Knowledge of Japer Reports will be an added advantage
• Good communication skills and be a good listener
• Problem solving skills
• Willingness to learn and do all development activities including quality assurance
• Team player