Senior Android Developer

About Us

We are a company where the ‘HOW’ of building software is just as important as the ‘WHAT.’ We partner with large organizations to modernize legacy codebases and collaborate with startups to launch MVPs, scale, or act as extensions of their teams. Guided by Software Craftsmanship values and eXtreme Programming Practices, we deliver high-quality, reliable software solutions tailored to our clients' needs.

We thrive to: 

• Bring our clients' dreams to life by being their trusted engineering partners, crafting innovative software solutions.
• Challenge offshore development stereotypes by delivering exceptional quality, and proving the value of craftsmanship.
• Empower clients to deliver value quickly and frequently to their end users.
• Ensure long-term success for our clients by building reliable, sustainable, and impactful solutions.
• Raise the bar of software craft by setting a new standard for the community.

Our Core Values

• Quality with Pragmatism: We aim for excellence with a focus on practical solutions. 
• Extreme Ownership: We own our work and its outcomes, fully. 
• Proactive Collaboration: Teamwork elevates us all. 
• Pursuit of Mastery: Continuous growth drives us. 
• Effective Feedback: Honest, constructive feedback fosters improvement. 
• Client Success: Our clients’ success is our success.  

Experience Level

This role is ideal for engineers with 5+ years of hands-on software development experience, particularly in Java and a good to have in Reactjs at scale. 

Role Overview

If you’re a Software Craftsperson who takes pride in clean, test-driven code and believes in Extreme Programming principles, we’d love to meet you. At Incubyte, we’re a DevOps organization where developers own the entire release cycle, meaning you’ll get hands-on experience across programming, cloud infrastructure, client communication, and everything in between. Ready to level up your craft and join a team that’s as quality-obsessed as you are? Read on!

What You'll Do

• Write Tests First: Start by writing tests to ensure code quality 
• Clean Code: Produce self-explanatory, clean code with predictable results 
• Frequent Releases: Make frequent, small releases 
• Pair Programming: Work in pairs for better results 
• Peer Reviews: Conduct peer code reviews for continuous improvement
• Product Team: Collaborate in a product team to build and rapidly roll out new features and fixes 
• Full Stack Ownership: Handle everything from the front end to the back end, including infrastructure and DevOps pipelines 
• Never Stop Learning: Commit to continuous learning and improvement

Requirements

• 4+ years of expertise in Java and good to have in React, JavaScript, Object Oriented Programming in JS 
• Expertise in object-oriented programming, data structures, algorithms, and software engineering methodologies 
• Experience working in Agile and eXtreme Programming methodologies in a continuous deployment environment 
• Interest in mastering technologies like web server ecosystems, relational DBMS, TDD, CI tools like Jenkins, Hudson, and Bamboo, web frameworks and front-end technologies, complexity analysis, and performance optimization 
• Working knowledge of server configuration/deployment infrastructure 
• Experience using source control and bug tracking systems, writing user stories, and technical documentation

Benefits

What We Offer

• Dedicated Learning & Development Budget: Fuel your growth with a budget dedicated solely to learning.  
• Conference Talks Sponsorship: Amplify your voice! If you’re speaking at a conference, we’ll fully sponsor and support your talk. 
• Cutting-Edge Projects: Work on exciting projects with the latest AI technologies   
• Employee-Friendly Leave Policy: Recharge with ample leave options designed for a healthy work-life balance. 
• Comprehensive Medical & Term Insurance: Full coverage for you and your family’s peace of mind. 
• And More: Extra perks to support your well-being and professional growth. 

We are seeking Senior Backend Engineers who thrive in agile, fast-moving teams and can turn bold ideas into impactful products. You will play a critical role in developing high-quality backend systems, solving complex problems independently, and shaping next-gen solutions that drive our company’s mission forward. You should excel in building scalable, performant systems and have a deep understanding of design and architecture patterns.

What You’ll Do

• The development of all server-side logic, definition, and maintenance of the central database, and ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end.
• Writing clean, high-quality, high-performance and maintainable code.
• The entire lifecycle of stories: development, test, production, and subsequent fixes and improvements.
• Solving complex technical problems.
• Develop a highly scalable and performant backend based on event-driven architecture.
• Building robust, secure and scalable microservices.
• Splitting features into tasks and for the backend architecture and its evolution.
• Performing an objective analysis of the problem statement and coming up with an unbiased technical solution before writing a single line of code.
• Coordinating cross-functionally to ensure the project meets business objectives and compliance standards. This includes collaborating with QAs, PMs to ensure timely delivery of high-quality apps.
• Participating in, designing and driving the code review process.
• Implementing RESTful services with a metric-driven API Gateway.
• Ensuring sub-second server response and implementing relational, document, key, object or graph data-stores, index stores and messaging stores as needed.
• Tracking defects and working with business owners and users to triage bugs and manage backlog.
• Taking ownership to run and maintain Cloud infrastructure.
• Evaluating relevant technologies, influencing and driving architecture and design discussions.
• Owning and delivering end-to-end backend features, ensuring high performance, reliability, and scalability.
• Collaborating with product stakeholders to deliver impactful solutions aligned with business objectives.
• Writing clean, efficient, maintainable code using best practices and participating in code reviews.
• Building reusable services and contributing to core engineering libraries.
• Documenting and demonstrating solutions through documentation, DFDs, and code comments.
• Solving complex technical problems with objectivity before writing code.
• Taking ownership of backend systems, including APIs, data pipelines, and infrastructure.
• Working closely with Product to help drive KPIs and align engineering goals with business outcomes.
• Staying agile and adapting quickly to evolving requirements, scope, and priorities.

What You Bring

• 3+ years of experience in software development with strong expertise in Golang.
• Overall 6+ years of experience in software development with a strong base and framework expertise in Java/Go/Python.
• Basic working knowledge of frontend technologies.
• Experience with frameworks – like Springboot, Quarkus, Gin/Mux.
• Experience in working with microservice architectures, transactional systems, and distributed environments.
• Exposure in building RESTful APIs with monitoring, fault tolerance and metrics (with something like Newrelic).
• Experience with MySQL, PostgreSQL, NoSQL (Cassandra, Redis, DynamoDB).
• Proficient in OOP, SQL, Design Patterns with Data modeling experience in Relational databases.
• Proficient in building GraphQL APIs.
• Proficient with Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Deployment (CD) and version control (Git).
• Well-versed with TDD and Test Engineering and Automation.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience mentoring a team of 2–3 engineers.
• A self-starter who can work well with minimal-to-no guidance in a fluid environment.
• Excited by challenges surrounding the development of highly scalable & distributed systems.
• Agile and able to adapt quickly to changing requirements, scope, and priorities.
• Experienced in working on massively large-scale data systems in production environments.

Bonus Points For

• Open-source contributions, side-projects, blog posts and YT tech videos.
• Experience deploying serverless applications to GCP.
• Experience in Cloud Run, Cloud Pub/Sub, Cloud Tasks, Kubernetes, Cloud Vision.
• Experience with AWS stack.
• Machine learning experience.

What You Get

• Best in class salary: We hire only the best, and we pay accordingly.
• Proximity Talks: Meet other designers, engineers, and product geeks — and learn from experts in the field.
• Keep on learning with a world-class team: Work with the best in the field, challenge yourself constantly, and learn something new every day.

About Us

Proximity is the trusted technology, design, and consulting partner for some of the biggest Sports, Media and Entertainment companies in the world! We’re headquartered in San Francisco and have offices in Palo Alto, Dubai, Mumbai, and Bangalore. Since 2019, Proximity has created and grown high-impact, scalable products used by 370 million daily users, with a total net worth of $45.7 billion among our client companies.

We are Proximity - a global team of coders, designers, product managers, geeks, and experts. We solve complex problems and build cutting edge tech, at scale. Our team of Proxonauts is growing quickly, which means your impact on the company’s success will be huge. You’ll have the chance to work with experienced leaders who have built and led multiple tech, product and design teams.

Job Summary:

We want a techie at heart. Someone who is happy and curious to work on all aspects of software development.

Reporting directly to the CTO, you will be responsible for feature design, development, and continuously optimizing our tech stack.

• We are looking for an experienced software engineer with at least 5 years of experience in a startup or product environment. Ideally you have been involved in all aspects of software development from requirements gathering to design, development, deployment and post-release support. We are looking for all-round technical maturity. Our tech stack is Angular, Spring boot and Django/Python.

Key Skills

Java

SpringBoot

PostgreSQL/MySQL

Git

AWS

REST api design

Experience integrating with external APIs

Good applied understanding of Object Oriented Programming

Good database modeling and SQL knowledge.

/React is a big plus.

Responsibilities and Duties

Build out features across the stack : backend, API design and integration, database optimization , microservices, plugins, queues etc

Fix bugs and write automated tests

Maintain and upgrade our Tech Stack

Translate requirements to design and write/present articulate software design.

Job Description

• Design & implement backend APIs 
• Mentor junior developers technically.
• Actively work to reduce tech debt in the backend
• Work towards more stability & scalability of the backend
• Tech stack - Java, AWS, Aurora etc. 

Eligibility

• 4-8 years of product company experience
• OOP implementation experience. Programming language does not matter. We use Java internally but have hired folks from non Java background.
• Hands on experience in SQL, Dynamo DB, Postgres etc preferred. 
• Prior experience building REST APIs
• Advanced understanding of AWS stack
• Prior knowledge of solving problems at scale.

• Experience with Hibernate and Spring.
•   Experience with Springboot, spring MVC
• Experience with all phases of the Software Development Lifecycle, including system analysis, design, coding, testing, debugging and documentation
• Teamwork & collaboration skills to work across organizations
• Problem solving skills to develop quick yet sound solutions to resolve complex issues
• Programming Language(s): Java, J2EE, JSON, HTML, DHTML, HTML 5, XML, EXTJS.
• Experience with XML/HTTP and Web Services
• Experience with HTML, JSP, CSS, JQuery / Ajax / JSON,
•     Experience /Knowledge of Angular, React.
• Experience building J2EE based Web Applications
• Experience with MySql.

The ideal candidate will be responsible for developing and maintaining the entire technology stack of Walnut Schools, consisting of school management software, e-Learning software, mobile apps and Google Apps Scripts.

Responsibilities

• Develop quality software and web applications
• Analyze and maintain existing software applications
• Design highly scalable, testable code
• Discover and fix programming bugs

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science or related field
• 2+ years of active development experience with PHP (Code Igniter, Symfony), React.js, MySQL, Web Applications, GIT
• Puzzle solver
• Tinkerer who loves to create new products

• Build an algorithm for artist to detect if their music was violating copy right infringement laws

• Successfully won Techcrunch Disrupt

• Optimized an algorithm that holds the current world record for Weisman Scores