
Senior Software Developers collaborate with Business and Quality Analysts, Designers, Project Managers and more to design software solutions that will create meaningful change for our clients. They listen thoughtfully to understand the context of a business problem and write clean and iterative code to deliver a powerful end result whilst consistently advocating for better engineering practices. By balancing strong opinions with a willingness to find the right answer, Senior Software Developers bring integrity to technology, ensuring all voices are heard.
For a team to thrive, it needs collaboration and room for healthy, respectful debate. Senior Developers are the technologists who cultivate this environment while driving teams toward delivering on an aspirational tech vision and acting as mentors for more junior-level consultants. You will leverage deep technical knowledge to solve complex business problems and proactively assess your team’s health, code quality and nonfunctional requirements.
Job responsibilities
- You will learn and adopt best practices like writing clean and reusable code using TDD, pair programming and design patterns
- You will use and advocate for continuous delivery practices to deliver high-quality software as well as value to end customers as early as possible
- You will work in collaborative, value-driven teams to build innovative customer experiences for our clients
- You will create large-scale distributed systems out of microservices
- You will collaborate with a variety of teammates to build features, design concepts and interactive prototypes and ensure best practices and UX specifications are embedded along the way.
- You will apply the latest technology thinking from our Technology Radar to solve client problems
- You will efficiently utilize DevSecOps tools and practices to build and deploy software, advocating devops culture and shifting security left in development
- You will oversee or take part in the entire cycle of software consulting and delivery from ideation to deployment and everything in between
- You will act as a mentor for less-experienced peers through both your technical knowledge and leadership skills
Job qualifications:
Technical Skills
- You have experience using one or more development languages (Java, Nodejs, React, TypeScript, JavaScript, etc.) with experience in Object-Oriented programming
- You can skillfully write high-quality, well-tested code and you are comfortable with Object-Oriented programming
- You are comfortable with Agile methodologies, such as Extreme Programming (XP), Scrum and/or Kanban
- You have a good awareness of TDD, continuous integration and continuous delivery approaches/tools
- Bonus points if you have working knowledge of cloud technology such as AWS, Azure, Kubernetes and Docker
Professional Skills
- You enjoy influencing others and always advocate for technical excellence while being open to change when needed
- Presence in the external tech community: you willingly share your expertise with others via speaking engagements, contributions to open source, blogs and more
- You’re resilient in ambiguous situations and can approach challenges from multiple perspectives
Other things to know:
Learning & Development
There is no one-size-fits-all career path at Thoughtworks: however you want to develop your career is entirely up to you. But we also balance autonomy with the strength of our cultivation culture. This means your career is supported by interactive tools, numerous development programs and teammates who want to help you grow. We see value in helping each other be our best and that extends to empowering our employees in their career journeys.

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Founded in 1993, we’ve grown from a small team in Chicago to a leading software consultancy of more than 8000 Thoughtworkers in 17 countries. Our cross-functional teams of strategists, developers, data engineers, and designers bring over two decades of global experience to every partnership.
Thoughtworks invented the concept of distributed agile and we know how to harness the power of global teams to deliver software excellence at scale. Today we help our clients to create their own path to digital fluency and to build organizational resilience to navigate the future.
Our job is to foster a vibrant community where people have the freedom to make an extraordinary impact on the world through technology.
As a Thoughtworker, you are free to seek out the most ambitious challenges. Free to change career paths. Free to use technology as a tool for social change. Free to be yourself.
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* Job Title: Engineering Manager (Client facing)
* Industry: Technology
* Salary: Best in Industry
* Experience: 8-12 years
* Location: Bengaluru
Role & Responsibilities
We are seeking a visionary and decisive Engineering Manager to join our dynamic team. In this role, you will lead and inspire a talented team of software engineers, driving innovation and excellence in product development efforts. This is an exciting opportunity to influence and shape the future of our engineering organization.
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to a high-performing team of software engineers.
- Develop and implement engineering strategies that align with organizational goals.
- Manage multiple concurrent projects, ensuring timely delivery and high-quality outcomes.
- Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to define and prioritize product features.
- Implement and uphold Agile methodologies to optimize team performance and efficiency.
- Conduct regular performance evaluations, fostering continuous professional growth within the team.
- Oversee the entire software development lifecycle, from initial conception through to deployment.
- Manage budgets, resources, and capacity planning for engineering projects.
- Stay up-to-date with emerging technologies, ensuring the team is equipped with the latest industry trends.
- Ensure adherence to best engineering practices, maintaining high coding standards.
- Hands-on coding experience required – actively contribute to coding and technical design decisions.
- Tech stack: Java, Spring, microservices, cloud technologies, and building large-scale systems.
- Experience in collaborating directly with clients – ensuring client requirements are met and managing relationships effectively.
Ideal Candidate
- Strong Client-Facing Engineering Manager Profile
- Must have 8+ years of engineering experience, with substantial exposure to back-end development, scalable distributed systems, and modern web services
- Must have 2+ years of experience in people and delivery leadership, owning engineering execution and leading teams to deliver complex products
- Must have proven experience working directly with external stakeholders / clients, translating client requirements into engineering plans and delivering solutions with high customer impact
- Strong technical foundation with experience in backend engineering, REST APIs, databases (SQL/NoSQL), and building reliable, high-performance systems
- Strong problem-solving and design capabilities; experience with system design, architecture reviews, and engineering best practices
- Must have expertise in agile methodologies and project management tools
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with a track record of presenting technical solutions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- (Cross-Functional Collaboration): Must be skilled in working with product, design, sales, and client teams to drive requirements, delivery, and client success
- (Execution & Delivery): Demonstrated ability to manage end-to-end delivery, coordinate releases, prioritise effectively, and deliver results in time
- (Company): Product companies
- (Stability): Must have stayed for at least 2 years with each of the previous companies
- (Education): B.Tech in computer science, engineering or a related field from Tier 1, Tier 2 colleges (Master's preferred)
Strong Full stack/Backend engineer profile
Mandatory (Experience): Must have 2+ years of hands-on experience as a full stack developer (backend-heavy)
Mandatory (Backend Skills): Must have 1.5+ strong experience in Python, building REST APIs, and microservices-based architectures
Mandatory (Frontend Skills): Must have hands-on experience with modern frontend frameworks (React or Vue) and JavaScript, HTML, and CSS
Mandatory (Database Skills): Must have solid experience working with relational and NoSQL databases such as MySQL, MongoDB, and Redis
Mandatory (Cloud & Infra): Must have hands-on experience with AWS services including EC2, ELB, AutoScaling, S3, RDS, CloudFront, and SNS
Mandatory (DevOps & Infra): Must have working experience with Linux environments, Apache, CI/CD pipelines, and application monitoring
Mandatory (CS Fundamentals): Must have strong fundamentals in Data Structures, Algorithms, OS concepts, and system design
Mandatory (Company) : Product companies (B2B SaaS preferred)
Preferred
Preferred (Location) - Mumbai
Preferred (Skills) : Candidates with strong backend or full-stack experience in other languages/frameworks are welcome if fundamentals are strong
Preferred (Education) : B.Tech from Tier 1,Tier 2 institutes

Senior Backend Developer /Backend Developer
Hiring for the position of Backend Developer responsible for managing back-end services and the interchange of data between the server and the users.
Your primary focus will be 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.
Role
● Create and consume restful APIs
● Design, develop, and maintain internal and external applications
● Build efficient, testable, and reusable modules
● Write high quality, structured application/interface code and documentation
● Identify solutions through research and collaboration that resolves the root of problems as they arise
● Define functional and technical requirements for application software to develop skills and knowledge
● Troubleshoot, test and maintain the core product software and databases to ensure strong optimization and functionality
● Contribute in all phases of the development lifecycle
Requirement
∙ Proficient in Node.JS
∙ 2+ years’ experience designing, querying, and updating databases in MySQL/nosql
∙ Passion for best design and coding practices and a desire to develop new bold ideas
∙ Good to have knowledge of AWS, Redis, ElasticSearch
Education: Min. Graduate in related discipline
Work experience: 2 years relevant experience
- 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.
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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.
Job Description:
Software Development Engineer - Backend
Responsibilities
• Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code Develop, Code or modify, test, and
debug application programs of varying degree of complexity.
• Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant
applications.
• Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers with server
side logic Implementation of security and data protection.
• Integration of data storage solutions
Skills And Qualifications:
• Experience in design and implementation of low-latency, high availability, high
performance applications capable of handling large scale distributed workloads
Expert in Java, with knowledge of Spring boot and Hibernate framework.
• Experience with Elasticsearch
• Knowledge of user authentication and authorisation between multiple systems,
servers, and environments.
• Experience with relational databases like PostgreSQL/MySQL/Oracle.
• Able to create database schemas that represent and support business processes
Strong unit test and debugging skills
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as Git.
• Understand lean approach with frequent releases and focussed on getting MVPs into
market as early as possible to increase feedback
• Passion for fast-paced and iterative software development
• Fast learner and open to working with new libraries/platforms
Nice to have:
• Experience developing in AWS/Azure/Google Cloud environments
• Solid understanding of Cloud PaaS / IaaS constructs and their APIs Understanding of
security products and secure coding techniques
Company is a remote-first team, looking to scale our Open Source Feature
Flagging, Remote Config and A/B Testing product. With both SaaS and on-premises customers, we are investing into our globally distributed, low latency API and making it simple for customers to deploy on their own infrastructure via Kubernetes and OpenShift.
We are looking for a Lead Server-Side Engineer, who also enjoys working on dev-ops, infrastructure and orchestration, and can help build out our existing API and infrastructure.
We are a really small team right now, and this is our first technical hire outside of the founders, so it’s a great opportunity to be part of something that is looking to scale quickly!
We are looking for someone who loves working with:
- Python. Django Rest Framework experience would be great, but not essential! We prioritise
- quality over quantity.
- Postgres with InfluxDB, Oracle, MySQL and Redis experience a plus.
- Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, OpenShift and associated tooling.
- AWS, especially ECS, Lambda, RDS and DynamoDB. Performance and uptime are super
- important to us.
- The challenge of scaling a global, distributed API to 10,000+ requests per second.
- We have SDKs in a bunch of languages, so the more polyglot you are the better.
- If you like writing JS and React that would be awesome too.
We are a 100% remote team, currently based on the West Coast US and in Europe
Role: Java Developer
Experience: 4 - 7 years
Location: Anna salai, Chennai
Interview Mode: Face to Face
Looking for candidates who can join within 30 days
Key responsibilities:
- Must worked on Spring Boot as an individual contributor.
- Develop a distributed and scalable solution for high-performance financial solutions
- Design, code, test, debug, and document programs as well as support activities for the corporate systems architecture
- Develop tools for performance tracking, monitoring, and reporting on the suite of server-side applications
- Perform and manage stages of the SLDC and participate in the systems review with Project Lead/Manager
- Should have knowledge on Cloud applications preferably on AWS
- Devops with Jenkins, Shellscripting
- Must have experience / knowledge in Cluster Management Frameworks , Spark, Kafka,
- Elastic Search, Docker and database, build-and-test (preferred).
- Demonstrate skills in problem-solving and decision-making
- Experience with Test Driven Development using TestNG/Junit testing framework
Required Skills:
- Minimum of 3+ years of experience with server-side core java development
- Hand-on experience in Micro Services with Spring Boot and use of tools like Sonar Qube, Jenkins, AWS.
- Test methodologies and testing tools e.g. JUnit.
- Shell scripting to handle basic scripting
- Able to work independently and produce high-quality solutions.
- Excellent team player and strong interpersonal skills.
- Participating in code reviews
- Knowledge in cloud and DevOps will be plus
Job Description:
Excellent Java development skills using J2EE, J2SE, Servlets, JSP, JDBC, Java, Spring, Springboot, Hibernate, Microservices, Webservices, Extensive experience designing, developing RESTful APIs, coding experience with either Java/J2EE/Spring, Good SQL knowledge
Required experience in Core Java, Spring, Springboot, Hibernate, Microservices, rest services
Able to understand SDLC process, Extensive experience designing and, developing RESTful APIs, Extensive coding experience with either Java/J2EE/Spring
Qualification Any Graduate
Infrastructure
Pocket Gems wants to build the greatest games and interactive entertainment in the world.
That’s the mission our founders began within an apartment above a pizza shop back in 2009
and we continue it today.
Pocket Gems has grown to over 250 people in San Francisco. With $155 million in backing from
Sequoia Capital and Tencent, we’re constantly breaking new ground with graphically rich mobile
games, fun new genres of mobile entertainment, and innovative technologies like our mobilefirst Mantis Engine.
Our products have been downloaded over 325 million times by players around the world. We
have several flagship products including the most recent - Adventure Chef Merge Explorer, a
casual merge and explore game. Some of our other ongoing hits include Episode, a mobile
storytelling network and platform, and War Dragons, a visually stunning 3D real-time strategy
game.
Pocket Gems is home to some of the most massive and delightful mobile-first games, like War
Dragons and Episode. Those games need a solid backend platform, to function critical tasks to
delight our players, and is supported and optimized by our Central Engineering team. As a Sr.
Software Engineer on the Central Infrastructure Team, you will build microservices that acts as
the core of all our games, facilitate the processing and recording of billions of events per day,
support critical systems for marketing, finance. You will be responsible for some of our biggest
projects as you build APIs and infrastructure that scales to millions of players in real-time
games.
What You’ll Do:
• Implement flexible, reusable, and scalable solutions to improve our data pipeline
• Develop microservices for critical infrastructure like A/B tests, Offer recommendation, etc
that is mission-critical to the business
• Develop microservices for our games such as real-time communication platforms,
leaderboard, etc
• Build and maintain integrations with third-party APIs that you suggest or write yourself
• Build scalable web tools (including open source tools) to support data analysis and
visualization for the company and influence what we build for our games’ players
What You Bring to the Central Infrastructure Engineering team:
• Minimum of 7 years of professional experience (including 3+ years backend experience)
• A degree in computer science, engineering, or relevant field
• Experience leading complex projects, preferably involving distributed systems
• Deep experience with AWS, GCP, or Hadoop, and related backend technologies is a
plus
• Strong skills in data structures, algorithms, software design, and OOP
• A love for delighting users, both internal and external, with reliable tools, data, and
creative and highly technical solutions to their problems
Extra Gems for:
• Experience in working with microservices







