Senior Associate - Due Diligence

We are seeking a Technical Lead with strong expertise in backend engineering, real-time data streaming, and platform/infrastructure development to lead the architecture and delivery of our on-premise systems.

You will design and build high-throughput streaming pipelines (Apache Pulsar, Apache Flink), backend services (FastAPI), data storage models (MongoDB, ClickHouse), and internal dashboards/tools (Angular).

In this role, you will guide engineers, drive architectural decisions, and ensure reliable systems deployed on Docker + Kubernetes clusters.

Key Responsibilities

1. Technical Leadership & Architecture

• Own the end-to-end architecture for backend, streaming, and data systems.
• Drive system design decisions for ingestion, processing, storage, and DevOps.
• Review code, enforce engineering best practices, and ensure production readiness.
• Collaborate closely with founders and domain experts to translate requirements into technical deliverables.

2. Data Pipeline & Streaming Systems

• Architect and implement real-time, high-throughput data pipelines using Apache Pulsar and Apache Flink.
• Build scalable ingestion, enrichment, and stateful processing workflows.
• Integrate multi-sensor maritime data into reliable, unified streaming systems.

3. Backend Services & Platform Engineering

• Lead development of microservices and internal APIs using FastAPI (or equivalent backend frameworks).
• Build orchestration, ETL, and system-control services.
• Optimize backend systems for latency, throughput, resilience, and long-term maintainability.

4. Data Storage & Modeling

• Design scalable, efficient data models using MongoDB, ClickHouse, and other on-prem databases.
• Implement indexing, partitioning, retention, and lifecycle strategies for large datasets.
• Ensure high-performance APIs and analytics workflows.

5. Infrastructure, DevOps & Containerization

• Deploy and manage distributed systems using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Own observability, monitoring, logging, and alerting for all critical services.
• Implement CI/CD pipelines tailored for on-prem and hybrid cloud environments.

6. Team Management & Mentorship

• Provide technical guidance to engineers across backend, data, and DevOps teams.
• Break down complex tasks, review designs, and ensure high-quality execution.
• Foster a culture of clarity, ownership, collaboration, and engineering excellence.

Required Skills & Experience

• 5–10+ years of strong software engineering experience.
• Expertise with streaming platforms like Apache Pulsar, Apache Flink, or similar technologies.
• Strong backend engineering proficiency — preferably FastAPI, Python, Java, or Scala.
• Hands-on experience with MongoDB and ClickHouse.
• Solid experience deploying, scaling, and managing services on Docker + Kubernetes.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, high-performance data flows, and system tuning.
• Experience working with Angular for internal dashboards is a plus.
• Excellent system-design, debugging, and performance-optimization skills.
• Prior experience owning critical technical components or leading engineering teams.

Nice to Have

• Experience with sensor data (AIS, Radar, SAR, EO/IR).
• Exposure to maritime, defence, or geospatial technology.
• Experience with bare-metal / on-premise deployments.

Requirements:

• 4-6 years of experience in developing Enterprise Web Applications using Java/J2EE technologies with a good professional track record.
• Excellent knowledge in Core Java (J2SE) and J2EE technologies.
• Proficient knowledge in Servlets, JDBC & JSP.
• Good knowledge of Spring framework (MVC, Cloud, Data and Security. Etc) and ORM framework like JPA/Hibernate.
• Strong knowledge of Exception Handling, Collections, File I/O Streams, Interfaces, and logging mechanisms is a must.
• Experience in developing REST APIs and integration of third-party APIs.
• Proficient knowledge in SQL/PLSQL.
• Expertise in application/web server deployment and connection pooling techniques.
• Cloud deployment (AWS & Azure) will be an added advantage.
• Experience in Version Control tools like Git, Bitbucket, etc.
• Experience in data security and protocols is a must.
• Maven and IDE tools experience is a must.
• Multi-threading and serialization techniques knowledge is a must.
• Good understanding of end-to-end software development lifecycle.
• Ability to read and understand requirements and design documents.
• Good Analytical skills and should be self-driven. Good communication with interpersonal skills.
• Open to learning new technologies and domains.
• A good team player and ready to take up new challenges
• Languages: Java(J2SE), J2EE (Servlets, JSPs, JDBC)
• Databases: MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL.
• DB Script: SQL and PL/SQL
• Frameworks: Spring, Spring Boot, Jersey, Hibernate and JPA
• OS: Windows, Linux/Unix.
• Cloud Services: AWS and Azure (Good to have)
• Version Control tools: Git, Bitbucket.
• Deployment Servers: Tomcat, JBoss, and Web sphere
• Build Tools: Gradle/Maven

Are you an ambitious Backend or Full Stack Tech Lead looking for a challenging role where you can learn and achieve lots more?

We are looking for Team Leads to come & join our agile team of professionals. If you are passionate about technology, constantly seeking to learn and improve your skillset, have hands-on experience of working on LAMP Stack with PHP / Laravel, then you are the type of person we are looking for.

We are offering superb career growth opportunities, great compensation, and benefits.

Responsibilities

• Revise, edit, proofread & optimize web content
• Perform code reviews, unit testing, and continuous integration
• Work cross-functionally to enhance the overall user experience of our platforms
• Own various design tasks involved in the web development life cycle from start to finish
• Develop, record, and maintain cutting edge web-based PHP/Node applications on portal plus premium service platforms
• Build innovative, state-of-the-art applications and collaborate with the User Experience (UX) team
• Ensure HTML, CSS, and shared JavaScript is valid and consistent across applications
• Prepare and maintain all applications utilizing standard development tools
• Utilize backend data services and contribute to increasing existing data services API
• Lead the entire web application development life cycle right from concept stage to delivery and post-launch support
• Convey effectively with all task progress, evaluations, suggestions, schedules along with technical and process issues
• Document the development process, architecture, and standard components
• Coordinate with co-developers and keeps project manager well informed of the status of development effort and serves as a liaison between development staff and project manager
• Keep abreast of new trends and best practices in web development

Qualifications

• Bachelor's / Master's degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science
• Experience using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
• Proficiency in server-side technology (PHP)
• Ability to multi-task, organize, and prioritize work
• Previous working experience as a PHP / Laravel Developer
• Hands-on experience with SQL schema design, SOLID principles, REST API design 
• MySQL profiling and query optimization
• Creative and efficient problem solver

• Excellent problem-solving & analytical skills & OO principles
• Solid understanding of the data structure & algorithms.
• Very good experience with PHP programming language
• Hands on experience working on Laravel. Experience with any other framework would be nice to have
• Troubleshooting skills to reproduce & resolve issues in production systems
• Experience working with git & also following following git workflow
• Experience with deployment on server would be nice to have
• Working experience with AWS services like s3, lama, cognito, would be added advantage