Senior Backend Developer

TECHNICAL MANAGER

Department: Product Engineering Location: Noida/Chennai

Experience: 12+ years with 2+ years in a similar role

Job Summary:

We are looking for an inspiring leader to lead a dynamic R&D team with a strong “Product & Customer” spirit. As an Engineering Manager, you will be responsible for the entire process, from design and specification to code quality, process integration and delivery performance

Key Responsibilities:

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Collaborate closely with Product Management teams to design and develop business modules.

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As a manager, coordinate a diverse team and ensure collaboration between different departments. Empathetic and fair yet demanding management with particular attention to operational excellence.

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Actively participate in resolving technical issues and challenges that the team encounters during development and escalated client implementation and production issues

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Anticipate technical challenges and work to address them proactively to minimize disruptions to the development process. Guides the team in making architectural choices

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Promote and advocate for best practices in software development, including coding standards, testing practices, and documentation.

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Make informed decisions on technical trade-offs and communicate those decisions to the team and stakeholders.

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Be on top of critical client/ implementation issues and keep stakeholders informed.

PROFILE

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Good proficiency overlaps with technologies like: Java17, Spring, SpringMVC, RESTful web services, Hibernate, RDBMS, Spring Security, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, JMeter, Angular.

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Strong experience in development tools, CI/CD pipelines. Extensive experience with Agile.

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Deep understanding of cloud technologies on at least one of the cloud platforms AWS, Azure or Google Cloud

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Strong communicator with ability to collaborate cross-functionally, build relationships, and achieve broader organizational goals.

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Proven leadership skills

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Product development experience preferred. Fintech or lending domain experience is a plus.

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Engineering degree or equivalent.

We’re looking for a Java Backend Developer with strong experience in Spring Boot, AWS, and Microservices to join our growing team. If you're passionate about scalable backend systems and love working in a fast-paced environment, we want to hear from you!

What You’ll Bring:

• 4+ years of backend development experience
• Strong hands-on expertise in Core Java and Spring Boot
• Experience designing and developing Microservices architecture
• Solid working knowledge of AWS services
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs, version control (Git), and CI/CD
• Strong problem-solving and debugging skills
• Ability to work independently and in a collaborative team environment
• Immediate joiners are highly preferred

Skills Required:

- 4+ years of technical experience in a developer role

- Strong proficiency with Core Java

- Database experience preferably with DB2, Sybase, or Oracle

- Complete SDLC process and Agile Methodology (Scrum)

- Strong oral and written communication skills

- Excellent interpersonal skills and professional approach

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, MIS, or other technology/engineering discipline

Skill Desired:

-Strong proficiency with Scala on Spark

- Previous experience in front office and back office reports

- Strong understanding Order Life Cycle management from Equities or Listed derivatives perspective

- Previous experience in Trade Surveillance or working with data from the order lifecycle

- Good to have knowledge on Hadoop Technologies

- High quality software architecture and design methodologies and patterns

- Work experience as level-3 support for applications

- Layered Architecture, Component based Architecture

- XML-based technologies

- Unix OS, Scripting, Python or Perl

- Experience in development on other application types (Web applications, batch, or streaming)

· Participate in the entire application lifecycle, focusing on coding and debugging

· Write clean code to develop functional web applications

· Troubleshoot and debug applications

· Perform UI tests to optimize performance

· Manage cutting-edge technologies to improve legacy applications

· Collaborate with Front-end developers to integrate user-facing elements with server- side logic

· Gather and address technical and design requirements

· Provide training and support to internal teams

· Build reusable code and libraries for future use

· Liaise with developers, designers and system administrators to identify new features

· Follow emerging technologies

As an SDE, you will develop a deep understanding of our business, work closely with development teams and own the architecture and end-to-end delivery of software components.

Requirements:

• Exp: 3 - 8 years.
• 4 + years' experience building successful production software systems.
• A solid grounding in Computer Science fundamentals (based on a BS or MS in CS or related field).
• The ability to take convert raw requirements into good design while exploring technical feasibility tradeoffs.
• Expertise in System design (design patterns, LLD, HLD, Solid principle, OOAD, Distributed systems etc. ), Architecture (MVC/Micro services).
• Excellence in technical communication.
• Has experience in mentoring other software developers.
• BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent.
• Experience developing service oriented architectures and an understanding of design for scalability, performance and reliability.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor other software developers to maintain architectural vision and software quality.
• Demonstrated ability to achieve stretch goals in a highly innovative and fast paced environment.
• Expertise in delivering high-quality, innovative application.
• Strong desire to build, sense of ownership, urgency, and drive.
• Strong organisational and problem solving skills with great attention to detail.
• Ability to triage issues, react well to changes, work with teams and ability to multi-task on multiple products and projects.
• Experience building highly scalable, high availability services.
• The ideal candidate will be a visionary leader, builder and operator.
• He/she should have experience leading or contributing to multiple simultaneous product development efforts and initiatives.
• He/she needs to balance technical leadership with strong business judgment to make the right decisions about technology choices.
• He/she needs to be constantly striving for simplicity, and at the same time demonstrate significant creativity, innovation and judgme.
• Proficiency in, at least, one modern programming language.
• Experience in SQL or Non-SQL database.
• Strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive.
• Demonstrated leadership abilities in an engineering environment in driving operational excellence and best practices.
• Demonstrated ability to achieve stretch goals in a highly innovative and fast paced environment.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, reporting, analytical and problem solving skills.
• Good understanding of at least some of the modern programming languages (Java) and open-source technologies

Candidates should have worked with Startups (IT Product Firms)

Should be from B2C Firms/Product/SaaS Firms

Key Skills: Python, Golang, Java, Distributed Systems, Cloud, Microservices Architecture, MVC, Design Patterns, Data Structure, Algorithms

Your Experience Across The Years in the Roles You’ve Played

• 6+ years of technology experience (at least 2 years in direct engineering management)
• Managing a 5-15 member engineering team in an agile product org
• Track record of collaborative working with multiple stakeholders
• Planning and analysis with effective communication skills

You’ll Be Improving & Responsible For

• Our products engineering team that works on initiatives fuelling the growth of our recent health retail insurance products
• Collaboration across cross-functional stakeholders to ensure delivery timelines are met
• Implementing product engineering best practices, and evangelizing them within the org
• Engineering management with a strong sense of ownership
• Problem solving with a clear and analytical approach and organized work habits
• Technological innovation in agile product engineering scenarios
• Product and business management principles and metrics