Senior Backend Developer (Java Spring Boot)

Responsibilies
• Hands on RDBMS experience with Oracle/ PostgreSQL/ MySQL/SQL
Server including transaction management, SQL programming, data
modelling, etc.
• Must have proven track record of logical data modeling and physical
data modeling
• Experienced in using ORM frameworks like Hibernate, etc.
• Basic understanding of NoSQL systems like Redis (Key-Value store),
MongoDB (Document store), Elasticsearch (Search / Document store)
• Design, Development & Deployment of Microservices using Spring
Boot or any other framework.
• Understanding of building EDA-based (Event Driven Architecture)
systems.
• Basic understanding of any public cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Ability to design & architect a system that exhibits basic
characteristics like modularity, configurability / extensibility, scalability
& availability.
• Maven / Gradle
• Experience in using & configuring Jenkins.
• Experience in using & configuring SonarQube.

Essential Requirements
• Hands-on with Java Platform (1.5 & above) having proficiency in OOPs
concepts, Collections,
• Generics, Streams, Multi-threading (Executor Framework), Functional
Programming.
• Design & Development of REST Web Services (Spring MVC / REST /
Jersey / Apache CXF, etc.)
• Hands-on experience using Spring framework (4.x & above)
• Core / Beans
• MVC / REST
• Security
• Spring Data / JPA
• Spring Test / JUnit
• JMS

It is an eCommerce growth platform using AI and machine learning to help establish and grow online businesses across multiple channels and global markets. We use data-driven tools to optimize how products are advertised and listed across marketplaces – and handles all associated shipping, logistics, taxes, and compliance. Their business model is built on aligned incentives with no initial costs. They only makes money if and when customers’ products sell.
Our mission is to make e-commerce easy and accessible for everyone. We believe that all businesses should have the equal playing field in terms of resources to build and grow their online business. With our eCommerce tools and comprehensive platform, business owners can better understand, analyze and grow their business. Starting a business and making products is hard enough; selling products and growing the business shouldn’t be.

We’re a small team looking for passionate, execution-focused, self-starters to help us build the next generation eCommerce platform and equal the playing field for all. Our success depends on building teams who can challenge each other's assumptions with fresh perspectives. To that end, we don’t just accept differences – we celebrate them. If that sounds exciting to you, let’s talk!
We are expanding our Engineering team to India and building a stellar and diverse team composed of owners. We are looking for a backend engineer with a demonstrated track record of developing and maintaining production services, innovative thinking, and technical excellence. As a backend engineer, you will be responsible for building out the service layer that powers our frontend applications. You should have a solid understanding of software development lifecycle and software design principles. This is a great opportunity if you are looking for a huge impact at a small start-up with immense growth potential
What you will do?
 Create technical plans of projects assigned to you.
 Come up with well-structured solutions to ambiguous problems and implement them.
 Ship high-quality, well-tested, secure, and maintainable backend code.
 Provide technical direction on our various products and upcoming projects.
 Champion reliability and quality by using best practices in software engineering and modular design.
 Ensure all components are scalable, maintainable, and have in-built metrics instrumentation and monitoring
 Deliver an exceptional user experience to our customers. Put the customer first and have quality in mind.
 Own the full release cycle from development to deployment
What you will need?
 3+ Years of experience as a software engineer working on backend applications.
 Advanced knowledge of Python (preferably, the Django framework) and relational databases.
 Experience with agile, test-driven development, continuous integration, and automated testing.
 Experience with building, modifying, and extending API endpoints (REST or GraphQL) for data retrieval and persistence.
 Experience with the full software development life cycle, including requirements collection, design, implementation, testing, and operational support.
 Excellent verbal and written communication, teamwork, decision making and influencing skills.
 Experience with scrum or other agile software development methodology.
 Hustle. Thrives in an evolving, fast paced, ambiguous work environment
Bonus if you have
 Experience working in the eCommerce domain.
 Experience with AWS technologies like Elastic Beanstalk, Amplify, etc.

 

What you need to have:

• Build efficient, testable, and reusable PHP modules
• Write all clean object-oriented PHP as well as efficient SQL
• Integrate features and improvements that can support our large-and-growing SAAS product.
• Take initiative and contribute to technical solutions, R&D.
• Contribute to internal tools/processes that help us manage the product and QA cycle
• Perform Unit testing.
• Opportunity to learn and work on interesting solutions like Application Scaling, Microservices, Batch Processing, Javascript frameworks like ReactJS.
• Keep abreast of new trends and best practices in web development
• Adhere to milestones assigned

Skills:

• Must require solid programming proficiency with Core PHP.
• Strong knowledge of OOPS and how to apply it in application code is a must.
• Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3
• Familiarity with SQL databases and their declarative query languages.
• Exposure to designing and building APIs (REST/HTTP/Soap) is highly preferred.
• Understanding the fully synchronous behavior of PHP
• Experience with any MVC framework is an added advantage.
• Proficient understanding of software testing
• Understanding of code versioning tools, such as Bitbucket, Git is an advantage
• Understanding of product development environments and methodologies like Agile highly preferred
• Good problem-solving skills.

Desired Profile:

• Minimum 1.5 years of experience developing web applications and understanding modern PHP standards.
• The candidate should be willing to work with a startup/mid-size company.
• The candidate must love to code and must possess a thorough knowledge of web technologies.
• Motivated and ambitious to learn new technologies, grow as a leader in quick time.
• Good communication skills - must be able to explain work and provide answers in English

 

• Preferably 5+ years of experience in LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, & PHP) development stack
• Proven software development experience in PHP and of developing REST (JSON) / SOAP (XML) based web services
• Experience in Cloud platform like AWS/Azure
• Experience with HTML5 / JavaScript (JQuery) / CSS / AJAX / Angular / Yii Framework is preferred
• Experience in caching solutions like Redis and Memcached
• Experience in tools like Ansible, Docker
• Knowledge of source control systems such as GIT is a plus

Good to have

• Be able to work in cross-function teams
• Write high-quality code per industry standards and best practices
• Test the code for quality assurance, debug identified bugs and resolve issues
• Support in deploying and maintenance of product and services
• Documenting product services progress, status, and manuals
• Participate in team meetings and planning & review sessions

Our ideal candidate is someone who can can architect complex scalable systems with a keen eye towards performance, security and availability while also taking on a super hands-on role towards implementation (i.e. you must be very much in touch with backend coding and want to do it everyday). Additionally you will need to spearhead all inbound and outbound API integrations to build the most robust and scalable integration platform in the B2B Retail space. You will be responsible for architecture, design and implementation of the entire system to support thousands of customers globally. Our stack is primarily built around NodeJS, Mongo, PHP, MySQL, React and Angular. We have started the transition towards micro services, one of your core responsibilities is ensure micro services are used wherever it makes sense.

Mentoring should come naturally to you, as well as finding the right balance towards process and documentation.

Highlights:
1) You will be working on interesting technical challenges in a product centric and open-source driven environment. The role requires a good knowledge of Algorithmic Design and Architecture, Data structures, OOPS Concepts, server less architectures and complex problem solving skills.
2) You will help set a very high bar on code quality.
3) You will take ownership of product features from conception to implementation, testing deployment and support.
4) A lot of freedom on when and where you work from - just get stuff done.
5) You will open source as much as possible, and blog about cool things that you learnt and built.
6) You will help define who we become as a company.
7) You will get stock options in line with silicon valley standards.

Caveats:
1) We have a strict no-divas rule. There are a lot of smart engineers on the team but no one with an attitude / superiority complex.
2) If you think writing tests for your code, writing docs, doing customer support etc are not your cup of tea, this isn't the right role for you.
3) Similarly if you're viewing this just as a 20-40% increment opportunity over your current compensation, this isn't the right role or company for you.

This role can be the growth opportunity of a lifetime for anyone who has been operating as a backend lead and wants to grow into a full stack
Check out the links below if you'd like to learn more about us. We encourage people from underrepresented groups to apply.

1) Why ShoppinPal? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cE7DgtwA0ws
2) Our hiring philosophy and process http://techstory.in/building-startup-team/

Responsible: ● Responsible for championing persistence, business logic and other back-end layers architectural and SDLC process strategy as well as the planning and successful execution of said strategy ● Effectively balance technical leadership and software engineering individual contributor responsibilities ● Directly or indirectly drive BE projects and provide architectural and technical leadership in an innovative and fast-paced environment ● Continually retrospect and drive innovation within the back-end development process to ensure our software engineers execute at the highest possible level ● Hire, onboard, develop and manage Back-End (BE) engineers ● Manage Tech Debt management ● Responsible for execution of SDLC processes to include sprint pre-planning/planning, retros, demos, architecture and code reviews ● Work closely with the rest of the tech leads, data scientists, senior engineering leadership and product managers to ensure we're building awesome, feature-rich, scalable and secure product lines, products and features ● Work closely with the rest of the tech leads and senior engineering leadership team to ensure we're building highly reusable codebase ● Provide the mentoring and guidance to BE engineers. Create an environment for BE engineers to continually reach new heights within their career Requirements: ● 10 plus years solid experience in back end open source based technologies, including at least 4 - 5 years in Ruby or RoR cloud based ecosystems ● 4 plus years solid experience as a technical lead, including at least 2 years in large scale platform environment ● CS degree required or equivalent work experience ● Solid procedural and object oriented Software Engineering fundamentals ● 3 plus years of relevant experience managing fast-paced and dynamic Scrum team ● A proven track record of senior level software engineering and architecture accomplishments in a high-capacity, large-scale, internet-based product platform ● Capable of technical deep-dives, yet verbally and cognitively agile enough to hold their own in a strategy discussion with senior technical or product leadership ● Comfortable recruiting a team of very bright, experienced engineers capable of working on projects and at scale unlike any other they've encountered ● Very experienced with Agile / Scrum methodologies ● Outstanding communication skills, both written and oral ● Expert understanding of RoR framework ● Solid understanding of AWS services ● Solid experience with containerized applications and serverless functions ● Strong understanding of and experience with testing practices ● Strong automation and CI / CD experience ● Pivotal Tracker or Jira, Docker, CI/CD, GitHub tools experience, some would say you are a master ● If I asked your previous team members about you, they would say you were a great leader and even better contributor. They would also very much welcome an opportunity to work for you once again

Must have 2+ years of experience in Web and API development Should have good hands-on experience and knowledge in laravel or CodeIgniter. Should have a very good understanding of Core PHP Hands on experience of developing PHP functions/plugins/components is a must. Familiar with DB design, Query optimization and good knowledge of relational databases SQL/MySQL.MongoDB would be an advantage. Must have experience on CMS like WordPress, Joomla