
About the company:
Company is building the platform to drive global careers for millennials from emerging
economies. Leap work at the exciting intersection of the 2 hottest trends around - edtech & fintech!
And we love that we succeed as a business while powering the dreams of talented students! They create modern financial products and services that help Indian students pursue a global career. From choosing the right university and the best financing option to lining up job interviews and introductions, Leap Finance invests heavily in your success.
Summary :
Leap is building the core engineering team and looking for an Android developer who can
take ownership and deliver independently.
The best candidates will check all OR many of these boxes :
● 3-6 years of experience in an engineering role
● Essential skills required are Java, Springboot, MySQL, PostgreSQL & Kotlin Backend
Technologies.
● Good to have experience in Node.js, Nest.js
● Experience with an early-stage start-up
Why is this a great opportunity for the right candidate :
● Experienced founding team
● Right to win - The founding team knows the business & its secrets inside out. We are
starting with a significant head start and a precise plan of action
● Barriers to entry - This is a specialized play with natural barriers to entry, allowing for
significant value creation for all equity holders
● Backed by marquee global investors
● Exposure to all aspects of company building - exposure to investors, fund-raising,
decision making, building the team & culture
● All of the above perks of joining a high potential company very early, along with a
competitive market salary.

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🔥 High Priority – Senior Lead Java Developer (10+ Years) | Bangalore – Onsite
Summary :
We are hiring Senior Lead Java Developers with 10+ years of experience for an onsite role in Bangalore.
If you're a hands-on expert with a strong background in Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, and Kubernetes, this is your opportunity to lead, mentor, and deliver high-quality solutions in a fast-paced environment.
🔹 Position : Senior Lead Java Developer
🔹 Experience : 10+ Years (12+ preferred)
🔹 Location : Bangalore (Onsite)
🔹 Openings : 6+
✅ Must-Have Skills :
- 8+ years of hands-on experience with Core Java & Spring Boot
- Expertise in Multithreading, Dependency Injection, and AOP
- Strong in Microservices Architecture and RESTful services
- Good exposure to SQL & NoSQL databases
- Proficient with Git (GitLab preferred)
- Experience with Kubernetes deployments and APM tools (New Relic preferred)
- Solid understanding of distributed tracing and log analysis
- Proven debugging and performance optimization skills
💼 Responsibilities :
- Design and develop high-quality, scalable microservices
- Act as SME for multiple services or subsystems
- Own service performance, SLAs, and incident resolutions
- Mentor junior developers and conduct technical interviews
- Participate in production war rooms and troubleshooting
- Lead development efforts and drive code quality
🎓 Qualification :
- BE/B.Tech or equivalent degree

Define enterprise guidelines and enforce enterprise development standards and practices
• Define and develop the emerging solution architectures and ensure that the team is successful within the technical framework
• Research and assess new technology approaches and standards for potential use within the Enterprise
• Participate in and lead high and low-level technology discussions with management, vendors, engineers, and customers
• Assemble a solid technical vision amid ambiguity and provide technical leadership to drive shared understanding and consensus among stakeholders for a proposed solution
Ideally, we expect you to have atleast 8+ years of experience in Information Technologies
▪ 5+ years of experience in Software Development
▪ 3+ years of experience in Software Architecture and Design
Nice to have:
• Software development experience using Spring / Java, or Linux Platforms
• Experience working within a variety of project management methodologies such as Scrum, Kanban, XP,
SAFe, and Waterfall
• Advanced understanding of business analysis techniques and processes
• Exposure to retail systems such as ATG, Salesforce, Shopify, etc.
• Experience designing cloud-hosted applications (Microsoft Azure, GCP) utilizing integrated capabilities
specific to those platforms
Role and Responsibilities |
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Required Skills |
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Position Requirements
• Expert in front-end development using Javascript, CSS, and Java.
• Hands-on experience in Java, J2EE, Hibernate, Springboot.
• Deep knowledge & working experience with Database, JSP, Javascript frameworks.
Technical Skills
• 4 years of experience in the software industry experience.
• Strong self-initiative to strive for both personal & technical excellence.
• Coordinate efforts across the Product development team and Business Analyst team.
• Strong business and data analysis skills.
• Should be strong on coordinating with onshore resources on the development.
We are seeking extremely smart & independent senior developers who are gung ho about building large scale systems that are going to have a big impact on millions of customers. You will:
Responsibilities:
- Lead design and development of products working closely with business team.
- Independently own software components and co-own entire applications with a small group of fellow developers.
- Formally mentor junior software engineers on the team, reviewing design documents, (peer) reviewing code, providing design direction and guidance.
- Build performant, scalable, yet secure, enterprise ready back end architectures that can support millions of users in parallel.
- Establish strong engineering best practices and champion their adoption.
Requirements:
- 4+ years' experience in software product development and delivery.
- Bachelors or Masters degree in engineering (preferably computer science or sister branches) from a reputed institute (preferably IITs, NITs, or other top engineering institutes).
- Strong grasp of CS fundamentals, algorithms and excellent problem-solving abilities.
- All experience should be from good product development or e-commerce background.
- Able to take ownership of working with at least one of mobile or web app teams for complete integration with backend.
- Must have shown good stability in all your previous associations.
- Have strong backend knowledge and cloud development exposure.
- Proficiency in Java, Spring boot, Hibernate, REST API development.
- Worked with at least 1 RDBMS (Mysql preferred).
- NoSql is a plus.
- Have used or are very hands-on with Microservices, Docker, Kubernetes, Gradle/Ant, Kafka, GIT/bitbucket in a very agile work place.
- Writing high quality code which is made better by unit tests and integration tests is how you work.
- Comfortable with exploring proven open source tech stack like Grafana, Kibana, Jira, Prometheus, caches like Redis/Memcached, task queues like celery, to name a few.
- Knowledge of test driven development and AWS tech stack will be a good plus.
Immedite joining/Notice period upto 30 days
WFH till the end of Pendimic
Gurgaon Location
Roles & Responsibilities:
● Invent, design and build software that is stable and performant
● Primary role will be quality and timely delivery of the application/ feature/ module your team
will be working on
● Adopt and execute good design philosophy and code writing practices
● Ensure the code goes through rigorous tests and quality checks before deployment
● Work with other software engineers and database engineers to set excellent development
practices and deliver innovative changes in new and existing products
● Be hands-on technical, thus, leading by example using web, mobile and database
technologies
● Work on project ideas with customers, stakeholders and peers
● Be actively involved in code review process, design discussions, team planning
Minimum Qualifications:
● Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical
discipline
● 5-7 Years of Experience
● Expertise in software design and development
● Proficiency with at least one Object Oriented language (e.g. Java)
● Have knowledge about Computer Science fundamentals in object-oriented design, data
structures, algorithm design, problem-solving, and complexity analysis
● A strong track record of project delivery for large, cross-functional projects
● Experience with building high-performance, highly available and scalable distributed systems
● Experience with API Design, ability to architect and implement an intuitive customer and
third-party integration story
● Ability to think and analyse both breadthwise (client, server, DB, control flow) and depth-wise
(threads, sessions, space-time complexity) while designing and implementing services
Primary Location: Pune
Description:
Responsibilities -
● The candidate is expected to lead one of the key business areas end to end. This is pure
hands on role but he/she may need to mentor junior person in the team.
● Requirement gathering with business and get this prioritized in the sprint cycle.
● Come up with Project Architecture design and get the same approved from Tech Review
committee.
● Ensure quality and timely delivery.
Technical and Professional Requirements-
Required Tech Skills
● Very Strong fundamental of OOPs programming
● Very Strong at Java fundamentals, Multithreading, Streams
● Good understanding of Data Structure
● Good knowledge of any distributed caching /computing framework/tools
● Good at SQL query/optimization
Nice To Have (willing to learn)
● AWS Lambda (Serverless), Redis, Kinesis , Big Data , Sparx , spring boot , NoSQL
database , React Js, JMS/SQS , AWS Cloud, nodejs, python
● Well versed with latest technology stack on server side programming
● Good to have business knowledge of Loan management.
Department: Information Systems
Reports to: Tech Lead - Regulatory Reporting IT, Product Control IT & Reference Data IT Internal Development & Support
About the Department: Information Systems
The Information Systems Department (‘ISD’) provides a full range of state of the art technology services to all departments within Mizuho International plc in London. This includes teams servicing the client-facing business units, Operations, Finance and Risk departments.
The department utilises modern delivery methodologies & techniques including Agile, Containerisation & Continuous integration.
Each team has resources to provide project management, analysis, software development, package implementation, systems integration services and application support and is expected to contribute to the change.
Primary Responsibilities
Summary
Within Regulatory Reporting, Reference Data & Product Control IT team, the developer will work towards enhancing and supporting our newly delivered financial data reference data platform, GoldenSource. This requires involvement in development and post production support project life cycle. This role will expose the individual to all business areas, including front office, settlements, custody and accounting.
This role will also involve providing 3rd Line support for any implemented solutions including incident, problem, and defect management
Specific Responsibilities
Design and development of the instrument reference data module
Conduct systems testing and support user acceptance testing
Dealing with day-to-day production problems and maintenance. This may require working shifts and/or being on-call out of normal working hours.
Adhering to Mizuho International development standards and procedures, including change control
Person Specification
Essential
Knowledge of the GoldenSource product
Experience in implementing and supporting the GoldenSource product in a financial institution
Minimum five years’ experience in Java and J2EE
Experience in using object oriented methodologies
Desirable
A broad understanding of Fixed Income, Equity and/or Futures processing through investment banking experience
Experience in using TDD/BDD agile methodology
Technical Knowledge/Skills
Essential
Experience with Publish/Subscribe messaging paradigms, distributed transaction processing based on JTA/JTS
Experience with installing, configuring and monitoring JBoss
GoldenSource Security master module
GoldenSource Customer & Counterparty module
UNIX skills in particular Linux
Excellent relational database skills, preferably ORACLE
Experience of using automated testing tools such as JUnit and mocking libraries such as jMock
Experience of working with XML based technologies such as XSLT
Desirable
Experience of Subversion, Ant, Maven and CI frameworks such as Bamboo.
Building connectors using the GoldenSource product tools
Experience of software configuration management
Experience with integration/acceptance testing frameworks such as FitNesse
WebServices
Document database experience, preferably MongoDB
Experience of Javascript on the client and Node.js
Qualifications
Degree or equivalent.
Active participant in relevant forums/external working groups.
Key Behaviors/Competencies
Operational Effectiveness and Innovation: Achieving Quality Results:
Delivering Tasks – Silver
Problem Solving – Silver
Flexibility & Drive to Improve – Silver
Risk Awareness – Silver
Enhance product Scope:
Strategic Business Management – Silver
Business Awareness – Silver
People:
Leadership – Silver
Management – Silver
Communication – Silver
Ethics and Conduct Level 1 – Silver
Ethics and Conduct Level 2 – Silver
Client Centricity – Silver
Effective Collaboration:
Team Working in Your team – Silver
Team Working With Other Teams – Silver
2. Demonstrable abilities to optimize code. Strong analytical skills for effective problem solving
3. Experience in Java Spring, Hibernate, Github. Spring boot optional
- 2+ years of experience in Java Development with sound knowledge of core Java
- Should have strong hands on experience with developing web applications using Servlets and JSP, Spring, Hibernate, Web Services, HTML, JavaScript
- Should have experience of working on Tomcat/Glassfish
- Experience of Google App Engine or AWS will be added advantage
- Strong knowledge of OOAD
- Comfortable working on Linux/Unix
- Good communication skills and good organization
- Willingness to work in a team environment, as well as
- Willingness to learn new
Responsibilities:
- Write production quality code in Java, J2EE, and Spring
- Adhere to software development and source control processes, git is added Advantage
- Design, build, configure, test, and document production quality software on an iterative
- Participate in design and implementation of new software.
- Work closely with users, technical leads, project managers, and other cross-functional development
- Execute on the provided design. Active coding in key technologies is required for this development position and includes: Java/J2EE, Tomcat, Web Services, REST, and spring, Hibernate/Ibatis, XML, UNIX and
- As part of the software development process you will need to create, review, and maintain all required technical documentation related to assigned software to ensure supportability and reuse.
- This individual must develop software using disciplined software development processes, adhering to team/company standards and software best practice guidelines, and corporate policies.

