
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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We are looking for a focussed, energetic and motivated Senior Java Developer. You must have sufficient experience in Java Development, Spring, Spring Boot, AWS and SQS, S3. You will be challenged with complex and robust product development.
As a Senior Java Developer, you will be the most senior developer within the company working alongside other Java Developers, the Engineering Manager, and the CTO.
Senior Java Developer requirements
Solid development experience using Java, Springboot, SQS, S3 and Microservices
Experience working in Swing Java framework
Revises, updates, refactors, and debugs code
Write clear, concise and efficient code and ensure it is fully tested
Service and develop features using Java with AWS, JUnit, SQL and Spring framework
You have a good knowledge of Cloud technologies (ideally AWS)
Participate in peer coding reviews and work in a collaborative, agile environment
Demonstrate technical knowledge and expertise with a clear understanding on the products' technical composition
Senior Java Developer responsibilities
7-9 yrs minimum work experience
Excellent analytical, troubleshooting, and communication skills
Excellent attention to detail and time-management skills
Serves as an expert on developed applications
Ability to adapt and learn new product/technology is key
Collaborates with internal teams to produce software design and architecture
Knowledge of Agile frameworks (i.e. Scrum) and has worked with Jira or Spira
Attend daily stand-up meetings alongside the Scrum Master
A self-starter, hardworking and committed individual
Work UK hours - ideally 9.00am - 6pm with the expectation to work out of ours when needed
Egen is a data engineering and cloud modernization firm helping industry-leading companies achieve digital breakthroughs and deliver for the future, today. We are catalysts for change who create digital breakthroughs at warp speed. Our team of cloud and data engineering experts are trusted by top clients in pursuit of the extraordinary. An Inc. 5000 Fastest Growing Company 7 times, and recently recognized on the Crain’s Chicago Business Fast 50 list, Egen has also been recognized as a great place to work 3 times.
You will join a team of insatiably curious data engineers, software architects, and product experts who never settle for "good enough". Our Java Platform team's tech stack is based on Java8 (Spring Boot) and RESTful web services. We typically build and deploy applications as cloud-native Kubernetes microservices and integrate with scalable technologies such as Kafka in Docker container environments. Our developers work in an agile process to efficiently deliver high value data driven applications and product packages.
Required Experience:
- Minimum of Bachelor’s Degree or its equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, Information Technology and Management, Electrical Engineering or a related field.
- Have experience working and strong understanding of object-oriented programing and cloud technologies
- End to end experience delivering production ready code with Java8, Spring Boot, Spring Data, and API libraries
- Strong experience with unit and integration testing of the Spring Boot APIs.
- Strong understanding and production experience of RESTful API's and microservice architecture.
- Strong understanding of SQL databases and NoSQL databases and experience with writing abstraction layers to communicate with the databases.
Nice to have's (but not required):
- Exposure to Kotlin or other JVM programming languages
- Strong understanding and production experience working with Docker container environments
- Strong understanding and production experience working with Kafka
- Cloud Environments: AWS, GCP or Azure

- To support and maintain existing Java code base, debug the application
- To analyse user and business requirements and design and implement appropriate solutions
- To design and code programs following in-house standards and good design principles
- To ensure that all programs are documented to the company standards
- To create unit test plans and perform unit testing of the programs
- To provide advice and guidance to other members of the team
- Hands on experience in designing and developing applications using Java EE platforms
- Object Oriented analysis and design using common design patterns
- Good knowledge of Relational Databases, SQL and ORM technologies (JPA2, Hibernate)
- Experience in the Spring Framework
- Experience in developing web applications using at least one popular web framework (JSF, Wicket, GWT, Spring MVC)
- Experience in RESTFul webservices
- Experience with test-driven development
- Exposure to portal/mobility development - Desired
- Exposure to any of middleware solutions like MQ, Oracle fusion middleware(WebLogic), WebSphere, Open Source
If yes! then join us @ Equal Experts.
Equal Experts does not work on support & maintenance projects.
It creates enterprise software applications & products for its global clients from scratch.
Things you will NOT get at Equal Experts:
Fancy designation - You will be called a Software Engineer here, regardless of your experience or expertise.
▪ Projects in only 1 language - Today you might code in Java, tomorrow in
Groovy, the day after in Scala... :-). At Equal Experts, we work on diverse tech stacks, and you simply have to be a polyglot.
▪ "Management" role - We don't hire dedicated PMs, IMs, DMs ...or any other Ms out there.
▪ If you are part of Equal Experts, you are a techie who will code every day.
Here's what else you can look forward to:
▪ Freedom - Freedom to explore new technologies & implement them on
projects.
▪ Responsibility & ownership - Writing elegant code every day. Taking design & architectural decisions.
▪ Agile expertise - TDD, BDD, XP practices. Working with experts & thoughtleaders in Agile.
▪ Cutting edge - Work on Ruby, Scala, Hadoop, MongoDB, Neo4j, Groovy,
J2EE, iOS 6, Angular JS, Cucumber and the likes.
▪ Consulting exposure - Interact with clients every day. Travel onsite
frequently.
▪ Open culture - No hierarchy. No cubicles. No formal dress codes.
Here's what you must possess:
Exceptional OOP skills - Solid, Grasp, Kiss and Dry should mean more than words to you. Your daily code must be clean, simple, modular, extensible, and always thoroughly unit tested.
▪ Conceptual understanding of whatever you've worked on - We're more
interested in knowing how & why you used a particular technology/approach to solve a problem. Definitions and theory don't interest us that much.
▪ Decision-making experience - We need you to start new projects from scratch.
Accordingly, you must have the experience of taking design decisions &
influencing architecture on projects
Work closely with Product Manager to derive capability view from features/solutions, Lead execution of medium-sized projects Work with broader stakeholders to track the impact of projects/features and proactively iterate to improve them As a senior software engineer you must have Extensive and expert programming experience in at least one general programming language (e.g. Java, C, C++) & tech stack to write maintainable, scalable, unit-tested code. Experience with multi-threading and concurrency programming Extensive experience in object-oriented design skills, knowledge of design patterns, and huge passion and ability to design intuitive module and class-level interfaces Excellent coding skills – should be able to convert the design into code fluently Knowledge of Test Driven Development Good understanding of databases (e.g. MySQL) and NoSQL (e.g. HBase, Elasticsearch, Aerospike, etc) Strong desire to solving complex and interesting real-world problems Experience with full life cycle development in any programming language on a Linux platform Go-getter attitude that reflects in energy and intent behind assigned tasks Worked in a startups environment with high levels of ownership and commitment BTech, MTech, or Ph.D. in Computer Science or related technical discipline (or equivalent). Experience in building highly scalable business applications, which involve implementing large complex business flows and dealing with a huge amount of data. An open communicator who shares thoughts and opinions frequently listens intently and takes constructive feedback. As a Software Engineer, good to have The ability to drive the design and architecture of multiple subsystems Ability to break-down larger/fuzzier problems into smaller ones in the scope of the product Understanding of the industry’s coding standards and an ability to create appropriate technical documentation. PhonePe Full Time Employee Benefits Insurance Benefits - Medical Insurance, Critical Illness Insurance, Accidental Insurance, Life Insurance Wellness Program - Employee Assistance Program, Onsite Medical Center, Emergency Support System Parental Support - Maternity Benefit, Paternity Benefit Program, Adoption Assistance Program, Day-care Support Program Mobility Benefits - Relocation benefits, Transfer Support Policy, Travel Policy Retirement Benefits - Employee PF Contribution, Flexible PF Contribution, Gratuity, NPS, Leave Encashment Other Benefits - Higher Education Assistance, Car Lease, Mobile & Broadband Reimbursements, Salary Advance Policy
1.Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, Spring, Hibernate
2. Handling Large teams
3. Expertise in Technial and People Management.
• Exposure to Cloud
• Versatile in choosing appropriate tools and frameworks for the Core and advance java development procedures.
• Good in Spring Boot and latest java methodologies to suggest best practices and proven solutions to the business.
• Expert in service oriented solutions and micro services architecture (REST). Should have been a part of monolithic to micro services rearchitecture.
• Exposure towards No-Sql databases such as Cassandra or Mongo DB.
Job Description:
Perform high quality software analysis, development, testing and maintenance for the client’s core technology platform
* Work with Product owners, Architects and X-Vertical teams to analyse requirements.
* Implement the features based on the design.
* Follow good development practices.
* Product deployment and support.
* Mentor junior developers.
Job Requirements
* Excellent analytical skills and problem solving skills.
* Expert in JEE/ Java programming.
* Competent in delivering a high quality product.
* Competent in software engineering tools and best practices
* Conversant in web front-end technologies - HTML5/CSS/JavaScript
* Object-oriented Design and Analysis (OOA and OOD)
* Estimate engineering effort; plan implementation, and rollout system changes.
* Exhibit creativity and resourcefulness at problem solving while collaborating and working effectively with best in class designers, engineers of different technical backgrounds, architects and product managers.
* Expert in data structures and algorithms.
* Aware of Agile methodology of Software Development Life Cycle.
* Should be a self-starter and a good team player.
* Great communication skills both verbal and written to ensure effective communication across product teams, functions and locations.
* Can make decisions without always asking others what has to be done.
* Ability to mentor junior developers.
* Experience working with remote teams.
* Flexible to work on any technology as per project demand.








