Senior Backend Engineer

The AI Specialist candidate should have the following skills:

Must-have:

• Proficiency in Java
• Experience with LLMs, prompt engineering, and RAG architectures
• Familiarity with AWS cloud platform
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders

Role Description We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Full Stack Developer with a strong background in product engineering. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience in Java Spring Boot, Kafka, PostgreSQL, and REST API development. You will be working in a collaborative, cross-cultural environment, contributing to the design, development, and deployment of scalable software products

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and maintain high-quality software solutions across the full stack.
• Build and implement RESTful APIs to support frontend and backend services.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams across different cultures and time zones.
• Work closely with product and engineering teams to understand requirements and deliver features.
• Ensure code quality, performance, and scalability.
• Participate in code reviews and knowledge-sharing activities.

Required Skills and Qualification

• 2– 4 years of experience as a Full Stack Developer.
• Proven experience in Java Spring Boot development.
• Proficiency in Kafka for real-time data streaming and messaging.
• Strong knowledge of PostgreSQL and database design.
• Experience in designing and implementing REST APIs.
• Background in product engineering and working on scalable software platforms.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Experience working in multi-cultural and global team environments.

Nice to Have 

• Experience with frontend frameworks (e.g., React, Angular, Vue).
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
• Cloud platform experience (AWS).

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience)
• Proven 2 to 12 years of professional experience in Node.js development
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including ES6+ syntax
• Expertise in designing and developing RESTful APIs and microservices architecture
• Experience with popular Node.js frameworks such as Express.js, Nest.js, or Hapi.js
• Experience in modern front-end technologies (e.g., HTML, CSS, JavaScript frameworks like React, Angular, or Vue.js)
• Solid understanding of asynchronous programming, event-driven architecture, and design patterns
• Extensive knowledge of database systems, both SQL and NoSQL (e.g., MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL)
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform
• Familiarity with containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)

At Upswing, we are a passionate and self-driven team of thinkers who aspire to build the rails to connect the legacy financial sector with financial innovators through a simple and powerful banking-as-a-service (BaaS) platform. We’re building our platform putting the focus on pragmatism, reliability, and maintainability. We believe that keeping the engineering complexity under control is key to preserving the development productivity and long-term evolution of a platform.

To bring this vision to life, we are building the infrastructure using Microservices architecture using the latest set of technologies that are also fun to work with such as Java, Scala, Postgres, Akka, Kafka with a completely automated DevOps pipeline from the get-go using tools like Chef, Jenkins, Grafana, Graylog.

We are looking for motivated engineers who will be working in a highly creative and cutting-edge technology environment to build a world-class financial services suite.

Why you should join us:

• You will redefine the financial services landscape for India in the coming years.
• Be part of a core Engineering team that will create innovative and scalable Fintech solutions.
• Work with passionate and experienced engineering, product & business workforce that believes in teamwork, and that helps fast-track learning on solving complex technical challenges.
• We are funded by the leading fintech VC `QED Investors` and other established Founders and Executives of awesome Indian companies.

What you will do if you join us:

• Propose solutions to solve complex system architecture challenges and actively lead the end-to-end development of the system.
• Create robust, flexible, consistent, and easy-to-use APIs
• Continuously strive for performance improvements, code reusability, and readability
• Understand the product in detail and predict potential issues in feature development.
• Mentor and lead junior members of the team

You should have:

• Ability to think of out of the box
• Tech or a higher degree in computer science or a related field.
• 3+ years of experience working on the back-end development for complex distributed systems who are willing to adopt any Programming language as per the requirement.
• Familiarity with any of the following – Java, C++, Scala, Kotlin, and frameworks like Spring, Play, Hibernate, Django, etc.
• Good understanding of Algorithms, Data Structure, OOP, Design patterns, Parallel programming, Multithreading concepts & Event-Driven Systems.
• Understanding of micro-services architecture and best practices.
• Experience with Relational databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, or any NoSQL database.

It is a plus if you have:

• Familiarity with cloud platforms like AWS (Amazon Web Services), Azure or Google Cloud

Key Responsibilities: 

• Rewrite existing APIs in NodeJS. 
• Remodel the APIs into Micro services-based architecture. 
• Implement a caching layer wherever possible. 
• Optimize the API for high performance and scalability. 
• Write unit tests for API Testing.
• Automate the code testing and deployment process.

Skills Required: 

• At least 3 years of experience developing Backends using NodeJS — should be well versed with its asynchronous nature & event loop, and know its quirks and workarounds. 
• Excellent hands-on experience using MySQL or any other SQL Database. 
• Good knowledge of MongoDB or any other NoSQL Database. 
• Good knowledge of Redis, its data types, and their use cases. 
• Experience with graph-based databases like GraphQL and Neo4j. 
• Experience developing and deploying REST APIs. 
• Good knowledge of Unit Testing and available Test Frameworks. 
• Good understanding of advanced JS libraries and frameworks. 
• Experience with Web sockets, Service Workers, and Web Push Notifications. 
• Familiar with NodeJS profiling tools. 
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as Git. 
• Good knowledge of creating and maintaining DevOps infrastructure on cloud platforms. 
• Should be a fast learner and a go-getter — without any fear of trying out new things Preferences. 
• Experience building a large scale social or location-based app.

Role- Node.js Developer

Job description:

- Nodejs), MySQL, Postgre SQL
- Working experience of GIT
- Will prefer candidates preferred who have knowledge of GraphQL, Typescript
 - Well versed and experienced with unit testing, code coverage.
- Well versed with SOILD design principles and its application
- Good to have – some experience with Azure devops and/or azure functions.
- Good knowledge of designing and writing restful API

Primary duties and responsibilities include:

·         Candidate should be able to work independently with client and should possess excellent written and verbal communication skills.

·         Work closely with experienced integration, frontend, or backend development teams

·         Contribute to estimation and scoping of projects

·         Work on presales environment for checking feasibilities for customer requirement.

Required Experience

·         Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, or equivalent work experience

·         8 to 10 years of programming experience—preferably with Java 8+, and other tool support

·         5 years of Java # 6 experience

·         Should have experience in executing project independently.

·         Demonstrated ability of Design Patterns and to write efficient, reusable rest services and libraries

·         Experience with agile software development methodologies and software development best practices, pair programming and CI/CD

·         Excellent written and verbal communication skills

·         Excellent analytical skills for solution building of customer requirements.

·         Good knowledge of datastores (RDBMS, Oracle, SQL)

·         Must have in depth understanding of the L1, L2, L3 support environment.

·         Experience in Java, JavaScript, CSS, HTML, XML and other web technologies

·         Strong understanding of network OS and system configurations.

·         Familiarization with OSLC and REST APIs

·         Ability to successfully lead offshore development teams and work in global delivery model- US, India, Germany

·         Knowledge of LDAP

·         Experience with Microsoft Office products- Word, Excel, Powerpoint

·         Experience with other Requirements Management Tools (Polarion, PTC Integrity) will be a value add

Preferred Experience

·         Understanding of high-availability, fault-tolerant, scalable, distributed systems

·         Working knowledge of iText 7, OpenFeign, RabbitMQ/JMS, Mockito and jUnit/nUnit, Spring Cloud


Salary is not constriant. Candidate should have interest to new things.

Responsibilities:

• Your primary responsibility as a senior backend engineer will be to architect and develop a scalable and robust micro-services backend with strong Java, Spring(Boot), SQL, AWS/GCP.
• Experience being part of a software development team in an Agile/Lean/Continuous Delivery environment
• Be a key performer in a high-performance product engineering team

Qualifications:

• 2 to 4 years of overall IT experience. Most of this experience in Java (Core Java, Spring boot, Java collections, Java Multithreading)
• Should have experience designing database schemas - SQL and NoSQL.
• Exposure to frameworks like Spring, Hibernate, Play would be a plus
• Experience with microservices architecture would be beneficial.
• Working knowledge of any public cloud (AWS, GCP or Azure)
• Broad understanding and experience of real-time analytics, NoSQL data stores, data modeling and data management, analytical tools, languages, or libraries
• Knowledge of container tech like Docker, Kubernetes would be a plus.
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or Engineering.