Senior Backend Engineer

Job Title: Java Developer

Location: Mumbai

Job Type: Full-Time 

Experience Level: 4- 8 years

Job Overview:

We are looking for a highly skilled Java Developer to join our development team. As a Java Developer, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining robust Java applications that meet high standards of performance and reliability. The ideal candidate will have strong analytical skills, excellent problem-solving capabilities, and a deep understanding of Java and its ecosystem.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain reliable Java applications.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to analyze requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
• Write clean, efficient, and scalable code.
• Develop and integrate APIs and web services.
• Conduct software analysis, testing, and debugging.
• Optimize application performance, scalability, and security.
• Participate in code reviews and contribute to best practices.

Required Skills:

• Proficiency in Java and Java EE (Enterprise Edition).
• Strong understanding of Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) concepts.
• Experience with Spring Framework (Spring Boot, Spring MVC) and Hibernate.
• Familiarity with RESTful API design and development.
• Knowledge of SQL and database management systems like MySQL, PostgreSQL, or Oracle.
• Experience with version control systems like Git.
• Familiarity with build tools like Maven or Gradle.
• Solid understanding of application security, data protection, and performance optimization.

Description:

For over 10 years, Zscaler has been disrupting and transforming the security industry. Our 100% purpose-built cloud platform delivers the entire gateway security stack as a service through 150 global data centers to securely connect users to their applications, regardless of device, location, or network in over 185 countries protecting over 3,900 companies and have detected 100 Million threats/day. 

We work in a fast-paced, dynamic and make it happen culture. Our people are some of the brightest and passionate in the industry that thrives on being the first to solve problems.  We are always looking to hire highly passionate, collaborative and humble people that want to make a difference.

About the role :

This is a senior staff backend engineer role in the engineering team that designs, implements and maintains our state of the art product IllusionBLACK. The team is responsible for designing and implementing secure, highly performant and maintainable product.

Responsibilities:

• Architect, develop and maintain high performance, fault tolerant and scalable cloud hosted service using NodeJS
• End to end responsibility to continuously create and monitor the services you build
• Help design reusable and clean API's for our frontend React app
• Guide team members with handling complex issues
• You will also be responsible for database schema design and development of migration scripts
• Experiment with new technologies and ideas and help shape our stack and processes

Requirement:

• 10+ years professional SW development experience
• All our production applications are built with either Typescript or Python. You must have a strong understanding of NodeJS express apps written in Typescript and ES6
• Must have good experience with Python
• Solid experience with databases is a must. We use and love Postgres here at Smokescreen
• You should be able to design a complex database SQL schema normalized to 3NF on the back of a napkin at 3am in the morning
• Deep understanding and working knowledge of Redis cache
• Experience with Solr or Elasticsearch is a must. We use Solr for our event analytics exclusively
• Experience with AWS, Azure or GCP is a plus. We have a large distributed application running on AWS
• Experience with Docker/Swarm is a plus
• Experience in some stream processing platforms like Kafka/Redis stream is a plus

• Hands-on Java Engineers, with experience building consumer-facing or enterprise applications using Java stack – Spring, Hibernate, MySQL
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills
• Strong understanding of Object-Oriented Programming concepts and Design patterns.

Do You Know? (Skills good to have)

• Exposure to building service-oriented distributed systems
• In building systems that process big data in a distributed environment, either in real-time streaming or offline batching.
• In messaging systems like Kafka, RabbitMQ, kinesis, etc.
• In real-time computation tools like Storm / Spark or Hadoop-based tools.
• In Data warehousing technologies like Redshift, BigQuery, etc.

• 5+ years of software development experience including 4+ years of deep, hands on experience in building highly scalable web-based backend applications using Java and Spring ecosystem
• BE/BTech in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent practical experience
• Great problem-solving skills with solid data structures and algorithms knowledge
• Has extensively used the Spring ecosystem – Spring Boot, REST API Development, ORM tools like Hibernate
• Excellent knowledge of Relational Databases, SQL and ORM technologies (JPA2, Hibernate)
• Profound insight of Java and JEE internals (Class loading, Multi-Threading, Memory Management, Transaction management etc)
• Experience of coaching and mentoring junior developers with good delegation and time-management skills
• Implemented CI/CD in any of the projects done
• Strong understanding of Agile and Lean software development processes and practices
• Excellent knowledge and hands-on experience of Elastic Search
• Has designed relational databases; conversant with SQL
• Knowledge of Jenkins/ Docker and Devops
• Knowledge of Redis or similar technology
• Worked with some or all of these AWS services: EC2; lambda; SQS/SNS; Elastic Search, Transcoder
• Understanding and experience of building services and applications using principles of service-oriented architecture, preferable using REST or SOAP
• Contributed in the creation of end-to-end automation tests (functional or non-functional)
• Worked with WebSocket, Push notifications etc

• Experience in ELK stack
• Knowledge of Video tools like FFMPEG, Wowza / Node Media Streaming
• Understanding of different video formats, streaming, CDN etc
• Understanding of Machine Learning Models, Pipelines etc

• 3+ Years of experience in MDM (IDD UserExits / Hub User Exits)
• 2+ years experience in Java
• 1+ years’ experience in Activos
• 3+ years experience developing with SIF API, BES apis.
• Well versed with SOAP and RESTful WebServices
• Working with business partners and technical team to understand the requirements.
• Develop, program, and unit test the Java code needed.
• Support integration and Regression testing activities around custom Java objects
• Bachelor’s degree in a technical area or equivalent
• Ability to move between high level architecture design and getting involved in all phases of hands-on development
• Excellent communication skills, particularly those relating to complex findings and presenting them to ensure audience appeal at various levels of the organization
• Ability to integrate research and best practices into problem avoidance and continuous improvement
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Strong interpersonal skills to successfully team with software vendors, external partners and internal business and IT associates.
• Must be able to perform as an effective member in a team-oriented environment, maintain a positive attitude, and achieve desired results while working with minimal supervision