Senior Backend Engineer Tier 1 college only Fintech company only

Key Responsibilities

• Lead software development teams across all phases of the SDLC
• Provide technical leadership in coding, debugging, and system integration
• Define system scope, objectives, and technical solutions
• Act as primary technical point of contact for stakeholders
• Develop technical specifications, code, and testing strategies
• Manage change control, issue resolution, and release activities
• Ensure adherence to coding standards and security practices
• Design and implement REST API-based integration solutions
• Conduct code reviews and quality assurance checks
• Identify and mitigate technical risks
• Mentor developers and provide technical guidance
• Maintain documentation for development and testing
• Collaborate across teams to improve processes
• Stay updated with emerging technologies and industry trends

Knowledge / Skills

• Strong programming skills in JavaScript, Java, and Node.js
• Experience with Auth0 (Rules, Actions, MFA, Management API)
• Experience with AWS (Lambda, API Gateway, IAM, CloudFormation)
• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (CloudFormation/Terraform)
• Strong REST API design and integration expertise
• Understanding of IAM protocols (OAuth2, OIDC, SAML, JWT, PKCE)
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines using Git
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent communication and leadership abilities

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field
• 8–10 years of software development experience
• Experience leading development teams
• Experience in Agile/Scrum environments

Role Overview

We are seeking a motivated and technically versatile CMS Engineer (IC2) to support our transition from SharePoint to Contentful, while also contributing to the broader CMS ecosystem. This is an excellent opportunity for an early-career engineer to work on enterprise-grade platforms and microservice-based architectures.

Key Responsibilities

·         3-5 years of experience with SharePoint Online and/or enterprise CMS platforms.

·         Familiarity with Contentful or other headless CMS solutions is a strong plus.

·         Hands-on experience with Java, Spring Boot, and relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL).

·         Exposure to Kafka, Elasticsearch, or similar distributed technologies is desirable.

·         Solid problem-solving and communication skills with an eagerness to learn.

What would you do here

SharePoint to Contentful Migration | Backend + CMS Integration

·         Assist in maintaining and enhancing SharePoint Online content and features during the transition period.

·         Support the migration of pages, documents, and metadata from SharePoint to Contentful.

·         Contribute to the design and development of backend services that integrate with Contentful using Java, Spring Boot, and REST APIs.

·         Write reusable services for content delivery, search indexing (via Elasticsearch), and event processing (via Kafka).

·         Help develop APIs for CMS-based applications that interact with PostgreSQL databases.

·         Troubleshoot CMS-related issues and support testing efforts during platform migration.

Job Summary
- Expand the product to suit the needs of all kinds of travellers. From family travellers to hardcore backpackers and from free independent travellers to those who need a more guided approach to planning their trip. 
- Launch across more countries. This means adding support for more geographies, things to do, weather, currencies and payments, transport and accommodation. 
- Scale it up to serve millions of users a year, from across the globe. We are seeing decent growth, but it is time to up the game.

Responsibilities and Duties
How you'll add value: 
- Own the architecture and design decisions that go into shaping our backend microservices 
- Build and ship robust features. 
- Work with web and mobile engineers to design and build APIs to power the traveler and influencer applications. 
- Help us scale out to multiple geographies and serve millions of travelers
Required Experience, Skills and Qualifications
- An innate desire to grow. Both personally and with respect to the value you add to other people's lives. 
- 4+ years industry experience working with golang/Django
- Sound understanding of CS fundamentals. We don't expect you to remember every algorithm by heart. But if you know how to find the most appropriate one for any given problem, let's talk. 
- Personal projects that show an aptitude for technical excellence and product sense. 
- Interest in contributing to open source projects 
- Bonus points if you have an interest in the philosophy behind technologies. - You are intrigued by why did people develop certain technologies the way they did.
Benefits
- Work with a bunch of amazing people on a challenging problem. 
- 1 backpacking trip each year to travel outside India. We don't allow you to travel, we WANT you to travel. 
- Stock. 
- We don't mind work from home/cafe/some random city in the world as long as your work and your team is not disrupted. 
- We don't have a leave policy (there is a guideline for legal reasons) but you are free to take as much personal time as you need as long as you get your job done.

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: ₹2,000,000.00 to ₹3,000,000.00 /year

Job Description

Who are we looking for?

A senior level Java-J2EEE lead to manage a critical project for one of the biggest clients in banking domain. The Individual should be passionate about technology, experienced in developing and managing cutting edge technology applications.
We are looking for people from the trading background

Technical Skills: 

• An excellent tech Lead or application architect with strong experience in monolithic Java legacy applications, modern cloud-native

• Strong hands-on experience in Spring, Core Java specifically on multi-threading, concurrency, memory management process, and fair understanding on network communication & protocols. 

• experience working in software development on low-latency and high performing systems

• Experienced to guide & mentor the offshore team members, validating application deliverables on regular basis

• Ability to work in a collaborative manner with peers across different time zones. 

• Passionate about good design and code quality and have strong engineering practices

• Experience working on GCP will be preferred. 

Process Skills: 

• Experience in analyzing requirements and develop software as per project defined software process
• Develop and review design, code
• Develop and document architecture framework, technical standards, and application roadmap
• Guide development teams to comply with the architecture and development standards and ensure quality application is designed, developed, and delivered
• Must   have excellent communication skills.

Behavioral Skills:

• Resolve technical issues of projects and Explore alternate designs
• Effectively collaborates and communicates with the stakeholders and ensure client satisfaction
• Mentor, Train and coach members of project groups to ensure effective knowledge management activity.

Certification:

• Ultimate sun Java and GCP Certified 

You have 5 years or more of Backend end development experience with expertise in designing and implementing high-performance applications.

Worked with and built high-performance products using Node Js/GoLang/ Python and have seen the product evolution cycle from PoC to Production

You have a deep understanding of design principles and can rightly judge/implement solutions to complex problems

You are capable of writing high-quality code that conforms to the standards and best practices in a particular language/framework.

You have experience building a product using a mainstream library or framework.

You love to own end to end responsibility, starting from defining the problem statement (either yourself or alongside your peers), development (PoC if needed), testing, releasing in staging & then production environment, and finally monitoring.

Previous work experience in product-based startups

Experience building for products that have scaled and have seen the product evolution

ABOUT ZYCUS:

Headquartered in Princeton, U.S. in 1998, Zycus has grown every day to be established as an organization which now is a leading global provider of complete Source-to-Pay suite of procurement performance solutions.

We develop cloud-based (SaaS) https://workable.com/nr?l=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zycus.com%2Fsolution%2Fprocurement-performance.html">Source-to-Pay solutions for large global enterprises, and have successfully deployed about 200 solutions to over 1000 Global clients. We are proud to have as our clients, some of the best-of- breed companies across verticals like Manufacturing, Automotive, Banking and Finance, Oil and Gas, Food Processing, Electronics, Telecommunications, Chemicals, Health and Pharma, Education and more. 

With a team of 1000+employees, we are present in India with 3 development centers at Bengaluru, Mumbai & Pune and offices in the https://workable.com/nr?l=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zycus.com%2Fcareers%2FUS-Careers.html">U.S., U.K., Australia, https://workable.com/nr?l=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zycus.com%2Fpress-releases%2Fzycus-expands-middle-east-presence-with-new-location-in-dubai.html">Dubai and https://workable.com/nr?l=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zycus.com%2Fpress-releases%2Fzycus-continues-global-expansion-with-new-office-in-singapore.html">Singapore, Amsterdam. 

https://workable.com/nr?l=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zycus.com%2Fcompany%2Fcareers.html">Know more about the LEADER of: https://workable.com/nr?l=http%3A%2F%2Fcampaign.zycus.com%2FGMQ2017">Gartner’s 2013, 2015 & 2017 Magic Quadrant for Strategic Sourcing Application Suites and https://workable.com/nr?l=http%3A%2F%2Fcampaign.zycus.com%2FThe-Forrester-Wave-eProcurement-Q2-2017-Zycus-Named-a-Leader">The Forrester Wave™: eProcurement, Q2 2017

1. Involvement in the full software development life cycle with stringent needs on (i) time to market, & (ii) quality of product - functional and non-functional aspect.
2. Ownership of complex software architectures, operational metrics, and running the day to day business operations.
3. Designing and defining the interaction between the different components and teams.
4. Work closely with peers and product managers to develop great technical design and approach for new product development.
5. Definition of, and compliance with, a world-class build/release and configuration management process.

This position will report in to Director of engineering & the roles & responsibilities are as below: 

1. Identify the technologies that would be used for the product.
2. Recommend the development methodology and framework for the project.
3. Provide the overall design and structure to the application.
4. Ensure that the product is adequately defined & documented.
5. Establish design/coding guidelines and best practices, and drive usage of design patterns.
6. Enforce compliance with coding guidelines using code reviews etc.
7. Build solution which is easily configurable, deploy-able and secure in SaaS environment.
8. Responsible for planning product iterations & releasing iterations on schedule.

   The Applicant with a total experience of 10-20years, should have hands-on development experience in Core Java and J2EE with proven expertise in writing application architecture and core design ground up with sound algorithmic thought process enabling bullet-proof application performance in terms of key drivers like security, load, scalability, etc.

   Skills and Technologies:
   1. Versatile experience with delivering highly available services on multiple technology stacks in traditional data centers, public clouds, and private clouds.
   2. Core Java, J2EE, Spring, Hibernate, JMS/Rabbit MQ/Kafka, Web-Services, Oracle, MSSQL, JSP-Servlets, , Design Patterns.

   Nice to have: New edge technology (Hadoop, AWS, Spark, RabbitMQ etc)

   Team mentoring:

   1. Mentor developers for difficult tasks & provide technical advice and guidance to the Tech Leads.
   2. Guide the team is doing POCs and early risk assessments.

      Leadership Abilities:

      • Optimize & effectively manage resources and time of the team members.
      • Identify, track and mitigate risks to the product
      • Should not hesitate to carry out healthy and constructive confrontation with team members, peers and managers for the benefit of Product.
      • Along with a competitive compensation structure, Zycus believes in an open culture learning environment, where everyone gets a chance to share their ideas and deliver par excellence.

• 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

• 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.