Senior Backend Software Engineer

💡 Hiring: Java Developer & Support Engineer (Splunk) at Deqode

🔷 Experience- 6+ Years

🔷 Mode- Remote (Night Shift)

⏱️ Notice Period - Immediate joiners

(Only immediate joiners & candidates serving notice period)

We’re looking for a talented Java Developer & Support Engineer with strong skills in Java, Application Support, Splunk, and SQL (Insert/Update queries). You’ll develop Java apps, handle L2/L3 support, write and optimize SQL queries, and use Splunk for monitoring and analysis.

✅ Must Have:

• Solid Java/J2EE development experience
• Strong troubleshooting & production support skills
• Proficiency with SQL (Insert, Update, Delete, Select queries)
• Good knowledge of Splunk dashboards & log analysis
• Strong communication & problem-solving abilities

Mentoring teams to carry forward recognised and optimised solutions, building conducive environments for knowledge transfer and maintaining standards in terms of deliveries form a major part of responsibilities.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop robust scalable database systems
• Design, build and deploy internal applications to support our native technical ecosystem
• Collaborate with Subject-Matter experts to design data-driven modules for analysis

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or equivalent
• 3-4 years of experience in Java

Skills

• Expertise in object-oriented programming concepts and data structures
• Strong knowledge of working with XMLs/Jsons
• Experience with large-scale distributed storage and database systems (MySQL, MongoDB, GraphDB)
• Good knowledge of indexing/search libraries like Lucene/Solr/Elasticsearch
• Exposure to Spring MVC architecture and RESTful APIs
• Well-versed with Agile methodology of SDLC
• Good to have: Knowledge of standard DevOps skills like Build tools (Maven/gradle), Continuous integration (Jenkins), Version Control (Github/Gitlab)

Experience: 3-5 Years Experience

Skills:

Javascript, Node JS, HTML, CSS, Advanced JS


Location : Ahmedabad 

Quoality- A Modern Operating Infrastructure for Hospitality Businesses to help them improve the guest experience and generate additional revenue.

Launched in 2021, Quoality is a Hospitality Tech company backed by a US-based Newchip Accelerator. Our mission is to equip businesses with the tools they need to grow. 

By providing tools, insights, and education with minimal effort on the business's part, the barrier to making actionable business decisions is lowered dramatically. Everything we do is driven by this mission. Everything we do needs to positively answer the question, "Does this help businesses grow?"

Product Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKklkRYKkC4&;t" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKklkRYKkC4

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Oh, this is our favorite part. We’ve seen companies that write 'templatized' BS for this section; stuff that’s never followed in reality.

Not us. Here are some of our core values to give you a sense of who we are as a team:

• First and foremost, we’re super transparent. We all know what everyone’s working on, how’s the company doing, and the whole shebang.
• We’re all super chill. 
• Work time ain’t playtime. We take our work very seriously. We’re a small bunch on a mission to change the guest experience in the hospitality industry, once and for all.
• Deadlines are a thing for us. We are super punctual.
• We know what we are working on and aren’t clueless.
• We’re more friends than colleagues.
• Monthly 1:1s with the founders where you can directly share & receive feedback.

Not convinced yet? Okay, here’s the fun stuff:

• Flexible leave policy. Yeah, it’s truly flexible. We trust you.
• We have a flexible remote work policy in India.  Work from the beautiful beaches of Goa or the stunning mountains of Manali, we’re all good.
• Annual workstations at exotic destinations. Subject to change and hitting milestones.
• Allowances to choose your coworking space (if you want), courses & any tool that you think is beneficial to succeed in this role.
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• Write code that will impact the businesses of thousands of hotels, hostels, and vacation homes across the globe.
• Collaborate with Frontend to spec, write, test, and deploy API endpoints.
• Implementation of a robust set of services and APIs that work on our data pipelines.
• Build all support infrastructure to scale our data delivery pipelines - endpoints, security, logging, messaging.
• Product development activity includes data querying from our various stores, real-time analytics, ML algorithms.
• Developing & Integrating of the front-end and back-end aspects of the web application
• Optimization of the application for maximum speed and scalability.
• Brainstorm features with the product team and guides decisions based on your knowledge of the codebase.
• Take full ownership of the module starting from architectural and design decisions to shipping.
• Like the work you do, enjoy collaborating with your coworkers, communicate as much as you can, and have fun. 
  
  

• 1+ years of relevant work experience.
• Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds.
• You possess strong computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, distributed systems, and information retrieval.
• You have a good understanding of multi-process architecture and the threading limitations of NodeJs and Express frameworks.
• Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application.
• Good understanding of server-side templating languages.
• You have good knowledge of relational databases as well as key-value databases and are capable of designing scalable database models based on the product requirements.
• Familiarity with REST API development standards, protocols (HTTP, WebSockets and more), and GraphQL.
• You’re comfortable picking up new stacks and choosing the right tool to get the job done.
• You are open to learning new stuff and avoid internal politics. (super important).
• You are humble, kind, and are open to feedback.(super duper important).

• Entrepreneurial spirit, Product Thinker, and ‘Can-Do' attitude.
• Passionate about leveraging technology for supporting product delivery in the Hospitality space.
• Operating style suited to working in a startup environment, where teamwork and resourcefulness are highly valued.
• Excellent leadership skills, including the ability to manage multiple assignments at a time.

Yes, we do have a process, and it’s simple.

• Step 1: You apply for the job.
• Step 2: Quick intro call with the founders.
• Step 3: Solve an assignment.
• Step 4: A round where we evaluate your assignment along with you.
• Step 5: One round of interviews to gauge if you are a good culture fit.
• Step 6: Job Offer (contingent on the above steps).
• Step 7: Welcome to the Quoality! 🙂

About the role

Checking quality is one of the most important tasks at Anakin. Our clients are pricing their products based on our data, and minor errors on our end can lead to our client's losses of millions of dollars. You would work with multiple tools and with people across various departments to ensure the accuracy of the data being crawled. You would setup manual and automated processes and make sure they run to ensure the highest possible data quality.

You are the engineer other engineers can count on. You embrace every problem with enthusiasm. You remove hurdles, are a self-starter, team player. You have the hunger to venture into unknown areas and make the system work.

Your Responsibilities would be to:

• Understand customer web scraping and data requirements; translate these into test approaches that include exploratory manual/visual testing and any additional automated tests deemed appropriate
• Take ownership of the end-to-end QA process in newly-started projects
• Draw conclusions about data quality by producing basic descriptive statistics, summaries, and visualisations
• Proactively suggest and take ownership of improvements to QA processes and methodologies by employing other technologies and tools, including but not limited to: browser add-ons, Excel add-ons, UI-based test automation tools etc.
• Ensure that project requirements are testable; work with project managers and/or clients to clarify ambiguities before QA begins
• Drive innovation and advanced validation and analytics techniques to ensure data quality for Anakin's customers
• Optimize data quality codebases and systems to monitor the Anakin family of app crawlers
• Configure and optimize the automated and manual testing and deployment systems used to check the quality of billions of data points of over 1000+ crawlers across the company
• Analyze data and bugs that require in-depth investigations
• Interface directly with external customers including managing relationships and steering requirements

Basic Qualifications:

• 2+ years of experience as a backend or a full-stack software engineer
• Web scraping experience with Python or Node.js
• 2+ years of experience with AWS services such as EC2, S3, Lambda, etc.
• Should have managed a team of software engineers
• Should be paranoid about data quality

Preferred Skills and Experience:

• Deep experience with network debugging across all OSI layers (Wireshark)
• Knowledge of networks or/and cybersecurity
• Broad understanding of the landscape of software engineering design patterns and principles
• Ability to work quickly and accurately in a highly stressful environment during removing bugs in run-time within minutes
• Excellent communicator, both written and verbal

Additional Requirements:

• Must be available to work extended hours and weekends when needed to meet critical deadlines
• Must have an aversion to politics and BS. Should let his/her work speak for him/her.
• Must be comfortable with uncertainty. In almost all the cases, your job will be to figure it out.
• Must not be bounded to comfort zone. Often, you will need to challenge yourself to go above and beyond.

Must Have

• 1+ to 6 year’s development experience in Java/J2EE Development.
• 1+ years’ experience in Spring, Hibernate.
• 1+ years’ experience in developing REST API’s
• 1+ years’ experience in developing Spring boot applications.
• Hands-On experience in Unit testing.
• Hands On experience in MVC frameworks –AngularJS/Angular7/8
• Understanding of Micro services.
• Understanding of Agile Methodologies.
• Working experience with DB technologies
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Aptitude for innovation, working independently and thinking ‘outside of the box’.

• At least 4 years of experience programming in Python.
• Develop application code and modules for business and technical requirements.
• Tune up design for maintainability, scalability and efficiency.
• Resolve and troubleshoot problems and complex issues.
• Perform unit tests and fix bugs.
• Integrate best qualitative practices in design and development aspects of programs.
• Ability to mentor subordinates.
• Excellent communication skills.