Are you passionate about using technology to make people's lives better? Are you interested in becoming a part of one of the hottest trends in the world of start-ups today? Are you excited about joining the online ultra-fast grocery delivery service business pioneer and driving the trend forward? Then this may be the right opportunity for you.
Role and Responsibilities
- Helping lead the software development lifecycle: technical design, implementation, testing, deployment, and support.
- Working with cross-functional teams effectively to enable business growth.
- Proactively identifying engineering bottlenecks and initiating proposals to improve them.
- Writing high-quality, well-tested code in alignment with industry-wide best practices.
- Applying a product mindset to back-end systems.
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- About five years of experience delivering product-quality code in an agile set-up
- Experience with Golang, REST APIs, Microservice Architecture, Elasticsearch, Redis, Docker, or Kubernetes
- Understanding of the philosophy of cloud and an experience of maintaining cloud-native services.
- Experience in designing, building, scaling, and maintaining production services, and knowledge of composing a service-oriented architecture.
- Experience of working in a fast-paced, rapidly-growing company (Good to Have).
- Working knowledge of Node.js (Good to Have).
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- Passionate about technology and making an impact.
- A perpetual learner, who stretches their boundaries and enjoys new ideas.
- A doer who takes initiative and works well in a team.
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Who We Are
Blok is a technology-first, online ultra-fast grocery delivery service business, and we are on our way to revolutionize how millions of people across countries consume groceries. We believe in a world where getting everything you need, when you need it, sustainably, is the new normal. And it takes less than 10 minutes.
We believe we are positioned to lead this revolution. Why? Our founding and early team has held senior positions at Deliveroo, Uber, Glovo, Mercadona, or Unilever. We have done this before, and we believe we can do it again. But this time, even better.
Embark on the journey and help us launch the revolution in one of the highest growth industries of the year. Help us shape the new normal.

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Job Opportunity with Wissen Technology for Java Technical Lead at Bangalore
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Location: Bangalore
Experience: 9+ years
Skill – Java Technical Lead
Full-time with Wissen Technology
Hybrid model
Position Overview:
We are seeking an experienced Java Lead to join our software development team. As a Java Architect, you will be responsible for designing and leading the development of complex Java-based applications, ensuring scalability, performance, and maintainability. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, including developers, product managers, and stakeholders, to create robust software solutions that meet our business needs.
Key Responsibilities:
Technical Expertise: A Java lead should have a strong background in Java programming and be well-versed in various Java technologies and frameworks. They should be able to provide guidance, solve complex technical problems, and help team members with code reviews and best practices.
Team Management: Java leads are responsible for managing their development team. This includes tasks like task assignment, project planning, tracking progress, and ensuring that the team adheres to coding standards and follows best practices.
Architecture and Design: They often participate in the architectural and design phases of software development, making high-level decisions about the project's structure, technology stack, and design patterns.
Code Reviews: Regularly reviewing the code written by team members to ensure it meets quality standards, is maintainable, and follows the project's design and coding guidelines.
Mentoring and Training: Providing guidance and mentorship to junior developers, helping them grow their skills, and organizing training sessions to keep the team up-to-date with Java advancements.
Problem Solving: Being able to troubleshoot technical issues and challenges that may arise during the development process.
Communication: Good communication skills are essential for a Java lead. They need to coordinate with other team leads, project managers, and stakeholders to ensure smooth project execution and to report progress.
Project Management: While not always the primary project manager, Java leads often have a role in project planning and tracking to ensure that projects are delivered on time and within scope.
Required Skills:
• Experience in Core Java 5.0 and above, CXF, and Spring.
• Experience in spring boot, and microservices.
• Extensive experience in developing enterprise-scale n-tier applications for the financial domain.
• Should possess good architectural knowledge and be aware of enterprise application design patterns.
• Should have the ability to analyze, design, develop and test complex, low-latency client-facing applications.
• Good development experience with RDBMS, preferably Sybase database.
• Good knowledge of multi-threading and high-volume server-side development.
• Experience in sales and trading platforms in investment banking/capital markets.
• Basic working knowledge of Unix/Linux
• Excellent problem-solving and coding skills in Java
• Strong interpersonal, communication, and analytical skills.
• Should have the ability to express their design ideas and thoughts.
Desired Skills:
• Prior experience in the Banking & Finance domain is preferred
• Experience in AWS/Azure or any other cloud platform
About Wissen Technology:
Wissen Technology is a global consulting and solutions company that brings unparalleled domain expertise in Banking and Finance, Telecom and StartUps. Wissen Technology is a part of Wissen Group and was established in the year 2015. Wissen has offices in US, India, UK, Australia, Mexico, and Canada, with best-in-class infrastructure and development facilities. Wissen has successfully delivered projects worth $1 Billion for more than 25 of Fortune 500 companies. The Wissen Group overall includes more than 4000 highly skilled professionals.
Wissen Technology provides exceptional value in mission-critical projects for its clients, through thought leadership, ownership, and assured on-time deliveries that are always ‘first time right’. Our team consists of 1300+ highly skilled professionals, with leadership and senior management executives who have graduated from Ivy League Universities like Wharton, MIT, IITs, IIMs, and NITs and with rich work experience in some of the biggest companies in the world.
Wissen Technology offers an array of services including Application Development, Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, Big Data & Analytics, Visualization & Business Intelligence, Robotic Process Automation, Cloud, Mobility, Agile & DevOps, Quality Assurance & Test Automation.
We have been certified as a Great Place to Work® for two consecutive years (2020-2022) and voted as the Top 20 AI/ML vendor by CIO Insider.
Career Progression:
At Wissen Technology, your career growth is important for us. Therefore, we put in several efforts towards each employee’s career progression – to enable and empower them to grow within the company as well as to instil a sense of responsibility, loyalty, and trust.
There have been instances where a software engineer has grown from being an individual contributor to a technical lead and now on the path to becoming a director responsible for growing revenues and profitability. We deeply value Ownership: taking responsibility, making it happen, not letting the ball drop, and being accountable.
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Job Title: Golang Developer
Location: Kolkata
Job Type: Full-time
Working Days: 5 Days (Rotational off)
About the Role:
We are seeking a skilled Golang Developer with experience in Golang, Node.js, WebSocket
communication, and API development. In this role, you will work closely with our development
team to design, develop, and maintain high-performance backend systems and real-time
applications.
Key Responsibilities:
Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable Golang code.
Develop scalable APIs and microservices.
Integrate and build real-time communication using WebSocket protocols.
Collaborate with frontend developers and other team members to establish objectives
and design more functional, cohesive systems.
Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code.
Optimize applications for maximum performance, scalability, and security.
Participate in code reviews, contribute to team knowledge, and continuously improve
development processes.
Troubleshoot, debug, and upgrade existing systems.
Occasionally work with Node.js services and modules when needed.
Required Skills and Qualifications:
Min 3+ years of experience in backend development with Golang.
Solid understanding of Node.js and JavaScript/TypeScript.
Hands-on experience with WebSocket integration and real-time applications.
Strong knowledge of RESTful APIs, API design principles, and API documentation. Experience with relational and NoSQL databases (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB).
Good understanding of concurrent programming and microservices architecture.
Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) is a plus.
Knowledge of containerization tools like Docker and Kubernetes is a plus.
Strong problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and a proactive attitude.
- 3+ years of experience in Technology.
- A strong product design sense.
- Good experience in working with programming language Golang.
- Understand end-user requirements, formulate use cases and come up with effective solutions.
- Good understanding of REST APIs and the web in general.
● You have good understanding of the fundamentals of data science/algorithms or
software engineering
● Preferably you should have done some project or internship related to the field
● Knowledge of SQL is a plus
● A deep desire to learn new things and be a part of a vibrant start-up. You will
have a lot of freehand and this comes with immense responsibility - so it is
expected that you will be willing to master new things that come along!
What you will get to do?
● Build cloud-based services and/or user interfaces
● Participating in all aspects of software development activities, including design,
coding, code review, unit testing, bug fixing, and code/API documentation
● Be the first few members of a growing technology team
Greetings from Gateway Group of Companies!!!
Must Have skills:
- Expertise in nodeJS and javascript frameworks and languages.
- Good knowledge of npm, Git, MongodB, noSQL, GraphQL, Docker, Webpack,
- Ability to rapidly learn and take advantage of new concepts, business models, and technologies
Good to Have skills:
- Good knowledge of software design patterns and software architecture and design principles
- Processes, Methodology and Tools (Agile),
- Digital Asset Development / Application Development, Support and Maintenance / CICD tools / versioning tools
- Security/Information and Application Protection, Business Analysis
- Experience with CMS platforms
- Knowledge of the Apostrophe platform
- Writing unit tests (mocha, chai, sinon)
• Roles & Responsibilities of the selected candidate:
- Development of advanced digital solutions, the Lead Backend developer implements complex technical solutions to conceive custom-tailored applications or to adapt those which already exist. He/she checks the functional quality of the developments and works with the product owner to create or redefine functional specifications. He/she is operational and support the technical team by providing help, and solutions to move forward.
* You are a Coder, a Doer. YOU BELIEVE in actions ( *In short - You are less about Gyan and more about Samadhan* )
* YOU BELIEVE in software delivery with quality
* If you are passionate about technology, engineering best practices and using them to solve real and complex business problems.
* Badly written code or bad architecture irritates you the most.
* YOU BELIEVE in "Proof of the pudding is in the eating" so you are always tinkering and exploring new technologies
* YOU BELIEVE in building things the right way, invest in developer productivity and follow proven engineering practices to ensure that you spend the maximum amount of time working on problems that matter.
* Since work is a big part of your life, YOU BELIEVE in sharing knowledge and of course have fun in the process (company outings, team sports, lunches, etc)
You'll be expected to
1. Design highly scalable, testable code and follow Test Driven Development methodology - Able to write well organised, modularised code with test cases.
* Apart from writing code *
1. Take ownership of new products/features.
2. Contribute to the design and architecture of our backend APIs and deployment of microservices
3. Ensure adherence to engineering best practices and maintain the overall quality of our codebase.
4. Mentor and assist younger members of the team and perform code reviews.
5. Work with the product team to translate powerful ideas into everyday business value.
Qualifications
* Will prefer a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science or related field
* Development experience with Java is a must; If you know Python and Go Programming Language that's great
* Experience in SQL and NoSQL databases with an insight into various data modelling use cases
* Sound with data structures and algorithms and have a good understanding of design patterns, software architectures
* Unquenching thirst to learn new technologies.
* Experience with CI/CD is a plus
What FreightFox gives you
- A high energy environment where you’ll be working alongside people who want to bring innovative tech solutions in the Indian landscape. Make in India for India.
- A chance to become a part of the early team of a budding start-up and help shape its growth path.
- Competitive Package
- Stocks - Be part of the early-stage startup and they benefit financially from the company’s growth
About FreightFox
We are a young and ambitious technology start-up in the Indian B2B Logistics space. Our aim is to change the future of freight in India by leveraging tech and data to deliver new and exciting possibilities in this space.
We’ve cautiously cultivated an environment where customers come first, where we validate our hypothesis first before writing even a single line of code, where our customers and prospects are our best advisors and where we truly believe that insights from data are critical to steering a business in the right direction.
We have raised $300K seed fund from Angel Investors in Dec 2020
Requirements :
- 3+ years of professional software development experience
- 2+ years of object-oriented Java/J2EE hands-on development
- Spring (MVC, IOP/DI, REST, Security) & Hibernate/Spring
- REST web services
- Anyone of the messaging solutions like Kafka, RabbitMQ
Desirables :
- SQL, No SQL concepts
- Experience of Redis or/and Mongo DB
- Agile methodology
- Experience leading or working with cross geography teams
- Unix, shell scripting & Build Systems
Bonus :
- Microservice design and development experience
- Android application development experience
- Experience in performance optimization is an added advantage
- Full SDLC experience (requirements gathering, architecture, development, QA, etc.)
Responsibilities :
- You will be working with the Supply Chain Management team building a leading eCommerce platform for Asian markets
- Order Promising system, promising the order delivery promise date to customer by applying the constraints on current resource availability across different steps in the supply chain. This system needs to scale for thousands of requests per minute with few million seconds of response time
- Warehouse and Inventory Management system, this system needs to scale to processing huge number of orders across different warehouse.
- Transportation and Logistics Management, involves planning and delivery of huge number orders to end customer. This system has the workflows to manage first mile, line haul and last mile delivery to customer
- Inventory Planning, helps in tracking different selling behaviours of the items and triggers / helps planners to replenish, promote, markdown or place inventory at right place to cut down the on hand inventory requirements
- You will be actively involved during the entire technology development lifecycle. Responsibilities will include all aspects from design, coding review, coding, unit testing, end user feedback cycle changes and manging and scaling the system in production.
- Primary role in leading software development teams
- The customized solutions that you will be architecting and developing will also require knowledge and experience with spring / Hibernate, SOAP / REST, microservices and SQL.
- Ability to learn new technologies quickly and willingness to read and digest large existing source code and take ownership on complex component or subsystem to drive improvements and re-architecture
- Work with a team of amazing developers and designers involved in the design and development of global platforms
- Invent and prototype new features, build, test and ship them to customers as SaaS, cloud-based or hosted product platforms
- Drive the implementation of new technologies that improve our ability to build great customers products.
- Participate in a fun, open learning environment with great benefits and smart talented folks that represent among the best globally.
Qualification :
- A Bachelors degree in Computer Science (or equivalent experience)
- M-Tech or advanced degree a plus
- Hackathon participation, hands-on programming capability, competitive programming is a plus
Aimed at building a massive parallel economy, This For That, is looking for highly driven engineers to build out a world class product. The product is in its early stages so there’s a lot to learn and build from scratch. You will get to work alongside seasoned business and marketing professionals and become part of the core engineering team.
Ideal skills:
1) 2-5 years of professional JavaScript development experience
2) Understanding of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds
3) Comfortable working through the entire stack from the user interface through systems levels
4) Understanding accessibility and security compliance
5) Strong Logical and Analytical Skills
6) Experience in consuming web services (REST) and processing data (JSON)
7) Experience with SQLite, NoSQL, Redis or other databases
8) Proven experience in building API services using NodeJS Express and related frameworks
9) Good understanding of NodeJS asynchronous runtime
10) Good understanding of JS concepts on callbacks and closures
11) Experience in debugging issues related to memory leaks
12) Experience in building highly scalable and high throughput services with sub-second response times
13) Experience with ElasticSearch/Solr
14) Experience working in a collaborative team environment
15) Ability to understand and analyse issues across multiple vendors and interfaces
16) Experience with NoSQL queries
17) Experience with AWS
18) Experience in managing/mentoring small teams
In depth knowledge of all of the above is not mandatory but the nature of the work will involve learning and getting involved with all of the above. You would be working directly with key members of the management team to define and drive technical strategy.
Experience in the mobile space is mandatory. Please only apply if you have been part of building a mobile product. Since our product is mobile only, it is essential that you understand implications on the front end.
Responsibilities Include
You will break down business opportunities and problems into software solutions. You will work closely with the CTO to help product and marketing stakeholders distill the product vision and roadmap, into a technology vision. You will be responsible for the evolution of an already bleeding-edge highly distributed systems at the back-end, and would need to work with front-end architects to come up with the best user experience for the gaming platform. You will be required to make decisions quickly, and work under strict timelines. You would lead technology strategy through analysis of market trends and product requirements. You would help set coding guidelines and help bring the most modern tools to keep engineering processes most efficient.
Requirements
- B.E/MS in Computer Science or equivalent.
- 10+ years or more of progressive software technology experience with at least 3 years in an architectural role.
- Completely hands on with technology and architecture. Start-up experience is a huge plus.
- Ability to quickly prototype and demonstrate technology value adds and educate + drive adoption within the extended technology team
- Excellent and robust understanding of scalable product system architecture(s), platforms and core technologies
- Demonstrated problem-solving and leadership skills to pursue correct engineering process in adverse conditions. Ability to embrace and demonstrate leadership beyond ownership
- Work with engineering leadership to setup and manage processes.
- Track record of thought leadership and out of the box thinking in the technology arena.
- Ability to work efficiently in an entrepreneurial and in a start-up environment
- A Java/Spring/Akka, Javascript or Golang rockstar.
- Deep and hands on knowledge of some of these technologies - MySQL, NodeJS, message brokers such as Kafka/RabbitMQ, NoSQL datastore such as Mongo, Cassandra, Arango, distributed caches such as Redis/memcached, container technology such as Docker and Kubernetes etc.
- Great proficiency in distributed systems design, with an ability to make the right trade-offs for creating future-proof solutions.
- Building quick PoCs and full-fledged solutions with various AWS managed services would be a big plus.







