Senior Java Developer

About the Company-

AdPushup is an award-winning ad revenue optimization platform and Google Certified Publishing Partner (GCPP), helping hundreds of web publishers grow their revenue using cutting-edge technology, premium demand partnerships, and proven ad ops expertise.

Our team is a mix of engineers, marketers, product evangelists, and customer success specialists, united by a common goal of helping publishers succeed. We have a work culture that values expertise, ownership, and a collaborative spirit.

Job Overview- Java Backend- Lead Role :-

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Software Engineering Team Lead to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will have a strong technical background, proven leadership experience, and a passion for mentoring and developing a team of talented engineers. This role will be pivotal in driving the successful delivery of high-quality software solutions and fostering a collaborative and innovative work environment.

Exp- 5+ years

Location- New Delhi

Work Mode- Hybrid

Key Responsibilities:-

● Leadership and Mentorship: Lead, mentor, and develop a team of software engineers, fostering an environment of continuous improvement and professional growth.

● Project Management: Oversee the planning, execution, and delivery of software projects, ensuring they meet quality standards, timelines, and budget constraints.

● Technical Expertise: Provide technical guidance and expertise in software design, architecture, development, and best practices. Stay updated with the latest industry trends and technologies. Design, develop, and maintain high-quality applications, taking full, end-to-end ownership, including writing test cases, setting up monitoring, etc.

● Collaboration: Work closely with cross-functional teams to define project requirements, scope, and deliverables.

● Code Review and Quality Assurance: Conduct code reviews to ensure adherence to coding standards, best practices, and overall software quality. Implement and enforce quality assurance processes.

● Problem Solving: Identify, troubleshoot, and resolve technical challenges and bottlenecks. Provide innovative solutions to complex problems.

● Performance Management: Set clear performance expectations, provide regular feedback, and conduct performance evaluations for team members.

● Documentation: Ensure comprehensive documentation of code, processes, and project-related information.

Qualifications:-

● Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.

● Experience: Minimum of 5 years of experience in software development.

● Technical Skills:

○ A strong body of prior backend work, successfully delivered in production. Experience building large volume data processing pipelines will be an added bonus.

○ Expertise in Core Java.

■ In-depth knowledge of the Java concurrency framework.

■ Sound knowledge of concepts like exception handling, garbage collection, and generics.

■ Experience in writing unit test cases, using any framework.

■ Hands-on experience with lambdas and streams.

■ Experience in using build tools like Maven and Ant.

○ Good understanding and Hands on experience of any Java frameworks e.g. SpringBoot, Vert.x will be an added advantage.

○ Good understanding of security best practices. ○ Hands-on experience with Low Level and High Level Design Practices and Patterns.

○ Hands on experience with any of the cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.

○ Familiarity with containerization and orchestration tools like Docker, Kubernetes and Terraform.

○ Strong understanding of database technologies, both SQL (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (e.g., MongoDB, Couchbase).

○ Knowledge of DevOps practices and tools such as Jenkins, CI/CD.

○ Strong understanding of software development methodologies (e.g., Agile, Scrum).

● Leadership Skills: Proven ability to lead, mentor, and inspire a team of engineers. Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

● Problem-Solving Skills: Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities. Ability to think critically and provide innovative solutions.

● Project Management: Experience in managing software projects from conception to delivery. Strong organizational and time-management skills.

● Collaboration: Ability to work effectively in a cross-functional team environment. Strong collaboration and stakeholder management skills.

● Adaptability: Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and adapt to changing priorities and requirements.

Why Should You Work for AdPushup?

At AdPushup, we have

1. A culture of valuing our employees and promoting an autonomous, transparent, and ethical work environment.

2. Talented and supportive peers who value your contributions.

3. Challenging opportunities: learning happens outside the comfort-zone and that’s where our team likes to be - always pushing the boundaries and growing personally and professionally.

4. Flexibility to work from home: We believe in work & performance instead of measuring conventional benchmarks like work-hours.

5. Plenty of snacks and catered lunch.

6. Transparency: an open, honest and direct communication with co-workers and business associates.

It is an all-in-one ecommerce logistics platform using modern software to provide fast and affordable fulfilment. Brands of all sizes — their full-service solution to store inventory at warehouses near their customers and ship orders with the company carrier network to improve transit times and shipping costs. Their's deep integration with sales channels enables brands to earn primelike badges to accelerate their sales.

Who are we looking for?

We are looking forward to hire a committed Java Developer with experience in building highperforming, scalable, enterprise-grade applications. You will be part of our Engineering team that works on mission-critical applications. You will be managing Java/Java EE application development while providing expertise in the full software development lifecycle, from concept and design to testing.

You are required to:

Contributing in all phases of the development lifecycle.

Write well designed, testable & efficient code.

Ensure designs are in compliance with specifications.

Prepare and produce releases of software components.

Support continuous improvement by investigating alternatives and technologies and presenting these for architectural review.

Backend: Spring (JAVA), Laravel (PHP), MySQL, NoSQL , NGINX Plus. • Frontend: Angular 5+ Ngrx/store 5. • Infrastructure: Google cloud platform (App engine, CloudSQL, BigQuery, PubSub, Firebase Hosting), Scrapy Cloud, Pusher.io(websockets), Getstream.io, Filestack, Postmark app, AS2 Gateway, Google Cloud Endpoints Framework, MongoDB, Algolia, Memcache

Tools: Gitlab, Postman app, JIRA.

Wondering what your Responsibilities would be?

Technical Skills required Our Current Stack What Makes you Eligible? You are where our search ends, if you hold:

• B.Tech/ M.Tech or corresponding degree
• Experience in the same role of almost 1-6 years
• Experience with connecting backend and frontend services.
• Exposure to consuming data through different interfaces (Web API's/Socket/ REST/ RESTFUL/ JSON/ XML).
• Proficiency in Data Structures and Algorithms.
• Understanding of web markup, including HTML 5, CSS.
• Understanding of client-side scripting and JavaScript frameworks.
• Ability to write clean, reusable and well documented code.
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git. Knowledge of API authentication techniques (Token, JWT, OAuth2) - desirable but not mandatory. (Experience with API Design will be a plus) Fair spoken and written English
• Flexibility - Things change around here. FAST!
• Other Inter-personal skills like self-motivation, persistency, patience and eagerness to learn and work independently.

Why us? We are an amalgamation of enthusiastic and genius people working on a remarkable concept, making headway in this industry. It would not only provide you a scope for professional and personal growth but would also provide you a lot of avenues to experiment with and expertise in your skills. 

• Proven experience in any high-level programming languages like Java (Preferably)
• Strong knowledge of data structure, algorithms and coding
• Experience with any Messaging technologies like Kafka or Rab-bitMQ, etc.
• Proven experience in database technologies like NoSQL
• Hands-on experience with Spring, Spring Security, Spring boot, and Hibernate framework.
• Working knowledge of developing Restful Micro services.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving skills.
• Attend team meetings to discuss projects, brainstorm ideas, and put forward solutions to any issues.
• Ability to understand the Platform/domain of the business in detail & Ability to multi-task.
• Good communication and organizational skill

About the company
Currently we are hiring for a VC backed startup a fast growing fintech startup based in Bangalore.

It is a super app to digitize India’s 50M+ sales agents where they can get access to relevant products & services, receive training through interactive videos on “how to sell, what to sell and whom to sell”, and earn money. For businesses, we help them save a huge effort in managing and training these agents and help them increase their reach to every nook and corner of the country.

India is a trust deficit market which cannot be accessed through Internet Marketing on Facebook and Google as the majority of the customers need training, push, motivation and a primer on why and how to use a product.

To solve this problem, traditional industries like BFSI, Telecom, Automobile, Real Estate etc. use 50M+ frontline sales executives to drive distribution. We believe that not just for these traditional industries but also for emerging companies in FinTech, EdTech etc these agents will play a pivotal role in accessing trust deficit customers.

They have grown to a  100,000+ agent network across India (growing 50% MoM) & are funded by tier1 VC’s and angels in India.

Summary of Role

As a lead of the consumer products software engineering division, you will take an active role in the definition and evolution of standard practices and procedures. You will be responsible for defining and developing software for tasks associated with the developing, designing and debugging of the software applications.

Responsibilities:

• Overlook development of all consumer products in JAVA
• Lead a team of 4-5 developers
• Optimize components for maximum performance across a vast array of web-capable devices and browsers
• Focus on code maintainability and performance of application
• Provide technical advice and assists in solving programming problems
• Continuously create new and interactive features that would help to improve user experience and user engagement.
• Assist with troubleshooting of issues as needed
• Lead the design and architecture of software solutions
• Assist in developing and maintaining continuous integration pipelines

Required Skills for this Role:

• JAVA
• Spring/Spring Boot
• Hibernate
• Linux
• REST
• Kafka
• Mysql
• AWS
• ELK Stack (Elasticsearch)
• CI/CD Pipelines
• Team Leadership experience of at least 3 year

Qualifications:

• 4+ years of experience in Java based technologies
• Experience in designing databases and system architecture
• Experience in building products from scratch at well funded start-ups
• Team Lead/Team Manager experience of at least 3 years

Job Responsibilities:

1. Collaborate with other senior engineers, and management, to achieve optimal application architecture and design
2. Develop efficient, secure applications, peer-review code, and document solutions within an agile-blended software environment
3. Communicate proactively with team members, infrastructure, security, and quality assurance to continuously improve processes and engineering excellence
4. Guide and train other developers in backend technology
5. Ability to work independently and as a member of a team spread over different time zones

Skills:

1. Understanding of object oriented programming skills and data structures
2. At least 6 years of hands-on development in Java, Springboot & Hibernate
3. Should have experience in Java Multithreading, microservices
4. Experience with developing web applications
5. Expertise with in Core Java (Collections, Exception handling)
6. Experience with J2ee( Servlets, JSPs)
7. Experience with all well known database technology and object-relational mapping, experience with databases (Mysql, Mssql)
8. Knowledge and development background in web-services/REST, AJAX, JSON, and XML
9. Experience with Windows and Linux based environments
10. Experience with Maven and GIT tools
11. Understanding of UI technologies (HTML, CSS, Javascript libraries) would be a plus
12. Good to have – AWS experience and Fintech domain experience
13. Awareness of Jenkins will be a value add

• You will design, build and own APIs and Services, which will be the core of the product.
• You will participate in continuing education and training to remain current on best practices, learn new programming languages, and better assist other team members.
• You will part of developing ideas for new programs, products, or features by monitoring industry developments and trends.
• You will have to take lead on projects, compile and analyze data, processes, and codes to troubleshoot problems and identify areas of improvement.

REQUIREMENTS

• 3-5 years of experience in building highly scalable backend systems.
• Fluency or understanding of specific languages, such as JAVA, Operating System may be required, and Experience in Databases such as MySQL or Postgre SQL
• Strong understanding of Computer Science Fundamentals, Data Structures and Algorithms, SOLID Design Principles, and REST Patterns.
• Focus on efficiency, user experience, and process improvement.
• Excellent project and time management skills.
• Strong problem-solving and communication skills.
• Ability to work independently or with a group