Senior Java Developer

Pickyourtrail (PYT) is an expert co-creator of super hit customised holidays. We are the perfect partner to the ‘designated travel planner/s’ of every group - big or small. Our service, customisation and expertise help us deliver super hit holidays and make the planner the hero of the holiday. 

PickYourTrail is a technology-driven travel company building personalized, end-to-end travel experiences. Our platform powers dynamic itinerary creation, real-time pricing, booking orchestration, and post-booking workflows at scale. We operate in a high-throughput, real-time environment where backend systems are critical to business success.

What are we looking for in you?

You are enthusiastic about developing highly scalable, foolproof, end-to-end quality software. You have worked on api integrations, have a good understanding of api docs, SOAP, REST, rate limiter and caching. You are very passionate about data structures and algorithms. You are flexible in working with multidisciplinary teams and you push your teammates to their limits & ensure that the work is done. You consider AI as your friend and use them in all facets to augment your work, as your pair programmer, code reviewer and design philosopher. If you feel we are talking about you, contact us asap.

Who will you work with?

Being a part of a small team of backend engineers, you get to solve a wide range of problems in the travel space. Be it feature discussion, solution design, development, dev testing, deployment, enhancement or maintenance, you get to experience everything.

What's in it for you?

• Opportunity to contribute and solve interesting problems in the travel space.
• Solve for scalability, availability and performance along with functional integrations.
• Freedom to explore solutions rather than getting tied down by rigid standards.
• Work with some of the best techies in the industry
• An environment where Attitude is higher than Skill and performance scores over politics
• Take the product to the next level that has an impact on the end customer

What you'll bring to the team?

• Good understanding of data structures and algorithms
• Good experience in System & Solution design.
• Working knowledge of Java, Web Services, SOAP, REST and Spring Boot.
• Experience working with coding assistants like co-pilot, Claude desktop etc.
• Knowledge of GIT version control
• Good knowledge of any database (MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle)
• Knowledge of Unit testing is a must
• Fair debugging skills

Requirements

• Senior SD4 engineer/Principal Engineer/ Architect who has led or been part of platform teams inside a large/mid tech company
• Deep expertise working with any of the programming languages to write maintainable, scalable, unit-tested code.Python experience is a bonus - but not required
• Good understanding of REST APIs and the web in general and ability to build a feature from scratch & drive it to completion
• Experience with Kubernetes, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, Load Balancing
• Experience in building a platform team on AWS for Product based companies/start-ups

What You’ll Do

• Build the core technology platform, including Automated provisioning of infrastructure, deployment, and monitoring of services
• Build a central services directory within an organization that shows the cost and health of all services and makes the management of microservices extremely easy
• This involves working with core infrastructure and understanding them in great detail - like Kubernetes, ServiceMesh, Service security
• Mentor/coach engineers to facilitate their development and provide technical leadership

Responsibilities

• Ideate, execute & take ownership of complete project from scratch
• Create and design User-focused focused SAAS with high end experience  
• Optimize existing architecture for performance, scalability & functionality 
• Generate modular & clean codes 
• Deploy & maintain project’s infrastructure with zero downtime 

Skill Sets

• Sharp communication skills 
• Fluent in Problem Solving, Data Structures And Algorithms
• Strong in Java Spring Boot & Python Django languages & frameworks
• Experience with database design & familiar with RDBMS database like Postgresql as well as no SQL databases 
• Good with writing unit test cases & integration test cases 
• Well versed in writing Asynchronous codes or technologies
• Exposed to various AWS technologies like EC2, Cognito, API Gateway,ECS etc.
• Exposed to Pub-sub technologies like SQS,Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc. 
• Familiar with caching tools like Redis, HazleCaste, etc. 
• Exposure to DevOps and Big Data is a plus.

• 3+ years of SDE work experience from Product based companies
• Experience in Java, Spring Boot, MySQL, Kafka, Hbase, AWS
  • Experience in Multi threading, distributed systems, Best practices of coding, scaling