Requirements
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Overall 2-8 years of software development experience in building web-based and highly scalable applications
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Excellent understanding of core computer science concepts like algorithms, data structure, system design, OOP, etc.
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Deep knowledge and development expertise in Core Java and SpringBoot or other equivalent frameworks
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Strong experience in HTML5 and CSS3 and should have basic experience in JS technologies
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Good knowledge of database concepts, having SQL writing experience, and familiarity with at least one of the relational databases
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Worked in a CI/CD environment with Jenkins
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Experience working in an agile team with software engineering practices like automated testing, test-driven development, continuous integration, etc is a big plus.
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Ability to quickly learn and evaluate new technologies and work effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
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Strong oral and written communication.

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Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain high-performance ETL and real-time data pipelines using Apache Kafka and Apache Flink.
- Build scalable and automated MLOps pipelines for training, validation, and deployment of models using AWS SageMaker and associated services.
- Implement and manage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform to provision and manage AWS environments.
- Collaborate with data scientists, ML engineers, and DevOps teams to streamline model deployment workflows and ensure reliable production delivery.
- Optimize data storage and retrieval strategies for large-scale structured and unstructured datasets.
- Develop data transformation logic and integrate data from various internal and external sources into data lakes and warehouses.
- Monitor, troubleshoot, and enhance performance of data systems in a cloud-native, fast-evolving production setup.
- Ensure adherence to data governance, privacy, and security standards across all data handling activities.
- Document data engineering solutions and workflows to facilitate cross-functional understanding and ongoing maintenance.
Skill set Key words
Java17, Java Spring Boot, Kubernetes/AKS/Docker(Knowledge), Microservices, (MongoDB/DynamoDB)
Role and Resposbilities :
• Hands on experience in Java back-end development and skills with Spring-boot framework
• Real life experience with Continuous Delivery principles and related tools (Kubernetes, AKS, Docker)
• Expertise with Microservices design
• Understanding of the Design Patterns, Architectural Blueprints, UML and Application Design
• Experience in stateful application and web sessions
• Experience with MongoDB, DynamoDB
• Excellent communication skills and an ability to work in a team
Engineering Lead (Backend/Full stack)
About
It is a mission-oriented high-growth fintech startup building payment &
lending products to simplify education payments. Jodo’s suite of products make education payments convenient & affordable for parents while simplifying & streamlining fee collections for educational institutes. Jodo aims to be a category-defining company with a mission to be a
trusted partner to parents in fulfilling their aspirations for their kids’ education.
We are backed by marquee VC investors – Tiger Global, Elevation Capital and Matrix Partners – to realize this mission. It is started by three co-founders who have a pedigreed education
(IIT/IIM) and professional background (Nomura, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Barclays, Matrix Partners).
🎬Job Description:
We are looking for an Engineering Leader with a focus on building maintainable and scalable applications. The Lead will be responsible for the design and development of Jodo’s fee payments platform and be owning one of the products/verticals. Leads will be closely working
with Product Managers and Founders to execute projects from ideation to completion. As a hands-on Team Lead, you will take ownership of services/systems and guide a team of
developers.
📈Key Responsibilities
● Own and drive the development of one or more of Jodo’s products
● Take the lead in the design and development of the backend platform
● Mentor a team of developers, promote collaboration and engagement, and promote practices that improve the developer experience
● Work closely with Product Managers and Founders to brainstorm requirements and prioritize
● Own quality - actively participate in code reviews
● Own reliability - continuously monitor Production Health, proactively fix production issues
● Own execution - Plan and delegate work for the team, optimize for speed of development and incremental delivery
📃Requirements
● 6+ years of hands-on experience in application development
● 1+ years of leading a team
● Experience in working with distributed systems
● Proficient in building Microservices/RESTful APIs with any modern tech stack
● Working knowledge of relational and nonrelational databases
● Prior working knowledge of Python/Django is a big plus
● Familiarity with modern CI/CD tools
● Knowledge of AWS or any other Cloud Platform services
● Champion code quality and drive best practices
● Ability to analyze and convert business requirements into technical requirements
● Self-starter and ability to take the ownership
● Prior experience working in a startup environment is great to have
● Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
🤩Benefits
● Becoming a part of the early core team
● Competitive salary
● Work with colleagues from strong backgrounds & hungry to succeed
● Opportunity to interact with and learn from high-pedigree investors & mentors -
○ VCs: Elevation Capital (erstwhile SAIF Partners), Matrix Partners
○ Select angel investors: Kunal Shah, Nithin Kamath, Amit Ranjan
🔎What are we looking for?
● Self-starter with a high sense of ownership → Comfortable to work with minimal
supervision
● Hungry to learn and grow → Passion to learn & be a better version of oneself; motivated to succeed
● Bias for action → Have the temperament to experiment and execute in uncertainty
● Hustler → Ability to generate resources to solve a problem
● Intellectual honesty → Always seeking and presenting truth irrespective of personal
POV or beliefs
● Mission-oriented → Deeply care about delivering value and making an impact on customer’s lives
✅Key Details
● Role: Engineering Lead
● Location: Bengaluru
● Compensation: Negotiable based on candidate profile (structured as Fixed + ESOPs)
● Date of Joining: ASAP
Minimum 2 years of experience in the software development, including Project Management and
interactions with customers
• Solid understanding of the full software development life cycle
• Working Experience of
a) Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS
b) Java 1.8
c) Tomcat 9
d) Spring boot framework 2.2.2. RELEASE
e) Spring OAuth2 2.4.0. RELEASE
f) Spring Security JWT 1.1.0.RELEASE
g) Spring Log4j2
h) Hibernate 3.13.3
i) Nginx 1.14.0
j) Hikari Connection Pool
k) Mariaj Connector
l) Google Recaptcha
m) Redis client 3.3.0
Qualification
WHAT YOU WILL DO:
- Execute a full software development lifecycle (SDLC)
- Develop flowcharts, layouts, and documentation to identify requirements and solutions
- Write well-designed, testable, reusable code and libraries for future use
- Optimize the application for maximum speed and scalability
- Implement security and data protection
- Produce specifications and determine operational feasibility
- Integrate software components into a fully functional software system
- Develop software verification plans and quality assurance procedures
- Document and maintain software functionality
- Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade existing systems
- Deploy programs and evaluate user feedback
- Comply with project plans and industry standards
- Ensure software is updated with latest features
REQUIRED SKILLS & QUALIFICATIONS:
- Good knowledge of Core Java (Minimum Version 8)
- J2EE with a good understanding of Servlets and JSP
- Experience in Spring Modules – Spring IOC and AOP, Spring Boot (version 2 plus), JDBC
- Expertise in design and development of various web and enterprise – level applications using Java/J2EE technologies such as Spring, Hibernate, Rest services.
- Web Services (including SOAP, XML, XML Schema, JSON, and REST)
- Tools required: Maven,Eclipse, Github, and Swagger
- Good knowledge of SQL and Redis (NOSql)
- Ability to document requirements and specifications
- Proven work experience as a Software Engineer or Software Developer
- Ability to develop software in Java or any other OOPS languages
- Excellent knowledge of relational databases, SQL and ORM technologies (JPA2, Hibernate)
- Experience in developing Web Applications using at least one popular Web Framework (Spring)
- Experience with test-driven development
- Proficiency in software engineering tools
PREFERRED SKILLS & QUALIFICATIONS:
- A Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or other related fields.
- Eight to Ten years of Software Engineering or Software Development experience, preferably in a related field.
REPORTING: This position will report to HOD
EMPLOYMENT TYPE: Full-Time
LOCATION: Remote (Pan India) & In-Office – Jaipur, India
SHIFT TIMINGS:
Summer - 1:30pm-10:30pm IST
Winter - 2:30pm-11:30pm IST
- Experience in designing and developing web-based applications using Java, J2EE, Web Services, MVC framework, Servlets Spring, Hibernate, Struts, REST, MYSQL.
- Experience in Database application programming for MySQL server using
Stored Procedures, Triggers, Views etc. - Experienced in implementing presentation layer using JSP, HTML, CSS, Ajax, JQuery. Java script.
- Experienced in Analysis, Design, Development, Integration, Deployment
and Maintenance of Web services, Client Server and Web based applications. - Well versed with Agile development process, Scrum.
- Good knowledge in version control system tools like GIT.
- Ability to take independent responsibility as well as ability to contribute and be a productive team member.
- Excellent analytical, logical and programming skills, Self-Motivated, Self-Starter, Team Player can work with minimal supervision with effective Communication skills and Organizational skills combined with attention and Time management skills.
MUST HAVE SKILLS
- CORE JAVA & SQL
Desired Skills
Designing, implementing and delivering high quality Software project in JAVA, SQL / Oracle, J2EE and other JAVA technologies.
Job Responsibilities
Participate in detailed level in design, coding, code walk through, peer code reviews and unit testing, System Testing, UAT, Demos, POCs, installation, maintenance of Software modules.
❑ Ensures the preparation of the following:
▪ Software prototype
▪ System Architecture
▪ Software Design Document
▪ User interfaces to be developed as per UX guidelines
▪ Code files ensuring coding guidelines followed
▪ Code review artefacts during peer code review
▪ Test plan and Test Cases
▪ Installation / Deployment document
▪ Release Document
▪ Technical Documentation
❑ Documents and demonstrates solutions by developing documentations, flowcharts, layouts, diagram, charts, code. comments and clear code; Ensuring that project task are completed in defined effort and timelines ❑ Prepares and installs solutions by determining and designing system specifications, standards & programming.
❑ Testing: Writing of test cases, unit testing, system testing, negative testing
❑ Trouble shooting: Log analysis and database query optimization
❑ Improves operations by conducting system's analysis.
❑ Updates job knowledge by studying state of the art development tools, programming techniques & computing equipment; participates in educational opportunities, reads professional publications & maintains personal networks.
❑ Protects operations by keeping information confidential.
❑ Provides information by collecting, analyzing and summarizing development and service issues. ❑ Develops software solution by studying information needs, conferring with users, studding system flow, data usage and work processes, investigating problem areas, following delivery cycle.
❑ Ensuring that the Newgen quality processes are in place and are followed.Our client was founded in 1999 by Mr. D.N. Prahlad (an early employee of Infosys), to create software products. Headquartered in Bangalore, we also have offices in the USA and France.
What We're Looking For
• An unwavering attention to detail and care towards your work. We double-check PRs they submit for review. Each variable name is thought through in detail; attention is paid to how decisions made today will affect the future.
• An absolute commitment towards doing the best work of your life, while helping others to do the same. We deliver with utmost focus on the job at hand. The team works towards crafting the best products for our users, and customers. Working as a team, we take on problems out of the original scope of their work if this results in a better end product.
• You should be comfortable working in an agile environment. You are also expected to
participate in code reviews—both receiving and offering them as needed. You are needed to communicate flexibly with your team—pitching in on designs, features, and ideas for the product, wherever needed.
What is Needed for the Role
• Strong command of Java & the JVM ecosystem
• Strong command of relational databases such as PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, etc. (both with & without ORMs)
• Strong command of HTTP
• Strong command of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
• Extensive experience with at least one JVM based web framework (SpringBoot, Micronaut, Play, Dropwizard, etc.)
• Experience with concurrency & parallelism on the JVM
• Experience with Docker, and cloud-native concepts
• Experience with Gradle
• A good grip on Git
What You Will Work On
The specific project you work on is decided based on the list of available projects at the time. While what you work on will change over time, we assure you that you’ll work with people who care deeply about their work and deliver with great attention to detail.
Your Growth
Our growth is driven by ordinary people who have extraordinary dreams and are bold enough to pursue them. Our leadership team, including our Managing Director, is comprised primarily of people who joined us as freshers. Through our process of continuous feedback, and regular 1-1 conversation, we believe in upskilling our team, and enabling each of them to grow along paths they find satisfying.
Your Level of Experience
We do not evaluate people based on the number of years of experience they have.
Instead, we look for skills that have been gained, regardless of how long they’ve, it has taken a person to gain those skills.
However, as a point of reference, historically, we have successfully recruited candidates for this role with 1-5 years of prior experience.
Evaluation Process
The evaluation process starts with a short phone conversation.
After that, the candidate will be required to take both a technical and writing test, which will be shared with them after the phone screen.
This will be followed by 1-3 interviews, over Google Meet. We will require candidates to be alone, in a quiet place (with no background noise). They must also have a fast & reliable internet connection. They will be required to take the call on a laptop with a camera, and have their technical test code ready for perusal. We recommend using Google Chrome to join the call, and strongly urge candidates to use headphones/earphones.
Please note that the evaluation process may take up to 6 hours










