Senior Java Developer / Tech Lead

Are you looking for a super-challenging role designing backend systems that scale to 1000+ TPSs in one of India's fastest growing, profitable near-Unicorns with businesses spanning Lending, E-comm and UPI? Then this is the role for you.

Client Company is a profitable, rapidly scaling unicorn which is extremely well capitalized. Client has a very strong moat in the consumer lending space on the back of which it is entering into additional large markets such as E-comm and UPI.

Client company is now entering its next phase of growth from a fast-scaling startup to a robust, high-scale financial platform serving millions of users daily.

You'll design systems built for 10x100x growth, make the key technical trade-off calls, and stay deeply hands-on. Beyond building, you'll mentor engineers and work directly with founders and product teams to translate business goals into scalable, reliable systems.

This role is an opportunity to:

• Shape the next-generation architecture for a high-throughput fintech system
• Build systems designed to scale 10x100x from current volumes
• Solve real-world problems across performance, reliability, and financial-grade security

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve the platform architecture to support 10x100x growth
• Own systems end-to-end from the first design decision to production impact
• Lead system design discussions and set the long-term technical direction for the platform
• Identify scale bottlenecks early and drive solutions
• Mentor and elevate engineers through design reviews, code quality, and architectural thinking
• Partner directly with founders and product teams to turn business priorities into scalable systems
• Operate with high ownership in a fast-paced environment where priorities evolve quickly
• Drive projects independently own timelines, coordinate with teams, and see delivery
• Conduct rigorous code reviews and champion engineering best practices across the team
• Proactively identify gaps in the system and come up with concrete approaches to address them
• Solve technical problems across the company not just confined to a single pod
• Challenge existing architecture with data and reasoning push back when its the right call, and drive adoption of better approaches.

Requirements

• 7-12 years of experience in backend or platform engineering
• Strong computer science fundamentals (preferably from IIT, BITS, NITs)
• Strong proficiency in backend development (Node.js, Java, Go, or equivalent)
• Proven experience scaling systems through high-growth startup phases (1→10 or beyond)
• Track record of building and owning critical platforms or systems from scratch
• Exposure to high-volume transactional systems; fintech or lending is a strong plus
• Bias for action - moves fast, makes sound decisions, owns outcomes end-to-end
• Comfortable navigating ambiguity and evolving priorities in a startup environment
• Strong problem-solving skills ability to break down complex technical challenges and arrive at pragmatic, well-reasoned solutions
• Hands-on experience with platform engineering developer tooling, shared services, infrastructure abstractions, or internal platforms

Main tasks

• Development and maintenance of Innovative Radio Monitoring software
• Contribution of your development experience in all phases from Conception to Rollout
• Work within the framework of CI/CD and DevOps for constant real-work capability
• Collaboration in an Agile and Cross-functional team

Qualification Profile

• Completed studies or training in the field of Computer science or Software Engineering or comparable qualification
• Knowledge and 3+ years of experience in programming with C# and modern frameworks like .NET
• Passion and fun for software development in a self-organized manner
• Knowledge of Microservices and distributed systems
• Strong interpersonal skills, including a cooperation and team-based focus, experience in liaising between PMs, BAs, and testers
• Ability to communicate with both technical and non-technical people
• Practical experience with Jenkins, Kubernetes, and Docker is an advantage

• Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent area
• 10 to 20 years of experience in software development
• Hands-on experience designing and building B2B or B2C products
• 3+ years architecting SaaS/Web based customer facing products, leading engineering teams as software/technical architect
• Experiences of engineering practices such as code refactoring, microservices, design and enterprise integration patterns, test and design-driven development, continuous integration, building highly scalable applications, application and infrastructure security
• Strong cloud infrastructure experience with AWS and/or Azure
• Experience building event driven systems and working with message queues/topics
• Broad working experience across multiple programming languages and frameworks with in-depth experience in one or more of the following: .Net, Java, Scala or Go-lang
• Hands-on experience with relational databases like SQL Server, PostgreSQL and document stores like Elasticsearch or MongoDB
• Hands-on experience with Big Data processing technologies like Hadoop/Spark is a plus
• Hands-on experience with container technologies like Docker, Kubernetes
• Knowledge of Agile software development process

Since 1988 Quicken has been the top personal management software for millions of

consumers. We pioneered a radically easier and faster way for people to manage their

household finances. Since then we’ve continued to focus on delighting customers and

making the Quicken product and experience better than ever.

Job Title: Lead Software Engineer-Quicken Cloud Services

Department: Product Development

Job Summary:

Quicken is the #1 personal finance management software with a 30-year heritage of helping

millions of individuals and families stay on top of their finances. We are going through a

transformation, as we recently completed the divestiture from Intuit, with a renewed focus on

product improvement, growth, and customer satisfaction. We are working on a strategy to

deliver awesome personal finance experience to our customers across Windows, Mac, iOS,

Android, and web. This is an opportunity to work in a customer-driven company with a

collaborative team that values technical excellence, innovation and creativity, while being

good to each other and having fun!

We’re looking for an experienced software engineer to be a key contributor developing

cloud- based services that will drive the future of the business. You will join our small and

dynamic Cloud Services team, using the latest technology and tools to build high-quality,

cross-platform solutions that delight our customers. Come make an impact on the technical

future of Quicken!

Responsibilities:

• Lead Software Engineer is a technical hands-on role, with responsibilities ranging

from being at the vanguard of solving technical problems to venturing into

unchartered areas of technologies to solve complex problems.

• Directly responsible for consistently delivering scalable, production-ready backend/

server code in Java for Quicken Cloud Services, from design and development

to deployment, as a member of an Agile development team.

• Partner closely with a cross-functional team of key stakeholders (Engineers,

Architects, Product Managers, QA, Operations, and Business Partners) to

understand requirements, design and implement end- to-end solutions that meet

user needs as well as engineering/operational/business goals.

• Display a passion for high quality, continuous learning, and experimenting and

applying cutting-edge technology, software paradigms, and engineering process

improvements, while fostering this culture across the team.

Qualifications:

• 7 - 10 years of software engineering experience, including a successful track record

developing customer-facing SaaS/PaaS products.

• 3+ years working experience in core Java and Spring Framework, preferably with

Spring Cloud Netflix.

• 3+ years working experience within microservice architecture, specifically utilizing

REST services, XML, and JSON.

• Excellent programming discipline: data structures, complexity analysis, objectoriented

principles, design patterns, and unit testing.

• Experience with API development and integration with 3rd-party services is

preferred.

• Excellent understanding of O/R mapping concepts and tools (Hibernate, JPA).

• Fluent in Databases/SQL (MySQL experience preferred).

• Extensive experience in developing applications which are deployed in AWS. AWS

experience is a big plus.

• Team player with can-do attitude to independently own and drive projects.

• Strong experience working with an Agile development team with rapid iterations.

• Ability to work well with others in a geographically distributed team.

• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills.

• BS/MS in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent

What we offer:

• Competitive salary and performance bonus

• Equity

• Amazing culture, strong believers in Autonomy/Mastery/Purpose

• Customer-driven, we make money by building the best products for our users. No

confusion about how to win – build amazing products!

• Ability to work with and manage incredible talent

• Highly recognizable brand in US

We're looking for someone to join a team dedicated to building performant APIs and backend services that deal with large volumes of data for the company's flagship, global consumer product. Small, high-impact teams require conscious planning and decision-making when it comes to design, architecture, and product features. So, it's essential that you enjoy working in such an environment.

We're a team that cares about simplicity and being able to build reliable, deterministic systems and platforms. Hence, our choice of tooling is usually battle-tested reliable software with a robust test suite.

How we work

1. You won't deal with the hustle culture. We're focused on building well-thought-out, stable and reliable software and we try our best to ensure everyone understands the big picture and the immediate goals.
2. We work a solid 6-8 hour days and don't slave away 24/7.
3. We're a remote engineering team. This makes effective communication extremely important. Our teams have benefitted greatly from good written communication. This includes everything from the product specification to the API spec. We spend a lot of time writing READMEs. As a result our engineers work with greater clarity and planning.
4. We deploy several times a day and rely on a good test suite to ensure we're not making life hard for our colleagues.
5. We don't expect anyone to know everything, but we are curious and learn along the way.
6. We learn about the fitness space and what it means to really be fit and not just Instagram fit.

The Python Backend Engineer position may be a good fit for you if:

1. You have 3 (or more) years of experience building and maintaining cloud applications.
2. You have built APIs with Python, Flask, Django or FastAPI before.
3. You have experience working with relational databases like PostgresSQL or MySQL and have spent time writing SQL queries for large datasets.
4. Experience in writing Unit tests with pytest.
5. You have worked with Docker, docker-compose.
6. Familiarity with the AWS ECS stack.

We want you to care about

1. Good object oriented design
2. Performant APIs
3. Analysing why queries are slow and how to go about improving them.
4. Understanding DNS, Load balancing, Caching and Hashing.
5. Customer data and privacy.

Our API Stack services use:

1. Python 3.8+, Typescript
2. FastAPI, Flask, HapiJs
3. PostgresSQL, MySQL
4. Redis
5. Celery
6. Pytest, Jest for unit testing.
7. Gitlab CI/CD
8. Amazon ECS container services

• Preferred Education & Experience:

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Applications, Mathematics, Statistics or related technical field or equivalent practical experience. Relevant experience of at least 3 years in lieu of above if from a different stream of education.

• Well-versed in and 5+ years of hands-on demonstrable experience with:
  ▪ Object Oriented Modeling, Design, & Programming
  ▪ Microservices Architecture, API Design, & Implementation
  ▪ Relational, Document, & Graph Data Modeling, Design, & Implementation

• Well-versed in and hands-on demonstrable experience with:
  ▪ Stream & Batch Big Data Pipeline Processing
  ▪ Distributed Cloud Native Computing
  ▪ Serverless Computing & Cloud Functions

• 5+ years of hands-on development experience in Java programming.

• 3+ years of hands-on development experience in one or more libraries & frameworks such as Spring Boot, Apache Camel, Akka, etc.;
  extra points if you can demonstrate your knowledge with working examples.
  2+ years of hands-on development experience in one or more Relational and NoSQL datastores such as Amazon S3, Amazon DocumentDB, Amazon Elasticsearch Service, Amazon Aurora, AWS DynamoDB, Amazon Athena, etc.

• 2+ years of hands-on development experience in one or more technologies such as Amazon Simple Queue Service, Amazon Kinesis, Apache Kafka, AWS Lambda, AWS Batch, AWS Glue, AWS Step Functions, Amazon API Gateway, etc.

• 2+ years of hands-on development experience in one or more technologies such as AWS Developer Tools, AWS Management & Governance, AWS Networking and Content Delivery, AWS Security, Identity, and Compliance, etc.

• Well-versed in Virtualization & Containerization; must demonstrate experience in technologies such as Kubernetes, Istio, Docker, OpenShift, Anthos, Oracle VirtualBox, Vagrant, etc.

• Well-versed with demonstrable working experience with API Management, API Gateway, Service Mesh, Identity & Access Management, Data Protection & Encryption.

• Hands-on experience with demonstrable working experience with DevOps tools and platforms viz., Jira, GIT, Jenkins, Code Quality & Security Plugins, Maven, Artifactory, Terraform, Ansible/Chef/Puppet, Spinnaker, etc.

• Well-versed with Storage, Networks and Storage Networking basics which will enable you to work in a Cloud environment.

•  Experience : 5+Years

• Job Location : Remote/Pune

• Lead the engineering effort across projects 
• Interface with key stakeholders and apply your technical proficiency across different stages including Application Architecture, Design and Development
• Understand client's business requirements and be able to map them to technology solutions and make them work
• Design and build modern solutions informed by a deep understanding of cloud architecture and how distributed systems operate at scale
• Provide regular support and guidance to teams on complex coding, issue resolution and execution 
• Establish and enforce best development and engineering practices including QA and DevOps
• Lead and manage your own team, but also get down to coding, testing, and designing solutions as and when needed
• Communicate effectively with teams, clients and business leaders within the company

• Minimum 6+ years of experience designing and building full stack applications using UI frameworks like Angular, React or Vue.JS and backend frameworks like Node.JS/ExpressJS or Python/Django/Flask or Laravel/Yii2/Symphony
• Minimum 2-3 years of experience as a Technical Lead mentoring team of 3 to 5 developers
• Strong knowlegde of cloud and distributed systems (AWS, GCP, Azure). Cloud certifications would be an added advantage.
• Deep knowledge of relational databases, SQL and NoSQL databases. Experience with Graph databases like Neo4j is desirable.
• Proficient in Git and CI-CD frameworks
• Strong communicator with visual, verbal, and writing skills to clearly articulate complex design problems and solutions
• Ability to work in an agile environment