Senior Java Product Engineer

A SaaS startup founded in April 2020.

What’s the opportunity?

Are you a backend developer looking to fast-track your learning and growth? Have you looked at world-class products like Asana, Notion, or Airtable, and felt “I wish I were part of the early team that built these products”?

We’re a team that has previously built and rolled out globally successful SaaS products used by tens of thousands of customers.

We’re laser-focused on delivering a world-class product again, and looking for an ambitious backend engineer to join our existing team of 9 engineers.

If it excites you to think of a fast-paced start-up environment, building something big from scratch, breaking down new problems, creating new APIs, working on performance issues, getting hands-on with DevOps initiatives, and showcasing demos of your work every Friday with a happy and passionate team, then this is the right opportunity for you.

Some of the tech problems you get to work on as a backend engineer would be to build the backend for a modern spreadsheet experience from scratch, work on infra as code, write robust code that is fault-tolerant, work on performant code that adheres to SLOs set by the organization. 

About you:

● 3- 5 years of experience

● Expertise in the following areas ○ Java ○ HTTP Protocol

● You’ve heard of or worked with some of the following tech stacks/products

○ Spring

○ PostgreSQL

○ Redis ○ Docker

○ Message brokers

○ GitHub

● These non-functional areas are familiar to you

○ Performance

○ Debugging

○ Log management

Nice to have:

● Familiarity with AWS 

What’s in it for you?

● Great opportunity: We genuinely care about everyone we hire. You’ll learn new things and grow no matter how experienced you are; you will be working with founders who have more than three decades of collective experience in building significant B2B SaaS startups.

● Great team: Work with a world-class, high-velocity team that truly embodies the values of empathy, curiosity, and customer-centricity. Check out the MTT(Meet The Team) videos on our LinkedIn.

● Great culture: An open, fun, and exciting startup culture that empowers its people to champion big problems with the freedom to think and innovate.

● Growth: You could easily and quickly transition into other roles you might like.

● Impact: You get to be part of a global, passionate team in a fast-paced and growth-oriented environment. The team has a work philosophy of being high on ambition, ownership, and a bias for action.

● Monetary rewards and benefits: Competitive stipend, flexible leave policy, and more

Required Technical Skills: 

• Java (highly capable)
• SQL (highly capable)
• Strong knowledge of software best practices, build processes, IDEs, database tools (e.g. SQL Developer, SQL Management Studio)
• Strong knowledge of source code control systems (GIT)
• Confident with Windows, Linux, Unix operating systems including command line
• Working knowledge of JIRA

Beneficial Technical Skills: 

• .Net
• C 
• Javascript 
• Experience in test management and test execution
• Experience of Agile development methods

Additional Skills and Behaviour Required 

• Experience of full software development lifecycle
• Considers competing solutions and evaluates options to create the best outcome in all aspects of the role.
• Willingness to takes ownership of whole project and engineers assigned.
• Confident to make suggestions and recommendations for improvements.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and ability to build good rapport
• Fluency in English, both written and oral
• Collaborates with others to achieve objectives and ensure information flow
• Seeks assistance and feedback as appropriate 

Education 

• Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science or Engineering or other relevant discipline (MCA, MSc in Computer Science etc.)

Required Skills

• Proficiency in CS concepts such as Data Structures, Algorithms and Operating systems.
• More than 2 years of experience in a development Team with very good knowledge and hands-on experience using Java technologies.
• Knowledge of Java MVC Framework Spring MVC / Spring Boot.
• Good SQL and NoSQL skills
• Knowledge of/experience developing Web APIs using RESTFUL services.
• Deep expertise in at least one programming language & tech stack to write maintainable, scalable, unit-tested code - preferably Java.

Good to Have

• Strong object-oriented design skills, knowledge of design patterns, and an uncanny ability to design intuitive module and class-level interfaces.
• Participation in open source projects.
• Active involvement in solving problems on Github, Stackoverflow and similar other community groups
• Hands on experience on PubSub patterns such as Kafka / RMQ
• Experience with full life cycle development in any programming language on a Linux platform

Responsibilities and Duties

• You will translate high level business problems into scalable design and code.
• Create libraries & Utilities for larger consumption.
• Should understand and have knowledge on the application security practices/vulnerabilities.
• You will write performant, unit-tested code, develop object-oriented models and design data structure for new software projects taking systems aspects into account.