Company Description
BlueOptima’s vision is to become the global reference for the optimisation of the performance of Software Engineers across all industries. We provide industry-leading objective metrics in software development. We enable large organisations to deliver better software, faster and at lower cost, with technology that pushes the limits of what has been done before.
We are a global company which has consistently doubled in headcount and revenue YoY, with no external investment. We currently are located in 4 countries: London (our HQ), Mexico, India and the US. A total number of 180+ employees (and increasing every day) from 22 different nationalities and with over 25 languages spoken.
We promote an open minded environment and encourage our employees to create their own success story in this high performance environment.
Job Description
Location: Bangalore/Gurgoan, India
Department: Engineering
Job summary:
We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer, with experience in developing scalable application components, which are remotely deployed and are used to extract and push large volumes of data in a data warehouse solution, to join our growing company and be a part of our success story.
We are looking for an individual with great attention to detail, who is genuine, confident, committed and not only passionate about technology, but is keen to own the solution end to end, and most importantly excited to work in a fun and friendly start-up environment.
The ideal candidate will be passionate about technology and getting things to work while at the same time being able to mentor (and lead) other engineers by way of example to achieve excellence in their work.
Your team: You will be working with a diverse team with members located around our different offices, with whom you will be working hand-to-hand. This team is currently based in Gurgaon and we are now looking forward to growing it in Bangalore and mid next year to Mexico with the plan of building two teams in India (Gurgaon and Bangalore) and one in Mexico (Guadalajara).
We are looking for skilled and talented engineers to join our Data Analysis and Processing (DAP) team and directly contribute to development of application components built by the team.
The DAP team works on a business critical component which is responsible for collecting required source code interaction and static metrics data from client location, and processing the large volumes of data end to end. Remote deployment and the uptime requirements only makes this component one of the most complex standalone java applications.
As a Senior Software Engineer in the DAP team, you will be directly contributing to development of the Integrator and Central Server components using Spring Boot, Hibernate and Core Java. And while contributing directly to the development of the software components, you are also expected to lead and mentor a team of next generation platform engineers.
Responsibilities and tasks:
- Analyse, Design, Develop, implement, test and maintain application software components
- Analyse client requirements and convert them into technical specs.
- Own development of features and improvement
- Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks
- Identity and resolve architectural inefficiencies in design, and create a roadmap to resolving them
- Lead and mentor a team of junior developers
- Interact with internal client facing team and provide technical support to them
- Engage with clients to provide support on your component as and when required
Qualifications
What You Need to Succeed at BlueOptima:
- Minimum Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent
- Minimum 5+ years experience with Java and J2EE/Java EE
- Minimum 2+ years experience with developing standalone Java applications
- Strong understanding of relational database, partitioning and indexing techniques, SQL
- Demonstrable experience in optimising application performance at database or any other layer
- Experience in creating high and low level design based on existing application architecture and documenting such design
- Strong understanding of Java concurrency, concurrency patterns, experience building thread-safe code
- Ability to work autonomously with minimum supervision
- Strong problem solving and analytical skills, and having a can-do attitude
- Familiarity with Agile methodologies like SCRUM, Sprints, etc and leading a Scrum a small Scrum team
- Commitment to accomplishing the task at hand and identify the fastest and most reliable way to solve a problem
- Familiarity with Linux shell and related command line tools
- Strong grasp of Unit & Integration testing
Good to have:
- A team manager, in terms of handling people and delivery which is not a must in case of technical geeks
- Making sure that the sprints and tasks are completed on time with no spill-overs and sticking to the deadline
- Preferred experience on Spring boot,, Docker, Kubernetes
- Some exposure in Linux
Additional Information
Why join our team?
Culture and Growth:
- Global team with a creative, innovative and welcoming mindset.
- Rapid career growth and opportunity to be an outstanding and visible contributor to the company's success
- Freedom to create your own success story in a high performance environment
- Training programs and Personal Development Plans for each employee
Benefits:
- Competitive Salary
- Flexible Work from Home policy - 2 days home p/w
- Free drinks and snacks in the office
- International travel opportunities
- Global annual meet up (most recent meetups have been held in Cancun and India)
- High quality equipment (Ergonomic chairs and 32’ screens)

About BlueOptima
About
The analytics platform provided by BlueOptima makes it possible for software developers and the companies they work for to develop superior software in the shortest amount of time and at the lowest cost imaginable. Actual Coding Effort is the sole objective productivity indicator for software developers, and BlueOptima is the only solution in the world that measures software developer productivity using this metric. This is a defining event in the history of software development.
The software as a service (SaaS) platform offered by BlueOptima allows corporations to do productivity and quality analysis of their software development in terms of people, teams, tasks, projects, divisions, and outsourced suppliers. Managers are better equipped to maximize efficiency when they have a thorough understanding of the performance differences that exist across an organization. It has been shown that BlueOptima can locate cost reductions in software purchases of up to twenty percent. Companies can cost-optimize their software efforts as early as is practically possible thanks to BlueOptima's extra capabilities in benchmarking and recruiting.
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Position Overview:
We are seeking a skilled Java Developer to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will have a strong foundation in Core Java and extensive experience in developing and deploying applications using Spring Boot, Apache Tomcat, and other related technologies. The candidate should possess expertise in building Restful Web Services, Microservices architecture, and be proficient in implementing multi-threading concepts.
Additionally, experience with Maven, Git, Jenkins, and Agile Scrum methodologies is essential for this role. The candidate should also have a solid understanding of software development lifecycle (SDLC) processes. Familiarity with various databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, or MongoDB, along with third-party API integration and payment gateway integration, is required.
Key Responsibilities:
• Develop, test, deploy, and maintain Java-based applications.
• Design and implement Restful Web Services and Microservices using Spring Boot.
• Utilize multi-threading concepts to enhance application performance.
• Integrate third-party APIs and payment gateways into applications.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather requirements and deliver high-quality solutions.
• Participate in Agile Scrum ceremonies and contribute to sprint planning, backlog grooming, and retrospectives.
• Ensure adherence to best practices and coding standards.
• Conduct code reviews and provide constructive feedback to peers.
• Troubleshoot and debug complex issues in production environments.
• Document design decisions, processes, and procedures.
Required Qualifications:
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or related field.
• Minimum 3 years of experience as a Java Developer with expertise in Core Java.
• Strong knowledge of Spring Boot, Apache Tomcat, and multi-threading concepts.
• Hands-on experience in building Restful Web Services and Microservices architecture.
• Proficiency in using Maven, Git, and Jenkins for build and deployment processes.
• Familiarity with Agile Scrum methodologies and SDLC processes.
• Experience working with databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, or MongoDB.
• Demonstrated ability to integrate third-party APIs and payment gateways.
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Effective communication and collaboration skills.
• Familiarity with NoSQL databases like MongoDB.
• Knowledge of Azure DevOps for CI/CD pipelines
Backend – Software Development Engineer II
Experience: 4–7 years
Location: Bangalore
Work Mode - Hybrid
About Wekan Enterprise Solutions
Wekan Enterprise Solutions is a leading Technology Consulting company and a strategic investment partner of MongoDB. We help companies drive innovation in the cloud by adopting modern technology solutions that help them achieve their performance and availability requirements. With strong capabilities around Mobile, IOT and Cloud environments, we have an extensive track record helping Fortune 500 companies modernize their most critical legacy and on-premise applications, migrating them to the cloud and leveraging the most cutting-edge technologies.
Job Description
We are looking for passionate software engineers eager to be a part of our growth journey. The right candidate needs to be interested in working in high-paced and challenging environments. Interested in constantly upskilling, learning new technologies and expanding their domain knowledge to new industries. This candidate needs to be a team player and should be looking to help build a culture of excellence. Do you have what it takes?
You will be working on complex data migrations, modernizing legacy applications and building new applications on the cloud for large enterprise and/or growth stage startups. You will have the opportunity to contribute directly into mission critical projects directly interacting with business stakeholders, customer’s technical teams and MongoDB solutions Architects
What you will do
- Own backend features and migration workstreams end to end, from understanding the existing codebase and data model to delivering production-ready implementations.
- Build and enhance Java/Spring Boot services used in modernization, migration, and cloud transformation projects.
- Design and implement backend flows that are safe under retries and partial failures, with clear thinking around validation, transaction boundaries, idempotency, and downstream side effects.
- Work across application, database, and deployment layers to improve reliability, maintainability, and operational visibility.
- Model data based on access patterns and business workflows, with sound choices around schema design, indexing, and query performance.
- Investigate production issues using logs, request traces, database state, and service behavior; identify root causes and implement durable fixes.
- Collaborate with internal teams, customer engineering teams, architects, and stakeholders to deliver high-quality solutions on mission-critical projects.
- Write clean, modular, testable code and participate actively in sprint ceremonies, code reviews, design discussions, and release activities.
What we’re looking for
- 4–7 years of backend engineering experience, with strong hands-on delivery in Java-based systems.
- Solid experience with Java, Spring Boot, and microservice-style backend development.
- Demonstrated ownership of at least one meaningful backend service or feature area in production.
- Strong understanding of backend engineering fundamentals, including service reliability, data consistency, failure handling, and production-grade design considerations.
- Strong database fundamentals, including schema design, query writing, indexing, and performance reasoning.
- Strong depth in MongoDB or a relational database such as Oracle, with working comfort across both styles being a plus.
- Ability to investigate and resolve real production issues across services and databases, including consistency, performance, and reliability problems.
- Hands-on experience with testing frameworks such as JUnit and Mockito.
- Proficiency with Git, including branching, code review workflows, and conflict resolution.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with engineers, stakeholders, and customers.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience working on legacy modernization, data/service migrations, or decomposition of existing systems into cleaner service boundaries.
- Exposure to both MongoDB and relational databases, including query tuning, indexing, and production troubleshooting.
- Familiarity with Oracle PL/SQL or migration of logic from database-heavy systems into service-layer Java code.
- Exposure to CI/CD deployment and cloud environments like AWS, Azure, or GCP.
You will break down business opportunities and problems into software solutions. You will work closely with the CTO to help product and marketing stakeholders distill the product vision and roadmap, into a technology vision. You will be responsible for the evolution of an already bleeding-edge highly distributed systems at the back-end, and would need to work withfront-end architects to come up with the best user experience for the gaming platform. You will be required to make decisions quickly, and work under strict timelines. You would lead technology strategy through analysis of market trends and product requirements. You would help set coding guidelines and help bring the most modern tools to keep engineering processes most efficient.
Requirements:
● B.E/MS in Computer Science or equivalent.
● 10+ years or more of progressive software technology experience with at least 3 years
in an architectural role.
● Completely hands on with technology and architecture. Start-up experience is a huge
plus.
● Ability to quickly prototype and demonstrate technology value adds and educate + drive
adoption within the extended technology team
● Excellent and robust understanding of scalable product system architecture(s),
platforms and core technologies
● Demonstrated problem-solving and leadership skills to pursue correct engineering
process in adverse conditions. Ability to embrace and demonstrate leadership beyond
ownership
● Work with engineering leadership to setup and manage processes.
● Track record of thought leadership and out of the box thinking in the technology arena.
● Ability to work efficiently in an entrepreneurial and in a start-up environment
● A Java/Spring/Akka, Javascript or Golang rockstar.
● Deep and hands on knowledge of some of these technologies - MySQL, NodeJS,
message brokers such as Kafka/RabbitMQ, NoSQL datastore such as Mongo, Cassandra,
Arango, distributed caches such as Redis/memcached, container technology such as
Docker and Kubernetes etc.
● Great proficiency in distributed systems design, with an ability to make the right
trade-offs for creating future-proof solutions.
● Building quick PoCs and full-fledged solutions with various AWS managed services would
be a big plus.

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Core Java, SpringBoot, MicroServices |
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- DB2 or any RDBMS database application development |
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- Linux OS, shell scripting, Batch Processing |
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- Troubleshooting Large Scale application |
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- Experience in automation and unit test framework is a must |
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- AWS Cloud experience desirable |
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- Agile Development Experience |
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- Complete Development Cycle ( Dev, QA, UAT, Staging) |
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- Good Oral and Written Communication Skills |
Senior Software Engineer, Java/Python (Bangalore, Remote option available)
4+ years of experience
Zepto
Why should you look at this role?
Salary 40-55 lakh per annum
Paid leave
Sick leave
Provident Fund
What Else?
- High growth startup in quick commerce space (10 min delivery)
- Given our very high hiring bar, we offer a very competitive salary and substantial equity to create everlasting wealth for our early believers as the company grows.
- Work on real world logistics problems & benefit from the rocket ship Zepto is!
Tech Team: 40-50 (200+ in few months)
About the Employer
Zepto is a fast-growing startup that delivers products in 10 minutes through an optimised network of dark stores that we're building across the country!
Just 6 months after launching, we've raised $160 million from marquee
investors in Silicon Valley and India. Our investors include Y Combinator, Nexus Venture Partners, and many more! We’ve built out one of the best startup teams in India, with Senior Executives from Uber, Flipkart, Dream11, PhonePe, Goldman Sachs, Pepperfry, and institutions like Stanford, INSEAD, IITs, and IIMs.
The magic of Zepto is our ability to consistently deliver 2,500+ products in 10 minutes flat. It's the core of what we do, and the reason why we’ve been able to grow so fast with phenomenal customer love. Our mission is simple: to make 10-minute delivery the new normal.
Funding:
Funding Zepto has raised a total of $160M in funding over 3 rounds.
Their latest funding was raised on Dec 20, 2021 from a Series C round.
Employer Reviews:
“High Ownership, Lots of Learning, Broad Roles, Accessible Leaders”
"Alot of benefits like ZeptoJoy coupon, internet bill reimbursement and cab reimbursement is also taken care of. Overtime is paid."
Reporting structure:
Software Engineer -> Sr Software Engineer -> Lead -> EM -> AD / Director / VP -> Head of Engineering -> CTO
This role would be by and large a Individual Contributor role.
Interview Process:
- Round 1. Problem Solving + CS Fundamentals (60 mins)
- DS/Algo Problems (30 mins) - You can expect 1-2 Leetcode easy/medium questions
- CS Fundamentals (30 mins)
- Round 2. Low Level Design (60 mins)
- You would be given a trivial problem and expected to work through the low level design viz class structure, interfaces, db data models etc.
- Round 3. High Level Design (60 mins)
- You will be given a trivial problem, where we would work with you to design the system for the problem statement. We expect the detailed flow of the Functionality
- Extract APIs, if any
- Database choices
- Schema design and Scale the system, if time permits
- You will be given a trivial problem, where we would work with you to design the system for the problem statement. We expect the detailed flow of the Functionality
What You will do Everyday?
- Work very closely with the Tech Leadership and lead end-to-end development.
- Closely collaborate with product, design and business teams to understand product ideas and business needs and help deliver these as a series of ultra fast experiments.
- Architect and implement backend services with high reliability and scalability.
- Contribute to system architecture and database design.
- Set up best practices for development and champion their adoption.
- Write quality documentation and handle conflicts well to build consensus.
- Learn about new technologies and incorporate them.
- Mentor young minds and foster team spirit
Your Superpowers
- 4+ years of experience with Java frameworks like Spring / Dropwizard/Play or Python frameworks like Django/Flask/FastApi and databases like PostgreSQL/MySQL/MongoDB
- Experience in building highly scalable customer-facing applications that involve implementing complex business flows and dealing with an ever-increasing scale
- Extensive experience in object-oriented design skills, knowledge of design patterns, and huge passion and ability to design intuitive module and class-level interfaces.
- Experience in service-oriented architecture design.
- Experience building at least one application from scratch.
- Experience with cache store/message broker like Redis / RabbitMQ/Kafka
- Interest in learning new languages/framework as needed.
- Worked in a startup environment with high levels of ownership and commitment.
- A growth mindset and passionate about building things from the ground up and most importantly, you should be fun to work with.
Responsibilities:
- Lead the development of the back-end systems for our first product.
- Build reliable, secure and performant back-end systems.
- Drive test coverage and continuous delivery automation within the team.
- Mentor and provide feedback to teammates.
Requirements:
- 3+ years of software development experience.
- Strong computer science fundamentals.
- Deep and wide knowledge of Java ecosystem.
- Can write code that is readable, maintainable, secure and performant.
- Know the importance of tests and how to approach writing different types of tests.
- Good intuition for REST API design.
- Deep understanding of relational databases, transactions, entity-relationship modelling.
- Comfortable writing highly concurrent systems.
- Experienced in using profilers, tuning garbage collection, optimising SQL queries.
Good knowledge and experience of working with backend systems;
designing server-side architecture, including production maintenance experience are must-haves.
At least 1-2 years of experience in any programming languages like Java, Ruby, PHP, Python and Node.js(Node.js preferred).
Understanding of micro-services oriented architecture.
Experience with Databases design (SQL, NoSQL) and analytics
Experience in driving and delivering complex features/software modules from technical design to launch.
Expertise with unit testing & Test Driven Development (TDD)
2. Experience with Microservices Architectures
3. Experience with RESTful and Stateless services
4. Broad and deep knowledge of design patterns and algorithms











