
Senior/ Lead/ VP: Java Developer
at A UK-centred leader in global finance
To be successful in this role, you should have experience with:
- Designing and delivering cloud native, event driven, microservices aligned architectures using AWS (Lambda, S3, Glue, Athena, CloudWatch), Hadoop/Spark, Kafka, and related data engineering tooling.
- Building low latency data pipelines, real time analytics engines, and enterprise data models for front office and financing workloads.
- Driving strong engineering discipline — code reviews, automated validation, performance tuning, observability, and enterprise grade CI/CD practices.
- Partnering with global architects and senior stakeholders to convert conceptual designs into production ready components, and leading Agile delivery with clear requirements, estimation, and end to end ownership.
- Ensuring production readiness across resilience, monitoring, alerting, data integrity, and operational stability, while supporting RTB operations through incident triage, RCA, and robust fixes.
- Non-negotiable competencies: AWS, Python, low latency engineering, and experience working in globally distributed environments.
Some of the Highly Valued Skills may include:
- Strong collaboration with stakeholders across Prime Services, SBL, Funding, PnL, and Risk, coupled with solid capital‑markets domain knowledge.
- Technical leadership through coaching, code/design reviews, knowledge sharing, and building reusable frameworks and engineering assets that accelerate modernization.
- Demonstrating engineering excellence via PoCs, architecture reviews, and continuous improvement, while ensuring high standards in testing, non‑functional readiness, observability, and resilience.
- Good to have: AI/ML (RAG, agentic workflows), Java + microservices, Angular, and data products/data governance exposure and exposure to Snowflake, Databricks.
You may be assessed on critical success skills such as Risk & Controls, Change & Transformation, Business Acumen & Strategic Thinking, Digital & Technology Skills, Deep technical expertise in cloud engineering, data engineering, AI‑driven development, and platform modernization.
Purpose of the role
To design, develop and improve software, utilising various engineering methodologies, that provides business, platform, and technology capabilities for our customers and colleagues.
Accountabilities
- Development and delivery of high-quality software solutions by using industry aligned programming languages, frameworks, and tools. Ensuring that code is scalable, maintainable, and optimized for performance.
- Cross-functional collaboration with product managers, designers, and other engineers to define software requirements, devise solution strategies, and ensure seamless integration and alignment with business objectives.
- Collaboration with peers, participate in code reviews, and promote a culture of code quality and knowledge sharing.
- Stay informed of industry technology trends and innovations and actively contribute to the organization’s technology communities to foster a culture of technical excellence and growth.
- Adherence to secure coding practices to mitigate vulnerabilities, protect sensitive data, and ensure secure software solutions.
- Implementation of effective unit testing practices to ensure proper code design, readability, and reliability.
Vice President Expectations
- To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures..
- If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements..
- If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others..
- OR for an individual contributor, they will be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions..
- Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment.
- Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.
- Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
- Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
- Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
- Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
- Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes.
- Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.

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We are seeking an experienced Associate Architect to lead technical design and architectural decisions across diverse client projects. This role combines hands-on technical leadership with strategic architectural planning, ensuring scalable, secure, and maintainable enterprise solutions.
Key Responsibilities
- Design end-to-end solutions for complex client requirements across multiple technology stacks
- Define technical standards, best practices, and architectural guidelines
- Conduct architecture reviews and ensure adherence to design principles
- Create and maintain architecture documentation and design artifacts
- Mentor and guide development teams (Java, .NET, Node.js)
- Lead technical discussions and architecture decision-making sessions
- Provide leadership during critical project phases
- Collaborate with clients to understand business needs and constraints
- Ensure solutions meet performance, scalability, and security requirements
- Contribute hands-on to critical components and POCs
- Drive innovation and adoption of emerging technologies
- Enable cross-team knowledge sharing and alignment
- Participate in hiring, technical interviews, and evaluations
- Present architecture solutions to stakeholders and clients
- Support pre-sales and solution design initiatives
Must-Have Skills
Architectural & Leadership Expertise
- Software Architecture: 7+ years designing enterprise applications, microservices, and distributed systems
- Tech Stack Expertise: Strong in at least 2 — Java/Spring, .NET Core/Framework, Node.js
- Design Principles: SOLID, Domain-Driven Design (DDD)
- Architectural Patterns: CQRS, Event Sourcing, Saga
- API Design: REST, GraphQL, versioning, integration patterns
- System Design: Scalability, load balancing, caching, performance optimization
Technical Leadership
- Proven experience mentoring mid-level developers (4–6 years exp)
- Strong code review and architectural governance experience
- Ability to evaluate tools, frameworks, and make strategic decisions
- Experience collaborating with DevOps, QA, and business teams
Cloud & Infrastructure
- Containerization: Docker (advanced)
- Orchestration: Kubernetes
- Cloud Platforms: AWS / Azure / GCP
- DevOps: CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code, monitoring & observability
Good-to-Have Skills
Advanced Architecture
- Event-driven architecture (Kafka, RabbitMQ, pub-sub systems)
- Database architecture (Polyglot persistence, sharding, CQRS)
- Security (OAuth2, OIDC, Zero Trust architecture)
- Performance engineering (APM tools, load testing, capacity planning)
Business & Client Engagement
- Translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions
- Experience presenting solutions to client stakeholders
- Technical estimation, capacity planning, and risk assessment
- Consulting experience during client acquisition / pre-sales
Job Details
- Job Title: SDE-3
- Industry: Technology
- Domain - Information technology (IT)
- Experience Required: 5-8 years
- Employment Type: Full Time
- Job Location: Bengaluru
- CTC Range: Best in Industry
Role & Responsibilities
As a Software Development Engineer - 3, Backend Engineer at company, you will play a critical role in architecting, designing, and delivering robust backend systems that power our platform. You will lead by example, driving technical excellence and mentoring peers while solving complex engineering problems. This position offers the opportunity to work with a highly motivated team in a fast-paced and innovative environment.
Key Responsibilities:
Technical Leadership-
- Design and develop highly scalable, fault-tolerant, and maintainable backend systems using Java and related frameworks.
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior developers, fostering a culture of learning and growth.
- Review code and ensure adherence to best practices, coding standards, and security guidelines.
System Architecture and Design-
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product managers and frontend engineers, to translate business requirements into efficient technical solutions.
- Own the architecture of core modules and contribute to overall platform scalability and reliability.
- Advocate for and implement microservices architecture, ensuring modularity and reusability.
Problem Solving and Optimization-
- Analyze and resolve complex system issues, ensuring high availability and performance of the platform.
- Optimize database queries and design scalable data storage solutions.
- Implement robust logging, monitoring, and alerting systems to proactively identify and mitigate issues.
Innovation and Continuous Improvement-
- Stay updated on emerging backend technologies and incorporate relevant advancements into our systems.
- Identify and drive initiatives to improve codebase quality, deployment processes, and team productivity.
- Contribute to an advocate for a DevOps culture, supporting CI/CD pipelines and automated testing.
Collaboration and Communication-
- Act as a liaison between the backend team and other technical and non-technical teams, ensuring smooth communication and alignment.
- Document system designs, APIs, and workflows to maintain clarity and knowledge transfer across the team.
Ideal Candidate
- Strong Java Backend Engineer.
- Must have 5+ years of backend development with strong focus on Java (Spring / Spring Boot)
- Must have been SDE-2 for at least 2.5 years
- Hands-on experience with RESTful APIs and microservices architecture
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, multithreading, and async programming
- Experience with relational and NoSQL databases
- Exposure to Kafka/RabbitMQ and Redis/Memcached
- Experience with AWS / GCP / Azure, Docker, and Kubernetes
- Familiar with CI/CD pipelines and modern DevOps practices
- Product companies (B2B SAAS preferred)
- have stayed for at least 2 years with each of the previous companies
- (Education): B.Tech in computer science from Tier 1, Tier 2 colleges
These values bound our employees, customers and future businesses to keep trust and faith in the services we provide in covering Software and Hardware developments, Mechanical & Electronics that can translate into end-to-end design, development and maintenance of products and services to enable business growth and value creation.We think Business value add (as a first step) to create, design and deliver our solutions !!!
Job Description:
Key Responsibility Areas:
Design, build and deliver Enterprise software solutions.
Write code with standards and conventions and follow best practices.
Encourage and lead innovation and solid lifecycle processes.
Collaborate with development teams on work definition, estimation and prioritization
Lead and grow as a professional software engineer.
Full ownership of product deliveries and mentoring junior team members.
Preparing curriculum to train junior developers for Java Web Development
Strong client interactions to provide excellent Quality of Service.
Owning the code base and making sure all code is reviewed and is of very high quality.
Write and modify coding conventions and standards documents for all development
Required Skills:
Technologies/Frameworks –
Core Java, J2EE,
Spring Core and Spring MVC, Sprint Boot, Spring Security,
JDBC, Hibernate, RESTful APIs, SOAP WebServices
Knowledge of JavaScript, JQuery, AJAX, HTML5, and CSS3, Angular is added advantage
Junit or Mockito frameworks
Maven, Git
Knowledge Data Structures,
SQL, MySQL
Designing relational database schemas
Basics of AWS, Cloud, Microservices
Must have strong knowledge and experience in Agile based software development methodologies.
Knowledge of an Agile tool like Jira.
Strong knowledge of working in Integrations of 3rd party APIs and creating the new APIs.
Must have good knowledge of creating Flow diagrams, UMLs and all the required documentations.
Must have Team Lead exposure
Domain Preference
BFSI, FinTech
Qualification:
B.E., B.Tech. from reputed institutes with good academic record
- More than 5 years of experience in Java programming
- Frameworks like Spring(Boot, Core, MVC)or Hibernate
- Good knowledge in design and architectural patterns, with an understanding of Web Services, micro service architectures and REST Based APIs.
- Good knowledge in Agile, JIRA and ALM
- Cloud environments (AWS,Azure…)
- Good Database knowledge (Oracle/ MySQL)
- Previous exposure to banking or financial is preferable
- Desire to get into the development of a top core-banking platform; you will receive specific training on Temenos T24 according to your career plan.
4+ years of strong experience in Java ,J2Ee, microservices, hibernte,
Hands on in OoPS , collection concept, multithreading.
Agile framewrk, good communication and coding skills
Primary Responsibilities
Providing technical expertise for every phase of the project lifecycle—from concept development to solution design, implementation, optimization and support. Interacts with a set of clients (client senior developers and architects) to create technology specifications from business requirements for one of the modules within the project.
Prepares the technical design of the more complex technology components within the module (one or more of client/web presentation tier, server tier, data access and data model, integration component, package function customization).
Assists the architect in articulating the pros and cons of using a certain technology stack or component or design pattern versus another to the clients and project team and drives selection of technologies, designs to come up with the optimal architecture. Drives the performance tuning, re-design and re-factoring for a module.
Contributes to designing and implementing the build, releases process as well as system configuration and deployment characteristics of the application.
4+ years of strong development skills in Java with JDK 1. 8 & above version &
Microservices with Spring boot/ Spring.
Should have strong acumen in Data Structures, Algorithms, problem-solving and Logical/ Analytical skills.
Thorough understanding of OOPS concepts, Design principles and implementation of different type of Design patterns.
Sound understanding of concepts like Exceptional handling, Serialization/ Deserialization and Immutability concepts, etc.
Good fundamental knowledge in Enums, Collections, Annotations, Generics, Auto boxing, etc.
Experience with Multithreading, Concurrent Package and Concurrent APIs Basic understanding of Java Memory Management (JMM) including garbage collections concepts.
Experience in RDBMS or NO SQL databases and writing SQL queries (Joins, group by, aggregate functions, etc.)
Experience with at-least one NoSQL (Any of Cassandra/Couch base/Hadoop), Hands-on experience with JMS
Hands-on experience in creating RESTful webservices and consuming webservices
Hands-on experience with Spring.
Hands-on experience with any of the logging frameworks (SLF4J/LogBack/Log4j)
Experience of writing Junit test cases using Mockito / Powermock frameworks.
Should have practical experience with Maven/Gradle and knowledge of version control systems like Git/SVN etc.
Good communication skills and ability to work with global teams to define and deliver on projects.
Sound understanding/experience in software development process, test-driven development.
About us
Publicis.Sapient, the digital business transformation hub of Publicis Groupe, helps clients drive growth and efficiency and evolve the ways they work, in a world where consumer behavior and technology are catalyzing social and commercial changes at an unprecedented pace. With 17,000 people and over 100 offices around the globe, our expertise spanning technology, data
sciences, consulting and creative, combined with our culture of innovation, enables us to deliver on complex transformation initiatives that accelerate our clients’ businesses through creating the products and services their customers expect.
system performance.
Experience with JSP & Servlet.
Experience with open source frameworks/libraries like Spring, Hibernate, Struts, JUnit etc.
Experience with MVC frameworks like Spring MVC, Struts, JSF etc.
Experience with XML and webservices (SOAP/REST).
Experience with application Servers like Web logic, WebSphere and Jboss.
Experience with JavaScript, Jquery, AJAX, CSS, HTML.
Knowledge of Messaging (JMS,MDB etc.) is a plus.
Knowledge of build tools like Maven and ANT is a plus.
Good understanding of object oriented methodologies and design principles.
Knowledge of the PTC/Servigistics/Click Commerce/Xelus “Service Depot
Management/SL/Repairs and Returns/XDR” application is a plus.
Experience working with large amounts of data.
Able to work with and participate within a small multicultural professional team.
Understanding of performance profiling / tuning.
Familiar with Agile methodologies/tools.
Experience with SQL.
Experience in analysis, design, coding, and implementation of enterprise Java web
applications.
General understanding of scalability and high-availability systems.
Excellent communication/documentation skills
Ability to work effectively under pressure with constantly changing priorities and deadlines
Design and develop robust services in coordination with front-end developers, ensuring the production and development of high-quality and well-tested code
Design, develop and test features alongside other technical departments
Lead the department in the design, development, deployment, and operation of services used by our users
Optimise APIs for any applications while creating and maintaining unit tests for new code as well as fix defects
Participate in the continuous integration of automated builds and deployments, ensuring that deliverables meet functional and design requirements and specifications of the site/software. Work with engineering leadership in solving and architecting solutions for challenging or complex site/software development issues.
Take initiatives in developing and maintaining integrations of best practices within the backend department
FreightCrate Technologies is a Logistics Technology company that aims to transform international shipping through innovative and cost-effective tech solutions that can mutually benefit exporters, importers and logistics service providers.
Our web-platform, FreightCrate offers online tech-enabled quote and shipment management solutions for export and import businesses to and from more than 50,000 global locations.
We have had more than 50 media coverages including Entrepreneur, Maritime Gateway, Cargotalk, BW Disrupt, INC42, Silicon India, Tech Observer and several other newspapers and online magazines.
Our vision is to utilize cutting edge technology, engineering, deep learning and artificial intelligence to create an intelligent freight management system that can automate and optimize international trade operations for global businesses.
FOUNDERS:
Samir Lambay is the Co-Founder and CEO with an MSc in Shipping, Trade and Finance from Cass Business School, London, UK with Distinction.
Samir has worked in the shipping and logistics industry across both family businesses and multinational companies. His most recent job was at DB Schenker Logistics (Part of Deutsche Bahn Group - Fortune 200) where he was the youngest Vertical Manager globally and won two awards including Vertical Manager of the year and a Global Award.
Ruchi Dogra is a Co-Founder & Director and is in charge of sales and marketing. She has worked for over 15 years across the top 3 logistics/supply chain companies globally. She set-up the hotel, wines and beverages vertical at Kuehne & Nagel and DB Schenker. Her latest assignment was at DHL Global Forwarding where she worked as a Vertical Manager for Engineering and Manufacturing; handling top Indian and multinational accounts including several Fortune 100 companies. She brings with her an extensive knowledge in strategy, sales, operations and customer service.
Title
Software Developer
Description
The Software Developer’s role is to develop new innovative programs to optimize and automate user experiences by creating high-quality, innovative and fully performing software that complies with coding standards and technical design.
Should be familiar with the software development life cycle (SDLC) from preliminary system analysis to tests and deployment.
Compensation
As this is a new business the compensation is negotiable and we will make an offer depending on the experience of the candidate.
Responsibilities
• Design flowcharts, layouts and documentation to identify requirements and solutions
• Produce clean, efficient code based on specifications
• Execute full software development life cycle (SDLC)
• Integrate software components and third-party programs and API’s
• Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade existing software
• Gather and evaluate user feedback
• Recommend and execute improvements
• Create technical documentation for reference and reporting
Skill Sets:
• PHP/Python
• AWS & Cloud-computing
• Mysql/PostgreSql
• Memcache/Redis
• Frontend technologies HTML, CSS, JS, ReactJS, Vue.js
• Frameworks like Django
• DevOps
• ELK
• Tools like Datadog, NewRelic, etc
• Shell-scripting
• Setting & managing dev/beta/prod environments
• Tools like Jenkins, Chef, Puppet, Ansible, etc.
• Knowledge of Solr/Elastic search will be an advantage
Personal Requirements:
• Min of 3+ years of Hands on experience in Web development, algorithm design, implementation, architecture design, product management, databases and UI/UX in consumer facing applications.
• Experience on projects involving engineering and algorithmic functions, machine learning, deep learning and artificial intelligence is very advantageous.
• Creative self-starter who is comfortable with both taking initiative and working in teams.
• Previous experience working on logistics technology products is advantageous but not mandatory.
• Strong communication skills.
• Willingness to learn and utilize emerging technologies.
• Sincere passion to use disruptive technologies that can be globally significant.








