Senior Software Developer - Backend - Java/Python

Job Title: Java Lead – Software Engineering

Location: Mohali | Panchkula | Gurugram (Onsite)

Experience: 7+ Years

About the Role:

We are seeking a highly skilled and passionate Java Lead who will be responsible for designing, developing, and leading the implementation of scalable and maintainable product features. As a Lead, you will play a key role in guiding a team, ensuring coding best practices, and resolving complex technical challenges. This is a great opportunity for someone who thrives in a fast-paced environment, is passionate about solving technical problems, and is excited about leading product development end-to-end.

Key Responsibilities:

· Lead a team of developers in designing and building micro-services using Java.

· Decompose feature requests into sizable and estimable pieces of work.

· Deliver scalable, maintainable, and high-quality code within defined timelines.

· Conduct code reviews to ensure adherence to coding standards and best practices.

· Collaborate with cross-functional teams to solve complex technical challenges.

· Act as a subject matter expert for specific product components.

· Debug and resolve critical production issues with detailed root cause analysis.

· Drive adoption of Agile practices, ensuring proper planning, estimation, and delivery.

Required Qualifications:

· Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.

· 7+ years of strong experience in Java development.

· 3+ years of hands-on experience in developing and delivering productized software applications.

· Experience in leading teams and mentoring developers.

· Proven ability to design and deliver scalable and maintainable applications.

· Strong problem-solving and analytical skills with a self-driven mindset.

· Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Preferred Skills:

· Hands-on experience with Java micro-services.

· Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines.

· Strong understanding of Agile methodologies.

· Cloud and containerization exposure with AWS and Docker.

Technology Stack:

· Java

· Micro-services

· SQL

· AWS

· Docker

Backend Architect

Experience - 12+ yrs

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 architects eager to be a part of our growth journey. The right candidate needs to be interested in working in high-paced and challenging environments leading technical teams, designing system architecture and reviewing peer code. 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.

Location - Chennai or Bangalore

●     Relevant experience of 12+ years building high-performance applications with at least 3+ years as an architect.

●     Good problem solving skills

●     Strong mentoring capabilities

●     Good understanding of software development life cycle

●     Strong experience in system design and architecture

●     Strong focus on quality of work delivered

●     Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Required Technical Skills

●     Extensive hands-on experience building high-performance applications primarily using Node.Js ,(Javascript/Typescript) along with Nest.Js, Express.JS, MongoDB.

●     Hands-on experience with other languages such as .NET/C# or Java or Golang or Python.

●     Strong experience with appropriate framework(s).

●     Well versed in monolithic and microservices architecture and System design experience.

●     Hands-on experience with data modeling on MongoDB (NoSQL) and Relational or NoSQL databases

●     Experience working with 3rd party integrations ranging from authentication, cloud services, etc.

●     Hands-on experience with Kafka or RabbitMQ.

●     Hands on experience with CI/CD pipelines and atleast 1 cloud provider - AWS / GCP / Azure

●     Strong experience writing and maintaining clear documentation

Good to have skills:

●     Experience working with frontend technologies - React.Js or Vue.Js or Angular.

●     Extensive experience consulting with customers directly for defining architecture or system design.

●     Technical certifications in AWS / Azure / GCP / MongoDB or other relevant technologies

About Root Node

We’re an early-stage startup building intelligent tools for planning, scheduling, and optimization—starting with timetabling and warehouse logistics. Backed by deep domain expertise and a growing customer pipeline, we’re now building our core tech team. This is not just a coding job — it's a chance to build something meaningful from the ground up.

About the job

• Design and implement robust backend systems and APIs using Java or similar backend language and Spring Boot or equivalent frameworks
• Integrate backend services with existing custom ERP systems 
• Work closely with the founder on product architecture, feature prioritization, and go-to-market feedback
• Take full ownership of features — from system design and development to deployment and iterative improvements
• Help shape our engineering culture and technical foundations

You're a Great Fit If You:

• Have 3+ years of experience in backend development
• Are strong in Java or similar languages (e.g., Kotlin, Go, Node.js)
• Have solid experience with Spring Boot or equivalent backend frameworks
• Have integrated with ERP or enterprise systems in production environments
• Are comfortable with both SQL (PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB)
• Understand REST API development, authentication, Docker
• Have an entrepreneurial mindset — you're excited about ownership, ambiguity, and making decisions that shape the product and company
• Want more than just a job — you want to build, solve, and learn rapidly

What We Offer

• Competitive salary
• High degree of ownership and autonomy
• Ability to shape the tech and product direction from Day 1
• Transparent and fast decision-making culture
• A builder’s environment — solve real-world problems with real impact

Our core customer-facing product today is a native Android application. In addition to this, we are building internal tools for customer support, investment management, marketing analytics and business management. In the future, we plan to hugely expand the features in our core product, build iOS and web products, and continuously improve our internal tools to better serve our customers.

For our back-end, we use Node.js / MySQL / AWS. We are currently a 3-member engineering team (1 back-end, 1 Android, 1 full stack) led by our founding engineer and advised by a senior technology executive from a leading fintech company.

Key Responsibilities of the Role

• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and improve our software applications
• Build reusable libraries and frameworks that support complex web applications
• Set-up our technology infrastructure and integrate with 3rd party applications
• Contribute to internal discussions around product features, roadmap and technologies used
• Mentor & recruit engineers to the team
• Set up processes related to engineering & product

Skills / Required Experience:

• B.Tech / M.Tech in Computer Science or equivalent, with solid foundational knowledge in at least two general programming languages, data structures, algorithms, system architecture, security and networking protocols.
• At least 6 years of back-end development experience in a software product company is required for this role.
• Exposure to modern software development processes, multiple front-end and back-end technologies, and open-source software.
• Proficiency with tools like Gitlab/Jira/Firebase, as well as AWS and commonly used database systems etc. is required
• Experience in an early-stage startup or having founded your own startup would be good to have (but not necessary).

• 5+ years experience
• Previously managed a team
• Built & managed backend systems from scratch previously.
• Lead the core backend engineering team, including mentoring, coaching, architecture, devops, code review and software infrastructure
• Should be more proficient with Django.
• Work with the executive team to shape and execute the product roadmap
• Direct our team environment to achieve sprint deliverables and acceptance criteria
• Design and monitor metrics to assess product and infrastructure performance
• Hire, build and shape the team