Senior Software Engineer- Android

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

What kind of work will you get?

We are looking for a java developer.

Examples of technical tasks:

Working on our backend SDK to implement APIs that will be consumed by the frontend widgets

Designing APIs for different auth recipes

Architecting auth flows

You will also be given non technical tasks like product brain storming, competitor analysis and writing documentation.

Note: Compensation is as per the applicant's geography

Requirements

Well versed in java with 2+ years of professional experience

Familiar with and comfortable working with Web frameworks like FastAPI, Django and Flask

Familiar with HTTP networking in java

Strong understanding of async and sync modes in java

Bonus:

Contributed to open source, or have your own open source repo with a community and many github stars

Built an in-house authentication or authorization solution or worked with solutions such as Keycloak, Auth0, Ory, Okta etc

If you like our project, please star us on https://github.com/supertokens/supertokens-core">Github

Note: Compensation is as per the applicant's geography

Recruitment Process

Initial Filtering

Apply

Technical Interview (1/2) - 1.5 hours

Discussion on your past work, this will involve sharing your work (code and output) via screen share

Architecture discussion and general programming related live code problems.

You will be allowed to use Google throughout the interview and you will be required to have screen share on.

This call will be with the CTO

Technical Interview (2/2) - 1.5 hour

This will involve a discussion to assess the breadth and depth of your technical knowledge and general questions on various technical topics.

You will not be asked to write any code

This call will be with the CTO

Chat with the Co-Founder - 1 hour

This call will involve a general discussion to assess culture fit

• 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

• Experience in corporate training with minimum 3.5 years of experience in Technical training
• Exposure into Core Java & Advanced Java
• Candidate should have good Presentation, verbal & written communication Skills.
• Good to have knowledge on FET

• B.Tech/B.E (preferably in Computer Science Engineering) 
• 7+ years of hands-on programming experience in building data-driven REST APIs, services & platforms using advanced Java frameworks like Spring, Redis, Node.js etc. with deep focus on integration & scale.
• We also look for hands-on experience with Mysql, Elasticsearch (or Solr) and Nosql stores.
• Our evaluation starts with focus on computer science fundamentals, data structures & algorithms.
• You will have been learning new technologies every week and prefer folks who can use golang/rust for backend development and are familiar with equivalent data stores, index stores and pub-sub technologies.

1. Java Developer

Job profile:

• Project Role: Spring boot application developer
• Project Role Description: Design, build and configure spring boot applications to meet
• business process and application requirements.
• Work Experience: Fresher. Should have done at least one project in Java. Hands on
• experience on the Spring boot project is an added advantage.

Must Have Skills: Core Java or Spring boot Application

Important: Engineers should be able to code, Interview will involve actual coding

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, build and configure applications to meet business process and application requirements
• Understanding of

1. server side technologies, how the web applications work. Role of Database and APIs in modern web and mobile applications.
2. client side web frameworks, such as Angular or React and they integration with back end systems

• Implementation and customization of Web based solutions
• Development of custom components such as web interfaces, Validation Services etc.
• Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency.
•     Write clean, maintainable code while rapidly iterating and shipping
•      Participate in all phases of development, from design to implementation, unit testing, and release.
•  Knowledge of javascript, OOPS including experience with design Pattern
• Excellent in Design patterns, Data Structure.

Technical Experience:

• Engineers should have done project(s) in Java or Spring boot.
• Knowledge of

1. Test and automation tools
2. Git
3. Restful APIs.
4. Solid understanding of object-oriented design and programming concepts.

• Have a passion for quality and writing clean, solid, readable code that scales and performs well.

Expected Competencies:

• Adaptable to change; able to respond to shifting requirements and priorities
• A well-organized and structured approach to work with good attention to detail.
• Comfortable with coordinating and collaborating with business teams to drive required decisions and outcomes.
• A high degree of personal integrity and strong ability to work collaboratively and effectively in a fast-paced, flexible, team-based environment.

Must have:

• Knowledge on design, development and deployment of applications based on CMS and Dot Net technology framework
• Strong Analytical, Logical Reasoning and Problem-Solving skills
• Strong in SDLC concepts, RDBMS concepts and SQL/PL-SQL, Data Structures
• Ability to effectively work with a highly technical and virtually located team

Good to have:

• Considerable knowledge in the following: Drupal, .NET MVC, PHP, CSS, Angular, jQuery, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, DevOps, Agile software development 
• Exposure to mobile application development using any one of the mobile development platforms (iOS, Android, Windows)

Soft skills:

• Ability to co-ordinate among various user groups and internally within the team. This is a critical skill
• Excellent communication skills, both written and oral
• Ability to multi-task and prioritize
• Deliver on commitments
• Self-Starter and willing to learn many new skills on the job
• Willing to work flexible hours as the job demands
• Excellent trouble shooting skills
• Ability to think through various business issues and come up with solid design solutions that will stand the test of time
• Good listening and influencing skills; a strong customer focus is a must

JD:

Your role will include:

• Writing and testing your code, innovating and contributing towards increasing the value delivered by your team.
• Setting a high bar through your design, development, analysis and deployment activities
• Understanding and participating in evolving the architecture of our products.
• Keeping up-to-date with new technologies, best practices, and work on optimizing the tooling and automation.
• Understanding the latest development and engineering paradigms like Scrum/Agile/TDD/BDD/DDD etc.

You have experience with the following:

• Strong experience of leading and being part of technical teams preferably following agile methodology.
• Strong technical background with ability to provide technical guidance to other team members.
• Knowledge of microservices and must have experience of implementing a few microservices by the least.
• Knowledge of API driven platform development & Software Integration.
• You have hands-on experience in building secure, high-performing and scalable systems in Java.
• Exposure to JVM based languages like Java, Scala, Clojure.

Paytm is looking for hands-on technologists, who will be responsible for architecting & designing new age mobile & web 3.0 products at Paytm.

Key Responsibilities

• Incumbent will be architecting our futuristic mobile & web 3.0 products and choose the best technologies, components and subsystems on different server side tech.
• Driving innovations in the product constantly to remain ahead of the curve.
• Serve as a thought leader and mentor on technical, architectural, design and related issues.
• Proactively identify architectural weaknesses and recommend appropriate solutions.
• Balance short-term versus long-term actions, strategic versus tactical requirements, while continuing to move forward towards the strategic vision.
• Collaborate with cross functional teams to solve complex problems and building products spanning across multiple teams to deliver end-to-end products & features.
• Estimates efforts, identify risks, devises and meets project schedules.
• Provide functional, design, and code reviews in related areas of expertise with-in team and cross-team.
• Mentor / coach engineers to facilitate their development and provide technical leadership to them. 

Skills required

• MS or BS/B.Tech in computer science or equivalent experience from top college.
• Strong software design/development experience in building massively large scale distributed internet systems and products.
• Should have experience leading small teams.
• Hands-on experience in Advance Java and frameworks, Multithreading, collections and MySQL/NoSQL, golang, etc.
• Excellent data structure & algorithm and problem solving skills.
• Experience and knowledge of open source tools & frameworks, broader cutting edge technologies around server side development.
• Should be an active contributor to developer communities like Stackoverflow, Topcoder, Github, Google Developer Groups (GDGs).
• Superior organization, communication, interpersonal and leadership skills.
• Must be a proven performer and team player that enjoy challenging assignments in a high-energy, fast growing and start-up workplace.
• Must be a self-starter who can work well with minimal guidance and in fluid environment.