
Senior Software Engineer / Backend Developer
at Hiring for a Leading InsureTech Platform in Mumbai/Pune
- Strong experience with one or more general purpose programming languages including but
not limited to: Python, Java, C/C++, C#
- Demonstrated expertise working with at least one modern enterprise application frameworks like
Spring Boot, Play Framework, Django
- Demonstrated expertise in building scalable distributed applications in microservices architecture
- Expert knowledge of best practice software engineering methodologies and coding standards
- Strong and proven advocacy for Test Driven Development is preferred
- Experience with SQL (mySQL, Postgres, etc) and NoSQL (MongoDb, DynamoDB, Aerospike or Redis)
- Production experience in running cloud-based enterprise-grade systems at scale
- Natural ability to process requirements, figure out multiple execution options, their complexity, and
estimate the scope of work required to get tasks done
- DevOps experience
- Cloud experience (AWS required, Google Cloud Platform bonus

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A B.Tech/M.Tech in Computer Sc, a SDE should have 1-3 years of experience in SW solution development. We are specifically looking for a SDE who:
- is highly proficient in Java Coreand Spring boot applications including making high quality, highly performing code under JVM environment.
- has good working knowledge in design of n-Tier databases (Postgres, NoSQL DBs e.g. Cassandra/MongoDB)
- has worked in agile development environment under open source gitlab including testing, change management
- is highly proficient in OOD, extensibility, usability, understand data pre-processing
- has exposure to full life cycle of product implementation and deployment of enterprise products driving a subsystem including development under gitlab or github.
- [Desirable] Ability to optimize an ML solution for accuracy and scale
- [Desirable] has experience in working with Advanced Java
Technical skills required:
Skills: Java 8 and above, Rest Web services, MySQL.
Strong background in Core Java and good knowledge of collection Framework.
Proficient in developing high-performance, less memory-intensive micro-services applications using the Java framework.
Should have deep knowledge of Micro-service development.
Key Skills - Java , Hibernate , Spring , Maven, MVC Framework ,Spring Boot , J2EE
Roles and Responsibilities:-
- Work with a tight-knit team of engineers and Product managers to deliver features & functionalities that delight our customers
- Build end-to-end systems that powers the health insurance stack - payments, onboarding, claims & integrations.
- Build for high observability, improve performance and remove bottlenecks within the application and infrastructure.
- Participate in design meetings, code reviews, mentoring new starters, technical interviews, and contribute to growing the team.
Experience and Qualifications:-
- 5+ years of experience in Go or Java.
- Proven experience in building scalable backend systems (databases, middleware and APIs).
- Firmly grounded computer science and engineering fundamentals including concurrency, multithreading, data structures, solution design, architecture, and design patterns.
- Excellent analytical and time management skills.
Java Backend Engineer - Fintech Rocketship Pilot
Distributed systems, scalability, reliability, robustness, security, quality, building responsive real time systems - do these terms get your adrenaline high? Come be a part of a high growth, fast paced engineering team building for India’s new generation.
We have an open culture, you take responsibility and ownership of what you do. No bureaucracy. No bullsh*t.
If you are up for big engineering challenges, personal and professional growth, then let’s join forces!
You’ll fit right in if you have - 2-3 years of experience building, running and maintaining production services Strong with Java and JVM based services along with PostgreSQL Comfortable working with multiple cloud providers: mainly GCP and AWS Comfortable with CI and CD tools and best practices Done TDD and values TDD
Good to have –
Engineering aptitude - Owns small features, starting from technical design through completion. Appreciates and participates in technical discussions, and values guidance and feedback. Does not need mentoring on a daily basis; makes steady progress by themselves, and knows when to ask for help to get unblocked. Comfortable with referencing technical specifications, API references, source code, and man pages to understand concepts or solve issues.
Design process - Understands the role and importance of design, can write good backend specifications Can communicate API specifications and design goals to the end consumers API
Code reviews - Understands the value of peer-reviewed code; learns how to be unbiased and provide effective feedback. Asks senior engineers for help when needed (e.g.: architecture decisions, refactoring)
• More than 3+ years of experience developing serverless applications using public
cloud like Google Cloud/ AWS
• Knowledge of Node. js and frameworks available for it.
• Strong proficiency with JavaScript
• Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds.
• Distributed system development with an understanding of latency, scalability, scheduling, asynchronous programming, and reliability
• Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
• Experience with services common to serverless architectures, like: AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, IAM, Firebase Real Time Database, Google Cloud SQL, Cloud Tasks.
It’s a bonus if you have worked on Google Cloud Project and Firebase.
• Solid Experience with NoSQL and SQL databases is required with proven experience of creating database schemas that represent and support business processes.
• Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system.
• Experience with deploying, maintaining, debugging live systems, and end-to-end testing and analysis
• Experienced in creating micro-services based architectures, reusable components
• Experience building REST APIs and other common application architectures on the above services
• Experience building data processing pipelines
• Solid understanding of code, design, and development practices
• General comfort in exploring, assessing, and learning new frameworks
• High levels of integrity and professionalism, and an ability to channel maximum amounts of energy into the role delivering premium customer service at all times
• Adhere to different Project Management methodologies (Agile etc) and leverage different CI/CD tools
Extra Gems for:
• Google, AWS and/or Industry certifications.
• Familiarity with object storage such as AWS S3, Firebase Storage, in-memory caches such as Redis
• Demonstrated performance of threat modeling, risk assessment techniques, code reviews in the context of DevSecOps security
• Knowledge of Application Monitoring using tools like Google Stackdriver
• Broad familiarity with other languages like J2EE, Python as we write some code in these as well.
• Experience with Github and advanced Github features.
• Experience of working in Product industry
• Open source contributions, interesting hobby projects.
Your responsibilities would include:
• Your primary focus will be the development of reliable server-side logic that would be used by millions of users daily.
• Augmenting an in-house authoritative serverless real-time multiplayer gaming backend catering lakhs of events every second.
• Designing, implementing and optimising low-latency, high-availability, secure and performant system for our end-user; ensuring “awesome” user-experience.
• Defining and maintaining the database, keeping in mind high performance and responsiveness to all requests-rate.
• Have the ownership of designing architecture, developing, maintaining,
debugging, scaling live backend services.
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Our developers have been contributing code to major organizations and open source projects for over 25 years. They’ve also been writing books, speaking at conferences and helping push software development forward, changing companies and even industries along the way. We passionately believe that software quality is driven by open communication, review and collaboration. That’s why we’re such vehement supporters of open source and have made significant contributions to open source tools for testing, continuous delivery (GoCD), continuous integration (CruiseControl), machine learning and healthcare.
As consultants, we https://www.thoughtworks.com/careers/hub/consultant-life">work with our clients to ensure we’re evolving their technology and empowering adaptive mindsets to meet their business goals. You could influence the digital strategy of a retail giant, build a bold new mobile application for a bank or redesign platforms using event sourcing and intelligent data pipelines. You will use the latest Lean and Agile thinking, create pragmatic solutions to solve mission-critical problems and challenge yourself every day.
You’ll spend time on the following:
- You will champion best practices like writing clean and reusable code using practices like TDD, SOLID principles, OO design, and pair programming
- You will partner with other technologists from cross-functional teams advocating devops culture
- You will work in collaborative, product-focused teams to build innovative customer experiences
- Take ownership and accountability beyond individual deliverables, always pushing the envelope in order to deliver awesome results for our clients
- Learn, digest and subsequently apply the latest technology thinking from ourhttps://www.thoughtworks.com/radar"> tech radar to solve client problems
Here’s what we’re looking for:
- You have 2+ years* of experience using two or more development languages (Java, JavaScript, Ruby, C#, etc.) with experience in Object-Oriented programming
- You’re willing and able to commit to traveling up to 100% (back home on the weekends) across the US and Canada to help our clients solve their business problems
- You can write clean, high-quality code in a variety of languages and are also able to spot (and improve) bad code
- You’re resilient in ambiguous situations and can approach challenges from multiple perspectives
- You have experience with Agile, Lean and/or Continuous Delivery approaches such as Continuous Integration, TDD, Infrastructure as Code, etc.
- Bonus points if you have knowledge of cloud technology such as AWS, Docker or Kubernetes
- You’re willing and able to commit to travel to client sites in order to solve their business problems
Must have skills :
JAVA 8, Apache Camel, Design Patterns, Web Services (REST), RabbitMQ, Build Tool (Maven or Gradle), Version Control (SVN or Git), SQL/PLSQL, Javascript, HTML, CSS, JQuery, Application Server (Websphere/JBoss/Weblogic etc.), JUnit.
Preferred skills :
- Spring, Spring MVC, Spring Boot, Hibernate/Spring Data JPA, .
- Experience working on Node JS/Angular JS/React JS
- Working experience on Docker
- Experience working on Agile methodologies
B.E/B.Tech/M.C.A/M.Sc(Computer science ) with first division.
- AWS Cloud exposure.
- Basic skills in using the Unix operating system logging on, sudo to another ID, navigating directory structures, debugging simple problems.
- Hands-on experience with building enterprise applications.
- Excellent trouble-shooting skills.
- Thoroughly understanding business problems and the business domain, and how potential solutions may address problems and enhance business capabilities.
- Experience in designing/development (design patterns) and testing of enterprise class systems.
- Good written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to adapt to changing requirements.
- Ability to take direction and work with minimal supervision.
- Ability to work in deadline driven environment, and respond creatively to pressure.
- Ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously.











