Senior Software Engineer

About Vijay Sales

Vijay Sales is a leading eCommerce and retail brand delivering exceptional experiences to customers across India. Leveraging technology to enhance shopping experiences, we are on a mission to create seamless omnichannel platforms and innovative solutions for our customers. Join our dynamic team to shape the future of retail technology.

Role Overview

As a Lead Backend Engineer, you will drive the development and optimization of robust backend systems for our products built on the MERN (MongoDB, Express.js, React, Node.js) stack. You'll lead a talented team of developers, design scalable architectures, and ensure the seamless integration of backend functionalities with our frontend systems.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development, and deployment of backend systems for Vijay Sales' products.
• Architect scalable, secure, and high-performance APIs and microservices.
• Mentor and guide a team of backend developers, ensuring best practices in coding, architecture, and DevOps.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including frontend engineers, DevOps, and product managers, to deliver end-to-end solutions.
• Optimize database structures and queries for performance and scalability.
• Implement and oversee CI/CD pipelines to streamline deployment processes.
• Troubleshoot and resolve performance bottlenecks, security issues, and other technical challenges.
• Stay updated on industry trends, tools, and technologies to continuously improve our stack.

Skills and Qualifications

Must-Have:

• Proven experience as a backend engineer with expertise in the MERN stack (Node.js, Express.js, MongoDB).
• Strong understanding of RESTful APIs and GraphQL.
• Proficiency in database design, indexing, and optimization (MongoDB is preferred).
• Hands-on experience with containerization tools like Docker and orchestration platforms like Kubernetes.
• Strong knowledge of authentication/authorization frameworks (JWT, OAuth2).
• Experience with cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Proficiency in DevOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines and version control systems (Git).
• Excellent problem-solving skills and a proactive attitude toward innovation.

Nice-to-Have:

• Experience in building scalable eCommerce platforms or omni-channel systems.
• Knowledge of front-end technologies (React.js) for seamless backend integration.
• Familiarity with message brokers.
• Serverless and Micro Architectures
• Exposure to AI/ML-driven applications for personalization and recommendation engines.

What you'll do?

●    Develop on server-side cloud software using a serverless approach (AWS).

●    Work hands-on on bringing to life IoT and Edge architectures and applications

●    Work with teams on delivering key features and performance targets.

Who You Are?

●    Passionate individual who loves to develop scalable backend

●    Strong programming capabilities

●    Understanding of cloud architecture and protocols.

●    Clear thought process, believe in simplifying rather than complicating

●    Argue and fight over opinions. Believe in always choosing the best

You Should Have

●    Experience on NoSQL Databases and designing REST API.

●    Strong fundamentals of Data structure and algorithm.

●    Done related projects during graduation/post-graduation.

●    Experience on AWS, AWS Lambda, AWS IoT Core, AWS Cloud Watch is a big plus.

Proficiency in Python 

Job Role-12 months(contract) which is extendable /permnanent

Required Skills:

• Advanced Java skills, Spring, Spring Boot, REST APIs,
• Intermediate in Design Patterns and Principles
• Application is moving into PCF  any cloud native experience is helpful
• DB:  Oracle, SQL Server, RDBMS
• Network Infrastructure knowledge is helpful (work with network support team to troubleshoot)
• Production support skills are highly preferred.
• CI/ CD knowledge is helpful
• Junit for unit testing
• Java certifications are a huge plus

Job Description:

• An ideal candidate is someone who works well with a cohesive team-oriented group of engineers, who have a passion for developing software, who enjoy solving problems in a challenging environment, and who have the desire to take their career to the next level.
• Participate in and lead day to day system development and maintenance activities of the team to meet service level agreements (SLAs) and create solutions with high level of innovation, cost effectiveness, high quality and faster time to market.
• Accountable for full systems development life cycle including creating high quality requirements documents, use-cases, design and other technical artifacts including but not limited to detailed test strategy/test design, performance benchmarking, release rollout and deployment plans, contingency/back-out plans, feasibility study, cost and time analysis and detailed estimates.
• Research and evaluate current and upcoming technologies and frameworks.
• Participate in PoCs (Proof of Concept) and help the Department with selection of Vendor Solutions, Technologies, Methodologies and Frameworks.
• Collaborate with Vendor Resources for Support of Products.
• Conduct brownbag sessions on new and upcoming technologies, methodologies and application appropriate frameworks. Ensure knowledge transfer of vendor technology to *** staff. Provide technical training to the other team members.
  
  

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Information Technology, Computer Science or Engineering or equivalent work experience.
• 3 to 5 years of experience in related field.
• Broad understanding of Software Engineering Concepts and Methodologies is required.
• Back end Java Development
• API- Restful Services
• Automated Unit Testing (J Unit)
• Spring MVC
• SQL skills- Ability to work with tables, views, and stored procedures
• GIT
• Must be high-energy, detail-oriented, proactive and have the ability to function under pressure in an independent environment.
• Must provide the necessary skills to have a high degree of initiative and self-motivation to drive results.
• Possesses strong communication skills -- both verbal and written and strong relationship, collaborative skills and organizational skills.
• Willingness and ability to learn and take on challenging opportunities and to work as a member of matrix based diverse and geographically distributed project team.

Working as a “Backend Developer” at Bonzai gives you the opportunity to work on maintaining and improving the platform.

• Work on the entire product lifecycle starting from design to deployment and monitoring.
• Explore new technologies such as Kotlin, patterns such as Domain-Driven Design and other cool stuff such as Gitlab CI/CD pipelines, Docker, ECS, Golang, Python, Terraform, distributed tracing and even Haskell.
• Ensure top-notch performance in terms of product and feature experience.

• 2 - 3 yrs of experience in Java, Spring Boot, Hibernate, Rest API, and MySQL.
• Good to have experience/knowledge of other programming languages such as Kotlin or Python, other DBs such as Redshift, platforms such as AWS and architectural patterns such as https://martinfowler.com/bliki/DomainDrivenDesign.html">Domain-Driven Design (DDD) and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexagonal_architecture_(software)">Hexagonal architecture.
• Good understanding of Object-oriented concepts, Functional programming and Design Patterns.
• Exceptional communication skills and ability to articulate complex ideas in written, spoken and visual language
• Bachelor in engineering preferably from a leading institute across the globe.

Location: Bangalore

Function: Software Engineering → Backend Development

Requirements:

• 4 + years of experience in Java, Spring, Hibernate, Springboot/microservices
• Good understanding and practical experience in Spring framework ( Spring boot,JPA,MVC)
• Extensively worked on microservices based design architecture
• Strong command on Data Structures, algorithms & Problem Solving
• Very strong on Oops Java Basic,
• Good on Multithreading Concepts
• Should have good exposure on Messaging platform (Kafka,JMS, AMQ etc,)

About Bigbasket.com

At bigbasket.com we believe in being smart, quick and efficient, making your life as leisurely as possible. We understand that in this fast-paced world, time is always of the essence and hence want to make your grocery shopping easy and convenient so that no time is wasted in this process. So, no more hassle of going down to the grocery store and long queues for billing etc. You can browse through our varied range of products at bigbasket.com, order them and get them to be delivered at your own convenient time slot.

We specially hand pick each and every product for you, putting it through a safety packaging process and finding your home, no matter how bad the wind is or how cold the weather is. Our ''No questions asked refund' and ''10% off for a delayed delivery'' policy makes us a customer friendly online food and grocery store. Just follow three simple steps and get your order delivered - simply Browse, Add to cart & Choose delivery slot!

Why Explore a Career at Bigbasket.com

Bigbasket engineering thrives on out of the box thinking and relentless pursuit of excellence. We are looking for senior developers who share our passion for building world class software. If you are excited about the prospect of changing the way India shops for groceries and being a pioneer -- then this a great home for you. Not to mention the thrill of building products that millions use on a daily basis and using cutting edge technology to make the products customers love.

While we are techies at heart -- we don't use technology for the sake of technology, but pride ourselves in solving customer problems in the most efficient and elegant ways. Do the customers really care about efficient implementation of Levenshtein Distance? Well no. But they really appreciate when their typos are pardoned and don't get in the way. Similarly customers don't give a damn that robots efficiently segregate their packets, but they do care about their orders delivered in a timely way.

If you enjoy Coding, Testing and love solving business problems, then we'd like to meet you.

• At least 2-5 years of working experience in web services, preferably in Python
• Should have built and released APIs in production
• Experience working with RDBMS and NoSQL databases
• Designing thoughtful, extensible data models
• Knowledge of identifying, defining and building micro-services
• Working knowledge of GCS, AWS, Azure or any other cloud provider
• Aggressive problem diagnosis and creative problem-solving skills
• Good communication skills - written and spoken