Senior Software Engineer-I

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and deploy scalable Java applications.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and deliver new 

features.

• Solve complex technical problems with innovative, simple solutions.

• Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code.

• Participate in code reviews to maintain code quality.

• Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize 

development efficiency.

• Exhibit ownership and responsibility for assigned deliverables.

Qualifications and Required Skills

• 3 to 6 years of hands-on Java development experience.

• Strong experience in building products or applications from scratch (not just 

maintenance/support).

• Good understanding of object-oriented programming principles.

• Experience with frameworks like Spring, Spring Boot, Hibernate, etc.

• Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and design patterns.

• Should have strong problem-solving abilities.

• Familiarity with RESTful APIs and microservices architecture is a plus.

• Solid understanding of database technologies (SQL, NoSQL).

• Exposure to cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) will be an advantage.

• Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills

Pickyourtrail (PYT) is an expert co-creator of super hit customised holidays. We are the perfect partner to the ‘designated travel planner/s’ of every group - big or small. Our service, customisation and expertise help us deliver super hit holidays and make the planner the hero of the holiday. 

PickYourTrail is a technology-driven travel company building personalized, end-to-end travel experiences. Our platform powers dynamic itinerary creation, real-time pricing, booking orchestration, and post-booking workflows at scale. We operate in a high-throughput, real-time environment where backend systems are critical to business success.

What are we looking for in you?

You are enthusiastic about developing highly scalable, foolproof, end-to-end quality software. You have worked on api integrations, have a good understanding of api docs, SOAP, REST, rate limiter and caching. You are very passionate about data structures and algorithms. You are flexible in working with multidisciplinary teams and you push your teammates to their limits & ensure that the work is done. You consider AI as your friend and use them in all facets to augment your work, as your pair programmer, code reviewer and design philosopher. If you feel we are talking about you, contact us asap.

Who will you work with?

Being a part of a small team of backend engineers, you get to solve a wide range of problems in the travel space. Be it feature discussion, solution design, development, dev testing, deployment, enhancement or maintenance, you get to experience everything.

What's in it for you?

• Opportunity to contribute and solve interesting problems in the travel space.
• Solve for scalability, availability and performance along with functional integrations.
• Freedom to explore solutions rather than getting tied down by rigid standards.
• Work with some of the best techies in the industry
• An environment where Attitude is higher than Skill and performance scores over politics
• Take the product to the next level that has an impact on the end customer

What you'll bring to the team?

• Good understanding of data structures and algorithms
• Good experience in System & Solution design.
• Working knowledge of Java, Web Services, SOAP, REST and Spring Boot.
• Experience working with coding assistants like co-pilot, Claude desktop etc.
• Knowledge of GIT version control
• Good knowledge of any database (MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle)
• Knowledge of Unit testing is a must
• Fair debugging skills

• Understand the requirement and convert that into API design.
• Write the code independently 
• Unit testing and bug fixing
• Write code with standards and conventions and follow best practices.
• Know how to engineer a full-fledged system and not just write code to make things work.
• Knowledge of agile methodologies, scrum.
• Should be able to guide juniors.
• Communication with clients for requirement understanding.
• Code Merging and deployment

• REST APIs in Spring Boot and Spring Framework
• MySQL Database, complex SQL queries (like joining multiple tables)
• Spring Security, JWT Tokens
• Third party Integration
• Unix basic commands
• Apache Tomcat, Deployment of War in Unix environment.
• Jira or any other Issue/Task tracking systems.

Experience:

The candidate should have about 5+ years of experience with design and development in Java/Scala. Experience in algorithm, data-structure, database and architectures of distributed System is mandatory.

Required Skills:

1. In-depth knowledge of Hadoop, Spark architecture and its components such as HDFS, YARN and executor, cores and memory param
2. Knowledge of Scala and Java both
3. Extensive experience in developing spark job. Should possess good Oops knowledge and be aware of enterprise application design patterns.
4. Good knowledge of Unix/Linux.
5. Experience working on large-scale software projects
6. Understanding the big picture and the various uses cases involved while crafting the solution and documenting them in Unified Modeling language.
7. Own and maintain the architecture document.
8. Keep an eye out for technological trends, open-source projects that can be used.
9. Knows common programming languages and Frameworks.
10. Real time streaming data consumption

Good to have :

1. Azure/AWS Cloud Knowledge of Data Storage and Compute side
2. Knowledge Multitenant Architecture
3. Brief idea of Data Science