Senior Software Engineer - Java (6 - Months Contract)

Role & Responsibilities

As a Staff Engineer at Locus, you will play a critical role in defining and driving our backend architecture as we scale globally. You’ll own key systems that handle high volumes of data and transactions, ensuring performance, reliability, and maintainability across distributed environments.

Key Responsibilities-

• Own one or more core applications end-to-end, ensuring reliability, performance, and scalability.
• Lead the design, architecture, and development of complex, distributed systems, frameworks, and libraries aligned with Locus’s technical strategy.
• Drive engineering operational excellence by defining robust roadmaps for system reliability, observability, and performance improvements.
• Analyze and optimize existing systems for latency, throughput, and efficiency, ensuring they perform at scale.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Data, and Infrastructure teams to translate business requirements into technical deliverables.
• Mentor and guide engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and continuous learning.
• Establish and uphold coding standards, conduct design and code reviews, and promote best practices across teams.
• Stay ahead of the curve on emerging technologies, frameworks, and patterns to strengthen Locus’s technology foundation.
• Contribute to hiring by identifying and attracting top-tier engineering talent.

Ideal Candidate

• Strong staff engineer profile
• Mandatory (Experience 1): Must have 9+ years in backend engineering with Java, Spring/Spring Boot, and microservices building large and schalable systems
• Mandatory (Experience 2): Must have been SDE-3 / Tech Lead / Lead SE for at least 2.5 years
• Mandatory (Tech skills 1): Strong in DSA, system design, design patterns, and problem-solving
• Mandatory (Tech skills 2): Proven experience building scalable, reliable, high-performance distributed systems
• Mandatory (Tech skills 3): Hands-on with SQL/NoSQL databases, REST/gRPC APIs, concurrency & async processing
• Mandatory (Tech skills 4): Experience in AWS/GCP, CI/CD pipelines, and observability/monitoring
• Mandatory (Communication): Excellent ability to explain complex technical concepts to varied stakeholders
• Mandatory (Company): Product companies (B2B SAAS preferred)
• Mandatory (Stability): Must have stayed for at least 2 years with each of the previous companies
• Mandatory (Education): B.Tech in computer science from Tier 1, Tier 2 colleges

Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Lead by the principle of "customer first" to analyse, debug, develop, and maintain customer-centric software.

• Collaborate closely with multidisciplinary teams to analyse, debug and fix issues with high quality code, zero regressions, scalable, innovative technical solutions.

• Optimizing components for maximum performance and scalability

• Participates in R&D, Proof of Concepts, Prototyping, Code review, Root Causing, etc.

• At least 2-3 yrs of experience in taking full ownership of software development lifecycle including planning, design, architecture, development, test & deployment. And 2+ years of experience in supporting production or customer issues and escalations.

• Review and analyze support tickets that are complex in nature and require more technical knowledge to analyze. Investigate issues to identify root causes and document findings clearly.

• Influences the development practices so that they follow best practices, policies, and procedures.

• Ensure software products meet all non-functional requirements including operational and security needs.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, problem solving skills.

• Address complex technical challenges within software systems, ensuring robustness, compliance, and customer satisfaction.

• Contribute to knowledge base

• Support the Lead and Mentor the team of software engineers and own the technical health of the service the team is working on.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

• Minimum of 5 years of professional experience in Java development with expertise in core Java, JDK, data structures, and multithreading.

• Strong analytical skills with experience in root cause analysis and fixes • Strong experience with Spring and Spring Boot frameworks.

• Strong understanding of software design principles, architecture, and best practices

• Familiarity with server technologies, including Tomcat and WebLogic.

• Proficiency in working with relational databases such as Oracle and PostgreSQL

• Experience with messaging queues, particularly JMS MQ or Artemis MQ.

• Possess exceptional debugging and troubleshooting skills to resolve complex issues across the entire, cross-functional technology stack

• Awareness / exposure to debugging Frontend applications (ReactJS / .Net) is a good to have.

• Exposure to Kubernetes, containerization and cloud (AWS) technologies in building scalable, resilient, and distributed environments.

• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work in a fast-paced and in production customer sensitive environments.

• Strong communication and collaboration skills. Quick learner.

• Experience and knowledge in working in the HRP application – specifically the Claims functionality. Added experience in other areas including Enrollment, Billing, Financials is a plus. Candidate must have worked previously in HRP

• Familiarity with ticketing systems (Jira, SalesForce) and production support workflows.

About Telstra:

Telstra is Australia’s leading telecommunications and technology company, with operations in more than 20 countries. At Telstra, We've implemented an IT strategy that employs leading-edge software engineering practices to help deliver a superior customer experience with improved trust and speed of delivery, lower cost, and simplified architecture, systems and processes.

Your key responsibilities and major tasks include, but are not limited to

• As a backend Java developer, you will work within a specific problem space critical to Telstra’s current needs where you will design, develop, and deploy backend services with a focus on scalability, high availability, and low latency.
• Review and integrate all application requirements, including functional, security, integration, performance, quality, and operations requirements.
• Apply engineering best practices such as Agile, CI/CD, and DevOps as part of a high performing motivated team.
• Collaborate and grow in a dynamic and autonomous environment while working in small, agile, and cross functional teams
• Pivot to working on new features and developments, to providing production support in the production and pre-production environments assisted by all team members. This responsibility is equally shared by all members of the team.
  
  

We are looking for candidates with the following experience and skills:

Essential skills and Experience

• 3 years – 7 years year experience in this area
• Must have strong Java programming background (preferably Java 8+)​
• Preferred Frameworks – Spring Boot​
• Unit Testing, Integration testing and Automated testing. ​
• Experience with Continuous Integration/Deployment​
• Microservices development – HTTP, REST API​ design and implementation​
• Comfortable to operate in an agile, dynamic environment​.

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 –

• The Architect/ Lead Backend Engineer will handle the digital experience from inception to go-live model.
• The role holder is expected to create a vision and roadmap for the digital experience to provide best in class customer experience for each of the product solutions handled.  The role holder will play a critical role in leading the innovation and growth of our front end web and mobile platforms.
• Must be from Good Companies and have been working on high Scale of Traffic
• Proficiency in engineering practices and writing high quality code, with expertise in either one of Java or Groovy or Go.
• 3+ years of experience building microservices.
• Strong experience in architecting and building distributed systems, scalability, and availability
• Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and designing for performance
• Strong knowledge of cloud technologies like AWS/Google Cloud/Azure
• Good understanding of RxJava or Actors framework
• Proficient with RDBMS
• Strong knowledge on data stores, database design, data modelling and SQL queries
• Extensive experience building and owning large- scale distributed backend systems
• Experience working with three or more of : Unix/Linux environments, Distributed and parallel systems, Workflow automation, CI/CD Platform development, Cloud platforms development e.g. AWS/GCP, Kubernetes/Container platforms based development 

• You will design, build and own APIs and Services, which will be the core of the product.
• You will participate in continuing education and training to remain current on best practices, learn new programming languages, and better assist other team members.
• You will part of developing ideas for new programs, products, or features by monitoring industry developments and trends.
• You will have to take lead on projects, compile and analyze data, processes, and codes to troubleshoot problems and identify areas of improvement.

REQUIREMENTS

• 3-5 years of experience in building highly scalable backend systems.
• Fluency or understanding of specific languages, such as JAVA, Operating System may be required, and Experience in Databases such as MySQL or Postgre SQL
• Strong understanding of Computer Science Fundamentals, Data Structures and Algorithms, SOLID Design Principles, and REST Patterns.
• Focus on efficiency, user experience, and process improvement.
• Excellent project and time management skills.
• Strong problem-solving and communication skills.
• Ability to work independently or with a group

ABOUT THE JOB

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our team. We believe in giving engineers responsibility, not tasks. Our goal is to motivate and challenge people to do their best work. To do that, we have a very fluid structure and give people flexibility to work on projects that they enjoy the most. This develops more capable engineers, and keeps everyone engaged and happy.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain and improve the software.

• Manage individual projects priorities, deadlines and deliverables with your technical expertise.

• Identify and solve for bottlenecks within our software stack.

ABOUT YOU

Rubrik Software Engineers are self-starters, driven, and can manage themselves.  Bottom line, if you have a limitless drive and like to win, we want to talk to you - come make history! 

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree or equivalent in computer science or related field
• 8+ years of relevant work experience, 
• Proficiency in one or more general purpose programming languages like Java, C/C++, Scala, Python
• Experience with Google Cloud Platform/AWS/Azure or other public cloud technologies is a plus
• Experience working with two or more from the following: Unix/Linux environments, Windows environments, distributed systems, networking, developing large software systems, file systems, storage systems, hypervisors, databases and/or security software development.

 ABOUT THE TEAM

Galactus team owns the end to end development of Rubrik’s data management suite for commercial public clouds - AWS, Azure and GCP. Our objective is to bring the simplicity of Rubrik’s on-prem data protection and management offerings to our customers in the cloud through a solution designed from ground up to be highly scalable, available & secure and yet optimized to minimize our customer’s cloud costs. We achieve this by taking a cloud-first approach to design - leveraging technologies built for the scale, elasticity and automation needs of the cloud; and deploying on our brand new SaaS platform called Polaris.

Recently we have :-

• Built policy based backup and recovery for Virtual Machines in AWS, Azure and GCP and managed databases in AWS.

• Built features like granular file recovery leveraging managed Kubernetes Service in AWS for elastic compute

 ABOUT RUBRIK

Rubrik is one of the fastest-growing companies in Silicon Valley, revolutionising data protection, and management in the emerging multi-cloud world. We are the leader in cloud data management, delivering a single platform to manage and protect data in the cloud, at the edge, and on-premises. Enterprises choose Rubrik to simplify backup and recovery, accelerate cloud adoption, enable automation at scale, and secure against cyberthreats. We’ve been recognized as a Forbes Cloud 100 Company two years in a row and as a LinkedIn Top 10 startup. 

Rubrik provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, Rubrik complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.