Senior Software Engineer (Java)

Job Title: Senior Java Developer – Multi-SaaS / Microservices / Pub-Sub

About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Java Developer with strong leadership abilities to join our team. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in Java, micro services architecture, multi-tenant SaaS systems, pub/sub messaging, and cloud-based deployments on AWS EKS. This role requires not only technical mastery but also the ability to mentor teams, influence architecture decisions, and ensure best practices through Test-Driven Development (TDD).

Key Responsibilities

• Lead design and development of Java-based multi-tenant SaaS applications using microservices architecture.
• Implement pub/sub messaging systems for event-driven communication.
• Deploy, monitor, and optimize services on AWS EKS.
• Ensure system reliability, scalability, and security using AWS CloudWatch and other observability tools.
• Apply TDD principles to drive high-quality, maintainable code.
• Collaborate with product managers, architects, and other developers to translate requirements into technical solutions.
• Lead code reviews, mentor junior engineers, and promote engineering best practices.
• Take ownership of end-to-end delivery, from architecture design to production rollout.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Proficiency in Java with 6+ years of professional development experience.
• Strong background in microservices architecture and multi-tenant SaaS systems.
• Expertise in pub/sub messaging patterns (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ, or AWS SNS/SQS).
• Hands-on experience with AWS EKS and container orchestration (Kubernetes).
• Strong understanding of monitoring and logging using AWS CloudWatch or similar tools.
• Proven experience applying Test-Driven Development (TDD) in real-world projects.
• Demonstrated leadership skills – mentoring, decision-making, and driving engineering excellence.
• Solid understanding of software engineering best practices, CI/CD, and version control (Git).

Company Overview:

Virtana delivers the industry’s only unified platform for Hybrid Cloud Performance, Capacity and Cost Management. Our platform provides unparalleled, real-time visibility into the performance, utilization, and cost of infrastructure across the hybrid cloud – empowering customers to manage their mission critical applications across physical, virtual, and cloud computing environments. Our SaaS platform allows organizations to easily manage and optimize their spend in the public cloud, assure resources are performing properly through real-time monitoring, and provide the unique ability to plan migrations across the hybrid cloud. 

As we continue to expand our portfolio, we are seeking a highly skilled and hands-on Staff Software Engineer in backend technologies to contribute to the futuristic development of our sophisticated monitoring products.

Position Overview:

As a Staff Software Engineer specializing in backend technologies for Storage and Network monitoring in an AI enabled Data center as well as Cloud, you will play a critical role in designing, developing, and delivering high-quality features within aggressive timelines. Your expertise in microservices-based streaming architectures and strong hands-on development skills are essential to solve complex problems related to large-scale data processing. Proficiency in backend technologies such as Java, Python is crucial.

Key Responsibilities:

• Hands-on Development: Actively participate in the design, development, and delivery of high-quality features, demonstrating strong hands-on expertise in backend technologies like Java, Python, Go or related languages.
• Microservices and Streaming Architectures: Design and implement microservices-based streaming architectures to efficiently process and analyze large volumes of data, ensuring real-time insights and optimal performance.
• Agile Development: Collaborate within an agile development environment to deliver features on aggressive schedules, maintaining a high standard of quality in code, design, and architecture.
• Feature Ownership: Take ownership of features from inception to deployment, ensuring they meet product requirements and align with the overall product vision.
• Problem Solving and Optimization: Tackle complex technical challenges related to data processing, storage, and real-time monitoring, and optimize backend systems for high throughput and low latency.
• Code Reviews and Best Practices: Conduct code reviews, provide constructive feedback, and promote best practices to maintain a high-quality and maintainable codebase.
• Collaboration and Communication: Work closely with cross-functional teams, including UI/UX designers, product managers, and QA engineers, to ensure smooth integration and alignment with product goals.
• Documentation: Create and maintain technical documentation, including system architecture, design decisions, and API documentation, to facilitate knowledge sharing and onboarding.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• 8+ years of hands-on experience in backend development, demonstrating expertise in Java, Python or related technologies.
• Strong domain knowledge in Storage and Networking, with exposure to monitoring technologies and practices.
• Experience is handling the large data-lakes with purpose-built data stores (Vector databases, no-SQL, Graph, Time-series).
• Practical knowledge of OO design patterns and Frameworks like Spring, Hibernate.
• Extensive experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure or GCP and development expertise on Kubernetes, Docker, etc.
• Solid experience designing and delivering features with high quality on aggressive schedules.
• Proven experience in microservices-based streaming architectures, particularly in handling large amounts of data for storage and networking monitoring.
• Familiarity with performance optimization techniques and principles for backend systems.
• Excellent problem-solving and critical-thinking abilities.
• Outstanding communication and collaboration skills.

Why Join Us:

• Opportunity to be a key contributor in the development of a leading performance monitoring company specializing in AI-powered Storage and Network monitoring.
• Collaborative and innovative work environment.
• Competitive salary and benefits package.
• Professional growth and development opportunities.
• Chance to work on cutting-edge technology and products that make a real impact.

If you are a hands-on technologist with a proven track record of designing and delivering high-quality features on aggressive schedules and possess strong expertise in microservices-based streaming architectures, we invite you to apply and help us redefine the future of performance monitoring.

Role: Java Developer

Overall: 4 to 8 Years

Location: Chennai

Notice: Immediate to short joiners

Job Description:

We are looking for a skilled and enthusiastic Java Developer to join our team in Chennai. The ideal candidate should have strong hands-on experience in Java development with a focus on backend frameworks such as Spring Boot and Hibernate. If you’re passionate about clean code, scalable applications, and delivering robust software solutions—this is the role for you.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, test, and maintain backend applications using Java, Spring Boot, and Hibernate.
• Write efficient, scalable, and reusable code.
• Participate in design discussions, code reviews, and deliver high-quality software.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.
• Troubleshoot, debug, and upgrade existing systems.
• Ensure best practices in software development and Agile methodologies.

Required Skills:

• Strong proficiency in Core Java (Java 8 or above).
• Hands-on experience with Spring Boot and Hibernate.
• Proficient in working with RESTful APIs and Web Services.
• Experience with SQL and relational databases (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL).
• Familiarity with version control tools like Git.
• Knowledge of software development lifecycle and Agile practices.

Job Summary:

As a Java Spring Boot Developer, you will play a key role in designing, developing, and maintaining robust backend services and APIs. With 2.5+ years of experience, including knowledge in Kotlin, you will work alongside a cross-functional team to build scalable and performant systems.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable Java and Kotlin code
• Build and consume RESTful APIs and microservices using Spring Boot
• Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications
• Collaborate with product managers, QA engineers, and DevOps for end-to-end delivery
• Troubleshoot and resolve performance bottlenecks, bugs, and technical issues
• Participate in code reviews, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• 2.5+ years of experience with Java and Spring Boot
• Strong understanding of RESTful APIs, MVC, and microservices architecture
• Experience with relational and NoSQL databases
• Proficiency with Git and Agile/Scrum methodologies

Preferred Skills:

• Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD tools
• Exposure to cloud platforms such as AWS or Azure
• Experience with unit testing and test automation frameworks

We're seeking passionate, next-gen minded engineers who are excited about solving complex technical challenges and building innovative, first-of-its-kind products which make a tangible difference for our customers. As a Backend SDE-1, you will play a key role in driving strategic initiatives, collaborating with cross-functional teams across business, product, and operations to solve exciting problems. This role demands strong technical acumen, leadership capabilities, and a mindset focused on innovation and operational excellence.

We value individuals who think independently, challenge the status quo, and bring creativity and curiosity to the table—not those who simply follow instructions. If you're passionate about solving problems and making an impact, we'd love to hear from you.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategic Planning: Work closely with senior leadership to develop and implement engineering strategies that support business objectives. Understand broader organization goals and constantly prioritise your own work.
• Technical Excellence: Understand the onground problems, explore and design various possible solutions to conclude and implement scalable, extensible and secure software systems. Implement and learn best practices in technical architecture, coding standards, and software testing to ensure product delivery with highest speed AND quality.
• Project and Program Management: Setting up aggressive as well as realistic timelines with all the stakeholders, ensure the successful delivery of engineering projects as per the defined timelines with best quality standards ensuring budget constraints are met. Use agile methodologies to manage the development process and resolve bottlenecks.
• Cross-functional collaboration: Collaborate with Product Managers, Design, Business, and Operations teams to define project requirements and deliverables. Ensure the smooth integration of engineering efforts across the organization.
• Risk Management: Anticipate and mitigate technical risks and roadblocks. Proactively identify areas of technical debt and drive initiatives to reduce it.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• 1+ years of experience in software engineering
• Excellent problem-solving skills, with the ability to diagnose and resolve complex technical challenges.
• Strong understanding of software design principles and patterns.
• Hands on with multiple programming languages and modern development frameworks.
• Understanding of relational and non-relational databases.
• Experience with Redis, ElasticSearch.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and inspire teams and stakeholders at all levels.

Skills:- MySQL, Python, Django, AWS, NoSQL, Kafka, Redis, ElasticSearch

About the Role 

As a result of our rapid growth, we are looking for a Java Backend Engineer to join our existing Cloud Engineering team and take the lead in the design and development of several key initiatives of our existing Miko3 product line as well as our new product development initiatives. 

Responsibilities 

•  Designing, developing and maintaining core system features, services and engines
• Collaborating with a cross functional team of the backend, Mobile application, AI, signal processing, robotics Engineers, Design, Content, and Linguistic Team to realize the requirements of conversational social robotics platform which includes investigate design approaches, prototype new technology, and evaluate technical feasibility
• Ensure the developed backend infrastructure is optimized for scale and responsiveness 
• Ensure best practices in design, development, security, monitoring, logging, and DevOps adhere to the execution of the project. 
• Introducing new ideas, products, features by keeping track of the latest developments and industry trends 
• Operating in an Agile/Scrum environment to deliver high quality software against aggressive schedules

Requirements 

• Proficiency in distributed application development lifecycle (concepts of authentication/authorization, security, session management, load balancing, API gateway), programming techniques and tools (application of tested, proven development paradigms)  
• Proficiency in working on Linux based Operating system. 
• Working Knowledge of container orchestration platform like Kubernetes
• Proficiency in at least one server-side programming language like Java. Additional languages like Python and PHP are a plus 
• Proficiency in at least one server-side framework like Servlets, Spring, java spark (Java). 
• Proficient in using ORM/Data access frameworks like Hibernate,JPA with spring or other server-side frameworks. 
• Proficiency in at least one data serialization framework: Apache Thrift, Google ProtoBuffs, Apache Avro,Google Json,JackSon etc. 
• Proficiency in at least one of inter process communication frameworks WebSocket's, RPC, message queues, custom HTTP libraries/frameworks ( kryonet, RxJava ), etc.  
• Proficiency in multithreaded programming and Concurrency concepts (Threads, Thread Pools, Futures, asynchronous programming). 
• Experience defining system architectures and exploring technical feasibility tradeoffs (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling)
• Experience developing cloud software services and an understanding of design for scalability, performance and reliability
• Good understanding of networking and communication protocols, and proficiency in identification CPU, memory & I/O bottlenecks, solve read & write-heavy workloads. 
• Proficiency is concepts of monolithic and microservice architectural paradigms. 
• Proficiency in working on at least one of cloud hosting platforms like Amazon AWS, Google Cloud, Azure etc.   
• Proficiency in at least one of database SQL, NO-SQL, Graph databases like MySQL, MongoDB, Orientdb 
• Proficiency in at least one of testing frameworks or tools JMeter, Locusts, Taurus 
• Proficiency in at least one RPC communication framework: Apache Thrift, GRPC is an added plus 
• Proficiency in asynchronous libraries (RxJava), frameworks (Akka),Play,Vertx is an added plus 
• Proficiency in functional programming ( Scala ) languages is an added plus 
• Proficiency in working with NoSQL/graph databases is an added plus 
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git is an added plus 
• Working Knowledge of tools for server, application metrics logging and monitoring and is a plus Monit, ELK, graylog is an added plus 
• Working Knowledge of DevOps containerization utilities like Ansible, Salt, Puppet is an added plus 
• Working Knowledge of DevOps containerization technologies like Docker, LXD is an added plus  

• 3+ year of experience in Development in JAVA technology.
• Strong Java Basics
• SpringBoot or Spring MVC
• Hands on experience on Relationl Databases (SQL query or Hibernate) + Mongo (JSON parsing)
• Proficient in REST API development
• Messaging Queue (RabitMQ or Kafka)
• Microservices
• Any Caching Mechanism
• Good at problem solving

Good to Have Skills:

• 3+ years of experience in using Java/J2EE tech stacks
• Good understanding of data structures and algorithms.
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills.
• Ability to work in a fast paced internet start-up environment.
• Experience in technical mentorship/coaching is highly desirable.
• Understanding of AI/ML algorithms is a plus.

Responsibilities & ownership

• Lead, build, deliver and ensure customer success of next-generation features related to scalability, reliability, robustness, usability, security, and performance of the product.
• Work on distributed systems for data processing with efficient protocols and communication, locking and consensus, schedulers, resource management, low latency access to distributed storage, auto scaling, and self healing.
• Understand and reason about concurrency and parallelization to deliver scalability and performance in a multithreaded and distributed environment.
• Lead the team to solve complex and unknown problems 
• Solve technical problems and customer issues with technical expertise
• Design and deliver architectures that run optimally on public clouds like  GCP, AWS, and Azure
• Mentor other team members for high quality and design 
• Collaborate with Product Management to deliver on customer requirements and innovation
• Collaborate with Support and field teams to ensure that customers are successful with Dremio

Requirements

• B.S./M.S/Equivalent in Computer Science or a related technical field or equivalent experience
• Fluency in Java/C++ with 3alm+ years of experience developing production-level software
• Strong foundation in data structures, algorithms, multi-threaded and asynchronous programming models, and their use in developing distributed and scalable systems
• 5+ years experience in developing complex and scalable distributed systems and delivering, deploying, and managing microservices successfully
• Hands-on experience  in query processing or optimization, distributed systems, concurrency control, data replication, code generation, networking, and storage systems
• Passion for quality, zero downtime upgrades, availability, resiliency, and uptime of the platform
• Passion for learning and delivering using latest technologies
• Ability to solve ambiguous, unexplored, and cross-team problems effectively
• Hands on experience of working projects on AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform 
• Experience with containers and Kubernetes for orchestration and container management in private and public clouds (AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud) 
• Understanding of distributed file systems such as  S3, ADLS, or HDFS
• Excellent communication skills and affinity for collaboration and teamwork
• Ability to work individually and collaboratively with other team members
• Ability to scope and plan solution for  big problems and mentors others on the same
• Interested and motivated to be part of a fast-moving startup with a fun and accomplished team