We are looking for Senior Backend Engineers to design and build the systems that power our core business of lending and loan processing. As a Senior Backend Engineer you will be expected to contribute significantly to your team. Your work is consistently of high quality. You solve complex problems, applying appropriate technologies, design patterns, and best practices. Your focus is on a major portion of existing or new team software. You work with your team to design and build software that is secure, correct, observable, and resilient. Your solutions are pragmatic. You identify the proper level of complexity for a task and advise your peers and manager on technical approach.
What you’ll do
- Design, implement, and maintain developer-friendly APIs and services
- Contribute to code and architecture reviews to keep our code quality high
- Debug and resolve production issues; take part in blameless postmortems
- Plan and execute smooth migrations to new technology as a way of managing technical debt
- Build tools and automation for our business and operations teams
- Make decisions on trade offs such as: Reuse versus introducing dependencies; Extensibility versus over-engineering; and Maintainability versus time to delivery (via short-term workarounds)
- Contribute to the improvement of your team’s code review standards, design discussions, team planning, and AARs.
You may shine in this role if you
- Have a track record of shipping software in a distributed systems environment
- Are enthusiastic about collaborating across departments to solve challenging problems
- Are pragmatic about the need to release less-than-perfect software and continuously iterate on it
- Can identify and articulate trade-offs in software and data design
- Can communicate both technical and business requirements fluently
- Are excited about both learning new things and teaching others
We speak mainly in javascript and golang, though we are open to engineers with different backgrounds and languages

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Job Title: Java Developer
Location: Mumbai
Job Type: Full-Time
Experience Level: 4- 8 years
Job Overview:
We are looking for a highly skilled Java Developer to join our development team. As a Java Developer, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining robust Java applications that meet high standards of performance and reliability. The ideal candidate will have strong analytical skills, excellent problem-solving capabilities, and a deep understanding of Java and its ecosystem.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, and maintain reliable Java applications.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to analyze requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
- Write clean, efficient, and scalable code.
- Develop and integrate APIs and web services.
- Conduct software analysis, testing, and debugging.
- Optimize application performance, scalability, and security.
- Participate in code reviews and contribute to best practices.
Required Skills:
- Proficiency in Java and Java EE (Enterprise Edition).
- Strong understanding of Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) concepts.
- Experience with Spring Framework (Spring Boot, Spring MVC) and Hibernate.
- Familiarity with RESTful API design and development.
- Knowledge of SQL and database management systems like MySQL, PostgreSQL, or Oracle.
- Experience with version control systems like Git.
- Familiarity with build tools like Maven or Gradle.
- Solid understanding of application security, data protection, and performance optimization.
- Strong experience in Core Java, Multi-Threading, data structures (List/Map/Set) and unit testing
- with (Junit, Mockito)
- Strong experience with Spring Framework (Spring MVC, Spring REST, Spring Data), ORM
- frameworks (JPA, Hibernate) and RDBMS (Oracle/MySQL/Postgres)
- Strong experience in applying Object-Oriented design principles and Design Patterns
- Good knowledge of Multi-Tier architecture, Micro Services architecture and Service Oriented
- Architecture
- Exposure to AWS Cloud, NoSQL Database (Mongo, Cassandra), Message Broker (Active
- MQ/RabbitMQ/Apache Kafka) and Big Data Technologies (Hadoop/Hive/Spark)
- Additionally, must possess capability to review code, produce technical specification document
- and knowledge of code quality tools (PMD/FindBugs/Sonar)
You will be working hands-on on a complex and compound product that has the potential to be used by millions of sales and marketing people around the world. Your contribution to delivering an excellent product platform that:
- enables quick iteration
- supports product customization
- and handles scale
What do we expect you to have?
- 2+ years of experience in backend engineering
- An intent to learn and an urge to build a product by learning different technologies
- Interest in writing complex, scalable, and maintainable backend applications
- Tech stack requirements:
Must haves
- Experience in building application server in Java (Spring / Spring boot) / NodeJS / Golang / Python
- Experience in using SQL databases and designing schemas based on application need
- Experience with container services and runtimes (docker / docker-compose / k8s)
- Experience with cloud paas (AWS / GCP / Azure cloud)
- Experience and familiarity with microservices’ concepts
- Experience with bash scripting
Good to have (Preferred)
- Preferred experience with org wide message queue (rabbitmq / aws sqs)
- Preferred experience with task orchestration services (apache airflow / aws step function)
- Preferred experience with infra as code (or system configuration) tools (terraform / chef / ansible)
- Preferred experience with build essential tools (make / makefile)
- Preferred experience with monitoring and tracing systems for performance / system / application monitoring (grafana + loki + prometheus / aws cloudwatch)
What will you learn?
- Building highly available, complex, compound, performant systems of microservices platform that acts as an API layer
- Industry-standard state-of-the-art tools + methodologies + frameworks + infra for building a product.
- Fable is not a trivial CRUD app. It requires a lot of consideration and care for building the API layer as the product is highly customizable per user.
- How different functions (sales, marketing, product, engineering) in a high-velocity product company work in synergy to deliver an iterative product in real life.
Who would you be working with?
- You would be directly working with the co-founder & CTO who has built multiple companies before and has built large teams in large-scale companies like ThoughtSpot, Unacademy, etc.
Position details
- Fully remote.
- 5 days/week (all public and government holidays will be non-working days).
- No specific work hours (we will sync over zoom over the course of the day).
Must have experience on Java, Spring MVC / Boot, Hibernate / MyBatis
- Must have experience on building large scale application
- Must have experience on RESTful Web-Services
- Must be good in problem solving, Data structures and Algorithms.
- Strong understanding of Web Architectures, E-commerce solutions
- Strong understanding of any MySql / Postgresql
- Strong understanding of any Redis / Memcached / Mongodb / Elasticsearch
- Hands-on experience on GCP / AWS would be an added advantage
- Hands-on experience on Kubernetes / Docker would be an added advantage
- Basic knowledge of version control system like Git / Mercurial / Bitbucket
- Writes well managed and clean codes
● Execute these via designs and high quality implementations in Java and/or Python.
● Work with frontend engineer to clearly demarcate division of responsibilities via REST based interfaces.
● Focus on solutions that deliver non functional requirements around performance, scalability, security, high availability, monitorability, debuggability and other such concerns.
● Evaluate new technologies and build prototypes for continuous improvements
● Very strong real world experience on Java, Springboot, Microservices.
● Advocate best practices and standards
Strong fundamentals in OOPS, RDBMS, Data structures, and Design patterns
Experience in any SQL database (Preferably SQL Server)
Ability to write clean code
Ability to write automated unit tests using frameworks such as NUnit, Mock, etc.
Ability to communicate and articulate clearly and work collaboratively in an agile team
Experience with code repositories like git
Ability to communicate and articulate clearly and work collaboratively in an agile team
• BE/B. Tech. Computer Science or MCA from a reputed University.
• 8+ Years of experience in software development, with emphasis on JAVA/J2EE Server side
programming.
• Hands on experience in Core Java, Multithreading, RMI, Socket programing, JDBC, NIO,
webservices and Design patterns.
• Should have Knowledge of distributed system, distributed caching, messaging frameworks, ESB
etc.
• Knowledge of Linux operating system and PostgreSQL/MySQL/MongoDB/Cassandra database is
essential.
• Additionally, knowledge of HBase, Hadoop and Hive are desirable.
• Familiarity with message queue systems and AMQP and Kafka is desirable.
• Should have experience as a participant in Agile methodologies.
• Should have excellent written and verbal communication skills and presentation skills.
• This is not a Fullstack requirement, we are purely looking out for Backend resources.
Job brief
We are looking for a Java Developer with experience in building high-performing, scalable, enterprise-grade applications.
You will be part of a talented software team that works on mission-critical applications. Java developer roles and responsibilities include managing Java/Java EE application development while providing expertise in the full software development lifecycle, from concept and design to testing.
Java developer responsibilities include designing, developing and delivering high-volume, low-latency applications for mission-critical systems.
Responsibilities
- Contribute in all phases of the development lifecycle
- Write well designed, testable, efficient code
- Ensure designs are in compliance with specifications
- Prepare and produce releases of software components
- Support continuous improvement by investigating alternatives and technologies and presenting these for architectural review
Requirements and skills
- BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject
- Proven hands-on Software Development experience (Microservices & Springboot)
- Proven working experience in Java development
- Hands on experience in designing and developing applications using Java EE platforms
- Object Oriented analysis and design using common design patterns.
- Excellent knowledge of Relational Databases, SQL and ORM technologies (JPA2, Hibernate)
- Experience in the Spring Framework
- Experience in developing web applications using at least one popular web framework (Spring MVC)
- Experience with test-driven development
We are looking for an experienced engineer with superb technical skills. You will primarily be responsible for architecting and building large scale data pipelines that delivers AI and Analytical solutions to our customers. The right candidate will enthusiastically take ownership in developing and managing a continuously improving, robust, scalable software solutions. The successful candidate will be curious, creative, ambitious, self motivated, flexible, and have a bias towards taking action. As part of the early engineering team, you will have a chance to make a measurable impact in future of Thinkdeeply as well as having a significant amount of responsibility.
Although your primary responsibilities will be around back-end work, we prize individuals who are willing to step in and contribute to other areas including automation, tooling, and management applications. Experience with or desire to learn Machine Learning a plus.
Experience
12+ Years
Location
Hyderabad
Skills
Bachelors/Masters/Phd in CS or equivalent industry experience
10+ years of industry experience in java related frameworks such as Spring and/or Typesafe
Experience with scripting languages. Python experience highly desirable. 5+ Industry experience in python
Experience with popular modern web frameworks such as Spring boot, Play framework, or Django
Demonstrated expertise of building and shipping cloud native applications
Experience in administering (including setting up, managing, monitoring) data processing pipelines (both streaming and batch) using frameworks such as Kafka, ELK Stack, Fluentd
Experience in API development using Swagger
Strong expertise with containerization technologies including kubernetes, docker-compose
Experience with cloud platform services such as AWS, Azure or GCP.
Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests
Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
Familiarity with continuous integration, Jenkins
Responsibilities
Architect, Design and Implement Large scale data processing pipelines
Design and Implement APIs
Assist in dev ops operations
Identify performance bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to these problems
Help maintain code quality, organization, and documentation
Communicate with stakeholders regarding various aspects of solution.
Mentor team members on best practices
Ideal candidate should be able to guide multiple projects at once in a dynamic and expeditious environment. You will be responsible for developing a world-class product with clean, well-documented code and at the same time ensuring high performance & scalability using proper design principles. You will be responsible for writing server-side web application logic as well as for the integration of the front-end part. Needless to mention you have demonstrated ability towards urgency, ownership, sharing success and competent enough to excel prevailing engineering velocity at Cogoport.
You should be a modern thinker and believer of manager and hierarchy free organisation like Cogoport. The ideal candidate would be assessed basis the defined role fitment. Critical is that you are curious and learner to be able to seek out and evaluate new ideas and bringing them back into the organisation. If you have outstanding programming skills and a great passion for developing beautiful, innovative applications, then let's get in touch!
1. Problem Solving: You should have the rigour and discipline to approach most of the problems and ensure the delivery of quality work ahead of timelines. You are able to look at a problem, define and brainstorm ways to achieve an optimal solution and pick the best engineering approach to bring the software productivity.
2. Architectural Design: You should have in-depth knowledge to design highly scalable architecture. You have strong experience in building products ensuring scalability in tech architecture & design implementation.
3. Database: Should have strong expertise in the database to manipulate data in the software system to minimize data redundancy and maximize the speed of retrieval. Knowledge of MongoDB, MySql, PostgreSQL database is preferred.
4. Algorithm Skills: You should be adept in all algorithm aspects to define an efficient way of solving the problem. You will solve complex problems with algorithms embedded in logical thinking and creating the most efficient and optimum code.
5. Code Quality: Enhancing the code quality by structuring the code & making sure that all the guidelines are followed to ensure enhancing code efficiency & reduction of code failure & bug rectification.
6. Product Inclination: A Software Engineer not only gets involved in coding but should equally understand the product/feature to think & cover all the possible business edge cases coming on the way.







