Senior Software Engineer

Job Title: Senior Java Architect (12+ Years Experience)

Location: Remote (2 PM - 11 PM IST)

Experience: 12+ Years

Salary: ₹15L - ₹21L/yr

Employment Type: Contract (1 Year Extendable)

Job Description:

We are looking for a highly experienced Java Architect to join our team on a long-term contract basis. The ideal candidate should have deep expertise in designing scalable enterprise applications using Java and microservices architecture. The candidate should be capable of driving architecture decisions, mentoring development teams, and delivering high-performance solutions for enterprise-grade systems.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and architect scalable enterprise applications using Java and microservices
• Lead system design and architecture decisions for complex applications
• Develop and implement microservices architecture patterns
• Drive technical architecture across multiple development teams
• Mentor and guide senior developers and engineering teams
• Handle high-traffic, scalable enterprise application architecture
• Collaborate with stakeholders to define technical requirements and roadmaps
• Ensure system performance, scalability, and reliability
• Review code and architecture designs for best practices
• Work with Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, and modern Java frameworks

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• 12+ years of hands-on experience in Java development and architecture
• Strong expertise in microservices architecture and design patterns
• Deep knowledge of system design principles and enterprise architecture
• Hands-on experience with Spring Boot and Spring Cloud
• Experience designing scalable, high-performance enterprise applications
• Proficiency in RESTful APIs, messaging systems, and API gateways
• Strong understanding of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• Experience with containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes)
• Knowledge of database design (SQL and NoSQL)
• Expertise in JVM tuning and performance optimization

Technical Skills:

• Java 11+ (Java 17/21 preferred)
• Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Spring Security
• Microservices architecture and design patterns
• RESTful APIs, GraphQL, gRPC
• Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar messaging systems
• Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines
• PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, or similar databases
• Redis, Elasticsearch, or caching solutions
• Maven, Gradle, Git

Additional Requirements:

• Ability to work 2 PM - 11 PM IST (US/Europe Shift Timing)
• Immediate availability or short notice period (15 days max)
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
• Excellent communication skills for stakeholder collaboration
• Experience mentoring technical teams
• Contract commitment for a minimum of 1 year (extendable)

Good to Have (Preferred Skills):

• Experience with reactive programming (WebFlux, Project Reactor)
• Cloud certification (AWS Solutions Architect, etc.)
• Experience with observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana)
• Knowledge of domain-driven design (DDD)
• Experience with multi-cloud or hybrid cloud architectures
• Freelance/contract experience (preferred)

What We Offer:

• 1.2 ~ 1.8 LPM fixed contract salary
• Long-term contract (1-year extendable)
• Remote work with a flexible 2-11 PM IST schedule
• Work with cutting-edge enterprise technologies
• Opportunity to architect large-scale systems
• Collaborate with experienced engineering teams
• Immediate start for the right candidates

Job Title: Backend Engineer – Python / Golang / Rust

Location: Bangalore, India

Experience Required: Minimum 2–3 years

About the Role

We are looking for a passionate Backend Engineer to join our growing engineering team. The ideal candidate should have hands-on experience in building enterprise-grade, scalable backend systems using microservices architecture. You will work closely with product, frontend, and DevOps teams to design, develop, and optimize robust backend solutions that can handle high traffic and ensure system reliability.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs.

• Architect and implement microservices-based systems ensuring modularity and resilience.

• Optimize application performance, database queries, and service scalability.

• Collaborate with frontend engineers, product managers, and DevOps teams for seamless delivery.

• Implement security best practices and ensure data protection compliance.

• Write and maintain unit tests, integration tests, and documentation.

• Participate in code reviews, technical discussions, and architecture design sessions.

• Monitor, debug, and improve system performance in production environments.

Required Skills & Experience

• Programming Expertise:

• Advanced proficiency in Python (Django, FastAPI, or Flask), OR

• Strong experience in Golang or Rust for backend development.

• Microservices Architecture: Hands-on experience in designing and maintaining distributed systems.

• Database Management: Expertise in PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, including schema design and optimization.

• API Development: Strong experience in RESTful APIs and GraphQL.

• Cloud Platforms: Proficiency with AWS, GCP, or Azure for deployment and scaling.

• Containerization & Orchestration: Solid knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes.

• Messaging & Caching: Experience with Redis, RabbitMQ, Kafka, and caching strategies (Redis, Memcached).

• Version Control: Strong Git workflows and collaboration in team environments.

• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, and cloud-native deployments.

• Proven experience working on production-grade, high-traffic applications.

Preferred Qualifications

• Understanding of software architecture patterns (event-driven, CQRS, hexagonal, etc.).

• Experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies.

• Contributions to open-source projects or strong personal backend projects.

• Experience with observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Jaeger).

Why Join Us?

• Work on cutting-edge backend systems that power enterprise-grade applications.

• Opportunity to learn and grow with a fast-paced engineering team.

• Exposure to cloud-native, microservices-based architectures.

• Collaborative culture that values innovation, ownership, and technical excellence.

• Developing models and business logic (e. g. transactions, payments, diet plan, search, etc).
• Architecting servers and services that enable new product features.
• Building out newly enabled product features.
• Monitoring system uptime and errors to drive us toward a high-performing and reliable product.
• Take ownership and understand the need for code quality, elegance, and robust infrastructure.
• Worked collaboratively on a software development team.
• Built scalable web applications.

Skills:

• Minimum 4 years of industry or open-source experience.
• Proficient in at least one OO language: Python(preferred)/Golang/Java.
• Writing high-performance, reliable and maintainable code.
• Good knowledge of database structures, theories, principles, and practices.
• Experience working with AWS components [EC2, S3, RDS, SQS, ECS, Lambda]

What kind of work will you get?

We are looking for a Python developer.

Examples of technical tasks:

Working on our backend SDK to implement APIs that will be consumed by the frontend widgets

Designing APIs for different auth recipes

Architecting auth flows

You will also be given non technical tasks like product brain storming, competitor analysis and writing documentation.

Note: Compensation is as per the applicant's geography

Requirements

Well versed in Python with 2+ years of professional experience

Familiar with and comfortable working with Web frameworks like FastAPI, Django and Flask

Familiar with HTTP networking in Python

Strong understanding of async and sync modes in Python

Bonus:

Contributed to open source, or have your own open source repo with a community and many github stars

Built an in-house authentication or authorization solution or worked with solutions such as Keycloak, Auth0, Ory, Okta etc

Job Description:

•    Develop tools and applications by producing clean, efficient code.
•    Determine operational feasibility by evaluating analysis, problem definition, requirements, solution development and proposed solutions
•    Perform validation and verification testing and debug code.
•    Work collaboratively with others to achieve goals
•    Experience working in an agile environment
•    Experience in implementing Object-Oriented Python, Django.
•    Good understanding on Django ORM.
•    Experienced in interfacing with *third party API’s using REST
•    Worked with varieties of Relational Databases (RDBMS) like SQLite, MySQL, PostgreSQL.
•    Experience in Version Control with Git and Bit bucket.
•    Experience with JIRA the development progress and tracking deadlines of the project
•    Experience with web applications using technologies like HTML5,CSS, JavaScript, JQuery, AJAX, Angularjs, Reactjs and Bootstrap, XML.
•    Knowledge in Pandas, Numpy will be addons

Software Engineer - II (Backend)

As a Software Engineer – II, you'll bring a good understanding of design and coding practices and apply these independently in development. In this role - you could expect to:

• Own the lifecycle of a feature from requirement analysis to deployment and post production processes
• Perform code reviews and support your team implement best practices
• Explore trade off's on module designs
• Continuously improve performance metrics of modules owned. Performs RCAs and deploys long term fixes.
• Implement initiatives that improve engineering efficiency and excellence
• Participate in the hiring and interview process for junior developers on your team

Eximius is a micro-VC fund which invests into early-stage startups. One of our portfolio startup iTribe is looking for "Hustlers", "First Principle Thinkers", "Crazy and trips on creating products out of the box from scratch", "Outspoken", "unafraid of users ripping your product".

About iTribe: 
iTribe is on a mission to make discussing finance from being a taboo topic to a dinner table topic, which means making "Bharat" financially literate and independent. iTribe is a social network which allows anyone to discover, discuss, vet ideas and seek advice from like-minded iTribe aims at making Finance simple, witty and fun for everyone

Founded in 2021 by IIT Kharagpur alumni to convert their own journey of becoming investors into a product to help billion users. An emerging startup backed by some of the most respected investors around the world.

Responsibilities

• Craft clean, manageable code, maintain proper documentation and code integrity
• Maintain quality and ensure 100% uptime
• Create, test and deploy the applications on production servers
• Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies and frameworks to maximize development efficiency
• Responsible for security and data protection.

• Working alongside Product managers to architect and design new features.
• Collaborate with the rest of the engineering team to launch new features.
• Unblock peers and keep all the internal and external teams informed about the progress of development

Requirements

• 2 - 5 years of experience in designing and developing Server side component (REST APIs, Micro service Architecture)
• Good understanding and strong in data structures and algorithms (Degree in computer science is an added advantage)
• OOP implementation experience with back-end programming languages (Ex: JavaScript, Python, Java, etc).
• Good to have experience with event driven architecture.
• Good understanding of databases such as MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL.
• Well-versed with Software Development Life Cycle
• Demonstrate the ability to be a self-starter, learn and implement new technologies/ frameworks
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills

Why you should join iTribe? 

• Building a product which is not done in decades.
• Be a part of the founding team and work directly with the founders.
• Competitive Salary
• ESOPs - ownership in the company
• Medical Insurances
• Subscriptions to premium platforms for learning
• Books that you ask for
• Friendly leave policy