Senior Software Engineer

iSchoolConnect is an online platform that makes the University Admissions process hassle-free, fun and accessible to students around the globe. Using our unique AI technology, we allow students to apply to multiple universities with a single application. iSchoolConnect also connects with institutions worldwide and aids them in the transformation of their end-to-end admission processes using our various cutting-edge use cases. Our technologies include the Conversational AI chatbot, Document Grader, Video Interview Analyzer, and a Single application use case which aids institutions with International Enrollment Management

We are seeking a skilled Java Full Stack Developer with 3-4 years of experience in Core Java, Spring Framework, and Angular. The ideal candidate will design, develop, and maintain robust, scalable applications across both the front-end and back-end, working with SQL and NoSQL databases.

Location - Mumbai(Borivali W)

Key Responsibilities:

• Build and maintain applications using Core Java, Spring Framework (including modules such as Spring Boot, Spring MVC, and Spring Data), and Angular.
• Develop dynamic and responsive front-end components using Angular.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather and analyze requirements and deliver efficient, user-friendly solutions.
• Write clean, maintainable code for both front-end and back-end layers following best practices.
• Debug, troubleshoot, and optimize applications for performance, scalability, and security.
• Work with both SQL and NoSQL databases for application development.
• Contribute to software architecture and participate in code reviews.
• Stay updated on emerging technologies and frameworks.

Required Skills:

• 3-4 years of experience in Java development and front-end development using Angular.
• Proficiency in Core Java and Spring Framework (e.g., Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Data).
• Hands-on experience with Angular for building front-end applications, including a solid understanding of TypeScript, RxJS, and State Management.
• Strong knowledge of Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) principles and design patterns.
• Experience with RESTful APIs, SQL, and NoSQL databases (e.g., MongoDB, MySQL).
• Familiarity with ORM tools like Hibernate/JPA and version control systems (e.g., Git).
• Knowledge of unit testing frameworks (JUnit, Mockito) and testing tools for Angular (e.g., Jasmine, Karma).
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

Preferred Skills:

• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and containerization tools (e.g., Docker).
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins) and front-end build tools.
• Familiarity with other front-end frameworks or libraries is a plus.

HIRING FOR OUR CLIENT - PERFORMIO ( IT Product company)

About Performio

Headquartered in Irvine, California, and with offices in San Francisco and Melbourne, Performio continues to offer sales performance management software for businesses looking to automate their sales compensation calculations and provide increased transparency to their sales reps.

Used by large global enterprises such as Veeva, GrubHub, Johnson & Johnson, and Vodafone - as well as growing mid-market companies - Performio is a new breed of sales compensation software that combines the enterprise-grade functionality that you need with the ease of use you’ve come to expect from modern software applications.

https://www.performio.co

https://www.linkedin.com/company/performio/

What’s the opportunity?

As Staff Engineer, you will play a leading role in turning our product vision into reality, while working with other senior Product Engineering staff to design and develop our systems. 

You’ll join an enthusiastic and experienced Product Engineering team in our Bangalore office, with plenty of flexibility to work from home as required. When you join our team, you’ll be the development lead for India, which currently consists of one team with expectations to expand. 

This isn’t your average Lead Engineer role; expect to be heavily involved in product discovery as the Engineering voice alongside your peers in Product and Design. You’ll be engaged in forward planning while also coaching and pairing with your team to execute on product requirements. You’ll also take a seat on our Technology Council to establish contemporary systems architectures that are highly scalable, durable, and based on current best practices.

Our product is written mainly in Java, Spring and ReactJS, and runs on AWS across multiple regions. We use tools like GitHub, Docker and Buildkite and deploy our systems and monitor our technology using CloudWatch, OpsGenie and Open Telemetry while embracing AI tooling to deliver with efficiency. We’re looking for someone to help us evolve how our systems hang together while we grow our team and capability.

What will U be doing?

Creating change in a complex system. The technical lead for a team, making well-considered decisions around patterns, principals, frameworks, languages and tools, thinking through and mitigating for potential cascading impacts of those changes.

Acting as a trusted advisor. Partner with PMs, engineers and customer-facing teams to negotiate appropriate product architectures with consideration for user needs, business goals and technology constraints.

Designing and developing well-architected systems. Understand and contribute to our product source code and cloud infrastructure.

Designing holistically, delivering iteratively. Break down system-wide architecture recommendations into small, intelligently planned increments for delivery. 

Advocate for technology needs. Translate technology risk into opportunity during product and technology roadmap discussions and advise on the required 

 areas of focus.

Coach and mentor. Thoughtfully lead the team around you and assist with career development of less experienced staff on our teams.

 What we’re looking for

• Demonstrated experience as a lead or staff engineer, with at least 10 years experience in technology roles
• Experience working on technical leadership teams involved in roadmap planning, hiring and staff capacity planning
• You’re opinionated on what “great code” looks like and you’re passionate about code quality
• Experience working on complex systems and cloud architectures
• Excellent understanding of the Java programming language, frameworks such as Spring & SpringBoot and frontend technologies like React.
• Excellent understanding of data structures and database design
• Excellent knowledge of AWS services, design patterns and practices
• Highly effective at communicating, and comfortable whiteboarding architecture ideas with teams of engineers, product managers, and business analysts
• Desire to challenge the status quo and maturity to know when to compromise
• Respect for and ability to collaborate and influence team members from all disciplines and at all levels throughout the business

Job Description:

- Experience with Java 4 to 8 years, Spring Boot, Microservices, Angular, Docker, and Kubernetes

Knowledge of multi-threading concepts, TCPIP, databases, and REST-based JSON APIs

- Experience with build and deployment tools: Maven, Git, JUnit

- Experience building and working with DevOps Toolchains (Github actions, Jenkins)

Experience with responsive UI development

Demonstrates great communication skills and initiative to solve problems and convey solutions to peers and product owners.

Experience with the scrum process

Experience with event-driven architecture.

Knowledge of UI testing and continuous integration

Working knowledge of TDD TDD mindset

- Pair Programming experience

Functional knowledge of the Accounts Payable domain is an added advantage.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design low level specification for the feature/module in consultation with product architect(s).

• Closely work with product managers/owners, architect(s) to understand the business requirements and code optimally.

• Propose and implement different algorithms in software code for high performing, high throughput, and low latency product features.

• Should be able build, make enhancements and maintain existing native web application user interface based on NodeJS, JavaScript or TypeScript, Angular, React, and Next/Vue.

• Develop and maintain generic solutions and utilities that can be integrated into any product.

• Integrate intelligent product performance indicators into the product to periodically monitor and take preemptive actions.

Key skills and experience required for the job:

• Technology: OOAD, Java/J2EE, Data Structures and Algorithms, Design Patterns, Spring Boot, Microservices/Cloud Native architecture, Cloud Foundry, Docker, K8S, RDBMS, SQL, NoSQL, Redis/HazleCast, jUnit, Mockito, Rabbit MQ, JMS, Apache Camel, KAFKA, WebSocket messaging, gRPC, GraphQL, Angular/React/Vue.js

• Source Control: Git, GitLab, GitHub etc.

• Design: UML, ArchiMate, EA Sparx, MS Visio, Lucid Chart, Figma

• DevSecOps: GitHub Workflows, Helm, Jenkins, CloudBees Flow, uDeploy, Nexus Repo, Site Reliability etc.

• Cloud Technologies: MS Azure, AKS, Azure Event Hub/Grid, Azure Storage, GCP, PCF, AKAMAI, APIGEE or equivalent.

• Code Quality: Sonar, MF Fortify, SAST, DAST

• Process: Safe Agile, DevOps, TDD and BDD

• Experience: 6 – 10 Years of software product development using Java/J2EE along with a minimum of 2 years of web user interface development using any TypeScript framework.

• Education: Bachelors/master’s in engineering or equivalent.

• Soft Skills: Communication, Analytical thinking, Problem Solving, Judgement & Decision Making, Planning & Organizing and Teamwork

Nice to have skills for the job:

• APM : Knowledge of AppDynamics, Grafana, Dynatrace, Splunk, Elk

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

·       Working with technical architects, able to convert the architecture into design and code in Java (Spring Boot), AngularJS, and NodeJS.

·       Able to generate LLD documents.

·       Ability to write Quality code with minimum defects.

·       Unit Test and following the coding standards.

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PREFERRED QUALIFICATION AND SKILLS:

·       5+ years strong programming and logical skills in Java (Spring Boot), AngularJS, Object Oriented Java script, NodeJS and HTML5

·       Hands on Experience on Java (Spring Boot), and MySQL is mandatory. Must have completed at least 2 full projects using Spring boot and AngularJS.

·       Excellent knowledge and experience in Spring JPA, RESTful webservices implementation.

·       NodeJS experience is value add

·       Should have participated in, and be familiar with, Agile (Scrum) project methodology and practices.

·       Must be able to mentor and guide junior technical resources.

·       One who is proactive and come forward with technology related initiatives. Motivated self-starter. 

·       Good Communication skills. English - Oral and Written.

• Should possess a minimum of 7-9 years of experience
• 2+ Years in Angular 4 / Angular 6 - Required
• Knowledge of Core Java
• Spring Boot - atleast 1 year experience (mandatory)
• Hibernate - atleast 1 year experience (mandatory)
• Microservices - atleast 1 year experience (mandatory)
• 3 Years in Database – Oracle/SQL – Required
• 2 Years Web API / Restful Services - Required
• 3 Years in using any of IDE (Visual Studio Code, Eclipse, IntelliJ IDEA) and debugging skills - Required
• Knowledge in using Git, SVN, Maven, Unit testing and deployment tools - Required
• Should have some experience in multithreaded/asynchronous programming – Good to have
• Knowledge on ELK Stack is good to have
• Knowledge on Angular 4/6/8+ is good to have