Job Title: Senior Java Developer
Department: Technology and Research
Reports to: Technical Lead
Context
Sampana Digital (SDPL) (http://www.sampanadigital.com">www.sampanadigital.com) is a digital technology company that provides end-to-end product engineering and digital transformation services. Our engineering services includes web & mobile application development, user experience design, cloud, testing and infrastructure managed services to transform businesses digitally. We also enable enterprises with contextual and personalized two-way multi-channel mobile communications, including SMS, voice, email and PWA technology.
We believe in small teams of smart, committed, and diverse individuals coming together and form a breakthrough insight. We are a team of passionate professionals to craft an unbeatable culture and services.
Come and join us!
Role Description
We are looking for a Senior 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, and your 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.
Job Responsibilities:
- Work with and direct the team’s software engineers in setting the standards for coding, testing and software quality
- Collaborate closely with the team’s BAs on the efficient transition of BDD’s and Swaggers to the engineers as part of the overall workflow.
- Oversee and manage the scope, timeline, and goals forth delivery of working software
- Oversee and assist in the production of comprehensive documentation
- Oversee and provide support to production cutovers and migrations as required
- Lead the analysis and resolution of technical and application problems
- Supporting the Scrum Master
- Participate in and support backlog grooming, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, reviews, retrospectives, release planning, demos and other Scrum related meetings
- Provide clear reporting on the status of the scope, timeline and progress for the delivery of working software
- Assist in setting up a robust out of hours support process
- Assist in the prioritisation of bugs and defects
- Providing Guidance and Mentoring
- Participate in peer reviews of solution designs and related code
- Provide technical leadership to the teams’ software engineers through coaching and mentorship
- Identify and encourage areas for growth, education and development within the team
General
- Self-Starting Leader capable or working under pressure
- Curious and engaged in Continuous Learning and Professional Development
- Strong DevOps experience
- Java and Spring Developer with +5 years’ experience with the following skills
- Java 1.8+
- Spring
- Microservices with Spring-boot
- Spring cloud config
- Unit tests with Spring-boot
- Docker
- Openshift/Kubernetes
- Basic understanding of API gateways
- OpenAPI (Swagger) specification.
Understanding of basic networking concepts
- Integration into backends via various protocols (SOAP,REST, XML-RPC etc)
- CI/CD (Jenkins, pipelines etc)
The following additional skills would be advantageous:
- Spring reactive
- APIGEE
- Azure DevOps
- Pivotal Kubernetes
- Linux
- Azure Pipelines

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Experience
9–18 Years
Education
IIT / NIT graduates only
Interview Process
Candidates must be available for a Face-to-Face interview in Bangalore or Mumbai.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and develop scalable, high-performance Java applications.
- Lead a team of engineers and drive technical excellence.
- Architect enterprise-grade solutions and provide technical guidance.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and deliver high-quality software.
- Review code, mentor team members, and ensure engineering best practices.
- Drive system design discussions and resolve complex technical challenges.
Required Skills
- Strong expertise in Core Java and Java ecosystem.
- Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
- Very strong coding ability with clean coding practices.
- Strong understanding of System Design and distributed systems.
- Hands-on experience in Java Architecture and designing scalable applications.
- Experience leading engineering teams and mentoring developers.
- Good understanding of software design principles, design patterns, and performance optimization.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
Preferred Skills
- Experience with Spring Boot, Microservices, REST APIs, and cloud technologies.
- Exposure to CI/CD, containerization, and modern DevOps practices is an advantage.
Job Title: Java Spring Boot Engineer
📍 Location: Bangalore
🧾 Experience: 3–4 Years
📝 Employment Type: Contract (1 Year + Extendable)
Required Skills & Qualifications:
- Strong expertise in Java, Spring Boot, and backend development.
- Hands-on experience with PHP.
- Good understanding of data structures and algorithms.
- Experience with GraphQL and RESTful APIs.
- Proficiency in working with SQL & NoSQL databases.
- Experience using Git for version control.
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure).
- Exposure to monitoring and logging tools like Grafana, New Relic, and Splunk.
- Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work in a collaborative team environment.
We are seeking a highly skilled Backend Developer to join our team and contribute to the development and improvement of both our customer-centric SaaS platform and internal systems. As a Backend Developer, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining the server-side logic of our application, ensuring high performance, scalability, and security.
As a Backend Developer with expertise in Java, and PostgreSQL, you will play a critical role in developing and maintaining the backend infrastructure of our SaaS and internal platforms, ensuring its reliability, scalability, and performance. Join our team and be a part of building cutting-edge software solutions that empower our customers and drive business growth.
Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including front-end developers, product managers, and designers, to understand project requirements and translate them into technical specifications.
- Design and develop server-side logic, APIs, and database schema to support the functionality and performance requirements of our SaaS platform.
- Write clean, modular, and well-documented code using any relevant programming language preferably Java with SpringBoot.
- Optimize the backend systems for maximum speed and scalability, ensuring high performance and responsiveness of the application.
- Implement data storage solutions using PostgreSQL or other relational databases, ensuring data integrity and security.
- Conduct thorough testing and debugging to identify and resolve any issues or bugs in the backend code.
- Stay up-to-date with emerging technologies, industry trends, and best practices in backend development and contribute to the continuous improvement of our development processes.
Requirements:
- Proven work experience as a Backend Developer or similar role, with a focus on server-side development.
- Proficiency in working with relational databases, particularly PostgreSQL, and writing efficient SQL queries.
- Familiarity with SaaS concepts and architecture.
- Experience with API design and development, including RESTful APIs.
- Solid understanding of software development principles, including object-oriented programming, design patterns, and data structures.
- Experience with version control systems, such as Git.
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills, with keen attention to detail.
- Excellent communication and teamwork skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field is preferred, but not mandatory.
- 3+ years of experience in the Development in JAVA technology.
- AWS or cloud Experience
- 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.
We are looking for a Java developer responsible for building Java applications. This includes anything between complex groups of back-end services and their client-end counterparts. Primary responsibility will be to design and develop these types of applications and to coordinate with the rest of the team working on different layers of the infrastructure.
Responsibilities:
Contribute to all stages of the software development lifecycle
Design, build and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable Java code
Design, implement and maintain applications that can be high-volume and low-latency
Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to these problems
Help maintain code quality, organization, and automatization
Skills:
Minimum 1+ years of experience in Java
Proficient in Java and Springboot
Solid understanding of object-oriented programming
Familiar with various design and architectural patterns
Skill for writing reusable Java libraries
Familiarity with concepts of MVC, and RESTful
Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
Familiarity with build tools such as Maven, and Gradle
Excellent knowledge of Relational Databases, SQL, and ORM technologies (Hibernate)
Excellent written and verbal communication.
Infrastructure
Pocket Gems wants to build the greatest games and interactive entertainment in the world.
That’s the mission our founders began within an apartment above a pizza shop back in 2009
and we continue it today.
Pocket Gems has grown to over 250 people in San Francisco. With $155 million in backing from
Sequoia Capital and Tencent, we’re constantly breaking new ground with graphically rich mobile
games, fun new genres of mobile entertainment, and innovative technologies like our mobilefirst Mantis Engine.
Our products have been downloaded over 325 million times by players around the world. We
have several flagship products including the most recent - Adventure Chef Merge Explorer, a
casual merge and explore game. Some of our other ongoing hits include Episode, a mobile
storytelling network and platform, and War Dragons, a visually stunning 3D real-time strategy
game.
Pocket Gems is home to some of the most massive and delightful mobile-first games, like War
Dragons and Episode. Those games need a solid backend platform, to function critical tasks to
delight our players, and is supported and optimized by our Central Engineering team. As a Sr.
Software Engineer on the Central Infrastructure Team, you will build microservices that acts as
the core of all our games, facilitate the processing and recording of billions of events per day,
support critical systems for marketing, finance. You will be responsible for some of our biggest
projects as you build APIs and infrastructure that scales to millions of players in real-time
games.
What You’ll Do:
• Implement flexible, reusable, and scalable solutions to improve our data pipeline
• Develop microservices for critical infrastructure like A/B tests, Offer recommendation, etc
that is mission-critical to the business
• Develop microservices for our games such as real-time communication platforms,
leaderboard, etc
• Build and maintain integrations with third-party APIs that you suggest or write yourself
• Build scalable web tools (including open source tools) to support data analysis and
visualization for the company and influence what we build for our games’ players
What You Bring to the Central Infrastructure Engineering team:
• Minimum of 7 years of professional experience (including 3+ years backend experience)
• A degree in computer science, engineering, or relevant field
• Experience leading complex projects, preferably involving distributed systems
• Deep experience with AWS, GCP, or Hadoop, and related backend technologies is a
plus
• Strong skills in data structures, algorithms, software design, and OOP
• A love for delighting users, both internal and external, with reliable tools, data, and
creative and highly technical solutions to their problems
Extra Gems for:
• Experience in working with microservices
Out of many tools and technologies, we use Java, MongoDb, Cassandra, Redis, Twem, Netty extensively for our back-end development.
- Leading the entire Backend platform for a product portfolio.
- End to end delivery new features.
- Evolving the architecture for performance and scalability.
- Design, develop and own components of a highly scalable, distributed web services platform.
- Constantly strive to improve software development process and team productivity.
- Mentor and train team members
- Lead module development independently
Required background, Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- 5.5+/ 7+ Years of experience in a scalable product/ecommerce organization·
- Excellent Java skills, Understanding of Spring framework & MVC approach
- Strong knowledge of Performance optimization and caching techniques.
- Strong Object Oriented Programming concepts, data structure and algorithms
- Experience in developing scalable, fault-tolerant, distributed backend services
- Experience with prevalent design patterns and advanced system designing
- Good experiences with databases and Schema design. We heavily use NoSQL databases
- Strong Problem Solving skills









