Software Architect

About Root Node

We’re an early-stage startup building intelligent tools for planning, scheduling, and optimization—starting with timetabling and warehouse logistics. Backed by deep domain expertise and a growing customer pipeline, we’re now building our core tech team. This is not just a coding job — it's a chance to build something meaningful from the ground up.

About the job

• Design and implement robust backend systems and APIs using Java or similar backend language and Spring Boot or equivalent frameworks
• Integrate backend services with existing custom ERP systems 
• Work closely with the founder on product architecture, feature prioritization, and go-to-market feedback
• Take full ownership of features — from system design and development to deployment and iterative improvements
• Help shape our engineering culture and technical foundations

You're a Great Fit If You:

• Have 3+ years of experience in backend development
• Are strong in Java or similar languages (e.g., Kotlin, Go, Node.js)
• Have solid experience with Spring Boot or equivalent backend frameworks
• Have integrated with ERP or enterprise systems in production environments
• Are comfortable with both SQL (PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB)
• Understand REST API development, authentication, Docker
• Have an entrepreneurial mindset — you're excited about ownership, ambiguity, and making decisions that shape the product and company
• Want more than just a job — you want to build, solve, and learn rapidly

What We Offer

• Competitive salary
• High degree of ownership and autonomy
• Ability to shape the tech and product direction from Day 1
• Transparent and fast decision-making culture
• A builder’s environment — solve real-world problems with real impact

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Develop, record, and maintain cutting-edge web-based PHP applications
• Build innovative, state-of-the-art applications and collaborate with the User Experience (UX) team
• Ensure HTML, CSS, and shared JavaScript is valid and consistent across applications
• Prepare and maintain all applications utilizing standard development tools
• Convey effectively with all task progress, evaluations, suggestions, and schedules, along with technical and process issues
• Coordinate with co-developers and keep project manager well informed of the status of development effort and serve as liaison between development staff and project manager

Skills:

• Experience in design and system architecture and can write 
• efficient, testable, and reusable code
• OOP Concepts
• Knowledge of PHP
• Knowledge of MySQL
• Ability to work on different backend technologies
• Experience with Git, Slack (Optional)
• Experience with Laravel Framework will be a huge plus point

What we need from you

• You will bring very strong consulting skills, are customer focused and know how to navigate through tough project situations
• You are highly motivated, creative in your approach to technical problems and love all things about Data!
• You spend a significant amount of time to keep your technical skills updated and are constantly looking for the next big data challenge
• You will be a key contributor to our growth and our customer’s success
• You will bring both broad and deep knowledge in Efficient Java (JSP, Servlet) Developer and going forward build the ability to architect a solution by mapping a customer business challenges
• You are resourceful and confident under pressure
• Willingness to travel as needed to customer sites

Competencies:

• Relevant experience on using tools like JSP, Servlet for web applications
• MVC frame works - Struts or Spring
• Web services- SOAP and REST WebLogic, Hibernate
• Middleware technologies MQ OSB.
• Web/App Servers: Tomcat or WebLogic or JBoss
• Experience using Angular, Micro Services using Spring, jersey, Swagger
• Good knowledge of Backend and Front-end technologies
• Good knowledge of Core Java, J2EE, Ajax, Spring, Java Script, jQuery, HTML
• Good knowledge of any RDBMS database like SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL & Cluster set-up, performance benchmarking, client-side API evaluation, knowledge of various deployment strategies
• Strong knowledge with Core JAVA concepts – Exception handling, Multi-threading, Collection, String, OOPS etc…
• Advanced understanding of Windows and Linux based operating systems
• Mainly 3-4 months hands on with reverse engineering and old legacy solutions to new modern applications
• Working knowledge using REST, HTTP, TCP, SCTP protocols
• Hands-on with JAVA frameworks such as – Thread Pool Executor, Object Pooling, Logging (Log4j preferred), XML/JSON handling

Education Criteria:

• Preferred BE degree in CS, E&C, E&E
• Proficient being a J2EE Developer (courses or project done) and data analytics skills
• Flexible to work on any projects assigned

Note: Terms & Conditions

• This opportunity will be work from office

Requirements :

- 3+ years of professional software development experience

- 2+ years of object-oriented Java/J2EE hands-on development

- Spring (MVC, IOP/DI, REST, Security) & Hibernate/Spring

- REST web services

- Anyone of the messaging solutions like Kafka, RabbitMQ

Desirables :

- SQL, No SQL concepts

- Experience of Redis or/and Mongo DB

- Agile methodology

- Experience leading or working with cross geography teams

- Unix, shell scripting & Build Systems

Bonus :

- Microservice design and development experience

- Android application development experience

- Experience in performance optimization is an added advantage

- Full SDLC experience (requirements gathering, architecture, development, QA, etc.)

Responsibilities :

- You will be working with the Supply Chain Management team building a leading eCommerce platform for Asian markets

- Order Promising system, promising the order delivery promise date to customer by applying the constraints on current resource availability across different steps in the supply chain. This system needs to scale for thousands of requests per minute with few million seconds of response time

- Warehouse and Inventory Management system, this system needs to scale to processing huge number of orders across different warehouse.

- Transportation and Logistics Management, involves planning and delivery of huge number orders to end customer. This system has the workflows to manage first mile, line haul and last mile delivery to customer

- Inventory Planning, helps in tracking different selling behaviours of the items and triggers / helps planners to replenish, promote, markdown or place inventory at right place to cut down the on hand inventory requirements

- You will be actively involved during the entire technology development lifecycle. Responsibilities will include all aspects from design, coding review, coding, unit testing, end user feedback cycle changes and manging and scaling the system in production.

- Primary role in leading software development teams

- The customized solutions that you will be architecting and developing will also require knowledge and experience with spring / Hibernate, SOAP / REST, microservices and SQL.

- Ability to learn new technologies quickly and willingness to read and digest large existing source code and take ownership on complex component or subsystem to drive improvements and re-architecture

- Work with a team of amazing developers and designers involved in the design and development of global platforms

- Invent and prototype new features, build, test and ship them to customers as SaaS, cloud-based or hosted product platforms

- Drive the implementation of new technologies that improve our ability to build great customers products.

- Participate in a fun, open learning environment with great benefits and smart talented folks that represent among the best globally.

Qualification : 

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Your role will include:

• Writing and testing your code, innovating and contributing towards increasing the value delivered by your team.
• Setting a high bar through your design, development, analysis and deployment activities
• Understanding and participating in evolving the architecture of our products.
• Keeping up-to-date with new technologies, best practices, and work on optimizing the tooling and automation.
• Understanding the latest development and engineering paradigms like Scrum/Agile/TDD/BDD/DDD etc.

You have experience with the following:

• Strong experience of leading and being part of technical teams preferably following agile methodology.
• Strong technical background with ability to provide technical guidance to other team members.
• Knowledge of microservices and must have experience of implementing a few microservices by the least.
• Knowledge of API driven platform development & Software Integration.
• You have hands-on experience in building secure, high-performing and scalable systems in Java.
• Exposure to JVM based languages like Java, Scala, Clojure.