
The Team and Your Role
You will be a part of the Enterprise Engineering team, which is responsible for design and development of foundational software utilized by applications throughout AQR, including:
§ Enterprise Cloud Platform
§ Enterprise Messaging Fabric
§ Common Data Access Framework
§ Role Based Entitlements System
§ Application Monitoring and Alerting
§ Application Configuration Management
§ Business Notifications
These foundational services are part of a larger project that streamlines the entire SDLC from project inception through to production and post-production. We build and maintain common development tools and libraries that are implemented in Java, Python and Golang. The libraries provide business applications with core functionalities needed to build any application within our environment. In addition, we provide standardized cloud-based runtime platform with necessary tooling for all AQR applications.
What You Will Bring
§ Engineering degree in Computer Science or equivalent field from top schools
§ 3 to 5 years of software development experience with substantial individual contribution
§ Outstanding coding, debugging and analytical skills
§ Experience working with complex projects through the software development lifecycle
§ Experience working in a geographically spread out team
§ Hands on programming experience with mastery over at least one programming language in Java or Python
§ Strong knowledge of: Spring, Multithreading, Open Source dbase
§ Microservice architecture
§ RESTful application design
§ Experience designing and developing distributed systems
§ OOP design patterns (especially Java or Python) and data modeling
Our technology platform includes:
§ AWS
§ Kafka
§ Mesos
§ Docker
§ Redis
§ Spring Boot
§ Excellent communication skills both verbal and written
§ Demonstrated contributions to open-source software is also a plus

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JOB DETAILS:
* Job Title: Lead I - Software Engineering-Kotlin, Java, Spring Boot, Aws
* Industry: Global digital transformation solutions provide
* Salary: Best in Industry
* Experience: 5 -7 years
* Location: Trivandrum, Thiruvananthapuram
Role Proficiency:
Act creatively to develop applications and select appropriate technical options optimizing application development maintenance and performance by employing design patterns and reusing proven solutions account for others' developmental activities
Skill Examples:
- Explain and communicate the design / development to the customer
- Perform and evaluate test results against product specifications
- Break down complex problems into logical components
- Develop user interfaces business software components
- Use data models
- Estimate time and effort required for developing / debugging features / components
- Perform and evaluate test in the customer or target environment
- Make quick decisions on technical/project related challenges
- Manage a Team mentor and handle people related issues in team
- Maintain high motivation levels and positive dynamics in the team.
- Interface with other teams’ designers and other parallel practices
- Set goals for self and team. Provide feedback to team members
- Create and articulate impactful technical presentations
- Follow high level of business etiquette in emails and other business communication
- Drive conference calls with customers addressing customer questions
- Proactively ask for and offer help
- Ability to work under pressure determine dependencies risks facilitate planning; handling multiple tasks.
- Build confidence with customers by meeting the deliverables on time with quality.
- Estimate time and effort resources required for developing / debugging features / components
- Make on appropriate utilization of Software / Hardware’s.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities
Knowledge Examples:
- Appropriate software programs / modules
- Functional and technical designing
- Programming languages – proficient in multiple skill clusters
- DBMS
- Operating Systems and software platforms
- Software Development Life Cycle
- Agile – Scrum or Kanban Methods
- Integrated development environment (IDE)
- Rapid application development (RAD)
- Modelling technology and languages
- Interface definition languages (IDL)
- Knowledge of customer domain and deep understanding of sub domain where problem is solved
Additional Comments:
We are seeking an experienced Senior Backend Engineer with strong expertise in Kotlin and Java to join our dynamic engineering team.
The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of backend frameworks, cloud technologies, and scalable microservices architectures, with a passion for clean code, resilience, and system observability.
You will play a critical role in designing, developing, and maintaining core backend services that power our high-availability e-commerce and promotion platforms.
Key Responsibilities
Design, develop, and maintain backend services using Kotlin (JVM, Coroutines, Serialization) and Java.
Build robust microservices with Spring Boot and related Spring ecosystem components (Spring Cloud, Spring Security, Spring Kafka, Spring Data).
Implement efficient serialization/deserialization using Jackson and Kotlin Serialization. Develop, maintain, and execute automated tests using JUnit 5, Mockk, and ArchUnit to ensure code quality.
Work with Kafka Streams (Avro), Oracle SQL (JDBC, JPA), DynamoDB, and Redis for data storage and caching needs. Deploy and manage services in AWS environment leveraging DynamoDB, Lambdas, and IAM.
Implement CI/CD pipelines with GitLab CI to automate build, test, and deployment processes.
Containerize applications using Docker and integrate monitoring using Datadog for tracing, metrics, and dashboards.
Define and maintain infrastructure as code using Terraform for services including GitLab, Datadog, Kafka, and Optimizely.
Develop and maintain RESTful APIs with OpenAPI (Swagger) and JSON API standards.
Apply resilience patterns using Resilience4j to build fault-tolerant systems.
Adhere to architectural and design principles such as Domain-Driven Design (DDD), Object-Oriented Programming (OOP), and Contract Testing (Pact).
Collaborate with cross-functional teams in an Agile Scrum environment to deliver high-quality features.
Utilize feature flagging tools like Optimizely to enable controlled rollouts.
Mandatory Skills & Technologies Languages:
Kotlin (JVM, Coroutines, Serialization),
Java Frameworks: Spring Boot (Spring Cloud, Spring Security, Spring Kafka, Spring Data)
Serialization: Jackson, Kotlin Serialization
Testing: JUnit 5, Mockk, ArchUnit
Data: Kafka (Avro) Streams Oracle SQL (JDBC, JPA) DynamoDB (NoSQL) Redis (Caching)
Cloud: AWS (DynamoDB, Lambda, IAM)
CI/CD: GitLab CI Containers: Docker
Monitoring & Observability: Datadog (Tracing, Metrics, Dashboards, Monitors)
Infrastructure as Code: Terraform (GitLab, Datadog, Kafka, Optimizely)
API: OpenAPI (Swagger), REST API, JSON API
Resilience: Resilience4j
Architecture & Practices: Domain-Driven Design (DDD) Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) Contract Testing (Pact) Feature Flags (Optimizely)
Platforms: E-Commerce Platform (CommerceTools), Promotion Engine (Talon.One)
Methodologies: Scrum, Agile
Skills: Kotlin, Java, Spring Boot, Aws
Must-Haves
Kotlin (JVM, Coroutines, Serialization), Java, Spring Boot (Spring Cloud, Spring Security, Spring Kafka, Spring Data), AWS (DynamoDB, Lambda, IAM), Microservices Architecture
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Notice period - 0 to 15 days only
Job stability is mandatory
Location: Trivandrum
Virtual Weekend Interview on 7th Feb 2026 - Saturday
Job Description
- Design technical specifications for RPA (Blue Prism) that meets the requirements and handled all the non functional requirements of concurrency, scalability, security requirements, restart and recovery.
- Develops and configures automation processes as per the technical design document to meet the defined requirements. Works on the coding the more complicated automations or reusable components, and delegates and mentors junior developers for the less complex components.
- Develops new processes/tasks/objects using core workflow principles that are efficient, well structured, maintainable and easy to understand.
- Complies with and helps to enforce design and coding standards, policies and procedures.
- Ensures documentation is well maintained.
- Ensures quality of coded components by performing thorough unit testing.
- Works collaboratively with test teams during the Product test and UAT phases to fix assigned bugs with quality.
- Reports status, issues and risks to tech leads on a regular basis
- Improves skills in automation products by completing automation certification.
- Mentors junior developers and performs code reviews for quality control.
Qualifications
Bachelor degree in Engineering / Computer Science
Additional Information
- 5- 8 years of IT experience and having good understanding of programming concepts. Should be from a programming background on any coding language (.Net, Java).
- Working experience in RPA for a minimum of 2 years and having project experience of a minimum 3 RPA implementations.
- Understands development methodology and lifecycle
- Should be trained on RPA tools (Blue Prism).
- Self-motivated, team player, action and results oriented.
- Well organized, good communication and reporting skills.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline
- 2-7 Years of Experience
- Expertise in software design and development
- Proficiency with at least one Object Oriented language (e.g. Java)
- Have knowledge about Computer Science fundamentals in object-oriented design, data structures, algorithm design, problem-solving, and complexity analysis
- A strong track record of project delivery for large, cross-functional projects
- Experience with building high-performance, highly available and scalable distributed systems
- Experience with API Design, ability to architect and implement an intuitive customer and third-party integration story
- Ability to think and analyse both breadthwise (client, server, DB, control flow) and depth-wise (threads, sessions, space-time complexity) while designing and implementing services
We are seeking extremely smart programmers who are gung ho about building large scale systems that are going to have a big impact on millions of customers.
Responsibilities:
- Design and develop products by working closely with business team.
- Gain experience with hands on coding and independent ownership of software components.
- Build performant, scalable, enterprise ready back end architectures that can support millions of users in parallel.
- Follow strong engineering best practices and champion their adoption.
Requirements:
- 2+ years’ experience in software product development and delivery.
- Bachelors or Masters degree in engineering from a reputed institute(preferably IITs, NITs, or other top engineering institutes).
- Strong grasp of CS fundamentals, algorithms and excellent problem solving abilities.
- All experience should be from good product development or e-commerce background.
- Must have shown good stability in all your previous associations.
- Have strong backend knowledge and cloud development exposure.
- Expert at Java, Spring boot, Hibernate, REST API development.
- Worked with at least 1 RDBMS (Mysql preferred). NoSql is a plus.
- Have used or are very hands-on with Microservices, Docker, Kubernetes, Gradle/Ant, Kafka, GIT/bitbucket in a very agile work place.
- Writing high quality code which is made better by unit tests and integration tests is how you work.
- Comfortable with exploring proven open source tech stack like Grafana, Kibana, Jira, Prometheus, caches like Redis/Memcached, task queues like celery, to name a few.
- Knowledge of test driven development and AWS tech stack will be a good plus.
• You will design high level architecture solutions, write high quality code, do code reviews
• You will take ownership to run and maintain the services in Cloud infrastructure
• You will continuously evaluate relevant technologies, influence and drive architecture and design discussions
You must have
• Strong desire to work at an early stage startup
• Strong desire to learn and improve yourself every day
• Strong hands-on development experience
• Proficiency in Computer Science fundamentals – object oriented design, data structures, algorithm - design, and complexity analysis
• Strong knowledge of sql/nosql databases
• Strong experience in developing Rest APIs
• Hands-on experience in developing and deploying MicroServices
• Experience with designing scalable architecture
• Strong knowledge of git
• Experience with redis, memcache
• Experience with Kafka, RabbitMQ
• Experience with ElasticSearch, Solr
• Experience with running applications in production, CI/CD
• Experience with performance tuning
• At least 2 year experience in leading a small team of developers
It would be nice if you also have
• Experience with Google Maps or similar technologies
• Experience with geospatial applications/libraries
Required Skills
- Proficiency in CS concepts such as Data Structures, Algorithms and Operating systems.
- More than 2 years of experience in a development Team with very good knowledge and hands-on experience using Java technologies.
- Knowledge of Java MVC Framework Spring MVC / Spring Boot.
- Good SQL and NoSQL skills
- Knowledge of/experience developing Web APIs using RESTFUL services.
- Deep expertise in at least one programming language & tech stack to write maintainable, scalable, unit-tested code - preferably Java.
Good to Have
- Strong object-oriented design skills, knowledge of design patterns, and an uncanny ability to design intuitive module and class-level interfaces.
- Participation in open source projects.
- Active involvement in solving problems on Github, Stackoverflow and similar other community groups
- Hands on experience on PubSub patterns such as Kafka / RMQ
- Experience with full life cycle development in any programming language on a Linux platform
Responsibilities and Duties
- You will translate high level business problems into scalable design and code.
- Create libraries & Utilities for larger consumption.
- Should understand and have knowledge on the application security practices/vulnerabilities.
- You will write performant, unit-tested code, develop object-oriented models and design data structure for new software projects taking systems aspects into account.







