Software Developer

Roles & Responsibilities

● Complete ownership of the components that one works on - starting from
architecture design to monitoring metrics post deployment
Strong bias for action with a problem solving mindset. Meeting current
requirements or resolving issues while keeping bigger picture in mind.
● Thinking big while designing components. Keeping in mind that if we build our
current version for x users, it will be 10x within a year & 100x within 1.5 years
hands on experience in software development with excellent
problem-solving skills.
● Hands on experience on building highly-available, scalable systems.
● Expertise in Java with data structures, algorithms, spring, hibernate skills.
● Knowledge of NoSQL, MongoDB, caching data stores, queuing and search.
● Proficiency in computer science fundamentals: Object oriented design, data
structures, algorithm design, and complexity analysis.
● Good with the design patterns and architecture solution to large scale
applications.
● Nice to have: Cassandra, Kafka, Aerospike development experience with highly
scalable and performant software systems.

1. Experience in Spring Boot

2. Hands-on experience with Hibernate/JPA

3. Added advantage if known MicroServices and Design Patterns

4. Experience working with tools like Git, Jenkins, Maven

5. Working knowledge with Oracle or MySQL Database

6. Strong agile/scrum development experience

Primary Responsibilities
 Providing technical expertise for every phase of the project lifecycle—from concept
development to solution design, implementation, optimization and support. Interacts
with a set of clients (client senior developers and architects) to create technology
specifications from business requirements for one of the modules within the project.
 Prepares the technical design of the more complex technology components within the
module (one or more of client/web presentation tier, server tier, data access and data
model, integration component, package function customization).
 Assists the architect in articulating the pros and cons of using a certain technology stack
or component or design pattern versus another to the clients and project team and
drives selection of technologies, designs to come up with the optimal architecture.
Drives the performance tuning, re-design and re-factoring for a module.
 Contributes to designing and implementing the build, releases process as well as system
configuration and deployment characteristics of the application.
Required Tech Stack
 2+ years of strong development skills in Java with JDK 1. 8 & above version &
Microservices with Spring boot/ Spring.
 Should have strong acumen in Data Structures, Algorithms, problem-solving and Logical/
Analytical skills.
 Thorough understanding of OOPS concepts, Design principles and implementation of
different type of Design patterns.
 Sound understanding of concepts like Exceptional handling, Serialization/Deserialization
and Immutability concepts, etc.
 Good fundamental knowledge in Enums, Collections, Annotations, Generics, Auto
boxing, etc. Experience with Multithreading, Concurrent Package and Concurrent APIs Basic
understanding of Java Memory Management (JMM) including garbage collections
concepts.
 Experience in RDBMS or NO SQL databases and writing SQL queries (Joins, group by,
aggregate functions, etc.)
 Experience with at-least one NoSQL (Any of Cassandra/Couch base/Hadoop), Hands-on
experience with JMS
 Hands-on experience in creating RESTful webservices and consuming webservices
 Hands-on experience with Spring.
 Hands-on experience with any of the logging frameworks (SLF4J/LogBack/Log4j)
 Experience of writing Junit test cases using Mockito / Powermock frameworks.
 Should have practical experience with Maven/Gradle and knowledge of version control
systems like Git/SVN etc.
 Good communication skills and ability to work with global teams to define and deliver
on projects.
 Sound understanding/experience in software development process, test-driven
development

THE POSITION:

- 3+ years of relevant experience in designing & implementing scalable, resilient backend microservices

- Expert at any backend programming language (Python/GoLang preferrable) and has exposure to API design and scalable architecture

- Hands-on experience on a couple of RDBMS/NoSQL/In-memory DBs

- Great database modelling skills

- Ability to choose the right algorithm, data-structure, and design pattern for the given problem statement

- Knowledge of any cloud based platform like AWS or GCP and scaling on the go

- Understanding of various application security principles and experience with building applications secure by design

 

QUALIFICATION:

                - We don't care about which college you are from, if you have the power to convert coffee into code, we got you.

• Understand the overall requirements of the product/platform and specifically for the assigned feature/module.
• Design and Develop Software as per the product architecture and requirements.
• Code and unit testing of the feature/modules including appropriate design reviews and code inspections.
• Ensure adherence to the software development processes.
• Investigates software/system problems to isolate the root cause and provides innovative solutions.
• Collaborates with cross-functional teams (locally & globally) to ensure product releases meet quality, performance, scalability, reliability, and schedule goals.

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or Information Technology.
• 6-10 years of experience in software development using J2EE technologies
• Experience with Core Java, JEE5 (JSP/JMS/Web Services/Servlets), Spring, Hibernate, REST, JBOSS/Tomcat Servers
• 1+ years of experience using Azure IOT technologies
• Work experience in Azure IoT Suite: IoT HUB, Azure TSI, DPS, Service Bus, Azure Functions, Azure KeyVault, MCI/AKS, Azure AD
• Knowledge in Azure Data Lake, Azure SQL
• Strong understanding of object-oriented programming
• Knowledge in ReactJS, JQuery is a plus
• Good knowledge in SQL -preferable
• Must have worked in agile/scrum environment
• Good understanding of software development processes, preferably for a regulated medical devices environment (ISO13485/FDA)
• Ability to work with cross-functional and remote teams.
• Flexibility to work on different areas of the product/platform
• Good written and verbal English communication
• Ability to travel as needed (minimal)

Who are we? BlueOptima provides industry-leading objective metrics in software development using our proprietary Coding Effort Analytics. We enable large organisations to deliver better software, faster and at lower cost. Founded in 2006, BlueOptima is a profitable, high-growth independent software company. Our unique technology was initially devised in seminal research carried out at Cambridge University. We are headquartered in London with offices in New York, Bangalore, Gurgaon and Guadalajara. BlueOptima’s technology is deployed by global enterprises to drive value from their software development activities. We work with nine of the world’s top twelve largest Universal Banks (by revenue) and three of the world’s top ten telecommunications companies (by revenue, excl. China). Our technology is pushing the limits of complex analytics on large data-sets with more than 15 billion static source code metric observations of software engineers working in an Enterprise software development environment. BlueOptima is an Equal Opportunities employer. Whom are we looking for? Our groundbreaking technology, requires highly skilled and talented Web Backend Developers to understand the depth of the problem and device a solution for it. We are seeking a Software Engineer, with a depth of experience in developing Web Applications enabled using REST APIs and backed by a data warehouse solution, to join our growing company and be a part of our success story. We are looking for individual with great attention to detail, who is genuine, confident, committed and not only passionate about technology, but excited to work in a fun and friendly start-up environment. The ideal candidate will be passionate about technology and getting things to work while at the same time being able to mentor (and lead) other engineers by way of example to achieve excellence in their work. What does the role involve? As a Web Backend Principal Software Engineer you will be responsible for creating REST APIs which are used to drive the User Interface. Given the nature of the application, these APIs needs to be very efficient and high performing. This requires optimising queries for faster execution and introducing database changes that may be required. You would be working with a complex technology stack which includes (but is not limited to) Spring, Hibernate, HornetQ, Quartz, etc. This requires extensive understanding of transaction management and data handling across different application layers. In addition to the technical ownership, you will also be involved in detailing requirements for requested functionalities and be responsible for providing technical insight into how requirements will be implemented and made available to users. Accurate estimation of tasks and planning are qualities we look for in our engineers.  Responsibilities include: Develop, test, implement and maintain application software Take part in software and architectural development activities Transform requirements into implementation details Debug application issues and helping support respond to client queries May lead and provide mentoring and guidance to less senior developers Participate in application development meetings Provide accurate estimates, clearly communicate status of tasks and identification of risks Commitment to accomplishing the task at hand and identify the fastest and most reliable way to solve a problem Performance tuning of application code at different service levels Incorporate design changes to improve performance of the application Interact with customers of the application and help address issues reported Interact with customers of the application and collect requirements or potential uses cases and draft technical and user requirements ESSENTIAL SKILLS / EXPERIENCE REQUIRED: Minimum Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent Minimum 8+ years experience with Java and J2EE/Java EE Minimum 8+ years experience with Spring MVC, Spring Security and Hibernate 2+ years experience managing in colocated and remote teams Strong understanding of relational database and normal forms Strong understanding of SQL concepts and ability to write optimised and high performing queries Strong understanding of Java concurrency, concurrency patterns, experience building thread safe code Experience building RESTful web services Experience with web application servers like JBoss Strong written and verbal communication skills Strong interpersonal skills and time management skills Strong problem solving and analytical skills Experience using task tracking systems e.g. Jira and distributed version control systems e.g. Git Understanding of testNg/JUnit Unix/Windows shell and related command line tools Experience with database partitioning and column Indexing Experience with query optimisation techniques Why work for us? Above market remuneration Stimulating challenges that fully utilise your skills Work on real-world technical problems to which solution cannot simply be found on the internet Working alongside other passionate, talented engineers Hardware of your choice Our fast-growing company offers the potential for rapid career progression

Essential Job Functions: • Designs and develops digital solutions. • Develops software solutions. • Performs unit testing and test-driven development (TDD). • Troubleshoots and resolves technical problems. • Designs, maintains, and supports cloud infrastructure. • Collaborates with internal and external departments to accomplish various tasks and projects. Required Skills • Functional programming experience using Scala - required. • Backend development experience - preferred. • Search engine, indexing, and full text search experience - preferred. • Experience with and/or knowledge of AWS Cloud - required. Required Experience • Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, or related degree or equivalent experience and training. • (3 -5) years of Scala and Java programming experience - required. • (3 -5) years of integration and implementation experience