Software Developer

About Shopflo

At Shopflo, we're trying to change the way consumers experience brands and businesses. Our first product was a cart and checkout platform for e-commerce, that allowed marketers to personalise discounts, rewards, and payments. We are currently also working on a new product that takes it a notch higher by unlocking enterprise-grade personalization for all consumer tech businesses.

Team & Company

Shopflo was founded by three co-founders:

• Ankit Bansal (ex-IIT Kharagpur, Oracle, Gupshup)
• Ishan Rakshit (ex-IIT Bombay, Parthenon, Elevation Capital)
• Priy Ranjan (ex-IIT Madras, McKinsey, Elevation Capital)

We’re a fast-growing team of ~50 people, based in HSR Layout, Bengaluru. We raised a $3.8M seed round from Tiger Global, TQ Ventures.

 What you will do

• Design and develop microservice that can work in a large-scale multi-tenant environment.
• Explore design implications and work towards an appropriate balance between functionality, performance, and maintainability.
• Working with a cross-discipline team of Design, Product, Data Science and Analytics team.
• Deploy and maintain the application in a secured AWS environment.
• Take ownership from the ideation phase to deployment and maintenance.
• Active participation in the hiring process to bring world-class programmers in the team.

You should apply if you have:

• 2-4 years of experience in server-side development
• Strong programming skills in Java, Python, Node or Golang
• Hands-on experience in API development and frameworks such as Spring, Node, or Django.
• Good Understanding of SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Experience in test-driven development. (writing unit test and API test).
• Understanding of basic cloud computing concepts and experience in using any of the major cloud service providers(AWS/GCP/Azure).
• Ability to build and deploy the application in a containerized environment.
• Understanding of application logging and monitoring systems like Prometheus or Kibana.
• B. E/B. Tech/M. E. /M. Tech/M. S. from a reputed university with a good academic record.
• Curiosity to explore cutting-edge technologies and bake them into the products.
• Zeal and drive to take end-to-end ownership.

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Java Developer with expertise in Microservices architecture and Spring Boot to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will be responsible for designing, developing, and deploying scalable, high-performance backend solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain Java-based applications using Spring Boot and Microservices architecture.
• Develop and implement RESTful APIs and integrate them with front-end components.
• Optimize application performance and ensure high availability and scalability.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather and analyze business requirements.
• Implement security best practices, including authentication and authorization mechanisms.
• Develop and maintain unit and integration tests to ensure robust software quality.
• Work with DevOps teams to automate CI/CD pipelines and ensure smooth deployment processes.
• Monitor and troubleshoot production issues, providing efficient resolutions.
• Stay updated with emerging technologies and best practices in Java development and cloud-native applications.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• 8+ years of hands-on experience in Java development.
• Expertise in Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Cloud, and other Spring frameworks.
• Strong experience with Microservices architecture and API development.
• Proficiency in RESTful services, JSON, and Swagger/OpenAPI.
• Hands-on experience with SQL and NoSQL databases (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis).
• Familiarity with message brokers like Kafka or RabbitMQ.
• Experience with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Solid understanding of CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitLab, or similar tools.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work in an agile development environment.
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills.

Nice-to-Have:

• Experience with GraphQL and event-driven architecture.
• Knowledge of reactive programming using WebFlux.
• Familiarity with observability tools like Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack.

Role Overview

The Senior Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) Developer will lead the design, development, and maintenance of Government of Rajasthan’s portal websites built on the AEM platform. This role involves leading technical solutions, performance optimization, security compliance, and guiding the development team.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design and development of complex components and templates in Adobe Experience Manager (AEM).
• Manage AEM configurations, workflows, and permissions for multiple portals.
• Develop and integrate custom OSGi bundles, Sling models, and components.
• Ensure performance tuning, caching strategies, and scalability of AEM solutions.
• Handle dispatcher configuration and optimization for content delivery.
• Collaborate with architects and project managers for solution design.
• Ensure compliance with Safe-to-Host and OWASP security standards.
• Mentor junior developers and review their code for quality.
• Integrate with third-party services (Payment Gateway, SMS Gateway, etc.).
• Manage version control (Git) and deployment pipelines (Jenkins).

Required Skills

• 5+ years of experience in Adobe Experience Manager (AEM 6.3 or above).
• Strong expertise in Java/J2EE, OSGi, Apache Sling, JCR (Jackrabbit Oak).
• Hands-on experience with HTL (Sightly), HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery.
• Good understanding of Dispatcher, Apache HTTP Server, and performance tuning.
• Knowledge of REST/SOAP APIs and system integration.
• Familiarity with Git, CI/CD tools (Jenkins).
• Excellent problem-solving and team leadership skills.

Preferred Certifications

Adobe Certified Expert (AEM Sites Developer or Architect).

What you will be doing

• Building and maintaining Java micro services.
• Develop new features and improve existing features of the application.
• Coding, Implementing, Unit Testing and Documenting Java based services.
• Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable Java code.
• Code reviews and ensuring adherence to software development standards.
• Contribute to team and organizational improvements in process and infrastructure.
• Participating in requirements gathering and functional specification activities.
• Resolving and helping to mitigate production issues.

What you need to be successful

• Has proven himself as a solid individual contributor and has some initial management ability
• Understands the culture and upholds it
• Well respected with the team
• Looking to grow more as a manager than as an engineer
• Split time b/w hands-on technical work and people management of a small team
• Be a role model for the people in your team
• Responsible for team mentorship, technical planning, resource allocation & project delivery
• Build solid working relationships with counterparts outside engineering
• If we shortlist you for a lead role, then you'll have to mentor SDE-1 towards their SDE-2 journey.
• Progress up to manager in 2-3 years
• Strong Data Structure and Algorithms
• Experience of building micro services architectures, developing RESTful services,continuous integration, unit and integration testing.
• Proficient with SpringBoot, Hibernate, JUnit and other Java frameworks apart from RDBMS and NoSQL databases - PostgreSQL, MongoDB
• Gauge or other BDD frameworks and experience in Fintech would be preferred.

Key Responsibilities:

• Rewrite existing APIs in NodeJS.
• Remodel the APIs into Micro services-based architecture.
• Implement a caching layer wherever possible.
• Optimize the API for high performance and scalability.
• Write unit tests for API Testing.
• Automate the code testing and deployment process.

Skills Required:

• At least 2.5 years of experience developing Backends using NodeJS — should be well versed with its asynchronous nature & event loop, and know its quirks and workarounds.
• Excellent hands-on experience using MySQL or any other SQL Database.
• Good knowledge of MongoDB or any other NoSQL Database.
• Good knowledge of Redis, its data types, and their use cases.
• Experience with graph-based databases like GraphQL and Neo4j.
• Experience developing and deploying REST APIs.
• Good knowledge of Unit Testing and available Test Frameworks.
• Good understanding of advanced JS libraries and frameworks.
• Experience with Web sockets, Service Workers, and Web Push Notifications.
• Familiar with NodeJS profiling tools.
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as Git.
• Good knowledge of creating and maintaining DevOps infrastructure on cloud platforms.
• Should be a fast learner and a go-getter — without any fear of trying out new things Preferences.
• Experience building a large-scale social or location-based app.

Requirement:

• Min 2-3 Year Experience. Preferably in the E-commerce domain. 
• Proficient with both MySQL and NoSql Databases (Elastic, Mongo)
• Strong hold on PHP and preferably good knowledge of Python
• Experience with JavaScript/JQuery
• Ability to do software design for a enterprise web application
• Working knowledge of a MVC front-end framework
• Proficient in HTTP protocol, REST APIs, JSON
• Ability to do database design and modeling
• Proficient in OOPS concepts and writing code using classes
• Ability to write modular and clean code

Role:

• Software Development of various product line 
• Creation web-services and optimization for existing and new feature rollouts
• Collaborate with Product Managers and design solutions 
• Develop very high sense of ownership, the zeal to build scalable applications
• Build customer facing technology product 
• Individual Contributor

Responsibilities

• Plan, develop and implement large-scale projects from conception to completion.
• Interface with clients and gather business requirements and objectives.
• Translate clients’ business requirements and objectives into technical applications and solutions.
• Understand and evaluate complex data models.
• Design, develop and implement new integration.
• Execute system development and maintenance activities.
• Develop solutions to improvise performance and scalability of systems.
• Mentor junior and mid-level engineers.

Minimum Requirements

• 3-5 years of relevant experience, working in Java related technologies.
• A Good Engineering or Masters degree from a reputed university
• Should have strong technical skills with a good grasp of OO concepts and design patterns

• Good knowledge of SQL database ( MySQL, Oracle, etc )
• Good understanding of frameworks like Spring, Hibernate, etc.
• Good understanding of spring boot and microservices.
• Exposure to AWS services - S3, SQS, Lambda, DynamoDB, API Gateway, etc.

Good to have

• Knowledge of No-SQL DBs like mongo, dynamoDB, etc.
• Knowledge of message brokers/queuing services like SQL, rabbitMQ, Kafka, etc.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Design and Build API/Micro services using Spring boot.
• Experience in Spring Reactive programming.
• Exposure to docker and containerization
• Developing enterprise grade highly scalable java-based application
• Writing test cases using Java testing framework like JUnit, Mockito.
• Proficient understanding of code version tools, such as Git, SVN
• Displaying initiative and an ability to lead others, and develop applications team disciplined manner
• Participating in application solutions including assisting with planning and architectural design, development, resolution of technical issues, and application rationalization.
• Utilizing and applying robust analytic thinking with the ability to identify, debug, and resolve technical issues.
• Achieving significant contributions within a small team of developers to lead teams and deliver solutions within an Agile methodology, whilst ensuring quality, timeliness and team-wide adherence to good architectural practice and guidelines.
• Good Experience in Application Software Design and Development, Object Oriented Analysis and Design (OOAD), Software Testing and Debugging.
• Conduct peer code reviews