Software Developer/Software Engineer - Java

About Tamasha

Tamasha is building next-generation live, social, and real-time consumer

experiences across gaming, audio, video, and interactive platforms. Our backend

systems power millions of real-time interactions, low-latency data flows, and high

throughput event-driven services.

Role Overview

As a Software Development Engineer III (Backend), you will operate as a senior

individual contributor owning mission-critical backend systems. You will design

scalable architectures, solve complex distributed systems problems, and influence

engineering standards across teams.

Roles & Responsibilities

 Own backend systems end-to-end, from design and implementation to

production reliability and long-term evolution.

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Design scalable, fault-tolerant, and low-latency backend architectures for real

time and event-driven use cases.

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Lead system design decisions including data models, service boundaries, async

workflows, and scalability strategies.

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Build and operate high-throughput services handling millions of events, requests,

or messages per day.

 Own reliability metrics such as p95/p99 latency, uptime, error budgets, and

participate in incident resolution and post-mortems.

Drive architectural migrations including monolith to microservices and

synchronous to asynchronous flows.

 Collaborate with product, frontend, and data teams to translate complex

requirements into robust backend solutions.

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Improve developer productivity by contributing to internal platforms, tooling,

CI/CD pipelines, and coding standards.

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Mentor engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and technical guidance

without direct people management.

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Proactively identify performance bottlenecks, cost inefficiencies, and scalability

risks and resolve them at the system level.

Tech Stack

Backend: Node.js (NestJS / Express), Golang, Java

Databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis

Messaging & Async: Kafka, SQS, RabbitMQ, Pub/Sub

Real-time: WebSockets, Server-Sent Events

Cloud & Infra: AWS / GCP, Docker, Kubernetes

Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry

What We’re Looking For

• 5+ years of backend engineering experience

• Proven ownership of production systems at scale

• Strong understanding of distributed systems and async architectures

• Experience handling production incidents and system reliability

• Ability to independently design and evolve backend systems

Roles and Responsibilities:

1. Contribute in all phases of the development lifecycle
2. Write well designed, testable, efficient code
3. Ensure designs comply with specifications
4. Prepare and produce releases of software components
5. Support continuous improvement by investigating alternatives and technologies and presenting these for architectural review
6. Ensure continual knowledge management
7. Adherence to the organizational guidelines and processes

Skills /Competencies: a. Bachelor/Master’s degree with good experience in computer programming b.4+ years working experience in application development using Java

Essential Skills:

1. Hands on experience in designing and developing applications using Java EE platforms
2. Object Oriented analysis and design using common design patterns.
3. Profound insight of Java and JEE internals (Data structure, Algorithm and time complexity, Memory Management, Transaction management etc)
4. Excellent knowledge of Relational Databases, SQL and ORM technologies (JPA2, Hibernate)
5. Experience in the Spring Framework
6. Experience in developing web applications using at least one popular web framework (JSF, Wicket, GWT, Spring MVC) and UI technology (Angular/React JS)
7. Ability to operate independently while establishing strong working relationships with co-workers and cross-functional teams
8. Strong organizational and prioritization skills
9. Demonstrate critical attention to detail and deadlines, and are self-motivated
10. Ability to adapt to changes in direction and priorities in a project and deadline-oriented environment
11. Strong written and verbal English communication skills
12. Problem-solving attitude

Preferred skills Good to have –

1. Knowledge in any UI technology (Angular, React, JS)
2. Intermediate level knowledge of Unix environment (User commands, not System Admin commands)
3. Understanding of capital markets and middle/back office processes in the financial services space

Product Responsibilities:

As an Engineering Manager, you will be responsible for the end-to-end delivery of one or more products and solutions.

10+ years of relevant industry experience.

Be technically strong and deliver product excellence.

Collaborate with your team and cross-functional partners to define and influence strategy.

Drive roadmap creation and execution.

Collaborate with various functions, drive engineering initiatives, and have an impact at an organizational level.

Participate in technical design. You will be the owner of the technical direction of the products.

Define clear OKRs and measure the impact of your team and individual members.

Evangelize your products across various teams and also to external customers.

Work with the GTM team to deliver success for the products.

Collaborate with the Recruitment/HR team to hire exceptional talent for your own team and also for other teams.

Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor degree preferably in Computer Science from a reputed engineering college.

10+ years of proven experience, with 2+ years of leading a team.

Very strong in hands-on coding.

8+ years of combined experience in JVM languages(Java, Scala, Kotlin, etc), any scripting language like python, relational and non-relational databases.

Very strong in system design. You should have designed and implemented large-scale Web applications or data systems.

Strong verbal and written communication skills.

Demonstrated experience recruiting and managing technical teams, including performance management.

Good to have:

Don't worry, we'll ramp you up, but experience in any of these areas will help you hit the ground running:

Familiarity with technologies such as Apache Spark, Apache Hadoop ecosystem, and modern warehouses like Snowflake, AWS Redshift, etc.

Experience working with public cloud systems such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.

Experience with containerization and technologies such as Kubernetes and Docker.

 Knowledge of large-scale, data-heavy distributed systems.

ThoughtWorks is a global software consultancy with an aim to create a positive impact on the world through technology. Our community of technologists thinks disruptively to deliver pragmatic solutions for our clients' most complex challenges. We are curious minds who come together as collaborative and inclusive teams to push boundaries, free to be ourselves and make our mark in tech.

Our developers have been contributing code to major organizations and open source projects for over 25 years. They’ve also been writing books, speaking at conferences and helping push software development forward, changing companies and even industries along the way. We passionately believe that software quality is driven by open communication, review and collaboration. That’s why we’re such vehement supporters of open source and have made significant contributions to open source tools for testing, continuous delivery (GoCD), continuous integration (CruiseControl), machine learning and healthcare. 

As consultants, we https://www.thoughtworks.com/careers/hub/consultant-life">work with our clients to ensure we’re evolving their technology and empowering adaptive mindsets to meet their business goals. You could influence the digital strategy of a retail giant, build a bold new mobile application for a bank or redesign platforms using event sourcing and intelligent data pipelines. You will use the latest Lean and Agile thinking, create pragmatic solutions to solve mission-critical problems and challenge yourself every day.

You’ll spend time on the following:

• You will champion best practices like writing clean and reusable code using practices like TDD, SOLID principles, OO design, and pair programming
• You will partner with other technologists from cross-functional teams advocating devops culture
• You will work in collaborative, product-focused teams to build innovative customer experiences
• Take ownership and accountability beyond individual deliverables, always pushing the envelope in order to deliver awesome results for our clients
• Learn, digest and subsequently apply the latest technology thinking from ourhttps://www.thoughtworks.com/radar"> tech radar to solve client problems

Here’s what we’re looking for:

• You have 2+ years* of experience using two or more development languages (Java, JavaScript, Ruby, C#, etc.) with experience in Object-Oriented programming
• You’re willing and able to commit to traveling up to 100% (back home on the weekends) across the US and Canada to help our clients solve their business problems
• You can write clean, high-quality code in a variety of languages and are also able to spot (and improve) bad code
• You’re resilient in ambiguous situations and can approach challenges from multiple perspectives
• You have experience with Agile, Lean and/or Continuous Delivery approaches such as Continuous Integration, TDD, Infrastructure as Code, etc.
• Bonus points if you have knowledge of cloud technology such as AWS, Docker or Kubernetes
• You’re willing and able to commit to travel to client sites in order to solve their business problems