Software Development Engineer 2

Job Description:

We are seeking an experienced Java Back-end Developer to join our team. The ideal candidate

will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining robust and scalable back-end

solutions using Java and related technologies. The Back-end Developer will work closely with

cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality software solutions that meet our business needs.

Responsibilities:

 Design, develop, and maintain Java-based back-end applications, services, and APIs.

 Write efficient, reusable, and well-documented code following industry best practices

and coding standards.

 Collaborate with front-end developers, product managers, and other stakeholders to

understand requirements and translate them into technical solutions.

 Implement and maintain database schemas, write complex SQL queries, and optimize

database performance using Oracle SQL.

 Develop and consume RESTful web services to enable seamless integration with

external systems.

 Utilize Spring framework and its various modules (e.g., Spring Boot, Spring Batch) for

building enterprise-level applications.

 Manage project dependencies and build processes using Maven.

 Work with version control systems such as Git for code management and collaboration.

 Perform unit testing, integration testing, and debugging to ensure the quality and

reliability of back-end components.

 Stay updated on emerging technologies, trends, and best practices in back-end

development.

Additional Requirements:

 Strong knowledge of application servers such as Tomcat and WebLogic.

 Experience with continuous integration tools such as Jenkins.

 Familiarity with automated testing frameworks such as JUnit.

 Understanding of authentication and authorization mechanisms, including OAuth.

 Knowledge of SOAP web services and related technologies.

Requirements:

 Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

 5 Plus years of experience in Java back-end development.

 Proficiency in Java programming language and related frameworks (e.g., Spring, Spring

Boot, Spring Batch).

 Strong understanding of object-oriented programming principles, data structures, and

algorithms.

 Experience with Oracle SQL and database design principles.

 Familiarity with RESTful web services and API development.

 Experience with build tools such as Maven.

 Knowledge of version control systems, particularly Git.

 Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.

 Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

 Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, agile environment.

Preferred Qualifications:

 Experience with other databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, or MongoDB.

 Familiarity with continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.

 Understanding of software development best practices and design patterns.

About Astra:

Astra is a cyber security SaaS company that makes otherwise chaotic pentests a breeze with its one of a kind Pentest Platform. Astra's continuous vulnerability scanner emulates hacker behavior to scan applications for 9300+ security tests. CTOs & CISOs love Astra because it helps them fix vulnerabilities in record time and move from DevOps to DevSecOps with Astra's CI/CD integrations.

Astra is loved by 650+ companies across the globe. In 2023 Astra uncovered 2 million+ vulnerabilities for its customers, saving customers $69M+ in potential losses due to security vulnerabilities. 

We've been awarded by the President of France Mr. François Hollande at the La French Tech program and Prime Minister of India Shri Narendra Modi at the Global Conference on Cyber Security. Loom, MamaEarth, Muthoot Finance, Canara Robeco, ScripBox etc. are a few of Astra’s customers.

Role Overview:

As a back-end engineer you will be responsible for developing and maintaining the platform/dashboard backend. This would involve developing & maintaining RESTful services for vulnerability management, scan orchestration, inventory management and platform features such as on-boarding, trust centers, certificates, payment integrations, vulnerability ingestion, authentication etc. 

You should have a strong background in backend programming (Symfony preferred, or Laravel) and have experience with an event driven, async & distributed architecture. 

During the first 6 months of your role, you will be involved in the 0->1 journey of two of our upcoming products in our platform along with the respective product owners.

Love solving hard problems? Want to build high impact products rooted in first principles? Is coding your poetry? Join us in shaping the future of cyber security.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain backend services and APIs using Symfony PHP framework. What you create is also what you own.
• Collaborate with front-end developers to integrate user-facing elements with server-side logic.
• Collaborate with scanner teams to orchestrate scans, ingest vulnerabilities, configure scanners etc.
• Write clean, well-documented, and efficient code.
• Optimize and refactor existing code to improve performance and reliability.
• Implement security and data protection measures.
• Triage, troubleshoot and upgrade existing systems.
• Ship code to production multiple times a day/week.
• Ensure timely delivery of the features.
• Test your own features, and write test cases for continuous automated testing.
• Participate in code reviews and contribute to best practices and standards.

What we are looking for:

• 3 years experience in a similar role or similar working experience.
• Strong background in PHP backend programming. Symfony preferred, or Laravel.
• Strong understanding of software architecture principles and design patterns.
• Experience with an event driven (subscribers/listeners), async (MessageHandlers & job queues) & distributed (load-balanced) architecture.
• Experience with PostgreSQL database and data modeling.
• Understanding of concepts such as Dependency Injection, ORM, data validation, error handling etc.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions (good to have).
• Experience with Agile methodologies.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to think strategically about technical solutions.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional remote teams.
• Demonstrated track record of delivering high-quality software products on schedule.
• Knowledge of industry best practices in software development, security, and compliance.
• Knowledge of application & infrastructure security - helps you stand out. 

What We offer:

• Adrenalin rush of being a part of a fast-growing company, and working on hard problems that matter.
• Fully remote, agile working environment.
• Good engineering culture with full ownership in design, development, release lifecycle.
• A wholesome opportunity where you get to build things from scratch, improve and ship code to production in hours, not weeks.
• Holistic understanding of SaaS and enterprise security business.
• Experience with the security side of things.
• Annual trips to beaches or mountains (next one is to Wayanad).
• Open and supportive culture.
• Health insurance & other benefits for you and your spouse. Maternity benefits included.

• Experience working on large enterprise application integrations. Deep understanding and delivering solution using common messaging patterns
• Experience with Enterprise Service Bus/Azure Service Bus preferred
• Deep understanding and experience with agile development practices, including unit testing and continuous integration.
• Willingness to take on additional responsibility to ensure team success and quality solutions.
• Team player that understands how your own work is important to the team's success.
• Ability to multitask across different projects.
• Become a partner and trusted advisor to the internal development team on best-fit technologies and best practices.
• Familiarity with object serialization to one of the following: XML, JSON, BSON.
• Database development skill using SQL Server a must.
• A deep understanding of the .NET platform.
• Experience with the ASP.NET MVC. C#, JavaScript, Microservices, Web API, WPF
• Exposure to an ORM such as Entity Framework or NHibernate or equivalent implementation.
• Windows server and Azure development experience
• Queuing experience using MSMQ (or equivalent).
• Development experience using HTML5/CSS/JavaScript frameworks such as AngularJS or Ember or equivalent.
• Professionalism to include written and oral communication and the ability to communicate collaboratively in front of a whiteboard. An ability to understand your audience and adjust your communication style appropriately.
• A desire to constantly learn and share new knowledge
• A caring attitude – care about what you do, who you do it with, and how you’re going to be successful in the end.
• 10+ yrs. professional software development experience.
• Solid working knowledge of four or more of the following technologies:
• Authoring APIs compliant with REST standards
• Development using HTML5/CSS/JavaScript frameworks such as AngularJS or Ember or equivalent
• Development using Silverlight or WPF JQuery

• Designing, developing, implementing, and releasing high quality custom software solutions.
• Applying the very best technical agile patterns and practices when building custom software solutions.
• Collaborating with customers to provide technical consultation and assistance when required.
• Working with CTO, Software Development Manager and Architect, but will be expected to work independently on complex, non-routine tasks and projects. You may interact with end-users and other technical personnel to identify and correct issues.
• Maintaining continuous, open, consistent professional communication with peers and team members. Openly listen to others and confirm understanding to ensure everyone is on the same page.
• Working closely with team members on quality-related activities.

This person MUST have:

• BE Computer Science, MCA or equivalent
• Cloud app development experience
• Strong knowledge of Go programming language, paradigms, constructs, and idioms
• Knowledge of common Goroutine and channel patterns
• Experience with the fullsite of Go frameworks and tools, including:
• Dependency management tools such as Godep, Sltr, etc.
• Go’s templating language
• Go’s code generation tools,such as Stringer
• Ability to write clean and effective Godoc comments
• Familiarity with code versioning tools(such as Git, SVN, and Mercurial)

Experience:

• Min 3 year experience
• Not more than 15 year experience.
• Startup experience is a must. 

Location

• Remotely, anywhere in India

Timings:

• 40 hours a week but with 4 hours a day overlapping with client timezone. .

Position:

• Full time/Direct
• We have great benefits such as PF, medical insurance, 12 annual company holidays, 12 PTO leaves per year, annual increments, Diwali bonus, spot bonuses and other incentives etc.
• We dont believe in locking in people with large notice periods.  You will stay here because you love the company.  We have only a 15 days notice period.

Requirements:

• Experience in system automation development
• Good proficiency in the following coding languages: Python, C#, AutoIT, Batch scripting, Shell scripting
• Strong knowledge in OOPS
• Worked on REST and automation of API requests
• Worked on Loggers and Config Parsers
• Knowledge of Power shell commands, wmic commands and Registry Editor
• Worked on test deployment frameworks like Jenkins
• Experience in configuring and building jobs using Shell/Bash/Python
• Hands-on experience with Tools like :
• Scripting: Python, Visual Studio
• Configuration files: INI and JSON
• Operating System: Windows, Linux
• Source code management: GIT and Gerrit
• CI/CD: Jenkins
• Ticketing and Management: JIRA, ServiceNow, Confluence
• Good Communication skill
• Good Analytical and Problem-solving skills

Job description:

Amazon’s Worldwide Consumer Engagement organization brings customers to visit amazon websites, engage them on site and help them purchase from Amazon’s retail sites. This is achieved through highly personalized messages delivered via all available large scale communication channels—both free and paid and offering engaging experience on website. The organization builds, operates, and improves the technology systems that power all marketing channels, and manages prioritization and marketing spend decisions. Consumer Marketing consists of a series of single-threaded technology and business teams, each of which owns the entirety of a channel of communication or customer segment: natural and paid search (i.e. SEO and SEM), affiliate marketing (Associates), display advertising, email, browser integration, and mobile marketing, retail customer experience technology teams.

This position is for a technology leader in Affiliate Marketing Technology group for attribution team. This team owns business critical systems that are responsible for attributing traffic to marketing channels and thrives on innovation to provide rich analytics to its internal and external customers. As a leader on the team, you will be responsible for tier1 critical systems, guide your team through the design, development, testing, and deployment of a range of products involving big data processing and dealing with near real time SLAs. You will have to deal with challenges of high availability (five 9s) guarantee, low latency and high throughput. In addition, you will build and manage roadmaps for software teams, developing cutting edge experiences. You will have sound technical acumen, excellent project management skills, great communication skills, and hire, build, and develop your team. You are a true owner - you are deeply interested in product design, architecture, and you innovate relentlessly on behalf of our customers.

This position offers the opportunity to collaborate with our business teams across the world and other tech teams in Bangalore as we raise the bar in delivering innovation.

Primary responsibilities: 

• Provide technical expertise and leadership throughout product life cycles, influence software engineers best practices for your team and own operational metrics 
• Work with business leaders and product managers to define product requirements. 
• Prioritize, communicate, maintain, and execute roadmaps, project plans, and commitments 
• Work with engineers to define technical requirements and architect and execute best-in-class implementations in agile manner 
• Build and maintain world-class customer experience and operational excellence for your deliverables 
• Hire, manage, mentor and grow a high performance team of Software Engineers

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelors/Masters degree in Computer Science or related field
• 10+ years professional experience in software development management
• Proficiency in, at least, one modern programming language such as Java, Scala, C#, C++ etc 
• Ability to solve complex technical problems and design robust, scalable solutions
• Ability to think critically and actively contribute to strategic choices.
• 3+ years experience in managing development teams working on multiple simultaneous projects.
• 3+ years experience in managing large scale software development teams following Agile development processes. 
• Strong skills in project planning & execution, problem solving. Ability to take a project from initial scoping requirements through actual launch and support of the project
• Proven leadership and teamwork skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in both technical and non-technical discussions.

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Deep, hands-on technical expertise in high scale, service-oriented architectures
• Exposure to Elastic Map Reduce and Machine Learning programs. 
• Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment
• Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
• Clear, professional communication skills able to contribute to team discussions, knowing when to contribute, when to listen, and when to ask questions
• Proactively and continually improve their level of knowledge about Amazon’s business and relevant technologies, and use this knowledge to deliver high quality, accurate software deliverables
• Strong business and technical vision
• Good understanding of web services

Demonstrable experience in Core Java (8 or higher) and Spring framework (Core, AOP, Batch, JMS).

Multithreading, Data structure, Algorithm, Eceptional handling,OOPS Concepts, collections

• Excellent customer facing skills that include conducting compelling technical briefing & demonstrations. The person should have a technical aptitude to implement new technologies and articulate the solutions to the customer.
• Java, Spring with Database & Unix - Preferred with Scala or Spark(Hadoop) background
• Proven knowledge in OOPS & Data Structures
• Strong experience of developing multi-threaded and synchronization application
• Demonstrated delivery experience of Micro services APIs using Springboot, Oracle PL/SQL development and activities like Performance tuning / Optimization.
• Experience of using Git/Bitbucket, Maven/Bamboo, & related tools.
• Good Understanding of Agile Delivery Methodology & experience in working with Scrum teams.