Software Development Engineer 2

Role & Responsibilities

As a Staff Engineer at Locus, you will play a critical role in defining and driving our backend architecture as we scale globally. You’ll own key systems that handle high volumes of data and transactions, ensuring performance, reliability, and maintainability across distributed environments.

Key Responsibilities-

• Own one or more core applications end-to-end, ensuring reliability, performance, and scalability.
• Lead the design, architecture, and development of complex, distributed systems, frameworks, and libraries aligned with Locus’s technical strategy.
• Drive engineering operational excellence by defining robust roadmaps for system reliability, observability, and performance improvements.
• Analyze and optimize existing systems for latency, throughput, and efficiency, ensuring they perform at scale.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Data, and Infrastructure teams to translate business requirements into technical deliverables.
• Mentor and guide engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and continuous learning.
• Establish and uphold coding standards, conduct design and code reviews, and promote best practices across teams.
• Stay ahead of the curve on emerging technologies, frameworks, and patterns to strengthen Locus’s technology foundation.
• Contribute to hiring by identifying and attracting top-tier engineering talent.

Ideal Candidate

• Strong staff engineer profile
• Mandatory (Experience 1): Must have 9+ years in backend engineering with Java, Spring/Spring Boot, and microservices building large and schalable systems
• Mandatory (Experience 2): Must have been SDE-3 / Tech Lead / Lead SE for at least 2.5 years
• Mandatory (Tech skills 1): Strong in DSA, system design, design patterns, and problem-solving
• Mandatory (Tech skills 2): Proven experience building scalable, reliable, high-performance distributed systems
• Mandatory (Tech skills 3): Hands-on with SQL/NoSQL databases, REST/gRPC APIs, concurrency & async processing
• Mandatory (Tech skills 4): Experience in AWS/GCP, CI/CD pipelines, and observability/monitoring
• Mandatory (Communication): Excellent ability to explain complex technical concepts to varied stakeholders
• Mandatory (Company): Product companies (B2B SAAS preferred)
• Mandatory (Stability): Must have stayed for at least 2 years with each of the previous companies
• Mandatory (Education): B.Tech in computer science from Tier 1, Tier 2 colleges

🧠 Job Description: Senior Java Developer (8+ Years Experience)

Location: Mumbai, India

Employment Type: Full-time, Hybrid mode of working

Company: Wissen Technology

Website: www.wissen.com

🚀 About Wissen Technology

Wissen Technology is a specialized technology consulting firm delivering cutting-edge solutions to global leaders in Banking & Finance, Telecom, and Healthcare. Established in 2015 and part of the Wissen Group (founded in 2000), Wissen has scaled rapidly with impressive impact and recognition.

• 🌍 Offices in US, UK, India, Australia, Mexico, and Canada
• 👥 1700+ Wissen Technology professionals; part of a 4500-strong Wissen Group
• 🏆 Great Place to Work® Certified
• 🧠 Featured as a Top 20 AI/ML Vendor (CIO Insider, 2020)
• 📈 Achieved 400% revenue growth in 5 years (with zero external funding)
• 💼 Delivered $1B+ worth of projects to 50+ Fortune 500 companies

Learn more about our work and thought leadership:

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About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Senior Java Developer with 8+ years of hands-on expertise in building scalable, high-performance applications. The ideal candidate will have strong fundamentals in Java, OOPS, Multithreading, Spring concepts, and SQL, and will play a key role in designing, developing, and optimizing enterprise-grade solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain complex applications using Core Java and Spring frameworks
• Apply advanced Object-Oriented Programming (OOPS) principles to deliver clean, modular, and reusable code
• Implement and optimize multithreaded applications for high-performance systems
• Work with SQL databases for efficient data modeling, query optimization, and integration
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather requirements and translate them into technical solutions
• Conduct code reviews, troubleshoot issues, and ensure adherence to best practices
• Mentor junior developers and contribute to technical knowledge sharing within the team
• Ensure application scalability, performance tuning, and security compliance

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
• 8+ years of professional experience in Java development
• Strong expertise in Core Java, OOPS, and Multithreading
• Hands-on experience with Spring concepts (Spring Core, Spring MVC, Spring Boot preferred)
• Proficiency in SQL and database design (MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, etc.)
• Solid understanding of software development life cycle (SDLC) and Agile methodologies
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills

🌟 Why Wissen?

Join a company that combines start-up agility with enterprise stability. Work alongside some of the brightest minds from institutions like MIT, Wharton, IITs, IIMs, and NITs. Be part of mission-critical projects for Fortune 500 giants, and grow in a culture that invests in your future.

Title:- Java Backend Developer

Location:- Chennai ll Kochi ll Trivandrum

Employment Type:- Full time

Experience Required:- 5+ years

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• 5 to 11 years of relevant work experience in Java development.
• Java, Spring, Spring boot, Micro services

Additional Skills (Optional):

Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.

Knowledge of Agile methodologies and tools like Jira.

Good communication and teamwork skills.

Skills: Java, Spring boot, Implementation, Healthcare

• Design, develop, test and maintain backend services and APIs using Java and Spring Boot.

• Architect and implement microservices to ensure scalability and robustness of

applications.

• Create and maintain data pipelines to handle large volumes of data efficiently.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather requirements and deliver high-quality software solutions.

• Participate in code and design reviews to minimize rework and catch issues early in the process.

• Optimize and improve the performance, scalability, and reliability of our systems.

• Conduct code reviews and contribute to best practices in software development.

• Stay updated with the latest industry trends and advancements in Java and backend development technologies

Role & Responsibilities:

• Handle multiple products/modules simultaneously, lead the team in development and support
• Lead development teams
• Daily updates to customers and Product Managers/Delivery Managers
• Participate in design discussions
• Design and Architect small modules
• Effort estimations for modules, subsystems or use cases.
• Learn new skills and mentor the new team members
• Champion best practices within the team, including code reviews
  
  

Work Experience & Skills:

• B.E/B.Tech or any relevant Masters degree from reputed college.
• Strong 5+ years of experience in Java, J2EE, Spring IOC, Spring Annotations, Spring JDBC, Jquery, Java script, HTML 5 and CSS
• Strong experience in Postgres or any SQL technology
• Experience with working on Tomcat, Apache, JBoss or any similar application server
• Should have 3+ years of experience in leading team.
• Good experience in JSON / RESTful API / Web Services.
• Experience in working on Agile methodology using Scrum and sprints
• Experience in using build tools, Maven, GIT, Bugzilla or similar tools.
• Experience in cloud technologies, Microservices and frameworks such as AWS or GPC, container technologies like Docker is a plus.
• Ability to adapt to new development environments, changing business requirements and learning new systems highly desired
• Experience in Microservices, SpringBoot and Angular is a plus.
• Experience with tuning deployed applications for scalability and performance.
• Good knowledge of deployment and scripting on Linux/Unix servers
• Strong technical documentation skills.
• Good oral and written communication skills

Java developer roles will vary greatly depending on companies and job positions. Here are some typical roles and responsibilities of java developers:

• Contribute to all stages of software development lifecycle
• Design, implement and maintain Java-based applications that can be high-volume and low-latency
• Analyze user requirements to define business objectives
• Envisioning system features and functionality
• Define application objectives and functionality
• Ensure application designs conform with business goals
• Develop and test software
• Identify and resolve any technical issues arising
• Create detailed design documentation
• Propose changes to current Java infrastructure
• Develop technical designs for application development
• Develop multimedia applications
• Write well designed, testable code
• Conducting software analysis, programming, testing, and debugging
• Manage Java and Java EE application development
• Develop documentation to help users
• Transforming requirements into stipulations
• Prepare and produce releases of software components
• Support continuous improvement, investigating alternatives and technologies, and presenting for architectural review

Java Developer

As a senior technical member of the team, you will be expected to lead the team in the design, architecture, and implementation of high-quality, well-architected software products with a specific focus on cloud, distributed systems, scalability, elasticity and SLA rollups into each component. In this role, you are expected to interact with Senior Architects, Product Managers, Solution Architects and occasionally, with Partners and customers to discuss and collaborate on strategies for enhancing features and coming up with next-generation products. Critical thinking and strong leadership skills are a must as the candidate will be involved in leading a team and making crucial road map decisions.

The Work: What type of work will you be doing? What assignments, requirements, or skills will you be performing on a regular basis?

• 8+ years of hands-on experience with Java-based development projects using RESTful APIs, SpringBoot, horizontal scalability, microservices, high availability principles
• You master the entire life-cycle including research, design, application and deployment architecture, development, testing (dev owns quality), continuous deployment and continuous delivery up until to production.
• You will develop complex, highly available, distributed, cloud-based solutions, and maintain its high level of quality software.
• Solid background in OOP, object and data modelling using SQL and NoSQL databases
• Experience using containers, Kubernetes and developing services on AWS
• Monitor resource allocation, consumption, and performance.
• Engage in service software performance analysis and system tuning.
• Challenge yourself to walk in a different path and to deliver quickly while maintaining a high quality
• Experience with automation tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI
• Excellent communication skills essential

Role/ Responsibilities

• Design APIs, DB, Queues, monitoring for micro services. 
• Writing, deploying and managing micro services. 
• Migrate existing components into distributed micro service architecture. 
• AWS Cloud / Google Cloud Platform (Manage Infrastructure). 
• API integration with 3rd parties. 
• Unit test cases, automation. 
• Database optimisation. 
• Design of highly concurrent backend architecture. 
• Handling high traffic data. 

Experience required: 

• Sound fundamentails in software design. 
• Must have worked on distributed and micro service architecture. 
• Sound fundamentals on scale/ performance/ memory optimisation. 
• Sound fundamentals of authentication, authorization, payment processes, data security. 
• Must have experience in Spring / Spring boot. 
• Good to have experience in Kafka / JMS / RabbitMQ / AWS Elastic queue. 
• Good to have experience in Junit / mockito unit test cases. 
• Good to have knowledge in Mysql (or any RDBMS).