Software Development Engineer 2

🚀 Key Responsibilities

• Act as the technical owner and point of contact from pre-sales through delivery for enterprise client engagements.
• Translate complex business requirements into scalable, extensible, and secure solution architectures.
• Design and document high-level and low-level architectures using industry best practices and patterns.
• Provide technical leadership across multiple projects, ensuring alignment with architectural standards and delivery goals.
• Conduct architectural assessments, POCs for clients and internal stakeholders.
• Collaborate with product owners, delivery managers, engineers, and clients to ensure architectural integrity throughout the SDLC.
• Evaluate and select appropriate tools, frameworks, platforms, and third-party services.
• Review code, configurations, and deployments for technical consistency and risk mitigation.
• Define and enforce non-functional requirements (performance, scalability, security, resilience).
• Continuously explore new technologies, patterns, and tools to improve architecture effectiveness and team productivity.
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🛠️ Required Skills & Experience

• 12+ years of hands-on software development and architecture experience, with at least 3+ years in a solution or enterprise architect role.
• Strong background in Java and the Spring ecosystem (Spring Boot, Data).
• Deep understanding of API design, integration patterns, message brokers (like Kafka, RabbitMQ), and distributed systems.
• Hands-on experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc.).
• Proficiency in designing systems for high availability, scalability, performance, and security.
• Clear understanding of engineering and build processes and DevOps pipelines.
• Experience in enterprise software domains such as fraud detection, risk management, banking, or financial services is a major plus.
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🔍 Soft Skills & Leadership Qualities

• Strong communication and presentation skills; capable of interfacing with C-level executives and developers alike.
• Demonstrated ability to influence technical direction across diverse teams.
• Proactive, self-starter mindset with a passion for solving complex problems.
• Experience working in agile and cross-functional teams.
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🌟 Preferred/Bonus Skills

• Certifications in cloud platforms (AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Azure Solutions Architect).
• Familiarity with ML/AI model integration and data pipelines.
• Exposure to fraud detection or financial compliance workflows.

What’s the opportunity?

Are you a backend developer looking to fast-track your learning and growth? Have you looked at world-class products like Asana, Notion, or Airtable, and felt “I wish I were part of the early team that built these products”?

We’re a team that has previously built and rolled out globally successful SaaS products used by tens of thousands of customers. We’re laser-focused on delivering a world-class product again, and looking for an ambitious backend engineer to join our existing team of 9 engineers. 

If it excites you to think of a fast-paced start-up environment, building something big from scratch, breaking down new problems, creating new APIs, working on performance issues, getting hands-on with DevOps initiatives, and showcasing demos of your work every Friday with a happy and passionate team, then this is the right opportunity for you.

Some of the tech problems you get to work on as a backend engineer would be to build the backend for a modern spreadsheet experience from scratch, work on infra as code, write robust code that is fault-tolerant, work on performant code that adheres to SLOs set by the organization.

About you:

● 3- 5 years of experience

● Expertise in the following areas ○ Java ○ HTTP Protocol

● You’ve heard of or worked with some of the following tech stacks/products ○ Spring ○ PostgreSQL ○ Redis ○ Docker ○ Message brokers ○ GitHub

● These non-functional areas are familiar to you ○ Performance ○ Debugging ○ Log management

Nice to have:

● Familiarity with AWS

What’s in it for me?

● Great opportunity: We genuinely care about everyone we hire. You’ll learn new things and grow no matter how experienced you are; you will be working with founders who have more than three decades of collective experience in building significant B2B SaaS startups.

● Great team: Work with a world-class, high-velocity team that truly embodies the values of empathy, curiosity, and customer-centricity. Check out the MTT(Meet The Team) videos on our LinkedIn.

● Great culture: An open, fun, and exciting startup culture that empowers its people to champion big problems with the freedom to think and innovate.

● Growth: You could easily and quickly transition into other roles you might like.

● Impact: You get to be part of a global, passionate team in a fast-paced and growth-oriented environment. The team has a work philosophy of being high on ambition, ownership, and a bias for action.

● Monetary rewards and benefits: Competitive stipend, flexible leave policy, and more

• - Strong architecture and design skills and keen business sense.
• - Strong core server-side technologies experience (Java), database design & performance tuning exposure.
• - Strong OO design skills, knowledge of frameworks such as Spring/ Spring Boot/ exposure to functional programming a plus.
• - Good knowledge of nodeJS/ noSQL a definite plus.
• - Good exposure to front end/UI skills (JS, HTML, Angular).
• - Good exposure to configuration management, testing, deployment.
• - Deep knowhow of data structures, algorithms.
• - Hands on development across technologies

• Good design skills and exposure to multiple software architectures.
• Strong understanding of OO/ knowledge of frameworks such as Spring/ Spring Boot/ design and good software development practices.
• Strong core server-side technologies experience (Java). 
• Knowledge of Android is a huge plus.
• Strong database skills including schema design.
• Strong knowhow of data-structures and algorithms.
• Experience with configuration management, testing, deployment.
• Hands on development across technologies.

Job Responsibilities:

* Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable Java code

* Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the applications

* Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to these problems

* Help maintain code quality, organization, and automatization

* Prepare the technical design of complex technology components

Mandatory Skills:

* Proficient in Java (JDK 1.7) or above JDK 8 preferable, with a good knowledge of its ecosystems with a knack for writing clean, readable Java code, writing reusable Java libraries along with knowledge of concurrency patterns in Java

* Solid understanding of object-oriented programming along with various design and architectural patterns

* Hands on experience with Spring, Spring Boot, JUnit

* Familiarity with concepts of MVC, Microservices, RESTful

Who we are looking for

A candidate who can design, build and configure applications to meet business process and application requirements.

Key Role Requirements:

• Experience in Java-J2EE Development
• Hands-on experience in Struts (Core Java, JSP, Servlets, EJB) framework.
• Hands-on experience in Oracle SQL, Procedures
• Hands-on experience in Spring boot, Spring batch
• Should have worked on application servers like IBM WAS / Jboss / Web logic.
• Knowledge of basic Linux commands and BIRT reporting tool is an added advantage.
• Knowledge in SVN or any other version control is an added advantage.
• Knowledge in Build tool like ANT, Maven is an added advantage
• Strong problem solving and analytical capabilities.