Software Development Engineer 2 (SDE 2)

Job Title: Tech Lead – Full Stack

Location: MG Road, Bangalore

Work Mode: Hybrid

Interview Mode: Virtual

Experience Required: 7–12 Years

Role Overview

We are looking for a Tech Lead – Full Stack with 7 to 12 years of experience in developing scalable SaaS products using Java, Spring Boot, and JavaScript frameworks. The ideal candidate has hands-on experience with microservices architecture, performance optimization, and cloud-native development, and is passionate about mentoring teams and driving engineering best practices.

Key Skills & Expertise

• Proficient in building scalable SaaS products with a focus on microservices architecture.
• Technologies: Java (Mandatory), Spring Boot, ReactJS or any other JavaScript framework.
• Strong experience in designing RESTful APIs and using mocking frameworks.
• Skilled in profiling services and debugging performance issues.
• Knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes for containerization.
• Familiar with data integration tools such as Pentaho Kettle or Apache Nifi.
• Ability to influence technical decision-making, with a strong focus on automation and security best practices.

What You Will Do

• Design, implement, test, and deploy both front-end and back-end components of the product.
• Build and deliver highly scalable services using Spring Boot.
• Develop frameworks and accelerators to speed up development.
• Establish and enforce engineering best practices.
• Create and review design artifacts using UML for team-wide implementation.
• Mentor and guide product engineers within the team.
• Ensure on-time delivery of user stories planned for sprints.
• Engage in all stages of the product development lifecycle – from planning and design to implementation and testing in multi-cloud environments.
• Deliver robust, quality-focused technical solutions to business problems.
• Work alongside a talented team solving complex technical challenges in building large-scale SaaS products.
• Contribute from the ground up to the architecture and modularization of the product for long-term scalability and maintainability.
• Share knowledge and expertise by writing blogs, articles, and whitepapers.

 Technical Requirements

• Design and implement microservices architectures using Java and Spring Boot.
• Create, manage, and secure RESTful APIs.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams in an Agile setting to ensure high-quality delivery.
• Mentor and support junior developers on the team.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as Azure or GCP, and orchestration tools like Docker and Kubernetes.
• Strong database skills in PostgreSQL.
• Exposure to:
• API Gateway
• Hibernate & JPA
• Transaction Management
• ACID Properties
• Multithreading & Context Switching
• Healthcare domain experience is a plus.

Strong Software Engineer fullstack profile using NodeJS / Python and React

Mandatory (Experience) - Must have 6+ YOE in Software Development using Python OR NodeJS (For backend) & React (For frontend)

Mandatory (Core Skills 1): Must have strong experience in working on Typescript

Mandatory (Core Skills 2): Must have experience in message based systems like Kafka, RabbitMq, Redis

Mandatory (Core Skills 3): Databases - PostgreSQL & NoSQL databases like MongoDB

Mandatory (Company) - Product Companies Only

Mandatory (Education) - B.Tech or Dual degree (Btech and Mtech or Integrated Msc/MS) from Tier 1 Engineering Institutes (Top 7 IITs, Top 5 NITs, IIIT Bangalore, IIIT Hyderabad, IIIT Allahabad, MNNIT, IIT Dhanbad, BITS Pilani). Candidates from other institutions will not be considered unless they come from top-tier product companies

Mandatory (Note) : This role is a hybrid role (2 days WFO)

Job Description:-

In this role, you will be an integral part of our team responsible for developing and maintaining new applications that support assessment systems. This is a unique opportunity to contribute to an important regional initiative.

Role Responsibilities:

Analysis and Design: Collaborate with stakeholders and the Application Systems team to deeply understand application requirements. Develop technical design documents following business standards.

Programming and Testing: Actively engage in application programming to meet business requirements. Conduct unit testing and assist in functional, load, and user acceptance testing when needed.

Project Review and Enhancement: Review ongoing projects and provide valuable recommendations for improvement. Be open to assisting in related tasks as directed by the line Manager.

The Successful Applicant

To excel in this role, you should possess the following qualifications and skills:

Java Expertise: Strong experience in Java Application Design, Coding, and Implementation.

Front-End Development: Excellent skills in front-end development using Angular 10, Bootstrap, and Typescript.

Technology Stack: Proficiency in Java, Spring Suite, Hibernate, PostgreSQL, Docker, Kubernetes, Rest APIs, and Micro-services is highly desirable.

Agile Methodologies: Familiarity with Agile development methodologies, including refactoring, TDD, and continuous integration.

Client Interaction: Exceptional client-facing and presentation capabilities.

Team Collaboration: Ability to work effectively both autonomously and within a team.

If you are a skilled Full-stack developer passionate about creating innovative solutions and meet the above-mentioned qualifications, we invite you to apply for this exciting opportunity.

To apply, please submit your resume and a cover letter detailing your relevant experience and why you believe you fit this position.

As a full stack engineer, you will build new features for our internal tools, including https://medium.com/@Smartcow_ai/tlt-lightning-ff47659f7804">lightning. Architect, develop, test, and deliver independently.

Responsibilities

• Design, test, build and deploy web applications for internal and external use
• Design and implement scalable APIs and backend services
• Convert high-level requirements into detailed, usable and intuitive UI
• Involved in the execution of project from design stage

Skills: 

• 3+ years full-stack python developer with exposure to web frameworks like Django or Flask
• Experience building APIs for rapidly iterating product and restful APIs and development of service layer using python's flask framework
• Proficient in writing unit test cases using Pytest package
• Proficient on Reactjs, Angular, & VueJs (GTH),
• Knowledge of DB and API schema designing
• Knowledge with OpenCV and ML workflow is added advantage
• HTML/CSS/JavaScript and JavaScript framework
• Database level programming using both SQL (MySQL, PostgreSQL) and No SQL (MongoDB/Casandra) and designing the database level stored procedures and persistence logic.
• Knowledge with Nvidia libraries is an added advantage
• Experience working with Web Application development, docker, Unix/Linux environments
• Understanding of machine learning, information retrieval, neural networks, networking, developing large software systems (stands out from crowd)

• Participate in requirements
• Maintain and improve web Design mobile-based web features.
• Work closely with Scrum team to ensure quality throughout the entire software development
• Maintain high standards of software quality by establishing, adopting and following good practices and processes
• Monitor systems to ensure they meet both customer needs and business goals
• Solve problems by crafting software solutions using maintainable, testable and modular code
• Collaborate within a team by participating in code reviews, pairing sessions, architecture discussions and planning

• Write robust, testable code, along with unit, functional, acceptance and/or user tests to validate every change
• Challenge your fellow team members to grow and enhance our team with new, diverse talent
• Mentor interns and other software engineers to grow their technical skills
• Work closely with Scrum team to ensure quality throughout the entire software development cycle.
• Identify and propose dev toolsets to enhance and extend the dev team’s capabilities & efficiency
• Manage business context and pressures around quality and time to market
• Stay up-to-date on emerging technologies

• demonstrates a growth mindset, seeks feedback often and is effective in continuous personal and professional development
• provides expertise in all phases of the development lifecycle from concept and design to testing
• defines the architecture, best practices and coding standards for the product development team
• supports continuous technical improvement by investigating alternatives and technologies and presenting these for architectural review
• motivates team members and extends goodwill to other employees while having fun!

• 2+ years of software industry experience
• Strong Expertise in JS, PHP, React, Node, Angular2+, MySQL, PostgreSQL
• Solid understanding of software design, development, testing, and problem-solving
• Expertise in coding efficient, high quality and modularized software
• Experience in developing Web services - Rest/Soap APIs/HTTP API - Microservices
• Experience setting up and managing servers. Devops experience is a big plus
• Strong exposure on Database like RDBMS - Postgres DB / NoSQL DB like DynamoDB, Elasticsearch
• Experience in Cloud / Storage like Amazon (AWS) - EC2/EBS/S3
• Expertise in test automation
• Familiarity with Unix shell and source control systems and tools such as git
• Strong technical leadership skills
• Comfortable collaborating with designers, front-end developers and other team members
• Strong communication skills
• Technical Coaching and mentoring skills
• Understanding of machine learning, natural language processing is a plus

What you need to have: