Software Development Engineer

Job Title: Java Engineering Manager/Lead

Experience range:- 10 + Years

Location:- Pune / Mumbai

Knowledge and Skills:

• Strong proficiency in Core Java, Spring Boot.
• Experience with RESTful APIs, microservices, and multithreading.
• Solid understanding of RDBMS (MySQL/PostgreSQL).
• Exposure to cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools like Jenkins, GitLab, or GitHub Actions.
• Background in Fintech, particularly Digital Lending, Supply Chain Finance, or Banking products.
• Experience working in agile/scrum environments.
• At least 3 years of experience leading/managing a team of Java developers.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead and mentor a team of Java developers, ensuring technical excellence and timely delivery.
• Actively participate in coding, code reviews, architecture decisions, and system design.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Product Managers, QA, and DevOps.
• Maintain a strong hands-on presence in backend Java development and microservices architecture.
• Own the end-to-end lifecycle of features from requirement to deployment and post-release support

Job Title:

Software Development Engineer II- Java

Responsibilities:

A typical SDE2 is expected to take up the following responsibilities:

● Work closely with Team Leads and Product Managers to gather requirements and estimate project timelines.

● Should be able to understand product specifications and come up with optimal scalable solutions.

● Should be aware of the Agile working model and follow JIRA hygiene

● Complete ownership of features worked upon should be able to perform RCAs and provide quick resolution of relevant issues/production bugs while training Tech Support Engineers to offload recurring chunks of work.

● Should be a full-time mentor for SDE1s and be able to assist all other SDE1s as and when required.

● Be part of the lateral hiring process and allocate fixed bandwidth for interviewing processes.

● Should strive to follow best coding practices throughout designing, development, and testing.

● Should have great communication skills over email and in-person discussions.

Requirements:

● Strong exposure to Java and Springboot

● Solid understanding of algorithms and data structures and basic APIs & database design

● Should have worked with MVC frameworks, web / client-based server architecture, and structured and unstructured databases.

● Ability to translate product spec to engineering actionable

● Ability to navigate and structure code bases

● Rudimentary skills around service hosting and infrastructure. Should understand the end-to-end deployment cycle

Ideal Candidate Persona:

● Education Background

○ B.Tech / Dual Degree with Computer Science as a major discipline, MCA.

○ Preferred to have graduated in CS or IT-related subjects.

● Worked as SDE for 2-4 years in startup / mid-tier product companies with a small team size (2-3 recent experiences even if the initial job is in service-based companies), preferably in the Fintech space

● Excellent internship record

● Executed on RCAs / challenging engg problems with an SDE III at work

● Won awards / Recognized by upper management for going above and beyond

● Has working experience with Linux. Any certification is good to have

● Open source/pet project contributions

● Active on GitHub / StackOverflow

● Published papers in A-level conferences like IEEE, ACM (optional)

Requirements

• Senior SD4 engineer/Principal Engineer/ Architect who has led or been part of platform teams inside a large/mid tech company
• Deep expertise working with any of the programming languages to write maintainable, scalable, unit-tested code.Python experience is a bonus - but not required
• Good understanding of REST APIs and the web in general and ability to build a feature from scratch & drive it to completion
• Experience with Kubernetes, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, Load Balancing
• Experience in building a platform team on AWS for Product based companies/start-ups

What You’ll Do

• Build the core technology platform, including Automated provisioning of infrastructure, deployment, and monitoring of services
• Build a central services directory within an organization that shows the cost and health of all services and makes the management of microservices extremely easy
• This involves working with core infrastructure and understanding them in great detail - like Kubernetes, ServiceMesh, Service security
• Mentor/coach engineers to facilitate their development and provide technical leadership

"Hands-on experience with minimum 3 years of programming experience in JAVA 8 (or) 11.
Good experience using Springboot, Hibernate or JPA frameworks, Spring Security, Spring MVC (or) Spring Ioc (or) Spring AoP (or) any other spring framework.
Good experience in utilizing & working in Restful Webservices & Java Collection."
"Experience in Swagger, Microservices, Basic security, Design patterns.
Good Experience in utilising & working with Cosmos (or) MySQL."

What you need to have:

Primary Responsibilities:

• Principal Engineers  are responsible for driving Technology and Engineering Best Practices in their respective teams.
• They should demonstrate a high level of ownership and accountability for their product and software systems.
• They are expected to go above and beyond their role by contributing in tools, processes and practices which bring operational efficiency and are aligned with business goals.
• They are expected to actively participate in development along with team members and create systems and modules which represent a working model of engineering best practices.
• They are expected to participate in code reviews, design reviews, architecture discussions.
• They are responsible for the Engineering metrics/health of their systems including strong alerting and monitoring mechanisms.
• They are expected to lead the adoption of best practices around coding, designing, performance of systems in a team.

Experience or Skills Required:

• B.Tech or Advanced degree in Computer Science with 6-12 years of industry experience in product based companies.
• Proficiency with Basic libraries for machine learning such as scikit-learn and pandas
• Experience in building solutions based on Linear Regression, Logistic Regression, K Nearest neighbor, SVM, Random Forest, Decision Trees.
• Strong experience with at least one of programming languages: Python, Java, Vertx, Golang
• Strong experience in building Server side reusable components based on Microservices or Distributed Architecture.
• Solid coding skills with ability to lead teams in identifying clearing tech debts for large scale code base.
• Good understanding & experience in improving performance of scalable and real time responsive applications.
• Excellent Problem Solving skills and an aptitude to approach problems from first principles and build solutions for those.
• Must have excellent communication (verbal & written), interpersonal, leadership, and problem solving skills.
• Must be able to work independently and enjoy working at a fast paced start-up environment
• Excellent Mentoring skills. Be the technical mentor to your team.
• Must be comfortable working in fuzzy environments where boundaries are not clearly defined.

We are building for the future of work by changing the way the world looks at information and data paradigms. The Meaning Engine by India-based Needle Innovision enables building solutions by processing meaningful data out of anything stored anywhere - structured, unstructured data types, distributed, at scale and more. 

In our quest to do more, we are looking for a fantastic Java Tech Lead to join us in a hybrid setting from New Delhi. Below are some (seriously important) green flags that we are looking for from you: 

🟢 Ability to build and repeat the vision, not just work on tasks in the new phase of your career

🟢 The excitement to architect awesome products and resilient teams

🟢 Preparedness to move into enterprise-ready environments 

🟢 Build team motivation, delegate smartly and create a career path

This could be an awesome launching pad for someone who enjoys working towards big-picture goals, has a keen interest in leadership, and has a deep understanding of Java technologies.  Our teams are sustained on values of care and we offer a generous number of vacation days, the opportunity to craft your calendar with flexible schedules and very soon an insurance plan for you and your loved ones. We offer a starting salary range of 10-14LPA.

What you will do: 

• Collaborate with the client to understand problem statements and provide solutions for the same.
• Explain client requirements to the project team and plan and delegate work requirements
• Ensure the applications are released to production in the committed timeline
• Work with the QA team to ensure the code developed by the team passes the necessary quality check.
• Document application changes and development updates
• Set and evolve standards and best practices for our application development team 
• .Guide and mentor junior developers and engage in regular learning activities
• Oversee development process compliance and CI activities.

What you will bring: 

• 4 years minimum detail-oriented experience as a Senior Software Engineer.
• Experience in client interactions and/or are looking forward to doing that (preferred if, you have worked in B2B application development for large enterprises 🟢)
• Prior experience of at least one large project with a few people under your belt. (🟢)
• Expert-level knowledge of Java, Spring Boot, Oracle/Postgres.
• Expert-level knowledge on one or all of Hibernate/JPA/MyBatis.
• Experience in RESTful services and fundamentals of MVC architecture.
• Experience in working with and configuring web and application servers, such as Apache/Nginx/Tomcat.
• Proficient understanding of build tools, such as Maven/Gradle and code versioning tools, such as Git/SVN.
• Ability to review specifications documents and provide technical inputs on successfully implementing business solutions.

As a Java Tech Lead, you would be expected to understand business requirements, represent Needle to external stakeholders, and have experience in working in agile teams.

If leading a squad that implements digital transformation solutions at the intersection of data science and AI excites you, and if our awesome bite-sized team inspires you to be a part of our quest, we think you could be the one to help build the impact, we are looking to building here. 

Lets talk!