Software Development Engineer II - Java/J2EE

Job Title: Ruby on Rails Developer

Location: Chennai (Work From Office, yes, we love seeing your face!)

Experience: 2-3 years (You’ve got some experience, and we’re here to help you grow even more!)

About the Company:

F22 Labs is a startup software studio based out of Chennai. We are the rocket fuel for other startups across the world, powering them with extremely high-quality software. We help entrepreneurs build their vision into beautiful software products (web/mobile). If you're into creating beautiful software and solving real problems, you’ll fit right in with us. Let’s make cool things happen!

Position Overview:

As a Ruby on Rails Developer at F22 Labs, you’ll be doing more than just coding—you’ll be shaping the future of software. We’re looking for someone who’s passionate about building high-performance, scalable apps and loves solving tricky problems. You’ll work alongside a team of super smart engineers, contributing to innovative web applications that make a difference to the startups we support. With the experience under your belt, you’ll hit the ground running and make an impact right away. Oh, and we like to have fun while we’re at it!

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain elegant, scalable, and efficient web applications using Ruby on Rails (because clean code is the best code).
• Write code that’s as smooth as butter—maintainable, scalable, testable, and efficient (we all love a tidy codebase).
• Handle background jobs and multi-threading like a pro, making sure the app performs like a rockstar.
• Integrate third-party services and APIs, and make everything work like magic behind the scenes.
• Optimize and manage databases—you’ll be the DBMS guru ensuring queries are sharp and snappy.
• Speed up our apps using Redis caching (because nobody likes waiting for slow apps!).
• Deploy and manage applications on AWS S3—we love our cloud!
• Troubleshoot and fix production issues faster than a speeding bullet (or at least faster than the user can notice!).
• Collaborate with the product team to craft features that are both powerful and user-friendly.
• Bring your creative ideas to the table and help us improve our projects. We love fresh perspectives!

Qualifications and Requirements:

• 2-3 years of experience working with Ruby on Rails (you’ve already mastered the basics, now let’s level up!).
• A strong understanding of DBMS and building efficient databases (you know the database world inside out).
• Hands-on experience with background jobs and multi-threading to make apps run faster than a cheetah on energy drinks.
• Solid knowledge of Redis (Caching) to make sure our apps don’t break a sweat.
• Experience deploying applications on AWS S3 (cloud is life!).
• Comfortable with Git and collaborating with a team (no lone wolves here!).
• Great debugging, problem-solving, and analytical skills—basically, you can fix any bug like a superhero.
• Understanding of RESTful APIs and how they make everything click together.
• Excellent communication skills—because we want to hear your ideas, loud and clear!

Good to Have Skills (Extra Cool Points!):

• Experience with Node.js or Django (extra frameworks, extra cool).
• Familiarity with NoSQL databases (flexible data storage for the win).
• A significant knowledge of DevOps knowledge (help us deploy like the pros we are).

Why Join Us (Perks & Benefits):

• Health insurance (because we want you at your best, inside and out).
• Flexible work timings (get your work done, but do it your way).
• Better-than-market compensation (we know you’re worth it!).
• A supercharged learning culture—grow your skills fast.
• Rapid career growth opportunities—move up faster than a rocket in the sky.
• Work with interesting, fun, and quirky colleagues who make every day feel like an adventure.
• Learn from the best in the industry (and maybe teach us something cool too).

Selection Process:

• Online Assessment
• 1-2 rounds of interviews (no need to stress, we’re all about getting to know you).

Job Description:
We are looking for a Software Engineer with solid development experience in Java and related frameworks. We are looking for a self-motivated, go-getter, out-of-the-box thinker who is ready to work in a high-energy start-up environment. He/she must demonstrate a high level of ownership, integrity, and creativity.
Required Skills:
• Core Java (Proficient)
• Spring, Spring MVC OR Spring boot
• Hibernate – Good to have
• Oracle/MySQL DB - Hands-on (Intermediate)
• REST API and AWS– Good to have
• Hands-on experience of working on Spring boot based Microservices (Intermediate)
• Good to have knowledge of Microservice DevOps tools (Git, Jenkins, JUnits, deployment, monitoring, tracing)
• Sound understanding of core Java, SOAP Services, REST Services, Spring & maven, having expertized to work on Unix platform
• Should have working knowledge on web servers (e.g. Apache HTTP) and application servers (e.g. Tomcat, WebLogic)
• Should have a working knowledge of any relational database. Preferred will be Oracle and MySQL.
Roles and Responsibilities:
• You will design, develop, modify, debug and/or maintain software code according to functional, non-functional and technical design specifications.
• You will follow software engineering standards, applicable software development
methodology and release processes, to ensure code is maintainable, scalable,
supportable and demo the software products to stakeholders
• You will investigate issues by reviewing/debugging code, providing fixes and workarounds, and reviewing changes for operability to maintain existing software solutions.
• You will work within a team, collaborate and add value through participation in peer code reviews, provide comments and suggestions, work with cross-functional teams to achieve goals.

Why should you join Opcito?
We are a dynamic company that believes in designing transformation solutions for our customers with our ability to unify quality, reliability, and cost-effectiveness at any scale. Our core work culture focuses on adding material value to client products by leveraging best practices in DevOps like continuous integration, continuous delivery, and automation, coupled with disruptive technologies like cloud, containers, serverless computing, and microservice-based architectures.
Here are some of the perks of working with Opcito:
• Outstanding career development and learning opportunities
• Competitive compensation depending on experience and skill
• Friendly team and enjoyable work environment
• Flexible working schedule
• Corporate and social events.

• Experience with Hybris 6.x/ 1905/ 2005 with knowledge of Hybris B2C-ACCELERATOR/HYBRIS -B2B-ACCELERATOR, Hybris back- office, Hybris Frontend WCMS cockpit, product cockpit, Hybris core, Hybris Commerce, Hybris Search, Hybris OCC, Solr Customization
• Experience working on core Java, JSP/Servlets, JEE, Spring, Services (SOAP, REST), Design Patterns, Apache, Tomcat, Build Tools- Ant/Maven/Jenkins, SCM Tools - CVS/SVN/ GIT Hub
• Knowledge of one or more modules HYBRIS-PIM, HYBRIS-PROMOTIONS, HYBRIS-OMS, HYBRIS -TRAVEL-ACCELERATOR
• Additional skills in SOA, ESB, JMS
• Knowledge of high-quality professional software engineering practices for agile software development cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and deployment
• Experience in eCommerce/Hybris payment integration, 3rd Party integration development.
• Preferable to have development experience in Spartacus Hybris module.
• Preferable to have exposure to Azure cloud (Hybris CCV2)
• Fundamental knowledge of design patterns.
• Experience in communicating effectively with users, other technical teams, and management to collect requirements, describe software product features and technical designs
• Passionate about building great solutions
• Mentoring the team members to meet the clients’ needs and holding them accountable for high standards of delivery
• Willing to work in Shifts to support Production environment and Samsung.com Global eCommerce client requests.

The opportunity

The Engineering Manager (EM)is responsible for a managing a team of full stack engineers that is building highly innovative and cutting edge solutions. This role is accountable for leading a team, developing code, deploying and managing in production. Most importantly, the EM, while working with the Product owners drives the product Net promoter score (NPS), user satisfaction, building the product roadmap and delivering highly functional, exceptionally innovative and intelligent software. You will be called upon to be the technical representative for your team during cross-team collaborative efforts and planning. Success in this role will require strong and innovative approaches to problem solving, great technical leadership, excellent communication (written and verbal, formal and informal), flexibility, accountability and a self-motivated working style with attention to detail.

You are great at

As an Engineering Manager, you’ll take the lead as you - drive product development, operations and technical decision making. You’ll have a strong focus on team management and development, equal focus will be on writing production code and hands on active development of the capabilities and solutions. Assist in defining infrastructure need and use enterprise solution and drive resolution of technology roadblocks including code, infrastructure, build and deployment. Manage overall software development cycle by adhering to development and security standards. Establish good stakeholder communication and work closely with Product teams and influence set product roadmap and help drive requirements while being a strong advocate of extreme agile and DevOps practices across engineers. Build and manage a team of high performing full stack engineers and provide leadership, coaching, motivation and recommend staffing levels, operating procedures, tools and systems for the team. Provide career development and performance management to a team of engineers.

Required Candidate Profile

• 4 year degree in or equivalent experience
• 8+ years of engineering (software development) experience
• 1-3 years of managing teams with a strong track record of delivery for cross-functional product experience with Cloud hosting and managing products
• Proficient in building high performing APIs and writing specs
• Expertise in programming languages. Hands on experience in Java, J2ee technologies is preferred.
• Experience in SAP Hybris Commerce would be a plus
• Experience with integration, data handling technologies and other open source frameworks
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to variety of audiences
• Team-orientated, passionate about developing others’ skills and capabilities
• Successful track record of working in large scale technology solutions
• Deep understanding of agile development processes and methodology including continuous integration and delivery, with a mindset of building incrementally and delivering business value quickly