Software Engineer - Backend

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

You'll work closely with our team to implement best practices, improve our architecture, and create a high-performance engineering culture. Over a 6–9-month period, you'll also immerse yourself in game development, Unity, and C# to become a well-rounded technical leader in the gaming space.

• Drive maximum development velocity through direct involvement in development sprints, ensuring developers work as efficiently and effectively as possible.
• Lead and mentor a team of engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous improvement.
• Drive architectural decisions that ensure scalable, maintainable, and high-performance game products.
• Foster a high-performance engineering culture aligned with ambitious goals, accountability, and proactive problem-solving.
• Implement and enforce engineering best practices (e.g., code reviews, testing, documentation) and the adoption of new tools, technologies including AI, and methodologies to optimize team efficiency.
• Transition our team to a high-performance culture aligned with our ambitious, venture-backed goals.

IDEAL CANDIDATE:

• 8+ years of software engineering experience with at least 3+ years in a technical leadership role
• Ability to reasonably estimate and plan tasks and features.
• Strong programming fundamentals and hands-on coding abilities
• Strong grasp of software architecture, TDD, code reviews, and clean coding principles.
• Proficient at profiling games to identify bottlenecks and performance issues.
• Experience building complex, scalable software systems
• Proven track record of driving architectural decisions and technical excellence
• Experience mentoring and developing engineering talent
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail
• Excellent communication skills and ability to explain complex technical concepts
• Experience with agile development methodologies
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience

PERKS, BENEFITS AND WORK CULTURE:

• We foster a culture of continuous learning.
• We value talent and the ability for significant self-improvement.
• Honest feedback and transparency across all departments allow for rapid skill development.
• You will have the opportunity to work on an exciting new game development product with complete autonomy.

• Strong experience in Core Java, Multi-Threading, data structures (List/Map/Set) and unit testing with (Junit, Mockito)
• Strong experience with Spring Framework (Spring MVC, Spring REST, Spring Data), ORM frameworks (JPA, Hibernate) and RDBMS (Oracle/MySQL/Postgres)
• Strong experience in applying Object-Oriented design principles and Design Patterns
• Good knowledge of Multi-Tier architecture, Micro Services architecture and Service Oriented Architecture 
• Exposure to AWS Cloud, NoSQL Database (Mongo, Cassandra), Message Broker (Active
• MQ/RabbitMQ/Apache Kafka) and Big Data Technologies (Hadoop/Hive/Spark)
• Additionally, must possess capability to review code, produce technical specification document
• and knowledge of code quality tools (PMD/FindBugs/Sonar)

Responsibilities

• Understand existing business operations tool used by customer support and business teams.
• Work with Engineering Manager to upgrade the system to improve system stability and response times.
• Independently lead design and implement new features as per business requirements provided by Product Management team.
• Develop elegant, modular and maintainable solutions. Document all design, operations steps for knowledge sharing purposes.
• Guide junior team members on feature implementation and provide relevant training on existing modules.

Must-know Technologies

• Java EE
• Java Server Facelets (JSF)
• Java Persistence API (JPA), Hibernate
• SQL
• HTML, CSS, JavaScript
• Payara/GlassFish/similar application server environments

Preferred Skills

• 2-8 years of overall experience in software design and development.
• Ability to analyze existing application, implement new features and re-architect the application in case of inefficiencies.
• Strong object-oriented skills and ability to apply design patterns.
• Experience mentoring junior engineers on development, code review, project planning.

You’ll be our: Application Developer 

You’ll be based at: IBC Knowledge Park, Bengaluru

You’ll be Aligned with: Application Development Lead 

You’ll be the member of:VehicleSoftware Team 

What you’ll do at Ather:

• You will be developing the various Applications for the cloud to process data connecting with the vehicle 

• You shall work with the Lead and product team to define and deliver features. 

• Be part of the Agile team, to define Sprint work content definition. 

• Work with cross functional teams to drive overall feature delivery. 

• Be part of the initiatives that achieve the functional requirements of the team. Explore technical feasibility of solutions, propose and evaluate tech stacks. 

• Performance tuning and benchmarking of the features 

Here’s what we are looking for: 

• Strong knowledge and Hands on experience with Nodejs, RestAPI, Java Script, Java Development experience in cloud based infrastructure 

• Strong fundamentals in any fullstack of your choice, OOPS concepts, Google Cloud Platform. Knowledge of Java, React, React Native, Android Native , HTML5, Firebase and Go Programming is a plus. 

• Knowledge on CI/CD pipelines, JIRA, UML, Static Code Analysis tools and Unit test framework is required 

• Knowledge on the S/W communication protocols like gRPC, HTTP, MQTT is a plus Cross platform development experience would be needed. 

• Knowledge of Cloud Based solutions would be a plus. 

• App development for a product which is beyond a mobile platform would be a plus. Experience with Telematics/Infotainment projects would be a great advantage. 

• Strong experience with Agile methodology, along with tools such as JIRA, Confluence. 

• Flashing and debugging tools experience is a plus.

You bring to Ather: 

• Bachelor’s/Master’s in computer science or any other equivalent degree

The primary responsibilities include:

• Responsible for the overall software development lifecycle.
• Management and execution against project plans and delivery commitments
• Drive effective, mature Agile practices and continuous execution improvements within your teams.
• Manage stakeholder planning and communications ensuring key outcomes
• Recruit, coach, and mentor the best engineering and management talent
• Build, coach, and manage a strong team of engineers that set the standard and can up-level the overall talent of the extended organization.
• Provide a strong understanding of native mobile developer platforms and bring broad thought leadership to the next generation mobile developer experience.
• Anticipate and aggressively remove obstacles that slow down or prevent products and programs from delivering on product and program objectives.
• Balance urgent and effective action, commitment to excellence, and taking the initiative to resolve problems; holds internal stakeholders accountable where appropriate.

REQUIRED

• 8+ years of industry experience with 2+ years of senior leadership experience.
• Solid track record of over-achieving engineering and platform delivery and scaling targets in high volume, innovative and fast-paced high-pressure environment; proven results in delivery on platform product.
• Deep understanding of one or more of Java/Python/Scala. Ability to understand and critique the core library/language constructs with skilled knowledge on UI technologies like Angular 2+, React, D3.JS
• Working experience with Agile methodologies and durable team concepts.
• Knowledge in DevOps practices and tools.
• Knowledge in Cloud Technologies, CI/CD, Jenkins, Testing methodologies is preferred.
• Experience in server-side services using ElasticSearch, Kafka
• A strong track record of project delivery for large, cross-functional, projects and bringing in and growing engineering talent
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex technical information clearly and concisely to a variety of audiences.

Job Summary
If you are passionate about technology, constantly seeking to learn and improve skillset, then you are the type of person we are looking for!
We are offering superb career growth opportunities, great compensation and benefits.
Java developers with only more than 7 Years of experience can apply.
Responsibilities and Duties

• Deliver tactical and strategic improvements to large scale Java/J2EE/Mobile based product
• Formulates and defines system scope and objectives through research and fact-finding to develop or modify moderately complex information systems
• Design, develop and test Java-based solutions using common standards and frameworks such as JAXB, JAX-WS, JAX-RS, JPA, JavaEE, Spring, and Hibernate
• Maintain and update all existing J2EE applications as needed
• Translate software requirements into working and maintainable solutions within the existing application frameworks
• Implement the product's lifecycle: Design, development, quality, deployment, and maintenance
• Develop and adhere to best-practices for developing applications
• Continuously contribute to team performance improvement and collaboration
• Collaborate effectively across teams

Benefits
Alternate Saturdays-Off!
Working Saturdays are Half-days!

Weekly Lunch
Birthday Celebrations
Festival Celebrations
Diwali Bonus
Annual Picnic
Healthiest and easy-going working experience with motivating team members.