Software Engineer- Backend

Job Description:

We are seeking a highly motivated and skilled Full Stack Java Developer with strong experience in backend and frontend development, cloud deployment, and modern DevOps practices. The ideal candidate will have a solid background in Java/J2EE technologies, hands-on experience in developing microservices on AWS, and a good understanding of CI/CD pipelines and monitoring tools.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, test, and maintain scalable web applications and microservices.
• Implement backend logic using Core Java, J2EE, Spring Boot, Spring Batch, JPA, and REST APIs.
• Build responsive UIs using React, HTML, CSS, and integrate them with backend services.
• Develop and deploy microservices using AWS services like ECS, EC2, S3, API Gateway, Aurora, ALB, and Route 53.
• Participate in Agile development processes, including sprint planning, stand-ups, and retrospectives.
• Write unit and integration tests using JUnit and Cucumber.
• Monitor application performance using APM tools and analyze logs using Splunk or similar tools.
• Implement CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Maven/Gradle, and Git/Bitbucket.
• Work with containerization and orchestration tools like Docker and Kubernetes.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams using tools like JIRA and Confluence.

Required Skills & Experience:

• Strong hands-on experience in Java/J2EE application development.
• Proficiency in Spring frameworks (Spring Boot, Batch) and RESTful services.
• Frontend development experience with React, HTML, CSS.
• Solid experience with AWS cloud technologies and deployment practices.
• Experience in writing and maintaining automated tests with JUnit and Cucumber.
• Knowledge of APM tools and log analysis tools (e.g., Splunk).
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and tools (Jenkins, Maven/Gradle, Git).
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Excellent problem-solving, debugging, and analytical skills.
• Good communication skills and ability to work in Agile teams.

Preferred Qualifications:

• AWS certification is a plus.
• Experience with Amazon Aurora and API Gateway in production environments.
• Knowledge of SOA, messaging systems (e.g., MQ), and security best practices.

You will be working hands-on on a complex and compound product that has the potential to be used by millions of sales and marketing people around the world. Your contribution to delivering an excellent product platform that:

• enables quick iteration
• supports product customization
• and handles scale

What do we expect you to have?

• 2+ years of experience in backend engineering
• An intent to learn and an urge to build a product by learning different technologies
• Interest in writing complex, scalable, and maintainable backend applications
• Tech stack requirements:

Must haves

• Experience in building application server in Java (Spring / Spring boot) / NodeJS / Golang / Python
• Experience in using SQL databases and designing schemas based on application need
• Experience with container services and runtimes (docker / docker-compose / k8s)
• Experience with cloud paas (AWS / GCP / Azure cloud)
• Experience and familiarity with microservices’ concepts
• Experience with bash scripting

Good to have (Preferred)

• Preferred experience with org wide message queue (rabbitmq / aws sqs)
• Preferred experience with task orchestration services (apache airflow / aws step function)
• Preferred experience with infra as code (or system configuration) tools (terraform / chef / ansible)
• Preferred experience with build essential tools (make / makefile)
• Preferred experience with monitoring and tracing systems for performance / system / application monitoring (grafana + loki + prometheus / aws cloudwatch)

What will you learn?

• Building highly available, complex, compound, performant systems of microservices platform that acts as an API layer
• Industry-standard state-of-the-art tools + methodologies + frameworks + infra for building a product.
• Fable is not a trivial CRUD app. It requires a lot of consideration and care for building the API layer as the product is highly customizable per user.
• How different functions (sales, marketing, product, engineering) in a high-velocity product company work in synergy to deliver an iterative product in real life.

Who would you be working with?

• You would be directly working with the co-founder & CTO who has built multiple companies before and has built large teams in large-scale companies like ThoughtSpot, Unacademy, etc.

Position details

• Fully remote.
• 5 days/week (all public and government holidays will be non-working days).
• No specific work hours (we will sync over zoom over the course of the day).

Node.js Developer Responsibilities:

• Developing and maintaining all server-side network components.
• Ensuring optimal performance of the central database and responsiveness to front-end requests.
• Collaborating with front-end developers on the integration of elements.
• Designing customer-facing UI and back-end services for various business processes.
• Developing high-performance applications by writing testable, reusable, and efficient code.
• Implementing effective security protocols, data protection measures, and storage solutions.
• Running diagnostic tests, repairing defects, and providing technical support.
• Documenting Node.js processes, including database schemas, as well as preparing reports.
• Recommending and implementing improvements to processes and technologies.
• Keeping informed of advancements in the field of Node.js development.

Node.js Developer Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information science, or similar.
• At least 4 years' experience as a Node.js developer.
• Extensive knowledge of JavaScript, web stacks, libraries, and frameworks.
• Knowledge of front-end technologies such as HTML5 and CSS3.
• Superb interpersonal, communication, and collaboration skills.
• Exceptional analytical and problem-solving aptitude.
• Great organizational and time management skills.
• Availability to resolve urgent web application issues outside of business hours.

About us

At Lucidity, we are a year and a half old company and we work on helping large enterprises manage their cloud storage platform. 

Our founders bring with them more than a decade of experience working with top tech Gaints in the world, building and selling large tech products from zero to one. We are seeing a lot of early traction and expanding aggresively.

We are a B2B product based startup building the next generation of storage orchestration system for cloud. We are hiring agressively across multiple roles and looking for passionate engineers to join a very young and energetic team at Lucidity.

What you'll do

Technology is at the heart of our organization. As part of the tech team you will

• Understand product requirements and brainstorm ways to address them.
• Build features from scratch and have complete ownership for it.
• Deliver efficient, reliable, scalable code with high automated test coverage.
• Contribute to team decisions in the overall architecture and practices of the company.

What you'll need

Must haves

• At least 1 year experience in a product based company.
• Experience working with distributed environments.
• Comfortable with at least one Object Oriented Programming language.
• Hands on with AWS or at least one other public cloud.

Good to have

• Experience handling highly scalable systems.
• Experience with at least one among C++, Java.
• Experience with docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with Linux file systems.

Additional

• B Tech/M Tech in Computer Science or equivalent from a reputed college.
• Good problem solving skills.
• Deeply technical with a track record of successful delivery.

Why us
We're hiring a set of highly skilled, enthusiastic and passionate people who thrive in a high growth environment. We believe the best way to grow is to give everyone the opportunity to pursue their interests. At Lucidity, you have complete freedom to work on projects that interest you. Plus, with benefits like flexible hours, company offsites, unlimited leaves, we ensure you enjoy the journey as much as we do.

Software Engineer - II (Backend)

As a Software Engineer – II, you'll bring a good understanding of design and coding practices and apply these independently in development. In this role - you could expect to:

• Own the lifecycle of a feature from requirement analysis to deployment and post production processes
• Perform code reviews and support your team implement best practices
• Explore trade off's on module designs
• Continuously improve performance metrics of modules owned. Performs RCAs and deploys long term fixes.
• Implement initiatives that improve engineering efficiency and excellence
• Participate in the hiring and interview process for junior developers on your team

Must skills:

Hands- on in the following:

• Java 8/J2EE
• Spring boot
• Gradle/Maven
• REST API
• ORM- hibernate/ JPA
• Unit Testing and Integration Testing- Junit/ TestNG

Good to have:

Hands-on in the following:

• CI/CD pipeline deployment
• Messaging- ActiveMQ/RabbitMQ/MQ
• DB2
• Kafka
• NoSQL framework exposure

• A Golang developer role is to build optimized, scalable, and modular software using required technologies. You are tasked with developing and coding back-end components and connecting applications to other web services.

• Research and test new technologies
• Collaborating with others to build and develop a quality
• Monitoring and Oversee company’s data
• Managing users and user roles
• Detecting, announcing, and correcting errors
• Proposing alternative solutions

• To cooperate with other stakeholder to design, develop, test, release and improve services
• Maintain development standards, practices & principles
• Build scalable and maintainable software
• Analytical approach on what and how

• At least 4 years of experience with Golang.
• Have expertise in implementing micro services (using tools and technologies for messaging, RPC, containerization, etc.)
• Experience working with SQL/NoSQL databases, ability to write complex queries and optimize them
• Understanding of containerization technologies (Docker, RKT, Kubernetes, etc.)
• Basic experience with CI/CD systems (Jenkins, TeamCity, GoCD, Concourse, etc.)
• Basic experience working with AWS/Google Cloud