Software Engineer -Senior Role

• Experience of more than 4 to 6 years in software development.
• Very Strong Experience in Core Java.
• Excellent Java Programming skills Experience in Data Structures, Algorithms and Design Patterns.
• Strong in Problem solving, Analytical skill and logical thinking.
• Skill to be trained: java, spring, mango db, cassandra.
• Strong experience in Spring Boot, Restful API
• Looking for shorter notice period candidates only.

Role Summary:

We are looking for a hands-on Java Solution Architect to design and lead scalable, secure, event-driven platforms. The ideal candidate has deep expertise in Java/Spring Boot microservices, Kafka, Redis/KeyDB, and open-source databases (Cassandra, PostgreSQL), with experience building high-throughput, low-latency systems.

Experience- 10+yrs

Key Responsibilities

• Architecture & Design
• Define service boundaries using DDD; create service contracts and API specifications.
• Design Kafka-based event flows (topics, partitions, retention, DLQs, idempotency).
• Choose fit-for-purpose storage (Cassandra vs PostgreSQL) for workloads:
• Cassandra for time-series, high write throughput, and horizontal scaling.
• PostgreSQL for transactional integrity, complex joins, and reporting.
• Engineer caching strategies using Redis/KeyDB (read-through/write-through, TTL, eviction).
• Establish NFRs (performance, availability, RPO/RTO) and capacity planning.
• Security & Compliance
• Implement OAuth2/OIDC, mTLS, token-based auth, key rotation, encryption at rest/in transit.
• Work with InfoSec/AppSec for threat modeling, VAPT, secure SDLC integration.
• DevOps & Observability
• Drive CI/CD pipelines (blue/green/canary), container orchestration (Kubernetes).
• Define SLOs/SLIs; implement metrics, logs, traces; promote proactive alerting.
• Governance & Standards
• Publish architecture guidelines, coding standards, and API governance (versioning, deprecation).
• Champion documentation (ADR, sequence diagrams, data flow, runbooks).
• Mentoring & Leadership
• Coach engineers; conduct design/code reviews; lead PoCs and migrations.
• Collaborate with Product/Delivery to align scope, timelines, and risk mitigation.

Required Technical Skills (Deep Expertise)

• Java: Java 17+, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, reactive programming (WebFlux).
• Microservices: API Gateway, service mesh (Istio/Linkerd), resilience (Resilience4j).
• Kafka: Kafka Connect, Streams, consumer lag management, schema registry (Avro/JSON).
• Redis/KeyDB: Cluster configuration, HA, persistence (AOF/RDB), pub/sub and streams.
• Databases:
• Cassandra: Data modeling (partition keys, clustering), consistency levels, compaction strategies.
• PostgreSQL: Indexing strategies, partitioning, query planning, isolation levels, VACUUM.
• Cloud & Infra: Docker, Kubernetes, Helm/Terraform; AWS/Azure/GCP (EKS/AKS/GKE).
• Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK, OpenTelemetry.
• Security: JWT, mTLS, secrets management (Vault/KMS), OWASP Top 10, compliance-aware design.

Soft Skills

• Strong stakeholder communication; ability to simplify complex technical decisions.
• Ownership mindset; risk identification and mitigation.
• Mentorship; collaborative leadership across cross-functional teams.

💥 What will you do?

As a Lead Backend Engineer, you will

• Build out and help scale our Django (+ReactJS / VueJS) based web application as we add new features and customers

• Help us transition from monolithic system architecture to microservices and serverless system architecture to help meet our future scaling requirements

• Collaborate on a daily basis with a small, nimble team of product managers, engineers, and UX designers to understand business requirements and user experience goals and pain points.
• Build out features to enable multi-channel customer acquisition include partner channels, enterprise channels, and government channels
• Integrate third-party plugins to enhance customer experience and internal tooling build internal tooling to improve internal team efficiencies.
• Actively participate in code reviews
• Work with our quality assurance team to improve coverage on our automated testing suites

🙋 What are we looking for? 

While we do not have a strict list of requirements for candidates interested in this role, some indicators that you would fit this role and our engineering culture are 

• Prior experience of a few years (3+ years) with python based frameworks as Django or Flask would be essential to work on our application stack.

• You actively promote a culture of engineering excellence some of which could be writing efficient code, use of elegant design patterns, and styling your code through code-linting policies.

• You enjoy designing software architecture by collaborating with engineering managers, architects, and other lead engineers to explore existing systems, determining areas of complexity, potential risks to successful implementation.

• You enjoy coaching folks to achieve outcomes through nudges.

📢 Other information you may want to consider 

• We will be flexible for the rest of the pandemic and work remotely; however, we are not a remote-first company, and the work location would be Bangalore when things settle.
• Our backend tech stack includes Django, FastAPI, Postgres, Redis, Clickhouse, and TigerGraph. Our environments are managed through Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform.

Required Skills:

• 2+ year of experience in Development in JAVA technology.
• Strong Java Basics
• SpringBoot or Spring MVC
• Hands on experience on Relationl Databases (SQL query or Hibernate) + Mongo (JSON parsing)
• Proficient in REST API development
• Messaging Queue (RabitMQ or Kafka)
• Microservices
• Any Caching Mechanism
• Good at problem solving

Good to Have Skills:

• 4+ years of experience in using Java/J2EE tech stacks
• Good understanding of data structures and algorithms.
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills.
• Ability to work in a fast paced internet start-up environment.
• Experience in technical mentorship/coaching is highly desirable.
• Understanding of AI/ML algorithms is a plus.

Java
J2ee
working experience with one or more clouds

Understanding of design architecture

Experience with Traditional databases and nosql databases

Sound in Algorithms,data structures and problem solving 

Good at coding and design