Sr. Backend Engineer

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.

• 3+ years of experience in the Development in JAVA technology.
• AWS or cloud Experience
• 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:

• 3+ 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.

• 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.

About Tazapay Tazapay is founded by 3 seasoned professionals with extensive experience in payments, ecommerce, technology, cross border trade and high growth technology businesses. The company is financially backed by the likes of Sequoia Capital, Saison Capital, RTP Global etc. We https://tazapay.com/ are a Singapore-based b2b and payments startup enabling small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to conduct cross-border commerce securely. We believe the world will look very different after this pandemic, as it did after the second world war and the financial crisis of 2008. We foresee a gigantic acceleration towards digitalization. Especially in the B2B space which has lagged behind B2C peers. The pandemic will change that equation

Responsibilities

• Design, write and deliver highly scalable, reliable and fault tolerant systems with minimal guidance

• Participate in code and design reviews to maintain our high development standards

Partner with the product management team to define and execute the feature roadmap Translate business requirements into scalable and extensible design

• Proactively manage stakeholder communication related to deliverables, risks, changes and dependencies

• Coordinate with cross functional teams (Mobile, DevOps, Data, UX, QA etc.) on planning and execution

• Continuously improve code quality, product execution, and customer delight

• Willingness to learn new languages and methodologies

• An enormous sense of ownership

• Engage in service capacity and demand planning, software performance analysis, tuning and optimization

The Ideal Candidate Education

• Degree in Computer Science or equivalent with 5+ years of experience in commercial software development in large distributed systems Experience

• Hands-on experience in designing, developing, testing and deploying applications on Golang, Ruby,Python, .Net Core or Java for large scale applications

• Deep knowledge of Linux as a production environment

• Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, distributed systems, and asynchronous architectures

• Expert in at least 1 of the following languages: Golang, Python, Ruby, Java, C, C++

• Proficient in OOP, including design patterns.

• Ability to design and implement low latency RESTful services

• Hands-on coder who has built backend services that handle high volume traffic.

• Strong understanding of system performance and scaling

• Possess excellent communication, sharp analytical abilities with proven design skills, able to think critically of the current system in terms of growth and stability

• Data modeling experience in both Relational and NoSQL databases

• Continuously refactor applications to ensure high-quality design

• Ability to plan, prioritize, estimate and execute releases with good degree of predictability

• Ability to scope, review and refine user stories for technical completeness and to alleviate dependency risks

• Passion for learning new things, solving challenging problems

Nice to have

• Familiarity with Golang ecosystem

• Familiarity with running web services at scale; understanding of systems internals and networking are a plus

• Be familiar with HTTP/HTTPS communication protocols. Abilities and Traits

• Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines

• Ability to provide exceptional attention to details of the product.

• Ability to focus for extended periods of repetitious activity.

• Ability to think ahead and anticipate problems, issues and solutions

• Work well as a team player and help the team members to resolve issues

• Be committed to quality and be structured in approach

• Excellent and demonstrable concept formulation, logical and analytical skills

• Excellent planning, organizational, and prioritization skills

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: upto 20LPA

JOB DESCRIPTION

Senior Software Engineer

It is a fish and seafood supply chain platform.It is a B2B marketplace leveraging technology to deliver the fastest harvest-to-retail in the industry.Building the future of meat and seafood supply chain.We are building smart supply chain to deliver the highest quality seafood and meat for the Indian consumer. Our innovations in process management and workforce orchestration along with strong industry credentials are enabling us to deliver the fastest harvest-to-fork in the industry.Our endeavor is to leverage experience across various parts of the value chain – farming, production, delivery to marquee brands – to deliver similar value to the Indian consumers.

Role

As a senior software engineer, you will contribute to our end to end supply chain platform. You'll work with all key stakeholders to deliver scalable, maintainable backend code and work with frontend developers to deliver amazing user experiences. We are building a design and process-centric culture where you'll play a key role in the implementation of the foundation of all our systems. Up for a challenge?

You are:

• A self-starter with a sense of what it takes to be successful as a team
• Agile - welcome change, do as less as possible and embrace continuous delivery
• Conscious about how quality is carried through from the UI to all layers underneath
• Opinionated, but flexible to accommodate the big picture

Responsibilities

• Analyse requirements, provide estimates and deliver code in an agile setup
• Stay on top of all owned work and raise red flags as early as possible
• Define the architecture, best practices and coding standards
• Support continuous technical improvement by investigating alternatives and technologies and present them for architectural review 
• Motivate team members, coach junior members and extend goodwill to other employees

Must have

• Prior startup experience, preferably with war stories to share
• 4-6 years of software industry experience
• Solid understanding of software design, development, testing, and problem-solving 
• Expertise in coding efficient, high quality and modularized software 
• Expertise in JavaScript, node.js based backend development
• Expertise in common design patterns and anti-patterns in Javascript
• Experience in building and scaling service-oriented architecture and microservices
• Expertise in relational and non-relational databases and expertise in at least one database system
• Experience with planning, execution and maintenance of test infrastructure for backend workflows
• Experience with CI/CD and setting up a monitoring infrastructure
• Knowledge of AWS, specifically building scalable cloud-native architectures using services like Lambda, AWS Gateway, Aurora, etc
• Knowledge of Unix shell and source control systems and tools such as git 
• Strong technical leadership skills
• Strong communication skills
• Technical mentoring skills

Great to have

• Experience with GraphQL, meteor.js and other modern JS ecosystems
• Experience with blockchain and interest in ML
• Experience working on high traffic systems
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related discipline.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• You will be coordinating our enterprise account-specific teams called squads, consisting of members from engineering, machine-learning, and conversation-design teams.
• There are five working groups in the organization, (i) Business (ii) Research (iii) Solutions (iv) Product, and (v) Operations, where you will be joining the Solutions, working group.
• You will be collaborating with the sales team to design an appropriate solution to the customer's problems and help them showcase the value of the product.
• You will be collaborating with the operations team to ensure we are not compromising on our quality standards.
• You will also be co-working with the product working group to help them improve the overall platform and to prioritize the high-impact initiatives in the roadmap.

Work you will be doing:

• You will be building bespoke voice bots for enterprise clients using internal tools.
• You're expected to help build the Solutions stack whose goal is to reduce the amount of effort put into building our voice bots. 
• You will be involved in analyzing client calls where you're expected to use either data pipelines or SQL to get insights into caller behavior.

• Professional experience of at least 1 year.
• Has experience with integrating or building HTTP APIs
• Has hands-on experience working with Python
• Good communicator

Optional Requirements:

• Has experience working in any of Django Rest Framework, Redis, Celery

Skit uses a microservices architecture where we employ both HTTP and GRPC to communicate between our services

• Excellent knowledge in one or more of Python/NodeJS REST Frameworks 
• Hands on experience in system architecture and data modelling. Experience with databases like MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB.
• Devops capabilities - with good understanding of deployments and cloud infrastructure. In depth knowledge of container architecture using Docker is must. 
• Scaled systems using RabbitMQ/ Redis /Celery/ Kafka