Sr. Software Development Engineer

About the Role

We're seeking a skilled Java Developer with strong AWS cloud experience to join our

solution architecture team. You'll be building scalable backend systems, integrating diverse

enterprise platforms, and developing cloud-native solutions for clients across government,

agriculture, and manufacturing sectors.

Key Responsibilities

Application Development

• Design and develop robust Java-based backend services and APIs for enterprise

applications

• Build microservices architectures for cloud-native deployments on AWS

• Implement RESTful APIs and SOAP web services for enterprise integration

• Develop serverless applications using AWS Lambda and event-driven architectures

• Create data processing pipelines using AWS services

AWS Cloud Development

• Deploy and manage applications on AWS infrastructure (EC2, ECS, EKS)

• Implement serverless solutions using Lambda, API Gateway, and Step Functions

• Design and implement storage solutions using S3, EBS, and EFS

• Work with AWS databases (RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB)

• Implement messaging and queuing using SQS, SNS, and EventBridge

• Configure and manage application monitoring using CloudWatch

System Integration

• Design and implement integration solutions connecting disparate enterprise systems

• Build adapters and connectors for third-party APIs, legacy systems, and SaaS

platforms

• Implement enterprise integration patterns (message routing, transformation,

orchestration)

• Develop middleware solutions using AWS integration services

• Handle data synchronization, format transformations (XML, JSON, CSV), and

protocol conversions

Database & Performance

• Design and optimize database schemas for AWS RDS (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and

Aurora

• Write efficient SQL queries, stored procedures, and optimize database performance

• Implement caching strategies using AWS ElastiCache (Redis/Memcached)

• Configure database connection pooling and manage high-availability setups

• Troubleshoot database bottlenecks and resolve concurrency issues

Security & DevOps

• Implement AWS security best practices (IAM, Security Groups, KMS)

• Build CI/CD pipelines using AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild, and CodeDeploy

• Configure application auto-scaling and load balancing

Quality & Best Practices

• Write clean, maintainable code following SOLID principles and design patterns

• Implement comprehensive unit and integration testing

• Participate in code reviews and technical design discussions

• Document technical specifications, API contracts, and AWS architecture diagrams

Required Skills & Experience

Core Java Expertise

• 3-5 years of hands-on Java development experience (Java 11+ preferred)

• Strong understanding of OOP concepts, data structures, and algorithms

• Experience with Spring Framework (Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Data JPA)

• Proficiency in building RESTful and SOAP web services

AWS Cloud Experience (Must Have)

• 2+ years of hands-on AWS experience with production deployments

• Strong knowledge of core AWS services: EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, API Gateway

• Experience with AWS networking: VPC, subnets, security groups, load balancers

• Understanding of AWS IAM, security best practices, and compliance

• Experience with AWS monitoring and logging (CloudWatch, X-Ray)

• Knowledge of AWS messaging services (SQS, SNS, EventBridge)

• Familiarity with AWS database services (RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB)

Integration Experience

• Experience with enterprise integration patterns and middleware solutions

• Knowledge of API design, development, and management

• Understanding of authentication/authorization mechanisms (OAuth2, JWT, SAML)

• Experience with data transformation and mapping frameworks

• Familiarity with integration protocols (HTTP/S, FTP/SFTP, SMTP, JMS)

Database Skills

• Strong SQL skills with relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL preferred)

• Experience with JPA/Hibernate ORM frameworks

• Understanding of database connection pooling and transaction management

• Knowledge of database migrations and versioning tools (Flyway/Liquibase)

Technical Stack

• Build tools: Maven or Gradle

• Version control: Git

• API documentation: Swagger/OpenAPI

• Testing frameworks: JUnit, Mockito, TestNG

• Containerization: Docker (experience with ECS/EKS is a plus)

Must have

• Proven usage of Agentic AI Tools in SDLC

Bonus Skills

• AWS Certifications (Developer)

• Experience with message brokers (Kafka, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, Amazon MSK)

• Kubernetes and container orchestration (EKS)

• AWS serverless application development (SAM, Serverless Framework)

• Experience with Apache Camel, MuleSoft, or other integration platforms

• CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, AWS CodePipeline)

• Knowledge React/Angular technologies for full-stack collaboration

• Experience with ERP/CRM systems integration

Desired Attributes

• Strong problem-solving and analytical thinking abilities

• Ability to design cloud-native architectures following AWS Well-Architected

Framework

• Good communication skills for interacting with clients and cross-functional teams

• Self-motivated with ability to work independently and in team environments

• Attention to detail and commitment to delivering quality solutions

• Cost-conscious approach to AWS resource utilization

Education

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or

related field

• Equivalent practical experience will be considered

• AWS certifications are highly valued

 Strong written/verbal communication skills

·        Minimum 2-15 Years of Core Java Programming with Collections Framework, Concurrent Programming, Multi-threading (Good knowledge in Executor service, Forkjoin pool and other threading concepts)

·        Good knowledge of the JVM with an understanding of performance and memory optimization.

·        Extensive and expert programming experience in JAVA programming language (strong OO skills preferred).

·        Excellent knowledge on collections like, Array List, Vector, LinkedList, Hashmap, HashTable, HashSet is mandate.

·        Exercised exemplary development practices including design specification, coding standards, unit testing, and code-reviews.

·        Expert level understanding of Object-Oriented Concepts and Data Structures

·        Good experience in Database (Sybase, Oracle or SQL Server) like indexing (clustered, non-clustered), hashing, segmenting, data types like clob / blob, views (materialized), replication, constraints, functions, triggers, procedures etc.

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Rashmi

Work With Us

Get To Know Us First!

Freecharge a subsidiary of Axis Bank Limited founded in 2010, is a Fin-Tech organisation revolutionizing Financial Products through technology.

At our core, we’re a creative company. Ideas and pixels is where we live and we love building magical products that make our users feel ‘wow’. At Freecharge, you'll have the chance to do the best work of your life. We’re on a journey to build something new, something different and something innovative & that requires passion to build such incredible products.

Come join us and shape the future of Fin-Tech.

Do You Make The Cut?

We are looking for a motivated developer to join our agile team of developers as a Lead to mentor and as an individual contributor to drive best practices in the product.

You will be responsible for the design, architecture, and delivery of a feature/product with the highest quality. Providing the product with visible benefit to end-users in an iterative fast-paced environment by creating solutions suitable for the job in real-time.

Title: Lead SDE (Backend)

Location: Gurugram

Experience: 3-7 Yrs.

Education: Bachelor’s / Master’s in Software Engineering

Responsibilities

• In this lead role, you will be designing and developing complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers.
• Ensure the quality of design of systems by serving as a technical lead on our most demanding, cross-functional teams
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use.
• Build highly available, high performance, scalable software and you will work on distributed systems for massive-scale systems
• Responsible for code quality of the product being developed along with unit and integration testing.
• Mentor junior developers to improve their skills, and make them more effective, product software engineers.
• Communicate with technical teams, and senior management to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy.

Sounds Like You?

• 4+ years of software development experience with Enterprise Java (JDK 8 and above), Spring (Boot, MVC, AOP, DI), ORM Frameworks.
• 1+ years of experience contributing to the architecture and design (LLD, HLD, Solid principles and design patterns and scaling) of new and current systems.
• Strong experience in technically leading junior developers with a focus on the goal.
• Strong experience in data structures & algorithms and their space & time complexities.
• Solid understanding of multithreading, microservices, MVC and strong OO skills with demonstrated experience in developing complex and reusable APIs.
• Strong experience working with Databases like SQL & NoSQL.
• Experience working with microservices-based architecture.
• Experience in high traffic, highly scalable distributed system designs, complex web applications, and code reviews.
• Experience working in an Agile environment.
• Solid understanding of the full software development life cycle and the domain.
• Good to have knowledge of messaging systems like SNS/ SQS /Kafka etc.

Life at Freecharge!

Our Playground!

• 450+ FCian’s, at Gurugram & Bengaluru locations
• Collaboration spaces & A flat and transparent culture
• Wow Corners, fun & reading Zone
• Best learning and development opportunities

Benefits

• Day-care facility
• Comprehensive Insurance Policy
• Wellness Benefits like Health check-ins
• 26 Weeks Maternity & 2 Weeks Paternity Leaves
• Adoption Assistance Program
• On-Site Parking at all locations
• A chance to have a big impact early in your career

ARE YOU READY?

TO

#ChargeYourFuture

Skills:

• Proficient in Go programming language with experience in building high-performance, scalable applications
• Experience with Java development a plus
• Familiarity with Git version control systems (e.g., GitHub, GitLab, BitBucket, SVN)
• Solid understanding of RESTful web services APIs
• Experience with CI/CD tools like Jenkins
• Experience with NoSQL databases
• Experience working with PostgreSQL databases

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain robust and efficient Go code
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, implement, and deploy new features
• Participate in code reviews and ensure high code quality
• Troubleshoot and debug complex technical problems
• Stay up-to-date with the latest advancements in Go and related technologies

Job Description: (Mandate Skills)

• Exceptional architecture and design skills using Object Oriented Programming concepts and Design patterns
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills
• Hands on Java Engineer, with experience building consumer facing or enterprise applications using Java stack
• Ability to manage small teams (2-4 members) using agile development process

Do You Know? (Skills good to have)

• Exposure to building service oriented distributed systems
• In building systems that process big data in a distributed environment, either in real time streaming or offline
• In messaging systems like Kafka, RabbitMQ, kinesis, etc.
• In real time computation tools like Storm / Spark or Hadoop based tools.
• In Data warehousing technologies like Redshift, BigQuery, etc.

Requirements:

• 3 -7 years of software development experience.
• Good grasp on programming fundamentals including OOP, Design Patterns and Data Structures.
• Excellent analytical, logical and problem-solving skills.
• Software Development Engineer.
• Good understanding of complexities involved in designing/developing large scale systems.
• Strong system design skills.
• Experience in technologies like Elasticsearch, Redis, Kafka etc.
• Good knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases.
• Familiarity with common machine learning algorithms. In-depth knowledge is a plus.
• Experience of working with big data technologies like Hadoop, Spark, Hive is a big plus.
• Ability to understand business requirements and take ownership of the work.
• Exhibit passion and enthusiasm for building and maintaining large scale platforms.

• Strong experience in Java Development
• Deep expertise and hands-on experience with Web Applications
• Expertise in Java, Spring Boot is an added advantage.
• Experience in Microservices
• Hands-on design experience with Web Services (REST, SOAP, etc ..).
• Strong grasp of security principles.

Nice to Have

• Spring Zuul
• Kafka
• cryptography and certificates

Abilities:

• Developer with  strong ability to develop web applications using Java
• Should be able to Code, design, and implement
• Maintain code integrity and organization