Job Title: Senior Software EngineerLocationExperienceJob DescriptionWe are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our dynamic engineering team, focusing on designing, developing, and optimizing large-scale ad technology systems. This role requires expertise in building high-performance, distributed systems capable of handling millions of transactions per minute. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to enhance the scalability, robustness, and performance of our real-time bidding systems.
- ResponsibilitiesDesign and implement high-performance microservices to handle large volumes of real-time data requests.
- Collaborate with the AdExchange team to optimize real-time ad buying, selling, and auctioning processes.
- Lead the development and enhancement of key features such as loss notifications and bidder engagement strategies.
- Build A/B testing mechanisms to optimize bidder responses and URL accuracy.
- Improve the scalability and reliability of critical services, utilizing advanced monitoring tools like Prometheus and Kafka.
- Conduct code reviews, create design documents, and mentor junior engineers.
- Manage end-to-end project lifecycles, from architecture design to deployment in production environments.
- Required SkillsProficiency in Java, Docker, Aerospike, Kafka, and MySQL.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, microservices, and real-time bidding technologies.
- Experience in optimizing system performance to handle high-throughput, low-latency requirements (600,000+ requests/min).
- Expertise in monitoring and logging tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and log management systems.
- Knowledge of cloud technologies (AWS or similar).
- Strong problem-solving skills and experience in A/B testing for optimizing system components.
- Preferred SkillsExperience in ad technology or large-scale data processing systems.
- Familiarity with JavaScript, REST APIs, and integration workflows.
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and event-driven architectures.

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AdElement is an online advertising startup based in Pune. We do AI driven ad personalization for video and display ads. Audiences are targeted algorithmically across biddable sources of ad inventory through real time bidding. We are looking to grow our teams to meet the rapidly expanding market opportunity.
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Senior Software Developers collaborate with Business and Quality Analysts, Designers, Project Managers and more to design software solutions that will create meaningful change for our clients. They listen thoughtfully to understand the context of a business problem and write clean and iterative code to deliver a powerful end result whilst consistently advocating for better engineering practices. By balancing strong opinions with a willingness to find the right answer, Senior Software Developers bring integrity to technology, ensuring all voices are heard.
For a team to thrive, it needs collaboration and room for healthy, respectful debate. Senior Developers are the technologists who cultivate this environment while driving teams toward delivering on an aspirational tech vision and acting as mentors for more junior-level consultants. You will leverage deep technical knowledge to solve complex business problems and proactively assess your team’s health, code quality and nonfunctional requirements.
Job responsibilities
- You will learn and adopt best practices like writing clean and reusable code using TDD, pair programming and design patterns
- You will use and advocate for continuous delivery practices to deliver high-quality software as well as value to end customers as early as possible
- You will work in collaborative, value-driven teams to build innovative customer experiences for our clients
- You will create large-scale distributed systems out of microservices
- You will collaborate with a variety of teammates to build features, design concepts and interactive prototypes and ensure best practices and UX specifications are embedded along the way.
- You will apply the latest technology thinking from our Technology Radar to solve client problems
- You will efficiently utilize DevSecOps tools and practices to build and deploy software, advocating devops culture and shifting security left in development
- You will oversee or take part in the entire cycle of software consulting and delivery from ideation to deployment and everything in between
- You will act as a mentor for less-experienced peers through both your technical knowledge and leadership skills
Job qualifications:
Technical Skills
- You have experience using one or more development languages (Java, Nodejs, React, TypeScript, JavaScript, etc.) with experience in Object-Oriented programming
- You can skillfully write high-quality, well-tested code and you are comfortable with Object-Oriented programming
- You are comfortable with Agile methodologies, such as Extreme Programming (XP), Scrum and/or Kanban
- You have a good awareness of TDD, continuous integration and continuous delivery approaches/tools
- Bonus points if you have working knowledge of cloud technology such as AWS, Azure, Kubernetes and Docker
Professional Skills
- You enjoy influencing others and always advocate for technical excellence while being open to change when needed
- Presence in the external tech community: you willingly share your expertise with others via speaking engagements, contributions to open source, blogs and more
- You’re resilient in ambiguous situations and can approach challenges from multiple perspectives
Other things to know:
Learning & Development
There is no one-size-fits-all career path at Thoughtworks: however you want to develop your career is entirely up to you. But we also balance autonomy with the strength of our cultivation culture. This means your career is supported by interactive tools, numerous development programs and teammates who want to help you grow. We see value in helping each other be our best and that extends to empowering our employees in their career journeys.
Technical Overview:
● You will be expected to design, develop and maintain large-scale complex backend web applications.
● You will be expected to rapidly learn and apply relevant new technologies.
● You will be having a high level of interaction with business and product stakeholders.
● You will be working on the entire web application stack, which includes:
o Web server hosting
o RESTful communication
o Message brokering
o Backend application layer, which includes the service and domain layers
o Data layer for persistence or caching
● You will be participating in an agile software development cycle, which includes:
o Design
o Development
o Code Review
o Unit and Integration Testing
o Release
● As a Staff Engineer, you will be expected to contribute to design, code review, refactoring, and project management.
● You will be exposed to the following technologies:
o Web application frameworks: Ruby on Rails, Node.js, Java Play, Vert.x, AIOHTTP, AWS Lambda
o Languages: Ruby, Java, Kotlin, Javascript, Python
o Data stores: PostgreSQL, Aerospike, Redis, Amazon Redshift
o Communication: HTTP, Amazon SQS, Sidekiq, Amazon SNS
o Server Management: Amazon ECS, Docker
Product Overview:
You will be contributing to products concerning both customers and partner drivers.
Product sectors include:
1) Growth: You’ll build tools to help boost user growth on the platform including our industry-best driver onboarding, training and certification system, referral system, and lead management models.
2) Lifecycle Management: Build tools to help users engage with the platform better, which include rewards and recognition modules, subscription services account management tools, partner and customer wallets and payout modules, and churn detection systems among others.
3) Transaction Experience: You’ll help deliver the most delightful booking experience to our customers and drivers. As part of this team, you’ll be responsible for our core booking system, pricing and payment
systems, location tracking and filtering services, fraud prevention systems, and in-app ticketing and support among others.
4) Fulfilment: As part of the fulfillment team, you’ll work on systems that ensure a high degree of ride fulfillment on the platform. Tools include allocation methodologies and systems, dynamic pricing, dynamic partner routing, and partner re-activation tools among others.
5) Enterprise Solutions: You’ll help Porter’s enterprise customers achieve delivery excellence. You’ll build tools for contract management, fleet management, fleet and route optimization tools, alerting and monitoring tools, and analytics suite among others.
● Proven work experience as a Back-end developer.
● In-depth understanding of the entire web development process (design, development and deployment).
● Proficient in Java, with a good knowledge of its ecosystems
● Basic understanding of JVM, its limitations, weaknesses, and workarounds
● Ability to decide when to use relational vs NoSQL databases and must be experienced with at least one of
the relational databases (MySQL) as well as experience with ElasticSearch will be good to have
● Familiarity with concepts of MVC, JDBC, and RESTful
● Experience with Spring, Spring Boot, Spring MVC
● Experience in CI/CD and Cloud technologies
● Expertise in developing enterprise-level web applications and RESTful APIs using MicroServices, with
demonstrable production-scale experience
● Familiarity with front-end languages (e.g. HTML, JavaScript and CSS) - Not mandatory
● Participation in coding competitions such as hackathon, hackerrank will be added advantage.
Position : Senior Java Backend Developer
Job Location: Navi Mumbai / Bangalore / Hyderabad / Pune
Job Description :
At least 5 years of professional experience in developing backend applications using Java
- Proficiency in using Spring Boot, Hibernate, RESTful APIs, microservices and other modern web technologies
- Experience in working with relational and non-relational databases such as MySQL, MongoDB, Redis etc.
- Exp on Azure Cloud.
- Experience in using DevOps tools such as Docker, Jenkins etc.
- Knowledge of GraphQL and how to use it with Java
- Knowledge of best practices and principles of software engineering such as SOLID, design patterns, code quality, testing etc.
- Familiarity with agile methodologies such as Scrum or Kanban
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team
- Excellent communication and problem-solving skills
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field.
- At-least more than 1+ Years of Experience in a similar role would be desired.
- Excellent technical, diagnostic, and troubleshooting skills.
- Strong leadership skills to drive good coding and design practices across multiple engineering teams
- Willingness to build professional relationships with staff and clients.
- Excellent communication, motivational, and interpersonal skills.
- Expertise in architecting, building, and maintaining ultra-low latency, cost-efficient systems in cloud environments
- Excellent track record in modernizing cloud-based applications using micro services, containers, and other architectures
- Experience and working knowledge in building large-scale, data-intensive Text search applications using Solr / Elastic Search is a Must
- Experience and working knowledge of AI/ML/ML Ops with respect to building large-scale, data-intensive applications would be a Plus
- Experience and working knowledge in building Java based Spring Boot micro-services integrated with any messaging framework
- Driven, Highly-motivated and passionate towards development & innovation
- Determining project requirements and developing work schedules for the team.
- Delegating tasks and achieving daily, weekly, and monthly goals.
- Liaising with team members, management, and clients to ensure projects are completed to standard.
- Identifying risks and forming contingency plans as soon as possible.
- Analyzing existing operations and scheduling training sessions and meetings to discuss improvements.
- Keeping up-to-date with industry trends and developments.
- Updating work schedules and performing troubleshooting as required.
- Motivating staff and creating a space where they can ask questions and voice their concerns.
- Being transparent with the team about challenges, failures, and successes.
- Writing progress reports and delivering presentations to the relevant stakeholders.
- Extremely hands-on in delivering Development and R&D tasks
- Design, plan and perform dev-analysis to determine effort estimates on every sprint for the team
- Running Demo's, ensuring thorough documentation of the features built
- Identify & Plan upgrades to technologies & frameworks from time-to-time
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Mandatory Skills |
Good to Have Skills |
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JDK 1.8 + |
PLSQL |
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Microservices |
Knowledge of SQL Performance Tuning |
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Spring framework |
Experience with Cloud |
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Spring Boot |
Knowledge of Cloud Foundry (Pivotal CF) |
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Java Messaging Services (JMS) / Kafka / Rabbit MQ |
On-call support experience with PagerDuty, Service Now |
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SOAP & REST APIs |
Knowledge of infrastructure monitoring tools like Nagios, New Relic |
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SQL |
Knowledge of Splunk |
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ORM technologies like Hibernate / IBatis / MyBatis |
Experience working with Lean and Extreme Programming (XP) |
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Continuous integration tools like Jenkins/ Bamboo |
NoSQL databases such as MongoDB or any other NoSQL DB |
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Code Quality tools/frameworks like Sonar / PMD |
Automated Integration Testing & Contract Testing |
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Automated Testing. Unit Testing, |
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Agile development methodologies |
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Responsibilities:
- Design and deliver scalable web services, APIs and backend data modules.
- Understand requirements and develop reusable code using design patterns & component architecture and write unit test cases
- Collaborate with product management and engineering teams to elicit and understand the requirements and develop solutions
- Stay current with latest tools, technology ideas and methodologies; share knowledge by clearly articulating results and ideas to key decision makers.
Required Qualifications:
- 6+ years of experience writing multithreaded programs running in Java
- Experience on Java, Spring Boot,, Apache Nifi , workingDocker, EKS, Azkaban, Jenkins
- Experience with Git and build tools like Gradle/Maven/SBT.
- Strong understanding of object-oriented design, data structures, algorithms, profiling, and optimization.
- Have elegant, readable, maintainable and extensible code style.
- Experience on AWS is preferable
- Knowledge on top algorithms like sorting, heap/stack, queue, search, etc.
- Familiarity with test-driven development
- Thrive in a fast-paced environment, with ability to deliver code of quality quickly.
- Attention to details. Strong communication and collaboration skills.
- BS in Computer Science or equivalent
Experience Level: 3 to 5 Years
Job Location: Hyderabad
Responsibilities
· Excellent knowledge of Core Java and Spring
· Candidate should have a working knowledge of web services
· Should have worked in the distributed agile model and continuous integration
· Should have knowledge of designing and implementation of REST Web services
· Strong experience with REST API and web services
· Should be efficient with Java J2EE and related technologies.
Essential Requirements
· Strong Core Java and spring.
· Strong RESTFUL web service experience
· Strong SQL (preferably Oracle), JQuery, HTML/CSS, Oracle Restful, SOAP web services
· B. Tech/M. Tech from Tier-1 colleges like IIT, NIT, VIT, BIT
Primary Skill: Java, spring & RESTFUL Web services,










