
Role & Responsibilities
As a Staff Engineer at Locus, you will play a critical role in defining and driving our backend architecture as we scale globally. You’ll own key systems that handle high volumes of data and transactions, ensuring performance, reliability, and maintainability across distributed environments.
Key Responsibilities-
- Own one or more core applications end-to-end, ensuring reliability, performance, and scalability.
- Lead the design, architecture, and development of complex, distributed systems, frameworks, and libraries aligned with Locus’s technical strategy.
- Drive engineering operational excellence by defining robust roadmaps for system reliability, observability, and performance improvements.
- Analyze and optimize existing systems for latency, throughput, and efficiency, ensuring they perform at scale.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Data, and Infrastructure teams to translate business requirements into technical deliverables.
- Mentor and guide engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and continuous learning.
- Establish and uphold coding standards, conduct design and code reviews, and promote best practices across teams.
- Stay ahead of the curve on emerging technologies, frameworks, and patterns to strengthen Locus’s technology foundation.
- Contribute to hiring by identifying and attracting top-tier engineering talent.
Ideal Candidate
- Strong staff engineer profile
- Mandatory (Experience 1): Must have 9+ years in backend engineering with Java, Spring/Spring Boot, and microservices building large and schalable systems
- Mandatory (Experience 2): Must have been SDE-3 / Tech Lead / Lead SE for at least 2.5 years
- Mandatory (Tech skills 1): Strong in DSA, system design, design patterns, and problem-solving
- Mandatory (Tech skills 2): Proven experience building scalable, reliable, high-performance distributed systems
- Mandatory (Tech skills 3): Hands-on with SQL/NoSQL databases, REST/gRPC APIs, concurrency & async processing
- Mandatory (Tech skills 4): Experience in AWS/GCP, CI/CD pipelines, and observability/monitoring
- Mandatory (Communication): Excellent ability to explain complex technical concepts to varied stakeholders
- Mandatory (Company): Product companies (B2B SAAS preferred)
- Mandatory (Stability): Must have stayed for at least 2 years with each of the previous companies
- Mandatory (Education): B.Tech in computer science from Tier 1, Tier 2 colleges

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Required Qualifications:
- 5+ years of professional software development experience.
- Post-secondary degree in computer science, software engineering or related discipline, or equivalent working experience.
- Development of distributed applications with Microsoft technologies: C# .NET/Core, SQL Server, Entity Framework.
- Deep expertise with microservices architectures and design patterns.
- Cloud Native AWS experience with services such as Lambda, SQS, RDS/Aurora, S3, Lex, and Polly.
- Mastery of both Windows and Linux environments and their use in the development and management of complex distributed systems architectures.
- Git source code repository and continuous integration tools.
- Participate in requirements analysis and design
- Development of Web applications and RESTful APIs using C#, .NET Core, ASP.NET Core, .NET Framework 4.7, C#, ASP.NET MVC, LINQ, Entity Framework 6.0, EF Core
- Development of Microservices using Clean Architecture, CQRS, .NET Design Patterns, SOLID Principles and Object-oriented design & analysis (OOA & OOD)
- Development of Microservices using Microsoft Azure or AWS, Dockers and Kubernetes
- Write clean, scalable code using .NET programming languages (C#)
- Write Microsoft SQL queries and optimize both external and internal DB processes and procedures.
- Use automation tools, following CI/CD best practices in an established DevOps team.
- Write unit and integration tests using Moq
- Collaborate with internal teams to produce software design and architecture
- Develop documentation throughout the software development life cycle (SDLC)
- Serve as an expert on applications and provide technical support
You have 3 to 14 yrs of software engineering & product delivery experience with strong
background in datastructures & algorithms
• You’ve proven software development credentials having successfully built complex
products
• You are experienced with one or more general programming languages (e.g. Java, C/C++,
Go). Ability to learn other coding languages as needed.
• You’ve proven software development credentials having successfully built complex
products
• You have a strong foundation in the fundamentals of computer science, with familiarity in
data structures, algorithms and a strong command of object-oriented principles.
• You have experience in one or more of the following areas: Server Backend, Distributed
and Parallel Systems, Full Stack Development (frontend and backend), Scalable Enterprise
Platforms and Applications, Application Security and Incident Management, Android,
iOS, and Machine Learning.
• You have a spark that separates you from the crowd and ability to think out of the box and
on your feet
• You possess multi-dimensional skills that make you a valuable co-worker in a fast,
changing and ambiguous environment
• You have the ability to learn other coding languages as needed real quick
• You are comfortable in working with a team that deals with ambiguity every day
JAVA, JSP, jQuery, Servlet, Hibernate, Spring MVC, Spring boot, SOAP and REST Web Services, Microservices, knowledge of SQL query, build tool like Ant and Maven, very good analytical and logical skills.
Good to have: Redis and Memcached cache management, JBOSS 7 and above, API gateway, Apache, EJB
Note : This job is for immediate joining. Please apply ONLY IF you can join immediately.
Experience :- Junior role : 1 to 3 years/Senior : 5 to 7 Years
Industry: FinTech / BFSI
Functional Area: Core Platform Programming, Maintenance
Role Category: Programming & Design
Role: Software Developer
Employment Type: Permanent Job, Full Time
Overview:
We are looking to hire Java developers who are well versed with Spring Boot, Hibernate, and RDBMS such as MySQL.
As we continue to grow our apps and site, we are looking for somebody to join our Engineering team and help build out the next set of kick-ass features.
If selected, you get to be a part of a small but committed group of technologists who are trying to improve how events are ticketed and marketed in India.
About the role:
- 2+ years of experience on Java, Spring Boot, Hibernate in medium to large-scale projects
- Must have experience with at least some flavours of both SQL (MySQL, Postgres) and NoSQL (MongoDB, ElasticSearch, Redis, DynamoDB etc) datastores in production
- Must have experience with Kafka or similar message queue systems in production
- Stellar problem solving skills
- Hunger to learn new things and ability to grasp new concepts quickly
- Ability to move quickly without breaking things too much (we are dreamers)
- Ability to work under immense pressure which is balanced by a sense of responsibility and ownership
- Should be able to groom juniors and take them to the next level
Perks :
- You get to work at a fun filled atmosphere
- Have ample chances of learning leadership, mentor-ship skills
- A solid salary package along with chance to get ESOPs
Salary Range : 6 LPA to 12 LPA
(based on qualifications, experience and skills)
- should have at least 5 years of hands-on experience in backend software development using Java.
- should have proven expertise in Spring Boot REST/Microservices.
- should have used design patterns like MVP, MVC or MVVM and should know when to use which.
- should have working experience with relational and NoSQL databases.
- should have multiple years of experience with cloud application design and in one or more reputable cloud platform providers (e.g. AWS, GCP, Microsoft Azure … )
- should have professional experience working in an agile development environment.
- should have strong communication skills and like making decisions.
- should follow good software engineering principles such as TDD, writing modular, maintainable and clean code
| • Experience of over 5+ years with solid understanding of object-oriented design • Proficient in Java, J2EE and related technologies. • Experienced in using Spring Boot, messaging systems. • Good understanding of relational database performance concepts and usage of ORM frameworks such as Hibernate • Expert understanding of the object-oriented design and programming concepts • Strong Knowledge on Data Structures, Algorithms and Collections. • Solid experience building applications on top of RESTful APIs. • Knowledge/experience with Spring MVC • Stroing knowledge in developing and executing automated unit, functional and integration tests • Good communication and analytical skills. • Strong trouble shooting skills. |
• Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application.
• Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes.
• Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests.
• Knack for writing clean, readable Java code.
Job Requirement:
• Profound insight of Java and JEE internals (Classloading, Memory Management, Transaction management etc)
• Hands on experience in designing and developing applications using Java EE platforms.
• Excellent knowledge of Relational Databases, SQL and ORM technologies (JPA2, Hibernate)
• Experience in the Spring Framework
• Experience in developing web applications using at least one popular web framework (JSF, Wicket, GWT, Spring MVC)
• Experience with popular web application frameworks, such as Play and Spark
• Familiarity with Java GUI frameworks (such as Swing, SWT, and AWT depending on project requirements)
• Experience with both external and embedded databases
• Basic understanding of the class loading mechanism in Java
• Basic understanding of JVM, its limitations, weaknesses, and workarounds
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
• Familiarity with build tools such as Ant, Maven, and Gradle
• Familiarity with continuous integration.








