
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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Requirements
- Bachelors/Masters in Computer Science or a related field
- 5-8 years of relevant experience
- Proven track record of Team Leading/Mentoring a team successfully.
- Experience with web technologies and microservices architecture both frontend and backend.
- Java, Spring framework, hibernate
- MySQL, Mongo, Solr, Redis,
- Kubernetes, Docker
- Strong understanding of Object-Oriented Programming, Data Structures, and Algorithms.
- Excellent teamwork skills, flexibility, and ability to handle multiple tasks.
- Experience with API Design, ability to architect and implement an intuitive customer and third-party integration story
- Ability to think and analyze both breadth-wise (client, server, DB, control flow) and depth-wise (threads, sessions, space-time complexity) while designing and implementing services
- Exceptional design and architectural skills
- Experience of cloud providers/platforms like GCP and AWS
Roles & Responsibilities
- Develop new user-facing features.
- Work alongside the product to understand our requirements, and design, develop and iterate, think through the complex architecture.
- Writing clean, reusable, high-quality, high-performance, maintainable code.
- Encourage innovation and efficiency improvements to ensure processes are productive.
- Ensure the training and mentoring of the team members.
- Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs and optimize applications for maximum speed.
- Research and apply new technologies, techniques, and best practices.
- Team mentorship and leadership.
- More than 5 years of experience in Java programming
- Frameworks like Spring(Boot, Core, MVC)or Hibernate
- Good knowledge in design and architectural patterns, with an understanding of Web Services, micro service architectures and REST Based APIs.
- Good knowledge in Agile, JIRA and ALM
- Cloud environments (AWS,Azure…)
- Good Database knowledge (Oracle/ MySQL)
- Previous exposure to banking or financial is preferable
- Desire to get into the development of a top core-banking platform; you will receive specific training on Temenos T24 according to your career plan.
Responsibilities:
- Participation in the requirements analysis, design, development and testing of applications.
- The candidate is expected to write code himself/herself.
- The candidate is expected to write high level code, code review, unit testing and deployment.
- Practical application of design principles with a focus on the user experience, usability, template designs, cross browser issues and client server concepts.
- Contributes to the development of project estimates, scheduling, and deliverables.
- Works closely with QA team to determine testing requirements to ensure full coverage and best quality of product.
- There is also the opportunity to mentor and guide junior team members in excelling their jobs.
Requirements:
- BE/B. Tech. Computer Science or MCA from a reputed University.
- 3.5 - 6.5 Years of experience in software development, with emphasis on JAVA/J2EE Server side programming.
- Hands on experience in Core Java, Multithreading, RMI, Socket programing, JDBC, NIO, webservices and Design patterns.
- Should have Knowledge of distributed system, distributed caching, messaging frameworks ESB etc.
- Knowledge of Linux operating system and PostgreSQL/MySQL/MongoDB/Cassandra database is essential.
- Additionally, knowledge of HBase, Hadoop and Hive are desirable.
- Familiarity with message queue systems and AMQP and Kafka is desirable.
- Should have experience as a participant in Agile methodologies.
- Should have excellent written and verbal communication skills and presentation skills.
We are seeking extremely smart & independent senior developers who are gung ho about building large scale systems that are going to have a big impact on millions of customers. You will:
Responsibilities:
- Lead design and development of products working closely with business team.
- Independently own software components and co-own entire applications with a small group of fellow developers.
- Formally mentor junior software engineers on the team, reviewing design documents, (peer) reviewing code, providing design direction and guidance.
- Build performant, scalable, yet secure, enterprise ready back end architectures that can support millions of users in parallel.
- Establish strong engineering best practices and champion their adoption.
Requirements:
- 4+ years' experience in software product development and delivery.
- Bachelors or Masters degree in engineering (preferably computer science or sister branches) from a reputed institute (preferably IITs, NITs, or other top engineering institutes).
- Strong grasp of CS fundamentals, algorithms and excellent problem-solving abilities.
- All experience should be from good product development or e-commerce background.
- Able to take ownership of working with at least one of mobile or web app teams for complete integration with backend.
- Must have shown good stability in all your previous associations.
- Have strong backend knowledge and cloud development exposure.
- Proficiency in Java, Spring boot, Hibernate, REST API development.
- Worked with at least 1 RDBMS (Mysql preferred).
- NoSql is a plus.
- Have used or are very hands-on with Microservices, Docker, Kubernetes, Gradle/Ant, Kafka, GIT/bitbucket in a very agile work place.
- Writing high quality code which is made better by unit tests and integration tests is how you work.
- Comfortable with exploring proven open source tech stack like Grafana, Kibana, Jira, Prometheus, caches like Redis/Memcached, task queues like celery, to name a few.
- Knowledge of test driven development and AWS tech stack will be a good plus.
Must have experience on Java, Spring MVC / Boot, Hibernate / MyBatis
- Must have experience on building large scale application
- Must have experience on RESTful Web-Services
- Must be good in problem solving, Data structures and Algorithms.
- Strong understanding of Web Architectures, E-commerce solutions
- Strong understanding of any MySql / Postgresql
- Strong understanding of any Redis / Memcached / Mongodb / Elasticsearch
- Hands-on experience on GCP / AWS would be an added advantage
- Hands-on experience on Kubernetes / Docker would be an added advantage
- Basic knowledge of version control system like Git / Mercurial / Bitbucket
- Writes well managed and clean codes

We are looking for Software Developers for the product team in Pune/Gurugaon. We need immediate joiners.
Java Developer (3+ Years of Experience),
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- Must have hands-on in Java 8+, Spring, SpringBoot, JPA/Hibernate, and REST API.
- Must have experience in RDBMS (MySql, Oracle, etc.) or NoSQL (MongoDB, Cassandra, etc.).
- Good understanding of coding best practices, code optimization, code coverage, and performance tuning.
- Experience in Spring Cloud, Microservices, and Kafka is a plus
- Experience in DevOps (Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Version Control) is a plus.
- Good understanding of Agile and Scrum methodologies.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
Job Title: Java Developer
Experience: 1year to 5 years
Location: Chennai
Job Description :
- Design & development of Java applications using Java EE, Spring Boot, Database
- Experience in designing, analyzing, coding and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems
- Ensuring continuous professional self-development
- Strong core Java skills - Multithreading, Collections, Concurrent programming
- Should have knowledge of OOPS, Design Patterns and data structure
- Should have strong understanding of databases and its core concept including stored procedure
- Ability to work in team and handle production environment, application maintenance.
- 3+ years of experience with Ruby On Rails.
- Strong Project & Time Management Skills, along with the ability to apply these skills while working independently, or as part of a team.
- Knowledge of blockchain technology, smart contracts and cryptocurrency will be an added advantage
- Experience in fintech domain will be another added advantage
- Bachelor’s degree in computer programming, computer science, or a related field.
- Fluency or understanding of specific languages, such as Java, PHP, or Python, and operating systems may be required.
Designing and developing high-volume, low-latency applications for
critical systems and delivering high-availability and performance
• Contributing in all phases of the development lifecycle
• Writing well designed, testable, efficient code
• Test cases should be upto the mark
• Performance tuning knowledge is a must. Experience is an added advantage.
• In Backend – fundamentals of all languages is a must• Good hands-on software development experience with proven working experience
in Python development
• Expert in Python, with knowledge of at least one Python web framework (such
as Django, Flask)
• Familiarity with some ORM (Object Relational Mapper) libraries
• Able to integrate multiple data sources and databases into one system
• Understanding of the threading limitations of Python, and multi-process
architecture
• Strong unit test and debugging skills
• Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML5, and
CSS3
• Understanding of memory model/GC from performance point of view.







