
Mandatory (Experience 1): Must have 9+ years in backend engineering with Java, Spring/Spring Boot, and microservices building large and scalable systems with clear production scale or reliability impact (latency, throughput, uptime, etc.) mentioned in the resume
Mandatory (Experience 2): Must have been SDE-3 / Tech Lead / Lead SE for at least 2.5 years (should be there in the resume titles)
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 with architecture ownership and experience in core backend/platform services rather than feature teams
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) - Top New Age, Fast-scaled, Tech-First Product Companies (Like Series B+ / Unicorn Indian startups, or Tech-first Global companies like Amazon, Google, Microsoft etc)
Mandatory (Stability): Must have stayed for at least 2 years with each of the previous companies
Mandatory (Education): B.Tech in computer science or related field from Tier 1, Tier 2 colleges
Mandatory (Note 1): Education can be ignored for candidates with proven experience in strong, reputed product companies

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At BigThinkCode, our technology solves complex problems. We are looking for talented back-end (node.JS) engineer to join our at Chennai.
Please find below our job description, if interested apply / reply sharing your profile to connect and discuss.
Company: BigThinkCode Technologies
URL: https://www.bigthinkcode.com/
Experience required: 3-4 years
Work location: Chennai
Joining time: Immediate – 4 weeks
Work Mode: Work from office / Hybrid
A skilled Node.js Developer with experience in building scalable applications using event-driven architecture within distributed systems. The ideal candidate should be comfortable in high-performance backend services and have a strong understanding of asynchronous programming patterns.
Experience or exposure to knowledge embedding and vectorization techniques is a strong plus, especially in the context of modern data-driven or AI-powered systems.
Must have skills:
- Hands on expertise in OOJS, node.js, distributed systems.
- Event drive architecture (EDA) microservices project experience MUST.
- Any programming: Typescript or nodeJS or Golang
- Hands on experience using docket containers and Kubernetes.
- Aware about Asynchronous and Loose Coupling.
- Familiar with API’s gateway and microservice design patterns.
Required Skills
- 3+ years of hands-on experience with Node.js
- Strong understanding of event-driven architecture and non-blocking I/O
- Experience working with distributed systems and microservices architecture
- Proficiency in RESTful API design and implementation
- Experience with databases such as MongoDB, PostgreSQL, or MySQL
- Experience with containerization tools like Docker and orchestration tools like Kubernetes
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain server-side applications using Node.js
- Build and optimize scalable, event-driven systems in distributed environments
- Implement asynchronous workflows, message queues, and pub/sub architectures
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and deliver backend solutions
Good to Have
- Experience with knowledge embedding and vectorization techniques
- Familiarity with vector databases (e.g., Pinecone, Weaviate, FAISS)
- Understanding of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
Why Join Us:
- Collaborative work environment.
- Exposure to modern tools and scalable application architectures.
- Medical cover for employee and eligible dependents.
- Tax beneficial salary structure.
- Comprehensive leave policy
- Competency development training programs.
Job Summary:
We are looking for an experienced Java Developer with 4+years of hands-on experience to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in Java development, problem-solving skills, and the ability to work independently as well as part of a team. You will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining high-performance and scalable applications.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, test, and maintain Java-based applications.
- Write well-designed, efficient, and testable code following best software development practices.
- Troubleshoot and resolve technical issues during development and production support.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams including QA, DevOps, and Product teams.
- Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback.
- Maintain proper documentation for code, processes, and configurations.
- Support deployment and post-deployment monitoring during night shift hours.
Required Skills:
- Strong programming skills in Java 8 or above.
- Experience with Spring Framework (Spring Boot, Spring MVC, etc.).
- Proficiency in RESTful APIs, Microservices Architecture, and Web Services.
- Familiarity with SQL and relational databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL, or Oracle.
- Hands-on experience with version control systems like Git.
- Understanding of Agile methodologies.
- Experience with build tools like Maven/Gradle.
- Knowledge of unit testing frameworks (JUnit/TestNG).
Preferred Skills (Good to Have):
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines.
- Basic understanding of frontend technologies like JavaScript, HTML, CSS.
Mentoring teams to carry forward recognised and optimised solutions, building conducive environments for knowledge transfer and maintaining standards in terms of deliveries form a major part of responsibilities.
Responsibilities
- Design and develop robust scalable database systems
- Design, build and deploy internal applications to support our native technical ecosystem
- Collaborate with Subject-Matter experts to design data-driven modules for analysis
Qualifications
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or equivalent
- 3-4 years of experience in Java
Skills
- Expertise in object-oriented programming concepts and data structures
- Strong knowledge of working with XMLs/Jsons
- Experience with large-scale distributed storage and database systems (MySQL, MongoDB, GraphDB)
- Good knowledge of indexing/search libraries like Lucene/Solr/Elasticsearch
- Exposure to Spring MVC architecture and RESTful APIs
- Well-versed with Agile methodology of SDLC
- Good to have: Knowledge of standard DevOps skills like Build tools (Maven/gradle), Continuous integration (Jenkins), Version Control (Github/Gitlab)
You will get while working with us
- Opportunity to work on highly distributed systems with micro-services architecture and big-data volumes
- Solve challenging real-world problems by leveraging OOP & functional programming concepts
- Opportunity to incubate an open source project
- Get to work with cutting edge technologies to name a few Kafka, Elasticsearch, Postgres, Scala
- Developing scalable, sustainable and reliable enterprise systems
- Hands-on experience of working with TDD and BDD
- Develop environment using practices such as Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery
- Learning opportunity on how to turn complex business requirements into a working product
Roles & Responsibilities
- Requirement understanding & analysis by interacting with client
- Carry out architectural and design discussions with fellow team members and come up with right approach
- Understand system domain, user’s perspective of system and use-cases
- Understand patterns in existing code and effectively leverage and improvise it
- Develop backend involving Java8 based functional programming and REST services
- Ensure best practices of code reviews, automated testing and CI
- Research new tools & technologies required for the projects
- Mentor fellow team members and bring their level up
Must have
- Strong hold on written/verbal communication
- Strong core Java fundamentals
- Strong Analytical & problem solving skills
- Proactive and inherent nature of working with ownership
- Passion of writing clean code
- Experience in designing relational data model from business requirements
Good to have
- Knowledge of functional programming (Scala or Java 8 lambda)
- Knowledge of NOSQL
- Working knowledge of linux & networking
- Performance optimisation - Optimise/refactor queries, code, stored procedures to take performance next level
- We’re committed to client success: There are over 6,200 brand and retail websites in the Bazaarvoice network. Our clients represent some of the world’s leading companies across a wide range of industries including retail, apparel, automotive, consumer electronics and travel.
- We’re leaders in consumer-generated content: Each month, more than one billion consumers view and share authentic consumer-generated content, such as ratings and reviews, curated photos, social posts and videos, about products in our network. Thousands upon thousands or reviews are added to the Bazaarvoice network everyday.
- Our network delivers: Network analytics provide insights that help marketers and advertisers provide more engaging experiences that drive brand awareness, consideration, sales, and loyalty.
- We’re a great place to work: We pride ourselves on our unique culture. Join a company that values passion, innovation, authenticity, generosity, respect, teamwork, and performance.
About Recko:
Recko was founded in 2017 to organise the world’s transactional information and provide intelligent applications to finance and product teams to make sense of the vast amount of data available. With the proliferation of digital transactions over the past two decades, Enterprises, Banks and Financial institutions are finding it difficult to keep a track on the money flowing across their systems. We are building products which enable them to handle and monitor massive volumes of transactional data without writing a single line of code and ensure the right amounts are flowing between the right beneficiaries, with the right deductions at the right time. Over the last few months, we have grown to a point where we are processing more than 25 million transactions monthly for our customers.
Recko is a Series A funded startup, backed by marquee investors like Vertex Ventures, Prime Venture Partners and Locus Ventures. Traditionally enterprise software is always built around functionality. We are reimagining enterprise software to be built around the user. We believe software is an extension of one’s capability, and it should be delightful and fun to use.
Working at Recko:
We believe that great companies are built by amazing people. At Recko, We are a group of young Engineers, Product Managers, Analysts and Business folks who are on a mission to bring consumer tech DNA to enterprise fintech applications. The current team at Recko is 50 members strong with stellar experience across fintech, e-commerce, digital domains at companies like Flipkart, PhonePe, Ola Money, Belong, Razorpay, Grofers, Jio, Oracle etc. We are growing aggressively across verticals.
About the Role:
What are we looking for:
1. 2+ years of experience with Java MVC frameworks like Spring / Dropwizard / Play and with
MySQL / Oracle / PostgreSQL.
2. Experience building at least one application from scratch.
3. Understanding of at least one test frameworks and basic system administration.
4. Experience with cache store / message broker like Redis / RabbitMQ / Kafka.
5. Good to have: Experience with NoSQL databases like Cassandra, MongoDb, Neo4j, ElasticSearch. etc and Understanding of different concurrency models used in Akka, node.js, Go, RxJava etc
6. Interest in learning new languages / framework as needed.
7. A growth mindset and passionate about building things from the ground up and most
importantly, you should be fun to work with.
As a backend developer at Recko, you will:
1. Design and implement microservices with high reliability and scalability.
2. Be involved and participate in the overall application lifecycle.
3. Define and communicate technical and design requirements.
4. Learn about new technologies and incorporate them.
5. Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes.
6. Collaborate with multi-disciplinary team of designers, developers and system administrators.








