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BlueOptima’s vision is to become the global reference for the optimisation of the performance of Software Engineers across all industries. We provide industry-leading objective metrics in software development. We enable large organisations to deliver better software, faster and at lower cost, with technology that pushes the limits of what has been done before. 

We are a global company which has consistently doubled in headcount and revenue YoY, with no external investment. We currently are located in 4 countries: London (our HQ), Mexico, India and the US. A total number of 180+ employees (and increasing every day) from 22 different nationalities and with over 25 languages spoken.

We promote an open minded environment and encourage our employees to create their own success story in this high performance environment.

Location: Bangalore/Gurgoan, India
Department: Engineering

Job summary: 

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer, with experience in developing scalable application components, which are remotely deployed and are used to extract and push large volumes of data in a data warehouse solution, to join our growing company and be a part of our success story. 

We are looking for an individual with great attention to detail, who is genuine, confident, committed and not only passionate about technology, but is keen to own the solution end to end, and most importantly excited to work in a fun and friendly start-up environment. 

The ideal candidate will be passionate about technology and getting things to work while at the same time being able to mentor (and lead) other engineers by way of example to achieve excellence in their work.

Your team: You will be working with a diverse team with members located around our different offices, with whom you will be working hand-to-hand. This team is currently based in Gurgaon and we are now looking forward to growing it in Bangalore and mid next year to Mexico with the plan of building two teams in India (Gurgaon and Bangalore) and one in Mexico (Guadalajara).

We are looking for skilled and talented engineers to join our Data Analysis and Processing (DAP) team and directly contribute to development of application components built by the team.

The DAP team works on a business critical component which is responsible for collecting required source code interaction and static metrics data from client location, and processing the large volumes of data end to end. Remote deployment and the uptime requirements only makes this component one of the most complex standalone java applications.

As a Senior Software Engineer in the DAP team, you will be directly contributing to development of the Integrator and Central Server components using Spring Boot, Hibernate and Core Java. And while contributing directly to the development of the software components, you are also expected to lead and mentor a team of next generation platform engineers.

Responsibilities and tasks: 

• Analyse, Design, Develop, implement, test and maintain application software components
• Analyse client requirements and convert them into technical specs.
• Own development of features and improvement
• Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks
• Identity and resolve architectural inefficiencies in design, and create a roadmap to resolving them
• Lead and mentor a team of junior developers
• Interact with internal client facing team and provide technical support to them
• Engage with clients to provide support on your component as and when required

What You Need to Succeed at BlueOptima:  

• Minimum Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent
• Minimum 5+ years experience with Java and J2EE/Java EE
• Minimum 2+ years experience with developing standalone Java applications
• Strong understanding of relational database, partitioning and indexing techniques, SQL
• Demonstrable experience in optimising application performance at database or any other layer
• Experience in creating high and low level design based on existing application architecture and documenting such design
• Strong understanding of Java concurrency, concurrency patterns, experience building thread-safe code
• Ability to work autonomously with minimum supervision
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills, and having a can-do attitude
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies like SCRUM, Sprints, etc and leading a Scrum a small Scrum team
• Commitment to accomplishing the task at hand and identify the fastest and most reliable way to solve a problem
• Familiarity with Linux shell and related command line tools
• Strong grasp of Unit & Integration testing

Good to have: 

• A team manager, in terms of handling people and delivery which is not a must in case of technical geeks
• Making sure that the sprints and tasks are completed on time with no spill-overs and sticking to the deadline
• Preferred experience on Spring boot,, Docker, Kubernetes
• Some exposure in Linux

Why join our team?

Culture and Growth:

• Global team with a creative, innovative and welcoming mindset.
• Rapid career growth and opportunity to be an outstanding and visible contributor to the company's success
• Freedom to create your own success story in a high performance environment
• Training programs and Personal Development Plans for each employee

Benefits:

• Competitive Salary
• Flexible Work from Home policy - 2 days home p/w
• Free drinks and snacks in the office 
• International travel opportunities
• Global annual meet up (most recent meetups have been held in Cancun and India)
• High quality equipment (Ergonomic chairs and 32’ screens)