Tech Lead - Backend

Job Title: Java Engineering Manager/Lead

Experience range:- 10 + Years

Location:- Pune / Mumbai

Knowledge and Skills:

• Strong proficiency in Core Java, Spring Boot.
• Experience with RESTful APIs, microservices, and multithreading.
• Solid understanding of RDBMS (MySQL/PostgreSQL).
• Exposure to cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools like Jenkins, GitLab, or GitHub Actions.
• Background in Fintech, particularly Digital Lending, Supply Chain Finance, or Banking products.
• Experience working in agile/scrum environments.
• At least 3 years of experience leading/managing a team of Java developers.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead and mentor a team of Java developers, ensuring technical excellence and timely delivery.
• Actively participate in coding, code reviews, architecture decisions, and system design.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Product Managers, QA, and DevOps.
• Maintain a strong hands-on presence in backend Java development and microservices architecture.
• Own the end-to-end lifecycle of features from requirement to deployment and post-release support

Rel. Experience: 4+ Yrs. Minimum 3 Years of experience in NodeJs

· Javascript concepts

· NodeJS proficiency

· Web programming concepts

· SQL and DB concepts

· Caching concepts

· Knowledge of good programming practices

· Logical and analytical skills

· Communication

if interested please send your updated profile to valli at the rate of sangathr dotcom

• Experience in Java and associated technologies Core Java, JSP, Spring, Struts,RESTful Services,SOAP,Tomcat, Hibernate, Maven
• Strong understanding of OOPS concepts
• Proficient understanding of RDBMS Concepts
• Strong understanding of Databases Oracle / MSQL / MySQL etc and PL/SQL Programming

About Hop:

We are a London, UK based FinTech startup with a subsidiary in India. Hop is working towards building the next generation digital banking platform for seamless and economical currency exchange, with technology at the crux of it. In a technology driven era, many financial services platforms still lack the customer experience and are cumbersome to use. Hop aims at building a ‘state of the art’ tech-centric, customer focused solution.

moneyHOP is India’s first cross-border neo-bank providing millennials the ability to ‘Send’ & ‘Spend’ conveniently and economically across the globe using HOPRemit (An online remittance portal) and HOP app + Card (A multi-currency bank account).

This position is a crucially important position in the firm and the person hired will have the liberty to drive the product and provide direction in line with business needs.

About Individual

Looking for an enthusiastic individual who is passionate about technology and has worked with either a start-up or a blue-chip firm in the past.

The candidate needs to be a multi-tasker, highly self-motivated, self-starter and have the ability to work in a high stress environment. He/she should be tech savvy and willing to embrace new technology comfortably.

Ideally, the candidate should have experience working with the technology stack in the scalable and high growth mobile application software.

General Skills

• 1-2 years of experience in backend development.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Science, or equivalent practical experience.
• Exposure to Behaviour Driven Development and experience in programming and testing.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Good time management and organizational skills.
• Dependability
• Accountability and Ownership
• Right attitude and growth mindset
• Trust-worthiness
• Ability to embrace new technologies
• Ability to get work done
• Has good code reviewing skills for conformance.
• Has good software testing skills and good code writing skills.

Technical Skills

• Exposure with back-end programming languages with hands on JAVA, Node JS etc along with Spring framework.
• Database administration and management of a hosting environment such as AWS.
• Sound understanding of relational and non-relational DB systems such as MySQL, Post-gres, MongoDB etc.
• Has experience dealing with JIRA (issue tracking tools), Confluence (knowledge management) tools.
• Experience with building and maintaining microservices.
• Experience with building and integrating the core system with external APIS.
• Good to have: Domain knowledge in the BFSI tech stack.
• Has handled scalability and worked on backend security protocols.
• Has worked on both mobile and web development.
• Has experience and inclination to work on architectural design and review.

Day-to-Day Responsibilities 

1. Contribute in all phases of the software development life cycle.
2. Partake in software and architectural development activities.
3. Conduct software analysis, programming, unit-testing and debugging.
4. Transforming requirements into functional modules.
5. Recommend changes to improve established application processes.
6. Work quickly with a clear bias towards actions and continuous development.
7. Participate in regular code reviews of peers and be open to pairing when necessary.