Tech Lead

About Unilog

Unilog is the only connected product content and eCommerce provider serving the Wholesale Distribution, Manufacturing, and Specialty Retail industries. Our flagship CX1 Platform is at the center of some of the most successful digital transformations in North America. CX1 Platform’s syndicated product content, integrated eCommerce storefront, and automated PIM tool simplify our customers' path to success in the digital marketplace.

With more than 500 customers, Unilog is uniquely positioned as the leader in eCommerce and product content for Wholesale Distribution, Manufacturing, and Specialty Retail.

Unilog’s Mission Statement

At Unilog, our mission is to provide purpose-built connected product content and eCommerce solutions that empower our customers to succeed in the face of intense competition. By virtue of living our mission, we are able to transform the way Wholesale Distributors, Manufacturers, and Specialty Retailers go to market. We help our customers extend a digital version of their business and accelerate their growth.

Job Details

• Designation: Principal Engineer – Solr
• Location: Bangalore / Mysore / Remote
• Job Type: Full-time
• Department: Software R&D

Job Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Principal Engineer with a strong background in Apache Solr and Java to lead our Engineering and customer-led initiatives. The ideal candidate will be responsible for ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of our search platform while providing expert-level troubleshooting and resolution for critical production issues.

This role will involve designing the architecture for new platforms while reviewing and recommending better approaches for existing ones to drive continuous improvement and efficiency.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead Engineering and support activities for Solr-based search applications, ensuring minimal downtime and optimal performance
• Design and develop the architecture of new platforms while reviewing and recommending better approaches for existing ones
• Regularly work towards enhancing search ranking, query understanding, and retrieval effectiveness
• Diagnose, troubleshoot, and resolve complex technical issues in Solr, Java-based applications, and supporting infrastructure
• Perform deep-dive analysis of logs, performance metrics, and alerts to proactively prevent incidents
• Optimize Solr indexes, queries, and configurations to enhance search performance and reliability
• Work closely with development, operations, and business teams to drive improvements in system stability and efficiency
• Implement monitoring tools, dashboards, and alerting mechanisms to enhance observability and proactive issue detection
• Exposure to AI-based search using vector databases, RAG models, NLP, and LLMs
• Collaborate on capacity planning, system scaling, and disaster recovery strategies for mission-critical search systems
• Provide mentorship and technical guidance to junior engineers and support teams
• Drive innovation by tracking latest trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in AI-based Search, Solr, and other search platforms

Requirement

• 8+ years of experience in software development and production support with a focus on Apache Solr, Java, and databases (Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc.)
• Strong understanding of Solr indexing, query execution, schema design, configuration, and tuning
• Experience in designing and implementing scalable system architectures for search platforms
• Proven ability to review and assess existing platform architectures, identifying areas for improvement and recommending better approaches
• Proficiency in Java, Spring Boot, and micro-services architectures
• Experience with Linux / Unix-based environments, shell scripting, and debugging production systems
• Hands-on experience with monitoring tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, ELK Stack) and log analysis
• Expertise in troubleshooting performance issues related to Solr, JVM tuning, and memory management
• Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP and containerization technologies like Docker / Kubernetes
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to work under pressure in a fast-paced environment
• Certifications in Solr, Java, or cloud technologies
• Excellent communication and leadership abilities

About Our Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Health insurance
• Retirement plan
• Paid time off
• Training and development opportunities

• Design and Develop: Architect, design, and implement high-performance Java-based backend services and applications.
• Code Quality: Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code following industry best practices and coding standards.
• Technical Leadership: Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior developers, promoting best practices and fostering a collaborative environment.
• Collaboration: Work closely with frontend developers, product managers, and other stakeholders to understand requirements and deliver robust solutions.
• Performance Optimization: Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks and scalability issues.
• Testing: Implement comprehensive testing strategies, including unit tests, integration tests, and end-to-end tests.
• Continuous Improvement: Stay current with the latest industry trends, technologies, and best practices in Java/Golang development, and continuously improve our development processes.

 Experience in Core Java, Spring Boot. 

• Experience in microservices. 

• Extensive experience in developing enterprise-scale systems for global organization. Should possess good architectural knowledge and be aware of enterprise application design patterns. 

• Should be able to analyze, design, develop and test complex, low-latency client-facing applications. 

• Good development experience with RDBMS in SQL Server, Postgres, Oracle or DB2 

• Good knowledge of multi-threading 

• Basic working knowledge of Unix/Linux 

• Excellent problem solving and coding skills in Java 

• Strong interpersonal, communication and analytical skills. 

• Should be able to express their design ideas and thoughts

Essential Responsibilities:

Demonstrate the understanding of Agile software development life cycle and distinguish the core inputs and outputs in each cycle.

Work closely with your peers and keep engaging in a fast pace technical design and development team

Execute in a fast pace delivery mode and focus on delivering tasks to meet monthly and quarterly digital product release goals

Lead impact assessment and decisions related to technology choices, design / architectural considerations and implementation strategy

Maintain code quality through best practices, unit testing and code quality automation

Demonstrate the ability to make informed technology choices after due diligence and impact assessment

Help in designing interfaces and information exchange between modules

Articulate the need for scalability and understand the importance of improving quality through testing.

Be an expert in writing code that meets standards and delivers the desired functionality using the technology selected for the project

Drive design reviews, define interfaces between code modules, and apply existing technology to designs

Be an expert in assessing application performance and optimizing/improving it through design and best coding practices

Desired Skills:

Java, Spring,Microservices

Key Responsibilities/Duties:

· Develops and enhances software applications through coding and testing.

· Writing well designed, testable, efficient code

· Involves in code reviews and training.

· Contributing in all phases of the development lifecycle

· Delivers highest quality software by creating unit test plans and testing code thoroughly.

· Adept with the tools, applications, and processes used for software development.

· Implements solutions as designed in technical documentation specification and coding standards.

· Creates project documentations and coordinates technical issues.

· Knows the business rules and concepts, software specifications and designs provided by the technical lead and apply them in completing the assigned task.

Qualification: Bachelors or Master’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering.

Position – Software Engineer

Essential Job Functions:

• Develop code for system changes or new modules within company and architecture according to specifications and standards
• Participates and contribute in formal and informal code reviews
• Prepares and executes accurate unit test plans, test data, and test modules and scripts
• Documents code changes and unit test results per Best Practices
• Performs production support and troubleshooting and maintenance (defect resolution)

Required Skills:

• 3-6 years of hands-on experience
• Expert level understanding of all phases of SDLC, preferably with Agile methodology.
• Strong coding experience with Java, J2EE, SQL. Strong experience in java frameworks, especially spring framework.
• Solid experience developing with SQL queries, stored procedures, views and triggers for Oracle databases.
• Understanding of multi-tier architecture, Web based development, and Services Oriented Architecture. Experience coding REST and SOAP services.
• Excellent communication (verbal and written) and interpersonal skills. Able to step into complex situations and take responsibility.
• Solid knowledge working with version control systems like bitbucket and build tools like maven.
• Strong problem solving and conflict resolution skills.

Preferred Skills:

• Able to guide junior developers.
• Ability to learn and master internal frameworks quickly.
• Deep knowledge in writing complex unit tests.
• XML and knowledge of generating Java data binding code from XSDs
• Knowledge of Tomcat, WebSphere, WebLogic and IBM MQ
• Experience with Agile methodology.

About CapitalCloud, A Bottomline Company:

Bottomline Technologies provides collaborative payment, invoice and document automation solutions to corporations, financial institutions and banks around the world. The company's solutions are used to streamline, automate, and manage processes involving payments, invoicing, global cash management, supply chain finance and transactional documents. Organizations trust these solutions to meet their needs for cost reduction, competitive differentiation, and optimization of working capital.

Serving industries such as financial services, insurance, health care, technology, communications, education, media, manufacturing, and government, Bottomline provides products and services to approximately 80 of the Fortune 100 companies and 70 of the FTSE (Financial Times) 100 companies.

Bottomline is a participating employer in the Employment Verification (E-Verify) program EOE/AA/M/F/V/D/E-Verify Employer

Bottomline Technologies is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer.

As the Java Developer, you will be responsible for developing cutting edge health-tech applications that include high scale transaction processing, intelligent bot based programs and data analytics.

What you will do:

• Building components for the company's advanced health tech platform using Java, Solr, SpringBoot, DialogFlow
• Communicating effectively in a cross-functional product development team and present ideas and solutions effectively
• Participating in technical planning and requirements gathering phases including design, code, test, troubleshoot, and document engineering software applications
• Developing the Code as per the requirements
• Working with product team and constructing the tech roadmap
• Designing, building and scaling the company's backend microservices
• Maintaining code integrity and organization
• Applying all quality requirements to make the code production ready
• Developing and deploying new features to facilitate related procedures and tools if necessary
• Developing documentation related to technical aspects and to facilitate current support, development, upgrades, or migrations
• Designing and building efficient, reusable, and reliable Java code
• Pro actively catching and fixing bugs, and providing support for the back end services
• Managing servers and infrastructure by keeping the lights on and refining the deployment architecture

What you need to have: