• Determining project requirements and developing work schedules for the team.
• Delegating tasks and achieving daily, weekly, and monthly goals.
• Liaising with team members, management, and clients to ensure projects are completed
to standard.
• Identifying risks and forming contingency plans as soon as possible.
• Analyzing existing operations and scheduling training sessions and meetings to discuss
improvements.
• Keeping up-to-date with industry trends and developments.
• Updating work schedules and performing troubleshooting as required.
• Motivating staff and creating a space where they can ask questions and voice their
concerns.
• Being transparent with the team about challenges, failures, and successes.
• Writing progress reports and delivering presentations to the relevant stakeholders.
Technical Lead Requirements:
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field.
• Relevant Management certification may be required.
• Experience in a similar role would be advantageous.
• Excellent technical, diagnostic, and troubleshooting skills.
• Strong leadership and organizational abilities.
• Willingness to build professional relationships with staff and clients.
• Excellent communication, motivational, and interpersonal skills

About SmartCoin
About
SmartCoin is working towards building the NextGen FinTech company with a mission to provide a state-of-the-art, user-friendly and scalable lending platform. Your contribution will directly impact millions of Indians who lack access to simple and transparent financial products, the first being quick and easy loans.
We are an early-stage startup and we believe in giving complete freedom and responsibility to team members and helping them prosper in a collaborative and fun-loving environment. Our team comprises of IIT/IIM graduates with senior-level experience in various investment banks and tech start-ups. We are well funded by marquee investors and working towards building the largest and first-of-its-kind mobile app-based digital lending startup. Our founders have experience in growing and nurturing strong technology teams and have always encouraged entrepreneurship.
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Position Overview:
We are seeking a skilled Java Developer to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will have a strong foundation in Core Java and extensive experience in developing and deploying applications using Spring Boot, Apache Tomcat, and other related technologies. The candidate should possess expertise in building Restful Web Services, Microservices architecture, and be proficient in implementing multi-threading concepts.
Additionally, experience with Maven, Git, Jenkins, and Agile Scrum methodologies is essential for this role. The candidate should also have a solid understanding of software development lifecycle (SDLC) processes. Familiarity with various databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, or MongoDB, along with third-party API integration and payment gateway integration, is required.
Key Responsibilities:
• Develop, test, deploy, and maintain Java-based applications.
• Design and implement Restful Web Services and Microservices using Spring Boot.
• Utilize multi-threading concepts to enhance application performance.
• Integrate third-party APIs and payment gateways into applications.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather requirements and deliver high-quality solutions.
• Participate in Agile Scrum ceremonies and contribute to sprint planning, backlog grooming, and retrospectives.
• Ensure adherence to best practices and coding standards.
• Conduct code reviews and provide constructive feedback to peers.
• Troubleshoot and debug complex issues in production environments.
• Document design decisions, processes, and procedures.
Required Qualifications:
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or related field.
• Minimum 3 years of experience as a Java Developer with expertise in Core Java.
• Strong knowledge of Spring Boot, Apache Tomcat, and multi-threading concepts.
• Hands-on experience in building Restful Web Services and Microservices architecture.
• Proficiency in using Maven, Git, and Jenkins for build and deployment processes.
• Familiarity with Agile Scrum methodologies and SDLC processes.
• Experience working with databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, or MongoDB.
• Demonstrated ability to integrate third-party APIs and payment gateways.
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Effective communication and collaboration skills.
• Familiarity with NoSQL databases like MongoDB.
• Knowledge of Azure DevOps for CI/CD pipelines
We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer with a strong background in building distributed, scalable, and high-performance backend systems. The ideal candidate has 6+ years of backend engineering experience, including 3+ years in microservices or distributed architecture, and deep expertise in Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, Redis, and async I/O patterns.
The candidate will own backend services end-to-end — from architecture and design to implementation, optimization, and production support — while working closely with cross-functional teams to deliver mission-critical systems.
Key Responsibilities
1. Backend Architecture & Development
- Architect, design, and implement backend services using Python (preferably FastAPI) with clean, maintainable, and scalable code.
- Develop microservice components, service communication layers, and distributed workflows.
- Build APIs and backend modules optimized for performance, fault tolerance, and low latency.
2. Distributed Systems & Scalability
- Design and maintain distributed systems capable of handling high throughput and large-scale operations.
- Implement inter-service communication patterns (REST, event-driven, message queues, pub/sub).
- Ensure system resiliency through redundancy, graceful degradation, and autoscaling strategies.
3. Asynchronous & Event-Driven Architecture
- Build async workflows, background tasks, and pipeline services leveraging asyncio or async frameworks.
- Develop event-driven components including producers, consumers, and event processors.
- Optimize I/O-heavy operations to maximize concurrency and throughput.
4. Data Storage, Pipelines & Caching
- Design relational schemas, write optimized SQL queries, and work with PostgreSQL performance tuning (indexes, partitions, query planning).
- Implement caching strategies, rate limiting, distributed locks, and session storage using Redis.
- Build data validation pipelines and compliance-driven data flows ensuring data correctness and auditability.
5. Security, Reliability & Observability
- Implement authentication, authorization, encryption, and secure API practices.
- Build monitoring, alerting, metrics, and tracing systems using modern observability tools.
- Diagnose production issues, identify bottlenecks, and drive long-term fixes and improvements.
6. Code Quality & Technical Leadership
- Conduct detailed code reviews and ensure engineering best practices across the team.
- Participate in technical roadmap planning, architectural discussions, and system design decisions.
- Mentor junior and mid-level engineers; drive a culture of technical excellence and ownership.
Required Qualifications
- 6+ years backend engineering experience.
- 3+ years building microservices or distributed systems.
- Strong expertise in Python and frameworks like FastAPI (or Flask/Django with async exposure).
- Deep understanding of async I/O, concurrency models, and asynchronous programming in Python.
- Strong experience with PostgreSQL (schema design, advanced queries, optimization).
- Hands-on experience with Redis for caching, queues, session management, and distributed patterns.
- Experience with event-driven architectures, message processing, or streaming systems.
- Solid understanding of system design, scalability principles, and API lifecycle management.
- Experience working with CI/CD pipelines, containerization (Docker), and cloud environments.
- Experience in Core Java 5.0 and above, CXF, Spring.
- Extensive experience in developing enterprise-scale n-tier applications for financial domain. Should possess good architectural knowledge and be aware of enterprise application design patterns.
- Should have the ability to analyze, design, develop and test complex, low-latency client-facing applications.
- Good Experience into Microservices , Data structures , Oops , Algorithms, multithreading etc
- Good development experience with RDBMS, preferably Sybase database.
- Good knowledge of multi-threading and high-volume server-side development.
- Experience in sales and trading platforms in investment banking/capital markets.
- Basic working knowledge of Unix/Linux.
- Experience into High /Low level designing.
- Excellent problem solving and coding skills in Java.
- Strong interpersonal, communication and analytical skills.
- Should have the ability to express their design ideas and thoughts.
● Complete ownership of the components that one works on - starting from
architecture design to monitoring metrics post deployment
Strong bias for action with a problem solving mindset. Meeting current
requirements or resolving issues while keeping bigger picture in mind.
● Thinking big while designing components. Keeping in mind that if we build our
current version for x users, it will be 10x within a year & 100x within 1.5 years
hands on experience in software development with excellent
problem-solving skills.
● Hands on experience on building highly-available, scalable systems.
● Expertise in Java with data structures, algorithms, spring, hibernate skills.
● Knowledge of NoSQL, MongoDB, caching data stores, queuing and search.
● Proficiency in computer science fundamentals: Object oriented design, data
structures, algorithm design, and complexity analysis.
● Good with the design patterns and architecture solution to large scale
applications.
● Nice to have: Cassandra, Kafka, Aerospike development experience with highly
scalable and performant software systems.
We are looking for a Rust Developer to join our cutting-edge development team as it grows. The candidate must be comfortable working in an agile environment and can take the lead when necessary.
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for developing the product as per the product specification defined by the product managers
- Responsible for performing research on the best methods of implementing the requirements
- Author and curate technical documentation to support delivery, maintenance, and adoption
- Work with programmers, engineers, and management heads to identify process improvement opportunities, propose system modifications, and devise governance strategies to optimise the overall performance
- Design and develop automated deployment and maintenance mechanisms
- Solving development challenges and making architectural decisions by understanding the larger picture of the project goals
- Expanding your existing skill set, and picking up on various rust-dependent frameworks
- Confidently communicating and collaborating with your fellow developers in an office set-up.
Requirements:
- Must have experience in Rust programming language
- Have excellent knowledge of different data structures and algorithms
- Working knowledge of any other programming language Python, Java, or JavaScript is good to have
- Experience with, or understanding of, Kafka or Redis, Cloud infrastructure services, and Docker is an added advantage
- Experience with SQL or NoSQL databases, MySQL, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, etc.
- Experience in Backend and APIs development
- Experience in analysing and optimising the platform's performance
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Technologies/Frameworks – · Core Java, J2EE, · Spring Core and Spring MVC, Sprint Boot, Spring Security, · JDBC, Hibernate, RESTful APIs, SOAP WebServices · Knowledge of JavaScript, JQuery, AJAX, HTML5, and CSS3, Angular is added advantage · Junit or Mockito frameworks · Maven, Git · Knowledge Data Structures, · SQL, MySQL · Designing relational database schemas · Basics of AWS, Cloud, Microservices
· BFSI, FinTech |
About Company:
The company is a global leader in secure payments and trusted transactions. They are at the forefront of the digital revolution that is shaping new ways of paying, living, doing business and building relationships that pass on trust along the entire payments value chain, enabling sustainable economic growth. Their innovative solutions, rooted in a rock-solid technological base, are environmentally friendly, widely accessible and support social transformation.
Requirements:
1. Java 8+, J2EE,
2. Core Java- More hands on collections framework
3. JPA- Spring, Hibernate
4. Webservices (SOAP / Rest)
5. Knowldege on SQL & PLQL (Oracle/MySQL)
6. Expericne in Agile tools & processes
7. Good analytical & Communication skills
JD / Skills Sets
1. Good knowledge on Python
2. Good knowledge on My-Sql, mongodb
3. Design Pattern
4. OOPs
5. Automation
6. Web scraping
7. Redis queue
8. Basic idea of Finance Domain will be beneficial.
9. Git10. AWS (EC2, RDS, S3)
What essential skills you need
▪ 8-11 years’ experience in back end Java/J2EE application development.
▪ Expertise in developing internet web applications using Java/J2EE technologies.
▪ Experience of working in a service-oriented architecture and web-based development.
▪ Experience in writing XSD, Wiz-dull including parsers like SAX, DOM.
▪ Experience in different modules of Spring framework like Dependency Injection (IoC), Spring MVC, Spring ORM along with JPA.
▪ Experience in Java Version 7.0+. Good experience with JMS, Spring & Hibernate.
▪ Experience in identifying database solutions for a given problem, preferably MySQL.
▪ Demonstrated ability to analyze business/functional requirements, develop well-structured, maintainable code, delivered on time, with automated tests. We are an XP/Agile development team.
▪ Hands on experience on tools like Log4j, JUnit, Mockito, SVN, Maven, Covertura.
▪ Knowledge in Java queuing system.
▪ Extensive Experience in using MVC (Model View Controller) architecture for developing applications using JSP, JSTL, Java Beans and Servlets.
▪ Hands on experience in using Application/Web servers like JBoss and Tomcat servers. Worked on databases like Oracle/MYSQL/NoSQL/HQL.
▪ Experience with e-commerce, retail, analytics, advertising, or media would be an advantage










