Tech Lead Danjo

Job Summary

We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer with strong experience in Java, Spring Boot, and Microservices architecture. Candidates with server-side Kotlin development experience are highly preferred. Strong software engineering fundamentals, REST API development expertise, and experience building enterprise-scale applications are essential.

The ideal candidate should be passionate about clean code, testing, scalability, and product/platform engineering.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend applications using Java and/or Kotlin.
• Build and enhance RESTful APIs and microservices-based applications.
• Develop high-performance, secure, and reliable enterprise applications.
• Participate in system design, architecture discussions, and technical decision-making.
• Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code following industry best practices.
• Implement and maintain automated unit tests, integration tests, and other testing strategies.
• Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and DevOps teams to deliver high-quality solutions.
• Troubleshoot production issues and optimize application performance.
• Mentor junior developers and contribute to engineering excellence initiatives.

Required Skills

• 6–8+ years of backend development experience.
• Strong proficiency in Java.
• Experience with server-side Kotlin (preferred) or willingness to learn and work extensively in Kotlin.
• Hands-on experience with Spring Boot and Microservices architecture.
• Strong experience developing REST APIs.
• Experience building enterprise-grade applications.
• Good understanding of software design patterns and object-oriented programming principles.
• Strong knowledge of unit testing frameworks such as JUnit, Mockito, or equivalent.
• Experience with Test-Driven Development (TDD) is highly desirable.
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and version control systems such as Git.
• Experience working with relational and/or NoSQL databases.

• Experience in Core Java, CXF, Spring.
• Experience in spring boot, microservices.
• Extensive experience in developing enterprise-scale n-tier applications for the 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 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
• 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.

Strong Java Backend Engineer.

Mandatory (Experience 1): Must have 5+ years of backend development with strong focus on Java (Spring / Spring Boot)

Mandatory (Experience 2): Must have been SDE-2 for at least 2.5 years

Mandatory (Tech skill 1) : Hands-on experience with RESTful APIs and microservices architecture

Mandatory (Tech skill 2): Strong understanding of distributed systems, multithreading, and async programming

Mandatory (Tech skill 3): Experience with relational and NoSQL databases

Mandatory (Tech skill 4) : Exposure to Kafka/RabbitMQ and Redis/Memcached

Mandatory (Tech skill 5): Experience with AWS / GCP / Azure, Docker, and Kubernetes

Mandatory (Tech skill 6) : Familiar with CI/CD pipelines and modern DevOps practices

Mandatory (Company): Product companies (B2B SAAS preferred)

Mandatory (Stability): Must have stayed for atleast 2 years with each of the previous companies

Mandatory (Education): B.Tech in computer science from Tier 1, Tier 2 colleges

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

Desired candidates must have 2-6 years experience as NodeJs Developer. If the candidate is not able to relocate to Gurgaon then we can also provide permanent Work from home for this position.

Roles and responsibilities:

• Responsible for understanding functional and business requirements and translate them into effective code
• Provide support till deployment of code into production.
• Ownership for ensuring code optimization, problem diagnosis, and on-time delivery
• Implement solutions as per the pre-defined framework /guidelines and adherence to processes
• Finding an optimal solution for the problem statement
• Conduct peer code review.

What candidate should know about:

• Excellent hands-on experience with Node.Js, Express.Js, JavaScript
• Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds
• Excellent hands-on experience with MongoDB, Mongo aggregation, MySQL
• Ability to build REST services, Authentications, MVC applications
• Excellent Object Oriented Programming skills and ability to write modular, secure, scalable, and maintainable code
• Experience with Elastic Search, Redis.
• Knowledge about AWS components (S3, EC2, Cloudfront, Redis Clusters, etc.)
• Self-learning abilities are required
• Familiarity with upcoming new technologies is a strong plus