Tech Lead , Functional Life Sciences Domain

Position : Lead – Java Full Stack Developer

Experience : 7 to 12 Years

Location : Kochi / Thiruvananthapuram / Remote

Notice Period : Immediate to 15 Days

Open Positions : 1

Role Overview :

We are looking for a Lead Java Full Stack Developer with strong expertise in Java (Java 21, Spring Boot, and Hibernate), Angular (v19), and AWS to lead agile scrum teams and drive end-to-end feature delivery.

Key Skills Required :

• Java 21, Spring Boot MVC, Spring Data, Hibernate, Gradle
• Angular 19, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, REST APIs
• PostgreSQL / RDBMS / NoSQL
• AWS services: S3, Secrets Manager, CloudWatch
• CI/CD (Jenkins, GitHub), Docker
• Unit Testing (Jasmine/Karma or Jest)
• Tools: JIRA, Azure DevOps, Confluence
• Strong in design patterns, OOPs concepts, and performance optimization
• Excellent debugging and communication skills

Responsibilities :

• Design, develop, and deploy scalable full stack solutions
• Lead sprint tasks, perform code reviews, and ensure code quality
• Collaborate with stakeholders and convert requirements into technical specs
• Participate in Agile ceremonies and follow DevOps/CI-CD best practices
• Guide team members and promote technical best practices

Interview Process :

1. Technical Round
2. 2–3 Technical Rounds
3. Final Technical Discussion

Requirements:

• Proficient in fundamental Software Design Principles, Data Structures, Algorithms, Problem Solving and Complexity Analysis.
• Proficient in programming languages like Python/Java/Javascript/Golang or similar.
• Strong understanding of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
• Hands-on Experience with SQL/NoSQL databases such as Postgres, Mysql, MongoDB.
• Hands-on experience with GIT, CI/CD, REST APIs and Cloud ( AWS/ GCP/ Azure) will be preferred.
• Understanding of Microservice Architecture and System Design Principles is a plus.
• Self-driven, detail-oriented and Strong sense of ownership, urgency, and ability to deliver great work.
• Demonstrated expertise in developing, releasing and maintaining large scale software applications.

Online group buying platform that helps people connect with likeminded people who want to buy the same item/product at a discounted price.

• Overlook development of all consumer products in JAVA and
• Optimize components for maximum performance across a vast array of web-capable devices and
• Focus on code maintainability and performance of
• Provide technical advice and assists in solving programming
• Continuously create new and interactive features that would help to improve user experience and user engagement.
• Assist with troubleshooting of issues as
• Lead the design and architecture of software
• Assist in developing and maintaining continuous integration.

• Skills required: JAVA, Python (Flask and Django), Spring/Spring Boot, React, Hibernate,
• 2+ years of experience in Java and Python
• Linux, REST, Kafka, Mysql,, AWS, ELK Stack (Elasticsearch), CI/CD
• Good experience in Java and/or Python based
• Experience in designing databases and system
• Experience in building products from scratch at well-funded start-ups

Description:

For over 10 years, Zscaler has been disrupting and transforming the security industry. Our 100% purpose-built cloud platform delivers the entire gateway security stack as a service through 150 global data centers to securely connect users to their applications, regardless of device, location, or network in over 185 countries protecting over 3,900 companies and have detected 100 Million threats/day. 

We work in a fast-paced, dynamic and make it happen culture. Our people are some of the brightest and passionate in the industry that thrives on being the first to solve problems.  We are always looking to hire highly passionate, collaborative and humble people that want to make a difference.

About the role :

This is a senior staff backend engineer role in the engineering team that designs, implements and maintains our state of the art product IllusionBLACK. The team is responsible for designing and implementing secure, highly performant and maintainable product.

Responsibilities:

• Architect, develop and maintain high performance, fault tolerant and scalable cloud hosted service using NodeJS
• End to end responsibility to continuously create and monitor the services you build
• Help design reusable and clean API's for our frontend React app
• Guide team members with handling complex issues
• You will also be responsible for database schema design and development of migration scripts
• Experiment with new technologies and ideas and help shape our stack and processes

Requirement:

• 10+ years professional SW development experience
• All our production applications are built with either Typescript or Python. You must have a strong understanding of NodeJS express apps written in Typescript and ES6
• Must have good experience with Python
• Solid experience with databases is a must. We use and love Postgres here at Smokescreen
• You should be able to design a complex database SQL schema normalized to 3NF on the back of a napkin at 3am in the morning
• Deep understanding and working knowledge of Redis cache
• Experience with Solr or Elasticsearch is a must. We use Solr for our event analytics exclusively
• Experience with AWS, Azure or GCP is a plus. We have a large distributed application running on AWS
• Experience with Docker/Swarm is a plus
• Experience in some stream processing platforms like Kafka/Redis stream is a plus

• Building scalable web applications
• Integrating UI elements with server-side
• Handling Security and Data Protection
• Integrating front- end with SQL and NoSQL databases and ensuring its consistency
• Building reusable code and libraries
• Optimizing the code to improve its quality and efficiency

• 2+ yrs of Backend development experience
• You have excellent programming skills in python, ORM libraries and Django
• You have experience inbuilt tools like Git, Jenkins, Ansible, Rundeck
• You have experience in cross-browser/cross-platform front-end development with HTML/CSS/Javascript in Angular or similar frameworks
• You are an expert in SQL (Redshift, PostgreSQL, MySql, or similar) and NoSQL (MongoDB, ElasticSearch)
• You design, build and test RESTful web services.
• You have experience with Apache HTTP, NGINX, Tomcat or Jetty.