Tech Lead/ Software Developer

Job Description:

We are looking for a Lead Java Developer – Backend with a strong foundation in software engineering and hands-on experience in designing and building scalable, high-performance backend systems. You’ll be working within our Digital Engineering Studios on impactful and transformative projects in a fast-paced environment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead and mentor backend development teams.
• Design and develop scalable backend applications using Java and Spring Boot.
• Ensure high standards of code quality through best practices such as SOLID principles and clean code.
• Participate in pair programming, code reviews, and continuous integration processes.
• Drive Agile, Lean, and Continuous Delivery practices like TDD, BDD, and CI/CD.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and clients for successful delivery.

Required Skills & Experience:

• 9–12+ years of experience in backend development (Up to 17 years may be considered).
• Strong programming skills in Java and backend frameworks such as Spring Boot.
• Experience in designing and building large-scale, custom-built, scalable applications.
• Sound understanding of Object-Oriented Design (OOD) and SOLID principles.
• Hands-on experience with Agile methodologies, TDD/BDD, CI/CD pipelines.
• Familiarity with DevOps practices, Docker, Kubernetes, and Infrastructure as Code.
• Good understanding of cloud technologies – especially AWS, and exposure to GCP or Azure.
• Experience working in a product engineering environment is a plus.
• Startup experience or working in fast-paced, high-impact teams is highly desirable.

Job Title: Tech Lead (Backend Heavy)

Location: Onsite – Indore (Vijaynagar), MP, India

Experience: 4–6 Years

Notice Period: Immediate to 30 days preferred

Company Overview

Kuvaka Tech builds scalable, high-performance products across Web2 and Web3 ecosystems. We operate in a fast-paced startup environment, focusing on delivering efficient, production-ready solutions within tight timelines.

Role Overview

We are looking for a Tech Lead who is backend-heavy, highly product-driven, and capable of owning end-to-end technical execution. The ideal candidate should be comfortable working across multiple backend stacks, while also having enough frontend understanding to unblock issues independently.

This role requires someone who can solve problems proactively, handle technical blockers without unnecessary escalations, and drive projects efficiently in a startup environment.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Ownership

• Take end-to-end ownership of projects from planning to deployment
• Ensure timely delivery under tight deadlines
• Maintain high standards of code quality, scalability, and performance

Backend Development (Core Focus)

• Design and build scalable backend systems using Python and other backend stacks
• Architect APIs, services, and data flows for high-performance applications
• Handle complex technical challenges independently

Frontend Awareness

• Possess working knowledge of frontend technologies (React.js / Next.js)
• Be capable of debugging and resolving frontend issues when required

Problem Solving & Execution

• Identify and resolve technical blockers independently before escalation
• Drive solutions with a cost-efficient and time-efficient approach
• Optimise system performance and architecture
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Innovation & Product Thinking

• Contribute new ideas and technical improvements
• Think from a product perspective, not just implementation
• Continuously improve processes and delivery speed

Collaboration & Leadership

• Work closely with cross-functional teams (Product, Design, Engineering)
• Communicate effectively with stakeholders
• Guide junior developers when required

Required Skills-

Core Technical

• Strong experience in Python (Django/FastAPI preferred)
• Experience with multiple backend stacks (Node.js, etc. is a plus)
• Solid understanding of system design, APIs, and databases

Frontend Understanding

• Hands-on or working knowledge of React.js / modern frontend frameworks

Engineering Mindset

• Strong problem-solving skills
• Ability to handle pressure and tight deadlines
• Experience working in startup environments

Ideal Candidate Profile

• 4–6 years of experience in product-based or startup environments
• Has worked on multiple projects end-to-end
• Highly productive, proactive, and ownership-driven
• Strong communication skills
• Ability to take initiative and make decisions independently
• Focused on efficiency, scalability, and execution speed

What We’re Looking For

• Someone who doesn’t wait for instructions but takes initiative
• A problem solver who fixes issues before they escalate
• A tech-driven thinker with strong execution capability
• Comfortable in fast-moving, high-pressure startup setups

Hiring Process

• HR Round
• Assignment
• Technical Round
• Cultural Fit Round
• Founder’s Call

Role Overview

We are seeking a motivated and technically versatile CMS Engineer (IC2) to support our transition from SharePoint to Contentful, while also contributing to the broader CMS ecosystem. This is an excellent opportunity for an early-career engineer to work on enterprise-grade platforms and microservice-based architectures.

Key Responsibilities

·         3-5 years of experience with SharePoint Online and/or enterprise CMS platforms.

·         Familiarity with Contentful or other headless CMS solutions is a strong plus.

·         Hands-on experience with Java, Spring Boot, and relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL).

·         Exposure to Kafka, Elasticsearch, or similar distributed technologies is desirable.

·         Solid problem-solving and communication skills with an eagerness to learn.

What would you do here

SharePoint to Contentful Migration | Backend + CMS Integration

·         Assist in maintaining and enhancing SharePoint Online content and features during the transition period.

·         Support the migration of pages, documents, and metadata from SharePoint to Contentful.

·         Contribute to the design and development of backend services that integrate with Contentful using Java, Spring Boot, and REST APIs.

·         Write reusable services for content delivery, search indexing (via Elasticsearch), and event processing (via Kafka).

·         Help develop APIs for CMS-based applications that interact with PostgreSQL databases.

·         Troubleshoot CMS-related issues and support testing efforts during platform migration.

We are seeking a motivated and detail-oriented Junior Backend Engineer to join our team. The role involves developing and maintaining backend systems using Django and Python, while also managing on-premises hardware and deployments. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure our software is reliably configured, deployed, and maintained in an on-prem environment.

Key Responsibilities

Backend Development: Design, develop, and maintain backend services and APIs using Python (Django or Flask).

On-Prem Deployment: Install, configure, and manage software on on-premises hardware, including servers and networking equipment.

Database Management: Design database schemas, write efficient queries, and optimize data access layers (PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc.).

API Integration: Implement and maintain RESTful APIs and integrate with third-party services.

Troubleshooting & Debugging: Diagnose and resolve application and infrastructure issues to ensure high availability.

Version Control & CI/CD: Use Git for version control and contribute to continuous integration and delivery pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, etc.).

Security & Compliance: Work with the team to ensure software and infrastructure meet security and compliance requirements.

Documentation: Maintain clear, comprehensive documentation for your code, configurations, and on-prem deployment processes.

The opportunity

The Engineering Manager (EM)is responsible for a managing a team of full stack engineers that is building highly innovative and cutting edge solutions. This role is accountable for leading a team, developing code, deploying and managing in production. Most importantly, the EM, while working with the Product owners drives the product Net promoter score (NPS), user satisfaction, building the product roadmap and delivering highly functional, exceptionally innovative and intelligent software. You will be called upon to be the technical representative for your team during cross-team collaborative efforts and planning. Success in this role will require strong and innovative approaches to problem solving, great technical leadership, excellent communication (written and verbal, formal and informal), flexibility, accountability and a self-motivated working style with attention to detail.

You are great at

As an Engineering Manager, you’ll take the lead as you - drive product development, operations and technical decision making. You’ll have a strong focus on team management and development, equal focus will be on writing production code and hands on active development of the capabilities and solutions. Assist in defining infrastructure need and use enterprise solution and drive resolution of technology roadblocks including code, infrastructure, build and deployment. Manage overall software development cycle by adhering to development and security standards. Establish good stakeholder communication and work closely with Product teams and influence set product roadmap and help drive requirements while being a strong advocate of extreme agile and DevOps practices across engineers. Build and manage a team of high performing full stack engineers and provide leadership, coaching, motivation and recommend staffing levels, operating procedures, tools and systems for the team. Provide career development and performance management to a team of engineers.

Required Candidate Profile

• 4 year degree in or equivalent experience
• 8+ years of engineering (software development) experience
• 1-3 years of managing teams with a strong track record of delivery for cross-functional product experience with Cloud hosting and managing products
• Proficient in building high performing APIs and writing specs
• Expertise in programming languages. Hands on experience in Java, J2ee technologies is preferred.
• Experience in SAP Hybris Commerce would be a plus
• Experience with integration, data handling technologies and other open source frameworks
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to variety of audiences
• Team-orientated, passionate about developing others’ skills and capabilities
• Successful track record of working in large scale technology solutions
• Deep understanding of agile development processes and methodology including continuous integration and delivery, with a mindset of building incrementally and delivering business value quickly

• Have architected /designed at least 2-3 systems/products of enterprise scale from scratch.
• Have banking and Financial service background and preferably worked in Mobile/Digital platform design and development. Payments /OLTP preferred.
• Should have experience of 20+ years with J2ee, REST, Microservice, API, Messaging, Encryption, security, NLP, ML background.
• Have 7+yrs of experience in Architecture field, designing and end to end not from consulting Architecture.
• Responsible for design, architecture, and delivery of a feature or component/product with the highest quality with high-level directions from architects
• Driving innovations in the platform constantly & remaining ahead of the curve
• Development and testing of features/functions delivered via applications and services.
• Prototype ideas quickly using cutting edge technologies.
• Collaborating with peers and Architects both within their team and across the organization to deliver end-to-end products & features
• Working with product managers using agile methodologies to deliver high quality solutions on time
• Provide functional, design, and code reviews in related areas of expertise with-in team and cross-team.
• Working with operations teams to ensure your applications and services are highly available and reliable
• Mentoring junior engineers in the team both in the technical as well as on the product side
• Define and devise processes, tools and methodologies to achieve excellence in software development, testing and deployment, and in the management of the Centre.
• Good experience in working with any of the programming languages like PHP, Python, Django, Golang, Java, C++
• Experience developing applications that use high volume of data along with experience building applications on top of RESTful APIs.
• Solid knowledge of JAVA, J2EE, data stream, processing, big data etc.
• Comfortable with writing unit tests using JUnit
• Worked with Git and are comfortable with Merge/Rebase concepts.
• Worked with tools such as Eclipse, WebStorm, Ant, Maven, Jenkins, Sonar, JSLint, Grunt and App Servers such as Tomcat, Jboss.
• Solid knowledge of algorithms, design patterns, and componentization approaches.
• Experience and knowledge of open source software, frameworks and broader cutting-edge technologies.
• Experience in software design patterns, problem solving and troubleshooting skills.
• Ability to determine impact of architectural solutions and recommendations.
• Must have experience in justification of technology solutions to business leaders.
• Experience in refactoring existing codebase and in understanding existing implementations to decide to refactor or rewrite.
• Know how to identify Performance bottlenecks and use good coding patterns to avoid them in the first place.
• Have strong attention to detail.
• Ability to operate effectively both independently as well and within a team using Agile methodology.
• Proven problem-solving and interpersonal communication skills.
• Knowledge of payment domain will be an added advantage

Qualifications

• BE/BTech/ME/MTech in EE/CS or an equivalent qualification.
• 20+yrs of Experience.
• Minimum 12+years of hands on Java programming experience.

At BACQ, our mission is to build financial services that are simple, accessible and affordable.

BACQ is founded by Sachin Bansal & Ankit Agarwal to build consumer-centric and technology-driven businesses in the BFSI (Banking, Financial Services & Insurance) space.

• Work on the development backend systems for our first product
• Build reliable, secure and performant backend systems
• Drive test coverage and continuous delivery automation within the team
• Mentor and provide feedback to teammates

• 2+ years of software development experience
• Strong computer science fundamentals
• Good knowledge of Java ecosystem
• Can write code that is readable, maintainable and performant
• Know the importance of tests and how to approach writing different types of tests
• Good understanding of relational databases, transactions, entity-relationship modeling
• Comfortable writing multi-threaded programs

• Understanding of domain-driven design concepts like ubiquitous language, bounded contexts, aggregates and domain events
• Know how to use test driven development as a design tool 
• Good intuition for the principles underlying object-orientation, particularly encapsulation
• Understand the importance of immutability and of reducing the state-space of objects
• Seek to identify key underlying ideas and use those as building blocks before reaching for shiny new tools
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