Tech Lead for Backend Development (Java / Springboot)
• Solid experience with application frameworks such as Springboot and strong familiarty with micro services architecture and design patterns
• Familiarity with databases like MySQL, MongoDB, Redis etc
• Hands-on experience in analysis, design, coding, and implementation of complex, custom-built applications
• Exposure to CI/CD using Gitlab, Jenkins preferred
• Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, EFK Stack is highly desired
• Broad knowledge of web standards relating to APIs (OAuth, SSL etc.)
• Exposure to product development.
• Understand Architecture Requirements and ensure effective design, development and maintenance of multiple micro services in Java Springboot deployed in cloud within containers consuming data present in relational as well as NoSQL databases.
o The microservices shall expose APIs which allow ease of integration with variety of client apps
o Microservices should handle a scale of thousands of requests per second
• Develop communication patterns between microservices which are efficient, lightweight and secured using Kafka
• Debugging issues on a live setup
• Lead a small team of engineers
• Create test cases and technical documentation
• Maintain a high level of code quality and consistency by adhering to and enhancing the coding standards, design methodology and programming practices

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We're looking for a high-energy Java engineer to design and implement scalable microservices using Spring Boot. You'll collaborate across teams to deliver clean, efficient, and high-performance backend services.
🛠️ Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain RESTful services and microservices using Spring Boot
- Utilize OOP, Java Collections, Exception Handling, and method overloading/overriding in modern coding practices
- Build and optimize multithreaded systems (Threads, synchronization, wait(), notify(), yield()) for performance and scalability
- Write unit and integration tests (JUnit, Mockito, Spring Test) to ensure code quality
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams (QA, DevOps, Product) through code reviews and feature planning
- Diagnose and resolve performance bottlenecksJVM tuning, SQL/caching optimizations
- Adhere to coding standards, best practices, and participate in peer code review
🎯 Required Skills & Experience
- Strong Java fundamentals: OOP, Collections, Generics, Exception Handling
- Concurrency mastery: multithreading, synchronization primitives (wait(), notify(), yield())
- Spring Boot: solid experience building, testing, deploying REST APIs
- Microservices: design, inter-service communication, stateless service patterns
- Testing frameworks: JUnit, Mockito, Spring Test
- Performance tuning: profiling, optimization with JVM settings and database queries
- Tools & practices: Git, Maven/Gradle, CI/CD pipelines, Docker/Kubernetes (plus)
- Soft skills: strong problem-solving, collaboration, and effective communication
Job Description
We are looking for motivated IT professionals with at least one year of industry experience. The ideal candidate should have hands-on experience in AWS, Azure, AI, or Cloud technologies, or should be enthusiastic and ready to upskill and shift to new and emerging technologies. This role is primarily remote; however, candidates may be required to visit the office occasionally for meetings or project needs.
Key Requirements
- Minimum 1 year of experience in the IT industry
- Exposure to AWS / Azure / AI / Cloud platforms (any one or more)
- Willingness to learn and adapt to new technologies
- Strong problem-solving and communication skills
- Ability to work independently in a remote setup
- Must have a proper work-from-home environment (laptop, stable internet, quiet workspace)
Education Qualification
- B.Tech / BE / MCA / M.Sc (IT) / equivalent
We are seeking a highly skilled Backend Developer to join our team and contribute to the development and improvement of both our customer-centric SaaS platform and internal systems.
As a Backend Developer, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining the server-side logic of our application, ensuring high performance, scalability, and security.
Responsibilities:
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including front-end developers, product managers, and designers, to understand project requirements and translate them into technical specifications.
• Design and develop server-side logic, APIs, and database schema to support the functionality and performance requirements of our SaaS platform.
• Write clean, modular, and well-documented code using any relevant programming language preferably Java with SpringBoot.
• Optimize the backend systems for maximum speed and scalability, ensuring high performance and responsiveness of the application.
• Implement data storage solutions using PostgreSQL or other relational databases, ensuring data integrity and security.
• Conduct thorough testing and debugging to identify and resolve any issues or bugs in the backend code.
• Stay up-to-date with emerging technologies, industry trends, and best practices in backend development and contribute to the continuous improvement of our development processes.
Requirements:
• Proven work experience as a Backend Developer or similar role, with a focus on server-side development.
• Proficiency in working with relational databases, particularly PostgreSQL, and writing efficient SQL queries.
• Familiarity with SaaS concepts and architecture.
• Experience with API design and development, including RESTful APIs. • Solid understanding of software development principles, including object-oriented programming, design patterns, and data structures.
• Experience with version control systems, such as Git.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills, with keen attention to detail. • Excellent communication and teamwork skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field is preferred, but not mandatory.
As a Backend Developer with expertise in Java, and PostgreSQL, you will play a critical role in developing and maintaining the backend infrastructure of our SaaS and internal platforms, ensuring its reliability, scalability, and performance. Join our team and be a part of building cutting-edge software solutions that empower our customers and drive business growth.
Location: Pan India (Hyderabad / Chennai preferred)
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain SOA-based process applications using JBPM.
- Define and model business processes using BPMN 2.0 on a BPM platform.
- Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code, ensuring best practices in configuration management and code refactoring.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and implement solutions to business process needs.
- Perform code reviews, troubleshoot issues, and provide innovative solutions.
- Work on UI development and integrate with backend systems.
- Deploy and maintain applications on servers like WebLogic, WebSphere, Apache Tomcat, or Jetty.
- Stay updated with new technologies and tools to improve development efficiency.
Key Requirements
- 4+ years of professional experience in building applications.
- Strong development experience with BPM engines, specifically JBPM (mandatory).
- Hands-on experience in SOA-based process applications.
- Proficient in Java, JSP, Servlets, SQL, and frameworks like Struts/Spring/Hibernate/MyBatis.
- Knowledge of HTML5, CSS, JavaScript languages.
- Familiarity with BPMN 2.0 and querying BPM APIs.
- Experience with application servers like WebLogic, WebSphere, Apache Tomcat, or Jetty.
- Strong problem-solving skills and excellent communication abilities.
Key Responsibilities:
- Rewrite existing APIs in NodeJS.
- Remodel the APIs into Micro services-based architecture.
- Implement a caching layer wherever possible.
- Optimize the API for high performance and scalability.
- Write unit tests for API Testing.
- Automate the code testing and deployment process.
Skills Required:
- At least 3 years of experience developing Backends using NodeJS — should be well versed with its asynchronous nature & event loop, and know its quirks and workarounds.
- Excellent hands-on experience using MySQL or any other SQL Database.
- Good knowledge of MongoDB or any other NoSQL Database.
- Good knowledge of Redis, its data types, and their use cases.
- Experience with graph-based databases like GraphQL and Neo4j.
- Experience developing and deploying REST APIs.
- Good knowledge of Unit Testing and available Test Frameworks.
- Good understanding of advanced JS libraries and frameworks.
- Experience with Web sockets, Service Workers, and Web Push Notifications.
- Familiar with NodeJS profiling tools.
- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as Git.
- Good knowledge of creating and maintaining DevOps infrastructure on cloud platforms.
- Should be a fast learner and a go-getter — without any fear of trying out new things Preferences.
- Experience building a large-scale social or location-based app.
Be a part of IOT Product portfolio and execute towards Digital Transformational initiatives.
Prepare design documents in collaboration with product managers and engineering squads
in development of use cases for new features.
Hands on product lead developer expertise in designing solutions running on hybrid cloud
environments.
Work as a Software Lead in application development using Java, JavaScript, Python, SQL and
other latest technologies running on AWS environments.
Drive Engineering activities in Microservices and Cloud based Architecture by leveraging
DevOps efficiencies and adopting new technology stack in AWS.
Drive communication and consistently report accurate product status for stakeholders
Able to lead a team of engineers, help them with technical issues. (80% self-work and 20%
influencing scrum engineers).
Balance time on development projects including Technical Design, Code Reviews, Mentoring,
and training. Able to break down requirements and build traceability in design and
implementation details.
Work with developers to define unit & automated tests and closely monitor development
milestones. Collaborate with scrum team to identify functional, system and end to end
integration of products leading to deployment.
Understand end to end flow in product development and able to prepare design documents
and present to Engineering and Product Leadership team.
Full stack product development experience.
Skills Required :
Bachelor’s/Master’s degree equivalent with strong knowledge methodology and tools.
8+ years working Experience in designing data, keyword driven or hybrid strategies; Ability
to troubleshoot and think out of the box
Experience in CICD pipeline configuration, creation, and maintenance – from build to deploy
to integration.
Experience in writing clear, concise and comprehensive design documents covering
functional and non-functional requirements.
Hands-on experience in large enterprise development in a multi-cloud environment.
Strong expertise over Java, Python language, Databases, experience in web Frameworks like
Django required for backend development.
Experience of working in AWS (S3, Lambda, RDS, Security, ILM and AWS Services).
Experience with Docker and Kubernetes for Container Management and Orchestration by
setting CI/CD Pipelines using Jenkins / Ansible.
Experience with API (REST/SOAP). Experienced in PowerBI, RDBMS, DB Architecture design
and good control over SQL queries.
Experience with any NoSQL Database, Caching and Messaging is a plus. Experience with
Messaging Tool and Caching Frameworks
Strong Understanding of fundamental concepts: Data Structures, Algorithms, OOPs
concepts, Design patterns and Architectures. Experience with Agile programming techniques
such as test-driven development. Design applications to optimize for performance and
usability.
- 5 years experience with the Django framework
- Experience with building APIs (REST or GraphQL)
- Strong Troubleshooting and debugging skills
- React.js knowledge would be an added bonus
- Understanding on how to use a database like Postgres (prefered choice), SQLite, MongoDB, MySQL.
- Sound knowledge of object-oriented design and analysis.
- A strong passion for writing simple, clean and efficient code.
- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools Git.
Experience:
- Min 5 year experience
- Startup experience is a must.
Location:
- Remote developer
Timings:
- 40 hours a week but with 4 hours a day overlapping with client timezone. Typically clients are in California PST Timezone.
Position:
- Full time/Direct
- We have great benefits such as PF, medical insurance, 12 annual company holidays, 12 PTO leaves per year, annual increments, Diwali bonus, spot bonuses and other incentives etc.
- We dont believe in locking in people with large notice periods. You will stay here because you love the company. We have only a 15 days notice period.
PhonePe is India’s leading digital payments platform with over 280 million registered users. Using
PhonePe, users can send and receive money, recharge mobile, DTH, data cards, pay at stores,
make utility payments, buy gold, and make investments. PhonePe went live for customers in
August 2016 and was the first non-banking UPI app and offered money transfer to individuals
and merchants, recharges and bill payments to begin with. In 2017, PhonePe forayed into
financial services with the launch of digital gold, providing users with a safe and convenient
option to buy 24-karat gold securely on its platform. PhonePe has since launched Mutual Funds
and Insurance products like tax-saving funds, liquid funds, international travel insurance, Corona
Care, a dedicated insurance product for the COVID-19 pandemic among others.
PhonePe launched its Switch platform in 2018, and today its customers can place orders on over
300 apps including Ola, Myntra, IRCTC, Goibibo, RedBus, Oyo etc. directly from within the
PhonePe mobile app. PhonePe is accepted at over 18 million merchant outlets across 500 cities
nationally.
Culture
At PhonePe, we take extra care to make sure you give your best at work, Everyday! And creating
the right environment for you is just one of the things we do. We empower people and trust
them to do the right thing. Here, you own your work from start to finish, right from day one.
Being enthusiastic about tech is a big part of being at PhonePe. If you like building technology
that impacts millions, ideating with some of the best minds in the country and executing on your
dreams with purpose and speed, join us!
Challenges
Building for Scale, Rapid Iterative Development, and Customer-centric Product Thinking at each
step defines every day for a developer at PhonePe. Though we engineer for a 50million+ strong
user base, we code with every individual user in mind. While we are quick to adopt the latest in
Engineering, we care utmost for security, stability, and automation. Apply if you want to
experience the best combination of passionate application development and product-driven
thinking
As a Software Engineer:
3+ years of experience in the art of writing code and solving problems on a Large Scale.
You will build Robust and scalable web-based applications You will need to think of
platforms & reuse
Build abstractions and contracts with separation of concerns for a larger scope
Drive problem-solving skills for high-level business and technical problems.
Do high-level design with guidance; Functional modeling, break-down of a module
Do incremental changes to architecture: impact analysis of the same
Do performance tuning and improvements in large scale distributed systems
Mentor young minds and foster team spirit, break down execution into phases to bring
predictability to overall execution
Work closely with Product Manager to derive capability view from features/solutions, Lead
execution of medium-sized projects
Work with broader stakeholders to track the impact of projects/features and proactively
iterate to improve them As a senior software engineer you must have
Extensive and expert programming experience in at least one general programming
language (e.g. Java, C, C++) & tech stack to write maintainable, scalable, unit-tested code.
Experience with multi-threading and concurrency programming
Extensive experience in object-oriented design skills, knowledge of design patterns, and
huge passion and ability to design intuitive module and class-level interfaces
Excellent coding skills – should be able to convert the design into code fluently
Knowledge of Test Driven Development
Good understanding of databases (e.g. MySQL) and NoSQL (e.g. HBase, Elasticsearch,
Aerospike, etc)
Strong desire to solving complex and interesting real-world problems
Experience with full life cycle development in any programming language on a Linux
platform
Go-getter attitude that reflects in energy and intent behind assigned tasks
Worked in a startups environment with high levels of ownership and commitment
BTech, MTech, or Ph.D. in Computer Science or related technical discipline (or equivalent).
Experience in building highly scalable business applications, which involve implementing
large complex business flows and dealing with a huge amount of data.
An open communicator who shares thoughts and opinions frequently listens intently and
takes constructive feedback.
As a Software Engineer, good to have
The ability to drive the design and architecture of multiple subsystems
Ability to break-down larger/fuzzier problems into smaller ones in the scope of the product
Understanding of the industry’s coding standards and an ability to create appropriate
technical documentation.
PhonePe Full Time Employee Benefits
Insurance Benefits - Medical Insurance, Critical Illness Insurance, Accidental Insurance, Life
Insurance
Wellness Program - Employee Assistance Program, Onsite Medical Center, Emergency
Support System
Parental Support - Maternity Benefit, Paternity Benefit Program, Adoption Assistance
Program, Day-care Support Program
Mobility Benefits - Relocation benefits, Transfer Support Policy, Travel Policy
Retirement Benefits - Employee PF Contribution, Flexible PF Contribution, Gratuity, NPS,
Leave Encashment
Other Benefits - Higher Education Assistance, Car Lease, Mobile & Broadband
Reimbursements, Salary Advance Policy
- Hands on Java experience with minimum 8 yrs. More experience is a plus but need to be hands on.
- Server side programming experience with technologies: Spring, Hibernate & Swing is a plus
- Good DB knowledge, hands on PL/SQL or T-SQL
- Experienced to work on Linux, git, IntelliJ, Eclipse
- Experience of designing and developing end-to-end solutions.








