Technical Architect Java

JOB DESCRIPTION

• Has in-depth understanding of the full software development life cycle. Deep familiarity with data & business analysis, along with modern software design &development concepts encompassing a range of languages & platforms.
• Can work within an Agile team to ensure that all key technical requirements are identified, estimated, designed, implemented, and tested. 
• Can work on a collaborative cross-technology team where Java, APIs (services), PL/SQL interact with a range of business logic interfaces & systems. 
• Can own small to medium scale strategic initiatives/projects, enhances process standards and best practices, and supports issues during UAT/system rollout phases. 
• Understands business needs and priorities and provides thought leadership on potential solutions and the opportunities for technology to create positive impact on the business. 
• Has excellent analytical and problem-solving skills that are coupled with strong communication, anticipates issues, and deals with them proactively.
• Is team oriented, highly collaborative, works effectively to build strong long-term partnerships with stakeholders at all levels of the organization and across a variety of business and IT functions. 
• Self-sufficient and shows ability to lead, given the opportunity 
• Demonstrates a passion for technology innovation balanced with a pragmatic approach to developing and deploying solutions that best benefit the business.
• Nimble, adaptable, able to express ideas in meetings & design discussions, comfortable with ambiguity; course correct when circumstances change.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor of Engineering / 2-3 years of experience
• Willing to work on Testing

PRIMARY SKILLS

• Hands on experience with on Java 11 with Spring Cloud Microservices ecosystem(multi-threading, data structures, design patterns and OOP practices etc).
• Ability to Query Relational Databases like DB2, Sybase and Cloud data sources like snowflake.
• Spring, SOAP & REST Web Services with on XML/JSON based data.
• Experience with DevOps tools and Git.
• Test Driven development (TDD) and experience working in a disciplined development environment.
• Exposure to Azure Cloud experience is a plus.

GOOD TO HAVE SKILLS

• Business analysis – focused on investment management process and tools.
• Some experience into Automation Testing.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Individuals are responsible for all traditional development activities analysis, design, coding, testing, and documentation.
• Add new features to existing Windows and Web-based applications in Visual Studio 2019. Interacting with internal team.
• Transform business and design needs into innovative products.
• Drive all projects to completion within deadlines.
• Perform thorough testing to find issues ahead of time.
• Engineering software needs more precise analysis & coding skillset
• Enhance skillset by working with fortune 500 clients
• Interacting with internal team.

Qualifications :

• B.E in computer science or related fields.
• Excellent programming & communication skills Strong problem solving, judgmental, and decision-making skills.
• Ability to work at the tactical and strategic levels of IT initiatives.
• Impressive hands-on experience in Java, database(Oracle), OOPS, Java Swing, Javafx.
• Self-Motivated, flexible & Innovative.

·       3+ yrs of experience in product development (Preferring SaaS based)

·       Must have experience in Java web-based application development

·       Hands on development experience on Java/J2EE, Springboot, Spring, Struts, Hibernate, REST Services

·       Experience on HTML, JavaScript, JQuery

·       Hands on experience on database-writing queries/procedures

·       Experience on SVN,GIT,

·       Knowledge of Server configuration

·       Knowledge of cloud preferably AWS

Senior Software Engineer, Java/Python (Bangalore, Remote option available)

4+ years of experience 

Zepto 

Why should you look at this role?

Salary 40-55 lakh per annum

Paid leave

Sick leave

Provident Fund

What Else?

• High growth startup in quick commerce space (10 min delivery)
• Given our very high hiring bar, we offer a very competitive salary and substantial equity to create everlasting wealth for our early believers as the company grows.
• Work on real world logistics problems & benefit from the rocket ship Zepto is!

Tech Team: 40-50 (200+ in few months)

About the Employer

Zepto is a fast-growing startup that delivers products in 10 minutes through an optimised network of dark stores that we're building across the country!

Just 6 months after launching, we've raised $160 million from marquee

investors in Silicon Valley and India. Our investors include Y Combinator, Nexus Venture Partners, and many more! We’ve built out one of the best startup teams in India, with Senior Executives from Uber, Flipkart, Dream11, PhonePe, Goldman Sachs, Pepperfry, and institutions like Stanford, INSEAD, IITs, and IIMs.

The magic of Zepto is our ability to consistently deliver 2,500+ products in 10 minutes flat. It's the core of what we do, and the reason why we’ve been able to grow so fast with phenomenal customer love. Our mission is simple: to make 10-minute delivery the new normal.

Funding:

Funding Zepto has raised a total of $160M in funding over 3 rounds.

Their latest funding was raised on Dec 20, 2021 from a Series C round.

Employer Reviews:

“High Ownership, Lots of Learning, Broad Roles, Accessible Leaders”

"Alot of benefits like ZeptoJoy coupon, internet bill reimbursement and cab reimbursement is also taken care of. Overtime is paid."

Reporting structure:

Software Engineer -> Sr Software Engineer -> Lead -> EM -> AD / Director / VP -> Head of Engineering -> CTO

This role would be by and large a Individual Contributor role.

Interview Process:

• Round 1. Problem Solving + CS Fundamentals (60 mins)
  • DS/Algo Problems (30 mins) - You can expect 1-2 Leetcode easy/medium questions
  • CS Fundamentals (30 mins)
• Round 2. Low Level Design (60 mins)
  • You would be given a trivial problem and expected to work through the low level design viz class structure, interfaces, db data models etc.
• Round 3. High Level Design (60 mins)
  • You will be given a trivial problem, where we would work with you to design the system for the problem statement. We expect the detailed flow of the Functionality
    • Extract APIs, if any
    • Database choices
    • Schema design and Scale the system, if time permits

What You will do Everyday?

• Work very closely with the Tech Leadership and lead end-to-end development.
• Closely collaborate with product, design and business teams to understand product ideas and business needs and help deliver these as a series of ultra fast experiments.
• Architect and implement backend services with high reliability and scalability.
• Contribute to system architecture and database design.
• Set up best practices for development and champion their adoption.
• Write quality documentation and handle conflicts well to build consensus.
• Learn about new technologies and incorporate them.
• Mentor young minds and foster team spirit

Your Superpowers

• 4+ years of experience with Java frameworks like Spring / Dropwizard/Play or Python frameworks like Django/Flask/FastApi and databases like PostgreSQL/MySQL/MongoDB
• Experience in building highly scalable customer-facing applications that involve implementing complex business flows and dealing with an ever-increasing scale
• Extensive experience in object-oriented design skills, knowledge of design patterns, and huge passion and ability to design intuitive module and class-level interfaces.
• Experience in service-oriented architecture design.
• Experience building at least one application from scratch.
• Experience with cache store/message broker like Redis / RabbitMQ/Kafka
• Interest in learning new languages/framework as needed.
• Worked in a startup environment with high levels of ownership and commitment.
• A growth mindset and passionate about building things from the ground up and most importantly, you should be fun to work with.

Software Engineer - II (Backend)

As a Software Engineer – II, you'll bring a good understanding of design and coding practices and apply these independently in development. In this role - you could expect to:

• Own the lifecycle of a feature from requirement analysis to deployment and post production processes
• Perform code reviews and support your team implement best practices
• Explore trade off's on module designs
• Continuously improve performance metrics of modules owned. Performs RCAs and deploys long term fixes.
• Implement initiatives that improve engineering efficiency and excellence
• Participate in the hiring and interview process for junior developers on your team

• Develop creative solutions and write technical design based on the requirements.
• Work closely with peer teams to ensure that applications are written to allow for overall system performance.
• Assist in tuning and optimization.
• Develop and execute unit tests for product components.
• Perform peer code reviews and provide feedback.
• Promote high quality, scalability, and timely completion of projects.
• Apply agile approach to coordinate development and determine project scope and limitations.
• Bachelor degree in Engineering, CS or equivalent experience
• Development in Core Java, J2EE, Struts, spring, Client-Side scripting, Hibernate, Database
• Development of scalable core-java applications, Web Applications and Web Services
• OOP concepts 
• Data Structures, algorithms and their applications
• Strong problem-solving skills
• Experience in building microservices
• Strong experience with Spring Boot stack (spring cloud, spring-data)
• Extensive experience in developing and consuming REST APIs
• Experience in Kafka distributed messaging
• Hands-on experience in Redis, Apache Ignite, Hazelcast
• Strong experience in RDMS and NoSQL databases Mongo
• Experience in using Elastic Search
• Experience in profiling applications
• Strong analytical skills and general logical reasoning
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Good understanding of Software development life cycle (SDLC)
• Basic SQL queries

• Build large scale enterprise applications.
• Responsible for providing deep technical expertise in designing and delivering end to end high performance, scalable & flexible solutions using Java and Open Stack technologies including Mobility/Responsive Web apps, APIs, application & data Integration, scalable databases, DevOps, Cloud Computing.
• He/ She would be also responsible to experiment, explore and demonstrate application of new technologies by means of conducting quick prototypes to solve business problems. Work with the direction from Solution Architect/ Enterprise Architect and co-create solutions with rest of the IT delivery teams

Requirements:

• Academic degree (BE / MCA) with 3-10 years of experience in back-end Development.
• Strong knowledge of OOPS concepts, Analyzing, Designing, Development and Unit testing
• Scala technologies, AKKA, REST Webservices, SOAP, Jackson JSON API, JUnit, Mockito, Maven
• Hands-on experience with Play framework
• Familiarity with Microservice Architecture
• Experience working with Apache Tomcat server or TomEE
• Experience working with SQL databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Cassandra), writing custom queries, procedures, and designing schemas.
• Good to have front end experience (JavaScript, Angular JS/ React JS)