Technical Architect

This role will report to the Chief Technology Officer

You Will Be Responsible For

* Driving decision-making on enterprise architecture and component-level software design to our software platforms' timely build and delivery.

* Leading a team in building a high-performing and scalable SaaS product.

* Conducting code reviews to maintain code quality and follow best practices

* DevOps practice development on promoting automation, including asset creation, enterprise strategy definition, and training teams

* Developing and building microservices leveraging cloud services

* Working on application security aspects

* Driving innovation within the engineering team, translating product roadmaps into clear development priorities, architectures, and timely release plans to drive business growth.

* Creating a culture of innovation that enables the continued growth of individuals and the company

* Working closely with Product and Business teams to build winning solutions

* Led talent management, including hiring, developing, and retaining a world-class team

Ideal Profile

* You possess a Degree in Engineering or a related field and have at least 20+ years of experience as a Software Engineer, with a 10+ years of experience leading teams and at least 4 Years of experience in building a SaaS / Fintech platform.

* Proficiency in MERN / Java / Full Stack.

* Led a team in optimizing the performance and scalability of a product

* You have extensive experience with DevOps environment and CI/CD practices and can train teams.

* You're a hands-on leader, visionary, and problem solver with a passion for excellence.

* You can work in fast-paced environments and communicate asynchronously with geographically distributed teams.

What's on Offer?

* Exciting opportunity to drive the Engineering efforts of a reputed organisation

* Work alongside & learn from best in class talent

* Competitive compensation + ESOPs

Skills Required: Java, HTML , CSS ,Angular,Springboot

Job Requirements:

• Experience in Core Java and J2EE

• Good hands-on experience in working with Spring, Hibernate Frameworks.

• Should have working experience on Web Services, and Database design.

• Working knowledge of HTML 5 ReactJS is needed.

• Knowledge in NOSQL databases and analytics will be an advantage.

• Analyze, Design & develop features in product

• Code review of team members/peers

Senior Software Engineer – Java

Location: Pune (Hybrid – 3 days from office)

Experience: 8–15 Years

Domain: Information Technology (IT)

Joining: Immediate joiners only

Preference: Local candidates only (Pune-based)

Job Description:

We are looking for experienced and passionate Senior Java Engineers to join a high-performing development team. The role involves building and maintaining robust, scalable, and low-latency backend systems and microservices in a fast-paced, agile environment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Work within a high-velocity scrum team to deliver enterprise-grade software solutions.
• Architect and develop scalable end-to-end web applications and microservices.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to analyze requirements and deliver optimal technical solutions.
• Participate in code reviews, unit testing, and deployment.
• Mentor junior engineers while remaining hands-on with development tasks.
• Provide accurate estimates and support the team lead in facilitating development processes.

Mandatory Skills & Experience:

• 6–7+ years of enterprise-level Java development experience.
• Strong in Java 8 or higher (Java 11 preferred), including lambda expressions, Stream API, Completable Future.
• Minimum 4+ years working with Microservices, Spring Boot, and Hibernate.
• At least 3+ years of experience designing and developing RESTful APIs.
• Kafka – minimum 2 years’ hands-on experience in the current/most recent project.
• Solid experience with SQL.
• AWS – minimum 1.5 years of experience.
• Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and deployment processes.
• Exposure to asynchronous programming, multithreading, and performance tuning.
• Experience working in at least one Fintech domain project (mandatory).

Nice to Have:

• Exposure to Golang or Rust.
• Experience with any of the following tools: MongoDB, Jenkins, Sonar, Oracle DB, Drools, Adobe AEM, Elasticsearch/Solr/Algolia, Spark.
• Strong systems design and data modeling capabilities.
• Experience in payments or asset/wealth management domain.
• Familiarity with rules engines and CMS/search platforms.

Candidate Profile:

• Strong communication and client-facing skills.
• Proactive, self-driven, and collaborative mindset.
• Passionate about clean code and quality deliverables.
• Prior experience in building and deploying multiple products in production.

Note: Only candidates who are based in Pune and can join immediately will be considered.

Experience • 1-3 years

Skill to Test

• Java EE (Servlets, JSTL, JSP, JDBC)

• ReactJS

Primary Skills

• Java EE (Servlets, JSTL, JSP, JDBC)

• Frontend frameworks (ReactJS and/or Angular)

• Pure JavaScript, jQuery

• Bootstrap, HTML5, CSS, SASS

Secondary Skills (nice to have)

• Passionate about implementing UX\UI of web applications

• Microsoft SQL Server (writing optimized queries, stored procedures, triggers etc.)

• API Design (REST, JAX-RS)

• Understanding Apache Tomcat configuration and deployment of web applications

• Understanding of browser technologies and limitations

• Authentication and Authorization (SAML, OAuth, OpenID, Okta)

2

Soft Skills

• Thrives collaborating in a team environment with a diverse range of people

• Passionate about delivering an amazing customer experience

• Able to have a change of mind, and able to change the minds of others

• Writes clearly and concisely

• Capable of working without a company office, with a fully remote team

Growth Skills

• Possesses a good work ethic; a self-starter with a desire to grow

• Always looking for better ways to get the job done

• Hands-on expertise in managing technical teams and work closely with business stakeholders
• Should be familiar with card testing and POS ecosystem.
• Experience with designing APIs and building platform integrations in Commerce, POS, FinTech and Payments
• Payment’s domain experience.
• Extensive experience on Base24 & SWITCH part for payment format.
• Exposure on ISO8583 Messaging system.
• API understanding and creation.
• Working knowledge on cryptographic algorithms (RSA, EC, AES, SHA variants), TLS/SSL protocols. C Symetric and A symetrics, K.M.S.
• Digital Payments technical knowledge - QR/ POS/ UPI/ BQR
• Understanding of CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes, containerization, Docker
• Must have strong technical skills in Android APK and iOS development Concept and Web services.
• Supportability, monitoring, ops in general.
• Accurate cost models to deploy and operate
• Extensive experience in TLOG’s, data integration with downstream applications, and impact of POS changes on different financial, legal, compliance, loss prevention, etc. applications.
• Extensive experience with payment systems 7861 (EMV, payment middleware, encryption, tokenization, settlement, offline scenarios,).
• Extensive experience with different types of payment methods including credit, debit, gift cards (Both closed loop and open loop), PLCC, PayPal, AliPay, checks, etc. as well as different payment form factors like Tap N Go, contactless, swipe, EMV, Mobile, etc.
• Extensive experience with payment devices (pin pads, printers, registers, scanners).
• Experience in Node.js / Java / Python, building REST APIs, with experience/exposure to front end stack like JavaScript & React / Angular. 
• Experience with Storage systems - RDBMS, NoSQL (Cassandra/MongoDB), Redis/Memcache/Aerospike.
• Experience in messaging tools like Kafka/AWS Kinesis etc...
• Design expertise for performance, scalability, fault tolerance and high availability

• Experience with POS systems and Payments domain.
• Demonstrated experience for systems architecture, design, and integration for POS systems
• Java and/or Node.js. Experience building micro services (REST APIs) using Node.js
• Experience with one or more RDBMS databases like MySql, PostGreSQL
• Experience with one or more NoSQL databses like MongoDB, Cassandra, DynamoDB, Aerospike, Elastic Search, Redis, neo4j etc.,
• Caching technologies like: Redis, Elasticache,
• Cloud Providers like: AWS/ Google Cloud / Azure
• CI / CD : Jenkins, Docker, Kubernete
  

• Work with developers to design algorithms and flowcharts
• Produce clean, efficient code based on specifications
• Integrate software components and third-party programs
• Verify and deploy programs and systems
• Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade existing software
• Gather and evaluate user feedback
• Recommend and execute improvements
• Create technical documentation for reference and reporting

• 8+ years of hands-on experience in enterprise software development using Java, and J2EE Framework. 
• Experience with http://react.js/">React.js, AngularJS, strong knowledge of JavaScript, CSS, HTML5
• Passion for building enterprise web applications leveraging modern architecture principles, strong prior experience as a full stack developer. 
• Expertise with CSS and building responsive pages, with a keen eye for UI design and usability
• Experience with web-accessibility/WCAG standards
• Experience working collaboratively with a globally distributed team.
• Experience with agile methodologies and good exposure to DevOps/CICD models.
• Passion for keeping up with new trends and developments in the programming community and is eager to find ways to incorporate these new ideas into our codebase.

• Developing front end website and application architecture.
• Designing user interactions on web pages.
• Developing back-end website and applications.
• Creating servers and databases for functionality.
• Ensuring cross-platform optimization for mobile phones.
• Ensuring responsiveness of applications.
• Working alongside graphic designers for web design features.
• Seeing through a project from conception to finished product.
• Designing and developing APIs.
• Meeting both technical and consumer needs.
• Staying abreast of developments in web applications and programming languages.

• Bachelors in Computer Science, Information Systems or equivalent.
• 6 years experience delivering highly available web/mobile applications including 1-3 years as Senior/Lead developer.
• Prior experience in retail domain is a plus.
• 3 years of experience working with distributed teams.
• Deep knowledge of UI Libraries / Frameworks, API (REST), API Management and building scalable and high performance Web APIs.
• Must have experience building websites using Javascript and Java technologies (e.g. Typescript, Spring Boot etc.). Search Engine and Native App development experience is a plus.
• AWS Serverless Cloud native services experience with Lambda functions, SNS, SQS, DynamoDB, API Gateway etc.
• Strong knowledge of Caching frameworks, data structures, algorithms, operating systems, and distributed systems.
• Strong understanding of databases, NoSQL data stores, storage and distributed persistence technologies.
• Strong communication and presentation skills.
• Passionate about enabling next generation experiences.
• Experience with automated testing, deployment pipelines and cloud based infrastructure

• Develop omni-channel digital solutions leveraging serverless and micro services in a cloud based platform to develop backend services.
• Design high/low level solutions, contribute towards architecture and technical roadmap.
• Lead technical implementation/delivery.
• Host/Lead technical discussions.
• Champion software development best practices, test driven development, CI and CD.
• Build cloud native and highly cost efficient solutions.
• Innovate, Unlearn and Disrupt. Research next generation frameworks and technologies.
• Embrace change. 

Strong experience on core Java (Version >=1.8 )

Strong experience on Spring ecosystem (Core, MVC, data, JPA, transaction management, security, AOP, Batch & Boot). Comfortable performing integration tests in Spring context.

Strong experience on JDBC and DB concepts.

Experience of TDD/BDD approach and prior experience working with CI/CD tools (Maven, Git, jenkins)

Strong experience on ORM (hibernate) and PL/SQL procedures

Knowledge of some of UI latest languages / frameworks ( Html5, Angular 4+)

Knowledge of SOA/Microservices (REST, Soap) and its challenges

Strong knowledge on APP server (Tomcat, Weblogic)

Strong knowledge on Microservices

Exposure on Digital stack

-          UX/UI

-          API

-          Machine Learning

-          Big Data

-          Cloud/Docker/IaaS/PaaS

Knowledge on Java Swing

Experience delivering sound development, testing, implementation, deployment and support strategies in complex distributed environments.

Knowledge on production monitoring tools.

Good experience in leading change within a team, especially around testing and quality practices.

Team player, who relentlessly involves others and shares knowledge with them

Should have experience of participant in design reviews and code reviews.

Curiosity in all the latest trends and ready to do POCs with new technical stack