
Zycus is looking for a passionate Technical Lead with a strong background in software engineering to build highly scalable applications that will be used by our millions of users globally. Candidates with experience working on Spring, Hibernate, Microservices, Angular/react, JMS/Rabbit MQ/Kafka, AWS Cloud and are passionate about building a product are encouraged to apply. Zycus is a Global leader and a pioneer in cognitive procurement software. Our clients are among the fortune 500 companies. We build enterprise AI procurement software product using some of the latest technologies.
In this role, you will work in developing a product which is not only recognized by Gartner as one of the top Source To Pay procurement software but is also industry's only organically-built & integrated source-to-pay suite.
Role and Responsibilities:
- Strong coding & development experience of about 9-14 years.
- Modern technology stack: Cloud, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Microservices etc.
- Experience working on Spring, Spring Boot, Hibernate, Microservices, Angular/react, JMS/Rabbit MQ/Kafka, AWS Cloud.
- Should be able to build solution which is easily scalable, high speed/ real-time performance, configurable, deploy-able and secure in SaaS environment using any open source tech stack.
- Build features and modules from scratch & Maintain existing features and modules.
- Should be able to identify, track and mitigate risks to the product.
- Ability to work independently.
Requirements
- 9-14 year's experience in Java, J2EE and associated technologies(Spring, Hibernate, Web Services, Micro Services)
- Technical Skills: Core Java, Advanced Java, J2EE, Exception handling, Collections, Oops, UML, Oracle, Jenkins, Maven & Linux
- Should be able to build solutions which is easily configurable, deploy able and secure in SaaS environment.
- Must have worked spring boot Extensively.
- Strong hands on development experience in Java, J2EE.
- Ability to lead and mentor a team of 2-3 developers.
- Should be able to identify, track and mitigate risks to the product.
- Responsible for planning product iterations & releasing iterations on schedule.
What should you have:
- Product development experience in agile environment will be a big plus though not mandatory.
- Highly Tech Savvy and hands-on.
- Strong evidence of a solution/product created ground up.
Product Development:
- Has in-depth knowledge on technology and end to end development processes.
- Has the ability to recommend new processes/alternatives to meet Product Development requirements and rolling them out.
Leadership Abilities:
- Should be able to optimize & effectively manage resources and time of the team members.
- Should be able to identify, track and mitigate risks to the product
- Should not hesitate to carry out healthy and constructive confrontation with team members, peers and managers for the benefit of Product.
Benefits
Five Reasons Why You Should Join Zycus
1. Cloud Product Company: We are a Cloud SaaS Company and our products are created by using the latest technologies like ML and AI. Our UI is in Angular JS and we are developing our mobile apps using React.
2. A Market Leader: Zycus is recognized by Gartner (world’s leading market research analyst) as a Leader in Procurement Software Suites.
3. Move between Roles: We believe that change leads to growth and therefore we allow our employees to shift careers and move to different roles and functions within the organization
4. Get a Global Exposure: You get to work and deal with our global customers.
5. Create an Impact: Zycus gives you the environment to create an impact on the product and transform your ideas into reality. Even our junior engineers get the opportunity to work on different product features.
About Us
Zycus is a pioneer in Cognitive Procurement software and has been a trusted partner of choice for large global enterprises for two decades. Zycus has been consistently recognized by Gartner, Forrester, and other analysts for its Source to Pay integrated suite. Zycus powers its S2P software with the revolutionary Merlin AI Suite. Merlin AI takes over the tactical tasks and empowers procurement and AP officers to focus on strategic projects; offers data-driven actionable insights for quicker and smarter decisions, and its conversational AI offers a B2C type user-experience to the end-users.
Zycus helps enterprises drive real savings, reduce risks, and boost compliance, and its seamless, intuitive, and easy-to-use user interface ensures high adoption and value across the organization.
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Roles and Responsibilities
· Design, Code, test, debug, implement and document complex WSO2 sequences.
· Monitoring and logging tool stacks - Splunk/ELK/Prometheus, Grafana 4 Design, Code, test, debug, implement and document complex WSO2 sequences.
· Perform Build activities for WSO2 ESB Middleware integration, involves writing XSLT, ESB coding, configuration, and Analysis activities.
· Trouble shooting various problems in different stages of development using logs files, Traces and Log Analyzer.
· Responsible for understanding the requirement, solution design, coordinate the development and testing activities (end to end)
· Guide the team regarding WSO2 platform best practices, framework, reusable artefacts and ensure code quality and timely deliverables.
· Work with functional and technical customers to determine solutions that drive additional business value.
· Work with Github, Azure Devops and CI tools to automate dev, build, deployment and testing.
· Good knowledge in messaging brokers: WSO2 Message Broker, Apache Kafka.
· Monitoring the server (Monitoring logs and WSO2 metrics).
· Desired Candidate Profile
Desired Candidate Profile
· Candidate must have minimum 2+ years of hands-on experience in WSO2, preferably with WSO2 certification.
· Extensive experience in Integration by using WSO2 Product Stack (API Manager 2.6/3.x, Enterprise Integrator 6.5 and Identity Server 5.7.0)
· Experience in Implementing APIs in WSO2 EI and On-boarding APIs into WSO2 API Manager
· Experience in WSO2 API Manager for designing API facades and designing and implementing API Proxies.
· Hands-on experience in designing and developing high volume web services using API Protocols and Data Formats (REST, JSON, SOAP & XML).
· Must have hands on experience / knowledge with CI tools to automate dev, build, deploy.
· Experience in programming languages: Java, JavaScript, Python
· Experience in on boarding web applications into WSO2 Identity Server for authentication and authorizatio
Qualifications
• Minimum of a Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science, or a related four-year degree.
• 4 years of hands on experience in Integration
As a senior developer you will be responsible to manage the software
development life cycle from planning to prioritizing to testing and release.
Responsibilities includes gathering system and team product requirements,
building java modules and testing features before release. Should have hands
on experience developing software with agile methodologies and are ready to
lead our junior developers.
Responsibilities:
• Contribute to all phases of development lifecycle.
• Planning of API workflow.
• Understanding the requirements all the teams involved and planning the
development process.
• Write well designed, testable, efficient code.
• Prepare and produce releases of software components.
• Support continuous improvements by investigating alternatives and
technologies and presenting these for architecture review.
• Designing, implementing, and maintaining java applications that are
often high-volume and low latency.
• Identify bottlenecks and bugs and advise solutions to these problems.
• Develop highly scalable REST APIs to use in our applications.
• Guide the team and help them in any complex situations.
Required Qualifications
We are looking for individuals who are curious, excited about learning, and navigating
through the uncertainties and complexities that are associated with a growing company.
Some qualifications that we think would help you thrive in this role are:
• Minimum 8+ Years in a Java programming.
• Expert hands-on knowledge of latest technology, good exposure to web
technologies and open to all technologies like Java, J2EE, Spring Boot,
Microservices, Cloud computing, any DB.
• Very good exposure to DevOps concepts and tools, Continuous Integration and
Continuous Delivery.
• Quick learner believes in continuous learning and acts as a catalyst for building
the culture within the organization.
• Analytical thinking skills, problem solving with strong exposure to root causing
tools and techniques and ability to come up with solutions in complex
situations.
• Familiar with various design and architectural patterns.
• Bachelor/Masters of CS/IT Engineering, BCA/MCA, B Sc/M Sc in CS/IT
Preferred Qualifications
• Deep insights of Java and J2EE internals such as memory management,
transaction management, etc.
• Skill for writing reusable Java libraries.
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git.
• Familiarity with build tools such as Ant, Maven, and Gradle.
• Ability to work without guidance and under tight deadlines.
• Result oriented and focused on meeting deliverable timelines.
• Teamwork and willingness to listen to others.
• Communicate effectively
• Good knowledge of microservices.
• Expertise in developing enterprise level web applications and RESTful APIs
using Microservices with demonstrable production-scale experience.
• Strong background working with Linux/Unix environments.
• Working experience in industry standard protocols related API security.
• Clear understanding of web services and SOA related standards like
REST/OAuth/JSON.
Essential Skills (Two top
skills)
Java 8
AWS – ECS, SQS
B) Other Information
Educational
Qualifications
Graduate
Experience Mid-level (5+)
Minimum Qualifications:
Java 8 bases web application developer
hands on experience with writing sql queries (RDS)
AWS knowledge like ECS, SQS;
understands CICD and git
webserver – tomcat
uses best practice for code quality, static & dynamic
security scans
Bachelor’s in computer science/Information
Technology or related field
Outstanding at triage or analysis of situations for
production support
Excel with on time delivery with minimal direction
Effective verbal and written communicator
Effective participant of requirements gathering
requirements analysis
Required Skills:
- 4+ year of experience in Development in JAVA technology.
- Strong Java Basics
- SpringBoot or Spring MVC
- Hands on experience on Relational Databases (SQL query or Hibernate) + Mongo (JSON parsing)
- Proficient in REST API development
- Messaging Queue (RabitMQ or Kafka)
- Microservices
- Any Caching Mechanism
- Good at problem solving
Good to Have Skills:
- 4+ years of experience in using Java/J2EE tech stacks
- Good understanding of data structures and algorithms.
- Excellent analytical and problem solving skills.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced internet start-up environment.
- Experience in technical mentorship/coaching is highly desirable.
- Understanding of AI/ML algorithms is a plus.
3+ years of experience with development in JAVA technology.
Strong Java Basics
SpringBoot or Spring MVC
Hands-on experience with Relational Databases (SQL query or Hibernate) + Mongo (JSON parsing)
Proficient in REST API development
Messaging Queue (RabitMQ or Kafka)
Microservices
Any Caching Mechanism
Good at problem-solving
Good to Have Skills:
4+ years of experience in using Java/J2EE tech stacks
Good understanding of data structures and algorithms.
Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
Ability to work in a fast-paced internet start-up environment.
Experience in technical mentorship/coaching is highly desirable.
Understanding of AI/ML algorithms is a plus.
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
- 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
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.
- We're looking for an Engineering Lead - who can lead our team of engineers to build, scale and expand our digital infrastructure. From our frontend to backend, to our intuitive user interface - as the Engineering Lead - you will lead it all.
- You will have the opportunity to spearhead the architecture development of, build and maintain multiple cloud-based applications.
- You will report directly to the CTO and partner closely with teams across product and design. You will learn new skills yourself, such as cloud orchestration and product design, and also contribute to the continued skill-development of the team.
Responsibilities :
- Lead our engineering team, developing the capabilities of the team through hiring, mentoring, and hands-on management to build a world class engineering team and culture.
- Guide, strategize and prioritize the engineering efforts based on the company strategy for our in-market product as well as lead the end to end development of our new mobile app.
- Define the requirements of the product efforts, provide estimates for solutions, and manage the scope and delivery against commercial milestones during the life-cycle of the product efforts.
- Manage the engineering architecture and lead the DevOps processes while actively seeking opportunities for innovation and creative problem solving.
- Lead implementation of processes and supporting tools as per the evolving needs of the organization.
Required skills/abilities :
- Proven experience leading all aspects of web or mobile apps, from definition to operations, and can guide our product through scale and avoid common pitfalls.
- 4-6 years of experience as a full-stack engineer with in-depth knowledge of modern tech stacks and cloud infrastructure.
- Firm knowledge of scalable backend architecture, DevOps and scaling applications infrastructure for web and mobile applications from 1000 users to 1,00,000 users.
- At least 3 years of people management experience with leadership qualities, preferably at an early stage startup.
- Advanced knowledge of Project Management, Strategic Planning, and Agile/Scrum Methodology.
- Ability to deal with high pressure situations in a fast paced environment and meet targets without compromising the quality of the deliverables.
- Excellent organizational and communication skills, especially for a remote first work environment.
Dot is a technology start-up, operating in Fintech and e-commerce space. With the aim to
revolutionize offline-to-online(O2O) space, Dot strives to enable digital transformation of Offline businesses using smart innovations. This is a huge market, serving the 1.3 billion strong Indian population.
The start-up is led by a strong and experienced team. It has already raised seed funding of ~US$ 35.5 Million from renowned investors.
To know more, head over to: www.dotpe.in
About the Founders
The company is led by an experienced team, three ex-PayU employees - Shailaz Nag, Gyanesh Sharma & Anurag Gupta, with proven expertise & knowledge of the fintech space as well as experience in building & managing companies.
Shailaz Nag is a well known visionary entrepreneur. He was ex-Managing Director and co-founder of PayU, (India’s largest and profitable Payment Company) which is currently valued at US$ 3 Billion. He was also one of the founding members of Ibibo Group. Shailaz Nag is a Chartered Accountant and also holds an MBA degree.
Gyanesh Sharma is an IIT Delhi alumnus, holding a B.Tech. degree in Computer Science. He has strong experience in leading tech teams, holding position of
● CTO at Shopclues
● Head of engg. at PayU
● Engg. Head at MakeMyTrip
Anurag Gupta has a decade long experience in building financial services business. He was Vice-President & Business head at PayU for Omnichannel business. He also headed Bank & Product Partnership for PayU.
Investors
Dot has raised seed funding of US$ ~35.5 million from
● Naspers Fintech (PayU) -
○ $120bn group with global presence. Listed in London, Johannesburg, Amsterdam
○ Presence in India : MMT-Goibibo, PayU, Flipkart, Swiggy, Byju’s, OLX
○ Global Presence : Tencent - WeChat, OLX
● Fosun RZ Capital
○ Affiliate of Fosun Group - A $100Bn Chinese conglomerate
○ Presence across global growth markets
● Info Edge
○ Parent company of naukri.com, jeevansaathi.com, 99acres.com, shiksha.com
○ Listed on NSE & BSE with a market cap of INR 27,000 crore
○ Major investor in zomato.com & policybazaar.com
Products
At Dot, we are solving the key problems that lie at the heart of Offline businesses by equipping them with commerce and fin-tech products. We are building a horizontal Omni-channel platform encompassing several Products all aimed at empowering all types of merchants, big or small, with Digital Technology. Whilst strengthening the merchants, our products also aim to direct this digital transformation towards improving the customer journey.
Our initial Product line-up has already garnered attraction from several renowned enterprises as well as significant interest from every medium and small-scale merchant we touch. And this just marks the start of our journey!
About Profile
Responsibilities
• Understanding the business requirement and provide good scalable solution
• Integration of user-facing elements developed by a front-end developers with server side logic
• Completely owning the backend services of a module
• Building reusable code and libraries for future use
• Optimization of the application for maximum speed and scalability
• Our stack is ReactJS, React Native, Golang, MySQL, NoSQL and hosting environment is AWS
Skills and Qualifications
• Extensive and expert programming experience in anyone programming language (Golang/ C/ Java).
• A solid foundation in computer science, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, software design and distributed system applications
• Experience with building and scaling apps with RDBMS as well as NoSQLs.
• Experience creating scalable Web APIs for mobile and browser consumption
• Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system
• Understanding differences between multiple delivery platforms such as mobile vs desktop, and optimizing output to match the specific platform
• Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes
• Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests
• Have a penchant for solving complex and interesting problems
• Worked in start-up culture with high levels of ownership and commitment
• Excellent coding skills – should be able to convert design into code fluently
• Engineers from Tier 1 colleges
● Has worked extensively on caching technologies such as Redis, Memcached
● Expert knowledge of computer science, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, and software design
● Strong understanding of end-to-end architectures and development frameworks; knowledge across tiers in a multi-tier cloud environment including load balancers, web servers, application containers, data stores, and distributed cache
● Should be strong with Data Structures, Algorithms & OOPs concepts
● Should have a good understanding of database load balancing.
● Can clearly demonstrate an understanding of the Application layer from the OSI model and Presentation layer from the OSI Model.
● Worked on NoSQL databases such as MongoDB
● Designed and developed highly scalable multi-threaded large scale distributed systems
● Well versed with services and microservices architecture
● Usage of containers, virtual machine systems, cloud computing
● Knowledge on Socket would be a big advantage
● Should have a good understanding of how load-balancing works
● Should have an understanding of how CDN works.











