Technical Lead - TEKION Backend

Rocketlane is building a unified workspace that enables customers to collaborate on onboarding projects. Rocketlane streamlines work collaboration and communication with customers across projects, both real-time or async. It features visibility, consistency, customer experience, collaboration, and productivity. It was launched in 2020 and is based

in Walnut, California, United States.

Senior Java Backend Engineer

Experience: 6-8 Years 

Location: Pune / Bangalore

Type: Full-time

Tech Stack: Java, AWS, Spring boot, Postgres, NO/SQL 

About Digit88

Digit88 empowers digital transformation for innovative and high growth B2B and B2C SaaS companies as their trusted offshore software product engineering partner!

We are a lean mid-stage software company, with a team of 75+ fantastic technologists, backed by executives with deep understanding of and extensive experience in consumer and enterprise product development across large corporations and startups. We build highly efficient and effective engineering teams that solve real and complex problems for our partners.

With more than 50+ years of collective experience in areas ranging from B2B and B2C SaaS, web and mobile apps, e-commerce platforms and solutions, custom enterprise SaaS platforms and domains spread across Conversational AI, Chatbots, IoT, Health-tech, ESG/Energy Analytics, Data Engineering, the founding team thrives in a fast paced and challenging environment that allows us to showcase our best.

The Vision: To be the most trusted technology partner to innovative software product companies world-wide

The Opportunity

Digit88 is expanding the extended software product engineering team for its partner, a US-based Energy Analytics SaaS platform company. Our partner is building a suite of cloud-based business operation support platforms in the Utilities Rate Lifecycle space in the Energy sector/domain. This is a bleeding edge AI and Big Data platform that helps large energy utility companies in the US plan, manage, review and optimize their new product and rate design, billing, rate analysis, forecasting, and CRM. The candidate would be joining an existing team of product engineers in the US, China and Pune/India and help us establish an extended product engineering team at Digit88.

Job Profile

Digit88 is looking for a Sr Java Engineer with excellent hands-on experience in Java, AWS, and Springboot experience. You will be designing solutions around large enterprise and distributed systems. You will collaborate with a multi-disciplinary team of engineers and architects on a wide range of problems, bringing technical direction, architecture and design decisions, solving technical problems ultimately enabling the product team to build, develop and improve products that will revolutionize the energy industry.

To be successful in this role, you should possess

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field with 6-8 years hands-on experience with Java based technologies.
• Expertise in Core Java, Data Structures, J2EE with proven expertise in Spring MVC, Spring boot, Microservices architecture, Web Services (Rest) in distributed systems
• Practical experience with MySQL and/or NoSQL databases like Postgres, Cassandra
• Practical experience with Caching frameworks Memcached/Redis, Message Queues
• Experience in building high performance, high availability REST APIs and REST clients
• Expertise with log file analysis using one or more of ELK, Splunk, Kibana 
• Prior experience in building solutions in AWS, using managed services.
• Experience with Kafka is a definite plus
• Strong practical experience in applying design patterns, multithreading concepts to solve complex problems, strong problem solving skills
• Excellent communication (oral and written) and interpersonal skills and an ability to effectively communicate with both business and technical teams.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills for presenting findings to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Possess strong organizational and time management skills, with attention to detail.
• Good understanding in CI/CD, Container architecture - Docker/Jenkins and build scripts Maven/Ant 
• Experience with Kubernetes

Roles and responsibilities

• Develop Java solutions on AWS with Springboot, microservices.
• Work closely with the US and India engineering teams to help build the Java/Spring based backend and REST APIs. 
• Technical excellence and ownership of critical modules; own the development of new modules and features 
• Troubleshoot live production server issues 
• Able to work as a part of a team, be able to contribute independently and drive the team to exceptional contributions with minimal team supervision
• Perform Unit Testing and Integration testing in a Continuous Deployment scenario 
• Follow Agile methodology, JIRA for work planning, issue management/tracking 
• Bring Technical direction, design considerations and decisions as part of solutioning

Good to have/Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in the utility or energy industries.
• Experience working with a start-up.

Additional Project/Soft Skills:

• Should be able to work independently with India & US based team members.
• Strong verbal and written communication with ability to articulate problems and solutions over phone and emails.
• Strong sense of urgency, with a passion for accuracy and timeliness.
• Ability to work calmly in high pressure situations and manage multiple projects/tasks.
• Ability to work independently and possess superior skills in issue resolution.

Benefits/Culture @ Digit88:

• Comprehensive Insurance (Life, Health, Accident)
• Flexible Work Model
• Accelerated learning & non-linear growth
• Flat organization structure driven by ownership and accountability.
• Global Peers - Working with some of the best engineers/professionals globally from the likes of Apple, Amazon, IBM Research, Adobe and other innovative product companies
• Ability to make a global impact with your work, leading innovations in Conversational AI, Tele-Medicine, Healthcare and more.

You will work with a founding team of serial entrepreneurs with multiple successful exits to their credit. The learning will be immense just as will the challenges.

This is the right time to join us and partner in our growth!

Role Description : Senior Java Developer

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.

Location: Bengaluru/Udupi (NO WORK FROM HOME OPTION)

Notice Period: Immediate Joining or Maximum 1 Month