Web Backend Engineer

About Root Node

We’re an early-stage startup building intelligent tools for planning, scheduling, and optimization—starting with timetabling and warehouse logistics. Backed by deep domain expertise and a growing customer pipeline, we’re now building our core tech team. This is not just a coding job — it's a chance to build something meaningful from the ground up.

About the job

• Design and implement robust backend systems and APIs using Java or similar backend language and Spring Boot or equivalent frameworks
• Integrate backend services with existing custom ERP systems 
• Work closely with the founder on product architecture, feature prioritization, and go-to-market feedback
• Take full ownership of features — from system design and development to deployment and iterative improvements
• Help shape our engineering culture and technical foundations

You're a Great Fit If You:

• Have 3+ years of experience in backend development
• Are strong in Java or similar languages (e.g., Kotlin, Go, Node.js)
• Have solid experience with Spring Boot or equivalent backend frameworks
• Have integrated with ERP or enterprise systems in production environments
• Are comfortable with both SQL (PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB)
• Understand REST API development, authentication, Docker
• Have an entrepreneurial mindset — you're excited about ownership, ambiguity, and making decisions that shape the product and company
• Want more than just a job — you want to build, solve, and learn rapidly

What We Offer

• Competitive salary
• High degree of ownership and autonomy
• Ability to shape the tech and product direction from Day 1
• Transparent and fast decision-making culture
• A builder’s environment — solve real-world problems with real impact

Must Have: 

● Experience in Java or Core Java (7+ years) 

● Experience in SpringBoot (4+years) 

● Good Knowledge of Microservice, Multithreading, design pattern Concept 

● Framework: SpringBoot, Spring Security, JAX-RS, Hystrix, Kafka 

● ORM: Spring Data JPA. Hibernate 

● Cloud Service: AWS(MSK, S3), Serverless lambda Functions 

● Build tools: Maven, Gradle 

● Good To Have: Spring Webflux, Web Client, ecommerce domain experience. 

Job Description

• Java engineer with 6-8 years of experience , person with strong Java, spring core, Springboot, Rest API , Microservices hands-on experience.
• Knowing Kafka is a plus.
• Well versed with CICD, Agile processes . good attitude, good communication skills.

Role

• Code development, testing, team coordination,
• Open to work on non-tech activities along with coding also.
• Should be ready and flexible to work from Impetus office and customer office as per the requirement of project.

Requirements:

• Energetic self-starter, with a desire to work in a startup environment.
• Proficient in advanced Java programming skills.
• Expert in Application development cloud/on premise end to end. Middle layer, DB layer.
• Nice to have understanding on MQ and DB
• Good hands on in Complex Event Processing systems.
• Solved scale and performance issues while dealing with huge sets of data. Pre compute or data aggregation frameworks to achieve good response time.
• Real world experience working with large datasets and NoSQL database technologies
• Experience of debugging applications running on Unix like systems (e.g. Ubuntu, CentOS)
• Experience developing RESTful APIs for complex data sets
• Knowledge of container based development & deployment (e.g. Dockers, rkt)
• Expertise in software security domain, a plus

Total experience Required: 7+ Years
Responsibilities:

• Develops ServiceNow software solutions using JavaScript, Web Services, MYSQL, XML, JSON
• Configuration Management (CMDB)
• Analyze system performance issues and determine performance enhancements
• Administration of Knowledge Base and Service Catalog
• Configure out-of-the-box workflows and create/maintain custom workflows
• Configure application related fields, forms, views, email notifications, acceptance roles and access controls
• Integrate ServiceNow application(s) with third party systems/applications via APIs
• Provides input to staff involved in writing and updating technical documentation such as user manuals
• Prepares reports on analyses
• Under general direction, independently develops, maintains and extends a stable production, development and testing middleware infrastructure while extending the functionality and enabling developers to use it via mentoring and formal training
• Independently develops, modifies, and implements moderately to highly complex information systems that are thorough and accurate and conform to MST standards
• Codes, tests, debugs, and documents assignments of moderate to high complexity
• Independently researches and resolves more complex technical problems
• May serve as project manager or team lead on complex projects
• Based on customer requirements, formulates/defines systems scope and objectives
• Researches, develops, codes or modifies architecture components that are well designed, efficient and conform to MST architectural standards
• When assuming the project manager role, manages day-to-day project-related activities for projects of moderate to high complexity
• Work with multiple business owners to move forward development and enhancements around the core ITSM applications including Incident, Change and Request in a Domain separated instance of ServiceNow

Qualifications for ServiceNow developer:

• Ability to set up data security via control rules, domain separation 
• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, a similar technical discipline, or comparable industry experience
• Minimum 3 years of experience supporting the implementation, configuration, and/or development of the ServiceNow tool

Role/ Responsibilities

• Lead a team of hard working backend developers. 
• Design APIs, DB, Queues, monitoring for micro services. 
• Writing, deploying and managing micro services. 
• Migrate existing components into distributed micro service architecture. 
• AWS Cloud / Google Cloud Platform (Manage Infrastructure). 
• API integration with 3rd parties. 
• Unit test cases, automation. 
• Database optimisation. 
• Design of highly concurrent backend architecture. 
• Handling high traffic data. 

Experience required: 

• Sound fundamentails in software design. 
• Must have worked on distributed and micro service architecture. 
• Sound fundamentals on scale/ performance/ memory optimisation. 
• Sound fundamentals of authentication, authorization, payment processes, data security. 
• Must have experience in Spring / Spring boot. 
• Good to have experience in Kafka / JMS / RabbitMQ / AWS Elastic queue. 
• Good to have experience in Junit / mockito unit test cases. 
• Good to have knowledge in Mysql (or any RDBMS). 

General Accountabilities/Job Responsibilities

• Participation in the requirements analysis, design, development and testing of applications.
• The candidate is expected to write code himself/herself.
• The candidate is expected to write high level code, code review, unit testing and deployment.
• Practical application of design principles with a focus on the user experience, usability, template
• designs, cross browser issues and client server concepts.
• Contributes to the development of project estimates, scheduling, and deliverables.
• Works closely with QA team to determine testing requirements to ensure full coverage and best
• quality of product.
• There is also the opportunity to mentor and guide junior team members in excelling their jobs.

Job Specifications

• BE/B. Tech. Computer Science or MCA from a reputed University.
• 3 -12 Years of experience in software development, with emphasis on JAVA/J2EE Server side programming.
• Hands on experience in Core Java, Multithreading, RMI, Socket programing,
• JDBC, NIO, webservices and Design patterns.
• Should have Knowledge of distributed system, distributed caching, messaging frameworks,
• ESB etc.
• Knowledge of Linux operating system and PostgreSQL/MySQL/MongoDB/Cassandra database is essential.
• Additionally, knowledge of HBase, Hadoop and Hive are desirable.
• Familiarity with message queue systems and AMQP and Kafka is desirable.
• Should have experience as a participant in Agile methodologies.
• Should have excellent written and verbal communication skills and presentation skills.
• This is not a Fullstack requirement, we are purely looking out for Backend resources.