java developer

Position of the role

The Principal Engineer reports to the Domain Lead and plays a key role in driving the technical vision, strategy, and execution of development initiatives. The Principal Engineer collaborates with multiple teams to ensure that software solutions are scalable, cost-optimized, performant, and aligned with business objectives.

Result expectation in terms of result areas and core activities

The Principal Engineer is responsible for defining, designing, and overseeing the implementation of complex software solutions. This role involves deep technical expertise, mentorship, and architectural guidance across multiple teams. The Principal Engineer also acts as a thought leader, influencing technology choices, best practices, and innovation within the organization.

Main objectives of the role

✔ Leading the design and architecture of the software by following best practices that ensure scalability, maintainability, cost optimization, and high performance.

✔ Driving innovation and continuous improvements in software development practices.

✔ Providing technical mentorship and coaching to engineers across teams.

✔ Ensuring the successful delivery of high-quality software aligned with business requirements.

✔ Defining and maintaining coding standards, best practices, and governance frameworks.

✔ Collaborating with product management and other stakeholders to shape the technical roadmap.

✔ Identifying technical debt and implementing strategies to mitigate it effectively.

✔ Promoting a culture of continuous learning, knowledge sharing, and cross-team collaboration.

✔ Leading DevOps, CI/CD, and automation to improve software delivery processes and efficiency.

Specialisation

✔ Deep understanding of software architecture, system design, and performance optimization.

✔ Translating complex business requirements into scalable and efficient software solutions.

✔ Handling large data transformations and ensuring system efficiency under the required load conditions.

✔ Leading initiatives for modernizing the technology stack and implementing best practices.

✔ Ensuring that security, scalability, and maintainability are embedded into development processes.

✔ Driving research and development efforts to explore emerging technologies and their business impact.

✔ Enabling teams to develop and maintain high-quality software through code reviews, architecture guidance, and technical strategy.

✔ Collaborating with product owners and stakeholders to ensure that development aligns with business goals and user needs.

Key processes in the role

✔ Agile / Scrum / Kanban development methodologies.

✔ CI/CD and DevOps practices to streamline delivery.

✔ Cloud-native architecture, monolith and microservices-based development.

✔ Scalable and high-performance computing strategies.

✔ Secure software development lifecycle (SDLC).

✔ Data-driven decision-making.

✔ Performance optimization.

Key relationships (teams and/or position titles)

✔ Engineering Teams (Developers, QA, DevOps).

✔ Head of Engineering and Technology Leadership.

✔ Product Management and Business Stakeholders.

✔ Customer Success and Solution Architects.

✔ External Technical Partners and Vendors.

Requirements

✔ Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.

✔ 10+ years of experience in software development, with a proven track record .

✔ Strong experience in Python and modern software engineering practices.

✔ Expertise in cloud computing platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).

✔ Experience in architecting and developing scalable, high-performance applications.

✔ Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, DevOps tools, and automation.

✔ Deep understanding of microservices, monolith, APIs, and distributed systems.

✔ Strong experience with database technologies, including SQL and NoSQL.

✔ Excellent communication and leadership skills, with the ability to influence technical decisions across teams.

✔ A passion for mentoring, coaching, and fostering a strong engineering culture.

✔ Experience in defining and implementing technical governance and best practices.

Competences

✔ Strategic Thinking - 4

✔ Analytical Problem Solving - 4

✔ Technical Leadership & Mentorship - 4

✔ Communication & Collaboration - 3

Measures of success

✔ Technical leadership impact - measurable improvements in code quality, architecture, and scalability.

✔ Delivery of high-quality software within agreed timelines and business requirements.

✔ Successful mentorship - improvement in team skill levels, problem-solving capabilities, and innovation.

✔ Reduction of technical debt through strategic refactoring and modernization.

✔ Engineering team satisfaction - based on feedback and collaboration effectiveness.

✔ Improvements in system performance, stability, cost-optimization, and security.

✔ Adoption of best practices and emerging technologies across teams.

✔ Contribution to company-wide strategic initiatives through technical innovation and leadership.

Responsibilities:

 Develop and maintain high-quality, scalable, and efficient Java codebase for our ad-serving platform.

 Collaborate with cross-functional teams including product managers, designers, and other developers to

understand requirements and translate them into technical solutions.

 Design and implement new features and functionalities in the ad-serving system, focusing on performance

optimization and reliability.

 Troubleshoot and debug complex issues in the ad server environment, providing timely resolutions to ensure

uninterrupted service.

 Conduct code reviews, provide constructive feedback, and enforce coding best practices to maintain code quality

and consistency across the platform.

 Stay updated with emerging technologies and industry trends in ad serving and digital advertising, and integrate

relevant innovations into our platform.

 Work closely with DevOps and infrastructure teams to deploy and maintain the ad-serving platform in a cloud- based environment.

 Collaborate with stakeholders to gather requirements, define technical specifications, and estimate development

efforts for new projects and features.

 Mentor junior developers, sharing knowledge and best practices to foster a culture of continuous learning and

improvement within the development team.

 Participate in on-call rotations and provide support for production issues as needed, ensuring maximum uptime

and reliability of the ad-serving platform.

• Proven hands-on Software Development experience
• Proven working experience in Java development
• Hands on experience in designing and developing applications using Java EE platforms
• Object Oriented analysis and design using common design patterns.
• Profound insight of Java and JEE internals (Classloading, Memory Management, Transaction management etc)
• Excellent knowledge of Relational Databases, SQL and ORM technologies (JPA2, Hibernate)
• Experience in the Spring Framework
• Experience as a Sun Certified Java Developer

The ideal candidate should be a self-motivated, multi-tasker, and demonstrated team player. You will be responsible for the production support of software products and coordinating with various teams for support. You should have outstanding communication and Team-Player skills.

Educational Qualification: BCA, MCA or BE/B.Tech (CS)

Must-know technologies: Java,
Good to know technologies: DMN tools
Experience: 02 Years - 05 Years
Skill Level: Good

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to Java development work as well as the latest Decision model and notation tools

   

• Comply with coding standards and directions given by his direct manager Collaborate with an international and diverse team of Data Architects, Business Analysts, and Project Managers

• Tasks will be assigned and after completion, code need to be committed and task assigned for review by Senior Java developer

• Work with technology stakeholders to devise solutions that will fulfill business requirements and meet organizational strategic goals

• Develop application functionality which meets business requirements with high quality within given deadlines - develop maintainable, well-documented application functionality with an eye toward standardization, common components, simplicity, performance, robustness and other attributes of enterprise-strength solutions

• Thoroughly test all functionality - utilize detailed and thorough practices including negative testing, testing of boundary conditions, , and work collaboratively with business areas.

• Support interfaces between the deployment of developed applications and the decommissioning of legacy applications

• Support with the Development and Infrastructure Teams

• Design, and develop scalable, high-performance, highly reliable and secure applications using waterfall and agile methodologies

• Create reusable code

Working as a “Backend Developer” at Bonzai gives you the opportunity to work on maintaining and improving the platform.

• Work on the entire product lifecycle starting from design to deployment and monitoring.
• Explore new technologies such as Kotlin, patterns such as Domain-Driven Design and other cool stuff such as Gitlab CI/CD pipelines, Docker, ECS, Golang, Python, Terraform, distributed tracing and even Haskell.
• Ensure top-notch performance in terms of product and feature experience.

• 2 - 3 yrs of experience in Java, Spring Boot, Hibernate, Rest API, and MySQL.
• Good to have experience/knowledge of other programming languages such as Kotlin or Python, other DBs such as Redshift, platforms such as AWS and architectural patterns such as https://martinfowler.com/bliki/DomainDrivenDesign.html">Domain-Driven Design (DDD) and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexagonal_architecture_(software)">Hexagonal architecture.
• Good understanding of Object-oriented concepts, Functional programming and Design Patterns.
• Exceptional communication skills and ability to articulate complex ideas in written, spoken and visual language
• Bachelor in engineering preferably from a leading institute across the globe.