Software Engineer

Title: Software Engineer - Java 

Location: Gurugram, Haryana, India 

About Naehas 

Join a pre-IPO, fast-paced, rapidly growing software as a service company based in Silicon Valley. Naehas is automating omni-channel marketing for some of the largest consumer brands in the world. Our customers include four of the top six banks and market leaders in media, communication and insurance. We are expanding our office in the Gurgaon area (India) and would like to fill it with team members who value autonomy, collaboration and meaningful work. Our recipe for success is very simple - “Passionate and happy employees translate into happy customers and a world-class product”. 

About the Position 

The Software engineer will be part of a team working on development of a custom-made workflow engine which will be integrated with Naehas’ s core product to provide automation to a certain degree. Since this is a new product in the nascent stages of the SDLC, the engineer is expected to write clean, optimized and efficient code, unit test cases, maintain Javadoc, document APIs, perform peer reviews and create relevant documentation of the architecture and features being built. This position also requires the engineer to be proactive in collaborating with the front-end developers and other team members to design and develop scalable and robust solutions. 

Skills & Responsibilities:

• Analyze, design and develop extremely reliable, scalable and high-performing web applications. 

• Collaborate actively with product managers and technical leaders to understand and evaluate business requirements and translate them into new features within the timeline. 

• Mentor other developers in the team making sure higher standards and good practices are followed.

• Work with other developers and team to ensure that new features are delivered and that issues are fully tested with minimal defects. 

• Address architecture and design issues of products or technologies and provide strategic reasoning of introducing new technologies in his/her area of expertise. 

• JVM Performance and Optimization Expertise: Skilled in memory management, JVM tuning, and performance optimization, with expertise in analyzing heap dumps (Eclipse MAT, JVisualVM) to detect memory leaks and excessive object retention. Proficient in fine-tuning JVM settings (heap size, GC strategies, Metaspace configuration) and optimizing garbage collection (e.g., G1GC, ParallelGC) to enhance application performance and minimize latency.

• Strong experience in resolving threading and concurrency issues, including deadlocks, thread contention, and race conditions, using Java concurrency utilities and optimizing thread pools for resource efficiency.

• Expert in performance profiling with tools like JProfiler and YourKit to resolve CPU bottlenecks, optimize SQL queries, and implement caching solutions (EhCache, Redis). Adept at end-to-end performance tuning across application layers and collaborating with DevOps teams to maintain JVM health in containerized environment.

More about life at Naehas:

People and culture are our top priority. We believe the best way to describe our culture is through our values:

• Reality - Acknowledge it early 

• Ownership - Be self-aware and personally accountable 

• Courage - Put in best effort even under trying circumstances 

• Trust - Respect team members - prove each other right 

• Curiosity - Intense desire to explore and understand new solutions 

• Flexibility - Flexibility and innovation are more important than efficiency 

• Integrity - Our reputation is more important than making money

Experience: 3-5 years

Requirements

• Education equivalent to a Bachelor's degree/Master’s in Computer Science or related field from a top tier college. 

• 3+ years of hands-on coding experience in Java 8, Spring Boot, Spring Data JPA, Hibernate, JVM Performance and Optimization Expertise. 

• Experience building microservices and RESTful web services. 

• Experience working with RDBMS preferably MySQL and NoSQL databases like MongoDB, Neo4j etc. 

• Working experience with OAuth2, OpenID Connect/SAML, JWT and Spring Security.

• Understanding of Java build tools like Maven/Gradle. 

• Software Engineering - design, test and implement software systems that optimize all phases of data operations process and new solution designs. Perform requirements analysis, understanding the business requirement and design and develop optimized and customized solutions for customers.

• Hands on experience in

• Memory Management and JVM Tuning

• Threading and Concurrency Issues

• Performance Profiling and Optimization

• Hands-on experience with Cloud platforms and services preferably AWS. 

Good to Have:

• Exposure to UI and front-end technologies like HTML, CSS, JavaScript and frameworks and libraries such as Angular/React.js. 

• An understanding of CI/CD pipeline and build automation tools like Jenkins. 

• Experience with enterprise authentication and authorization solutions like Okta. 

• Experience with SSO. 

Benefits

• Competitive compensation.
• A full suite of benefits, including health.
• A casual workplace that appreciates and respects each employee's ideas.
• The agility of a growing and profitable start-up environment.
• Flexible work arrangements.
• Free meals
• Yearly offsites