Senior Java Software Engineer

BlueOptima's vision is to become the global reference for the optimisation of the performance of Software Engineers across all industries. We provide industry-leading objective metrics in software development. We enable large organisations to deliver better software, faster and at lower cost, with technology that pushes the limits of what has been done before. 

We are a global company which has consistently doubled in headcount and revenue YoY, with no external investment. We currently are located in 4 countries: London (our HQ), Mexico, India and the US. A total number of 100 employees (and increasing every day) from 34 different nationalities and with over 25 languages spoken.

We promote an open-minded environment and encourage our employees to create their own success story in this high-performance environment. 

Location: Bangalore/Gurgaon, India

Department: Engineering

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer, with experience in developing scalable application components, which are remotely deployed and are used to extract and push large volumes of data in a data warehouse solution, to join our growing company and be a part of our success story. 

 We are looking for an individual with great attention to detail, who is genuine, confident, committed and not only passionate about technology, but is keen to own the solution end to end, and most importantly excited to work in a fun and friendly start-up environment. 

The ideal candidate will be passionate about technology and getting things to work while at the same time being able to mentor (and lead) other engineers by way of example to achieve excellence in their work.

As a Senior Software Engineer in our engineering team, you will be directly contributing to development of different product applications and components using Spring Boot, Hibernate, Native SQL, Core Java and many more. And while contributing directly to the development of the software components, you are also expected to lead and mentor a team of next generation platform engineers.

Responsibilities and tasks: 

• Analyse, Design, Develop, implement, test and maintain application software components

• Analyse requirements from product and convert them into technical specs.

• Own end to end development and deliveries of features and improvement

• Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks

• Identity and resolve architectural inefficiencies in design, and create a roadmap to resolving them

• Lead and mentor a team of junior developers

• Interact with other internal client facing team and provide technical support to them

• Engage with clients to provide support on your component as and when required

What You Need to Succeed at BlueOptima:  

• 7 to 10 years of experience

• Minimum Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

• Minimum 5+ years experience with Java and J2EE/Java EE

• Minimum 2+ years experience with developing standalone Java applications

• Strong understanding of relational database, partitioning and indexing techniques, SQL

• Demonstrable experience in optimising application performance at database or any other layer

• Experience in creating high and low level design based on existing application architecture and documenting such design

• Strong understanding of Java concurrency, concurrency patterns, experience building thread-safe code

• Ability to work autonomously with minimum supervision

• Strong problem solving and analytical skills, and having a can-do attitude

• Familiarity with Agile methodologies like SCRUM, Sprints, etc and leading a Scrum a small Scrum team

• Commitment to accomplishing the task at hand and identify the fastest and most reliable way to solve a problem

• Familiarity with Linux shell and related command line tools

• Strong grasp of Unit & Integration testing

Good to have: 

• A team manager, in terms of handling people and delivery which is not a must in case of technical geeks

• Making sure that the sprints and tasks are completed on time with no spill-overs and sticking to the deadline

• Preferred experience on Spring boot, Docker, Kubernetes

• Understanding and experience on Frontend technologies like React, VueJS etc is a PLUS

• Some exposure in Linux.

• Minimum Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Why join our team?

Culture and Growth:

• Global team with a creative, innovative and welcoming mindset
• Rapid career growth and opportunity to be an outstanding and visible contributor to the company's success.
• Freedom to create your own success story in a high-performance environment.
• Training programs and Personal Development Plans for each employee.

Benefits: 

• 32 days of holidays (this includes public and religious holidays)
• Contributions to your Provident Fund which can be matched by the company above the statutory minimum as agreed
• Gratuity payments
• Private Medical Insurance provided by the company (Employee + Spouse + 2 Children + 2 Parents)
• 12 Weeks Paid Paternity Leave, 6 months Maternity leave
• Support with childcare costs (50%)
• Work from Home Equipment allowance
• Flexible Work from Home policy - 2 days home p/w
• Flexible Work from Long Distance - 4 weeks a year
• Sponsored Learning Opportunities
• Team Socials.

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