Back End Developer

Lenskart.com; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 2,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Lenskart is looking for a seasoned Java backend engineer to join our fast-growing tech team in India. You will design and build scalable microservices, APIs, and data-heavy systems essential to our eyewear platform.

You will work with Spring Boot, SOA patterns, and messaging queues like Kafka or RabbitMQ, ensuring robust, maintainable code and high-quality delivery in a startup-like environment. Join us to power a leading Indian e-commerce vision experience and contribute to a vibrant

Qualifications

• Minimum of 4+ years experience in Java backend development.
• Strong data structures and algorithms
• Proficient in Java, object-oriented design
• Experience with SOA, microservices, RESTful services and multi-tier Spring Boot applications.
• Strong SQL experience with MySQL/MariaDB
• Experience with messaging systems such as Kafka or RabbitMQ
• Ability to drive product and technical discussions
• Startup mindset

Responsibilities

• Translate complex functional requirements into technical design and develop cohesive strategies.
• Design, develop, and maintain complex systems with modern practices.
• Own the overall software development lifecycle.
• Deliver high quality, scalable and extensible systems on time and on budget.
• Drive adoption of engineering practices and keep up with new technologies.
• Collaborate with tech and business teams to provide robust solutions.
• Lead bug triage process
• Report status of product delivery and quality to management and teams.

Skills

Java Backend

Data structures

OO Programming

Spring Boot

SQL

SOA/Microservices

RESTful services

Tools

Apache Kafka

RabbitMQ

Job description

Lenskart is India's fastest growing optical business. The company was co-founded in 2010 by Peyush Bansal, Amit Chaudhary & Sumeet Kapahi to provide Vision to India. 1/3rd of India's population today needs vision correction and only 25% of those in need wear specs. Lenskart was founded in 2010 with a vision to solve this problem of eye wear and be the Numero Uno eyewear provider in India.

With technology integration into the eyewear vertical, and keeping a deep focus on consumer happiness, Lenskart has grown more than 200% Year on Year in the last 2 years to be among the top 3 Optical Retail businesses of India today.

Lenskart brings together the brightest minds to create breakthrough technology solutions, helping our customers get highly engaging experience. We are continuously evolving how we work and how we look at the business challenges, so we can continue to deliver measurable, sustainable solutions to our businesses.

• Translation of complex functional requirements into technical requirements, implementing and maintaining a coherent and progressive development strategy for our product line
• Design, develop, and maintain complex systems using the best of the breed development practices and technology.
• Responsible for the overall software development life cycle.
• Delivery of High Quality, Scalable and Extensible systems, and applications on-time and on-budget.
• Adoption and Evolution of the software engineering practices and tools within the organization
• Keep in sync with the latest technology developments and open source offerings. Evaluate and adapt them to solving the business problem of the organization.
• Collaborate with other technology and business teams within the organization to provide efficient robust solutions to the problems.
• Drive and manage the bug triage process
• Report on the status of product delivery and quality to management, customer support, and product teams.

Job requirements

• Minimum of 4+ years in experience in Java Backend
• Strong understanding of data structures and algorithms
• Sound understanding of object-oriented programming and excellent software design skills.
• Good experience of SOA/Microservices/Restful services and development of N-tier J2EE / Java Springboot applications (API's).
• Strong understanding of database design and SQL (mySql/mariaDB) development
• Should have experience in Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, or other Queueing systems.
• Drive discussions to create/improve the product, process, and technology
• Provide end to end solution and design details
• Lead development of formalized solution methodologies
• Passion to work in a startup-like environment