Backend Developer

Dicetek LLC; Chennai; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Dicetek LLC in Chennai is seeking a Senior Development Engineer for Backend Development. This role involves leading backend development for mobile and web applications, focusing on Microservices architecture. Candidates should have over 5 years of experience, strong skills in Java and cloud technologies (AWS, Azure), and familiarity with agile methodologies. The position demands leadership abilities and collaboration with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality solutions.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in backend development.
• Strong understanding of Microservices and Cloud architecture.
• Proficient in Java and Java EE, with knowledge of ecosystems.
• Experience with Python and AWS Lambda functions.
• Familiarity with containerization and CI/CD practices.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain efficient Java applications.
• Translate application requirements into functional code.
• Identify performance issues and proactively address them.
• Mentor team members to enhance productivity and quality.
• Collaborate with other engineers to deliver quality solutions.

Skills

Java Programming

Microservices

Cloud Computing

Collaboration in Agile Environments

Leadership

Spring Framework

SQL Databases

NoSQL Databases

Containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)

Python

Tools

AWS

Azure

Apache Kafka

Jenkins

Git

Job description

We are looking for a Senior Development Engineer for Backend Development to help us keep growing. This includes anything between complex groups of back‑end services and their client‑end (desktop and mobile) counterparts. As a Lead Development Engineer, you’re a highly detail‑oriented individual with great problem‑solving skills and solid experience in backend development for mobile apps and Web applications. You’re responsible for the development and maintenance of applications. Your primary focus will be development of Microservice applications and their integration with back‑end services. You will be working alongside other engineers and developers working on different layers of the infrastructure. Therefore, a commitment to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and the creation of quality products is essential.

Key Accountabilities

• Senior professional with 5 years of experience.
• Translate application storyboards and use cases into functional applications.
• Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable Java code.
• Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the applications.
• Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to these problems.
• Help maintain code quality, organization, and automation.
• Managing team and successfully delivering the project.

Qualifications & Experience

• Working experience in an agile software development environment with a good understanding of the principles of agile architecture. Strong collaborative mindset for collective decentralized decision making.
• Demonstrate strong technical skills with a deep understanding of modern architectural styles and practices such as Microservices, Containers, Cloud (AWS, Azure), APIs, Continuous Delivery, Event‑driven architecture, Evolutionary architecture, etc., with a passion for hands‑on coding.
• Strong foundation knowledge of software architecture concepts, patterns, principles, and quality attributes. Ability to consistently apply them in real‑world scenarios with a pragmatic, system thinking, and problem‑solving mindset by analyzing architecture trade‑offs for delivering high‑quality, sustainable solution architecture.
• Proven leadership skills with a proactive, positive, and growth mindset. Ability to foster and motivate programmers for delivering with craftsmanship. Good personal skills to continuously engage and communicate with an egoless empathetic mindset.
• Experience and expertise in delivering architectures for large software solutions meeting critical business purposes. Ability to proactively discover technical debts and continuous improvement opportunities of existing live systems. Work closely with the product owner and enterprise architects to influence and prioritize technical backlog items.
• Proficient in Java & Java EE, with a good knowledge of its ecosystems and skill to write reusable components/Java libraries.
• Work experience with Python and AWS Lambda functions.
• Deep familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure or Google.
• Familiarity with concepts of OOPS, MVC, JDBC, and RESTful and Experience with WSDL, XML, XSD, JSON and Swagger Open API specification.
• Experience in NoSQL (Mongo preferable) and RDBMS DB (Oracle, PostgreSQL). Should be able to write complex SQL queries / procedures and functions.
• Design & Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes.
• Work experience in Spring framework (Spring core / Spring Batch / AOP / Spring Data / Spring JDBC / Spring Boot), Hibernate ORM. And Working experience in Spring Security and OAuth2 implementation.
• Experience with messaging technology like JMS, Active MQ, IBM MQ and Experience with Apache Kafka.
• Experience and expertise in container‑based architecture – Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD like Jenkins and Gitlab CI/CD.
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Azure Repo, Bitbucket, Git, GitLab etc.
• Familiarity with build tools such as Ant, Maven, and Gradle.