Software Engineer

OGS PayLab: A PayTabs Company; Chennai District; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

OGS PayLab: A PayTabs Company is seeking a hands-on Java backend developer to join its fintech-focused payment switching product team. You will own parts of modules, implement REST-based services, and ensure code quality with unit tests.

The role emphasizes end-to-end design, documentation, and collaboration with product managers to deliver scalable Java microservices using Spring Boot, MVC, and Cloud technologies. Expect a professional, growth-oriented environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, information systems or related field.
• Requires 3 to 6 years qualifying work experience in information technology or engineering environment.
• Hands-on development experience with Java and Spring framework.

Responsibilities

• Ideate software solutions with development teams and product managers.
• Design client-side and server-side architecture.
• Design scalable solution with detailed technical documentation.
• Develop and manage well-functioning databases and applications.
• Write effective APIs.
• Test software to ensure performance and reliability.
• Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade software.

Skills

Spring Frameworks

REST APIs

Unit Testing

Cucumber

Mockito

Java 8 Lambdas

JVM Tuning

Microservices

Git SCM

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Git

Subversion

TFS

JUnit

Mockito

Cucumber

Angular

React

Node.js

Job description

Summary / Objective

This job is to be part of the dynamic Payment switching product development team which caters to the needs of the Fintech space. The core technology expected is Java with Spring framework.

This job is to be part of the dynamic Payment switching product development team which caters to the needs of the Fintech space. The core technology expected is Java with Spring framework.

Essential Functions

• Will be responsible for hands-on development and integrating REST-based applications.
• Will own part of a module/subsystem end-to-end, detailed design, development, unit testing, and repository release.
• Developing, implementing, and maintaining Java based components and interfaces and documentation.
• Develop unit-tests which meet our internal code-coverage metrics.
• Actively participate in the design of modules, features, and systems.
• Recommending solutions by comparing advantages and disadvantages of custom development vs. using open source and commercial alternatives.
• Technical documentation on high-level and low-level design with technical implementation information for other stakeholders.
• Contribute positively to the team´s technical growth, sharing your technical knowledge by interacting with your peers in the day-by-day activities.
• Analyse user requirements to determine how to translate into Java Debug and resolving technical issues.
• Continually engage in professional development.

Competencies

• Spring frameworks like Spring MVC, Spring Boot, and Spring Cloud for developing a web application, REST APIs Microservices.
• Knowledge of tools for unit testing, integration testing, and automation testing like Junit, Cucumber and Mockito.
• Familiar with some key APIs like JSON processing APIs like Jackson and Gson, XML processing APIs like JAXB and Xerces.
• Will be good to have knowledge over JIT, JVM options, Garbage collections, and collectors, etc.
• Java 8 features like lambdas and Streams to rewrite patterns like Strategy patterns.
• Source control tools: Git, Subversion, TFS.
• Familiarity with databases (e- g- MySQL, MongoDB), web servers (e- g- Apache) and UI/UX design.
• Knowledge of multiple back-end languages (e- g- C#, Java, Python) and JavaScript frameworks (e- g- Angular, React, Node-js) will be a great addition.

Roles and Key KPIs

• Work with development teams and product managers to ideate software solutions.
• Design client-side and server-side architecture.
• Design scalable solution with detailed technical documentation.
• Develop and manage well-functioning databases and applications.
• Write effective APIs.
• Test software to ensure responsiveness and efficiency.
• Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade software.

Position Type/Expected Hours of Work

• This is a full-time position reporting to Technical Manager, and regular hours of work and days are Monday through Friday, 10:00 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Preferred Education And Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, information systems or related field and/or equivalent formal training or work experience.
• Requires 3 to 6 years qualifying work experience in information technology or engineering environment.