About Digit88

Digit88 is a niche product engineering consulting company based out of Bangalore with experience of building offshore development centers for US startups and MNCs over the last 6+ years. The founding team has 50+ years of product engineering and services experience out of India, China and the US.

The Opportunity:

Digit88 manages and is expanding the dedicated offshore product development team for its US (Bay Area, NYC) based NLP/Chatbot platform development partner, that is building a next-generation AI/NLP/Chatbots based customer engagement platform. The candidate would be joining an existing team of 16+ engineers and help expand Platform Engineering, Production Support and Monitoring services for our client.

Job Profile:

Digit88 is looking for an enthusiastic, self-motivated, hands on Java/J2EE back-end developer to join the back-end engineering team for our partner. Experience with a fast-paced India/US product start-up or a product engineering services company in a developer role, building a high-performance real-time system is mandatory. Applicants must have a passion for engineering with accuracy and efficiency, be highly motivated and organized, able to work as part of a team, and also possess the ability to work independently with minimal supervision.

To be successful in this role, you should possess:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field with a minimum 3 years of experience working as a Java platform developer in distributed systems
• Strong in Core Java, Data Structures, J2EE
• Practical experience in Spring MVC, Spring boot, Microservices architecture, Web Services
• Hands on with MySQL and DynamoDB and/or NoSQL databases, Hibernate
• Practical experience with Caching frameworks Memcached/Redis, Message Queues
• Familiarity and experience with CI/CD, Container architecture - Docker/Jenkins and build scripts Maven/Ant, and Kubernetes
• Should have built high performance, high availability REST APIs and REST clients
• Familiarity with Kafka is a definite plus
• Familiarity with building analytics pipeline and analytics DB is a plus

You are someone who would easily be able to

• Study and learn the latest in AI/NLP/Chatbots domain and the messaging platform
• Work closely with the US engineering team and India engineering lead to help build the Java/Spring based backend and REST APIs.
• Own the development of new modules and features
• Troubleshoot live production server issues.
• Handle client coordination and be able to work as a part of a team or at times be able to contribute independently with minimal supervision.
• Perform Unit Testing and Integration testing in a Continuous Deployment scenario
• Follow Agile methodology, JIRA for work planning, issue management/tracking

Additional Project/Soft Skills:

• Should be able to work independently with India & US based team members
• Strong verbal and written communication with ability to articulate problems and solutions over phone and emails
• Strong sense of urgency, with a passion for accuracy and timeliness
• Ability to work calmly in high pressure situations and manage multiple projects/tasks
• Ability to work independently and possess superior skills in issue resolution
• Should have the passion to learn and implement, analyse and troubleshoot issues