Backend Engineer

Experian India is looking for a Backend Engineer to join its Credit Bureau Technology team. The candidate would possess a strong analytical mind, be a technical and creative thinker, have a strong aptitude for problem solving, and have zero tolerance for inefficiencies in product development & deliveries. The ideal candidate will have excellent written, oral and interpersonal communication skills, along with the fervent desire to continuously learn about different products and technologies. Suggesting and driving forward infrastructure and tooling improvements that enable the business to confidently operate at pace. Individual will also be responsible for ensuring customer successes by providing necessary support to business-critical applications.

You will be a member of a team collaborating and working together towards technology transformation goals of Indian Credit Bureau Technology team. The Indian Credit Bureau team is responsible for conceptualization, design, development and support of all the bureau technology products.

What you’ll be doing

• Analyzing product requirements and writing application code based on feature specification maintaining coding standards and security protocols
• Develop user interfaces
• Prioritize and execute tasks in the product lifecycle as per laid guidelines
• Test and debug applications, to suggest mitigative actions and long-term fixes
• Validate product functionality and security requirements
• We are looking for an individual who is energetic, engaged, and willing to actively participate with the right positive attitude.
• Orchestrating the end-to-end deployment process, ensuring that all aspects of go-live are considered
• Investigating issue trends and devising solutions, Problem, Change Management and Release Management.
• Expertise in working on Agile/Scrum team environment.
• Experience with testing: Unit Testing, Test Driven Development, Integration Testing, Load Testing, Test Automation.
• Responsible for automation & system provisioning, metrics, monitoring, scalability and security
• Owning & resolving production issues.

Why this role is critical to us

This position will ensure that technology strategies are well-coordinated and fully supporting the development of products, and growth within channels and lines of business.

Why us

• We’re a high-performance and driven team but we don’t forget to celebrate success
• We offer strong career and international opportunities for high performers
• We invest heavily in our products and our people
• We offer training and support from experienced subject matter experts and managers plus dedicated learning & development time

Requirements

What you’ll need to bring to the party

• Programming Skills: Strong Programming skills with Extensive knowledge of object-oriented architecture and modern frontend frameworks.
• Technology & Script: Java /J2EE, JavaScript, Web Services API’s, JSP Servlets, Java script toolkits, Web/Application Servers, OO and relational modeling skills, OOPS. Framework - Spring, Hibernate
• DB Skills: Query Writing & Query tuning Experience (Preferred - db2, Oracle, MongoDB).
• Networking: Understanding network topologies and common network protocols and services (DNS, HTTP(S), SSH, FTP, SMTP).
• Experience with tools: BitBucket. GitHub, Jenkins, Artifactory, Jira
• Agile Methodologies: Experience with Agile software development, Agile XP and project management methodologies. Usage of Kanban board and project management tool like Jira
• DevOps: Good to have Continuous integration and continuous deployment experience and exposure to DevOps practices
• Experience with various architectures: Domain Driven Design, Microservices, Cloud Native and Event Driven Architecture.
• Attitude to manage issues proactively including timely resolution and the identification of remediation opportunities
• Fail fast approach to align to product engineering standards