Hire Elite Java Developers in India

• Profile JVM heap, GC behavior, and thread contention using async-profiler or JFR
• Identify and fix memory leaks, lock contention, and slow database query patterns
• Build load tests with Gatling or JMeter to simulate realistic production traffic
• Set up APM dashboards in Datadog or New Relic to catch regressions early
• Review pull requests specifically for performance anti-patterns

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• Proven track record of measurable latency or throughput improvements in production systems
• Deep JVM internals knowledge: GC tuning, JIT behavior, off-heap memory management
• Ability to read flame graphs and translate findings into actionable code changes

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• Experience with high-concurrency systems at fintech, e-commerce, or SaaS product companies
• Prior experience at Flipkart, PhonePe, Razorpay, Zerodha, or mid-sized product startups
• GitHub activity showing profiling tools, open-source contributions, or internal benchmarking frameworks

• Write and test Java modules for backend services and APIs
• Fix bugs and write unit tests using JUnit or TestNG
• Participate in code reviews and implement feedback from senior engineers
• Integrate third-party APIs and internal microservices under senior guidance

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• Personal or college projects deployed on GitHub with clean commit history
• Internship experience at a product company
• Genuine curiosity about system design

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• Prior internships at companies like Infosys, Wipro, or early-stage startups
• Strong DSA foundation from competitive programming on Codeforces or LeetCode
• Spring Boot and MySQL exposure from academic or personal projects

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• Set technical vision and multi-year technology roadmap aligned with business strategy
• Make final calls on architecture, infrastructure, and build-vs-buy across the entire stack
• Hire and manage VPs and Directors of Engineering, shape the leadership bench
• Own engineering budget, vendor contracts, and technology investment decisions

• Founded or co-founded a product company before, even if it didn't scale
• Can shift between investor-facing storytelling and deep technical debugging in the same week
• Track record of building engineering culture

• Many come from ISI Kolkata, IIT Kharagpur, IIIT Bangalore, or Jadavpur University. Non-pedigree candidates with strong builder track records are increasingly common at this level
• Have built and scaled an engineering org from founding team to 100+ across multiple product lines
• Can reference a company-defining technical decision: "migrated from monolith to event-driven architecture, enabling 10x transaction throughput during Series B growth

• Own delivery and reliability across 3-6 engineering squads reporting through multiple EMs
• Define quarterly engineering OKRs and align them with company-level business targets
• Make build-vs-buy and vendor selection decisions for major platform investments
• Run hiring pipelines for EM and senior IC roles: approve JDs, calibrate panels, close offers

• Experience running a mixed org of ICs and managers without defaulting to pure delegation
• Have navigated at least one major reorg or RIF while retaining top-quartile talent
• Ability to context-switch between a system design review and a board-ready eng update in the same day

• B.Tech from IITs, NITs, or BITS Pilani. Some hold executive education from ISB or IIM Ahmedabad
• Have owned an engineering org of 25-60 engineers and managed a budget of $1M-$5M annually
• Can reference a specific org-building story: "inherited 8 engineers, built to 45 in 18 months with under 10% attrition"

• Own engineering org performance: delivery velocity, system uptime, and team health metrics
• Set hiring plan, approve headcount, and personally close senior and leadership hires
• Align engineering roadmap with business goals in partnership with CEO and product leadership
• Run monthly org reviews: promotion calibrations, retention risk assessments, and reorg decisions

• Experience scaling an engineering org from 20 to 100+ while maintaining delivery speed
• Ability to communicate engineering tradeoffs to non-technical board members in plain language
• Have shut down a failing initiative or sunset a product without losing key engineers

• IC at Google/Amazon India, EM at Flipkart or PhonePe, Director at a Series C+ startup, then VP at a late-stage or public company
• B.Tech from IIT Bombay/Delhi/Madras, often with MS from CMU, Stanford, or Georgia Tech
• Have managed 50-150+ engineers across multiple EMs and tech leads with P&L awareness

• Own delivery outcomes for 2-4 squads
• Run weekly 1:1s, quarterly performance reviews, and manage promotions and PIPs
• Hire and build the team: define JDs, run interviews, calibrate offers, and close candidates
• Partner with product and design leads

• Ability to context-switch between architecture discussions and HR escalations
• Experience running RIFs or restructuring teams without losing top performers
• Habit of tracking team health metrics (cycle time, PR turnaround, attrition risk) proactively

• Have managed 10-25 engineers across multiple squads and shipped at least one 0-to-1 product or led a major platform migration
• Can show retention numbers: strong EMs in India typically hold attrition under 12% in a market where 18-20% is the industry norm

• Define technical architecture and make build-vs-buy decisions
• Break down ambiguous product requirements into concrete engineering plans and task assignments
• Run sprint planning, unblock developers, and ensure on-time delivery across the squad
• Own system reliability: set SLOs, review incident postmortems, and prioritize tech debt reduction

• Ability to translate business context into technical trade-offs
• Experience managing distributed teams across time zones with async-first communication habits
• Track record of growing SDE-Is into SDE-IIs through structured mentorship

• B.Tech/M.Tech from IITs, BITS Pilani, IIIT Hyderabad, NITs, or strong international MS programs
• 5-9 years experience, typically progressed SDE-I to SDE-II at a strong product company (Flipkart, Swiggy, PhonePe, Atlassian India, Microsoft IDC, Google Bangalore)
• Have owned a team of 3-8 engineers and shipped at least one major system
• Can articulate architectural decisions with business impact

• Own and deliver end-to-end backend features across multiple services independently
• Design database schemas, API contracts, and service interfaces for new modules
• Conduct thorough code reviews and enforce coding standards across the team
• Investigate and resolve production incidents using observability and alerting tools
• Mentor junior developers and interns through pairing and structured code reviews

• Hands-on experience breaking a monolith into microservices in production
• Ability to design for scale: caching layers, async processing, event-driven patterns
• Track record of reducing API latency or improving system reliability
• Ownership mindset

• B.Tech/M.Tech in CS from IITs, NITs, BITS Pilani, IIIT Hyderabad, DA-IICT, or top-tier state colleges like COEP, PEC, or NSIT
• Ttypically started as SDE-I at a product company like Razorpay, Flipkart, Freshworks, Zoho, or Postman, or joined a well-funded Series A/B startup
• Have owned at least one critical service or module end-to-end

• Build and ship API endpoints for product features in active sprints
• Write and maintain unit and integration tests for backend services
• Debug production issues using logs, error tracking, and monitoring tools
• Review pull requests from peers and respond to code review feedback

• Experience with message queues like RabbitMQ or Kafka beyond just tutorials
• Ability to write optimized SQL queries and spot N+1 problems independently
• Habit of writing tests before being asked, not just when enforced by CI
• Exposure to system design basics: caching, rate limiting, load balancing

• B.Tech/B.E. in CS or IT from NITs, BITS Pilani, DTU, VIT, IIIT Hyderabad, or top state engineering colleges like COEP or NSIT
• 6-12 months at a product startup, SaaS company, or service firm like TCS/Infosys
• Have shipped at least one production feature end-to-end
• Carry a GitHub profile with 2-3 non-trivial projects showing clean code structure and commit discipline