Software Engineer - Backend Developer

Role: Software Engineer (Java)

Job Location: Bangalore / Pune

About Digit Insurance: Digit's mission is to make insurance simple. Backed by Fairfax, one of the largest global investment firms, and headquartered in Bengaluru, Digit has received numerous accolades, including the Digital Insurer of the Year Award at the Asia Insurance Industry Awards 2021 and the IFTA 2021 Award for Excellence in Insuretech. We also won the SKOCH Gold Award for launching India's first COVID-19 insurance cover and have been certified as a Great Place to Work consecutively in 2020, 2021, and 2022. Digit was featured in the CB Insights Fintech 250 list for the third time in 2021 and named General Insurance Company of the Year’ at the Asia Insurance Industry Awards in 2019 and 2020, and ‘Insurance Start-up of the Year – India’ at the Insurance Asia Awards 2020.

During the pandemic, Digit has supported several commercial and industrial establishments and secured its employees and customers through relevant health insurance solutions. Our brand ambassador is the former captain of the Indian Men’s Cricket Team, Virat Kohli.

Digit entered the Unicorn club in 2021 with a valuation of $1.9 billion, achieving this milestone in just three years. This success is attributed to our mission of making insurance simple and the hard work and dedication of our employees. Our team comprises industry veterans and new-age technology specialists who continuously strive for improvement.

We are now looking to hire a team for our upcoming Life Insurance company based in Bangalore.

What are we looking for? We are seeking candidates to join our Technology team as Java/Full Stack Developers.

Total Experience Range: 2 to 5 years in Java development.

Skill Set:

• Strong background in Core Java with experience in J2EE technologies, Hibernate Framework, and Spring Boot.
• Experience with Microservices and RESTful/SOAP web services.
• Strong knowledge of object-oriented programming concepts, exception handling, and memory management.
• Proficiency in multi-threading and dependency injection.
• Knowledge of HTML, XML, JSON, CSS, JavaScript, JSP, and Servlet.
• Sound knowledge of relational and/or non-relational databases such as MySQL, MongoDB, etc.
• Ability to work with ORM frameworks and concepts such as JPA2 and Hibernate.
• Experience with Java IDE tools such as Eclipse, IntelliJ IDEA.
• Experience in at least one framework – Spring, Struts, JSF.
• Knowledge of build tools such as Maven, Gradle, etc.
• Version control (Git repository).
• Familiarity with CI/CD and DevOps tools like Jenkins, GitHub pipelines, etc.

Other Preferred Skills:

• Experience in developing SaaS, PaaS, and cloud-based web applications.
• Additional knowledge/experience in front-end technologies - JavaScript, HTML, AngularJS / ReactJS framework.