Sr. Software Engineer - Java

Title: Sr. Software Engineer - Java

Location: Gurugram, Haryana, India

About Naehas

Join a pre-IPO, fast-paced, rapidly growing software as a service company based in Silicon Valley. Naehas is automating omni-channel marketing for some of the largest consumer brands in the world. Our customers include four of the top six banks and market leaders in media, communication and insurance. We are expanding our office in the Gurgaon area (India) and would like to fill it with team members who value autonomy, collaboration and meaningful work. Our recipe for success is very simple - Passionate and happy employees translate into happy customers and a world-class product .

About the Position

The Sr. Software engineer will be part of a team working on development of a custom-made workflow engine which will be integrated with Naehas s core product to provide automation to a certain degree. Since this is a new product in the nascent stages of the SDLC, the engineer is expected to write clean, optimized and efficient code, unit test cases, maintain Javadoc, document APIs, perform peer reviews and create relevant documentation of the architecture and features being built. This position also requires the engineer to be proactive in collaborating with the front-end developers and other team members to design and develop scalable and robust solutions.

Skills & Responsibilities:

Analyze, design and develop extremely reliable, scalable and high-performing web applications.

Collaborate actively with product managers and technical leaders to understand and evaluate business requirements and translate them into new features within the timeline.

Mentor other developers in the team making sure higher standards and good practices are followed.

Work with other developers and team to ensure that new features are delivered and that issues are fully tested with minimal defects.

Address architecture and design issues of products or technologies and provide strategic reasoning of introducing new technologies in his/her area of expertise.

JVM Performance and Optimization Expertise: Skilled in memory management, JVM tuning, and performance optimization, with expertise in analyzing heap dumps (Eclipse MAT, JVisualVM) to detect memory leaks and excessive object retention. Proficient in fine-tuning JVM settings (heap size, GC strategies, Metaspace configuration) and optimizing garbage collection (e.g., G1GC, ParallelGC) to enhance application performance and minimize latency.

Strong experience in resolving threading and concurrency issues, including deadlocks, thread contention, and race conditions, using Java concurrency utilities and optimizing thread pools for resource efficiency.

Expert in performance profiling with tools like JProfiler and YourKit to resolve CPU bottlenecks, optimize SQL queries, and implement caching solutions (EhCache, Redis). Adept at end-to-end performance tuning across application layers and collaborating with DevOps teams to maintain JVM health in containerized environment.

More about life at Naehas:

People and culture are our top priority. We believe the best way to describe our culture is through our values:

Reality - Acknowledge it early

Ownership - Be self-aware and personally accountable

Courage - Put in best effort even under trying circumstances

Trust - Respect team members - prove each other right

Curiosity - Intense desire to explore and understand new solutions

Flexibility - Flexibility and innovation are more important than efficiency

Integrity - Our reputation is more important than making money

Experience: 5-7 years

Education equivalent to a Bachelors degree/Master s in Computer Science or related field from a top tier college.

5+ years of hands-on coding experience in Java 8, Spring Boot, Spring Data JPA, Hibernate, JVM Performance and Optimization Ex