Java Architect

HDFC securities is one of the leading stock broking companies in India and a subsidiary of HDFC Bank, a renowned private sector bank.

It has been serving a diverse customer base of retail and institutional investors since 2000. Headquartered in Mumbai, it offers an exhaustive product suite to help its customers invest in Equities, IPO / OFS, Buybacks, Mutual Funds, ETFs, Futures & Options for - Equity, Currency, and Commodities, Fixed Deposits, Bonds, NCDs, and National Pension Scheme, along with value added services like Online Will writing and Tax filing. The company offers a host of digital platforms like Mobile Trading App, Desktop based online trading facility, ProTerminal - an advanced trading platform and Arya - a voice enabled investing assistant. It also offers Call N Trade facility and dedicated Relationship Managers to assist customers. Since its inception, the company has established itself as a preferred trading platform (for NSE & BSE), with its integrated 3-in-1 account (Trading + Demat + Savings) backed by state-of-the-art technology. Over the years, the company has won many awards and recognitions. Currently, the company has 250+ branches across 190 cities, serving over 2.1 million customers.

We recently launched a discount broking platform called HDFC Sky in addition to HDFC InvestRight, which is our existing full service broking platform. We are currently enhancing and scaling these platforms even further to continue to delight our valued customers.

If this sounds exciting to you, come join us!

As a Backend leader, your responsibilities will include :

• Technical ownership , spearheading Architectural Strategy and will be responsible for product direction.
• Lead, mentor, and guide a team of backend developers, providing technical expertise and fostering a collaborative environment to achieve project goals effectively.
• Oversee the design, development, testing, and deployment of backend applications using Java ensuring adherence to best practices, coding standards, and project timelines.
• Architect, build, and deploy backend applications from scratch.
• Interact with stakeholders to understand requirements, analyze the impact of changes, come up with reasonable timelines, and execute.
• Plan and execute extensive load testing for services.
• Create an execution plan for the team to iterate based on the load test findings to ensure a resilient, self healing set of subsystems that have loose coupling and high cohesion.
• Understand and analyze existing systems to identify improvements and performance / maintenance issues.
• Fix or rebuild existing systems to ensure resilience.
• Write extensive test cases in a way that systems can be easily modified in the future with confidence and without ambiguity.
• Build ETL pipelines to collect data in a Data lake. Use the Data lake to power BI and generate reports.
• Maintain clear and concise documentation of technical specifications, code changes, and architectural decisions.
• Prepare a growth plan for the team and help them achieve it.
• Provide regular feedback for the team.

We are looking for someone with :

Following aspects would be a plus :