Java Backend Engineer Experience: 3 - 5 Years Location: Bangalore/Remote Type: Full-time About Digit88 Digit88 is an AI-native product engineering partner helping startups and enterprises build, scale and operate intelligent software products. We are a lean, high-impact team of 75+ technologists, backed by leaders with deep experience across startups and global enterprises. We build strong, outcome-driven engineering teams that solve complex, real-world problems. From GenAI applications and data platforms to enterprise-grade SaaS, we deliver scalable, reliable, production-ready systems. Our expertise spans AI/ML, RAG systems, agentic workflows and large-scale data engineering - enabling businesses to move from idea to production with speed and confidence. Our teams operate as a true extension of our clients, with full ownership and flexible engagement models focused on measurable business outcomes - not just delivery. With 80+ AI implementations and proven success in scaling dedicated teams and driving significant cost efficiencies, we partner for long-term impact. We bring experience across B2B and B2C SaaS, web and mobile platforms, e-commerce and domains such as Conversational AI, HealthTech, IoT, ESG/Energy and Data Engineering - thriving in fast-paced, high-ownership environments. Job Profile: We are looking for an enthusiastic, self-motivated, hands-on senior backend engineer with great troubleshooting skills to join our engineering team. Experience with a fast-paced India/US product start-up or a product engineering services company in a senior front-end engineer role, building and managing a high-performance real-time system is mandatory. To be successful in this role, you should possess: • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field with a minimum 3 years experience working as a Java platform developer in distributed systems • Strong in Core Java, Data Structures, J2EE • Practical experience in Spring MVC, Spring boot, Microservices architecture, Web Services • Hands on with MySQL and DynamoDB and/or NoSQL databases, Hibernate • Practical experience with Caching frameworks Memcached/Redis, Message Queues • Strong experience with CI/CD, Container architecture - Docker/Jenkins and build scripts Maven/Ant, Kubernetes. • Designed and implemented scalable, secure, and cost-effective cloud solutions using AWS services such as EC2, S3, RDS, and VPC, ensuring alignment with organizational requirements and best practices. • Should have built high performance, high availability REST APIs and REST clients. • Strong problem solving skills. • Experience with Kafka is a definite plus. • Experience with building analytics pipeline and analytics DB is a plus Benefits/Culture @ Digit88: • Comprehensive Insurance (Life, Health, Accident) • Flexible Work Model • Accelerated learning & non-linear growth • Flat organization structure driven by ownership and accountability • Work with global peers, including top engineers and professionals from companies like Apple, Amazon, IBM Research, and Adobe • Make a global impact with your work, leading innovations in Conversational AI, Tele-Medicine, Healthcare, and more • Collaborate with a founding team of serial entrepreneurs with multiple successful exits, offering immense learning opportunities and challenges Join us and partner in our growth journey!