Senior Application Developer

About The Team And The Role:

The Vehicle Data Platform (VDP) team at Ather is responsible for the critical core that ingests, processes, and exposes massive data streams generated by the fleet to power rider-facing features and business intelligence.

This role is for a seasoned Application Developer Lead who will own the technical direction, development, and operational stability of this high-throughput, event-driven platform. You will blend deep hands-on expertise with technical leadership to guide the team in building a system that is scalable, reliable, and continuously evolving.

Responsibilities:

• Lead end-to-end technical design and architectural decisions for the VDP, ensuring solutions are scalable, reliable, and performant.
• Maintain a deep, hands-on understanding of core technologies including Java, Kafka, SQL, Redis, and MongoDB.
• Serve as the primary technical liaison between the VDP team and consuming teams such as App Development, BI, and Cloud Infrastructure.
• Partner with Product Management to refine requirements and ensure technical solutions align with the product vision and business needs.
• Define the technical roadmap, strategic goals, and execution themes for Program Increments while leading sprint planning.
• Drive the development of robust backend services and RESTful APIs while enforcing best practices for code quality and testing.
• Provide day-to-day technical guidance, coaching, and mentorship to engineers to foster a culture of technical excellence.
• Act as the primary technical escalation point for troubleshooting and resolving critical production incidents and driving root cause analysis.

Experience And Qualifications:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related engineering field.
• 4 to 7 years of relevant programming and software development experience, focusing on cloud-native and data-intensive applications.

Must Have Competencies:

• Demonstrate proven, hands-on development expertise in the Java ecosystem (Core Java, Spring Boot) or equivalent modern backend languages.
• Possess mastery in designing, developing, and deploying high-throughput, event-driven, and streaming systems using Kafka or RabbitMQ.
• Exhibit strong experience with microservices architecture, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and managing diverse SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Apply demonstrable ability to lead end-to-end design decisions, define technical strategy, and mentor a team of developers.

Good To Have Competencies:

• Utilize strong experience with a major public cloud provider, with a preference for Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Demonstrate expertise in defining and managing CI/CD pipelines using tools like Devtron.
• Apply experience with code instrumentation for system monitoring, logging, and tracing to ensure observability.
• Lead the implementation of preventative measures following root cause analysis of production incidents.

Skills

Docker, Java, Kafka, Kubernetes, Microservices, NoSQL, RabbitMQ, SQL, Spring Boot