Housing - Software Development Engineer - Java

Who we are ? REA India is a part of REA Group Ltd. of Australia (ASX: REA) ("REA Group"). It is the country's leading full stack real estate technology platform that owns Housing.com and PropTiger.com. In December 2020, REA Group acquired a controlling stake in REA India. REA Group, headquartered in Melbourne, Australia, is a multinational digital advertising business specialising in property. It operates Australia's leading residential and commercial property websites, realestate.com.au and realcommercial.com.au and owns leading portals in Hong Kong (squarefoot.com.hk) and China (myfun.com). REA Group also holds a significant minority shareholding in Move, Inc., operator of realtor.com in the US, and the PropertyGuru Group, operator of leading property sites in Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam and Indonesia. REA India is the only player in India that offers a full range of services in the real estate space, assisting consumers through their entire home seeking journey all the way from initial search and discovery to financing to the final step of transaction closure. It offers advertising and listings products to real estate developers, agents & homeowners, exclusive sales and marketing solutions to builders, data and content services, and personalized search, virtual viewing, site visits, negotiations, home loans and post- sales services to consumers for both buying and renting. With a 1600 strong team, REA India has a national presence with 25 offices across India with its corporate office located in Gurugram, Haryana. Housing.com : Founded in 2012 and acquired by REA India in 2017, Housing.com is India's most innovative real estate advertising platform for homeowners, landlords, developers, and real estate brokers. The company offers listings for new homes, resale homes, rentals, plots and co-living spaces in India. Backed by strong research and analytics, the company's experts provide comprehensive real estate services that cover advertising and marketing, sales solutions for real estate developers, personalized search, virtual viewing, AR&VR content, home loans, end-to-end transaction services, and post-transaction services to consumers for both buying and renting. PropTiger.com : PropTiger.com is among India's leading digital real estate advisory firm offering a one stop platform for buying residential real estate. Founded in 2011 with the goal to help people buy their dream homes, PropTiger.com leverages the power of information and the organisation's deep- rooted understanding of the real estate sector to bring simplicity, transparency and trust in the home buying process. PropTiger.com helps home-buyers through the entire home-buying process through a mix of technology enabled tools as well as on-ground support. The company offers researched information about various localities and properties and provides guidance on matters pertaining to legal paperwork and loan assistance to successfully fulfil a transaction. Our Vision : Changing the way India experiences property. Our Mission : To be the first choice of our consumers and partners in discovering, renting, buying, selling, financing a home, and digitally enabling them throughout their journey. We do that with data, design, technology, and above all, the passion of our people while delivering value to our shareholders. Our Culture : Culture forms the core of our foundation and our effort towards creating an engaging workplace that has resulted in REA India being ranked 5th among the coveted list of India's Best 100 Companies to Work For in 2024 by the Great Place to Work Institute- . REA India was also ranked among Top 5 workplaces list in 2023, the Top 25 workplaces list in 2022 and 2021, and the Top 50 workplaces list in 2019. In addition, REA India was also recognized as Best Workplace- in Building a Culture of Innovation by All in 2024 & 2023 and India's Best Workplaces- in Retail (e-commerce category) for the fourth time in 2024. REA India is ranked 4th among Best Workplaces in Asia in 2023 and was ranked 55th in 2022, & 48th in 2021 apart from being recognized as Top 50 Best Workplaces- for Women in India in 2023 and 2021. REA India is also recognized as one of India's Top 50 Best Workplaces for Millennials in 2023 by Great Place to Work. At REA India, we believe in creating a home for our people, where they feel a sense of belonging and purpose. By fostering a culture of inclusion and continuous learning and growth, every team member has the opportunity to thrive, embrace the spirit of being part of a global family, while contributing to revolutionize the way India experiences property. When you come to REA India, you truly COME HOME REA India (Housing.com, PropTiger.com) is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes all qualified individuals to apply for employment. We are committed to creating an environment that is free from discrimination, harassment, and any other form of unlawful behavior. We value diversity and inclusion and do not discriminate against our people or applicants for employment based on age, color, gender, marital status, caste, religion, race, ethnic group, nationality, religious or political conviction, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, family responsibility, or disability or any other legally protected status. We firmly strive to eliminate any barriers that may impede equal opportunities while also recognizing that specific job roles may require appointees to possess the necessary qualifications, skills, abilities to perform essential functions of the position effectively. What does this role hold for you ? - Working with Housing gives you an experience of working in a true microservice environment. Exposes you to various nuances and complexities that come into play because of the system not being a monolith. We have 50 microservices and discussions around things like circuit breaker pattern, bulkheading etc. are part of our day-to-day conversation. - As the combined entity, we are the biggest real estate player in the country in terms of footfall. What it translates to is the fact that 400M daily http calls get served through our internal service mesh. So that is the scale you will be dealing with. - You will get a chance to own services end to end. This would mean taking total ownership of the code, deployment, and its execution in all environments. You will get all the opportunity and freedom to define and establish processes to ensure the health, robustness and performance of the code and service that you own. - You will get the responsibility of building things end to end. You will break down business requirements into tasks and provide accurate estimates, and then oversee the execution of the entire work. You will be directly always interacting with the business owners and other relevant stakeholders. - Complex tech challenges form the core of what we do day in day out. You will deal with a lot of problems related to caching, index and query optimizations, rightsizing in terms of cache size or infra requirements etc. - While working on different business problems, you will witness polyglot in action and will get to show your mettle in the diverse set of technologies that are there in use. - While most services are going to be there in Spring & RoR, you will get the opportunity to work in django, express & golang. You will also find apache-spark in action. - You will get a chance to work on technologies which are generally regarded as best in class and most cutting edge in the industry. For example, you will use postgres & mysql for RDBMS, mongo for nosql, elasticsearch for index store, aerospike & redis for cache store, neo4j for graph database, rabbitmq & kafka for async communication. redshift as columnar storage and more. As if the list isn't enough, you will get the opportunity to work on serverless technologies like lambda etc. - Some of you will also get the opportunity to hire, mentor and coach junior team members. Apply if you have : - Graduation/post- graduation degree in Computer Science (IITs, IIITs and NITs preferred) with 2.5-5 years of strong experience in JAVA and experience on frameworks like Struts/Spring/ Hibernate (strong OO skills preferred). - Hands-on experience in writing APIs with a good understanding of MVC architecture. - Solid experience with REST and API design. - Sound knowledge of one RDBMS system. Understanding of transactions, query optimization techniques, indexes, etc. are required. - A solid foundation in computer science, with sound knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and software design. - Enthusiasm for finding a solution for intricate and interesting problem statements. - An experience with search techniques and solid foundation in search engines- Solr, Elastic search or others (desirable). - An experience in NoSQL datastores like Redis, MongoDB, Couchdb, etc. with an understanding of underlying sharing and scaling techniques (desirable). - An experience in building highly scalable business applications, which involve implementing large intricate business flows and dealing with a huge amount of data. - An experience with Cloud-based development (AWS), microservices architecture, Dockers, etc. (desirable). Know more about us : Visit our career websites at https://careers.housing.com/ & https://careers.proptiger.com/ and LinkedIn page to know more about our company culture, and gain insights into what makes us a Great Place to Work. Want to dive into what we do? Visit our main websites for an in-depth look at www.housing.com & www.proptiger.com (ref:hirist.tech)

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Posted Date: 11/9/2024