Backend Engineer - Java/Spring Boot

About Ripik.AI :

Ripik.ai is an Accel-backed Applied AI company building computer vision and process-optimization agents for the world's largest industrial enterprises across steel, cement, aluminum, chemicals, pharma, and power. Our Vision AI platform acts as an automated pair of eyes on the shop floor monitoring materials, equipment, and processes 24/7 with 95%+ accuracy, eliminating human error, and delivering measurable gains in throughput, yield, energy efficiency, and safety.

We work with marquee customers including Tata Steel, JSW, ArcelorMittal, Vedanta, Godrej & Boyce, Grasim, Holcim, and Jindal Steel, and are scaling globally across India, the Middle East, Europe, and North America. As we move into our next phase of growth, we are building the operating backbone that will take Ripik from a high-velocity scale-up to a category-defining global industrial AI company.

The Role :

As a Backend Engineer at Ripik.AI, you'll build the systems that power our industrial AI products high-throughput services that ingest real-time data from factory floors, run computer vision and process-optimisation models at scale, and deliver decisions back to plant operations in seconds.

You'll work on Java-based microservices in Spring Boot, design multi-threaded pipelines to handle real-time streams, and partner with ML engineers, DevOps, and frontend teams to ship features end-to-end. This is a hands-on engineering role for someone who wants to write production Java code that runs 24/7 in some of the largest plants in the world.

Key Responsibilities :

• Design and build backend services in Java and Spring Boot clean, testable, and production-ready code that runs at scale.

• Own multi-threaded and concurrent workflows for real-time data ingestion, event processing, and low-latency inference pipelines.

• Design and ship REST APIs used by our frontend, mobile, and integration partners with a strong sense for versioning, error handling, and documentation.

• Model and query data in relational (Postgres/MySQL) and NoSQL stores write efficient queries, design schemas that don't come back to haunt you.

• Integrate with ML services and streaming systems (Kafka / message queues) to serve model outputs to plant operators in real time.

• Debug production issues on live customer deployments trace the problem, ship the fix, prevent the recurrence.

• Contribute to system design conversations you'll have a voice in architecture decisions, not just tickets to close.

• Write tests and reviews unit, integration, and thoughtful code reviews for teammates. We take engineering hygiene seriously.

What you bring :

• 25 years of hands-on backend engineering experience.

• Technology Stack: Java, Spring Boot, Multithreading, Rest APIs, AWS.

• Strong Java fundamentals (Java 11+) collections, generics, streams, memory model.

• Solid experience with Spring Boot and the Spring ecosystem.

• Real understanding of multi-threading and concurrency thread pools, executors, race conditions, locks.

• Comfortable with SQL and relational databases (Postgres or MySQL preferred).

• REST API design fundamentals; Git and modern developer workflows.

• Strong data structures and algorithms base you can reason about time and space.

• Ownership mindset and a willingness to ship, learn, and iterate.

Nice to Have :

• Kafka, RabbitMQ, or other streaming/messaging systems for high-throughput event pipelines.

• Docker, Kubernetes, or hands-on cloud experience on AWS, GCP, or Azure.

• Microservices architecture you've built or maintained services in a distributed system.

• Redis, caching strategies, or performance optimisation experience.

• Exposure to ML model serving, or working alongside data science and computer vision teams.

• Open-source contributions or a public body of work we can look at.

What can you expect ?

• Ability to shape the future of manufacturing by leveraging best-in-class AI and software; we are a unique organization with niche skill set that you would also develop while working with us.

• World class work culture, coaching and development.

• Mentoring from highly experienced leadership from world class companies (refer to Ripik.AI website for details).

• International exposure.

Location :

Noida, Sector - 16 (Work from Office)