Backend Developer

Job Title : Senior Backend Engineer – Java, AI & Automation

Experience : 4+ Years

Location : Any Cognizant location (India)

Work Mode : Hybrid

Interview Rounds :

1. Virtual
2. Face-to-Face (In-person)

Job Description :

Join our Backend Engineering team to design and maintain services on the Intuit Data Exchange (IDX) platform.

You'll work on scalable backend systems powering millions of daily transactions across Intuit products.

Key Qualifications :

• 4+ years of backend development experience.
• Strong in Java, Spring framework.
• Experience with microservices, databases, and web applications.
• Proficient in AWS and cloud-based systems.
• Exposure to AI and automation tools (Workato preferred).
• Python development experience.
• Strong communication skills.
• Comfortable with occasional US shift overlap.

Position-Tech Lead

Experience: 8-10

Job Location: Pune 

We are seeking a highly skilled Tech Lead with strong expertise in Java, microservices architecture, and cloud-native application development. The ideal candidate will bring hands-on leadership experience in designing scalable solutions, guiding development teams, and collaborating with DevOps engineers on OpenShift (OCP) platforms. This role requires a blend of technical leadership, solution design, and delivery ownership.

Key Responsibilities

Lead the design and development of Java / Spring Boot based microservices in a cloud-native environment.

Provide technical leadership to a team of developers, ensuring adherence to coding, security, and architectural best practices.

Collaborate with architects and DevOps engineers to deploy and manage microservices on Red Hat OpenShift (OCP).

Oversee end-to-end delivery including requirement analysis, design, development, code review, testing, and deployment.

Define and implement API specifications, integration patterns, and microservices orchestration.

Work closely with DevOps teams to integrate CI/CD pipelines, containerized deployments, Helm, and GitOps workflows.

Ensure application performance, scalability, and reliability with proactive observability practices (Grafana, Prometheus, etc.).

Required Skills & Qualifications

8-10 years of proven experience in Java application development with at least 4+ years in microservices architecture.

Strong expertise in Spring Boot, REST APIs, JPA/Hibernate, and messaging frameworks (Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc.).

Hands-on experience with containerization (Docker) and orchestration (OpenShift/Kubernetes).

Familiarity with OCP DevOps practices including CI/CD (ArgoCD, Tekton, Jenkins), Helm, and YAML deployments.

Good understanding of observability stacks (Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, Alertmanager) and logging practices.

Solid knowledge of cloud-native design principles, scalability, and fault tolerance.

Exposure to security best practices (OAuth, RBAC, secrets management via Vault or similar). 

• Strong experience in Core Java, Multi-Threading, data structures (List/Map/Set) and unit testing with (Junit, Mockito)
• Strong experience with Spring Framework (Spring MVC, Spring REST, Spring Data), ORM frameworks (JPA, Hibernate) and RDBMS (Oracle/MySQL/Postgres)
• Strong experience in applying Object-Oriented design principles and Design Patterns
• Good knowledge of Multi-Tier architecture, Micro Services architecture and Service Oriented Architecture 
• Exposure to AWS Cloud, NoSQL Database (Mongo, Cassandra), Message Broker (Active
• MQ/RabbitMQ/Apache Kafka) and Big Data Technologies (Hadoop/Hive/Spark)
• Additionally, must possess capability to review code, produce technical specification document
• and knowledge of code quality tools (PMD/FindBugs/Sonar)

Basic Qualifications:

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• Programming experience with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
• 1+ years of experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems.

Additional Job requirements

• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science/Math or equivalent
• BS in computer science or related field.
• 2+ years of relevant professional software development experience: designing, developing, and delivering software written in Java, C#, or C++, web development.
• Knowledgeable in object-oriented design patterns.
• Experience building highly scalable and distributed systems

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with service-oriented architecture and application/services development
• Passion for performance debugging and benchmarking

Ability to clearly and concisely communicate with technical and non-technical stakeholders across all levels of the organization

Responsibilities and Duties:

● Java/Java EE application development while providing expertise in the full software development

life cycle, from concept and design to testing.

● Contribute to all phases of the development life cycle

● Write well designed, testable, efficient code

● Ensure designs are in compliance with specifications

● Prepare and produce releases of software components

● Support continuous improvement by investigating alternatives and technologies and presenting

these for architectural review

Required Skills:

● Should have strong knowledge of Core Java and OOPS concepts

● Sound knowledge of Web application development fundamentals and have worked on Servlets,

JSP and any MVC framework

● Strong analytical and reasoning skills and ability to learn and unlearn new technology on back

end as well as on front end

● Ability to understand functional and requirement specifications and transform them to solution

● Understand the client’s problem domain and suggest and implement solution which brings value

to the business

● Can estimate, develop and deliver project from start to end

● Should have professional service experience with any product

● Experience working with onshore team and ability to communicate with clients and stakeholders

● Ready to travel onshore

● Sound knowledge of RDBMS

● Can communicate well with clients and collaborate with cross functional team to deliver high

quality deliverable

● Should have knowledge of Agile/Scrum methodology

● Ability to work on microservices

Why Work at Staunchsys:

● Family Health Cover & Accidental Insurance

● Constant Learning

● Competitive Pay

● Flexible work timings

● 5 days working

● Complimentary Lunch & Snacks

● Personal accident insurance policy

● Encashment facility for both PL & SL

Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Desired Experience: 3+ years

Roles and Responsibilities :

We are seeking an experienced Java Engineer to join our team. The ideal candidate will be responsible for designing and developing scalable applications using Java and related frameworks.

Core Accountabilities:

• Design and develop high-quality Java applications using best practices and design patterns Write clean, maintainable, and testable code using Java and related frameworks
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop and deploy applications
• Develop and maintain continuous integration and continuous deployment pipelines using Git and related tools
• Troubleshoot and debug applications in production and development environments
• Stay up-to-date with emerging trends and technologies in software engineering and Java development

Experience required :

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field
• 3+ years of experience in developing applications using Java and related frameworks
• Strong experience in Core Java, Spring Framework, Hibernate, and related Java frameworks
• Experience in working with Git for version control and collaboration.

Additional optional requirements

• Knowledge of AWS services
• Experience in working with NoSQL databases such as MongoDB and Cassandra
• Experience in other programming languages such as Python and Node.js

Skills required :

• Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to work in a fast-paced environment Strong communication and collaboration skills

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field with 2-5 years hands-on experience with Java based open source tech stack
• Expertise in Core Java, Data Structures, J2EE with proven expertise in Spring MVC, Spring boot, Microservices architecture, Web Services (Rest) in distributed systems
• Practical experience with MySQL and /or NoSQL databases like Couchbase, DynamoDB, Cassandra
• Practical experience with Caching frameworks Memcached/Redis, Message Queues (JMS, RabbitMQ)
• Practical hands-on experience in JavaScript UI preferred
• Experience in building high performance, high availability REST APIs and REST clients
• Expertise with log file analysis using one or more of ELK, or Splunk
• Prior experience with CI/CD, Container architecture - Docker/Jenkins and build scripts Maven/Ant
• Prior experience in transformation to cloud platforms is preferred
• Experience with Kafka is a definite plus
• Experience with building analytics pipeline and analytics DB is a plus
• Strong practical experience in applying design patterns, multithreading concepts to solve complex problems, strong problem solving skills

Key Responsibilities:
● Node.js Developer responsible for managing the interchange of data between the server and the users.
● Your primary focus will be the development of all server-side logic, definition and maintenance of the central database, and ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end.
● You will also be responsible for integrating the front-end elements built by your co-workers into the application. Therefore, a basic understanding of front-end technologies is necessary as well.
● Strong proficiency with JavaScript
● Knowledge of Node.js core and frameworks Express, StrongLoop, koa, hapi etc
● Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds
● Good understanding of server-side templating languages
● Good understanding of server-side CSS preprocessors
● Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as HTML5, and CSS3
● Understanding accessibility and security compliance
● Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system
● Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
● Understanding differences between multiple delivery platforms, such as mobile vs. desktop, and optimizing output to match the specific platform
● Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes
● Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests
● Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git.

Technical Skills:
● Expert knowledge of key Web technologies as HTML5, CSS3,
● Expert in JavaScript / AJAX, NodeJS, React.
● Expert knowledge of OO Analysis and Design,
● Expert on Design Patterns and Frameworks as NodeJS, React.
● Knowledge of Agile methodologies (Scrum).
Soft Skills:
● Self-motivation to work independently and strong work ethic.
● Ability to work in a team, and adapt to new and evolving processes.
● Flexibility and adaptable
● Deep experience with Agile