Backend Engineer

About Tarento:

Tarento is a fast-growing technology consulting company headquartered in Stockholm, with a strong presence in India and clients across the globe. We specialize in digital transformation, product engineering, and enterprise solutions, working across diverse industries including retail, manufacturing, and healthcare. Our teams combine Nordic values with Indian expertise to deliver innovative, scalable, and high-impact solutions.

We're proud to be recognized as a Great Place to Work, a testament to our inclusive culture, strong leadership, and commitment to employee well-being and growth. At Tarento, you’ll be part of a collaborative environment where ideas are valued, learning is continuous, and careers are built on passion and purpose.

Job Summary:

We are seeking a highly skilled and self-driven Senior Java Backend Developer with strong experience in designing and deploying scalable microservices using Spring Boot and Azure Cloud. The ideal candidate will have hands-on expertise in modern Java development, containerization, messaging systems like Kafka, and knowledge of CI/CD and DevOps practices.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and deploy microservices using Spring Boot on Azure cloud platforms.
• Implement and maintain RESTful APIs, ensuring high performance and scalability.
• Work with Java 11+ features including Streams, Functional Programming, and Collections framework.
• Develop and manage Docker containers, enabling efficient development and deployment pipelines.
• Integrate messaging services like Apache Kafka into microservice architectures.
• Design and maintain data models using PostgreSQL or other SQL databases.
• Implement unit testing using JUnit and mocking frameworks to ensure code quality.
• Develop and execute API automation tests using Cucumber or similar tools.
• Collaborate with QA, DevOps, and other teams for seamless CI/CD integration and deployment pipelines.
• Work with Kubernetes for orchestrating containerized services.
• Utilize Couchbase or similar NoSQL technologies when necessary.
• Participate in code reviews, design discussions, and contribute to best practices and standards.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• Strong experience in Java (11 or above) and Spring Boot framework.
• Solid understanding of microservices architecture and deployment on Azure.
• Hands-on experience with Docker, and exposure to Kubernetes.
• Proficiency in Kafka, with real-world project experience.
• Working knowledge of PostgreSQL (or any SQL DB) and data modeling principles.
• Experience in writing unit tests using JUnit and mocking tools.
• Experience with Cucumber or similar frameworks for API automation testing.
• Exposure to CI/CD tools, DevOps processes, and Git-based workflows.

Nice to Have:

• Azure certifications (e.g., Azure Developer Associate)
• Familiarity with Couchbase or other NoSQL databases.
• Familiarity with other cloud providers (AWS, GCP)
• Knowledge of observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK)

Soft Skills:

• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication.
• Ability to work in an agile environment and contribute to continuous improvement.

Why Join Us:

• Work on cutting-edge microservice architectures
• Strong learning and development culture
• Opportunity to innovate and influence technical decisions
• Collaborative and inclusive work environment

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Bachelor's/Master’s in Computer Science or related field
• 5–8 years of backend development experience
• Strong in Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs, and microservices
• Hands-on experience with MySQL/PostgreSQL and NoSQL databases
• Strong debugging, problem-solving, and communication skills
• Ability to work independently and in cross-functional teams

Preferred Traits

• Proactive mindset with a knack for identifying and fixing bottlenecks
• Detail-oriented with a passion for clean, maintainable code

Team-oriented with a drive for continuous learning and improvement

• Build campaign generation services which can send app notifications at a speed of 10 million a minute
• Dashboards to show Real time key performance indicators to clients
• Develop complex user segmentation engines which creates segments on Terabytes of data within few seconds
• Building highly available & horizontally scalable platform services for ever growing data
• Use cloud based services like AWS Lambda for blazing fast throughput & auto scalability
• Work on complex analytics on terabytes of data like building Cohorts, Funnels, User path analysis, Recency Frequency & Monetary analysis at blazing speed
• You will build backend services and APIs to create scalable engineering systems.
• As an individual contributor, you will tackle some of our broadest technical challenges that requires deep technical knowledge, hands-on software development and seamless collaboration with all functions.
• You will envision and develop features that are highly reliable and fault tolerant to deliver a superior customer experience.
• Collaborating various highly-functional teams in the company to meet deliverables throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Identify and improvise areas of improvement through data insights and research.

• 2-5 years of experience in backend development and must have worked on Java/shell/Perl/python scripting.
• Solid understanding of engineering best practices, continuous integration, and incremental delivery.
• Strong analytical skills, debugging and troubleshooting skills, product line analysis.
• Follower of agile methodology (Sprint planning, working on JIRA, retrospective etc).
• Proficiency in usage of tools like Docker, Maven, Jenkins and knowledge on frameworks in Java like spring, spring boot, hibernate, JPA.
• Ability to design application modules using various concepts like object oriented, multi-threading, synchronization, caching, fault tolerance, sockets, various IPCs, database interfaces etc.
• Hands on experience on Redis, MySQL and streaming technologies like Kafka producer consumers and NoSQL databases like mongo dB/Cassandra.
• Knowledge about versioning like Git and deployment processes like CICD.

Key Responsibilities :

1. Work closely with client and team and understanding the requirement, design, analyze and do the code changes

2.Helping team and client to resolve issues

3.Should able to handle day to day activity like team management, daily meeting

Technical Experience :

- Net development work experience

- Proficiency in NET Development with Net Core.

- Strong object-oriented programming OOPS design skills, SOLID principles and proficiency in software design patterns

- Experience in database MS SQL Server, No SQL

- Solid understanding of Microservices

- Good understanding Azure, Docker and Kubernetes

- Experience with version control systems GitHub and Bitbucket

Professional Attributes :

1.Should have good communication Skills

2.Should be good team player

3.Should be able to work independently and under pressure

4.Should have good logical and analytical thinking

Role/ Responsibilities

• Lead a team of hard working backend developers. 
• Design APIs, DB, Queues, monitoring for micro services. 
• Writing, deploying and managing micro services. 
• Migrate existing components into distributed micro service architecture. 
• AWS Cloud / Google Cloud Platform (Manage Infrastructure). 
• API integration with 3rd parties. 
• Unit test cases, automation. 
• Database optimisation. 
• Design of highly concurrent backend architecture. 
• Handling high traffic data. 

Experience required: 

• Sound fundamentails in software design. 
• Must have worked on distributed and micro service architecture. 
• Sound fundamentals on scale/ performance/ memory optimisation. 
• Sound fundamentals of authentication, authorization, payment processes, data security. 
• Must have experience in Spring / Spring boot. 
• Good to have experience in Kafka / JMS / RabbitMQ / AWS Elastic queue. 
• Good to have experience in Junit / mockito unit test cases. 
• Good to have knowledge in Mysql (or any RDBMS). 

Job description:

Amazon’s Worldwide Consumer Engagement organization brings customers to visit amazon websites, engage them on site and help them purchase from Amazon’s retail sites. This is achieved through highly personalized messages delivered via all available large scale communication channels—both free and paid and offering engaging experience on website. The organization builds, operates, and improves the technology systems that power all marketing channels, and manages prioritization and marketing spend decisions. Consumer Marketing consists of a series of single-threaded technology and business teams, each of which owns the entirety of a channel of communication or customer segment: natural and paid search (i.e. SEO and SEM), affiliate marketing (Associates), display advertising, email, browser integration, and mobile marketing, retail customer experience technology teams.

This position is for a technology leader in Affiliate Marketing Technology group for attribution team. This team owns business critical systems that are responsible for attributing traffic to marketing channels and thrives on innovation to provide rich analytics to its internal and external customers. As a leader on the team, you will be responsible for tier1 critical systems, guide your team through the design, development, testing, and deployment of a range of products involving big data processing and dealing with near real time SLAs. You will have to deal with challenges of high availability (five 9s) guarantee, low latency and high throughput. In addition, you will build and manage roadmaps for software teams, developing cutting edge experiences. You will have sound technical acumen, excellent project management skills, great communication skills, and hire, build, and develop your team. You are a true owner - you are deeply interested in product design, architecture, and you innovate relentlessly on behalf of our customers.

This position offers the opportunity to collaborate with our business teams across the world and other tech teams in Bangalore as we raise the bar in delivering innovation.

Primary responsibilities: 

• Provide technical expertise and leadership throughout product life cycles, influence software engineers best practices for your team and own operational metrics 
• Work with business leaders and product managers to define product requirements. 
• Prioritize, communicate, maintain, and execute roadmaps, project plans, and commitments 
• Work with engineers to define technical requirements and architect and execute best-in-class implementations in agile manner 
• Build and maintain world-class customer experience and operational excellence for your deliverables 
• Hire, manage, mentor and grow a high performance team of Software Engineers

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelors/Masters degree in Computer Science or related field
• 10+ years professional experience in software development management
• Proficiency in, at least, one modern programming language such as Java, Scala, C#, C++ etc 
• Ability to solve complex technical problems and design robust, scalable solutions
• Ability to think critically and actively contribute to strategic choices.
• 3+ years experience in managing development teams working on multiple simultaneous projects.
• 3+ years experience in managing large scale software development teams following Agile development processes. 
• Strong skills in project planning & execution, problem solving. Ability to take a project from initial scoping requirements through actual launch and support of the project
• Proven leadership and teamwork skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in both technical and non-technical discussions.

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Deep, hands-on technical expertise in high scale, service-oriented architectures
• Exposure to Elastic Map Reduce and Machine Learning programs. 
• Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment
• Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
• Clear, professional communication skills able to contribute to team discussions, knowing when to contribute, when to listen, and when to ask questions
• Proactively and continually improve their level of knowledge about Amazon’s business and relevant technologies, and use this knowledge to deliver high quality, accurate software deliverables
• Strong business and technical vision
• Good understanding of web services