JAVA Developer

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced Java + Kafka Developer to design, develop, and maintain high-performance, event-driven applications. The ideal candidate will have strong backend development skills in Java and hands-on experience with Apache Kafka for building scalable, real-time data processing systems.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and develop event-driven microservices using Java and Apache Kafka
• Build and maintain Kafka producers, consumers, topics, and streams
• Implement message processing, retries, error handling, and idempotency
• Develop and integrate RESTful APIs
• Ensure high availability, scalability, and performance of Kafka-based systems
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize Kafka and application performance
• Collaborate with architects, DevOps, and QA teams
• Participate in code reviews and follow best practices
• Contribute to system design and technical discussions

Required Skills

• 6+ years of experience in Java backend development
• Strong hands-on experience with Apache Kafka
• Experience with event-driven and streaming architectures
• Solid understanding of microservices architecture
• Experience with REST APIs
• Good knowledge of multithreading, concurrency, and JVM concepts
• Familiarity with SQL / NoSQL databases
• Strong problem-solving and debugging skills

Hiring for Java Developer

Experience : 5 to 10 yrs

Notice Period : 0 to 15 days

Location : Pune

Work Mode : WFO (5 days)

As Java developer you would be expected to perform many duties throughout the development lifecycle of applications, from concept and design right through to testing. Here are some of the responsibilities you may have:

Develop high-level design and define software architecture

Implement and maintain quality systems within the group

Proficiently estimates, design approaches and nimbly move to alternate apporaches, if needed, develop and execute unit test strategies

Monitor and track tasks, and report status

Assist project heads to conceptualize, design, develop, test and implement technology solutions

Effectively collaborate with stakeholders and users to ensure customer satisfaction

Skill Set :

Java 7 / Java 8 with microservices, Multithreading, Springboot, Junit, kafka, Splunk (Good to have), Open Shift (Good to Have), Authentication/ Spring Security (Good to have)

• Work across all phases of application development including requirement gathering, coding, release, bug fixing, documentation.
• Lead and mentor a team of developers guiding them in their day to day activities.
• Collaborate with other engineering teams to develop and deliver new features and enhance existing ones.
• Rapid prototyping (POCs) based on requirements.
• Test, debug and fix any functional or non-functional issues.
• Work with the architects to ensure feasibility of the design while ensuring all quality attributes are met.
• Participate in deployment and release activities.

• 5+years of relevant experience.
• Experience in leading a team.
• Expertise in Python, Django DRF, REST APIs
• Experience with Document DB, RDBMS and ORM.
• Demonstrated ability to write clean and testable code.
• Knowledge of MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Redis, ElasticSearch is preferred.
• Exposure to AWS will be an added advantage.
• Familiarity with front-end technologies (ReactJS, Javascript etc) will be a plus.
• Strong team player who can work efficiently in a highly collaborative effort.
•  Self-motivated and able to work independently as well as within a team.

About Rolling Arrays

Rolling Arrays provides HR Software and HR System Implementation Services (SAP SuccessFactors, Qualtrics, Reimburse, CICO, eFile, eAuthoring) to Clients in Singapore, Malaysia, Australia, UAE, Hong Kong. Rolling Arrays (RA) was featured as Singapore’s Top 75 fastest growing companies by the leading newspaper of Singapore - The Straits Times in 2021 where RA was ranked 48. Rolling Arrays has 2 lines of businesses: 

HR System Implementation Services: 

Rolling Arrays is regarded as number ONE mid-size firm in the South East Asian Market with a strong track record of 12 Years and more than 200 enterprise level HR Technology Implementation projects till date. The services include – 

• SAP SuccessFactors Design Consulting
• SAP SuccessFactors Implementation
• SAP SuccessFactors Change Management
• SAP SuccessFactors Support Services (AMS)

HR Software Products in Rolling Arrays’ portfolio (partner’s products and own products): 

• SAP SuccessFactors (World’s leading End to End Cloud HR Software solution)
• Qualtrics (World’s leading Experience Management Software)
• Reimburse (AI Enabled Travel & Expense Management Software for Enterprises)
• CICO (Intelligent Time Capture Machine, a software alternative to Physical Biometric Devices)
• eFile (Digitize and contextualize all employee documents in one place)
• eAuthoring (Author and publish your own learning content to capture tacit knowledge in the organization)

Responsibilities for Staff Engineer role:

• Having experience in Java/Python/Golang along with Springboot, Micorservices, RDBMS
• Experience required: 10yrs to 15 yrs.

As a Software Development Engineer at Amazon, you have industry-leading technical abilities and demonstrate breadth and depth of knowledge. You build software to deliver business impact, making smart technology choices. You work in a team and drive things forward. 

Top Skills

•    You write high quality, maintainable, and robust code, often in Java or C++.

•    You recognize and adopt best practices in software engineering: design, testing, version control, documentation, build, deployment, and operations.

•    You have experience building scalable software systems that are high-performance, highly-available, highly transactional, low latency and massively distributed.

Roles & Responsibilities

•    You solve problems at their root, stepping back to understand the broader context.

•    You develop pragmatic solutions and build flexible systems that balance engineering complexity and timely delivery, creating business impact.

•    You understand a broad range of data structures and algorithms and apply them to deliver high-performing applications.

•    You recognize and use design patterns to solve business problems.

•    You understand how operating systems work, perform and scale.

•    You continually align your work with Amazon’s business objectives and seek to deliver business value.

•    You collaborate to ensure that decisions are based on the merit of the proposal, not the proposer.

•    You proactively support knowledge-sharing and build good working relationships within the team and with others in Amazon.

•    You communicate clearly with your team and with other groups and listen effectively. 

Skills & Experience

•    Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science or relevant technical field.

•    Experience in software development and full product life-cycle.

•    Excellent programming skills in any object oriented programming languages - preferably Java, C/C++/C#, Perl, Python, or Ruby.

•    Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and designing for performance, scalability, and availability.

•    Proficiency in SQL and data modeling.