Java Developer

Job Title: Java Developer

Location: Chennai

Experience: 3+ Years

Employment Type: Full-time

Job Description:

We are looking for a skilled and passionate Java Developer with a strong foundation in Core Java and Object-Oriented Programming concepts. The ideal candidate should possess excellent communication skills and have hands-on experience with multi-threading, collections, databases, and backend development frameworks like Spring and Spring Boot. Exposure to cloud platforms and frontend technologies is a plus.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable Java applications using Core Java and Spring Boot.
• Apply strong knowledge of Java Collections Framework and concurrent programming techniques including ExecutorService, ForkJoinPool, and other threading mechanisms.
• Optimize JVM performance and memory usage.
• Participate in all phases of the software development lifecycle: requirement gathering, design, development, testing, and deployment.
• Write clean, maintainable code following best practices, coding standards, and design patterns.
• Conduct code reviews, unit testing, and participate in peer programming.
• Collaborate effectively with team members and stakeholders to deliver high-quality solutions.
• Interact with databases like Oracle, Sybase, or SQL Server, with a strong understanding of views, triggers, indexing, and stored procedures.

Must-Have Skills:

• 3+ years of hands-on experience in Core Java
• Strong understanding of Collections, Multithreading, and Concurrency
• Proficient in Spring Framework, especially Spring Boot
• Deep understanding of Object-Oriented Design and Data Structures
• Strong experience in RDBMS (Sybase/Oracle/SQL Server) including indexing, replication, CLOB/BLOB types, views, and procedures
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Good to Have:

• Exposure to Microservices architecture
• Familiarity with NoSQL databases
• Knowledge or willingness to work on frontend technologies
• Experience working with public cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)

Soft Skills:

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Team player with a proactive attitude
• Ability to work independently and in a fast-paced environment

If you are passionate about Java development and want to work on cutting-edge technologies in a collaborative environment, we would love to hear from you.

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Job Title: Senior Java Developer – Multi-SaaS / Microservices / Pub-Sub

About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Java Developer with strong leadership abilities to join our team. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in Java, micro services architecture, multi-tenant SaaS systems, pub/sub messaging, and cloud-based deployments on AWS EKS. This role requires not only technical mastery but also the ability to mentor teams, influence architecture decisions, and ensure best practices through Test-Driven Development (TDD).

Key Responsibilities

• Lead design and development of Java-based multi-tenant SaaS applications using microservices architecture.
• Implement pub/sub messaging systems for event-driven communication.
• Deploy, monitor, and optimize services on AWS EKS.
• Ensure system reliability, scalability, and security using AWS CloudWatch and other observability tools.
• Apply TDD principles to drive high-quality, maintainable code.
• Collaborate with product managers, architects, and other developers to translate requirements into technical solutions.
• Lead code reviews, mentor junior engineers, and promote engineering best practices.
• Take ownership of end-to-end delivery, from architecture design to production rollout.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Proficiency in Java with 6+ years of professional development experience.
• Strong background in microservices architecture and multi-tenant SaaS systems.
• Expertise in pub/sub messaging patterns (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ, or AWS SNS/SQS).
• Hands-on experience with AWS EKS and container orchestration (Kubernetes).
• Strong understanding of monitoring and logging using AWS CloudWatch or similar tools.
• Proven experience applying Test-Driven Development (TDD) in real-world projects.
• Demonstrated leadership skills – mentoring, decision-making, and driving engineering excellence.
• Solid understanding of software engineering best practices, CI/CD, and version control (Git).

• 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.

How would you leverage your technical expertise to create extraordinary impact for our clients?

ThoughtWorks is a global software consultancy with an aim to create a positive impact on the world through technology. Our community of technologists thinks disruptively to deliver pragmatic solutions for our clients' most complex challenges. We are curious minds who come together as collaborative and inclusive teams to push boundaries, free to be ourselves and make our mark in tech.

Our developers have been contributing code to major organizations and open source projects for over 25 years. They’ve also been writing books, speaking at conferences and helping push software development forward, changing companies and even industries along the way. 

You could influence the digital strategy of a retail giant, build a bold new mobile application for a bank or redesign platforms using event sourcing and intelligent data pipelines. You will use the latest Lean and Agile thinking, create pragmatic solutions to solve mission-critical problems and challenge yourself every day.

For a team to thrive, it needs active collaboration and room for healthy, respectful debate. Senior Developers are the technologists who cultivate this environment while driving teams toward delivering on an ambitious tech vision and acting as mentors for more junior-level consultants. They leverage their deep technical knowledge to solve more complex business problems and actively assess their team’s health, code quality and nonfunctional pipelines. 

You’ll spend time on the following:

• You will use continuous delivery practices to deliver high-quality software as well as value to end customers as early as possible.
• You will work in collaborative, value-driven teams to build innovative customer experiences for our clients
• Create large-scale distributed systems out of microservices
• You will apply the latest technology thinking from our tech radar to solve client problems
• Efficiently utilize DevOps tools and practices to build and deploy software
• You will lead or take part in the entire cycle of software consulting and delivery from ideation to deployment and everything in between
• You will act as a mentor for less-experienced peers through both your technical knowledge and leadership skills 

Here’s what we’re looking for:

• You have at least 5 years of experience with two or more development languages such as Java, C#, or Ruby
• You can skillfully write high-quality, well-tested code and you are comfortable with Object-Oriented programming
• Presence in the external tech community: you proactively share your expertise with others via speaking engagements, contributions to open source, blogs and more
• Comfortability with Agile methods, such as Extreme Programming (XP), Scrum and/or Kanban
• You enjoy influencing others and always advocate for technical excellence while being open to change when needed 
• You’re willing and able to commit to travel to client sites in order to solve their business problems
• You’re resilient in ambiguous situations and can approach challenges from multiple perspectives
• Bonus points if you have working knowledge of cloud technology such as AWS, Azure, Kubernetes and Docker

• At least 2+ years of product development experience with expertise in designing and implementing high-performance java enterprise applications
• Extensive knowledge in Object-Oriented Programming and Design
• Extensive knowledge of Java, Spring, Spring MVC, Spring Boot, Hibernate, Struts
• Exposure to or experience with Git, Bitbucket, Jira, Jenkins etc.
• Experience with HTML/XHTML, CSS, Javascript, AJAX, DOM, Reactjs
• Extensive knowledge in creating and consuming RESTful API
• Extensive knowledge in automated unit testing using JUnit
• Experience in AWS infrastructure
• Knowledge in writing SQL queries and interacting with database systems such as Oracle, SQL Server,
• Thorough orientation towards Code reviews, Coding standards, Design Standards, and Code Documentation
• Knowledge in design patterns
• Knowledge of Data modeling in RDBMS or NoSQL databases
• A proactive approach to identify alternatives for a given problem statement
• Should have worked on enterprise-class applications
• Should have worked in an Agile environment
• Excellent oral and written communication skills