Java Developer

Position of the role

The Principal Engineer reports to the Domain Lead and plays a key role in driving the technical vision, strategy, and execution of development initiatives. The Principal Engineer collaborates with multiple teams to ensure that software solutions are scalable, cost-optimized, performant, and aligned with business objectives.

Result expectation in terms of result areas and core activities

The Principal Engineer is responsible for defining, designing, and overseeing the implementation of complex software solutions. This role involves deep technical expertise, mentorship, and architectural guidance across multiple teams. The Principal Engineer also acts as a thought leader, influencing technology choices, best practices, and innovation within the organization.

Main objectives of the role

✔ Leading the design and architecture of the software by following best practices that ensure scalability, maintainability, cost optimization, and high performance.

✔ Driving innovation and continuous improvements in software development practices.

✔ Providing technical mentorship and coaching to engineers across teams.

✔ Ensuring the successful delivery of high-quality software aligned with business requirements.

✔ Defining and maintaining coding standards, best practices, and governance frameworks.

✔ Collaborating with product management and other stakeholders to shape the technical roadmap.

✔ Identifying technical debt and implementing strategies to mitigate it effectively.

✔ Promoting a culture of continuous learning, knowledge sharing, and cross-team collaboration.

✔ Leading DevOps, CI/CD, and automation to improve software delivery processes and efficiency.

Specialisation

✔ Deep understanding of software architecture, system design, and performance optimization.

✔ Translating complex business requirements into scalable and efficient software solutions.

✔ Handling large data transformations and ensuring system efficiency under the required load conditions.

✔ Leading initiatives for modernizing the technology stack and implementing best practices.

✔ Ensuring that security, scalability, and maintainability are embedded into development processes.

✔ Driving research and development efforts to explore emerging technologies and their business impact.

✔ Enabling teams to develop and maintain high-quality software through code reviews, architecture guidance, and technical strategy.

✔ Collaborating with product owners and stakeholders to ensure that development aligns with business goals and user needs.

Key processes in the role

✔ Agile / Scrum / Kanban development methodologies.

✔ CI/CD and DevOps practices to streamline delivery.

✔ Cloud-native architecture, monolith and microservices-based development.

✔ Scalable and high-performance computing strategies.

✔ Secure software development lifecycle (SDLC).

✔ Data-driven decision-making.

✔ Performance optimization.

Key relationships (teams and/or position titles)

✔ Engineering Teams (Developers, QA, DevOps).

✔ Head of Engineering and Technology Leadership.

✔ Product Management and Business Stakeholders.

✔ Customer Success and Solution Architects.

✔ External Technical Partners and Vendors.

Requirements

✔ Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.

✔ 10+ years of experience in software development, with a proven track record .

✔ Strong experience in Python and modern software engineering practices.

✔ Expertise in cloud computing platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).

✔ Experience in architecting and developing scalable, high-performance applications.

✔ Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, DevOps tools, and automation.

✔ Deep understanding of microservices, monolith, APIs, and distributed systems.

✔ Strong experience with database technologies, including SQL and NoSQL.

✔ Excellent communication and leadership skills, with the ability to influence technical decisions across teams.

✔ A passion for mentoring, coaching, and fostering a strong engineering culture.

✔ Experience in defining and implementing technical governance and best practices.

Competences

✔ Strategic Thinking - 4

✔ Analytical Problem Solving - 4

✔ Technical Leadership & Mentorship - 4

✔ Communication & Collaboration - 3

Measures of success

✔ Technical leadership impact - measurable improvements in code quality, architecture, and scalability.

✔ Delivery of high-quality software within agreed timelines and business requirements.

✔ Successful mentorship - improvement in team skill levels, problem-solving capabilities, and innovation.

✔ Reduction of technical debt through strategic refactoring and modernization.

✔ Engineering team satisfaction - based on feedback and collaboration effectiveness.

✔ Improvements in system performance, stability, cost-optimization, and security.

✔ Adoption of best practices and emerging technologies across teams.

✔ Contribution to company-wide strategic initiatives through technical innovation and leadership.

About Company

Our client is in the business of delivering cutting-edge software solutions, hardware systems, and IT services. It lends the right technological edge to governments and businesses. This enables them to achieve their organizational objectives efficiently and effectively to scale their businesses to newer heights.

Minimum Requirements/Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in computer science, Computer Engineering or a related field is preferred.

• Must have at least 5 to 7 years of experience in application development (Java,Spring Framework), Deployment(Apache Tomcat & Nginx)

• Sound knowledge of Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) Patterns and Concepts.

• Knowledge & hands-on experience of Java, Spring Framework, Spring Security, JSP, Apache Tomcat, Nginx is a must.

• Must have experience with Bootstrap CSS, jQuery etc.

• Basic Understanding of PostgreSQL, MVC (Model-View-Controller) Pattern, JDBC (Java Database Connectivity), and RESTful web services.

• Relevant Knowledge of Java GUI frameworks according to project requirements.

• Experience in handling external and embedded databases.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Develop new modules, patches & Updates/upgrades for an existing application (developed in-house by the client)

• Bug fixing, and updating of software.

• Analyze user requirements to define business objectives.

• Maintain Java-based applications that can be high-volume and low-latency.

• Identify and resolve any technical issues arising.

• Write well-designed, testable code.

• Conducting software analysis, programming, testing, and debugging.

• Support continuous improvement, investigating alternatives and technologies, and presenting for architectural review.

• New features developed independently with the ability to document the design after understanding and evaluating the requirements with necessary groundwork on required application components
• Hands-on coding to implement the design for feature completion
• Able to write unit tests that ensures bug free code
• Able to handle the multi-tenant and performance requirements of the new features and applications.
• Integrate the new features with existing modules, deliver ready to use code meeting necessary build requirements and CI/CD requirements.
• Work with other functional groups for product, technology, QA, tech support and deployment team.

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The ideal candidate must have the following qualifications.

• BE/B.Tech Degree from a reputed institution with at least 7 years of relevant experience
• Hands-on experience with Core Java, J2EE with a good knowledge of its ecosystem
• Experience with JUnit, JMH like performance tuning test tools preferred
• REST API design and development experience. Usage of Swagger or other API spec tools would be preferred. Working knowledge on Spring Boot is a plus
• Hands-on experience with some of the following application components is a plus: Solr, Kafka, OpenTSDB, Elasticsearch, Janus graph or any graph DB.
• Experience with databases such as MongoDB, MySQL or PostgreSQL required.
• Familiarity with continuous integration and build tools such as Jenkins or CircleCI, Maven, Ant required
• Experience building applications using microservices architecture is highly preferred. Knowledge of Kubernetes, Docker would be ideal
• Working knowledge on public clouds like AWS or Google cloud or Azure is a plus
• Experience building scalable systems
• Strong problem solving skills and ability and interest to solve complex problems
• Interest in machine learning (ML) data science is a plus

• Expert knowledge of computer science, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms,

  and software design.

• Strong understanding of end-to-end architectures and development frameworks; knowledge

  across tiers in a multi-tier cloud environment including load balancers, web servers, application

  containers, data stores, and distributed caches.

• Minimum 6 years of experience with deep technical knowledge and hands on skills in Java.

• Has worked extensively on caching technologies such as Redis, memcache.

• Should be strong with Data Strcutures, Algorithms & OOPs concepts.

• Worked on NoSQL databases such as MongoDb.

• Designed and developed highly scalable multi-threaded large scale distributed systems.

• Well versed with services and micro-services architecture.

• • Usage of containers, virtual machine systems, cloud computing.