Senior Software Engineer

Job Description:

We are seeking a highly motivated and skilled Full Stack Java Developer with strong experience in backend and frontend development, cloud deployment, and modern DevOps practices. The ideal candidate will have a solid background in Java/J2EE technologies, hands-on experience in developing microservices on AWS, and a good understanding of CI/CD pipelines and monitoring tools.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, test, and maintain scalable web applications and microservices.
• Implement backend logic using Core Java, J2EE, Spring Boot, Spring Batch, JPA, and REST APIs.
• Build responsive UIs using React, HTML, CSS, and integrate them with backend services.
• Develop and deploy microservices using AWS services like ECS, EC2, S3, API Gateway, Aurora, ALB, and Route 53.
• Participate in Agile development processes, including sprint planning, stand-ups, and retrospectives.
• Write unit and integration tests using JUnit and Cucumber.
• Monitor application performance using APM tools and analyze logs using Splunk or similar tools.
• Implement CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Maven/Gradle, and Git/Bitbucket.
• Work with containerization and orchestration tools like Docker and Kubernetes.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams using tools like JIRA and Confluence.

Required Skills & Experience:

• Strong hands-on experience in Java/J2EE application development.
• Proficiency in Spring frameworks (Spring Boot, Batch) and RESTful services.
• Frontend development experience with React, HTML, CSS.
• Solid experience with AWS cloud technologies and deployment practices.
• Experience in writing and maintaining automated tests with JUnit and Cucumber.
• Knowledge of APM tools and log analysis tools (e.g., Splunk).
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and tools (Jenkins, Maven/Gradle, Git).
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Excellent problem-solving, debugging, and analytical skills.
• Good communication skills and ability to work in Agile teams.

Preferred Qualifications:

• AWS certification is a plus.
• Experience with Amazon Aurora and API Gateway in production environments.
• Knowledge of SOA, messaging systems (e.g., MQ), and security best practices.

Minimum 7-12 Years of Core Java Programming with Collections Framework, Concurrent Programming, Multi-threading (Good knowledge in Executor service, Forkjoin pool and other threading concepts)

·        Good knowledge of the JVM with an understanding of performance and memory optimization.

·        Extensive and expert programming experience in JAVA programming language (strong OO skills preferred).

·        Excellent knowledge on collections like, Array List, Vector, LinkedList, Hashmap, HashTable, HashSet is mandate.

·        Exercised exemplary development practices including design specification, coding standards, unit testing, and code-reviews.

·        Expert level understanding of Object Oriented Concepts and Data Structures

·        Good experience in Database (Sybase, Oracle or SQL Server) like indexing (clustered, non clustered), hashing, segmenting, data types like clob / blob, views (materialized), replication, constraints,            functions, triggers, procedures etc.

Desired Candidate Profile

• You are a great teammate with proven capabilities working on SaaS product and a passion for writing exception code.
• You are hungry for an opportunity to join a start-up and become a member of core platform team driving the company forward.
• Has good analytical and problem-solving skills and is able to break down a solution into smaller units of work and produce a solution roadmap.
• Has written high quality, well-tested shared components that can be leveraged by multiple systems. Can step into specific projects to supply additional management, coding and engineering capacity as needed.
• Has expert knowledge in distributes systems and high-volume transactions.
• Understand the product mission, goals, and tasks and execute with the team to achieve them.
• Understand the design and architecture and build modules in accordance with it or recommend and make the necessary changes that adds more stability to our product.
• Improve the quality of our front-end code and our overall front-end user experience.
• Takes requirements (business features, technical debts and internal enhancements) and designs resilient solutions. 

• 1+ years of hands-on experience in Java/Kotlin.
• Demonstrable understanding of Design Patterns.
• Experience in Context & Dependency Injection or Spring framework, Hibernate/JPA.
• Experience in RESTful/SOAP web services in integrating with 3rd Party API Integrations.
• Proficient in SQL (PostgreSQL) and NoSQL databases.
• Experience in multi-threading and concurrency is a plus Experience in JMS messaging using Apache Zookeeper and Kafka is a plus.
• Experience in Angular is a plus. Knowledge of modern CI/CD environments: Git, Gradle, GitLab Familiarity with tools like Postman, SOAPUI, IntelliJ

• Willing to learn our tech-stack (Kotlin | CDI | Angular).
• Develop API integrations using RESTful/SOAP web services.
• Significant technical academic course work or equivalent work experience
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Knowledge on cloud infrastructure is a plus.

• The Architect/ Lead Backend Engineer will handle the digital experience from inception to go-live model.
• The role holder is expected to create a vision and roadmap for the digital experience to provide best in class customer experience for each of the product solutions handled.  The role holder will play a critical role in leading the innovation and growth of our front end web and mobile platforms.
• Must be from Good Companies and have been working on high Scale of Traffic
• Proficiency in engineering practices and writing high quality code, with expertise in either one of Java or Groovy or Go.
• 3+ years of experience building microservices.
• Strong experience in architecting and building distributed systems, scalability, and availability
• Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and designing for performance
• Strong knowledge of cloud technologies like AWS/Google Cloud/Azure
• Good understanding of RxJava or Actors framework
• Proficient with RDBMS
• Strong knowledge on data stores, database design, data modelling and SQL queries
• Extensive experience building and owning large- scale distributed backend systems
• Experience working with three or more of : Unix/Linux environments, Distributed and parallel systems, Workflow automation, CI/CD Platform development, Cloud platforms development e.g. AWS/GCP, Kubernetes/Container platforms based development