Software Developer - Java Specialist

Job Description – Senior Java Developer (Spring Boot / Microservices)

Location: Chennai, India

Experience: 4+ Years

Availability: Immediate Joiner

About the Role:

We are looking for a highly skilled Java Developer with over 5 years of hands-on experience in building scalable backend systems using Java, Spring Boot, and Microservices architecture. The ideal candidate will have strong problem-solving skills, deep knowledge of backend frameworks, and a solid understanding of JUnit-based testing.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain high-performance backend systems using Java and Spring Boot
• Develop and deploy RESTful microservices in a distributed architecture
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features
• Write clean, scalable, and testable code following best practices
• Implement unit and integration tests using JUnit and other testing frameworks
• Participate in code reviews and contribute to improving team processes
• Troubleshoot and resolve production issues in a timely manner

Key Skills:

• Strong proficiency in Java
• Expertise in Spring Boot and related modules (Spring Data, Spring Security, etc.)
• Solid understanding of Microservices architecture, REST APIs, and inter-service communication
• Experience with JUnit and writing automated test cases
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and version control (Git)
• Knowledge of containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) is a plus
• Exposure to messaging systems like Kafka or RabbitMQ is a plus
• Familiarity with databases (SQL/NoSQL)

Key Responsibilities/Duties:

· Develops and enhances software applications through coding and testing.

· Writing well designed, testable, efficient code

· Involves in code reviews and training.

· Contributing in all phases of the development lifecycle

· Delivers highest quality software by creating unit test plans and testing code thoroughly.

· Adept with the tools, applications, and processes used for software development.

· Implements solutions as designed in technical documentation specification and coding standards.

· Creates project documentations and coordinates technical issues.

· Knows the business rules and concepts, software specifications and designs provided by the technical lead and apply them in completing the assigned task.

Qualification: Bachelors or Master’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering.

Java

Mandatory:

1. Strong expertize in Java/J2EE(4-7 years of experience)
2. Strong  expertize in Microservices, SpringBoot
3. Java including multithreading and concurrency

Preferred skills :

1. Experience in  Virtualization, SDN, NFV, Yang, Netconf
2. Good Knowledge on Networking
3. Multithreading and concurrency

Elastic is a search company built on a free and open heritage. Anyone can use Elastic products and solutions to get started quickly and frictionlessly. Elastic offers three solutions for enterprise search, observability, and security, built on one technology stack that can be deployed anywhere. From finding documents to monitoring infrastructure to hunting for threats, Elastic makes data usable in real time and at scale. Thousands of organizations worldwide, including Cisco, eBay, Goldman Sachs, Microsoft, The Mayo Clinic, NASA, The New York Times, Wikipedia, and Verizon, use Elastic to power mission-critical systems. Founded in 2012, Elastic is a distributed company with Elasticians around the globe and is publicly traded on the NYSE under the symbol ESTC. Learn more at https://www.elastic.co/">elastic.co.

The Observability team is in charge of developing solutions that focus on application developers and engineers that run infrastructure and services supporting these applications. Elasticsearch is an efficient datastore for logs, metrics, and application traces, supporting the three pillars of observability. The Observability team builds and maintains solutions that make getting insights from this data turnkey and efficient, such as our https://www.elastic.co/solutions/apm">APM, https://www.elastic.co/solutions/metrics">Infrastructure Monitoring, and https://www.elastic.co/uptime-monitoring">Synthetics solutions. When developing these solutions, we think about the problem end-to-end: how do we automatically collect data from common data sources, how do we store it efficiently in Elasticsearch, how do we present this information to the user, what actions do we take on the insights from the data? All of these aspects are important in bringing a turnkey solution to the market. 

You will be working on Observability Integrations to collect logs and metrics from all the systems that matter to our users, using the current and next generation of data shippers: Beats and the new Elastic Agent.

Job Location : Bangalore, India

• Work with product management to define the requirements for new https://github.com/elastic/integrations">integrations: data collection strategies, storage optimization, alerting and visualization options, refining requirements, translating requirements to stories and epics, and performing detailed scoping of features
• Develop, maintain and evolve https://github.com/elastic/integrations">integrations for multiple services using the Elastic Stack and https://github.com/elastic/elastic-package">specific tooling. For some projects, contributions to the https://github.com/elastic/beats">beats platform will be needed (Go).
• Work with our support team to help customers troubleshoot and solve their issues in production environments, ensuring SLAs are met.
• Interact with the community and help them use our products.
• Collaborate with other engineering, QA and documentation teams to execute on product deliverables.

• Experience operating or developing monitoring products, such as Elastic (ELK, Elastic Observability),  Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog, New Relic, etc.
• Proficiency in at least one programming language (Go, Java, PHP, Python, Ruby, C++,  we use Go) with strong analytical, debugging, and troubleshooting skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and ability to work in a distributed team.
• Experience participating in technical decision-making across different engineering teams.

• Interest in learning new technologies.
• Experience contributing to open source projects.
• Hands-on experience managing cloud services at scale.
• Experience in SRE and / or DevOps roles.
• Experience monitoring or operating container orchestrators (Kubernetes, etc).

As a distributed company, diversity drives our identity. Whether you’re looking to launch a new career or grow an existing one, Elastic is the type of company where you can balance great work with great life. Your age is only a number. It doesn’t matter if you’re just out of college or your children are; we need you for what you can do.

We strive to have parity of benefits across regions and while regulations differ from place to place, we believe taking care of our people is the right thing to do.

• Competitive pay based on the work you do here and not your previous salary
• Health coverage for you and your family in many locations
• Ability to craft your calendar with flexible locations and schedules for many roles
• Generous number of vacation days each year
• Double your charitable giving - We match up to $1500 (or local currency equivalent)
• Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects you love
• Embracing parenthood with minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave

Must-Have:

• Core Java (Must be good in Core Java concepts, Java programming practices, Clean coding.)
• Spring Framework(Must have working experience in Spring Core)
• Any SQL framework(hands-on working experience in any of these: Hibernate/JPA/MyBatis/Spring Data/Others)
• Hands-on experience in REST API
• Hands-on experienceSQL Database(any of the databases: Oracle/MySQL/PostgreSQL/SQLServer)
• Must have working experience with basic GIT
• Maven or Gradle (Must have working experience in building Java projects using maven or Gradle.)
• Should be able to work independently under someone's guidance.

Good to have:

• Advanced Java(Threading, Performance optimization)
• Spring Boot
• Other Spring frameworks(Spring Security, Spring Batch, Others)
• Microservices - Any NoSQL database(MongoDB, Cassandra, others)
• Application designing concepts.

- Build the backend for Android & iOS application and website with Company Dashboard (MIS). 
- Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers with server side logic 
- Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performance applications
-Well versed with AWS and Server deployment 
- Excellent knowledge of Spring frameworks 
- Excellent knowledge of Java, JSP, JavaScript, AJAX, HTML, JSON 
- Good knowledge of MySQL 
- Knowledge of coding standards and good commenting practices 
- Experiences in developing RESTful web services must. 
- Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements 
- Ability to design applications around natural user interfaces 
- Experience with REST API connections 
- Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code 
- Integration of data storage solutions
- Build the backend for application and website with Android App, IOS, Company Dashboard. 
- Own software quality and optimize UI 
- Understand closely the requirements of the customers and get the features implemented on time 
- Creating of strong project timeline along with budgeting and regular reporting