
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)

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What you will do?
Project Management
- Work with the product management team to create an engineering roadmap that aligns with the product roadmap.
- Translate engineering roadmap into executable internal projects, and own the end-to-end execution of these projects.
- Plan, execute and deliver projects as per schedule, content, and quality metrics.
- Manage the day-to-day activities of the engineering team using Agile practices.
- Keep stakeholders continually updated on the progress of projects and operations.
- Track and report engineering health metrics (such as bugs by severity, production incidents etc.)
People Management
- Hire and mentor a team of engineers
- Manage learning and development, and performance of your team.
- Own, Conceptualize and Build a tech-focused team
Technical Work
- Core stakeholder to all technical design and architecture of team.
- Review code, test plans, and deployment plans.
- Focus and Strengthen all aspects of reliability
What we look for?
Must Haves
- Experience in telecom messaging software systems.
- Experience in distributed and scalable systems.
- Communication skills - excellent written and oral communication to present complex ideas/concepts in a clear and concise manner; communicating with key stakeholders with work/project progress.
Good to Have
- Experience in telecom messaging software systems.
- Experience in distributed and scalable systems.
- Communication skills - excellent written and oral communication to present complex ideas/concepts in a clear and concise manner; communicating with key stakeholders with work/project progress

Job Summary :
As a Software Development Engineer, you will be responsible for end-to-end delivery of software components all the way to production. In this position you will partner with our globally distributed cross-functional teams, product managers and other internal stakeholders. This position requires understanding business & technical requirements, designing clean solutions, implementing them and managing these systems. A key aspect of the role is to understand the digital commerce businesses part of KBX and implement technology systems that favourably align with business initiatives and requirements. The position will be evaluated in terms of the quality of the technology development, ongoing management of the systems and impact on business metrics.
Responsibilities :
- Work closely with cross functional teams to and deliver quality technology solutions
- Operational rigor for a rapidly growing tech stack and live portals
- Regular communication with management on status and risks.
- Measure success metrics and influence evolution of the tech product
- Be resourceful and find creative solutions to complex technical challenges.
Basic Qualifications :
- Ability to understand business requirements and build technology solutions that factor in the business requirements completely
- Possess an extremely sound understanding of basic areas of Computer Science such as Algorithms, Data Structures, Object Oriented, Databases.
- Excellent coding skills
- Great problem solving skills and propensity to learn and develop tech talent.
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science and years of Software Development experience
Preferred Qualifications :
- Understanding on Web programming is must; full stack experience would be a plus.
- Understanding on AWS Cloud Stack (EC2, Lambda, Dynamo DB, Aurora) would be a plus
- Knowledge of serverless development
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Java with cloud
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Core Java, SpringBoot, MicroServices |
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- DB2 or any RDBMS database application development |
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- Linux OS, shell scripting, Batch Processing |
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- Troubleshooting Large Scale application |
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- Experience in automation and unit test framework is a must |
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- AWS Cloud experience desirable |
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- Agile Development Experience |
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- Complete Development Cycle ( Dev, QA, UAT, Staging) |
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- Good Oral and Written Communication Skills |
Function: Technology
Purpose of the Job:
The Developer will be part of a cross-functional Scrum team responsible for designing, developing, and testing diverse features of Airtel Payments Bank agile stream. Payments bank values software engineers who are motivated, creative, passionate and positive. You must be comfortable working closely with others and have solid communication skills. Software engineers who learn quickly and have strong technical skills will thrive at Airtel Payments Bank. You must have considerable experience with object-oriented programming and should be familiar with design patterns, data structures, database and other staples of practical software development
Key Deliverables :
- Research, design, implement and managing software programs
- Test and evaluate new programs
- Identify the areas for modification in existing programs and subsequently developing these modifications
- Writing and implementing efficient code
- Determining operational practicality
- Deploying software tools, processes and metrics
- Maintaining and upgrading existing systems
Skills Required:
- Should have experience of working on Core Java/J2EE & OOPS concept
- Should be well versed with Spring/Struts & Apache Camel (OSGI Framework)
- Should have a good understanding of Hibernate and Other ORMs
- Technical design, implementation, deployment, and support.
- Perform development and unit testing, working closely with Business.
- Web Service (SOAP/REST) , Maven
- Build tool such as Jenkins
- Caching Technique(Radis, Hazlecast, aerospike)
- Database Knowledge - Oracle, MySQL
Qualification: Technical background (BS/MS in Computer Science/Engineering or related discipline/experience)
Esper is looking for a software engineer to transform the customer experience
for developers and engineering teams using the platform of services to deploy
and build out their device fleets. You and your team will own services that will
enable customers to develop and customize their development process, along
with easing their use of Continuous Integration techniques for their software. We
need a leader that is experienced in delivering scalable multi-region fault tolerant
systems, is passionate about the developer tools space, is excited to have
software developers as their customers, and is obsessed about creating
compelling customer experiences.
In this role you will contribute to a critical and highly-visible function within the
Esper business. You will be given the opportunity to autonomously deliver the
technical direction of the service, and the feature roadmap. You will work with
extraordinary talent and have the opportunity to hire and shape the team to best
execute on the product. If you’re excited to have a large impact on Esper and the
device industry, you’ll find this role to be engaging, challenging, and full of
opportunities to learn and grow.
Key Responsibilities
Help drive business decisions with your technical input
Design, implement, test, deploy and maintain innovative software
solutions to transform service performance, durability, cost, and
security.
Use software engineering best practices to ensure a high standard of
quality for all of the team deliverables
Write high quality distributed system software
Work in an agile, startup-like development environment, where you are always working on the most important stuff.
Basic Qualifications
2 -4 years of professional software development experience
You’ve designed, built, scaled and maintained production services, and know how to compose a service oriented architecture.
Degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
You write high quality, well tested code to meet the needs of your customers
You are comfortable with programming languages like Go, Python, Java
You’ve good understanding of databases system like Postgres. Extensive Knowledge about Postgres is a big plus.
You’ve have worked with Docker, Kubernetes and have fundamental understanding of distributed systems like Kafka, Elasticsearch
Preferred Qualifications
Experience taking a lead role developing complex software systems that have successfully been delivered to customers.
Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams and senior management to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs and product strategy.
Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, continuous deployments, testing and operations
Demonstrated ability to mentor junior software engineers in all aspects of their engineering skill-sets.
What we think makes us special
Esper is a fast-growing, well-funded company where everyone matters and you can see your impact daily. We trust our teammates and offer intense ownership and therefore accountability. We’re inventing the future and building something special. The team really enjoys what we do and cares about your input. We don’t hire just to fill a spot, we want you to make a difference.
As you help us build this special company, Esper will take care of you. We offer flexible vacation, regular hack-days, competitive pay and benefits, and room for advancement. We hire capable veterans so we avoid the drama and trust in each other’s work. Our worldwide footprint mixes different cultures for a unique experience. We also like to have fun because we play just as hard as we work.
- Design and develop Microservices with Java, Spring
- Communicate with the tech lead, to understand the technology thoroughly
- Perform unit and system testing
- Understand business requirements and create plans accordingly
- Work in an agile environment
- Perform threat and risk assessments

Basic Qualifications
Candidates for this role must have:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field
- At least three years of experience writing production code of increasing complexity
- Strong understanding of computer science fundamentals, including algorithms, complexity analysis, data structures, problem solving, and object-oriented analysis and design
- Proficiency in at least one of the following: Java, C, C++, C#, Ruby, Scala, Python
- Experience refactoring code and evolving architectures
- Experience crafting unit, integration, functional and regression tests
Preferred Qualifications
- Master’s degree in computer science or a related field
- Experience developing in a Linux environment
- Experience applying service-oriented architecture techniques to production use cases
- Experience in developing secure, multi-platform mobile applications
Qualification & Experience:
- Bachelor of Engineering, preferably in Computer Science/or related fields or Masters, from a premier college
- 2 to 6 years overall software development experience
- Proven hands-on Software Development experience
- Ability to work with an agile mindset
- Having a polyglot mindset to think beyond one programming language/framework to choose the right tech stack for the right problem and exhibit learnability to pick up new technologies
- Proven working experience in Java development/Python development with reasonable exposure to Python/Java respectively or willingness to learn Python/Java
- Hands on experience in designing and developing applications using Java EE platforms/Python Frameworks
- Object Oriented analysis and design using common design patterns
- Good Understanding of Data Structures & Algorithms
- Hands on multi-threading
- Experience in the Relational Databases, SQL and ORM technologies (e.g. JDBC, JPA2, Hibernate, Django ORM)
- Experience with test-driven development







