About the role
Key Responsibilities
* Design & Development * Microservices Development: Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain high-throughput, low-latency microservices using Java (17/21), Spring Boot, and cloud-native frameworks. * API Architecture: Build and document robust RESTful APIs and event-driven interfaces adhering to enterprise API standards, OpenAPI/Swagger specifications, * Event-Driven & Messaging Systems: Design asynchronous workflows and event streaming pipelines using Apache Kafka or JMS. * Database & Data Management: Implement efficient data persistence layers using relational databases ( Oracle) and NoSQL stores (MongoDB), ensuring optimized indexing, query execution, and transactional integrity.
Engineering Excellence & DevOps
* Code Quality & Best Practices: Enforce clean code principles, SOLID design patterns, domain-driven design (DDD), and test-driven development (TDD/BDD). * Automated Testing: Author comprehensive unit, integration, and contract tests utilizing JUnit 5, Mockito maintaining high automated test coverage (>85%). * CI/CD & Cloud Integration: Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines and containerize services using Docker and Kubernetes / OpenShift. * Observability & Reliability: Integrate logging, metrics, and tracing instrumentation into microservices using frameworks such as OpenTelemetry, Micrometer, Prometheus, Grafana, and Splunk/ELK.
Collaboration & Leadership
* Agile Participation: Actively participate in Scrum/Kanban ceremonies (sprint planning, daily standups, backlog refinement, retrospectives). * Production Support & Incident Management: Partner with Level 3 (L3) support teams for triage, root-cause analysis (RCA), and remediation of critical production incidents during release rollouts and business hours.
* 4-8 years in an Apps Development role. Demonstrated execution capabilities. * Strong analytical and quantitative skills; Data driven and results-oriented * Experience in running high traffic, distributed, cloud based services * Experience in affecting large culture change * Experience leading infrastructure programs * Skilled at working with third party service providers * Excellent written and oral communication skills
Education:
* Bachelor’s/University degree or equivalent experience
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Job Family Group:
Technology
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Job Family:
Digital Software Engineering
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Time Type:
Full time
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Most Relevant Skills
Please see the requirements listed above.
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Other Relevant Skills
For complementary skills, please see above and/or contact the recruiter.
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