About this role
Job Requirements
Experience: 5-7 years
Position Summary
We're hiring Senior Java back-end developers to help strengthen the foundations of our platform. The focus is around improving observability, stability, and long-term maintainability for our application. You'll work as part of a Pune based engineering team, and will be trusted to take ownership of significant pieces of work with minimal oversight.
Key Focus Areas
* Delivery pipeline improvements (CI/CD, build reliability, deployment automation)
* Improving automated test coverage and quality across services, with a target of achieving and maintaining high coverage levels where appropriate
* Monitoring, telemetry, and observability for integrations with third-party services
* Fallback and resiliency mechanisms (circuit breakers, retries, failover)
* Making microservices more robust and self-healing
* Refactoring legacy services to improve maintainability, testability, performance and operational resilience
Work Experience
Required Skills
* 7+ years of commercial back-end development experience
* Strong hands-on experience with Java 8+ , with Java 17 exposure preferred
* Deep expertise with Spring Boot , microservices , and event-driven distributed architectures
* Solid experience designing and building RESTful APIs
* Working knowledge of Docker and container-based deployment
* Practical experience with AWS , including Lambda, SNS, SQS, DynamoDB, and KMS
* Hands-on experience with MySQL — schema design, query tuning, and performance optimisation
* Experience with observability tooling — metrics, logging, distributed tracing (e.g. Splunk , Datadog , Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, CloudWatch)
* Strong grounding in unit testing with JUnit and Mockito , with a quality-first mindset
* Familiarity with resiliency patterns (Resilience4j, circuit breakers, bulkheads)
* Experience with CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or similar)
* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent
Desirable
* Kubernetes / container orchestration
* Prior experience focused on platform observability
* Experience working across distributed teams and time zones
* Experience with API and event contract testing, and establishing automated compatibility guarantees between microservices and their consumers