Java Developer

Job Requirements

Experience: 4-6 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

• 4+ 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