Senior Engineer - Java

Job Description:

Senior Engineer – Java Full Stack / Spring Boot / AWS (4–6 years)

About The Role

You will contribute to building and enhancing microservices using Java/Spring Boot deployed on AWS. The role focuses on backend development, testing, production stability, and collaboration across engineering and functional teams.

Required Skills

• Strong knowledge of Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs, and microservice fundamentals.
• Experience with core AWS services (API Gateway, ECS/EKS, Lambda, or CloudWatch).
• Solid understanding of relational databases (PostgreSQL/MySQL) and SQL.
• Hands‑on experience with JUnit/Mockito and CI/CD workflows.
• Experience using GitHub Copilot or similar AI tools for development productivity.
• Basic familiarity with API Gateway, event streaming (Kafka), or rules engines (Drools/Blaze).
• Understanding of Docker or Kubernetes concepts.
• Exposure to application monitoring tools like Splunk/CloudWatch/ArgoCD
• Experience with tools – Postman, Sonarqube
• Experience with Angular (preferred) or React ,JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap

Responsibilities

• Translate user stories into clean, maintainable code using Java and Spring Boot.
• Participate in design discussions, propose technical solutions, and evaluate trade‑offs.
• Build microservices with proper validation, logging, exception handling, and performance hygiene.
• Assist with database modeling, writing queries, and creating tables, functions, or stored procedures.
• Write unit tests and participate actively in peer code reviews.
• Support UAT by clarifying requirements, reproducing issues, and validating fixes.
• Contribute to production issue troubleshooting with logs, metrics, and dashboards.
• Maintain Jira stories, documentation, and API specifications.
• Use AI tools like GitHub Copilot to speed up coding, testing, refactoring, and documentation.
• Demonstrate strong communication, learning mindset, reliability, and collaboration

Qualifications

• 4–6 years of backend development experience with Java and Spring Boot.
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or equivalent.

Location:

This position can be based in any of the following locations:

Chennai

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