Project Role : Custom Software Engineer

Project Role Description : Develop custom software solutions to design, code, and enhance components across systems or applications. Use modern frameworks and agile practices to deliver scalable, high-performing solutions tailored to specific business needs.

Must have skills : Spring Boot

Good to have skills : AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Minimum 5 Year(s) Of Experience Is Required

Educational Qualification : 15 years full time education

Summary:

As a Custom Software Engineer, a typical day involves designing and developing tailored software solutions that meet unique business requirements. The role includes coding and enhancing various components within systems or applications, ensuring that the solutions are scalable and perform efficiently. Collaboration with cross-functional teams and adapting to agile methodologies are integral parts of the daily workflow, enabling continuous improvement and timely delivery of high-quality software products.

Roles & Responsibilities:

Expected to be an SME, collaborate and manage the team to perform.
Responsible for team decisions.
Engage with multiple teams and contribute on key decisions.
Provide solutions to problems for their immediate team and across multiple teams.
Lead efforts to identify and implement best practices within the team to improve software quality and delivery.
Mentor junior team members to support their professional growth and enhance team capabilities.
Design and develop backend microservices using Spring Boot.
Build REST APIs for integration with APEX UI, Guidewire Adapter Service, Audit Service, and ServiceNow Connector.
Implement service-to-service communication patterns using REST and asynchronous messaging.
Develop business logic for incident evaluation, event routing, transformation, and enrichment.
Implement idempotency, retry logic, error handling, correlation IDs, and transaction-safe processing.
Integrate backend services with PostgreSQL for persistence and operational status tracking.
Expose health checks, metrics, logs, and traces for operational monitoring.
Build Kafka producers and consumers for Guidewire, incident, audit, and agent decision events.
Develop real-time stream processing logic using Kafka Streams.
Implement event filtering, enrichment, deduplication, correlation, and routing.
Work with Kafka topics such as: guidewire.claim.event.created, incident.evaluation.requested, agent.incident.decision.created, incident.creation.requested, audit.event.recorded
Support Kafka retry and DLQ patterns.
Maintain consumer group behavior and offset handling.
Collaborate on event schema design and versioning using schema registry standards.
Containerize Spring Boot services using Docker.
Deploy and support services on AWS EKS or ECS.
Work with AWS services such as: Amazon MSK / Apache Kafka, AWS API Gateway or Kong integration, AWS Secrets Manager, CloudWatch, IAM, S3 for audit evidence, PostgreSQL / RDS
Support environment-specific configuration for DEV, UAT, and PROD.
Implement autoscaling, service health checks, rolling deployment, and rollback patterns.
Work with DevOps team on Terraform, Helm, and GitHub Actions pipelines.
Support observability through OpenTelemetry, CloudWatch, and Grafana dashboards.

Professional & Technical Skills:

Must To Have Skills: Proficiency in Spring Boot.
Good To Have Skills: Experience with AWS Elastic Beanstalk.
Strong hands-on experience in Java and Spring Boot.
Experience building REST APIs and backend microservices.
Hands-on experience with Apache Kafka producers and consumers.
Practical experience with Kafka Streams or similar stream processing frameworks.
Good understanding of Kafka topics, partitions, offsets, consumer groups, retries, and DLQs.
Experience deploying services on AWS EKS or ECS.
Docker and containerization experience.
PostgreSQL integration experience.
Experience with CI/CD pipelines, preferably GitHub Actions.
Good understanding of cloud-native architecture, logging, monitoring, and error handling.
Strong debugging, performance tuning, and production support skills.
Strong knowledge of Java programming and object-oriented design principles.
Experience in developing RESTful APIs and microservices architecture.
Familiarity with database design and integration using relational and NoSQL databases.
Understanding of software development lifecycle and agile methodologies.
Amazon MSK experience.
AWS Glue Schema Registry experience.
Kong OSS or AWS API Gateway exposure.
Terraform and Helm experience.
OpenTelemetry instrumentation experience.
CloudWatch / Grafana dashboarding experience.
ServiceNow API integration experience.
Guidewire API or Guidewire Cloud exposure.
Veracode / SAST / DAST pipeline exposure.
Experience with agent orchestration or AI-driven incident triage workflows.

Additional Information:

The candidate should have minimum 5 years of experience in Spring Boot.
This position is based at our Bengaluru office.
A 15 years full time education is required.