Custom Software Engineer

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 : Microservices and Light Weight Architecture

Good to have skills : NA

Minimum 7.5 Year(s) Of Experience Is Required

Educational Qualification : 15 years full time education

Summary

As a Custom Software Engineer, a typical day involves developing tailored software solutions by designing, coding, and improving various components within systems or applications. We are seeking a senior Java engineer to build and optimise high-throughput, low-latency payment services. The role centres on JVM performance, microservices engineering, and cloud-native deployment on AWS. The role Java Engineer — High-Performance Payments Processing requires working with modern frameworks and following agile methodologies to ensure the delivery of scalable and efficient software that meets unique business requirements. Collaboration with different teams and continuous enhancement of software components are integral parts of the daily workflow, ensuring that solutions remain robust and adaptable to evolving needs.

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 process improvements that enhance team productivity and software quality.
• Mentor junior team members to support their professional growth and integration within the team.
• Coordinate cross-functional communication to align project goals and deliverables effectively.
  
  

Professional & Technical Skills

• Must To Have Skills: Proficiency in Microservices and Light Weight Architecture.
• Strong knowledge of designing and implementing scalable microservices-based systems with Deep knowledge of JVM internals, GC, memory models, async/concurrency.
• Experience with RESTful API development and integration with Expertise in Java 17+, Spring Boot, microservices, event-driven design with Experience with SQL/NoSQL, caching and messaging systems (e.g., Kafka).
• Hands-on AWS (EKS, IAM, VPC, autoscaling) and container orchestration.
• Familiarity with containerization and orchestration tools to support lightweight architectures.
• Ability to apply agile software development practices and continuous integration/continuous deployment pipelines.
• Understanding of distributed systems and best practices for fault tolerance and resilience.
• Develop and optimise Java 17+ Spring Boot microservices.
• Perform JVM-level diagnostics: heap/thread dump analysis, GC tuning, profiling.
• Improve throughput, latency and resilience across distributed flows and Design scalable, fault-tolerant components with engineering teams.
• Ability to deploy to AWS (EKS, EC2, CloudWatch) via GitLab CI/CD pipelines.
• Observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch).
  
  

Additional Information

• The candidate should have minimum 7.5 years of experience in Microservices and Light Weight Architecture.
• This position is based at our Gurugram office.
• A 15 years full time education is required.