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The Purpose of This Role
As a Software Engineer, you will play a key role in delivering high-quality, maintainable software solutions within an agile environment. This position requires strong technical expertise, a solid understanding of our systems, and a customer-focused mindset. You will contribute to projects that positively impact our products, teams, and clients. In this role, you will work within the Defined Benefits Client Technology team, focusing on implementing pension calculations for Defined Benefit (pension) plans for their employees, and retirees of new and existing clients including bug fixing on pension calculation issues. You will be involved in the full development lifecycle-design, development, testing, maintenance, and support-while collaborating with partners and stakeholders.
Primary Responsibilities
. Actively contribute to the development lifecycle by designing, writing, and maintaining the pension calculation engine.
. Implement client‑specific rules, resolve defects, execute appropriate testing, and deliver solutions within defined timelines.
. Participate in plan document reviews and code reviews, providing meaningful insights and feedback.
. Collaborate with supervisors to plan work, estimate effort, and ensure timely completion of assigned tasks.
. Leverage technical expertise to influence solution design, promote sound engineering practices, enhance testability, and drive defect‑prevention strategies.
. Communicate effectively, both verbally and through clear written documentation.
. Maintain a strong understanding of pension calculation systems, client needs, and broader business objectives.
. Support deployment and release activities, ensuring smooth and successful production rollouts.
The Skills that are Key to this role
. Bachelor's degree (BE) or higher in Computer Science or a related discipline.
. Strong expertise in Core Java, Spring Core, Spring MVC, and associated frameworks.
. Proficiency in backend development, including SQL and stored procedure programming.
. Excellent analytical and reasoning abilities for solving complex problems.
. Experience in retirement, insurance, or similar domains involving intricate business rules and calculations.
. Strong communication skills, with the ability to engage effectively with business stakeholders.
. Hands-on experience with unit test frameworks such as JUnit, Mockito, and PowerMock.
. Proficiency with development tools, including Eclipse/IntelliJ, Git, Jenkins, Maven, Jira, and Confluence.
. Ability to take initiative, define a vision for product improvement, and deliver high‑quality outcomes.
. Capability to interpret plan documents and translate them into precise technical solutions.
. Willingness to perform documentation, design, and testing tasks as required by the team.
The Skills that are Good To Have for this role
. The Skills that are Good To Have for this role
. Open to learn other technologies (like VBA, Office.JS/NodeJS)
. Experience with Git/Bitbucket Server (Stash), Jenkins, and uDeploy are a plus
. Experience building and deploying applications in a DevOps environment using CI/CD tools
. Experience in supporting the production defects by leveraging tools like Datadog, Splunk
. Evangelize and promote the successes and learnings of your team in formal ceremonies, such as sprint demos, technology forum.
The Value You Deliver
. High quality pension benefit calculations
. Keeping focus of the work in terms of Customer obsession
. Embrace continuous improvement regarding application quality and stability.
. Partner with Technical Lead on improvement opportunities for our applications.
. Strong sense of ownership for the quality of solution delivery and level of partnership with the business.
Photon, a global leader in digital transformation services and IT consulting, works with 40% of the Fortune 100 companies as their digital agency of choice. Photon Infotech Private Limited is an information technology and services company based out of Omr, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
Job ID: 145956529