Location: Bengaluru
Employment Type: Full-time
Impact & contribution
As a senior engineering leader, you will drive the design, development, and evolution of scalable, resilient, and cloud-native platforms. You will bring strong hands-on expertise in backend engineering and distributed systems while influencing architecture, delivery quality, and engineering best practices across teams.
This role requires deep technical capability in Java, Spring Boot, Spring Data JPA, Kafka, databases, and AWS, along with the ability to solve complex engineering challenges, guide teams, and deliver high-quality outcomes in enterprise environments.
Key responsibilities
- Design, develop, and enhance scalable backend applications using Java, Spring Boot, and Spring Data JPA
- Build and support event-driven and microservices-based architectures using Kafka
- Design and implement resilient distributed systems using patterns such as Circuit Breaker and SAGA / Choreography
- Develop robust and efficient integrations with relational and NoSQL databases
- Write and optimize queries using ANSI SQL
- Design, deploy, and optimize applications running on AWS
- Drive technical design, architecture discussions, and engineering best practices
- Work closely with product managers, architects, and engineering teams to translate business requirements into technical solutions
- Troubleshoot complex production issues and improve performance, scalability, resilience, and security
- Contribute to hands-on coding, code reviews, design discussions, and technical problem-solving
- Support modern engineering practices including CI/CD, observability, automation, and secure software delivery
- Mentor engineers and contribute to raising the overall engineering bar across the organization
Essential Skills
- 12–18 years of software engineering experience
- Strong hands-on experience in Java
- Strong hands-on experience in Spring Boot and Spring Data JPA
- Strong experience with Kafka
- Strong experience building microservices and distributed systems
- Hands-on understanding of microservices resilience and orchestration patterns such as Circuit Breaker and SAGA / Choreography
- Strong experience with databases such as Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, or similar
- Strong hands-on experience in ANSI SQL
- Strong hands-on experience with AWS
- Experience building cloud-native applications in production environments
- Strong understanding of REST APIs, system integration, scalability, reliability, and secure software design
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, containerization, and modern engineering practices
- Strong problem-solving, debugging, and communication skills
Good to have
- Experience with Temporal
- Exposure to Generative AI / AI-enabled engineering
- Experience using GitHub Copilot
- Familiarity with Kubernetes, ECS/EKS, Docker, and observability tools
Education Qualifications
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related discipline
