Java Backend Developer

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Provide application support and maintenance for enterprise Java applications, ensuring reliability, performance, and availability.
• Participate in all phases of the application lifecycle, including troubleshooting, issue resolution, performance tuning, and enhancements.
• Work in an agile team to deliver high-quality, maintainable, and scalable code.
• Drive innovation through prototyping, iterative development, and automation.
• Troubleshoot and resolve bugs, performance issues, and integration challenges across middleware, messaging, and API layers.
• Collaborate with peers, leads, architects, and business stakeholders.
• Design and develop cross-functional application systems leveraging middleware and messaging technologies.
• Translate technical and functional requirements into robust solutions.
• Write high-quality code with a focus on automated testing, validation, and thorough documentation.
• Administer and support Linux/Unix deployments and Azure cloud resources.
• Maintain and optimize performance for relational and No-SQL databases.
• Contribute to CI/CD automation using Azure DevOps.
• Document solutions to ensure knowledge sharing and reproducibility.

Must-Have Skills:

• 5 to 8 years of Java/JEE programming experience.
• Proficiency in Java 8 or above, Spring Boot, and microservices.
• Extensive experience with Web Services (REST/SOAP) and API integrations.
• Hands-on experience with middleware technologies (IBM MQ, Kafka, Message Router).
• Working knowledge of Linux/Unix (RHEL, AIX).
• Development experience with relational (Postgres, Oracle) and No-SQL databases (e.g., MongoDB, DocumentDB), with strong SQL and data modeling skills.
• Experience with build tools (Maven/Gradle).
• Proficient in version control tools (Git/GitHub/Bitbucket).
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, particularly Azure DevOps.
• Experience working in agile environments.
• Strong unit testing/Mockito and automated testing background.
• Excellent communication and documentation skills.
• Working knowledge of JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.