Role Description
Role Proficiency:Act creatively to develop applications and select appropriate technical options optimizing application development maintenance and performance by employing design patterns and reusing proven solutions account for others' developmental activities
Outcomes
- Interpret the application/feature/component design to develop the same in accordance with specifications.
- Code debug test document and communicate product/component/feature development stages.
- Validate results with user representatives; integrates and commissions the overall solution
- Select appropriate technical options for development such as reusing improving or reconfiguration of existing components or creating own solutions
- Optimises efficiency cost and quality.
- Influence and improve customer satisfaction
- Set FAST goals for self/team; provide feedback to FAST goals of team members
Measures Of Outcomes
- Adherence to engineering process and standards (coding standards)
- Adherence to project schedule / timelines
- Number of technical issues uncovered during the execution of the project
- Number of defects in the code
- Number of defects post delivery
- Number of non compliance issues
- On time completion of mandatory compliance trainings
Code
Outputs Expected:
- Code as per design
- Follow coding standards templates and checklists
- Review code – for team and peers
Documentation
- Create/review templates checklists guidelines standards for design/process/development
- Create/review deliverable documents. Design documentation r and requirements test cases/results
Configure
- Define and govern configuration management plan
- Ensure compliance from the team
Test
- Review and create unit test cases scenarios and execution
- Review test plan created by testing team
- Provide clarifications to the testing team
Domain Relevance
- Advise Software Developers on design and development of features and components with a deep understanding of the business problem being addressed for the client.
- Learn more about the customer domain identifying opportunities to provide valuable addition to customers
- Complete relevant domain certifications
Manage Project
- Manage delivery of modules and/or manage user stories
Manage Defects
- Perform defect RCA and mitigation
- Identify defect trends and take proactive measures to improve quality
Estimate
- Create and provide input for effort estimation for projects
Manage Knowledge
- Consume and contribute to project related documents share point libraries and client universities
- Review the reusable documents created by the team
Release
- Execute and monitor release process
Design
- Contribute to creation of design (HLD LLD SAD)/architecture for Applications/Features/Business Components/Data Models
Interface With Customer
- Clarify requirements and provide guidance to development team
- Present design options to customers
- Conduct product demos
Manage Team
- Set FAST goals and provide feedback
- Understand aspirations of team members and provide guidance opportunities etc
- Ensure team is engaged in project
Certifications
- Take relevant domain/technology certification
Skill Examples
- Explain and communicate the design / development to the customer
- Perform and evaluate test results against product specifications
- Break down complex problems into logical components
- Develop user interfaces business software components
- Use data models
- Estimate time and effort required for developing / debugging features / components
- Perform and evaluate test in the customer or target environment
- Make quick decisions on technical/project related challenges
- Manage a Team mentor and handle people related issues in team
- Maintain high motivation levels and positive dynamics in the team.
- Interface with other teams designers and other parallel practices
- Set goals for self and team. Provide feedback to team members
- Create and articulate impactful technical presentations
- Follow high level of business etiquette in emails and other business communication
- Drive conference calls with customers addressing customer questions
- Proactively ask for and offer help
- Ability to work under pressure determine dependencies risks facilitate planning; handling multiple tasks.
- Build confidence with customers by meeting the deliverables on time with quality.
- Estimate time and effort resources required for developing / debugging features / components
- Make on appropriate utilization of Software / Hardware’s.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities
Knowledge Examples
- Appropriate software programs / modules
- Functional and technical designing
- Programming languages – proficient in multiple skill clusters
- DBMS
- Operating Systems and software platforms
- Software Development Life Cycle
- Agile – Scrum or Kanban Methods
- Integrated development environment (IDE)
- Rapid application development (RAD)
- Modelling technology and languages
- Interface definition languages (IDL)
- Knowledge of customer domain and deep understanding of sub domain where problem is solved
Additional Comments
We are looking for an experienced Senior Backend Engineer with strong expertise in Java, API development, Kafka, and AWS to join our dynamic engineering team. You will play a crucial role in designing, developing, and maintaining scalable backend systems that power our critical business applications. Key Responsibilities Design, develop, and maintain robust, scalable, and high-performance backend services using Java. Develop and manage RESTful APIs and microservices to enable seamless integration across internal and external systems. Architect and implement event-driven solutions using Apache Kafka for real-time data processing. Utilize AWS services (such as EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, etc.) to deploy, monitor, and optimize backend applications in the cloud. Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams including frontend engineers, DevOps, and product owners to deliver high-quality software. Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks, security issues, and improve system reliability. Participate in code reviews, mentorship, and knowledge sharing within the engineering team. Ensure best practices in code quality, testing (unit, integration), and continuous delivery pipelines. Keep up-to-date with emerging backend technologies and industry trends to drive innovation. Required Qualifications Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field. 6+ years of professional experience in backend software development. Strong proficiency in Java and solid understanding of object-oriented design principles. Extensive experience designing and building RESTful APIs and microservices architectures. Hands-on experience with Apache Kafka for messaging and stream processing. Proficient in cloud computing using AWS services including but not limited to EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, CloudWatch. Familiarity with containerization and orchestration tools such as Docker and Kubernetes is a plus. Experience with databases (SQL and NoSQL) and designing efficient data models. Solid understanding of software development lifecycle (SDLC), Agile methodologies, and CI/CD pipelines. Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work independently or within a team. Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
Skills
Restful Apis,Java,Aws,Kafka
