Senior Java Backend Engineer / Senior Software Engineer (Java)

About the Role

We are looking for a highly skilled Senior Software Engineer to join our Digital Services Engineering team. The ideal candidate will be responsible for designing, developing, and delivering scalable, reliable, and high-performance digital platforms and services. This role involves deep expertise in Java, Spring Boot, RESTful APIs, and cloud-native engineering practices, along with strong collaboration across multiple teams and enterprise systems.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and deliver scalable, secure, and fault-tolerant enterprise platforms, services, and customer-facing applications.
  
• Participate in agile development teams, contributing to end-to-end engineeringfrom design and development to deployment and production support.
  
• Develop high-quality RESTful services and web applications that meet strict performance, availability, and operational requirements.
  
• Apply strong software engineering principles, design patterns, and best practices across multiple programming languages, frameworks, and data stores.
  
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams on integrations with enterprise systems such as product data, order management, identity services, and analytics platforms.
  
• Conduct and support acceptance testing, load/performance testing, troubleshooting, and tuning of services to maintain optimal performance.
  
• Ensure that development adheres to engineering standards, coding guidelines, and quality best practices.
  
• Break down and translate requirements into well-defined, actionable user stories and technical tasks addressing both functional and non-functional needs.
  
• Recommend and articulate technical solutions that balance tactical practicality and long-term strategic objectives.
  
• Contribute to code reviews, technical discussions, design documentation, and continuous improvement initiatives.
  

Required Skills & Experience

• 6–10 years of experience designing, developing, testing, deploying, and scaling enterprise web services and applications.
  
• Deep expertise in Java, including strong knowledge of contemporary Java tooling, best practices, and performance considerations.
  
• Hands-on experience with Spring Boot, Spring MVC, and Spring Security.
  
• Strong understanding of service-oriented architectures (SOA) and building RESTful APIs.
  
• Experience with relational databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc.) and NoSQL databases such as MongoDB.
  
• Proficiency in using persistence frameworks like Hibernate, JPA, and Spring Data.
  
• Experience with distributed systems, microservices, messaging, and cloud environments (AWS/Azure/GCP is a plus).
  
• Strong debugging, performance optimization, and problem-solving skills.
  
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools (Jenkins/GitHub Actions), containerization (Docker), and API documentation tools (Swagger/OpenAPI).
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in large-scale enterprise digital platforms.
  
• Exposure to caching frameworks (Redis), search technologies (Elasticsearch), or event-driven architectures.
  
• Knowledge of DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and automated testing.
  
• Understanding of security best practices in application development.
  
• Experience working in agile environments with cross-functional teams.