Senior Java Developer

About Tarento

Tarento is a fast-growing technology consulting company headquartered in Stockholm, with a strong presence in India and clients across the globe. We specialize in digital transformation, product engineering, and enterprise solutions, working across diverse industries including retail, manufacturing, and healthcare. Our teams combine Nordic values with Indian expertise to deliver innovative, scalable, and high-impact solutions.We're proud to be recognized as a

Great Place to Work

, a testament to our inclusive culture, strong leadership, and commitment to employee well-being and growth. At Tarento, you'll be part of a collaborative environment where ideas are valued, learning is continuous, and careers are built on passion and purpose.We are seeking a highly experienced Senior Java Developer (4+ years) who will lead backend development, design scalable microservices, optimize performance, mentor developers, and contribute to architecture improvement within the Sunbird-based iGOT platform.

Roles and Responsibility

• Lead the design and development of Java-based microservices for large-scale distributed systems.
• Architect and enhance existing Sunbird building blocks and backend services.
• Create Tech design and guide the team to implement it.
• Develop and integrate REST APIs, service orchestration, and data pipelines.
• Optimize application performance, scalability, reliability, and security.
• Work with Elasticsearch, Cassandra, Postgres and data indexing mechanisms.
• Collaborate closely with DevOps for CI/CD, containerization, monitoring, and automation.
• Participate in requirement analysis, technical design reviews, and sprint planning.
• Mentor junior developers and ensure high-quality code standards.
• Handle production escalations and trace end-to-end service-level issues.
  

Skills

• 4+ years of hands-on experience in Java backend development.
• Strong expertise in Java 11, Spring Boot, Spring MVC, RESTful services.
• Proven experience building and scaling microservices architecture.
• Strong experience with Elasticsearch, Cassandra / PostgreSQL, and NoSQL/SQL systems.
• Hands-on knowledge of Kafka or message applicaitons.
• Experience working with Docker, Kubernetes, GitLab CI/CD / Jenkins.
• Strong understanding of multithreading, distributed systems, caching, and performance tuning.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum teams with cloud infrastructure (AWS/Azure/GCP).