Senior Java Software Engineer

About the role

Maintenance and support of applications built across multiple technologies. Drive architectural improvements, establish code quality standards, and promote engineering best practices. Provide technical leadership for application enhancements, production issue resolution, cost optimization, and scalability initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Manage sprint planning, task prioritization, and backlog grooming for cross-functional development teams
• Collaborate closely with business stakeholders, product owners, infrastructure teams, and downstream system partners to ensure seamless automation workflows and timely delivery
• Act as the primary technical point of contact for automation applications
• Implement system enhancements to improve performance, reliability, and operational efficiency
• Mentor developers through code reviews, technical problem-solving, and adoption of engineering best practices
• Strengthen monitoring and alerting capabilities for critical automation processes to reduce failures and minimize manual interventions
• Review application code and design, and provide expertise on system development and integration
• Provide production support as needed

Requirements

• Minimum 5-10 years of hands-on experience in Java / J2EE / Web Technologies
• Preferably experience of working with Vanguard

Core Technical Skills

• Strong hands-on experience in Spring Boot and Microservices architecture
• Hands-on experience in REST API design and development
• Expertise in AWS services, including: EC2, S3, DynamoDB, Lambda, SNS, SQS, CloudWatch
• Experience in unit and automation testing using JUnit and Cucumber
• Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps tools, including: Maven, Jenkins, Git, SVN, Bitbucket, Bamboo (and similar tools)
• Hands-on experience with SQL
• Experience integrating REST APIs across systems

AWS & Cloud Engineering Experience

• Building and managing public and private cloud infrastructure using AWS (EC2, S3)
• Deploying and automating AWS environments using CloudFormation Templates (CFT) and stack sets across regions
• Developing APIs using AWS SDKs for cloud resource consumption
• Developing AWS Lambda–based solutions to migrate and capture change data from legacy systems to DynamoDB

Additional Technical Expertise

• Writing complex parallel streams and filters in Java for efficient data processing and search optimization
• Designing, developing, and guiding implementation of microservices and unit testing using REST/Jersey frameworks