Backend Java Developer

Key Responsibilities:

• Analyze application source code, architecture, APIs, integrations, and backend services to understand system behavior and identify improvement opportunities.
• Provide technical analysis and recommendations for complex engineering and application challenges.
• Review solution designs and implementation approaches with engineering teams.
• Influence technical decisions that improve scalability, resiliency, performance, maintainability, and long-term sustainability.
• Identify, document, and help prioritize technical debt and modernization opportunities.
• Evaluate technologies, frameworks, architectural patterns, and development approaches.
• Support cloud adoption, application modernization, and application lifecycle improvement initiatives.
• Establish and promote reusable engineering patterns, standards, and technical best practices.
• Partner with Security teams and engineering teams to promote secure software development and security-by-design principles.
• Help address application vulnerabilities, penetration-test findings, security gaps, and technical risks.
• Review application authentication, authorization, encryption, secrets management, and API security practices.
• Support threat modeling and secure software development lifecycle (SSDLC) activities.
• Analyze technical risks and identify potential issues before they become production problems.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to resolve complex technical dependencies and integration challenges.
• Develop technical documentation, architecture guidance, playbooks, standards, and knowledge-sharing materials.
• Communicate complex technical concepts and recommendations clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Continuously identify opportunities to improve engineering practices, application quality, and platform sustainability.

Qualifications:

• Strong experience in Java backend development and modern software engineering practices.
• Ability to read, understand, troubleshoot, and analyze existing Java source code.
• Strong understanding of application architecture and software engineering principles.
• Experience with REST APIs, microservices, distributed systems, and enterprise integrations.
• Experience designing or supporting scalable, resilient, and highly maintainable applications.
• Understanding of modern cloud-native application architectures.
• Experience with CI/CD, DevOps, and modern software delivery practices.
• Experience identifying and addressing technical risks, application issues, and technical debt.
• Strong understanding of software development lifecycle and application modernization concepts.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working in banking or financial services.
• Experience with Digital Banking platforms.
• Experience with Azure or other major cloud platforms.
• Experience with event-driven architecture and messaging systems.
• Experience with enterprise application integrations.
• Experience with application modernization and cloud migration.
• Experience managing and reducing technical debt.
• Experience participating in architecture governance or technical design reviews.
• Experience establishing enterprise engineering standards and reusable technical patterns.