Senior Software Engineer

Requirements:

• 7+ years of hands-on experience in API and microservices development with a strong understanding of scalability, resiliency, and fault-tolerant architectures.
• Deep expertise in microservices architecture styles, including service orchestration vs choreography.
• Strong knowledge of integration patterns, enterprise integration architectures, and distributed system design.
• Extensive experience with API Management platforms such as Akana, AWS API Gateway, Apigee, and Kong.
• Proven experience with Domain Driven Design (DDD), Event Storming, CQRS, and Event Sourcing.
• Strong understanding of asynchronous, event-driven, and reactive systems, including Reactive Streams and non-blocking architectures.
• Hands-on experience architecting highly concurrent distributed systems, including multi-threading, concurrency models, virtual threads, and actors.
• Expertise in Java 17+, Spring Boot.
• Solid experience with RESTful APIs and API contracts using Open API/Swagger.
• Strong background in SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Strong hands-on experience with distributed caching solutions such as Redis or Couchbase (Capella).
• Experience implementing cache aside, write-through, and read-through patterns.
• Experience handling cache invalidation, TTL strategies, and performance tuning.
• Extensive experience in cloud native application development.
• Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and Kubernetes design patterns.
• Experience with the AWS ecosystem, including EKS, Fargate, Serverless, FaaS, and PaaS.
• Exposure to DAPR for building distributed microservices.
• Strong understanding of DevOps and GitOps practices.
• Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines and automation.
• Expertise in logging, metrics, monitoring, and distributed tracing using Open Telemetry.
• Hands-on exposure to Istio Service Mesh and OPA (Open Policy Agent).
• Strong understanding of API platforms, backend services, databases, and networking components across full-stack infrastructure.
• Experience with logging, monitoring, and distributed tracing tools (Micrometre, Splunk, ELK stack, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Datadog, New Relic, Open Telemetry, etc. ).
• Ability to analyse production logs, metrics, and traces to resolve performance and stability issues.
• Capable of performing requirement analysis, solution architecture reviews and high-level solution design, resource-based and API specification development.
• Experience working in an agile development environment with an onshore offshore model.
• Must be results-oriented, having demonstrated technology leadership experience with the ability to develop a quick POC with cutting-edge technology.

Soft Skills:

• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management abilities.
• Ability to balance development ownership and production support responsibilities.