Senior Back End Engineer - Java

Job Title : (Job Name) – Senior Back End Engineer - Java 

Business Unit (PA) :     IT 

Team : (Sub team in the PA)   :  DTIT – Enterprise Factory 

Reports to (job) :     Engineering Manager 

Location of role : Bangalore 

Job Fn : Enterprise Factory 

Job Purpose 

• Understand business and technical requirements in detail and perform backend engineering tasks to design, build and maintain Java 21 / Spring Boot–based APIs, microservices and related batch processes for critical retail banking journeys in Enterprise Factory, Bangalore. 

Job Responsibilities(JR) : 6 – 8 Areas 

Actionable (4-6) 

·         Design, develop and maintain Java 21 / Spring Boot–based microservices and batch programs, meeting agreed quality, performance and timeliness goals. 

·         Translate functional and non-functional requirements into robust RESTful APIs, service contracts and domain models aligned with microservices principles. 

·         Implement secure, resilient and observable services, including structured logging, metrics and exception handling, in line with bank security and compliance standards. 

·         Collaborate with architects, product owners, business analysts and QA to refine user stories, estimate effort and ensure end-to-end delivery quality. 

·         Participate in and contribute to peer code reviews, enforcing coding standards, performance guidelines and clean code practices for Java and Spring Boot. 

·         Ensure clear, maintainable inline code documentation and technical notes to aid future maintenance and production support. 

·         Continuously enhance skills in Java 21(and newer versions), Spring Boot, microservices patterns, caching and database technologies relevant to the platform. 

·         Develop and unit-test assigned user stories using Java 21 and Spring Boot, ensuring adherence to coding standards, performance, security and compliance metrics. 

·         Implement REST APIs, integrations and batch jobs with adequate unit and basic integration test coverage. 

·         Participate in daily scrums and other Agile ceremonies, providing accurate status, risk/issue highlighting and estimates. 

·         Participate in team code reviews, both as reviewer and reviewee, and incorporate feedback promptly. 

·         Analyse, debug and resolve defects across development, SIT and UAT environments within agreed SLAs. 

Educational Qualifications (examples listed below) 

Key Skills (examples listed below) 

Total Yrs of experience: 6-9 

Educ: 

○      B Tech / B.E in Computer Science or related discipline preferred. 

·         Strong hands-on coding experience in backend development. 

·         At least 5+ years of experience developing APIs and microservices using Java (preferably Java 11+; Java 21 experience strongly preferred). 

·         Deep experience with Spring Boot for building RESTful services, including dependency injection, validation, configuration management and actuator. 

·         Strong understanding of REST API design, versioning, error handling and documentation (e.g., OpenAPI/Swagger). 

·         Experience with caching frameworks (e.g., Redis, Caffeine) and patterns to improve performance and scalability. 

·         Experience with SQL databases and ORM frameworks (JPA/Hibernate), plus exposure to NoSQL/persistence patterns as applicable. 

·         Good understanding of microservices architecture concepts such as service discovery, configuration management, resilience and API gateways. 

·         Familiarity with Git, CI/CD pipelines and containerization (Docker; Kubernetes exposure is a plus). 

·         Awareness of security best practices for APIs (authentication, authorization, OWASP considerations) in a banking or financial services environment is preferred. 

Major Stakeholders (intra team and cross functional stakeholders, who would need to be interacted with for discharging duties) (examples listed below) 

1.       Internal: 

a.       Product Manager from Digital Factory 

b.       Business Analyst from BTG team 

c.       Test engineers