Core Java Engineer

This is a Core Java Backend Engineer role focused on designing, developing, and supporting scalable, high-performance backend applications and services within a modern distributed systems environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and evolve target-state architecture for debit and payments services using modern distributed systems patterns.
• Lead technical ownership across multiple services, ensuring high availability, low latency, and operational excellence.
• Drive modernization initiatives, including platform upgrades and application decomposition efforts.
• Establish and enforce API governance, schema/versioning practices, and engineering standards.
• Enhance reliability through SLI/SLO implementation, incident reviews, runbooks, and capacity planning.
• Build and improve observability using distributed tracing, monitoring, and metrics.
• Partner with security, risk, and compliance teams to ensure secure and compliant solutions.
• Standardize event-streaming and messaging practices, including retry strategies and dead-letter queue handling.
• Mentor senior engineers and promote engineering best practices across teams.
• Communicate technical strategy, architecture decisions, and delivery plans to stakeholders.

Required Skills

• Strong Core Java development experience
• Spring Boot
• Experience leveraging AI-assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot)
• SQL
• Kafka
• Kubernetes
• AWS