Software Engineer - Java

Job Title: Software Engineer - Java

Employment Type: Permanent

Work Location: Chennai India - Hybrid

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About the Role

We use Claude Code every day and are pushing agentic AI further into how we work. If you want to be on a team figuring out what AI-assisted engineering actually looks like on a real, complex product (not a sandbox), this is it.

CDRO (Continuous Delivery & Release Orchestration) is CloudBees' enterprise CD product. It's been running in production at some of the world's largest engineering orgs for over a decade. Hundreds of engineers depend on it to ship software safely and on schedule.

We're a team of about 10, distributed across India, France, Spain, and the US. We're not chasing the next hype cycle feature. We operate a product real customers depend on, modernize it while keeping it stable, and do it with a small team that takes ownership seriously.

Key Responsibilities

Most teams try AI coding tools on greenfield work. We're doing something harder: applying them to a decade-old enterprise codebase with real customers depending on it. CDRO's core is Java 21 with a significant Groovy layer. The work is a mix of internal cleanup that makes the codebase easier to evolve, and direct improvements that make customers' lives better.

Concretely:

• Own Java work across the core: REST API, pipeline execution engine, persistence layer
• Continuously reduce complexity: modernize older subsystems, shrink the product surface area where it makes sense, improve test coverage, and leave the codebase easier than you found it
• Use Claude Code as a normal part of your workflow, to move faster without skipping thought
• Write tests that prove things work. Shift-left, not "QA will catch it."
• Document what you build. We're async across timezones. If you know something the team needs to know, write it down.
• Actively avoid being a single point of failure for anything you own

Qualifications

Required:

• Solid Java. You've worked in production codebases that weren't yours, in systems that mattered if they broke.
• Relational database experience: SQL, JPA/Hibernate, schema migrations. Oracle or PostgreSQL background is a strong advantage.
• Comfort in large, mature codebases. You can navigate unfamiliar code, form a hypothesis, test it, and stay functional when you don't understand everything at once.
• Testing discipline. You write unit and integration tests as part of the work, not after.
• Honest communication. If something is blocked or broken, we need to know. We're async and distributed.

Strong plus:

• Active use of Claude Code to ship real work, not just tab completion. Bonus: you want to push it much further than you do today.
• Groovy. Willingness to pick it up fast matters more than prior credentials.
• Kubernetes/Helm: deploying and debugging workloads, not just using them.
• Experience evolving established systems: migrations, incremental rewrites, dependency upgrades.

Preferred (not mandatory):

• Jenkins or CI/CD internals
• Distributed systems infrastructure: message brokers (ActiveMQ, Artemis, RabbitMQ), coordination (Zookeeper)
• React/TypeScript: the UI is adjacent and not your main domain, but not being afraid of it helps

Who this is for

• You're a Java engineer who finds large, evolved codebases interesting rather than off-putting. You've seen what breaks when systems are poorly documented and owned by one person. You build the opposite.
• You want hard engineering problems, real ownership, and a team that says what's true. With ~10 people on the team, you'll touch meaningful parts of the system fast. You'd rather evolve a product real enterprises depend on than build a greenfield service nobody's relying on yet.

Working Conditions

• Standard working hours: 9:30 a.m. – 6:30 p.m., Mon–Fri, or as per business needs
• Work location / travel expectations: Hybrid
• Reasonable accommodations will be considered in line with the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016.

Equal Opportunity Statement

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Disclaimer

This job description is intended to provide a summary of the position and its responsibilities. It is not an exhaustive list of duties. Responsibilities and activities may evolve as per organisational requirements.