Lead I - Software Engineering (Java+ microservices+ AWS)

Java Backend Engineer - Contractor – 7+ (Core Platform Services)

About the Role:
Our platform services engineering team is responsible for providing reliable cloud and data platform FSD(Financial Services and Data) BU. We are seeking a 7+ years of Experience for our Platform Services team to help us continuously improve how we build, secure and run our rapidly growing Cloud platform. Much of our software development focuses on building infrastructure and eliminating work through automation. On platform services team, you will have opportunity to use your expertise in coding, system design thinking and analytical skills to provide shared services/Platform as a Service, tools and infrastructure for the rest of the product development teams abstracting the underlying stack complexities of Cloud.

What You’ll Do Here

• Build platform tools & services to enable product engineering teams to deploy and run their applications (data pipelines, analytical applications, micro services etc) on cloud.
• And often times involves routine grunt work on service requests to assist other teams with platform services. What You'll Need To Succeed

Must Have Skills:

• Solid professional coding experience in Java / J2EE Technologies.
• Strong working knowledge of Object-Oriented Design principles and J2EE Design patterns.
• Strong working knowledge of microservices, RESTful APIs & NoSQL Databases & MQ (or) Kafka.
• Strong working knowledge in Automation Testing – Unit and Integration testing.
• Strong working knowledge on End-to-end Application architecture and System Design.
• Experience with front-end Java script app and frameworks.
• Experience with any of the public cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, GCP, preferably AWS.
• Experience with continuous integration/delivery/deployment (CI/CD) practices and frameworks.
• Experience with Agile development methodologies.
• Good understanding on observability into the APIs and services developed using various tools like Prometheus, InfluxDB, Dynatrace, Grafana, Splunk etc.
• Good understanding on running containers (Docker/LXC) in a production environment using one of the container orchestration services (Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, AWS ECS, AWS EKS).
• Good understanding on GEN AI and developing production ready Agents, MCP clients, Servers, Bedrock, RAG Architecture and Agent core.

Nice to have skills:

• Good understanding of Linux, networking, cloud design patterns, API's, and security.
• Experience with Terraform, Packer, Ansible, Chef, Jenkins or any other similar tooling.
• Experience with open source projects like Hadoop, Hive, Presto, Spark, Airflow etc.