The ideal candidate will have expertise in Core Java, backend service development, SQL, REST APIs, and cloud-native technologies . In addition to building production-grade backend services, you will contribute to engineering excellence by developing robust automated tests and enhancing test automation frameworks as part of the software development lifecycle. Experience with AI-assisted development tools is highly desirable.

Required Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- 4+ years of professional software development experience with a minimum of 5 years in Java development.
- Solid expertise in Core Java and object-oriented programming principles.
- Solid understanding of SQL , including database development and stored procedures.
- Experience building Java backend services and REST APIs.
- Strong programming, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
- Experience writing automated tests using JUnit, TestNG, or PyTest .
- Experience debugging and troubleshooting multithreaded applications.
- Experience with Continuous Integration (CI) and automated build pipelines.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to work effectively in a collaborative Agile environment.

Key Responsibilities
Application Software Development:

- Drives medium features and quality improvements with measurable performance and reliability outcomes.

- Provides global production support for critical issues with minimal guidance; improves playbooks/alerts.

- Troubleshoots and debugs non-routine issues spanning application layers and common OCI services; proposes fixes.

- Partners with QA to define test strategy (unit/integration) for features; ensures consistency across modules.

- Considers trade-offs in existing architecture; proposes moderate design improvements.

- Translates ambiguous requirements into scalable designs and implementation plans.

- Defines and stabilizes API contracts and dependencies for the application area.

- Recommends build priorities within the team using data from incidents, telemetry, and customer feedback.

- Systematically incorporates external feedback (forums, live-site reports) into backlog refinement.

- Mentors junior engineers; coordinates cross-functionally on feature delivery.

Software Development and Coding - Design, Testing, and Optimization:

- Designs software solutions and analyzes and helps identify requirements to achieve business and operational goals, independently.





- Adheres to and suggests improvements to all phases of the software development lifecycle.

- Utilizes working knowledge to develop new software features and enhancements following design specifications and develops documents to clarify software design and code.

- Leads code reviews in designated areas to help drive improvements.

- Conducts debugging and troubleshooting to identify and fix moderately complex software issues.

- Develops fixes for identified issues.

- Implements software testing (e.g., functional and non-functional testing), quality assurance processes, software error logging, monitoring, and observability for effective debugging, ensuring review by manager and/or lead throughout the process.

- Exercises judgment and discretion to conduct performance profiling and optimization of coding.

- Troubleshoots and resolves moderately complex issues related to application programming interface (API) functionality and integration.

- Implements moderately complex API versioning, lifecycle, and interoperability strategies.

Software Architecture - Software System Structural Design:

- Designs and develops software, systems, and services aligned to pre-defined system architecture.

- Develops working knowledge of software architecture decisions and best practices.

- Collaborates with team leads to review work to ensure alignment with software architecture.

- Implements moderately complex performance optimization and scalability strategies in software design.

Issue/Defect Collaboration - Software Products Support:

- Collaborates within and beyond immediate team to understand customer issues and align solutions.

- May provide technical guidance and support to customers regarding customer-reported issues, independently.

- Coaches, mentors, and guides others to advocate for customers' interests and suggests product enhancements based on feedback.

- Influences team to ensure customer satisfaction through timely resolution of issues and effective communication.

- Implements customer issue and/or defect handling and training processes, independently.

- Investigates and troubleshoots complex product maintenance issues to ensure customer agreement on short- and long-term solutions (e.g.,



future enhancements).

Practices and Standards Compliance - Security and Compliance:

- Collaborates with the team to establish and follow development practices and coding standards.

- Exercises judgment and discretion to ensure code quality and adherence to broad acceptance criteria during development.

- Keeps up-to-date with industry best practices and applies them to software development processes.

- Implements secure coding practices to prevent security vulnerabilities.

Development Operations - System Maintenance:

- Performs periodic maintenance and testing operations for systems that require upgrading or patching (e.g., for critical vulnerabilities).

- Exercises judgment and discretion to drive improvements, ensure automation, testing, and debugging of systems to ensure service/product availability, health, support, and reliability.

Core Responsibilities
Planning & Execution:

- Independently manages work, monitoring timelines and deliverables to ensure projects or initiatives stay on track and meet requirements.

- Proactively prioritizes work and adapts to resource or timeline shifts, suggesting adjustments to maintain project efficiency.

Collaboration & Partnership:

- Collaborates across teams to align on expectations and achieve shared objectives.

- Builds and maintains a comprehensive understanding of business, stakeholder, and/or customer needs to build and support effective partnerships.

- Actively listens to diverse perspectives and asks questions to ensure understanding of others.

Problem Solving:

- Independently identifies and addresses standard and non-standard issues in accordance with standard practices, escalating more complex issues as appropriate.

- Analyzes data and/or information from multiple sources to troubleshoot standard and non-standard errors.

- Contributes to knowledge sharing and best practices.

Continuous Learning:

- Embraces continuous learning by actively seeking to build knowledge and new skills and/or tools and staying current with industry trends and best practices.

- Seeks out and leverages feedback and training to improve skills.

- Contributes to a culture of continuous learning and knowledge sharing with team members.

Continuous Improvement:

- Develops ideas and recommends updates to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of processes, protocols, and workflows within a team.

- Seeks input from team members on alternative approaches and methods for improving work.

📌 Senior Application Software Engineer (India)
🏢 Oracle
📍 India