Description
This role is for one of the Weekday's clients
Min Experience: 3+ years
Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
JobType: full-time

We are looking for a Software Engineer II to join one of our Scrum teams building AI-native, event-driven services for automotive retail intelligence. This is a core contributor role for engineers with 2–4 years of experience who are ready to take end-to-end ownership of features, grow their distributed systems skills, and work in a high-velocity setting that demands code quality, hexagonal architecture discipline, and genuine curiosity about AI-native engineering.

Requirements
Key Responsibilities
• Develop and maintain Java (Spring Boot 3.x) backend services — implementing domain logic, REST APIs, Kafka event consumers/producers, and MongoDB/PostgreSQL persistence adapters following hexagonal architecture patterns.
• Build features across the full backend slice: domain model, port interface, adapter implementation, unit tests, and integration tests.
• Write integration tests using Testcontainers for MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Kafka,



and Elasticsearch adapters — ensuring each adapter is tested independently from the domain core.
• Participate in design discussions, architecture reviews, and code reviews — actively learning from Staff and Senior engineers.
• Investigate and resolve bugs, performance issues, and Kafka consumer lag across services.
• Write clean, well-documented, testable code with consistent application of hexagonal design principles.
• Contribute to golden dataset test scenario design under the guidance of the Product Manager and SDET.
• Operate with ownership and curiosity in a fast-paced, startup environment.

Skills & Qualifications
•2-4 years of backend engineering experience; Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• Solid Java fundamentals: object-oriented design, Spring Boot, REST API implementation, and unit testing (JUnit 5).
• Working knowledge of at least one

📌 Software Engineer (Chennai)
🏢 Weekday AI
📍 Chennai