Overview

About Catalyst Brands

Catalyst Brands is a leading U.S.-based retail organization formed in 2025 through the merger of JCPenney and SPARC Group, combining multiple iconic fashion brands under one umbrella. The company manages a diversified portfolio of well-known brands including Aéropostale, Brooks Brothers, Nautica, Lucky Brand, and JCPenney. Headquartered in Plano, Texas, Catalyst Brands focuses on delivering up-to-date retail experiences while leveraging the heritage of established global brands.

With a workforce of over tens of thousands and multi-billion-dollar revenue, the organization operates at a large scale across retail, e-commerce, and supply chain domains. The company emphasizes innovation, digital transformation, and customer-centric strategies to enhance brand value and consumer engagement.

Catalyst

Brands is expanding its global presence, including a growing capability centre in India that supports technology, digital operations, and analytics. It aims to drive operational excellence and business growth by integrating technology, data-driven insights, and efficient retail practices.

Position Overview

We are seeking an experienced Senior Platform Engineer to help define, build, and evolve our internal Digital platform, treating it as a product that empowers engineering teams to deliver features faster, securely and reliably. The ideal candidate combines deep technical expertise with a strong product mindset, focusing on usability, reliability, and continuous improvement based on developer feedback.

Key Responsibilities

- Deliver platform capabilities that solve real pain points for engineering teams.
- Develop scalable, resilient Spring Boot/Java based microservices and modules.
- Implement and manage critical microservices patterns,



including Circuit Breakers and Service Mesh solutions, to enhance system resilience and observability.
- Automate DB schema versioning and data access frameworks.
- Build secure-by-default patterns into APIs and microservices.
- Improve API lifecycle management using techniques such as API virtualization and consumer-driven contracts.
- Develop and improve streaming and queuing capabilities.
- Provide standardized capabilities for logging, tracing, and telemetry
- Engage directly with internal engineering teams to understand pain points
- Iteratively improve the platform’s capabilities.
- Treat internal engineering teams as customers.
- Define success metrics for platform adoption, performance, and satisfaction.
- Participate in roadmap planning and prioritization.
- Identify opportunities to simplify, standardize, and accelerate software delivery.
- Design for reusability and apply deep understating of software design patterns to build highly reusable, extensible, and maintainable platform components.
- Proactively engage with engineering teams to understand challenges and friction points.
- Enable platform adoption through effective documentation and training sessions.
- Implement Test-Driven Development (TDD) and build robust automated test suites for all framework components including performance testing.
- Define key success metrics for platform adoption, performance, and user satisfaction.
- Identify opportunities to simplify, standardize,



and accelerate the SDLC.
- Provide mentorship to engineering teams integrating and utilizing the platform.
- Actively engage with teams to diagnose and resolve issues they encounter.

Required Qualifications

- 6+ years of experience building Java/Spring Boot microservices.
- Proven expertise in designing and delivering platform capabilities.
- Deep understanding of API design through all phases of its lifecycle.
- Hands-on experience with event-driven architecture and batch processing.
- Familiarity with AWS cloud services relevant for backend platform development.
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively with DevOps and SRE teams.
- Experience instrumenting services with robust observability and telemetry using tools such as Dynatrace.
- Proficiency with dependency management tools such as Gradle and CI/CD pipelines for shared components, including automated publishing to internal artifact repositories.
- Strong understating of versioning strategies for shared libraries and managing backward compatibility.
- Excellent Communication and Presentation Skills. Demonstrated ability to clearly articulate complex technical concepts to diverse audiences, both verbally and in written form (e.g., presentations, technical documentation).

Nice-to-Have

- Working knowledge of Node.js / React to support full-stack platform features.
- Certifications such as AWS Solutions Architect or Spring Professional.
- Prior experience in a platform team, developer advocacy or internal consulting.
- Familiarity with empowering developers through self-service.
- Experience with static analysis tools and code quality metrics to ensure high standards in reusable codebases.

Pay Range INR ₹0.00 - INR ₹0.00 /Yr.

📌 Senior Engineer 1 (Bengaluru)
🏢 Catalyst Brands India
📍 Bengaluru