What Youll Bring (Required Qualifications)
8–12+ years of qualified software development experience; 5+ years building Java microservices in production.
Deep expertise in Java 17+, Spring Boot/Spring Cloud, Gradle/Maven, and REST/JSON plus gRPC/Protobuf (nice to have).
Robust experience with Kafka (streams, schema registry/Avro/Protobuf, consumer groups, partitioning, rebalancing) and transactional data patterns (sagas, outbox).
Solid understanding of distributed systems (consistency, CAP, retries vs. idempotency, backpressure, eventual consistency, caching).
Proven track record on Kubernetes and cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP) for production workloads: networking, service mesh (Istio/Linkerd – bonus), secrets, IAM, cost awareness.
Testing discipline: unit, contract (Pact/AssertJ JSON), integration (Testcontainers), E2E, performance (Gatling/JMH), and pipeline automation.
Observability:



Open Telemetry/ Micrometer /Prometheus/Grafana/ELK; able to debug with traces and highcardinality logs.
Security: OAuth2/OIDC/JWT, TLS, mTLS, certificate rotation, vulnerability remediation, SAST/DAST familiarity.
Ability to review architectural and vendor deliverables, articulate gaps, and guide towards remediation.
Experience with Vert.x / gRPC.

NicetoHave (Preferred)
Knowledge of CQRS/Event Sourcing, Temporal/Cadence (workflow orchestration), or Debezium/CDC.
Data stores: Postgres/MySQL (RDBMS), Redis (caching), MongoDB/Cosmos/DocumentDB (NoSQL), Elasticsearch/OpenSearch (search/analytics).
API gateways and service mesh (rate limiting, circuit breaking, authN/authZ).
Prior work with platform engineering, internal developer platforms, or Backstage.

📌 Senior Manager Pune
🏢 Finastra
📍 Pune