- 6+ years of professional experience as a Software Developer with Java and Spring Boot.
- Experience with Spring Data JPA / Hibernate.
- Experience with Apache Kafka and event-driven/asynchronous microservices.
- Experience with PostgreSQL (including AWS RDS PostgreSQL), SQL performance tuning, database design, and normalisation.
- Working knowledge of AWS for application deployment, including ECS/ECR, S3, API Gateway, and CloudFront.
- Experience with Maven for build/dependency management.
- Working knowledge of Git and JIRA in an Agile/Scrum environment.
- Experience developing and integrating with third-party APIs (both consuming and creating APIs).
- Familiarity with common integration patterns (e.g., REST, message queues).
- Strong understanding of object-oriented programming principles and design patterns (e.g., SOLID principles, hexagonal architecture).
- Excellent software design skills with solid abstraction and modelling capability, and the ability to make independent architectural decisions.
- Experience already using modern AI development tools (e.g. OpenAI Codex, Claude Code) as part of daily workflow, with genuine depth on configuration, evaluation, and effective use (e.g., memory/context management, token usage, multi-agent setups) not just prompt-level usage.
- Prior experience with enterprise-scale systems and AWS infrastructure is a major plus.
- Having an AWS certification is a plus.
Nice to have:
- CI/CD pipeline experience.
- Experience with Docker for containerization and Terraform for infrastructure as code.
- Monitoring and observability tools.
- Experience working in logistics, transportation, customs, or e-commerce platforms.