Senior Engineer – Java Full Stack / Spring Boot / AWS (4–6 years)

About The Role

You will contribute to building and enhancing microservices using Java/Spring Boot deployed on AWS. The role focuses on backend development, testing, production stability, and collaboration across engineering and functional teams.

Required Skills

- Strong knowledge of Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs, and microservice fundamentals.

- Experience with core AWS services (API Gateway, ECS/EKS, Lambda, or CloudWatch).

- Solid understanding of relational databases (PostgreSQL/MySQL) and SQL.

- Hands‑on experience with JUnit/Mockito and CI/CD workflows.

- Experience using GitHub Copilot or similar AI tools for development productivity.

- Basic familiarity with API Gateway, event streaming (Kafka), or rules engines (Drools/Blaze).

- Understanding of Docker or Kubernetes concepts.

- Exposure to application monitoring tools like Splunk/CloudWatch/ArgoCD

- Experience with tools – Postman, Sonarqube

- Experience with Angular (preferred) or React ,JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap

Responsibilities

- Translate user stories into clean, maintainable code using Java and Spring Boot.

- Participate in design discussions,



propose technical solutions, and evaluate trade‑offs.

- Build microservices with proper validation, logging, exception handling, and performance hygiene.

- Assist with database modeling, writing queries, and creating tables, functions, or stored procedures.

- Write unit tests and participate actively in peer code reviews.

- Support UAT by clarifying requirements, reproducing issues, and validating fixes.

- Contribute to production issue troubleshooting with logs, metrics, and dashboards.

- Maintain Jira stories, documentation, and API specifications.

- Use AI tools like GitHub Copilot to speed up coding, testing, refactoring, and documentation.

- Demonstrate solid communication, learning mindset, reliability, and collaboration

Qualifications

- 4–6 years of backend development experience with Java and Spring Boot.

- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or equivalent.

Location

This position can be based in any of the following locations:

Chennai

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