Job Requirements

Experience: 5-7 years

Position Summary

We're hiring Senior Java back-end developers to help strengthen the foundations of our platform. The focus is around improving observability, stability, and long-term maintainability for our application. You'll work as part of a Pune based engineering team, and will be trusted to take ownership of significant pieces of work with minimal oversight.

Key Focus Areas

- Delivery pipeline improvements (CI/CD, build reliability, deployment automation)

- Improving automated test coverage and quality across services, with a target of achieving and maintaining high coverage levels where appropriate

- Monitoring, telemetry, and observability for integrations with third-party services

- Fallback and resiliency mechanisms (circuit breakers, retries, failover)

- Making microservices more robust and self-healing

- Refactoring legacy services to improve maintainability, testability, performance and operational resilience

Work Experience

Required Skills

- 7+ years of commercial back-end development experience

- Strong hands-on experience with Java 8+, with Java 17 exposure preferred

- Deep expertise with Spring Boot, microservices, and event-driven distributed architectures





- Solid experience designing and building RESTful APIs

- Working knowledge of Docker and container-based deployment

- Practical experience with AWS, including Lambda, SNS, SQS, DynamoDB, and KMS

- Hands-on experience with MySQL — schema design, query tuning, and performance optimisation

- Experience with observability tooling — metrics, logging, distributed tracing (e.g. Splunk, Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, CloudWatch)

- Robust grounding in unit testing with JUnit and Mockito, with a quality-first mindset

- Familiarity with resiliency patterns (Resilience4j, circuit breakers, bulkheads)

- Experience with CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or similar)

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Desirable

- Kubernetes / container orchestration

- Prior experience focused on platform observability

- Experience working across distributed teams and time zones

- Experience with API and event contract testing, and establishing automated compatibility guarantees between microservices and their consumers

📌 Sr Java Developer (Pune)
🏢 Quest Global
📍 Pune