VP – Senior Software Engineer - Java Location: Pune, Maharashtra

Employment Type: Full time

Experience: 9–16 years

We are hiring a VP – Senior Software Engineer (Java) for a leading global investment banking and financial services organisation establishing a strategic technology presence in Pune.

This is an opportunity to work on business-critical engineering platforms, design scalable distributed systems, and solve complex technical challenges in a high-performance engineering environment.

We are looking for a technically strong, hands-on engineer who enjoys coding, architecture, performance optimisation and solving complex engineering problems. This is an individual-contributor-oriented technical leadership role, not a pure people-management position.

Design, develop and maintain scalable, high-performance applications using Java, Spring Boot and microservices.

Apply strong multithreading and concurrency concepts to solve complex performance and scalability challenges.

Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks across application, JVM, messaging and database layers.

Work with cloud technologies, containerisation and CI/CD practices to support reliable application delivery.

Mentor engineers through technical guidance while remaining actively involved in coding and engineering problem-solving.





9–16 years of relevant software engineering experience, with strong hands-on Java development.

- Strong expertise in Java and Spring Boot.
- In-depth, practical experience implementing and troubleshooting Apache Kafka.
- Proven experience with multithreading, concurrency and performance optimisation.
- Experience designing or developing low-latency, high-throughput applications.
- Current hands-on coding and debugging experience.
- Experience in investment banking, financial services, capital markets or trading technology.

Exposure to AWS or other cloud platforms.

Experience with Kubernetes, Docker and CI/CD pipelines.

Familiarity with PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redshift or other enterprise databases.

Experience with performance monitoring, profiling and production troubleshooting.

Experience participating in architecture review boards or enterprise design forums.

Professionals who can demonstrate real-world Kafka implementation and troubleshooting experience.

Candidates who can draw, explain and defend system architecture and engineering trade-offs.

Interested in building scalable, resilient and high-performance systems Apply now and take the next step in your engineering career.

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