Job Title: Senior Engineer, AVP
Location: Bangalore, India
Role Description
- As a Senior Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and optimizing highly scalable, resilient, and cloud-native microservices using Java and Spring Boot. You will collaborate closely with architects, product managers, and engineering teams to implement solutions that align with established architectural standards, engineering best practices, and long-term technology goals.
- The role requires strong hands-on expertise in developing enterprise-grade distributed systems, with a core focus on performance across both application and database layers. You will actively identify and resolve performance bottlenecks, contribute to optimization initiatives, and ensure systems can scale efficiently to support growing business demands.
- As part of our technology modernization journey, you will participate in cloud migration initiatives involving Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and help drive the adoption and integration of Snowflake-based data solutions. The ideal candidate brings a proven track record of building high-performance Java microservices, optimizing Oracle and PostgreSQL databases, and designing scalable solutions that leverage modern cloud and data platforms.
- You will also provide technical guidance within the team through mentoring, peer code reviews, and by promoting engineering standards that foster a culture of technical excellence, innovation, and continuous improvement.
What we’ll offer you
As part of our flexible scheme, here are just some of the benefits that you’ll enjoy
- Best in class leave policy
- Gender neutral parental leaves
- 100% reimbursement under childcare assistance benefit (gender neutral)
- Sponsorship for Industry relevant certifications and education
- Employee Assistance Program for you and your family members
- Comprehensive Hospitalization Insurance for you and your dependents
- Accident and Term life Insurance
- Complementary Health screening for 35 yrs. and above
Your key responsibilities
- Design, develop, and implement scalable microservices utilizing Java, Spring Boot, and associated technologies.
- Build highly scalable, resilient, and high-performance distributed applications capable of handling enterprise workloads.
- Drive performance engineering initiatives across application, middleware, and database layers.
- Analyze, troubleshoot, and optimize Java microservices through JVM tuning, memory management, garbage collection optimization, thread management, connection pool tuning, and API performance improvements.
- Optimize Oracle and PostgreSQL database solutions through query tuning, execution plan analysis, indexing strategies, schema design optimization, and database performance monitoring.
- Collaborate with product managers, architects, DevOps engineers, and business stakeholders to deliver high-quality solutions.
- Contribute to cloud modernization initiatives and support the adoption of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services and cloud-native architecture patterns.
- Design and implement integrations with Snowflake and support data platform modernization initiatives.
- Promote engineering best practices through code reviews, design reviews, automated testing, CI/CD adoption, and operational excellence.
- Mentor and coach engineers to help them grow their technical capabilities and achieve their development goals.
- Contribute to architectural decisions related to scalability, reliability, observability, performance optimization, and cloud adoption.
Your skills and experience
Must Have
- 9+ years of hands-on software engineering experience with strong expertise in Java technologies and Microservices.
- Significant experience designing and developing enterprise-scale, highly scalable distributed systems and cloud-native applications.
- Strong expertise in Microservices Architecture, including design patterns, resiliency patterns, scalability, fault tolerance, and observability.
- Deep proficiency in Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, RESTful APIs, and event-driven architectures.
- Proven experience in performance optimization and tuning of Java applications and microservices, including:
- JVM tuning and performance analysis
- Memory management and garbage collection optimization
- Thread management and concurrency optimization
- Application profiling and diagnostic tools
- Production performance troubleshooting and root cause analysis
- API and service response time optimization
- Strong expertise with Oracle and PostgreSQL databases.
- Hands-on experience in database performance tuning and optimization, including:
- SQL query tuning
- Execution plan analysis
- Indexing strategies
- Schema and data model optimization
- Database scalability and performance troubleshooting
- Database monitoring and optimization best practices
- Experience working with business-critical systems where performance, scalability, reliability, and availability are essential.
- Experience integrating enterprise applications with Snowflake and understanding modern cloud-based data platform architectures.
- Exposure to Snowflake capabilities such as data ingestion, integration patterns, ETL/ELT processes, and application connectivity.
- Experience developing and deploying applications on public cloud platforms, preferably Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
- Strong understanding of scalability, distributed systems, caching strategies, concurrency, and performance engineering principles.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
Desirable Skills That Will Help You Excel
- Previous experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.
- Strong understanding of containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
- Experience with messaging and event-streaming platforms such as Kafka and RabbitMQ.
- Familiarity with cloud-native architecture patterns and managed services on GCP.
- Understanding of Architecture and Design Principles, Algorithms, and Data Structures.
- Experience with observability platforms, monitoring frameworks, and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices.
- Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and cloud automation concepts.
- Experience working with data engineering or analytics platforms.
- Previous experience with Python or other scripting languages.
- Proficiency in Git, Jenkins, CI/CD pipelines, Maven, Gradle, DevOps, and SRE methodologies.
- Prior experience in technical leadership, mentoring, and guiding development teams.
Proven ability to leverage AI tools to enhance productivity, optimise workflows to solve business problems, while applying critical judgment to ensure responsible and ethical use of data and AI outputs.
How we’ll support you
- Training and development to help you excel in your career
- Coaching and support from experts in your team
- A culture of continuous learning to aid progression
- A range of flexible benefits that you can tailor to suit your needs
About us and our teams
Please visit our company website for further information:
https://www.db.com/company/company.html
We at DWS are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace, one that embraces dialogue and diverse views, and treats everyone fairly to drive a high-performance culture. The value we create for our clients and investors is based on our ability to bring together various perspectives from all over the world and from different backgrounds. It is our experience that teams perform better and deliver improved outcomes when they are able to incorporate a wide range of perspectives. We call this #ConnectingTheDots.
Skills Required
- 9+ years hands-on software engineering experience with strong expertise in Java and Microservices
- Deep proficiency in Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, RESTful APIs, and event-driven architectures
- Proven experience in performance optimization and JVM tuning, memory management, garbage collection optimization, and application profiling
- Strong expertise with Oracle and PostgreSQL and experience in database performance tuning (query tuning, execution plan analysis, indexing, schema optimization)
- Experience developing and deploying applications on public cloud platforms, preferably Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- Experience integrating enterprise applications with Snowflake and familiarity with data ingestion and ETL/ELT patterns
- Experience working on business-critical systems requiring high scalability, reliability, and availability
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills
- Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Experience with messaging and event-streaming platforms such as Kafka and RabbitMQ
- Experience with observability platforms, monitoring frameworks, and SRE practices
- Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and cloud automation concepts
- Experience with CI/CD tools and build tools (Git, Jenkins, Maven, Gradle)
- Previous experience in technical leadership, mentoring, and guiding development teams
- Prior experience with Python or other scripting languages
What We Do
DWS Group (DWS) with EUR 933bn of assets under management (as of 30 June 2024) aspires to be one of the world's leading asset managers. Building on more than 60 years of experience, it has a reputation for excellence in Germany, Europe, the Americas and Asia. DWS is recognized by clients globally as a trusted source for integrated investment solutions, stability and innovation across a full spectrum of investment disciplines. We offer individuals and institutions access to our strong investment capabilities across all major liquid and illiquid asset classes as well as solutions aligned to growth trends. Our diverse expertise in Active, Passive and Alternatives asset management – as well as our deep environmental, social and governance focus – complement each other when creating targeted solutions for our clients. Our expertise and on-the-ground knowledge of our economists, research analysts and investment professionals are brought together in one consistent global CIO View, giving strategic guidance to our investment approach. DWS wants to innovate and shape the future of investing. We understand that, both as a corporate as well as a trusted advisor to our clients, we have a crucial role in helping to navigate the transition to a more sustainable future. With approximately 4,500 employees in offices all over the world, we are local while being one global team. We are committed to acting on behalf of our clients and investing with their best interests at heart so that they can reach their financial goals, no matter what the future holds. With our entrepreneurial, collaborative spirit, we work every day to deliver outstanding investment results, in both good and challenging times to build the best foundation for our clients’ financial future.
