We are looking for a Senior Java Backend Engineer (C12) in Pune to join the core engineering team building Vendor Master Central (VMC)—an enterprise-scale registry platform responsible for ingesting, reconciling, and managing millions of market data service records, contracts, and vendor hierarchies.
This role is backend-first, centered on designing high-throughput ingestion pipelines, resilient Spring Boot microservices, clean RESTful APIs, and domain data models. Experience or interest in Full Stack development with React/TypeScript is a strong plus, enabling end-to-end feature ownership from backend services up to user-facing web tools.
We actively embrace GenAI-assisted engineering (Devin, GitHub Copilot, Cursor) to automate boilerplate, accelerate unit testing, and achieve high engineering velocity.
Key Responsibilities
- Backend Microservices: Design, build, and maintain production-grade REST APIs and microservices using Java 21/25 and Spring Boot.
- Data Ingestion & Processing: Build resilient ETL and reconciliation services that ingest, validate, and deduplicate complex monthly datasets from multiple upstream sources into a unified data model.
- Data Modeling & Storage: Design relational schemas (PostgreSQL / Oracle), optimize complex SQL queries, and implement transactional data integrity, staging layers, and immutable audit logs.
- Full Stack Collaboration (Bonus): Partner with or contribute to the React/TypeScript frontend to integrate APIs seamlessly with data grids, curation drawers, and bulk Excel upload workflows.
- GenAI Velocity: Leverage AI-powered developer tooling (Devin, Copilot, Cursor) for rapid prototyping, component scaffolding, and automated test coverage.
- Engineering Excellence: Drive high code quality through TDD/BDD (JUnit 5, Mockito), automated CI/CD pipelines, containerization (Docker/OpenShift), and code reviews.
- Mentorship & Ownership: Act as a technical pillar within the Pune agile squad, collaborating with global teams and mentoring junior engineers.
What We Are Looking For
Core Backend Requirements:
- 5–8+ years of hands-on software development experience with core focus on Java (21/25) and Spring / Spring Boot.
- Strong foundation in RESTful API design, microservice architecture, and enterprise integration patterns.
- Deep expertise in relational databases (SQL), schema design, data indexing, transactions, and performance tuning (PostgreSQL, Oracle, or MySQL).
- Solid experience building data ingestion, transformation, or batch processing pipelines.
- Strong testing discipline: unit testing, integration testing, and mock frameworks (JUnit, Mockito, Testcontainers).
- Experience with modern DevOps pipelines (Git, Maven/Gradle, Jenkins/Tekton, Docker, Linux).
Nice-to-Have / Full-Stack Plus:
- Experience or familiarity with React, TypeScript, or modern frontend SPAs (state management, component design, data grids).
- Familiarity with client/server Excel file processing (.xlsx generation, bulk upload parsing).
- Experience working with autonomous AI engineering agents (e.g., Devin) or AI-assisted coding tools.
- Experience with message brokers or event streaming (Kafka, MQ).
Qualifications & Competencies
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
- Autonomy & Judgment: Ability to operate with limited direct supervision, make sound architectural choices, and deliver features independently.
- Communication: Strong English communication skills and ability to collaborate across distributed global teams (India, UK, US).
- Risk & Controls: Sound understanding of secure coding practices, data governance, and enterprise security standards.
This job description provides a high-level review of the types of work performed. Other job-related duties may be assigned as required.
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Skills Required
- 5–8+ years of hands-on software development experience
- Core expertise in Java 21/25 and Spring/Spring Boot
- RESTful API design and microservice architecture experience
- Enterprise integration patterns experience
- Strong relational database and SQL expertise, including schema design, indexing, transactions, and performance tuning
- Experience with PostgreSQL, Oracle, or MySQL
- Experience building data ingestion, transformation, or batch-processing pipelines
- Unit, integration, and mock-framework testing experience with JUnit, Mockito, or Testcontainers
- Experience with Git, Maven or Gradle, Jenkins or Tekton, Docker, and Linux
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
- React, TypeScript, or modern frontend SPA familiarity
- Client/server Excel file processing experience
- Experience with autonomous AI engineering agents or AI-assisted coding tools
- Message broker or event-streaming experience with Kafka or MQ
- Strong English communication skills and collaboration across distributed global teams
- Understanding of secure coding, data governance, and enterprise security standards
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