The Role
Designs, builds, and supports scalable backend services, integrations, microservices, APIs, data pipelines, and cloud applications. Optimizes performance, reliability, and resource usage; addresses technical debt; develops automated tests; participates in Agile delivery, architecture, code reviews, CI/CD, and cross-functional collaboration.
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Role Summary
As a Senior Engineer, you will design, build, and support critical integrations and applications across SOMS domain. You will contribute hands-on development expertise in Java, Spring Framework, and cloud technologies (Azure/GCP) while ensuring scalability, compliance, and performance. You will work in a hybrid team model (onshore + offshore), collaborating with SOMS SMEs, Enterprise architects, and contractors to deliver high-quality solutions that enable Easy experience for Staples Business customers.
Duties & Responsibilities
• Collaborate with DevOps, product, and other engineering teams to define requirements and deliver long-lasting technical solutions.
• Design, build, and maintain distributed and scalable backend services to support business-critical feature.
• Optimize system latency, throughput, and resource usage to support high performance under variable loads.
• Address technical debt by refactoring code and infrastructure and stay updated on emerging technologies and industry trends.
• Excellent verbal and written communications with the ability to establish effective working relationships with team members and cross functional teams.
• Develop comprehensive test plans and maintain automated test suites to ensure software robustness and minimize regressions.
Requirements
Basic Qualifications
• Possess 4 to 7 years of relevant professional experience.
• Demonstrate proficient programming skills in at least one modern language such as Java or Python.
• Strong expertise in system architecture and the development of highly available, fault-tolerant distributed applications optimized for performance and scalability in cloud environments.
• Proven experience working within Agile frameworks, contributing to technical design, iterative development, and conducting thorough code reviews.
• Well-versed in best practices for developing high-quality software, implementing continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines.
• Skilled in designing and implementing microservices using the Spring ecosystem, including Spring Boot, Spring JPA, Spring Batch, Spring Security, Spring Cloud, and Spring Data Stream.
• Hands-on experience managing distributed databases such as Azure CosmosDB, Couchbase, or MongoDB.
• Familiarity with relational database systems like Oracle, MySQL and PostgreSQL.
• Experience with distributed caching technologies such as Memcached, Redis, or Hazelcast to improve application performance.
• Competent in working with distributed messaging systems including Azure EventHub, Apache Kafka, and Solace to enable reliable communication and event handling.
• Ability to build and optimize production-quality data pipelines for both batch and stream processing to support large-scale data analytics and machine learning workloads.
• Proficient in using GitHub for version control and leveraging tools such as GitHub Copilot for code assistance and productivity enhancement.
• API development and maintenance skills: designing, implementing, and documenting RESTful, GraphQL, or SOAP APIs; version management and authentication (OAuth, JWT)
• Documentation: producing technical specifications, system architecture diagrams, and detailed API documentation for internal users.
Preferred Qualifications
• Proven experience taking an idea from inception to life with an ability to explore a variety of open-source technologies.
• Experience with developing, deploying, and launching software products on public cloud preferably Microsoft Azure and GCP.
Skills Required
- 4 to 7 years of relevant professional experience
- Proficiency in Java or Python
- Experience architecting highly available, fault-tolerant distributed applications for cloud environments
- Experience with Agile frameworks, technical design, iterative development, and code reviews
- Knowledge of software quality practices and CI/CD pipelines
- Experience designing and implementing Spring-based microservices, including Spring Boot, Spring JPA, Spring Batch, Spring Security, Spring Cloud, and Spring Data Stream
- Experience with Azure Cosmos DB, Couchbase, or MongoDB
- Familiarity with Oracle, MySQL, or PostgreSQL
- Experience with Memcached, Redis, or Hazelcast
- Experience with Azure Event Hubs, Apache Kafka, or Solace
- Ability to build and optimize batch and stream data pipelines for analytics and machine learning workloads
- Proficiency with GitHub and GitHub Copilot
- Experience designing, implementing, documenting, versioning, and securing RESTful, GraphQL, or SOAP APIs using OAuth or JWT
- Ability to produce technical specifications, architecture diagrams, and API documentation
- Experience taking software ideas from inception through delivery and exploring open-source technologies
- Experience developing, deploying, and launching products on Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud Platform
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The Company
What We Do
Staples India is Staples’ technology and innovation hub in Chennai, building platforms, systems, and digital solutions that support the company’s global operations and future of work. Staples serves consumers and businesses with workplace products and services, including office supplies, janitorial products, technology, furniture, breakroom essentials, print and marketing, shipping, travel, and promotional offerings. Its India teams focus on engineering, eCommerce, process optimization, and enterprise solutions.
