Backend Engineer (Java Kafka)

Star Health and Allied Insurance; Pune District; On-site; INR 700,000 - 1,100,000; Full time

Job summary

Star Health and Allied Insurance is seeking a Software Engineer to join our software development teams. You will develop highly scalable applications and work with Java-based frameworks in a large-scale distributed environment.

The role emphasizes learning fast, solving complex problems, and collaborating with peers across product domains while applying design patterns, DevOps practices, and secure coding principles.

Qualifications

• Experience with Java and Spring frameworks.
• Experience with building scalable distributed systems.
• Knowledge of DevOps practices and CI/CD is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design and development of robust, scalable applications in a large-scale distributed environment.
• Translating business requirements into system design.
• Ownership of key software modules, including product enhancements and maintenance.
• Effective debugging of issues in a time-critical atmosphere.
• Interact with peers across product domains for cross-platform development.

Skills

Java

Spring MVC

Spring Boot

Gradle

Maven

Kafka

Job description

A 'Software Engineer' is a young member of our software development teams. As an engineer, you will develop highly scalable software applications. This career-establishing role exposes you to complex programming skills, design patterns and DevOps practices. Therefore, the role requires you to demonstrate the ability to quickly learn a programming language and framework that you can use to build an A-class service. Along with this, the role also requires very good analytical skills, the ability to debug problems in an existing piece of code and the ability to work with other team members in a collaborative environment. This stage of the career exposes you to an independent contributor role where you are expected to work on specific problems in an independent manner with minimal assistance.

Responsibilities:

• Design and development of highly robust and scalable applications in a large-scale distributed systems environment.
• Translating business requirements into system design.
• Ownership of key software modules, which would involve product enhancements and maintenance of existing functionality.
• Effective debugging of issues and associated fixes in a time-critical atmosphere.
• Interact with peers across product domains for cross-platform development.

The core requirements for the job include the following:

Core/Must Have Skills:

• Java
• Spring MVC
• Spring Boot
• Gradle
• Maven
• Kafka

Other Essential Skills:

• Strong analytical skills with good problem-solving abilities.
• Possess a sound understanding of data structures, algorithms, object-oriented design and service-oriented architecture.
• Passion for writing high-quality code in an object-oriented language.
• Awareness of Secure Coding Principles.

Leadership Skills:

• Ability to seek feedback, opinions and ideas to self-orient with minimal assistance and also help others to orient as well.
• Must believe in proactive learning and a collaborative working style.
• Ability to bring energy, excitement and positive vibes to the team.
• Ability to self-motivate and inspire others.
• Ability to learn and share knowledge with others - lead by example.