Java Backend Lead - Vadodara

Capco; Pune District; Hybrid; INR 3,500,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Capco, a Wipro company, seeks a Java Backend Lead in Vadodara. The role requires 10+ years of Java backend experience, with strong expertise in Java, Spring Boot, and Microservices.

You will lead scalable backend design, REST APIs, and engineering best practices in a hybrid work model (client office). You will mentor engineers, drive architectural decisions, and collaborate with product and QA to deliver enterprise-grade solutions while ensuring security, performance, and reliability.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of Java backend experience, with leadership exposure.
• Strong Java, Spring Boot, and Microservices expertise.
• Experience designing REST APIs for enterprise-grade apps.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and development of scalable backend applications.
• Provide technical leadership and architectural decisions.
• Build robust microservices and REST APIs for enterprise-grade systems.
• Guide and mentor the team through design reviews and coding standards.
• Ensure scalable, secure, resilient backend solutions and performance focus.

Skills

Java backend

Spring Boot

Microservices

REST APIs

OOP & design patterns

Mentoring engineers

Troubleshooting

Team collaboration

Tools

Apache Kafka

Kubernetes

JPA/Hibernate

Spring Security

CI/CD

Job description

Job Title: Java Backend Lead - Vadodara

About Us

“Capco, a Wipro company, is a global technology and management consulting firm. Awarded with Consultancy of the year in the British Bank Award and has been ranked Top 100 Best Companies for Women in India 2022 by Avtar & Seramount. With our presence across 32 cities across globe, we support 100+ clients acrossbanking, financial and Energy sectors. We are recognized for our deep transformation execution and delivery.

WHY JOIN CAPCO?

You will work on engaging projects with the largest international and local banks, insurance companies, payment service providers and other key players in the industry. The projects that will transform the financial services industry.

MAKE AN IMPACT

Innovative thinking, delivery excellence and thought leadership to help our clients transform their business. Together with our clients and industry partners, we deliver disruptive work that is changing energy and financial services.

#BEYOURSELFATWORK

Capco has a tolerant, open culture that values diversity, inclusivity, and creativity.

CAREER ADVANCEMENT

With no forced hierarchy at Capco, everyone has the opportunity to grow as we grow, taking their career into their own hands.

DIVERSITY & INCLUSION

We believe that diversity of people and perspective gives us a competitive advantage.

Position: Java Backend Lead

Location:Vadodara

Experience:10+ YearsWork Mode:Hybrid (Work from Client Office)

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design and development of scalable, high-performance backend applications usingJava, Spring Boot, and Microservices.
• Provide technical leadership and drivesolution design, architecture decisions, and engineering best practices.
• Design and build robustMicroservices and REST APIsfor enterprise-grade applications.
• Lead features and technical initiatives from design and development through testing, deployment, and production support.
• Guide and mentor developers throughtechnical discussions, design reviews, and code reviews.
• Ensure backend solutions arescalable, secure, resilient, maintainable, and performance focused.
• Collaborate closely withProduct, Architecture, Mobile, QA, DevOps, and other engineering teams.
• Identify and resolve complex technical challenges, production issues, and performance bottlenecks.
• Drive coding standards, engineering quality, and continuous improvement across the team.

Required Skills & Experience

• 10+ years of experience inJava backend development, with experience leading technical teams or complex engineering initiatives.
• Strong hands-on expertise inJava, Spring Boot, and Microservices Architecture.
• Strong experience designing and developingREST APIs and distributed backend services.
• Proven ability to drivetechnical design and architecture decisionsfor enterprise applications.
• Strong understanding ofobject-oriented programming, design patterns, clean coding, and secure coding practices.
• Experience buildingscalable, reliable, and enterprise-grade applications.
• Ability to mentor engineers and drive high engineering standards across the team.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, problem-solving, stakeholder management, and communication skills.

Preferred / Good-to-Have

• Experience in thePayments / FinTech domain, including payment processing and integrations.
• Experience withApache Kafkaor other messaging/event-driven technologies.
• Knowledge ofrelational databases, SQL, JPA/Hibernate, and database performance optimization.
• Experience withSpring Securityand application security practices.
• Exposure tocloud platforms, containers, and Kubernetes.
• Experience withautomated testing, CI/CD pipelines, Git, and code quality tools.
• Experience building backend services and APIs supportingAndroid/iOS mobile applications.