Java Software Engineer

Photon; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 400,000 - 650,000; Full time

Job summary

Photon in Bengaluru seeks an experienced backend software engineer to own and evolve large-scale services. You will work with Java (8/11/17) and Spring Boot, implementing data persistence, API design, and secure architectures in an Agile team.

The role requires building robust microservices, crafting efficient data access layers, and deploying to cloud platforms with CI/CD pipelines using Docker and Kubernetes. 8+ years of backend experience preferred.

Qualifications

• More than eight years of backend software engineering experience with formal training or certification.
• Proficient in Java and Spring Boot with REST API design.
• Experience building scalable data access layers and secure APIs.
• Knowledge of CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud deployments.

Responsibilities

• End-to-end ownership: design, build, test, deploy, and operate backend services in an agile SDLC.
• Develop Java/Spring Boot microservices with robust data persistence and APIs.
• Implement security using Spring Security and token-based auth mechanisms.
• Design scalable system architectures with cloud exposure and observability.

Skills

Core Java

Spring Boot

Data persistence (Spring Data JPA)

API design (REST)

Spring Security

System design

Automated testing (JUnit/Cucumber)

Build tools (Maven/Gradle)

CI/CD (Jenkins)

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Jenkins

Terraform

Kafka

Job description

Experience: More than eight years of backend software engineering experience, supported by formal training or certification in software engineering fundamentals.

Responsibilities

• End-to-end ownership: Design, build, test, deploy, and operate backend services throughout the full software development life cycle using agile ways of working.
• Java (8/11/17): Strong proficiency in core Java, including lambda expressions and streams, functional programming concepts, collections, exception handling, file input and output, and multithreading and concurrency; strong foundation in data structures, algorithms, and problem solving.
• Spring Boot: Hands-on experience with annotations, dependency injection, inversion of control, automatic configuration, environment profiles, building representational state transfer application programming interfaces, Spring model view controller, transaction management, Actuator endpoints, and production readiness practices.
• Data persistence: Experience building efficient data access layers using Spring Data Java Persistence API, with strong awareness of relational modeling and performance tuning.
• Application programming interface design: Design and evolve representational state transfer services with input validation, versioning, consistent error handling, and operational endpoints such as health checks and metrics.
• Security: Implement authentication and authorization with Spring Security, including JSON Web Tokens, Open Authorization, Kerberos, and password encoding; apply secure application programming interface controls including cross-origin resource sharing configuration.
• System design: Produce and apply high-level design and low-level design; apply microservices patterns and Java design patterns with a focus on resiliency, scalability, and maintainability.
• Quality and testing: Write and maintain automated tests using JUnit and or Cucumber, perform code reviews, and debug complex issues; drive root-cause fixes and automate recurring remediation.
• Build, integration, and deployment tooling: Use Maven or Gradle for builds, Jenkins for continuous integration and continuous delivery, Docker for containerization, and Kubernetes for container orchestration.
• Cloud exposure: Working familiarity with Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform, including cloud-native principles.

Qualifications

• Additional strengths (preferred): Event-driven systems and messaging or streaming platforms such as Kafka; observability practices including logs, metrics, traces, alerting, and incident-driven improvements; infrastructure as code using tools such as Terraform.
• Artificial intelligence assisted development: Familiarity with GitHub Copilot, Claude-class assistants, and relevant Visual Studio Code extensions, with responsible usage and strong engineering controls.

Required Skills

• Strong proficiency in core Java.
• Hands-on experience with Spring Boot.
• Experience building efficient data access layers.
• Design and evolve representational state transfer services.
• Implement authentication and authorization with Spring Security.
• Produce and apply high-level design and low-level design.
• Write and maintain automated tests.
• Use Maven or Gradle for builds.
• Working familiarity with cloud platforms.

Preferred Skills

• Event-driven systems and messaging or streaming platforms.
• Observability practices.
• Infrastructure as code using tools such as Terraform.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools.

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