Lead Backend - Java 5

Accenture; Ernakulam; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture in Kochi is seeking a Lead Backend – Java specialist with 5–8 years of hands-on experience to design, develop, and maintain high-performance Java applications. You will mentor a team, drive architectural decisions, and collaborate with cross-functional groups to deliver scalable backend services.

The role requires strong Java 11+ skills, Spring Boot expertise, RESTful services, and familiarity with CI/CD and cloud technologies.

Qualifications

• 5-8 years of hands-on Java development experience.
• Strong OO design and backend development knowledge.
• Experience with Java 11+ and Spring Boot.
• Experience with RESTful services and testing.
• Familiar with CI/CD and cloud technologies.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical direction and mentor the team.
• Design, code, debug, unit test large complex apps.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams on implementation.
• Assimilate new skills and technologies quickly.
• Own end-to-end solutions and architectural decisions.
• Mentor junior teammates through reviews and guidance.
• Identify risks and propose improvements across codebase.

Skills

Java 11+

Spring Boot

Data Structures

REST APIs

JUnit/Mockito

Multithreading

CI/CD

Cloud basics

SonarQube

SQL/NoSQL

Design patterns

Code reviews

Education

Graduation

Tools

Logging: SLF4J/LogBack/Log4j

Job description

Job Description:

Job Title - Lead Backend – Java - Specialist - ACS Song

Management Level: Level 9 - Specialist

Location: Kochi

Must have skills: Java/Springboot

Good to have skills: Agile Project Management

Experience: 5-8 years of experience is required

Educational Qualification: Graduation (Accurate educational details should capture)

Job Summary

We are seeking a skilled and motivated Lead Java Developer with 5–8 years of hands‑on experience in designing, developing, and maintaining high‑performance Java applications. The ideal candidate has a strong understanding of object‑oriented programming, backend development, and modern software engineering best practices. You will be responsible for writing clean, scalable code, collaborating with cross‑functional teams, and contributing to all phases of the software development lifecycle.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Owning the technical direction and ensuring the team delivers high-quality, scalable, and maintainable solutions while guiding and mentoring team members.
• Designing, coding, debugging, unit testing, and documenting large, complex software applications
• Collaborate on technical implementation, assist other developers and consultants in implementation and development
• Demonstrate capability to effectively assimilate new skills and use of new technologies.
• Takes ownership of complex, ambiguous problems and drives end-to-end solutions.
• Makes architectural and design decisions, ensuring scalability and maintainability.
• Mentors and supports junior team members through code reviews and guidance.
• Communicates effectively with cross‑functional teams and contributes to technical planning.
• Proactively identifies technical risks and proposes improvements across the codebase or processes.
• Exceptional productivity and attention to product quality issues
• Be accountable to deliver the task to the agreed standards
• Adhere to development standards and architectural guidelines set by the Solution Design team
• Develop all technical aspects of eCommerce stores, from commerce to content and all integration with external systems
• Motivated to independently monitor and appraise emerging trends and technologies in software engineering and make recommendations or undertake independent research to validate new ideas
• Act as the key trouble‑shooter in complex/escalated incidents
• Provide innovative ideas and solutions in an ever‑changing environment with up‑to‑date knowledge regarding existing technologies.

Professional and Technical Skills:

• Strong development skills in Java 11 or above.
• Should have strong acumen in Data Structures, Algorithms, problem‑solving and Logical/Analytical skills.
• Hands‑on experience with Spring , Spring Boot.
• Hands‑on experience with any of the logging frameworks (SLF4J/LogBack/Log4j)
• Experience of writing Junit test cases using Mockito / Powermock frameworks.
• Thorough understanding of OOPS concepts, Design principles and implementation of different types of Design patterns.
• Sound understanding of concepts like Exception handling, Serialization/Deserialization and Immutability concepts, etc.
• Good fundamental knowledge in Enums, Collections, Annotations, Generics, Autoboxing, etc.
• Experience with Multi‑threading, Concurrent Package and Concurrent APIs
• Basic understanding of Java Memory Management (JMM) including garbage collections concepts.
• Experience in RDBMS or NoSQL databases and writing SQL queries
• Hands‑on experience in creating RESTful webservices and consuming webservices
• Familiar with CI/CD pipeline
• Good understanding of any of the cloud technologies.
• Hands‑on experience in using code quality tools like Sonarqube
• Experience with Code management tools.
• Hands‑on experience with Caching mechanisms.

Additional Information

About Our Company | Accenture (do not remove the hyperlink)

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

Visit us at www.accenture.com

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

We believe that no one should be discriminated against because of their differences.All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, military veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status or any other basis as protected by applicable law.Our rich diversity makes us more innovative, more competitive, and more creative, which helps us better serve our clients and our communities.