Lead Software Engineer

Principal Financial Group; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 3,000,000 - 4,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Principal Financial Group in Hyderabad is seeking a hands-on Lead Software Engineer (Java) to design and deliver scalable, secure backend systems with technical excellence and mentorship. You will architect Java/Spring Boot microservices, implement RESTful APIs, ensure performance, security, and observability, and drive projects to completion while communicating trade-offs to stakeholders across teams.

The role emphasizes collaboration, agile ceremonies, and delivering high-quality software with

Qualifications

• Proficient in Java and Spring Boot design of RESTful services.
• Strong understanding of OOP, SOLID principles and modern Java APIs.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, version control, and test automation.

Responsibilities

• Architect and implement Java/Spring Boot microservices and RESTful APIs.
• Establish and maintain a test strategy (unit, integration, performance).
• Profile JVM and databases; apply caching and resilience patterns.
• Implement secure coding practices including OAuth2/JWT and input validation.
• Implement structured logs, metrics, and tracing; define SLIs/SLOs and dashboards.
• Contribute to shared libraries, templates, and developer DX improvements.
• Mentor engineers, conduct reviews, and communicate trade-offs to stakeholders.
• Lead agile ceremonies and ensure clarity of sprint goals and readiness criteria.
• Refine stories into actionable tasks with clear acceptance criteria.

Skills

Java 8+

OOP & SOLID

Streams API

Multithreading

JVM tuning

Tools

Spring Boot

Maven/Gradle

Git

Jenkins

Job description

Responsibilities

Role Overview: We are seeking ahands‑on Lead Software Engineer (Java) to design and deliverscalable, secure, and highperformance backend systems. This role emphasizestechnical excellence,mentorship,driving projects to completion, andclear stakeholder communication.

Key Responsibilities

• Design & Build: Architect and implementJava/Spring Bootmicroservices andRESTful APIsaligned to business and non-functional requirements.
• Quality Engineering: Establish and maintain atest strategy(unit, integration, performance), enforce code quality.
• Performance & Resilience: Profile JVM and databases, apply caching, implement resilience patterns (circuit breakers, retries, backoff).
• Security & Compliance: Implement secure coding,OAuth2/JWT, input validation, encryption.
• Observability: Implement structured logs, metrics, and distributed tracing, defineSLIs/SLOs, alerts, and meaningful dashboards.
• Technical Enablers: Contribute toshared libraries, templates, and reusable patterns, improve developer experience (DX).
• Mentorship & Collaboration: Mentor engineers via pairing and reviews, communicate trade-offs and risks early to Product/Architecture/QA.
• Facilitate agile ceremonies: (standups, backlog refinement, sprint planning, demos, retros) with a focus on technical outcomes, risk surfacing, and sprint goal clarity.
• Refine stories into actionable technical tasks: ensureDefinition of Ready/Done, unambiguous acceptance criteria, testability, and accuratestory point estimation.

Qualifications

MustHave Skills (Java)

• Java / Java 8+
  • DeepOOP&SOLIDprinciples.
  • Streams API,Optional,functional interfaces,lambda expressions.
  • Multithreading & Concurrency: thread pools,Future/CompletableFuture, synchronization, locks,concurrent collections.
  • Java Memory Model: heap/stack fundamentals,Garbage Collectionbehavior and tuning.
• Web Technologies
  • Design & implementRESTful APIs(idempotency, pagination, robust error models).
  • Rate limiting&API Gatewayconcepts,Swagger/OpenAPIdocumentation.
  • Exposure toWebLogic/WebSphere(or embedded servers: Tomcat/Jetty).
• Spring Framework
  • Spring Core (IoC/DI),Spring MVC,Spring Boot(auto-configuration, starter dependencies).
  • Spring Security(JWT, OAuth2),Spring Batch,Spring AOP.
• Architecture & Design Patterns
  • Event-Driven Design(MQ messaging/queuing).
  • Design patterns:Factory, Builder, Strategy, Template.
• Data & Tooling
  • StrongSQL(DB2/MySQL): schema design, indexing, query tuning.
  • Build & CI/CD:Maven/Gradle, Git, Jenkins/GitHub Actions.
  • Testing:JUnit 5,Mockito,Testcontainers
  • performance testing (JMeter/Gatling).
  • Observability: logs/metrics/traces (Dynatrace, ELK).

Good to Have

• Messaging/eventing (Kafka/JMS)
• Containers (Docker) and orchestration basics (Kubernetes/ECS).
• DDD architecture

Soft Skills

• Strong problem-solving, analytical thinking, andbias for action.
• Plans, prioritizes, and communicates effectively across teams and time zones.
• Mentors teammates, provides clear, constructive feedback.
• Demonstratesownership, raises the bar, andconsistently exceedsday-to-day expectations.
• Identifies ambiguity/risks and proactively drivesclarity and resolutionwith stakeholders.