Senior Engineer - Java

Guardian Life Insurance; Chennai District; On-site; INR 1,400,000 - 2,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Guardian Life Insurance seeks a Senior Engineer - Java Full Stack to build and enhance microservices using Java/Spring Boot deployed on AWS. The role emphasizes backend development, testing, production stability, and collaboration across engineering and functional teams.

Proficiency in Java/Spring Boot, REST, AWS services, databases, CI/CD, and familiarity with frontend tech (Angular/React) is required; you will contribute to code reviews, testing, and deployment pipelines while maintaining API

Qualifications

• 4-6 years of backend development experience with Java and Spring Boot.
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Translate user stories into clean, maintainable code using Java and Spring Boot.
• Participate in design discussions, propose technical solutions, and evaluate trade-offs.
• Build microservices with proper validation, logging, exception handling, and performance hygiene.
• Assist with database modeling, writing queries, and creating tables, functions, or stored procedures.
• Write unit tests and participate actively in peer code reviews.
• Support UAT by clarifying requirements, reproducing issues, and validating fixes.
• Contribute to production issue troubleshooting with logs, metrics, and dashboards.
• Maintain Jira stories, documentation, and API specifications.
• Use AI tools like GitHub Copilot to speed up coding, testing, refactoring, and documentation.
• Demonstrate strong communication, learning mindset, reliability, and collaboration

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

REST APIs

Microservices

AWS

PostgreSQL/MySQL

JUnit/Mockito

CI/CD

GitHub Copilot

API Gateway

Kafka

Docker

Kubernetes

Splunk/CloudWatch/ArgoCD

Postman

Sonarqube

Angular/React/JavaScript/TypeScript/HT

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering or equivalent

Tools

GitHub Copilot

Docker

Kubernetes

Postman

Sonarqube

Splunk

CloudWatch

ArgoCD

API Gateway

Kafka

Job description

Job Description:

Senior Engineer - Java Full Stack / Spring Boot / AWS (4-6 years)

About the Role

You will contribute to building and enhancing microservices using Java/Spring Boot deployed on AWS. The role focuses on backend development, testing, production stability, and collaboration across engineering and functional teams.

RequiredSkills

• Strong knowledge of Java , Spring Boot , REST APIs, and microservice fundamentals.

• Experience with core AWS services (API Gateway, ECS/EKS, Lambda, or CloudWatch).

• Solid understanding of relational databases (PostgreSQL/MySQL) and SQL.

• Hands-on experience with JUnit/Mockito and CI/CD workflows.

• Experience using GitHub Copilot or similar AI tools for development productivity.

• Basic familiarity with API Gateway , event streaming (Kafka), or rules engines (Drools/Blaze).

• Understanding of Docker or Kubernetes concepts.

• Exposure to application monitoring tools like Splunk/CloudWatch/ArgoCD

• Experience with tools - Postman,Sonarqube

• Experience with Angular (preferred) or React,JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap

Responsibilities

• Translate user stories into clean, maintainable code using Java and Spring Boot.

• Participate in design discussions, propose technical solutions, and evaluate trade-offs.

• Build microservices with proper validation, logging, exception handling, and performance hygiene.

• Assistwith database modeling, writing queries, and creating tables, functions, or stored procedures.

• Write unit tests andparticipateactively in peer code reviews.

• Support UAT by clarifying requirements, reproducing issues, and validatingfixes.

• Contribute to productionissuetroubleshooting with logs, metrics, and dashboards.

• Maintain Jira stories, documentation, and API specifications.

• Use AI tools like GitHub Copilot to speed up coding, testing, refactoring, and documentation.

• Demonstratestrong communication, learning mindset, reliability, and collaboration

Qualifications

• 4-6 years of backend development experience with Java and Spring Boot.

• Bachelor's degree in Engineeringor equivalent.

Location:

This position can be based in any of the following locations:

Chennai