Senior Manager

Finastra; Pune District; Hybrid; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Finastra is seeking a senior software engineer in Pune to design and build Java microservices with production experience. You will work on scalable systems using Java 17+, Spring Boot, Kafka, and gRPC, running on Kubernetes across cloud environments.

You will contribute to robust testing, observability, and security, while reviewing architecture and vendor deliverables to drive reliable, high-performance services.

Qualifications

• 8-12+ years of professional software development experience.
• 5+ years building Java microservices in production.
• Java 17+, Spring Boot/Spring Cloud, Gradle/Maven, REST/JSON, and gRPC/Protobuf.
• Strong Kafka experience (streams, schema registry/Avro/Protobuf, consumer groups, partitioning).
• Solid understanding of distributed systems (consistency, CAP, retries, idempotency, backpressure, caching).
• Production cloud experience with Kubernetes and cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP).
• Testing discipline: unit, contract, integration, E2E, performance, and pipelines.
• Observability: Open Telemetry/Micrometer/Prometheus/Grafana/ELK; trace logs.
• Security: OAuth2/OIDC/JWT, TLS, mTLS, certificate rotation, vulnerability remediation.
• Ability to review architectural and vendor deliverables.
• Experience with Vert.x and/or gRPC.

Skills

Java microservices

Java 17+

Spring Boot

REST/JSON

gRPC/Protobuf

Kafka

Distributed systems

Kubernetes

Cloud platforms

Testing discipline

Observability

Security

Architecture review

Vert.x

Tools

Gradle/Maven

Job description

What Youll Bring (Required Qualifications)

• 8-12+ years of professional software development experience; 5+ years building Java microservices in production.
• Deep expertise in Java 17+, Spring Boot/Spring Cloud, Gradle/Maven, and REST/JSON plus gRPC/Protobuf (nice to have).
• Strong experience with Kafka (streams, schema registry/Avro/Protobuf, consumer groups, partitioning, rebalancing) and transactional data patterns (sagas, outbox).
• Solid understanding of distributed systems (consistency, CAP, retries vs. idempotency, backpressure, eventual consistency, caching).
• Proven track record on Kubernetes and cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP) for production workloads: networking, service mesh (Istio/Linkerd - bonus), secrets, IAM, cost awareness.
• Testing discipline: unit, contract (Pact/AssertJ JSON), integration (Testcontainers), E2E, performance (Gatling/JMH), and pipeline automation.
• Observability: Open Telemetry/ Micrometer /Prometheus/Grafana/ELK; able to debug with traces and highcardinality logs.
• Security: OAuth2/OIDC/JWT, TLS, mTLS, certificate rotation, vulnerability remediation, SAST/DAST familiarity.
• Ability to review architectural and vendor deliverables, articulate gaps, and guide towards remediation.
• Experience with Vert.x / gRPC.

NicetoHave (Preferred)

• Knowledge of CQRS/Event Sourcing, Temporal/Cadence (workflow orchestration), or Debezium/CDC.
• Data stores: Postgres/MySQL (RDBMS), Redis (caching), MongoDB/Cosmos/DocumentDB (NoSQL), Elasticsearch/OpenSearch (search/analytics).
• API gateways and service mesh (rate limiting, circuit breaking, authN/authZ).
• Prior work with platform engineering, internal developer platforms, or Backstage.