Senior Software Engineer - Java Technical Lead

Maersk; Pune District; On-site; INR 4,500,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Maersk is seeking a senior Java software engineer to drive delivery across design, development, testing, and production support. You will lead technically, communicate clearly, and apply agile practices to deliver customer-focused solutions.

The role requires 9+ years of Java/J2EE experience, Spring Boot, and microservices, with familiarity in Kafka, REST, and cloud environments. Strong leadership and remote collaboration are essential in this global team.

Qualifications

• 9+ years of experience as a Java developer (Java/J2EE) with Spring Boot and microservices.
• Strong analytical mindset and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent English communication and leadership ability to work remotely.
• Experience with AI co-pilot tools and modern AI libraries is a plus.
• Familiarity with Cloud, CI/CD, and testing practices in Agile environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead Java software delivery across design, development, testing, and production support.
• Refine stories to design solutions aligned with business processes and architecture.
• Highlight risks and issues impacting the proposed solution.
• Develop robust, standards-compliant code and review peers.
• Maintain specifications and automate tests; design manual test cases.
• Resolve production incidents and ensure monitoring and alerting.
• Collaborate with IT Governance and DevOps teams to enable delivery.

Skills

Java/J2EE

Spring Boot

Microservices

Kafka

Web services (REST)

Team leadership

Agile

Communication

Problem solving

GitHub Copilot

AI tooling

Education

BE/B.Tech in CS/IT/ET&C

Tools

GitHub Copilot

LangChain

LangGraph

Spring AI

OpenAI APIs

JIRA

Confluence

Job description

The ideal Candidate Java software delivery across design, development, testing, and production support. It combines technical leadership with strong communication, agile expertise, and customer-focused ownership.

Key Responsibilities:

• Story refinement to design best possible solution considering business processes, technical viability, best practices and architectural standards.
• Highlight all risks and issues that affect the proposed solution.
• Develop robust and defensible code following high standards and in accordance with current framework.
• Provide constructive feedback and review code effectively.
• Use and maintain the specification documents.
• Further design and implement our automated test cases.
• Design and execute complex manual test cases.
• Analysis and resolution of production incidents and resulting problems or defects.
• Ensure production monitoring and automatic alerting.

Required experience

• Highly passionate engineer with BE/B.Tech. in Computer Science or Information Technology or Electronics & Telecommunications.
• Highly analytical mind-set and excellent problem-solving skills.
• A minimum of 9+ years’ experience as a Java developer (Java/J2EE), Spring Boot, Microservices, Kafka & Web services (gRPC/REST).
• Can lead a team autonomously, remotely and independently.
• Hands-on experience using AI co-pilots tools for Vibe coding (e.g., GitHub Copilot, GPT models, Claude code).
• Curiosity to explore evolving AI technologies and experiment with libraries/tools such as LangChain, LangGraph, Spring AI (Java or Python) etc.
• Familiarity with AI platforms and APIs (e.g., OpenAI, Azure Cognitive Services).
• Excellent verbal and written English communication.
• Ability to communicate with business Experts, IT Governance and other IT DevOps teams
• Passion for quick learning, experimenting and adapting in a fast-paced agile global environment
• Expert in agile/iterative software development methodologies including Scrum and Kanban
• Expertise on Cloud Environments an CICD process (Jenkins / GitHub)
• Expertise on JIRA and Confluence
• Database Expertise: PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MS SQL
• Stream-processing Knowledge: Kafka, Azure Event Hub
• Exposure and experience across the below technology stack is ideal

Maersk is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace, and we embrace different styles of thinking. Maersk is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applicants without regard to race, colour, gender, sex, age, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, marital status, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy or parental leave, veteran status, gender identity, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with all legal requirements.

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