Sr. Software Engineer - IBM Sterling - Supply Chain

Sampoorna Consultants; Chennai District; Hybrid; INR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Sampoorna Consultants seeks a Sr. Software Engineer for IBM Sterling - Supply Chain. You will design and support integrations and applications, with hands-on Java, Spring, and cloud tech (Azure/GCP).

Join a hybrid team and collaborate with SOMS SMEs, enterprise architects, and contractors to deliver scalable, high-quality solutions for Staples Business customers.

Qualifications

• Possess 4 to 7 years of relevant professional experience.
• Proficient programming in Java.
• Strong expertise in architecture for highly available distributed apps in cloud environments.
• Experience with Agile practices, design, iterations and code reviews.
• CI/CD implementation experience and best practices.
• Experience building microservices with Spring ecosystem (Boot, JPA, Batch, Security, Cloud, Data Stream).

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with DevOps, product, and other engineering teams to define requirements and deliver long-lasting technical solutions.
• Design, build, and maintain distributed and scalable backend services to support business-critical features.
• Optimize system latency, throughput, and resource usage under variable loads.
• Address technical debt via refactoring and staying updated on emerging technologies.
• Communicate effectively with team members and cross-functional groups.
• Develop comprehensive test plans and maintain automated test suites to ensure robustness.

Skills

Java

Spring Framework

Cloud technologies

Distributed systems

CI/CD

APIs (REST/GraphQL/SOAP)

Microservices

GitHub

Kafka

SQL/NoSQL databases

Tools

Azure

GCP

Spring Boot

Spring Data

Spring Batch

Spring Cloud

CosmosDB

MongoDB

Couchbase

Oracle/MySQL/PostgreSQL

Redis/Memcached

Kafka

Solace

GitHub Copilot

Job description

Sr. Software Engineer - IBM Sterling - Supply Chain - J49873

Role Summary

• As a Senior Engineer, you will design, build, and support critical integrations and applications across SOMS domain
• You will contribute hands-on development expertise in Java, Spring Framework, and cloud technologies (Azure/GCP) while ensuring scalability, compliance, and performance
• You will work in a hybrid team model (onshore + offshore), collaborating with SOMS SMEs, Enterprise architects, and contractors to deliver high-quality solutions that enable Easy experience for Staples Business customers

Duties & Responsibilities

• Collaborate with DevOps, product, and other engineering teams to define requirements and deliver long-lasting technical solutions.
• Design, build, and maintain distributed and scalable backend services to support business-critical feature.
• Optimize system latency, throughput, and resource usage to support high performance under variable loads.
• Address technical debt by refactoring code and infrastructure and stay updated on emerging technologies and industry trends.
• Excellent verbal and written communications with the ability to establish effective working relationships with team members and cross functional teams.
• Develop comprehensive test plans and maintain automated test suites to ensure software robustness and minimize regressions.

Requirements Basic Qualifications

• Possess 4 to 7 years of relevant professional experience.
• Demonstrate proficient programming skills in Java.
• Strong expertise in system architecture and the development of highly available, fault-tolerant distributed applications optimized for performance and scalability in cloud environments.
• Proven experience working within Agile frameworks, contributing to technical design, iterative development, and conducting thorough code reviews.
• Well-versed in best practices for developing high-quality software, implementing continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines.
• Skilled in designing and implementing microservices using the Spring ecosystem, including Spring Boot, Spring JPA, Spring Batch, Spring Security, Spring Cloud, and Spring Data Stream.
• Hands-on experience managing distributed databases such as Azure CosmosDB, Couchbase, or MongoDB.
• Familiarity with relational database systems like Oracle, MySQL and PostgreSQL.
• Experience with distributed caching technologies such as Memcached, Redis, or Hazelcast to improve application performance.
• Competent in working with distributed messaging systems including Azure EventHub, Apache Kafka, and Solace to enable reliable communication and event handling.
• Ability to build and optimize production-quality data pipelines for both batch and stream processing to support large-scale data analytics and machine learning workloads.
• Proficient in using GitHub for version control and leveraging tools such as GitHub Copilot for code assistance and productivity enhancement.
• API development and maintenance skills: designing, implementing, and documenting RESTful, GraphQL, or SOAP APIs; version management and authentication (OAuth, JWT)
• Documentation: producing technical specifications, system architecture diagrams, and detailed API documentation for internal users.

Preferred Qualifications

• Proven experience taking an idea from inception to life with an ability to explore a variety of open-source technologies.
• Experience with developing, deploying, and launching software products on public cloud preferably Microsoft Azure and GCP.