Senior Spring Boot Engineer for Enterprise Finance Apps

Tentacle Tech; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Tentacle Tech is hiring two Java / Full Stack Developers for a 12-month onsite contract in the finance sector. You will design, develop and maintain scalable Java applications, contribute to solution design and drive engineering best practices across the team.

We welcome both local and expat candidates. You will mentor juniors, participate in code reviews, and help ensure performance, security and reliability across deployment environments.

Qualifications

• :Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or related field.
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• Minimum 5 years of hands-on Spring Boot experience, with strong proficiency in Java 8+ and the Spring Framework.
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• Experience with RESTful APIs, microservices and distributed systems.
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• Familiarity with JPA/Hibernate and relational databases such as Oracle, MySQL or PostgreSQL.
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• Understanding of cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP), messaging systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ), and tools such as Git, Maven/Gradle, Docker, Kubernetes or OpenShift.
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• Strong grasp of secure coding and application security principles (OWASP).
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• Excellent problem-solving, debugging and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test and deploy high-quality Java applications and microservices.
• Write clean, maintainable and efficient code following best practices, and enhance existing systems by resolving defects.
• Contribute to technical design discussions and solution architecture, focusing on scalability, performance, security and maintainability.
• Produce design documents, sequence diagrams and API specifications when required.
• Work with CI/CD pipelines, implement automated tests and support deployments across environments.
• Mentor junior developers, conduct code reviews and collaborate with product owners, business analysts, QA and DevOps teams.
• Troubleshoot production incidents, perform root cause analysis and optimise application performance and reliability.

Skills

Spring Boot

Java 8+

REST APIs

Microservices

JPA/Hibernate

Relational DBs

Cloud platforms

Kafka/RabbitMQ

Git

Docker

Kubernetes/OpenShift

OWASP security

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT

Tools

Git

Maven/Gradle

CI/CD

Docker

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Job description

Tentacle Tech is hiring two Java / Full Stack Developers for a 12-month onsite contract in the finance sector. You will design, develop and maintain scalable Java applications, contribute to solution design and drive engineering best practices across the team.

We welcome both local and expat candidates. You will mentor juniors, participate in code reviews, and help ensure performance, security and reliability across deployment environments.