Senior Java Developer

Gratitude Philippines; Manila; On-site; PHP 1,116,000 - 1,786,000; Full time

Job summary

Gratitude Philippines is seeking a Senior Java Developer to design, develop, and deliver software solutions in a hybrid environment (3 days/week in BGC Taguig). The role requires 10+ years of IT experience, strong Java, Spring, and cloud/container skills, and leadership capabilities.

You will drive architecture choices, mentor teams, and collaborate to deliver value through a CI/CD workflow. Responsibilities include leading across teams, guiding architecture decisions, and contributing to a

Qualifications

• 10–14 years of IT industry experience with hands-on Java, React and SQL/PLSQL.
• Strong hands-on with Spring Frameworks (Spring Cloud, Spring Boot).
• Experience on OpenShift or public cloud (GCP).
• REST and Microservices experience.
• Containerized apps with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Knowledge of SQL/PLSQL; DevOps tooling beneficial.
• Experience with TDD/BDD and testing frameworks (JUnit, Cucumber, Selenium, Jest, Protractor, Puppeteer).
• Experience delivering in an Agile delivery framework.
• Experience with Git/fork repositories and modern CI pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high-quality software within an Agile lifecycle.
• Define and evolve component architectures and contribute to departmental decisions.
• Bring industry knowledge to the team to support CI/CD and emergent design.
• Contribute to shared standards and a common framework across the domain.
• Apply robust engineering practices and lead and mentor teams.
• Lead by example and manage/mentor across teams.

Skills

Java

React

SQL/PLSQL

CI/CD

TDD/BDD

REST/Microservices

leadership

Education

BE/B.Tech/MCA/M.Tech/M.Sc (comp sci)

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Git/Github/Bitbucket

Jenkins

Selenium/JEST/Protractor/Puppeteer

Angular/ReactJS

Job description

Job Title: Sr. Java Developer
Shift: 9am – 6pm
Work set up: Hybrid 3x a week in BGC Taguig
Salary range: 100,000 - 160,000
Required years of experience: 10+ years
Start date: Immediate joiners or at least within the next two weeks.

About the Role:

The Engineer develops application code, implements technical solutions, configures applications in different environments, in response to business problems and in accordance with provided requirements and agreed design principles.

Key Responsibilities:

• Work with business to deliver value through the delivery of high-quality software within an agile development lifecycle.
• Define and evolve the architecture of the components you are working on and contribute to architectural decisions at a department and bank-wide level.
• Bring deep industry knowledge into the Feature Team to understand problems, leverage design patterns, automation to support a CI and CD pipeline to production and support emergent design within the agreed domain target architecture.
• Contribute to the wider domain goals to ensure flow, consistent standards and approach to software development while designing to a common shared framework.
• Work with the right and robust engineering practices.
• Additionally the role will include management and leadership responsibilities, such as:

• Leading and collaborating across teams
• Team management
• Mentoring and teaching
• Discovering new techniques and helping others to adopt them
• Leading by example.

SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS:

• 10 – 14 years of experience in the IT industry with hands‑on development in Java , React and SQL/PLSQL
• Excellent hands‑on experience of Spring Frameworks, including Spring Cloud and Spring Boot
• Experience developing on OpenShift Container Platform or Public Cloud, in particular GCP
• Hands on experience with REST and Microservices
• Experience of developing containerized applications using Docker and Kubernetes
• Knowledge of SQL/PLSQL
• Good to have knowledge on DevOps tools
• Experience with Test Driven Development (TDD) and Behavior Driven Development (BDD) including testing frameworks (Junit, Cucumber, Selenium, JEST, Protractor or Puppeteer)
• Experience of delivering within an agile delivery framework
• Experience with distributed version control tool (Git, Github, BitBucket).
• Experience within Jenkins or pipelines based modern CI systems
• Desirable experience with UI Frameworks (Angular, ReactJS will be needed)
• Education Qualification - BE/B.Tech/MCA/M.Tech/M.Sc [comp sci]