Senior Java Microservices Engineer - Scalable APIs & Kafka

yGen Innovations Inc.; Metro Manila; On-site; PHP 1,200,000 - 2,000,000; Full time

Job summary

yGen Innovations Inc. is seeking a senior Java backend engineer to design and optimize microservices and REST APIs for high-volume consumer experiences in a fast-paced environment.

You will implement event-driven integrations with Kafka, own end-to-end delivery, mentor teammates, and collaborate with Product/Architecture to scale distributed systems. Strong AWS, SQL, and heavy concurrency skills are required.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional Java experience (Java 8/17) with Spring Boot and RESTful services.
• Strong multithreading, performance tuning, and profiling skills.
• Experience in high-load processing development.
• Experience designing APIs for speed and efficiency, with scalable and distributed architecture.
• Experience with Kafka (streams/consumer groups), CI/CD, and unit/integration testing.
• RDBMS experience (DB2/Oracle/PostgreSQL) and strong SQL expertise.
• AWS fundamentals for building and operating cloud services.
• BS in CS/IT or related field (minimum).
• Bonus: Hibernate/JPA, security best practices, and observability (logs/metrics/traces).

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and optimize Java microservices and REST APIs for high-volume consumer experiences.
• Implement event-driven integrations using Kafka; champion resilient, concurrent processing.
• Own end-to-end delivery: technical design, coding, testing, deployment, and production reliability.
• Drive code quality via reviews, standards, and documentation; mentor teammates.
• Implement data access/integration across legacy and enterprise systems (XML/SOA/REST).
• Collaborate with Product/Architecture to plan roadmaps and scale distributed systems.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

RESTful APIs

Multithreading

Performance tuning

High-load processing

API design

Kafka

CI/CD

Unit testing

SQL

AWS

BS in CS/IT

Observability

Security best practices

Education

BS in CS/IT or related field

Tools

AWS

Kafka

Job description

yGen Innovations Inc. is seeking a senior Java backend engineer to design and optimize microservices and REST APIs for high-volume consumer experiences in a fast-paced environment.

You will implement event-driven integrations with Kafka, own end-to-end delivery, mentor teammates, and collaborate with Product/Architecture to scale distributed systems. Strong AWS, SQL, and heavy concurrency skills are required.