Sr Java Developer
Quest Global · Pune
Collected role description
Job Requirements . Experience: 5-7 years. Position Summary. We're hiring Senior Java back-end developers to help strengthen the foundations of our platform. The focus is around improving observability, stability, and long-term maintainability for our application. You'll work as part of a Pune based engineering team, and will be trusted to take ownership of significant pieces of work with minimal oversight. Key Focus Areas.
- Delivery pipeline improvements (CI/CD, build reliability, deployment automation).
- Improving automated test coverage and quality across services, with a target of achieving and maintaining high coverage levels where appropriate.
- Monitoring, telemetry, and observability for integrations with third-party services.
- Fallback and resiliency mechanisms (circuit breakers, retries, failover).
- Making microservices more robust and self-healing.
- Refactoring legacy services to improve maintainability, testability, performance and operational resilience.
Work Experience . Required Skills.
- 7+ years of commercial back-end development experience.
- Strong hands-on experience with Java 8+, with Java 17 exposure preferred.
- Deep expertise with Spring Boot, microservices, and event-driven distributed architectures.
- Solid experience designing and building RESTful APIs.
- Working knowledge of Docker and container-based deployment.
- Practical experience with AWS, including Lambda, SNS, SQS, DynamoDB, and KMS.
- Hands-on experience with MySQL — schema design, query tuning, and performance optimisation.
- Experience with observability tooling — metrics, logging, distributed tracing (e.g.
Splunk, Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, CloudWatch).
- Strong grounding in unit testing with JUnit and Mockito, with a quality-first mindset.
- Familiarity with resiliency patterns (Resilience4j, circuit breakers, bulkheads).
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or similar).
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
Desirable.
- Kubernetes / container orchestration.
- Prior experience focused on platform observability.
- Experience working across distributed teams and time zones.
- Experience with API and event contract testing, and establishing automated compatibility guarantees between microservices and their consumers.
Collected minimum qualification
* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
Collected experience requirement
5-7 years