The ideal candidate will have expertise in Core Java, backend service development, SQL, REST APIs, and cloud-native technologies. In addition to building production-grade backend services, you will contribute to engineering excellence by developing robust automated tests and enhancing test automation frameworks as part of the software development lifecycle. Experience with AI-assisted development tools is highly desirable. Required Qualifications • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline. • 4+ years of professional software development experience with a minimum of 5 years in Java development. • Strong expertise in Core Java and object-oriented programming principles. • Solid understanding of SQL, including database development and stored procedures. • Experience building Java backend services and REST APIs. • Strong programming, analytical, and problem-solving skills. • Experience writing automated tests using JUnit, TestNG, or PyTest. • Experience debugging and troubleshooting multithreaded applications. • Experience with Continuous Integration (CI) and automated build pipelines. • Strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to work effectively in a collaborative Agile environment. Key Responsibilities Application Software Development: • Drives medium features and quality improvements with measurable performance and reliability outcomes. • Provides global production support for critical issues with minimal guidance; improves playbooks/alerts. • Troubleshoots and debugs non-routine issues spanning application layers and common OCI services; proposes fixes. • Partners with QA to define test strategy (unit/integration) for features; ensures consistency across modules. • Considers trade-offs in existing architecture; proposes moderate design improvements. • Translates ambiguous requirements into scalable designs and implementation plans. • Defines and stabilizes API contracts and dependencies for the application area. • Recommends build priorities within the team using data from incidents, telemetry, and customer feedback. • Systematically incorporates external feedback (forums, live-site reports) into backlog refinement. • Mentors junior engineers; coordinates cross-functionally on feature delivery. Software Development and Coding - Design, Testing, and Optimization: • Designs software solutions and analyzes and helps identify requirements to achieve business and operational goals, independently. • Adheres to and suggests improvements to all phases of the software development lifecycle. • Utilizes working knowledge to develop new software features and enhancements following design specifications and develops documents to clarify software design and code. • Leads code reviews in designated areas to help drive improvements. • Conducts debugging and troubleshooting to identify and fix moderately complex software issues. • Develops fixes for identified issues. • Implements software testing (e.g., functional and non-functional testing), quality assurance processes, software error logging, monitoring, and observability for effective debugging, ensuring review by manager and/or lead throughout the process. • Exercises judgment and discretion to conduct performance profiling and optimization of coding. • Troubleshoots and resolves moderately complex issues related to application programming interface (API) functionality and integration. • Implements moderately complex API versioning, lifecycle, and interoperability strategies. Software Architecture - Software System Structural Design: • Designs and develops software, systems, and services aligned to pre-defined system architecture. • Develops working knowledge of software architecture decisions and best practices. • Collaborates with team leads to review work to ensure alignment with software architecture. • Implements moderately complex performance optimization and scalability strategies in software design. Issue/Defect Collaboration - Software Products Support: • Collaborates within and beyond immediate team to understand customer issues and align solutions. • May provide technical guidance and support to customers regarding customer-reported issues, independently. • Coaches, mentors, and guides others to advocate for customers' interests and suggests product enhancements based on feedback. • Influences team to ensure customer satisfaction through timely resolution of issues and effective communication. • Implements customer issue and/or defect handling and training processes, independently. • Investigates and troubleshoots complex product maintenance issues to ensure customer agreement on short- and long-term solutions (e.g., future enhancements). Practices and Standards Compliance - Security and Compliance: • Collaborates with the team to establish and follow development practices and coding standards. • Exercises judgment and discretion to ensure code quality and adherence to broad acceptance criteria during development. • Keeps up-to-date with industry best practices and applies them to software development processes. • Implements secure coding practices to prevent security vulnerabilities. Development Operations - System Maintenance: • Performs periodic maintenance and testing operations for systems that require upgrading or patching (e.g., for critical vulnerabilities). • Exercises judgment and discretion to drive improvements, ensure automation, testing, and debugging of systems to ensure service/product availability, health, support, and reliability. Core Responsibilities Planning & Execution: • Independently manages work, monitoring timelines and deliverables to ensure projects or initiatives stay on track and meet requirements. • Proactively prioritizes work and adapts to resource or timeline shifts, suggesting adjustments to maintain project efficiency. Collaboration & Partnership: • Collaborates across teams to align on expectations and achieve shared objectives. • Builds and maintains a comprehensive understanding of business, stakeholder, and/or customer needs to build and support effective partnerships. • Actively listens to diverse perspectives and asks questions to ensure understanding of others. Problem Solving: • Independently identifies and addresses standard and non-standard issues in accordance with standard practices, escalating more complex issues as appropriate. • Analyzes data and/or information from multiple sources to troubleshoot standard and non-standard errors. • Contributes to knowledge sharing and best practices. Continuous Learning: • Embraces continuous learning by actively seeking to build knowledge and new skills and/or tools and staying current with industry trends and best practices. • Seeks out and leverages feedback and training to improve skills. • Contributes to a culture of continuous learning and knowledge sharing with team members. Continuous Improvement: • Develops ideas and recommends updates to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of processes, protocols, and workflows within a team. • Seeks input from team members on alternative approaches and methods for improving work. Career Level - IC3