• Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend applications using Java and Spring Boot. • Develop and integrate RESTful APIs and Microservices following enterprise architecture and coding standards. • Design and implement event-driven and asynchronous applications using Kafka or Solace/MQ. • Develop Kafka producers/consumers, topics, partitions, consumer groups, and message-processing workflows. • Work with Solace PubSub+ / MQ for reliable messaging and event distribution, where applicable. • Implement business logic, data processing, error handling, and exception management. • Ensure applications are scalable, highly available, secure, and performant. • Participate in the complete SDLC including requirements analysis, design, development, testing, deployment, and production support. • Troubleshoot application, API, microservices, and messaging-related issues. • Collaborate with Architects, Business Analysts, QA, DevOps, and other engineering teams. • Write clean, maintainable, reusable, and well-tested code. • Perform code reviews and contribute to technical design and architecture discussions. • Implement unit and integration testing using appropriate Java testing frameworks. • Support CI/CD pipelines and cloud/containerized application deployments where required. Requirements • 6+ years of hands-on Java development experience. • Strong expertise in Core Java, Java 8+, OOP, Collections, Exception Handling, and Multithreading. • Strong hands-on experience with Spring Boot. • Solid experience developing Microservices-based applications. • Strong experience developing REST APIs and service integrations. • Hands-on experience with Kafka OR Solace/MQ. • Good understanding of event-driven architecture, asynchronous messaging, and distributed systems. • Experience with SQL and relational databases. • Experience with Git and standard software development practices. • Strong debugging, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.