Job Description: Senior Software Engineer As a Senior Software Engineer, you will design, build, and own critical product features within the SaaS product serving enterprise customers globally. You will work within a stream-aligned team, contributing to a microservices-based architecture backed by GraphQL APIs, event-driven pipelines, and emerging AI- powered capabilities. With 5–8 years of experience, you are expected to drive complex technical decisions, mentor engineers, and champion code quality, reliability, and user-centric development. Job Family Designation Contribution Information Technology/ Software Development Senior Software Engineer Team Member Key Responsibilities  System Design & Architecture: Design and implement complex modules/services that meet functional, performance, and scalability requirements. Participate in Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) and contribute to cross-team architectural proposals.  Product Development: Build and evolve user-facing product features with a product mindset—understand user impact, measure outcomes, and iterate based on feedback. Deliver features on schedule and within budget.  GraphQL API Development: Design, implement, and optimize federated GraphQL APIs using Apollo Federation, ensuring schema integrity across subgraphs and cross-team collaboration via the GraphQL gateway.  Event-Driven Architecture: Build and maintain event-driven data pipelines using Apache Kafka (producers/consumers, Avro serialization, Confluent Schema Registry) to enable real-time data flows across microservices.  Observability & Reliability: Instrument services with OpenTelemetry for distributed tracing, metrics, and logging. Proactively identify and resolve performance bottlenecks. Champion system reliability through monitoring, alerting, and incident response.  Code Quality & Testing: Write comprehensive unit and integration tests (JUnit 5, Mockito). Maintain high code coverage (Jacoco, Codacy). Participate in design and code reviews with a focus on maintainability and security.  Mentoring & Leadership: Mentor, train, and serve as a knowledge resource for less experienced engineers. Lead technical discussions, drive adoption of best practices, and contribute to engineering culture.  Agile Collaboration: Participate in backlog grooming, sprint planning, and cross-functional collaboration with Product Management, Architecture Coalition, and peer engineering teams.  Documentation: Write and maintain technical documentation including ADRs, API schemas, runbooks, and design proposals following MADR- based templates. Business Travel and Physical Demands Business travel of approximately 10 or less percent yearly is expected for this position. Physical demands:  Office environment. No special physical demands required. Preferred Qualification  Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent.  5–8 years of hands-on software development experience in a product-based or SaaS environment.  Advanced competency in object-oriented design, data structures, complexity analysis, and distributed systems.  Experience building and operating production microservices at scale.  Strong product mindset—ability to reason about user impact and make tradeoffs between speed, quality, and scope.  Experience leading or mentoring a team of developers; proven technical leadership and collaboration skills.  Experience working in Agile/Scrum teams with a focus on iterative delivery.  Familiarity with architectural decision-making processes (ADRs, RFCs, design reviews).  Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Technologies Web Technologies HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript (ES6+), TypeScript, React, Vite, Module Federation v2 (Micro Frontends), GraphQL, JSON, OAuth 2.0, REST APIs, OpenAPI/Swagger Frameworks Spring Boot 3.x, Spring Security, Spring Kafka, Spring Data JPA, Spring GraphQL, Apollo Federation, Thymeleaf Java/J2EE Technologies Java 21, Jakarta EE (Servlets, Validation, XML Bind), Spring Framework 6.x, Lombok, Jackson, Netty, Restful Webservices Database(s) PostgreSQL 15+, Flyway (database migrations), PL/pgSQL App/Web Servers Apache Tomcat 10.x (embedded), Docker containers ORM Tools Hibernate 6.x (via Spring Data JPA), Hypersistence Utils Build Tools Maven 3.9+, Maven Wrapper, Gradle (familiarity) Schedulers Quartz Scheduler Configuration Management Tools Git, GitHub, LaunchDarkly (feature flags) Reporting Tools Codacy (code quality & coverage), Jacoco (code coverage), Surefire (test reporting), SpringDoc OpenAPI IDE IntelliJ IDEA, VS Code Messaging & Streaming Apache Kafka, Confluent Schema Registry, Apache Avro, Protobuf CI/CD & DevOps GitHub Actions, Docker, Harbor (container registry), AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, Bedrock), Akkeris (PaaS) Messaging & Streaming Apache Kafka, Confluent Schema Registry, Apache Avro, Protobuf Observability OpenTelemetry (Java Agent), distributed tracing, structured logging (Logback/SLF4J) Skills & Competencies Competency Level Business Domain Expertise Intermediate Engineering Excellence / Agile Proficient Requirements Analysis Intermediate System Design & Architecture Proficient Coding (Java, Spring Boot, GraphQL) Proficient Distributed Systems & Event-Driven Architecture Proficient Defect Root Cause Identification / Problem Analysis Proficient Quality Validation (Testing, CI/CD) Proficient Observability & Reliability Engineering Intermediate Configuration Management & DevOps Proficient AI/ML Literacy & LLM Integration Intermediate Technical Leadership & Mentoring Proficient Communication – Written Proficient Communication – Interpersonal Proficient Leading Yourself & Others Proficient Security Awareness Intermediate