JAVA Backend Engineer
Our banking client is currently looking for a highly skilled Senior Java Backend Engineer with 8+ years of experience in designing, developing, and optimizing real-time, low-latency data processing platforms. The ideal candidate should possess strong expertise in Java, distributed systems, event-driven architectures, streaming technologies, and data engineering frameworks to build scalable solutions capable of processing high-volume data changes with minimal latency.
This role requires hands-on experience in developing enterprise-grade backend applications that capture, process, transform, and distribute real-time data across multiple systems while ensuring reliability, scalability, and performance
Required Experience
- 8+ years of backend application development experience using Java.
- Experience building ultra-low-latency systems (<100ms processing latency).
- Experience handling systems processing millions of events/transactions daily.
- Real-time data synchronization across multiple platforms.
- Strong expertise in low-latency application design and performance optimization.
- Proven experience with Kafka, event streaming, and asynchronous architectures.
- Experience implementing Change Data Capture (CDC) solutions using Debezium or similar technologies.
- Experience with cloud-native application development.
Your responsibilities:
- Design and develop highly scalable, low-latency, fault-tolerant backend applications using Java.
- Build real-time data processing solutions for high-volume transactional systems.
- Develop event-driven architectures using messaging and streaming technologies.
- Design and implement microservices-based applications using Spring Boot.
- Optimize application performance through profiling, tuning, and efficient resource utilization.
- Develop APIs and backend services supporting sub-second response times.
- Architect distributed systems with high throughput and minimal latency.
- Implement resilient systems using caching, asynchronous processing, and circuit breaker patterns.
- Perform code reviews and enforce engineering best practices.
- Troubleshoot production issues and perform root cause analysis.
Your Profile
Essential skills/knowledge/experience:
- Strong experience in Java 17+
- Solid experience with Spring Boot, Microservices
- Experience in working with Dynatrance, Splunk, Grafana
- Expertise in Apache Kafka, Kafka Streams, Kafka Connect
- Expertise in Change Data Capture (CDC) solutions using Debezium or similar technologies.
- Real Time Streaming & Event-Driven architectures
- Performance engineering concurrency & JVM tuning
- SQL & Data Engineering Fundamentals
- Kubernetes, Docker & CI/CD Pipelines
- Cloud Platform Experience (Azure, Aws, Google)
- Experience in Latency analysis and optimization
- Excellent English communication skills