Country/Region:  IN
Requisition ID:  34425
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Location:  INDIA - BENGALURU - BIRLASOFT OFFICE

Title:  Java Backend developer

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Area(s) of responsibility

About Birlasoft:

Birlasoft, a global leader at the forefront of Cloud, AI, and Digital technologies, seamlessly blends domain expertise with enterprise solutions. The company’s consultative and design-thinking approach empowers societies worldwide, enhancing the efficiency and productivity of businesses. As part of the multibillion-dollar diversified CKA Birla Group, Birlasoft with its 12,000+ professionals, is committed to continuing the Group’s 170-year heritage of building sustainable communities.

1.    About the Job – Ability to relate the product functionality to business processes, and thus offer implementation
 advice to customers on how to meet their various business scenarios.
2.    Job Title – Java Backend developer
3.    Location: Bangalore/Pune/Mumbai/Noida/Hyderabad/Chennai
4.    Educational Background – BE/Btech
5.    Key Responsibilities –

Experience: 10 to 12 years
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Key Responsibilities
•    Design, build, and maintain RESTful APIs using Java and Spring Boot (Web, Data, Security, Actuator).
•    Model and integrate with databases (SQL/NoSQL), write efficient queries, and manage schema migrations 
•    Implement API security: OAuth2/OIDC, JWT, role-based access, rate limiting, input validation.
•    Write clean, testable code with unit, integration, and contract tests 
•    Optimize performance and reliability (caching, connection pooling, async/non-blocking I/O, pagination).
•    Observability: structured logging (SLF4J/Logback), metrics/tracing (Micrometer, OpenTelemetry), and health checks (Actuator).
•    CI/CD and cloud deployment (Docker, basic Kubernetes concepts, pipelines; Azure exposure a must).
•    Collaborate in Agile teams: participate in grooming, estimation, code reviews, and documentation (OpenAPI/Swagger).
•    Own services end to end: from design and development to deployment and production support (on-call rotation optional).
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Required Qualifications
•    Strong knowledge of Java 8+ (preferably 11/17 or later) and Spring Boot.
•    Experience building RESTful APIs and integrating with external/internal services.
•    Solid understanding of data structures, concurrency, and error handling.
•    Hands-on with RDBMS (e.g., PostgreSQL/MySQL) and ORMs (JPA/Hibernate).
•    Proficient with Git, branching strategies, and Maven/Gradle.
•    Familiarity with API documentation (OpenAPI/Swagger) and Postman/Rest Assured.
Senior / Lead 
•    API architecture & design (resource modeling, versioning, idempotency, resilience patterns).
•    Security best practices (OAuth2/OIDC, JWT, mTLS, secrets management).
•    Scalability & resilience patterns (Circuit Breaker/Retry/Backoff with Resilience4j; async/reactive programming).
•    Experience with microservices, message brokers (Kafka/RabbitMQ), and event-driven patterns.
•    Cloud-native deployments (Docker/K8s) and IaC (Terraform/Helm is a plus).
•    Mentoring developers and leading design/code reviews.
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Education
•    Bachelor’s in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent practical experience.