· Proficient in Java 17 or other JVM languages.
· At least 4 years of software development
· Advanced Java concepts, including multithreading, collections, JDBC, and design patterns.
· In-depth understanding and hands-on experience with the Spring ecosystem.
· Knowledge of AWS services, particularly S3, SQS, and SNS—including their integration, configuration, and management.
· At least 1-2 years of Kubernetes experience and AWS experience with deep understanding of Docker, Kubernetes, Minikube and AWS.
· Good understanding of CI/CD tools like Jenkins and Github Action.
· Good working understanding of asynchronous messaging frameworks like Preferably Kafka / RabbitMQ.
· Great understanding of distributed systems challenges, micro-service-based architectures and asynchronized communication.
· Exposure to REST API and gRPC
· Experience and good understanding of implementing, metrics, and logging using tools like Prometheus, CloudWatch, Datadog, Splunk or Kibana.
· Practical knowledge of contract first development model and ability to design API contracts before starting development.
· Practical knowledge of persistence (SQL & No-SQL) and caching solutions such as Mysql, PostgreSQL, Redis, ElasticSearch, Caffeine.
· Good understanding of database modelling and fine tune database queries for optimal performance.
· Good understanding with asynchronous, non-blocking, functional/reactive style of programming.
· Hands-on experience with frameworks such as Spring WebFlux, Vert.x,