Backend Engineer (SDE2 & SDE3)

Role summary
We require three highly experienced Backend Engineers with strong expertise in Java/Spring Boot and modern cloud-native application development. Candidates should have deep hands-on experience across application development, distributed systems, API design, security, and observability.
Project overview
We are hiring software engineers in India for a UK compliance-related greenfield project in the retail sector. The work requires enterprise-grade Backend Engineering capabilities.
Required technical skills
Core development
Java
Spring Boot
Spring Security• Microservices Architecture
Databases
Couchbase
PostgreSQL
Data modeling and performance tuning
Cloud & infrastructure
Microsoft Azure
Cloud-native application design
Containerization and deployment practices
CI/CD implementation
API & security
REST API design and development
OAuth 2.0
Authentication and authorization frameworks
API lifecycle management
Observability & monitoring
Splunk
New Relic
Logging, monitoring, and application diagnostics
Desired skills
Event-driven architecture experience
Messaging platforms (Kafka or similar)
Performance engineering and scalability optimization
Infrastructure as Code concepts
DevOps and SRE practices
Experience requirements
8+ years of software engineering experience
5+ years of Spring Boot development experience
Proven experience building and supporting large-scale distributed applications
Strong troubleshooting and production support experience
Key responsibilities
Design and develop scalable backend services and microservices
Build secure, high-performing REST APIs
Implement OAuth-based authentication and authorization mechanisms
Deploy and manage services in Azure environments
Establish monitoring, logging, and observability using Splunk and New Relic
Participate in architecture reviews, code reviews, and technical design discussions

Work arrangement
Hybrid