Synechron
Java Developer
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About Company
Synechron is a global technology consulting firm that helps leading organizations accelerate digital transformation through innovation, expertise, and agility. With more than 16,500 professionals across around 60 offices in over 20 countries, we combine deep industry knowledge with advanced capabilities in AI, cloud, cybersecurity, and data engineering. Our regional teams, supported by strategic delivery centers, provide scalable, cost-efficient solutions tailored to local markets. Through our award-winning Synechron FinLabs accelerators and strategic partnerships with AWS, Microsoft, Databricks, Salesforce, and ServiceNow, we enable clients to innovate fast and lead with confidence.
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Diversity & Inclusion are fundamental to our culture, and Synechron is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and an affirmative-action employer. Our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiative ‘Same Difference’ is committed to fostering an inclusive culture – promoting equality, diversity, and an environment that is respectful to all. We strongly believe that a diverse workforce helps build stronger, successful businesses as a global company. We encourage applicants from across diverse backgrounds, race, ethnicities, religion, age, marital status, gender, sexual orientations, or disabilities to apply. We empower our global workforce by offering flexible workplace arrangements, mentoring, internal mobility, learning and development programs, and more. All employment decisions at Synechron are based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications, without regard to the applicant’s gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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Job Description
We are seeking a highly experienced Senior Cloud-Native Full-Stack Engineer to design, develop, and operate scalable, secure, and resilient enterprise applications. The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on expertise across Java, Spring Boot, microservices, Kubernetes, cloud platforms, databases, Kafka, DevOps, observability, front-end technologies, and AI tools.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and develop scalable Java/Spring Boot microservices.
- Build resilient distributed systems using timeouts, retries, circuit breakers, caching, and asynchronous processing.
- Deploy and manage applications on AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Develop and operate production workloads on Kubernetes, including deployments, services, ingress, autoscaling, configuration, and troubleshooting.
- Implement service-mesh capabilities using Istio, including traffic management, mTLS, security policies, and observability.
- Design and optimize relational and NoSQL databases based on application requirements.
- Build scalable and highly available event-driven solutions using Apache Kafka.
- Develop responsive front-end applications using React, Angular, or Vue.js.
- Build CI/CD pipelines and automate infrastructure using tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Terraform, or Helm.
- Implement monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting using Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, ELK, or equivalent tools.
- Apply secure coding, cloud security, disaster recovery, and high-availability practices.
- Use AI-assisted development tools and contribute to AI/LLM-enabled solutions.
- Participate in architecture discussions, code reviews, mentoring, and technical leadership.
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Required Qualifications
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, with significant production experience in Java and Spring Boot.
- Strong knowledge of microservices and distributed-system design.
- Hands-on production experience with Kubernetes and Docker.
- Practical experience with Istio or another service mesh.
- Strong database fundamentals, including data modeling, indexing, transactions, replication, partitioning, and query optimization.
- Experience with PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, MongoDB, Redis, DynamoDB, Cassandra, or equivalent technologies.
- Strong experience with Kafka, including partitions, consumer groups, replication, offsets, retention, ordering, and scalability.
- Experience with at least one major cloud platform: AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Strong understanding of SDLC, Agile delivery, CI/CD, automated testing, release management, and production support.
- Experience with observability, incident response, performance tuning, and reliability engineering.
- Working knowledge of React, Angular, or Vue.js.
- Familiarity with LLMs, generative AI, prompt engineering, AI coding assistants, or agentic applications.
- Excellent communication, analytical, leadership, and problem-solving skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience building mission-critical, high-availability systems.
- Experience with multi-region architectures, zero-downtime deployments, and disaster recovery.
- Experience with OpenTelemetry, Terraform, Helm, Kafka Streams, GraphQL, or gRPC.
- Cloud or Kubernetes certifications.
- Experience mentoring engineers and leading technical design initiatives.
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