• Backend Development
• Design, develop, and maintain high-performance backend services using Java Spring Boot (or similar frameworks) and Clojure.
• Adhere tclean code principles and industry best practices in all development efforts.
• Ensure code quality through pair programming, code reviews, and other collaborative development methods.
• Event-Driven Architecture
• Implement and maintain event-driven systems using message brokers (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ, or cloud-native equivalents).
• Work on publish/subscribe patterns and streaming data pipelines tensure real-time data processing and system responsiveness.
• Optimise event flow for performance and scalability.
• Test-Driven Development (TDD)
• Apply TDD principles throughout the software development lifecycle tdeliver robust, maintainable solutions.
• Write comprehensive unit tests, integration tests, and end-to-end tests.
• Ensure high test coverage and effectively diagnose, document, and fix bugs.
• Architecture and Design
• Collaborate with architects and senior engineers tdefine microservices architecture and component interaction.
• Partner with senior engineers, solution architects and principal engineers tshape and execute on the technical strategy for your area.
• Contribute tarchitectural discussions and decision-making processes, ensuring scalability, security, and maintainability of solutions.
• Integrate best practices for secure coding, data privacy, and compliance.
• Performance Optimization
•  Monitor system performance and reliability, identify bottlenecks, and implement solutions for performance tuning.
• Conduct profiling, load testing, and implement caching strategies tenhance system response times.
• Work closely with the platform engineering team toptimize CI/CD pipelines for quick and reliable deployments.
• Collaboration and Leadership
• Mentor junior engineers on best practices, coding standards, and new technologies.
• Collaborate with product managers as well as QA and platform engineers tdeliver features on time and with high quality.

Qualifications and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• 5+ years of professional experience in software development, preferably in a modern backend environment.
• Strong proficiency in Java and proven, hands-on experience developing production-grade applications with Spring Boot.
• Expertise in designing, building, and operating event-driven microservices architectures.
• Proven ability tapply and advocate for Test-Driven Development (TDD) methodologies.
• Direct experience with message brokers/queues (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ) for inter-service communication.
• Solid knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases, caching layers (e.g., Redis), and RESTful API design