JAVA Backend Engineer

Our banking client is currently looking for a highly skilled Senior Java Backend Engineer with 8+ years of experience in designing, developing, and optimizing real-time, low-latency data processing platforms. The ideal candidate should possess strong expertise in Java, distributed systems, event-driven architectures, streaming technologies, and data engineering frameworks to build scalable solutions capable of processing high-volume data changes with minimal latency.

This role requires hands-on experience in developing enterprise-grade backend applications that capture, process, transform, and distribute real-time data across multiple systems while ensuring reliability, scalability, and performance

Required Experience

• 8+ years of backend application development experience using Java.

• Experience building ultra-low-latency systems (<100ms processing latency).

• Experience handling systems processing millions of events/transactions daily.

• Real-time data synchronization across multiple platforms.

• Strong expertise in low-latency application design and performance optimization.

• Proven experience with Kafka, event streaming, and asynchronous architectures.

• Experience implementing Change Data Capture (CDC) solutions using Debezium or similar technologies.

• Experience with cloud-native application development.

Your responsibilities:

• Design and develop highly scalable, low-latency, fault-tolerant backend applications using Java.

• Build real-time data processing solutions for high-volume transactional systems.

• Develop event-driven architectures using messaging and streaming technologies.

• Design and implement microservices-based applications using Spring Boot.

• Optimize application performance through profiling, tuning, and efficient resource utilization.

• Develop APIs and backend services supporting sub-second response times.

• Architect distributed systems with high throughput and minimal latency.

• Implement resilient systems using caching, asynchronous processing, and circuit breaker patterns.

• Perform code reviews and enforce engineering best practices.

• Troubleshoot production issues and perform root cause analysis.

Your Profile

Essential skills/knowledge/experience:

• Strong experience in Java 17+

• Solid experience with Spring Boot, Microservices

• Experience in working with Dynatrance, Splunk, Grafana

• Expertise in Apache Kafka, Kafka Streams, Kafka Connect

• Expertise in Change Data Capture (CDC) solutions using Debezium or similar technologies.

• Real Time Streaming & Event-Driven architectures

• Performance engineering concurrency & JVM tuning

• SQL & Data Engineering Fundamentals

• Kubernetes, Docker & CI/CD Pipelines

• Cloud Platform Experience (Azure, Aws, Google)

• Experience in Latency analysis and optimization

• Excellent English communication skills