Senior Software Developer

Role: Senior Software Developer
Position Type: Full-Time Contract (40hrs/week)
Contract Duration: Long-term Contract
Work Schedule: 8 hours/day (Mon-Fri)
Location: Hybrid x days onsite (Wednesday/Thursday) - Hyderabad, India

Overview
We are seeking a Staff Engineer to join our Product Development team. This is a great opportunity for someone who specializes in building large-scale, cloud-based platforms to access timely, accurate and relevant data. An ideal candidate will have built scalable platforms that can easily accommodate and integrate different data sources and provide comprehensive data capabilities to all Experian products and delivery channels.

The ideal candidate will bring deep experience in Java/Spring Boot development, microservices, AWS-based architecture, API development, distributed systems, and modern engineering practices. This role will also be participating in rotational monitoring of production systems, with monitoring hours aligned to the US Pacific Time Zone.

---

Key Responsibilities

• Perform hands-on software design and development using Spring Boot, Python, Node.js, JavaScript, and Java/J2EE technologies.
• Develop microservices, RESTful services, asynchronous APIs, and web applications for multiple products and clients.
• Apply understanding of security schemes such as OAuth 2.0, OIDC, Basic Authentication, and APIM security configuration.
• Implement complex architectural solutions using AWS design principles, best practices, and industry standards.
• Develop highly distributed and scalable software applications.
• Maintain code quality through test coverage and test cases.
• Communicate and explain technical and architectural decisions to product, development, and delivery teams.
• Drive continual improvement in quality and efficiency, including defect prevention, root-cause analysis, and improvements to technology and processes.
• Comprehend detailed project specifications and adapt to various technologies while working on multiple projects simultaneously.
• Participate in reviews of software engineers' code to deliver high-quality solutions.
• Lead and mentor junior members of the team.
• Research and implement performance tuning and enhancements to existing and newly developed systems to improve infrastructure performance.
• Participate in rotational production system monitoring, with monitoring hours aligned to the US Pacific Time Zone.
• All other duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• Master's degree preferred.
• 7+ years of experience in key engineering roles such as technical lead, software engineer, or other lead/engineering positions.
• Strong experience with Java/Spring Boot microservices and cloud-based development, preferably AWS.
• Exposure to AI tools or technologies such as Copilot, Cursor, ChatGPT, LLMs, ML, MCP, or similar.
• Experience designing and developing API proxies in vendor products such as Apigee and AWS API Gateway.
• Deep experience with AWS cloud services, including EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, Security Groups, ELB, Elastic Cache, Beanstalk, Redshift, Lambda, API Gateway, Kafka, SQS, SNS, SES, and CloudFormation.
• 3+ years of experience using Amazon Web Services to architect and deploy reliable, cost-effective, scalable, and secure cloud-native solutions.
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum environment.
• Good understanding of distributed software applications, including system integration, testing, and troubleshooting.
• Experience monitoring the health of distributed systems and developing strategies for error detection and recovery.
• Systems integration experience, including API design and development, real-time systems, and microservices.
• Passion for learning new frameworks, building processes and procedures from scratch, and training analysts on best practices.
• Familiarity with CI/CD processes, testing frameworks, and practices such as CodeCommit, CodeDeploy, CodePipeline, and CLI.
• Experience integrating with asynchronous messaging, logging, or queueing technologies such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, or SQS.
• Strong knowledge of the software development process and project management methodologies.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work in a dynamic, fast-moving, and challenging environment.
• Strong team player with experience working with globally distributed teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with monitoring and logging tools such as Dynatrace and Splunk.
• Exposure to IAM products such as Okta.
• Experience using API management gateways such as Apigee.
• Experience with cryptography and digital signatures.
• Experience building automated and scheduled pipelines for analytical processes.