Java API Developer

IND Lead Software Engineer - GCC026

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Job Description: Software Engineer  

• Location: Hyderabad, India 

• Employment Type: Full-Time 

• Experience Level: 5-8 Years 

About The Company 

Our client is a leader in Property and Casualty insurance, employee benefits and mutual funds.  One of the largest insurers in the United States with many decades of expertise, this company is widely recognized for its service excellence, sustainability practices, trust, integrity and innovation. 

Position Overview 

We are looking for a highly motivated and results-driven Software Engineer to join our technology team based in Hyderabad, India. The ideal candidate will possess a strong understanding of P&C insurance domain processes and participate in design and lead development of technology solutions to address Small Business needs. This position requires close interaction and collaboration with Release Train Engineers, Scrum Masters, Product Owners, Business Analysts, Architects, Technical Leads, vendor partners (both onsite and offshore), and other application development teams. Familiarity with working in Agile development environments is highly desirable. 

Key Responsibilities 

• Develop, test and deliver high quality code supporting solutions that are scalable, highly available, fault tolerant and easily maintainable. 

• Support scope estimation and design discussion. 

• Support prototyping high impact innovations, catering to changing business needs, by leveraging Cloud and Big Data technologies. 

• Deliver business solutions using state of the art technical frameworks, web and database technologies. 

• Proactively address technical issues and risks that could impact project schedule, budget and/or integrity of the application environment. 

• Ability to provide concise, transparent communications about potential risks, mitigations and business impacts in a timely manner. 

• Provide technical leadership in Scrum Teams by enforcing the vision of the application architecture and safeguard the integrity of the application environment, in alliance with architects and other technical leads 

• Function as the go-to technical leader for the software applications supported, requiring depth and breadth of knowledge in technologies, applications, integration, interfaces and business domain 

• Understand and implement the overall technical vision for projects, programs, or systems, keeping in mind cross-functional impacts, integration across the organization and architecture rationalization 

• Collaboration with teams to identify opportunities for integration across tools used in the life cycle, including agile, test automation, platform configuration management, and drive efficiencies. 

• Mentor team members (including Sourcing Partners) to enforce development guidelines and best practices 

• Attention to detail and ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment 

• High level of independence but is also a team player 

• Build and implement capabilities for continuous integration and continuous delivery aligned with Enterprise DevOps practices. 

• Accountable for team development and pipeline tool decisions. 

• Accountable for Software engineering practices e.g. Source code management, branching, issue tracking etc., followed for the product 

Required Skills & Experience:  

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related technical field. 

• 2-5 years of experience in solution design and software development activities, including: 

• Designing and developing scalable, secure, and resilient systems using Java, Spring, Spring Boot, JPA, ReactJS, AngularJS, JavaScript, XSLT. 

• Experience in building APIs/Web Services (SOAP and Rest) and working with ESB/integration technologies/API gateways such as IBM APIC. 

• Proficiency with relational databases such as Oracle, and familiarity with open-source databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL). 

• Experience with continuous integration and DevOps methodologies, preferred tools such as GitHub, Jenkins, Rally, SonarQube, Liquibase, AWS CodeBuild, etc. 

• Software architecture and systems design, with a solid understanding of distributed systems and cloud-native patterns. 

• Strong oral and written communication skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate across technical and business teams. 

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as AWS CloudFormation, Terraform, or AWS CDK. 

• Understanding of AWS services including Lambda, CloudWatch, ECS, EKS, RDS, S3, IAM, SNS, SQS, EventBridge, and others. 

Nice to Have  

• Familiar with Agile methodology 

• Experience in deploying applications with Application Servers and Web Servers 

• Ability to write automation scripts and tools to eliminate manual processes and improve operational efficiency. 

• Familiarity with designing and deploying solutions using Generative AI (GenAI) technologies, including large language models (LLMs), prompt engineering, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). 

• Familiarity with Agentic AI systems and orchestration frameworks for building autonomous agents that interact with users and systems. 

• Familiarity with responsible AI practices, including model evaluation, bias mitigation, governance. 

What We Offer 

• Collaborative work environment with global teams. 

• Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits. 

• Continuous learning and professional development opportunities. 

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