Senior Software Engineer (Java) ID77769

Department: Engineering
Specialization: Developer
Experience: Senior
Locations: India
Location city: Chennai
Client: Appian
Technical flow: JAVA
Engineering technical flow: JAVA
Non-engineering technical flow: none
  • What you will do

  • Design, develop, and maintain scalable, high-performance software systems following modern software engineering best practices;
  • Participate in architectural decisions and design distributed, cloud-native applications using microservices, serverless, and event-driven architectures;
  • Drive technical initiatives from requirements through production deployment, translating business problems into scalable technical solutions;
  • Produce clean, maintainable, well-tested, and well-documented code while promoting long-term codebase health;
  • Perform code reviews focused on architecture, quality, maintainability, and performance;
  • Identify performance bottlenecks, optimize production systems, and troubleshoot complex production issues;
  • Develop internal engineering tools and reusable platform capabilities that improve developer productivity;
  • Mentor software engineers through technical guidance, code reviews, and knowledge sharing;
  • Collaborate with product managers, architects, and engineering teams to deliver high-quality solutions;
  • Leverage AI-assisted development tools and modern AI technologies to improve engineering productivity.
  • Must haves

  • 5+ years of professional software engineering experience;
  • Strong experience developing enterprise-grade software using Java or another modern object-oriented programming language;
  • Strong understanding of software engineering principles, Algorithms, Data Structures, and Design Patterns;
  • Experience designing and building Distributed Systems in cloud-native environments;
  • Experience with modern application architecture, including Microservices, Serverless, and Event-Driven Architecture;
  • Experience with Docker and Kubernetes;
  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines and modern software delivery practices;
  • Experience identifying and optimizing performance bottlenecks in large-scale applications;
  • Experience leading technical initiatives or mentoring software engineers;
  • Strong understanding of enterprise application architecture;
  • Experience integrating AI capabilities or leveraging AI-assisted development tools within software engineering workflows;
  • Excellent analytical, debugging, and problem-solving skills;
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills;
  • Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively across distributed engineering teams;
  • Upper-intermediate English level.
  • Nice to haves

  • Experience with AWS cloud services;
  • Experience with modern database technologies;
  • Experience with Grafana, Prometheus, or similar observability platforms;
  • Experience with Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), AI agents, Model Context Protocol (MCP), or intelligent workflow orchestration;
  • Experience with Amazon Q, Claude, Kiro, or similar AI development tools;
  • Experience building internal developer tools and engineering platforms;
  • Experience working on enterprise SaaS platforms;
  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to design, develop, and evolve large-scale cloud-native systems in Java, contributing to architectural decisions across microservices, serverless, and event-driven architectures. You will drive technical initiatives from requirements to production, mentor engineers, optimize performance at scale, and integrate AI-assisted development tools and capabilities into engineering workflows. The role combines strong coding expertise with distributed systems thinking and technical leadership across cross-functional teams.

The benefits of joining us

Professional growth

Accelerate your professional journey with mentorship, TechTalks, and personalized growth roadmaps

Competitive compensation

We match your ever-growing skills, talent, and contributions with competitive USD-based compensation and budgets for education, fitness, and team activities

A selection of exciting projects

Join projects with modern solutions development and top-tier clients that include Fortune 500 enterprises and leading product brands

Flextime

Tailor your schedule for an optimal work-life balance, by having the options of working from home and going to the office – whatever makes you the happiest and most productive.

Your AgileEngine journey starts here

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Record a short video

→ Introduce yourself on a video, instead of waiting for an interview

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Live interview

Ace the technical interview with our team

→ Schedule a call yourself right away after your video is reviewed

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Live interview

Final interview with your team

→ Get to know the team you will be working with

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As quick as possible

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