Senior Software Developer_JAVA/Scala

Job Title: Senior Software Developer - Java/Scala

Location: Pune

About Springer Nature Group

Springer Nature opens the doors to discovery for researchers, educators, clinicians and other professionals. Every day, around the globe, our imprints, books, journals, platforms and technology solutions reach millions of people. For over 175 years our brands and imprints have been a trusted source of knowledge to these communities and today, more than ever, we see it as our responsibility to ensure that fundamental knowledge can be found, verified, understood and used by our communities – enabling them to improve outcomes, make progress, and benefit the generations that follow.

About The Unit

The Data & Analytics Solutions - IT team is responsible for providing the necessary technical and domain expertise required to create and maintain the databases and shared services for our end customers. Our flagship products namely SpringerMaterials, Experiments, ADIS Insight & Pearl are built by a team of developers, QAs, BAs, UI & UX experts and SMEs, who collaborate to ensure easy accessibility of relevant data. We follow a problem statement and user experience driven approach to ensure the right data is available in the simplistic way for the scientific community.

About The Role

Years of Experience: 6 to 9 years

Place of Work: 1201/1301, Building No. 5 (R3), Gerra Commercezone, Kharadi, Pune (Working in Hybrid Model)

Educational Qualification: B.Sc., BCA, BCS, B.E., B.Tech, M.Tech, MCA and M.Sc or a technology-related field or relevant experience

We are looking for a Senior Software Developer who can work in Java/Scala, docker, SQL/NoSQL, JavaScript/ES6, HTML5, CSS3, CICD and microservices. We need a candidate who is proactive, self-driven, active listener, takes ownership and able to handle stakeholders in technical design, solutioning, implementation and release. Candidate should be able to build good rapport with stakeholders. Candidate should be proficient in English communication, both written and verbal.

Role Responsibilities:

Agile product team, day-to-day you will:

Take part in our daily stand-ups. Contribute to ceremonies like planning/ IPM, showcase, collaborative design and retrospectives. Develop new features and improve code quality by pair programming with other team members. Build more and more domain, product and business knowledge. Work with all stakeholders and manage the product delivery [Design to Release] Take part in support and monitoring of the platform.

What You Will Be Doing

Within 3 Months you will:

• Get familiar with our technology stack. Our application is built in Java, Scala, SQL/NoSQL, Docker, Linux, HTML, CSS, React, Jade and deployed on GCP with cloud foundry.
• Get to know the various Stakeholders and their general requirements.
• Take part in reducing technical debt by working with team mates to add test coverage.
• Get to know all members of the team.
  
  

By 3-6 months you will:

• Have a basic understanding of the team’s context, product’s business model.
• Build more knowledge of the product, domain and mentor new teammates.
• On-board new team members and setup their machines and help them get up to speed fast.
• Be able to understand and discuss business requirements with stakeholders and Product Managers and help other disciplines with these conversations.
• Gain trust and confidence of project stakeholders.
• Hold technical discussions with the team in order to improve the product architecture and code quality and build more understanding of the overall product.
  
  

By 6-12 months you will:

• Build solid understanding of the product’s business, domain and have technical expertise to participate in discussion for Design and architectural changes.
• Onboard new members to the team or help other teams in the onboarding process.
• Transform high level requirements into actionable work.
• Work with global teams on plan, Design, implementation and release.
• Build product features and help stakeholders to solve customer’s problems innovatively.
• Proactively provide useful and actionable feedback to all team members and stakeholders.
• Triage support queries and diagnose issues in the live applications.
  
  

About You

• Need to have a solid understanding of Java/Scala, SQL/NoSQL, docker, microservices, CICD, JavaScript/ES6, HTML5 and CSS3.
• Good to have knowledge of Scala, performance tuning, babel/webpack, MQ, Kafka etc.
• You have 6+ years of experience as a Senior developer. You have a good understanding of design practices, lean mean design, clean code, technical depts, refactoring and XP practices (TDD, pair programming etc.).
• Write quality code that is reliable and maintainable using industry best practices (e.g., style, security, testability, and efficiency).
• Provide guidance to company stakeholders on upcoming challenges and participate in project planning.
• Diagnose, debug, and optimize performance of web applications.
• Having a good command of English is important; collaboration is important in our day-to-day work.
  
  

Eligibility

In accordance with our internal career movement guidance, 12 months in current role is a requirement before applying to a new role

Job Posting End Date:

30-04-2025