Senior Software Engineer

Job Description

JOB DESCRIPTION

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent
• 8-12 Years of software development experience
• Experience of working to customer requirements, coordinating delivery of quality code within an agreed time-box
• Strong prioritisation, co-ordination, organisational and communication skills, with ability to work in a large diverse team
• Demonstrated evidence of architecture practices
• Customer focused and strong team orientation
• Ability to work closely within an Agile and PDO team environment
• Self-starter and fast-learner
• Strong drive for high quality performance and value add results
• Demonstrated commitment to quality and delivery timing
• Ability to handle multiple assignments with minimal direction
• Ability to work in a highly regulated, financial environment
• Willing to be flexible in terms of tasks and timings
• Exposure to GraphQL Schema Composition
• Deep Understanding of GraphQL Schema Contracts & Varients
• Good to have understanding of Policy Engine and GraphQL Coprocessor pattern
• Understanding of Apollo Studio GraphOS
• Understanding of Spring Boot Graph Framework or equivalent Netflix DGS Framework (Domain Graph Service Framework)
• Understand GraphQL schema UNION,ExtendedScalers
• HandsOn Experience with GraphQL Error Handling
• Working experience in GraphQL Continuous Integration & Continuous Deployments
• Good to have GraphQL Observability, Metrics & Monitoring with Tool GCP Cloud Monitoring, Splunk & Dynatrace
• Exposure or experience in the following technologies:
• Java
• IntelliJ/Eclipse IDEA or VS Studio
• Spring Boot & Batch
• GCP
• Cloud Build and Cloud Run
• Secret Manager, PubSub, Schedulers
• GraphQL
• BigQuery or BogTable(Good to have for Platform Observabily and services metrics/error metrics datastore store)
  
  
  

Experience in designing GQL Schema as per domain business requirements

Experience in Schema Stiching using Composable Architecture Pattern

Apollo Server - creating/managing backend app using programming language Java or NodeJS

Apollo Studio- Exposure to Apollo Studio, Apollo Explorer/Playground to test & build queries & mutation operations

Experience is using Apollo Client Library for FE apps & Webclient library for Spring Boot apps

Defining a GraphQL query, Understand GraphQL Query Plan & Query Cost Analysis

Experience in using useQuery & useMutation hook

Hands on experience in writing GraphQL query resolvers and mutation resolvers

Experience in API Orchestration and Composing Federated Query

Experience in writing abstraction services

Experience is GraphQL Security - Coarse Grained & Fine Grained Authorization

• Experience in participating in GraphQL Penetration testing and GraphQL thread modelling meeting with cybersecurity team
• GitHub
• Database (PostGres Cloud SQL)
• Fossa, SonarQube, Checkmarx, Cycode
• Experience in API Security Tool: 42Crunch
• Experience in API automation tool Newman and Jmeter
  
  
  

Responsibilities

Required Skills & Experience:

• 8+ years of backend engineering experience
• Experience piloting new technologies and designing implementation strategies
• Experience designing and implementing enterprise best practices regarding existing or new technology/tooling
• Experience of senior responsibilities including:
• Dev Code Reviews
• Change management
• Building technical roadmaps/backlogs
• Exposure or experience in the following Skills and Techniques:
• Agile/PDO Ceremonies
• People & Skills Coaching
• Coordination and logistical planning
• Business focused cascades of technical strategies and/or roadmaps
• Experience using Test Driven Development (TDD) and Behaviour Driven Development (BDD)
• Lead the design, development, and delivery of scalable GraphQL APIs and platform services. Mentor engineers, drive architectural decisions, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to build robust, high-performance backend systems.
• Strong expertise in GraphQL, REST APIs, and microservices architecture.
• Proficiency in Java, Node.js, or similar backend languages.
• Profiency in Java Framework Spring Boot/Spring Reactive
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Deep understanding of API security, scalability, and performance optimization.
• Excellent communication, and mentoring skills.
  
  

Qualifications

• 6+ years of backend engineering experience
• Experience with Spring Boot, Spring Reactive, Apollo Server, or similar frameworks.
• Familiarity with event-driven architectures and message brokers.
• Prior experience in automotive or large-scale enterprise environments
• Excellent communication, and mentoring skills.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).