Senior Software Engineer – AWS, Java, Microservices, TypeScript, Kafka

Overview

Job Description

Experience: 4–7 Years

Roles and Responsibilities

• Demonstrable experience leading and building scalable microservices and event‑driven applications.
• Ability to solve complex technical challenges from design through to production.
• Address technical debt with a pragmatic, commercially focused approach.
• Translate business and technical requirements into high‑quality engineering deliverables.
• Deliver reusable, shared components used across squads, teams, and products.
• Collaborate across teams and align technical decisions with business goals.
• Expertise in observability and reliability practices, using tools such as:
• OpenTelemetry
• Prometheus
• Grafana
• CloudWatch
• Strong understanding of security best practices, including:
• HashiCorp Vault
• AWS Secrets Manager
• Certificate management
• Experience with testing methodologies such as TDD and BDD, along with automation frameworks.
• Ability to design and implement data‑intensive, highly scalable architectures, including APIs, microservices, event-driven solutions, and serverless patterns.
• Solid understanding of deployment strategies and SRE principles.
• Interest or experience in AI/ML technologies and emerging tools.

Your Skills and Experience

Programming

• Strong in Java, TypeScript, and JavaScript (Node.js).
• Expertise in Spring Boot for building scalable, high‑performance services.

Frameworks & Platforms

• Java
• React (TypeScript)
• Spring Boot / Spring EE for RESTful APIs and enterprise-grade applications.

Architecture

• Microservices
• Domain‑Driven Design (DDD)
• Event‑driven systems using RabbitMQ and/or Apache Kafka

Databases

• Experience with:
• SQL Server
• PostgreSQL
• Other relational / NoSQL databases (e.g., DynamoDB)

Cloud (AWS)

Hands-on experience with:

• EC2
• Lambda
• ECS/Fargate
• RDS
• DynamoDB
• CloudFormation
• CDK
• CodePipeline
• CodeBuild
• CloudWatch

CI/CD

• TeamCity
• Octopus Deploy
• GitHub & GitHub Actions

Containers

• Kubernetes
• Docker

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

• Terraform
• CloudFormation
• Ansible

Quality Engineering

• Strong advocate of automated testing and quality-driven engineering practices.

Frontend Capability (Nice to Have / Growth Area)

• Exposure or willingness to grow skills in:
• TypeScript
• React
• Next.js
• These are highly valued for delivering seamless end-to-end customer and developer experiences.

AI & Chatbot Integration (Desirable)

• Exposure to building AI-driven support tools.
• Experience integrating with LLMs / ChatGPT for developer productivity.
• Understanding of Model Context Protocol (MCP) or similar plugin / extension frameworks is a plus, as the squad owns an AI ChatBot for developer enablement.

S YNECHRON’S DIVERSITY & INCLUSION STATEMENT

Diversity & Inclusion are fundamental to our culture, and Synechron is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. Our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiative ‘Same Difference’ is committed to fostering an inclusive culture – promoting equality, diversity and an environment that is respectful to all. We strongly believe that a diverse workforce helps build stronger, successful businesses as a global company. We encourage applicants from across diverse backgrounds, race, ethnicities, religion, age, marital status, gender, sexual orientations, or disabilities to apply. We empower our global workforce by offering flexible workplace arrangements, mentoring, internal mobility, learning and development programs, and more.

All employment decisions at Synechron are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to the applicant’s gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.