Senior Java Backend Engineer
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Job Description
Senior Software Engineer, Chennai/Pune
The Backend Software Engineer within the NIQ Activate R&D; organization is a senior individual contributor role responsible for designing, developing, and scaling backend services that power innovative product solutions for our growing customer base. Working in a collaborative and innovation-driven environment, you will leverage modern cloud-native technologies, microservices architectures, and AI-assisted development tools to deliver reliable, secure, and high-performance solutions while influencing technical direction, architecture, and engineering best practices.
Responsibilities:
• Leads the design and implementation of critical systems with long-term maintainability
• Responsible for implementing micro-services from design to production.
• Take ownership of development, maintenance, testing strategy, design discussions, and operations of the team, with containerized API services
• Participate in all aspects of agile software development including design, implementation, and deployment.
• Responsible for the end-to-end lifecycle of new product features / components.
• Defines and enforces system-wide design patterns and architectural standards.
• Ensuring application performance, uptime, and scale, maintaining high standards of code quality and thoughtful application design
• Collaborates across teams to resolve cross-functional architectural dependencies.
• Evaluates and introduces new technologies and frameworks to improve engineering efficiency.
• Have an impact on product development by making important technical decisions, influencing the system architecture, development practices and more.
• Designs components with AI-assisted analysis, leveraging AI for architectural alternatives.
• Solves complex challenges in high-availability, fault-tolerant architectures.
• Defines and implements observability and telemetry strategies for system monitoring.
• Conducts deep technical reviews and ensures adherence to engineering excellence standards.
Requirements
Function: General Business
Experience Level: Mid-Senior Level