Software Engineer Backend Java Dev

About the Role:

Grade Level (for internal use):

09

The Team:

The current team is composed of highly skilled engineers with solid development background who build and manage tier-0 platforms in AWS cloud environments. In their role, they will play a pivotal part in shaping the platform architecture and engineering. Their additional tasks include, exploring new innovative tools that benefit the organization needs, developing services and tools around the platform, establishing standards, creating reference implementations, and providing support for application integrations on need basis.

The Impact:

This role is instrumental in constructing and maintaining dependable production systems within cloud environments. The team bears the crucial responsibility for ensuring high availability, minimizing latency, optimizing performance, enhancing efficiency, overseeing change management, implementing robust monitoring practices, responding to emergencies, and strategically planning for capacity. The impact of this team is pivotal for the organization, given its extensive application portfolio, necessitating a steadfast commitment to achieving and maintaining a 99.9% uptime, thus ensuring the reliability and stability of the firm's digital infrastructure.

Whats in it for you:

S&P Global is an employee friendly company with various benefits and with primary focus on skill development. The technology division has a wide variety of yearly goals that help the employee train and certify in niche technologies like: Generative AI, Transformation of applications to CaaS, CI/CD/CD gold transformation, Cloud modernization, Develop leadership skills and business knowledge training.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

• As part of a global team of Engineers, deliver highly reliable technology products.
• Strong focus on developing robust solutions meeting high-security standards.
• Build and maintain new applications/platforms for growing business needs.
• Design and build future state architecture to support new use cases.
• Ensure scalable and reusable architecture as well as code quality.
• Integrate new use cases and work with global teams.
• Work with/support users to understand issues, develop root cause analysis and work with the product team for the development of enhancements/fixes.
• Become an integral part of a high performing global network of engineers/developers working from Colorado, New York, and India to help ensure 24x7 reliability for critical business applications.
• As part of a global team of engineers/developers, deliver continuous high reliability to our technology services.
• Strong focus towards developing permanent fixes to issues and heavy automation of manual tasks.
• Provide technical guidance to junior level resources.
• Works on analyzing/researching alternative solutions and developing/implementing recommendations accordingly.

Qualifications:

Required:

• Bachelor MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject
• Good written and oral communication skills.
• Must have 3+ years of working experience in Java with Spring technology
• Must have API development experience
• Work experience with asynchronous/synchronous messaging using MQ, etc.
• Ability to use CICD flow and distribution pipelines to deploy applications
• Working experience with DevOps tools such as Git, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Maven
• Solid understanding of Cloud technologies and managing infrastructures
• Experience in developing, deploying & debugging cloud applications
• Strong knowledge of Functional programming, Linux etc

Nice to have:

• Experience in building single-page applications with Angular or ReactJS in conjunction with Python scripting.
• Working experience with API Gateway, Apache and Tomcat server, Helm, Ansible, Terraform, CI/CD, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Git, Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus, Jaeger(or other OTEL products), Flux, LDAP, OKTA, Confluent Platform, Active MQ, AWS, Kubernetes

Shift time: 12 pm to 9 pm IST.