Must Have Technical/Functional Skills
1. Core Java & Advanced Java Strong knowledge of Java 8+ (streams, concurrency, collections, memory management).
2. Spring Ecosystem Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Data JPA, dependency injection, REST API development.
3. Microservices Architecture Design, development, and deployment of scalable microservices (REST/gRPC).
4. Database Expertise SQL (PostgreSQL/MySQL/Oracle) + NoSQL (MongoDB/Cassandra), query optimization.
5. Cloud & DevOps Exposure AWS/Azure/Google Cloud Platform, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins/GitHub Actions).
Roles & Responsibilities
Design & Develop Systems Architect and build scalable, high-performance backend systems and APIs.
Hands-on Coding Actively contribute to coding, debugging, and code optimization (not just oversight).
Technical Leadership Guide team on design patterns, best practices, and code quality.
System Integration Work on integrations with external/internal services, messaging systems (Kafka/RabbitMQ).
Performance & Reliability Ensure system scalability, security, monitoring, and production stability
Generic Managerial Skills, If any
Team Mentorship Coach and upskill developers, conduct code reviews.
Stakeholder Communication Translate business requirements into technical solutions.
Agile Delivery Management Work in Scrum/Kanban, sprint planning, backlog grooming.
Decision Making Drive architectural and technical decisions under constraints.
Ownership & Accountability End-to-end responsibility for deliverables and production issues