Lead Software Engineer - Java Backend + AI

About the Role-Lead Software Engineer (Java Backend + AI)
Team member will be working on Application Development in ECM / ICMP.
In this role, you will:

• Lead complex technology initiatives including those that are companywide with broad impact
• Act as a key participant in developing standards and companywide best practices for engineering complex and large scale technology solutions for technology engineering disciplines
• Design, code, test, debug, and document for projects and programs
• Review and analyze complex, large-scale technology solutions for tactical and strategic business objectives, enterprise technological environment, and technical challenges that require in-depth evaluation of multiple factors, including intangibles or unprecedented technical factors
• Make decisions in developing standard and companywide best practices for engineering and technology solutions requiring understanding of industry best practices and new technologies, influencing and leading technology team to meet deliverables and drive new initiatives
• Collaborate and consult with key technical experts, senior technology team, and external industry groups to resolve complex technical issues and achieve goals
• Lead projects, teams, or serve as a peer mentor

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of Software Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education

Desired Qualifications:

• Strong experience on Java, Spring/Spring boot and Microservices, , strong exposure to AI development/integration.
• Should be able to understand project documents, customer demands, and product objectives to create and execute test cases.
• Should have strong hands-on development skills onto Java / JEE technologies
• Should be able to perform a Gap analysis on Requirements, Functional Specs, and review with project management team.
• Should have strong understanding of Agile methodologies. Experience in working with Scrum teams is an added advantage
• Should be able to contribute actively to In-sprint automation.
• Should be able to do CICD tasks and mentor others on same. Ability to code is a value add.
• Excellent understanding of defect life cycle, hands on experience in HP ALM, JIRA is required to perform requirement gathering, test case design, execution, defect management and analyzing results.
• Must have strong analytical skills and be able to successfully multitask in a results driven environment.
• Should have strong interpersonal skills to work with different stake holders in SDLC ensure high quality results.
• Hands on experience in working with web services is must.
• Additional responsibilities as directed
• Work with US and India teams closely on the business requirement / initiative.
• Analyze business needs as they relate to client business objectives and creation of lean processes; contribute towards development efforts on ECM FileNet platform
• Play a technical developer role (coding ,code reviews, internal testing sign off etc.) for deliverables from WFI .Technical point of contact for all technical issues for the assigned module and analyze, investigate and resolve open issues ,vulnerabilities , secure coding etc.
• Contribute to the design discussions, contribute towards design discussions, perform PoCs wherever required to support/back up design decisions.
• Provide technical expertise to support team during incident/problem resolution.
• Develop expertise and skills at WFI for effectively handling problem tickets - technical component analysis, environment, infrastructure etc.
• Monitor Production Applications Logs using Splunk and AppDynamics
• Bachelor's/master's degree in computer science or equivalent
• Strong in Java, Spring, Microservices design/development, APIs, Kafka, JMS, JPA, JUnit/TestNG
• Exposure to LLM consumption/integration, Prompt Engineering, and hands-on experience with Python/Spring AI for AI-related development
• Familiarity with agentic AI frameworks such as Lang Graph, Lang Chain, and Google ADK for building Agentic workflows
• Strong hands-on experience on Distributed Systems web development across Java/JEE, Webservices (SOAP / REST)
• Strong hands-on experience on Cloud Development, Microservices, CI/CD
• Experienced with designing solutions for both functional and non-functional requirements
• High level of competency in software design and software engineering implementation.
• Well Versed with common design patterns
• XML Webservices experience
• Exposure to ECM and BPM domains
• Experience developing software that interacts with Oracle and other databases
• Proven ability to effectively deliver results as required
• Strong oral and written communications skills
• Ability to operate independently under strict timelines
• High level of cultural awareness
• Ability to train system users

Job Expectations:

• Experience in development of enterprise scale banking applications will be a plus
• Ability to negotiate, influence, and collaborate to build successful relationships.
• Knowledge and understanding of Information Technology governance risk and compliance processes such as policies, control standards, risk management concepts, or information security.

Posting End Date:
16 Feb 2026
*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.
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