Senior Application Software Engineer

The ideal candidate will have expertise in Core Java, backend service development, SQL, REST APIs, and cloud-native technologies. In addition to building production-grade backend services, you will contribute to engineering excellence by developing robust automated tests and enhancing test automation frameworks as part of the software development lifecycle. Experience with AI-assisted development tools is highly desirable.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• 4+ years of professional software development experience with a minimum of 5 years in Java development.
• Strong expertise in Core Java and object-oriented programming principles.
• Solid understanding of SQL, including database development and stored procedures.
• Experience building Java backend services and REST APIs.
• Strong programming, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Experience writing automated tests using JUnit, TestNG, or PyTest.
• Experience debugging and troubleshooting multithreaded applications.
• Experience with Continuous Integration (CI) and automated build pipelines.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to work effectively in a collaborative Agile environment.

Key Responsibilities

Application Software Development

• Drives medium features and quality improvements with measurable performance and reliability outcomes.
• Provides global production support for critical issues with minimal guidance; improves playbooks/alerts.
• Troubleshoots and debugs non-routine issues spanning application layers and common OCI services; proposes fixes.
• Partners with QA to define test strategy (unit/integration) for features; ensures consistency across modules.
• Considers trade-offs in existing architecture; proposes moderate design improvements.
• Translates ambiguous requirements into scalable designs and implementation plans.
• Defines and stabilizes API contracts and dependencies for the application area.
• Recommends build priorities within the team using data from incidents, telemetry, and customer feedback.
• Systematically incorporates external feedback (forums, live-site reports) into backlog refinement.
• Mentors junior engineers; coordinates cross-functionally on feature delivery.

Software Development and Coding - Design, Testing, and Optimization:

• Designs software solutions and analyzes and helps identify requirements to achieve business and operational goals, independently.
• Adheres to and suggests improvements to all phases of the software development lifecycle.
• Utilizes working knowledge to develop new software features and enhancements following design specifications and develops documents to clarify software design and code.
• Leads code reviews in designated areas to help drive improvements.
• Conducts debugging and troubleshooting to identify and fix moderately complex software issues.
• Develops fixes for identified issues.
• Implements software testing (e.g., functional and non-functional testing), quality assurance processes, software error logging, monitoring, and observability for effective debugging, ensuring review by manager and/or lead throughout the process.
• Exercises judgment and discretion to conduct performance profiling and optimization of coding.
• Troubleshoots and resolves moderately complex issues related to application programming interface (API) functionality and integration.
• Implements moderately complex API versioning, lifecycle, and interoperability strategies.

Software Architecture - Software System Structural Design

• Designs and develops software, systems, and services aligned to pre-defined system architecture.
• Develops working knowledge of software architecture decisions and best practices.
• Collaborates with team leads to review work to ensure alignment with software architecture.
• Implements moderately complex performance optimization and scalability strategies in software design.

Issue/Defect Collaboration - Software Products Support

• Collaborates within and beyond immediate team to understand customer issues and align solutions.
• May provide technical guidance and support to customers regarding customer-reported issues, independently.
• Coaches, mentors, and guides others to advocate for customers' interests and suggests product enhancements based on feedback.
• Influences team to ensure customer satisfaction through timely resolution of issues and effective communication.
• Implements customer issue and/or defect handling and training processes, independently.
• Investigates and troubleshoots complex product maintenance issues to ensure customer agreement on short- and long-term solutions (e.g., future enhancements).

Practices and Standards Compliance - Security and Compliance

• Collaborates with the team to establish and follow development practices and coding standards.
• Exercises judgment and discretion to ensure code quality and adherence to broad acceptance criteria during development.
• Keeps up-to-date with industry best practices and applies them to software development processes.
• Implements secure coding practices to prevent security vulnerabilities.

Development Operations - System Maintenance

• Performs periodic maintenance and testing operations for systems that require upgrading or patching (e.g., for critical vulnerabilities).
• Exercises judgment and discretion to drive improvements, ensure automation, testing, and debugging of systems to ensure service/product availability, health, support, and reliability.

Core Responsibilities

Planning & Execution

• Independently manages work, monitoring timelines and deliverables to ensure projects or initiatives stay on track and meet requirements.
• Proactively prioritizes work and adapts to resource or timeline shifts, suggesting adjustments to maintain project efficiency.

Collaboration & Partnership

• Collaborates across teams to align on expectations and achieve shared objectives.
• Builds and maintains a comprehensive understanding of business, stakeholder, and/or customer needs to build and support effective partnerships.
• Actively listens to diverse perspectives and asks questions to ensure understanding of others.

Problem Solving

• Independently identifies and addresses standard and non-standard issues in accordance with standard practices, escalating more complex issues as appropriate.
• Analyzes data and/or information from multiple sources to troubleshoot standard and non-standard errors.
• Contributes to knowledge sharing and best practices.

Continuous Learning

• Embraces continuous learning by actively seeking to build knowledge and new skills and/or tools and staying current with industry trends and best practices.
• Seeks out and leverages feedback and training to improve skills.
• Contributes to a culture of continuous learning and knowledge sharing with team members.

Continuous Improvement

• Develops ideas and recommends updates to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of processes, protocols, and workflows within a team.
• Seeks input from team members on alternative approaches and methods for improving work.

Career Level - IC3