Senior Software Engineer

Role Summary As a Senior Engineer, you will design, build, and support critical integrations and applications across SOMS domain. You will contribute hands-on development expertise in Java, Spring Framework, and cloud technologies (Azure/GCP) while ensuring scalability, compliance, and performance. You will work in a hybrid team model (onshore + offshore), collaborating with SOMS SMEs, Enterprise architects, and contractors to deliver high-quality solutions that enable Easy experience for Staples Business customers. Duties & Responsibilities • Collaborate with DevOps, product, and other engineering teams to define requirements and deliver long-lasting technical solutions. • Design, build, and maintain distributed and scalable backend services to support business-critical feature. • Optimize system latency, throughput, and resource usage to support high performance under variable loads. • Address technical debt by refactoring code and infrastructure and stay updated on emerging technologies and industry trends. • Excellent verbal and written communications with the ability to establish effective working relationships with team members and cross functional teams. • Develop comprehensive test plans and maintain automated test suites to ensure software robustness and minimize regressions. Requirements Basic Qualifications • Possess 4 to 7 years of relevant professional experience. • Demonstrate proficient programming skills in at least one modern language such as Java or Python. • Strong expertise in system architecture and the development of highly available, fault-tolerant distributed applications optimized for performance and scalability in cloud environments. • Proven experience working within Agile frameworks, contributing to technical design, iterative development, and conducting thorough code reviews. • Well-versed in best practices for developing high-quality software, implementing continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines. • Skilled in designing and implementing microservices using the Spring ecosystem, including Spring Boot, Spring JPA, Spring Batch, Spring Security, Spring Cloud, and Spring Data Stream. • Hands-on experience managing distributed databases such as Azure CosmosDB, Couchbase, or MongoDB. • Familiarity with relational database systems like Oracle, MySQL and PostgreSQL. • Experience with distributed caching technologies such as Memcached, Redis, or Hazelcast to improve application performance. • Competent in working with distributed messaging systems including Azure EventHub, Apache Kafka, and Solace to enable reliable communication and event handling. • Ability to build and optimize production-quality data pipelines for both batch and stream processing to support large-scale data analytics and machine learning workloads. • Proficient in using GitHub for version control and leveraging tools such as GitHub Copilot for code assistance and productivity enhancement. • API development and maintenance skills:…