Forward Deployed Developer

• Maintain active relationships with Product Owners and business stakeholders to understand requirements, drive solution design, and review deliverables.
• Lead requirement gathering and technical Client sessions with customer and internal teams.
• Own backlog items and coordinate with team members to deliver features planned for each sprint.
• Perform technical design reviews, code reviews, and architecture assessments.
• Develop, prototype, and troubleshoot applications across user interface, service, and integration layers.
• Build proof-of-concepts (POCs), prototypes, and MVP solutions to validate business requirements and technical approaches.
• Work directly with client stakeholders to analyze business problems and translate them into scalable technical solutions.
• Design and implement cloud-native applications and integrations leveraging Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Product, QA, DevOps, Architecture, Security, and Business teams.
• Drive solution optimization, performance tuning, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Perform peer reviews on source code to ensure reusability, scalability, maintainability, and adherence to best practices.
• Participate in technical discussions focused on software architecture, user experience, design patterns, and development standards.
• Support production deployments, root cause analysis, troubleshooting, and defect resolution.
• Demonstrate solutions, features, and technical capabilities to customers and stakeholders.
• Act as a technical consultant and trusted advisor to customer teams throughout the software delivery lifecycle.
• Mentor junior developers and provide technical leadership to project teams.

Requirement/Must Have:

• 6+ years of experience in Java/JEE application development.
• Strong experience developing applications using multi-tier and distributed architectures.
• Hands-on experience with Java/JEE, Spring Framework, Spring Boot, REST/SOAP Web Services, Hibernate, SQL, Tomcat, and Application Servers (WebSphere).
• Strong experience in API design, development, and integration.
• Experience working with cloud platforms, preferably Google Cloud Platform (GCP); AWS experience is also beneficial.
• Strong knowledge of cloud-native application development and microservices architecture.
• Experience with DevOps tools and CI/CD pipelines including Jenkins, SonarQube, Bitbucket, Jira, and Confluence.
• Good understanding of UML, software architecture, design patterns, and application design principles.
• Experience with Swagger/OpenAPI specifications, JSON payloads, and RESTful services.
• Experience with database design, optimization, and integration.
• Strong experience in responsive design and cross-browser web application development.
• Experience in unit and integration testing using JUnit and related testing frameworks., * Java.
• SRE.
• GCP.