Senior Java Software Engineer

About Persistent

We are a trusted Digital Engineering and Enterprise Modernization partner, combining deep technical expertise and industry experience to help our clients anticipate what’s next. Our offerings and proven solutions create a unique competitive advantage for our clients by giving them the power to see beyond and rise above. We work with many industry-leading organizations across the world, including 12 of the 30 most innovative global companies, 60% of the largest banks in the US and India, and numerous innovators across the healthcare ecosystem.

Our disruptor’s mindset, commitment to client success, and agility to thrive in the dynamic environment have enabled us to sustain our growth momentum by reporting $328.2M revenue in Q1 FY25, delivering 16% Y-o-Y growth. Our 23,500+ global team members, located in 19 countries, have been instrumental in helping the market leaders transform their industries. We’re also pleased to share that Persistent has been recognized as a Leader in the ISG Provider Lens™ Digital Engineering Services Quadrant Report for the U.S. and Europe 2024. We were also recognized for excellence in governance and executive leadership in Institutional Investor’s 2024 Asia Executive Team Survey. Throughout our market-leading growth, we’ve maintained a strong employee satisfaction score of 8.2/10.

About Position:

Role: Sr. Java Developer

Location: Sydney, Australia

Job Type: Permanent

Experience: 8 -12 years

Skills: Java, Microservices, React or Type Script, AWS

• 7+ years of experience designing, architecting and developing scalable, enterprise platforms and applications
• Proficient in the following AWS services with hands on experience: EC2, Lambda, DDB and S3
• Proficient in at least one of the 2 tech stacks: TypeScript/Node.js or Java / Springboot
• Experience designing APIs and service contracts
• Familiarity with event-driven architectures
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD and IaC pipelines
• Distributed systems and Microservices
• Exposure to AWS services like Kinesis, Firehose, Cloud watch, Aurora, Step Functions, CDK, Cloud Formation, Synk

Key responsibilities

• To succeed in this role, you will be a strong engineer with hands on experience delivering large, scalable enterprise services, platforms and applications built on AWS cloud native technologies.
• You will bring experience solving complex technical challenges, architecting highly available, resilient, responsive and scalable solutions using the well established industry standards.
• In this role you will work closely with the Principle Engineers and Chief Engineer while creating, presenting, evolving, validating and executing your design.
• You will be a hands-on engineer yourself delivering key components while overlooking your team members' deliverables.
• You will possess and showcase in-depth knowledge of Database design, implementation, performance and integration with working knowledge of large scale RDBMS like Aurora and NOSQL like DDB

AI & Intelligent Automation

As part of a modern workflow platform, we are progressively introducing AI-assisted capabilities to improve productivity, decisioning, and system intelligence. As a Staff Engineer you will help shape how

• AI is applied responsibly and pragmatically across the platform and have the following responsibilities
• Design and integrate AI-assisted features into workflow and platform services, such as:
• Workflow and rules inference from structured and semi-structured inputs
• Intelligent routing, classification, and recommendations within workflows
• AI-assisted validation, schema evolution, and decision support
• Partner with platform and security teams to ensure safe, explainable, and compliant AI usage.
• Define architectural patterns for:
• Calling LLMs or AI services from long-running workflows
• Handling retries, fallbacks, and determinism in AI-driven steps
• Versioning and auditing AI-influenced decisions
• Evaluate build vs buy options for AI services (managed cloud services vs internal capabilities)

Education Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering in Computer Science/Information Technology

Benefits:

• Competitive salary and benefits package
• Culture focused on talent development with quarterly promotion cycles and company-sponsored higher education and certifications
• Opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies
• Employee engagement initiatives such as project parties, flexible work hours, and Long Service awards
• Annual health check-ups
• Insurance coverage: group term life, personal accident, and Mediclaim hospitalization for self, spouse, two children, and parents.

Our company fosters a values-driven and people-centric work environment that enables our employees to:

Accelerate growth, both professionally and personally

Impact the world in powerful, positive ways, using the latest technologies.

• Enjoy collaborative innovation, with diversity and work-life wellbeing at the core.
• Unlock global opportunities to work and learn with the industry’s best.

Let’s unleash your full potential at Persistent - persistent.com/careers

• “Persistent is an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind.”