Custom Software Engineer

Custom Software Engineer

Develop custom software solutions to design, code, and enhance components across systems or applications. Use modern frameworks and agile practices to deliver scalable, high-performing solutions tailored to specific business needs.

Must have skills: Java Full Stack Development

Good to have skills: MySQL, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Spring SecurityMinimum

5 year(s) of experience is required

Educational Qualification: 15 years full time education

Role Summary- Level 9 (Java) Accenture is seeking an experienced Java Technical Lead (L9) to drive end-to-end technical delivery of enterprise Java applications. The candidate will lead a team of developers, own architectural decisions, and serve as the primary technical interface with clients and architects.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end technical design and delivery of Java/Spring Boot microservices
• Define coding standards, design patterns, and architectural guidelines for the team
• Review and approve high-level and low-level design documents
• Collaborate with solution architects, business analysts, and client stakeholders on solution design
• Plan and manage sprint deliverables, conduct technical grooming sessions and code reviews
• Mentor and guide Senior Developers (L10) and Developers (L11) through pair programming
• Identify, mitigate, and escalate technical risks and blockers proactively
• Oversee CI/CD pipeline management, deployment strategies, and release planning
• Drive performance engineering, scalability improvements, and production incident resolution
• Produce and review HLD, LLD, TSD, API contracts, and deployment runbooks

Mandatory Skills & Experience

• 5–7 years of Java development experience with at least 2 years in a technical lead capacity
• Expert-level proficiency in Java 11/17, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Spring Security, Spring Batch
• Deep expertise in microservices architecture, event-driven design, and distributed systems
• Hands-on experience with Kafka, RabbitMQ, or equivalent message brokers
• Strong CI/CD pipeline management using Azure DevOps, Jenkins, or GitLab CI
• Containerization with Docker and orchestration with Kubernetes
• Advanced SQL skills with experience in query optimization and database design
• Cloud-native experience on Azure or AWS (design patterns, scalability, cost optimisation)
• Expertise in performance tuning, distributed caching (Redis), and observability tools
• Excellent leadership, stakeholder communication, and team management skills

Nice to Have

• Experience with service mesh technologies (Istio / Linkerd)
• Knowledge of distributed tracing (OpenTelemetry, Zipkin, Jaeger)
• Exposure to GraphQL or gRPC-based API design
• Prior experience in Banking / Financial Services / Insurance domain

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world's leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world's leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

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