Senior Software Engineer

at  Equinix

WHO ARE WE?

Equinix is the world’s digital infrastructure company®, operating over 260 data centers across the globe. Digital leaders harness Equinix’s trusted platform to bring together and interconnect foundational infrastructure at software speed. Equinix enables organizations to access all the right places, partners and possibilities to scale with agility, speed the launch of digital services, deliver world-class experiences and multiply their value, while supporting their sustainability goals.
Our culture is based on collaboration and the growth and development of our teams. We hire hardworking people who thrive on solving challenging problems and give them opportunities to hone new skills and try new approaches, as we grow our product portfolio with new software and network architecture solutions. We embrace diversity in thought and contribution and are committed to providing an equitable work environment that is foundational to our core values as a company and is vital to our success.
Senior Software Engineer

JOB SUMMARY

Analyzes business requirements/functional designs to determine feasibility of design within time and cost constraints. Designs software systems.

QUALIFICATIONS

• 7+ years of hands-on experience in Java development
• Strong expertise in Java 8 or above SE/EE, Spring, Spring Boot, and related frameworks
• Proficient in RESTful APIs and microservices architecture
• Experience with database design and optimization, including SQL and NoSQL databases (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB)
• Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud, and containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes
• Strong understanding of multithreading, concurrency, and asynchronous programming
• Experience with version control systems like Git
• Knowledge of Agile/Scrum methodologies
• Strong problem-solving skills and a passion for learning new technologies
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work in a collaborative team environment
• Kafka: Experience with Apache Kafka, including knowledge of topics, partitions, producers, and consumers
• Bachelor’s in Computer Science or Computer Engineering

Good to have:

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
• Knowledge on ELK stack, Grafana etc.

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Requirements Analysis

• Reviews, analyzes and gives feedback on requirements/functional designs
• Attends and engages in requirement definition meeting

Requirements Analysis

• Reviews, analyzes and gives feedback on requirements/functional designs
• Attends and engages in requirement definition meetings

Software/Application Architecture

• Participates and leads architectural review process

Software Design

• Designs for larger enhancements, projects and cross system/functional enhancements
• Conducts design reviews, provides technical leadership

Development/Coding

• Develops and maintains code for larger enhancements, projects and integrations
• Fixes defects and participates and conducts peer code review
• Follows and proposes design and coding standards and processes
• Provides technical leadership
• Conducts code performance analysis, tuning and review

Application QA

• Develops unit and cross functional tests, develops test strategies, executes test cases, logs issues, manages issues, recommends testing frameworks, records and runs automated test scripts, and designs automated test scripts

DevOps

• Defines roadmap of automation tools and its value to software engineering practices
• Drives infrastructure requirements
• Reviews release planning and deployment lists
• Ensures quality and completeness of deployments

Software Reliability & Support Engineering

• Defines roadmap of production change control and its value to software engineering practices
• Drives certification processes working with cross-domain teams
• Takes accountability of the Operational SLAs
• Responsible for the debugging of L2 & L3 incidents/problems

Reporting

• Responsible for status reporting
• Defines and drives release management planning

Technical Project Management

• Provides level of effort (LOE)
• Manages assigned development tasks to schedule/plan, provides leadership and planning for completing development for large enhancements and projects

Other responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable Java applications and services using Java, Spring/Spring Boot, and related technologies
• Collaborate with product managers, architects, and other stakeholders to define software requirements and specifications
• Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code, following best practices and industry standards
• implement and maintain unit and integration tests to ensure the reliability and quality of code
• Troubleshoot, debug, and resolve technical issues in production and non-production environments
• Optimize application performance, including database queries and application-level optimizations
• Lead code reviews and provide technical mentorship to junior developers, fostering a culture of continuous improvement
• Stay up to date with the latest Java trends, frameworks, and industry developments