Senior Software Engineer, AI-Augmented Backend
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- Spring Boot
- PostgreSQL
- Informix
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- Apache Kafka
- Debezium (CDC)
- Avro / schema registry
- AWS (EKS)
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- OpenTelemetry / Micrometer / reputed company / Grafana
- OpenAPI / spec-driven development
- AI-assisted development tooling
- REST API design
- Domain-Driven Design
- SLOs / on-call
- CI/CD
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Preferred Qualifications
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