Expert Java Spring Boot Developer

About the Role

DXC Technology is seeking an Expert Java Spring Boot Developer to join our team in Riyadh. This full-time position requires a professional with over 10 years of experience to lead the architecture, design, development, and optimization of enterprise-scale backend applications and distributed systems. The role focuses on building secure, scalable, highly available, and high-performance backend platforms, defining engineering standards, and mentoring development teams.

Core Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain high-performance and scalable backend applications using Java 17/21+ and Spring Boot *
• Architect enterprise-scale microservices and distributed systems with a focus on scalability, resilience, availability, and performance.
• Analyze and resolve complex integration issues involving REST, SOAP, APIs, WSDL, XML, and system-to-system communication.
• Design and implement integration patterns for enterprise applications and backend services.
• Profile and optimize Java applications, including JVM performance, memory management, Garbage Collection (G1GC/ZGC), concurrency, and caching.
• Design event-driven architectures using Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, AWS Kinesis, or similar technologies.
• Apply architecture patterns including CQRS, Event Sourcing, and Transactional Outbox where appropriate.
• Design and implement secure application architectures using Spring Security, OAuth , OpenID Connect (OIDC), and centralized secrets management.
• Develop applications and services using Spring Cloud, Spring Data, JPA/Hibernate, and Spring WebFlux.
• Design and optimize solutions using relational databases such as PostgreSQL and MySQL, and NoSQL/caching technologies like MongoDB, Cassandra, and Redis.
• Optimize complex queries, database connection pooling, data-access performance, and database scalability.
• Manage Java application dependencies, libraries, configurations, version upgrades, and application packaging.
• Design reusable development components, frameworks, libraries, and custom Spring Boot starters.
• Establish coding standards, engineering best practices, architecture guidelines, and reusable design patterns.
• Conduct architecture reviews, technical design reviews, and code reviews.
• Troubleshoot complex application, integration, performance, and production issues.
• Make architecture recommendations covering monolithic vs. microservices and synchronous vs. asynchronous integration approaches.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to mid-level and senior backend engineers.
• Collaborate with architecture, infrastructure, security, product, and business teams throughout solution design and delivery.
• Communicate architecture decisions, technical risks, recommendations, and trade-offs to senior technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Required Experience and Skills

• Over 10 years of experience in Java and Spring Boot development.
• Deep hands-on development expertise in Java, Spring Boot, microservices, APIs, system integrations, event-driven architecture, databases, application security, performance engineering, and cloud-native development.
• Strong architecture, troubleshooting, and performance optimization capabilities.
• Technical leadership experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with PHP.
• Experience with Flutter.
• Experience building reusable Spring Boot starters, frameworks, or shared enterprise libraries.
• Experience with cloud-native application architectures.
• Experience with highly available and mission-critical enterprise platforms.
• Experience leading architecture reviews or technical governance activities.
• Experience mentoring senior and mid-level software engineers.
• Relevant Java, Spring, cloud, architecture, or security certifications.

Work Environment

This is a full-time position based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The role involves working within a collaborative team environment, providing technical leadership and mentorship to other engineers.