Summary

Position Summary

Artificial Intelligence & Engineering

AI & Engineering leverages cutting-edge engineering capabilities to help build, deploy, and operate integrated/verticalized sector solutions in software, data, AI, network, and hybrid cloud infrastructure. These insights are powered by engineering for business advantage, helping transform mission-critical operations.

Join our AI & Engineering team to help transform technology platforms, driving innovation, and help make a significant impact on our clients achievements. You'll work alongside talented professionals reimagining and re-engineering operations and processes that could be critical to businesses.

Position Summary

Role: Software Engineer II

Work you'll do

As a Software Engineer II on the Engineering as a Service team, you will be responsible for...

• Design, develop, and maintain backend applications, microservices, and application programming interfaces (APIs) using Java, Spring Boot, and Node.js
• Translate business and technical requirements into scalable solution designs, including service integration, data access patterns, and API specifications
• Troubleshoot defects and production issues, improve application performance, and support secure and reliable service delivery
• Develop and execute unit and integration tests, contribute to code reviews, and support continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) practices
• Collaborate with product, quality assurance, platform, and engineering teams to support estimation, planning, documentation, and delivery of technology solutions
  
  

The team

Engineering as a Service provides complete design, implementation, and technology operations, leveraging our core engineering expertise. We transform engineering teams, modernize technology, and deliver complex programs with a product engineering approach. Our flexible delivery models—traditional teams, pools, or pods—are tailored to each client's needs, offering engineering-led advisory, implementation, and operational capabilities to accelerate innovation.

Location: Bengaluru / Hyderabad / Chennai / Pune

Shift Timings: 11 AM to 8 PM or 2 PM to 11 PM IST as per business requirements

Qualifications

Required:

• Core JAVA & Backend engineering :
• 4-7 years of strong hands-on experience in JAVA( 8+) with solid grounding in Object-Oriented design principles and clean coding practices including identifying design flaws in existing codebases and refactoring towards maintainable designs
• Well versed with core Java concepts including Exception Handling, Collections Framework, Concurrency (threads), Streams, Lambdas etc.
• Ability to design and implement efficient, Secure, and maintainable backend code, evaluate multiple solution approaches, and justify design decisions considering performance and security trade-offs
• Spring & Enterprise Frameworks:
• Strong understanding of microservices architecture, with the ability able to design high-level service boundaries, ensure effective inter-service communication and manage data consistency
• Hands-on experience building and maintaining RESTful APIs using Spring Boot, applying API design best practices and integrating with external services, data sources and databases
• Solid expertise in Spring framework/Spring Boot design principles including core annotations, dependency injection, bean lifecycle, transaction management, and database access patterns.
• Experience implementing security and cloud-native patterns using Spring Security and Spring Cloud (e.g. authentication/ authorization, configuration and resiliency)
• Strong understanding of data persistence, including RDBMS & SQL (or NOSQL), normalization, complex query troubleshooting and ORM/ JPA (e.g., Hibernate) for performant and transactional data access.
• Proven ability in testing, trouble shooting and debugging, including writing JUnit tests, identifying performance bottlenecks, and resolving production issues with minimal handholding
• NodeJS
• 4 - 7 years of hands-on experience in NodeJS:
• Design and develop RESTful APIs and/or GraphQL services using Node.js and a framework such as Express/Fastify/NestJS
• Build integrations with databases (e.g., PostgreSQL/MySQL, MongoDB) and caching (e.g., Redis)
• Implement authentication/authorization (e.g., OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, JWT) and secure coding practice
• Write unit/integration tests; maintain CI/CD quality gates and code reviews
• Optimize performance (profiling, async patterns, avoiding event-loop blocking) and improve reliability (timeouts, retries, circuit breakers
• Implement observability: logging, metrics, tracing; participate in on-call/incident response (if applicable)
• Collaborate on system design, estimation, and delivery planning; produce technical documentation
• Soft Skills
• Strong communication skills with the ability to articulate technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Proven experience working directly with clients and business stakeholders to clarify requirements, manage expectations, and reduce ambiguity.
• Ability to ask the right questions, challenge assumptions constructively, and drive clarity in complex or evolving problem spaces.
• Strong collaboration mindset; able to work effectively with cross-functional teams including product managers, designers, QA, and platform teams.
• Ownership-driven approach with the ability to independently drive tasks to completion with minimal handholding
• Bachelor of Engineering, Bachelor of Technology, Master of Computer Applications, or Master of Science in Computer Science from an accredited university
  
  

Preferred:

• Node.js Certified Associate certification
• Experience working in Agile, Scrum, or Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) delivery environments
• Experience collaborating with product, quality assurance, and platform teams in iterative delivery models
• Experience participating in sprint planning, estimation, reviews, and retrospectives
  
  

Our purpose

Deloitte's purpose is to make an impact that matters for our people, clients, and communities. At Deloitte, purpose is synonymous with how we work every day. It defines who we are. Our purpose comes through in our work with clients that enables impact and value in their organizations, as well as through our own investments, commitments, and actions across areas that help drive positive outcomes for our communities.

Our people and culture

Our inclusive culture empowers our people to be who they are, contribute their unique perspectives, and make a difference individually and collectively. It enables us to leverage different ways of thinking, ideas and perspectives, and bring more creativity and innovation to help solve our clients most complex challenges. This makes Deloitte one of the most rewarding places to work.

Professional development

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Benefits To Help You Thrive

At Deloitte, we know that great people make a great organization. Our comprehensive rewards program helps us deliver a distinctly Deloitte experience that helps that empowers our professionals to thrive mentally, physically, and financially—and live their purpose. To support our professionals and their loved ones, we offer a broad range of benefits. Eligibility requirements may be based on role, tenure, type of employment and/ or other criteria. Learn more about what working at Deloitte can mean for you.

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