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Birlasoft · 8 hours ago

Technical Lead-App Development

Jersey City, NJ

Full-time

Onsite

Lead/Staff

Birlasoft is seeking a highly skilled Java Backend Engineer with Reliability Engineering experience to design, build, and maintain reliable backend services. The role focuses on improving application reliability, performance, and logging quality while collaborating with various engineering teams.

Software

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Design, develop, and maintain backend services using Java (8+), Spring Boot, and microservices architecture

Build scalable RESTful APIs and backend components with strong emphasis on performance and security

Improve service reliability through better error handling, resiliency patterns, and design best practices

Contribute to architecture discussions, technical design, and code reviews

Implement and maintain application observability using Splunk (dashboards, alerts, log analysis, correlation searches)

Optimize log ingestion pipelines and ensure consistent logging standards (structured logs, correlation IDs, trace IDs)

Monitor application health, performance metrics, latency, errors, and resource utilization

Troubleshoot production issues by analyzing logs, SPL queries, and monitoring data

Identify and resolve reliability bottlenecks and proactively improve system stability

Develop actionable Splunk dashboards for service KPIs, throughput, latency, and error rates

Set up real-time alerts to detect anomalies, failures, or degradation in service behavior

Tune SPL queries to improve performance and reduce compute cost

Work with DevOps/SRE teams to strengthen monitoring, alerting, and incident response

Work closely with SRE, DevOps, QA, Cloud, and Product Engineering teams

Contribute to on-call readiness, root cause analysis (RCA), and reliability improvement plans

Promote logging best practices and observability standards across engineering teams

Participate in CI/CD pipeline improvements and automation efforts

Qualification

JavaSpring BootREST API developmentSplunkMicroservicesMulti-threadingLogging frameworksCI/CD pipelinesKubernetesDebugging skillsCloud-native applicationsObservability toolsMessage brokers

Required

Strong experience with Java (8 or above), Spring Boot, and REST API development

Solid understanding of microservices, multi-threading, and design patterns

Hands-on expertise with Splunk: SPL queries, Dashboards (Classic or Dashboard Studio), Alerts and reports, Field extractions & log parsing

Deep knowledge of logging frameworks (Log4j2, SLF4J, Logback)

Experience with JSON logging, structured logs, and correlation identifiers

Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, Git, Maven/Gradle

Strong debugging and production troubleshooting skills using logs and monitoring tools

Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, or cloud-native applications

Knowledge of observability tools like ELK, OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Prometheus

Understanding of SRE concepts: SLIs, SLOs, SLAs, error budgets

Familiarity with message brokers (Kafka, RabbitMQ)

Experience with Splunk configuration-as-code or automation via REST APIs

Company

Birlasoft

Glassdoor3.6

Founded in 1995, Birlasoft is a Global IT Services provider and part of the 150 year old, multi-billion dollar CK Birla Group.

Founded in 1995

Noida, Uttar Pradesh, IND

10001+ employees

http://birlasoft.com

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