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Senior Backend Engineer

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)

Sydney, AUonsitePosted Aug 3, 2026
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About the role

Experience & Skills:

Experience: 5+ years of backend software engineering experience in a professional environment, with at least 2 years building production microservices.

Java / Kotlin: Strong proficiency in Java (11+) and the Spring ecosystem (Spring Boot, Spring Data, Spring Security). Kotlin experience is a plus but not required.

API Development: Solid experience designing and implementing RESTful APIs. Understanding of API versioning, error contracts, pagination, and idempotency. gRPC experience is desirable.

Database: Strong SQL skills and experience with relational databases - PostgreSQL (preferred) or SQL Server. Experience with schema design for transactional systems, query optimisation, indexing strategies, and database migration tooling (Flyway or Liquibase).

Messaging & Event Streaming: Experience with message brokers - Kafka (preferred) and/or IBM MQ. Understanding of event-driven architecture patterns, consumer groups, schema evolution, and at-least-once delivery guarantees.

Testing: Proven testing discipline - unit testing (JUnit 5, Mockito), integration testing (Testcontainers), contract testing (Pact or Spring Cloud Contract), and experience building comprehensive test suites for complex business logic.

Location

Sydney

Job Function

TECHNOLOGY

Role

Engineer

Job Id

425804

Desired Skills

Java | Kafka | Restful

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