Senior Software Engineer (Java Fullstack)

Position Summary: 

Gruve is seeking a Senior Software Engineer (Java) for the SecurityHub365 platform to work closely with the Engineering team in Pune and drive backend delivery for Gruve’s multi-tenant Security Operations (SOC) and ITSM platform. SecurityHub365 ingests and correlates security-incident data, manages the ITSM lifecycle, and integrates with SIEM/XDR and enterprise systems. It runs as an event-driven microservice platform and is actively modernising across containerisation, cloud, and stronger platform foundations.
This is a hands-on build-and-lead role. The Lead Engineer will own significant parts of the backend, raise the engineering bar, mentor an early-career team, and drive delivery, while still writing and reviewing code daily. We are an AI-forward team, and using AI tooling effectively is central to how we build.

Key Roles & Responsibilities:

Design & Delivery Ownership

• Own the end-to-end design and delivery of backend services and features, within the platform’s architectural direction, from requirements and API contracts through implementation, testing, and production.
• Make design decisions within your services, set patterns, and guide the team through trade-offs.
• Contribute to and influence platform architecture alongside the platform architect.

Technical Leadership & Mentoring

• Provide day-to-day technical leadership to drive tech deliveries and solutioning and raise the engineering bar through code review and design guidance.
• Mentor junior/new engineers, grow their skills, and reduce single-points-of-failure by spreading knowledge.

Quality, Security & Reliability

• Drive testing strategy, security, resilience, and performance on a multi-tenant platform where correctness and tenant isolation matter.
• Own non-functional concerns: authentication and authorization, error handling, observability, and safe rollout.

AI-Augmented Engineering (core to this role)

• Use AI coding assistants and agentic tools (for example Claude Code, Claude, Copilot) day to day: scaffolding, refactoring, generating tests, and documentation.
• Apply strong prompt engineering and agentic, “vibe-coding” workflows: decompose work into well-scoped tasks, delegate to AI agents, steer them, and integrate the results cleanly.
• Exercise judgement on where AI helps (boilerplate, CRUD, mirrored patterns, tests, docs) versus where human rigour is required (security, authentication, correctness, and architecture). Review AI-generated code critically; never merge it blind.
• Help the team adopt AI well, setting sensible practices and review gates so speed never comes at the cost of quality.

Agile Delivery & Planning

• Drive sprint planning, backlog refinement, estimation, and breaking epics into deliverable stories.
• Produce defensible estimates grounded in the work, and sequence discovery and scope before committing timelines.

Collaboration & Stakeholders

• Partner with product and the SOC/automation teams to scope work, define boundaries, and turn requirements into buildable plans.
• Communicate clearly with stakeholders, manage expectations, and provide clear delivery status.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.
• 6 to 8 years building systems in Java and React/Angular, min 2 years full stack development exp. with strong fundamentals (OOP, concurrency, data structures, clean code) and depth in Spring Boot.
• Proven experience designing and running microservices and RESTful APIs (contract-first / OpenAPI a plus).
• Hands-on with event-driven architecture using Apache Kafka (topics, consumers, delivery semantics, eventual-consistency trade-offs).
• Solid experience with MongoDB (data modelling, queries, indexing); working knowledge of relational databases.
• Experience with authentication and authorization in multi-tenant systems: JWT/OAuth2 and identity integration (LDAP/AD).
• Experience with containerisation and CI/CD: Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins (or equivalent), Git-based workflows, static analysis.
• Demonstrated technical leadership: mentoring, code review, and owning delivery for a squad.
• Fluency in Agile/Scrum and the ability to write clear user stories, acceptance criteria, and defensible estimates.
• Effective, hands-on use of AI development tools (AI assistants and agentic coding e.g. ClaudeCode) with sound judgement on review and quality.
• Strong communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences; comfortable working with distributed teams across India and the US.

Preferred Qualifications/skills

• Familiarity with Azure cloud services and infrastructure-as-code.
• Exposure to security operations / SOC / ITSM domains, or integrations with SIEM/XDR (for example QRadar, Cisco XDR), Jira, or Cherwell.
• Experience modernising legacy systems and paying down technical debt.
• Experience mentoring or leading early-career engineers.
• Prior experience in a startup or high-growth technology environment.
• Hands-on, senior full stack engineer who combines strong system-design skills with Java & front end technologies.