Senior Software Engineer (Java/Springboot) - AskGartner

Hiring near our US Centers of Excellence.

Irving, TX

Stamford, CT

Gartner offers a flexible environment, with remote work  that allows associates great flexibility to work from home, and opportunities to connect with colleagues for moments that matter on-site. Candidates that apply should be located within a reasonable proximity to one of Gartner’s Centers of Excellence office locations.

About Gartner IT:  

Join a world-class team of skilled engineers who build creative digital solutions to support our colleagues and clients.  We make a broad organizational impact by delivering cutting-edge technology solutions that power Gartner.  Gartner IT values its culture of nonstop innovation, an outcome-driven approach to success, and the notion that great ideas can come from anyone on the team. 

About this role:

Our mission is to create effortless, customer-centric, habit-forming digital experiences that enable clients to solve their mission critical priorities. We are seeking an experienced Java Backend Engineer with AI/ML and AWS expertise to design, develop, and deploy scalable solutions in production environments. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of building robust APIs and leveraging cloud infrastructure to deliver intelligent, enterprise-grade applications.  

What you’ll do: 

• Develop and maintain high-quality, scalable microservices using Java and Spring Boot framework 

• Design, build, and maintain APIs for seamless integration between services and client applications 

• Implement API-first design principles ensuring security, performance, and reliability 

• Architect and implement microservice-based solutions for complex business requirements 

• Architect and implement cloud-native solutions on AWS leveraging services such as EKS, Kinesis, SQS, S3, AWS Batch, API Gateway, Lambda and CloudWatch 

• Exposure to Search Engine – OpenSearch, Apache Solr – indexing and query capabilities of search engines. 

• Strong understanding of Java concurrency, concurrency patterns, experience building thread safe code, building highly performant code. 

• Build and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Cloudbees etc. for continuous integration and deployment of code 

• Experience working with Postgres, or Oracle or equivalent enterprise RDBMS system. 

• Designing, implementing, unit, integration testing and supporting Java/Spring and Python based applications and services. 

• Contribute to the review and analysis of business requirements. 

• Perform and participate in code reviews, peer inspections and technical design/specifications. 

• Ensure code integrity standards and code best practice. 

• Document and review detailed design. 

• Identify and resolve web performance, usability and scalability issues. 

• Good combination of technical and interpersonal skills with strong written and verbal communication, detail-oriented with the ability to work independently 

• Owner mindset – identify, communicate, and act on issues and initiatives in an organized and timely manner

What you’ll need: 

4-6 years of post-college experience in Software engineering, API development or related fields. The candidate should have strong qualitative and quantitative problem-solving skills along with high on ownership and accountability.

Must have: 

• 4-6 years of experience with Java/Spring framework development.  

• Experience in Design, and Development of web applications and Microservices using Java, Docker, SQL, Jenkins Pipeline. 

• Experience working with Postgres, or Oracle or equivalent enterprise RDBMS system. 

• Experience in working on AWS. 

• Experience REST based APIs 

• Excellent understanding of Object-Oriented Programming with design patterns. 

• Exposure to Python microservices such as FastAPI 

• Experience with DevOps and collaboration tools such as Git, Jenkins, Jira, Confluence  

• Experience with Kanban or Agile Scrum development  

Nice to have: 

• Experience with performance