





Metro Bangalore and Lead Java title increase applicant volume, but niche JVM/Kafka performance skills limit candidates.
Deep JVM, Kafka, and performance engineering expertise makes cross-industry fit limited and domain-sensitive.
Explicit 8+ years and many mandatory JVM, Kafka, database, and performance tooling requirements raise filtering strictness.
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Lead design and development of scalable, high-performance Java services and APIs with hands-on coding and debugging.
Own end-to-end performance engineering including setting SLAs/SLOs, designing and executing load and stress tests, profiling, tuning JVM and applications for throughput and latency.
Provide technical leadership by mentoring developers, conducting performance-focused code reviews, collaborating on capacity planning, observability, and architecture decisions.
8+ years of software development experience with strong hands-on expertise in Java (Java 11/17+) and JVM tuning.
Proven experience designing and operating cloud distributed systems on AWS at scale.
Hands-on experience with Apache Kafka, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Debezium, and Spring Boot in performance contexts.
Work Experience Required: 8+ years
Experienced in performance engineering programs and using advanced profiling and diagnostic tools (e.g., JProfiler, async-profiler, Java Flight Recorder).
Capable of diagnosing performance issues end-to-end across application, streaming, database, and search layers in containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes).
Demonstrated leadership in mentoring, leading design reviews, and integration of performance testing into CI/CD pipelines.