Why Join Iris

Are you ready to do the best work of your career at one of India's Top 25 Best Workplaces in IT industry Do you want to grow in an award-winning culture that truly values your talent and ambitions

Join Iris Software — one of the fastest-growing IT services companies — where you own and shape your success story.

About Us

At Iris Software, our vision is to be our client's most trusted technology partner, and the first choice for the industry's top professionals to realize their full potential.

With over 4,300 associates across India, U.S.A, and Canada, we help our enterprise clients thrive with technology-enabled transformation across financial services, healthcare, transportation & logistics, and professional services.

Our work covers complex, mission-critical applications with the latest technologies, such as high-value complex Application & Product Engineering, Data & Analytics, Cloud, DevOps, Data & MLOps, Quality Engineering, and Business Automation.

Working with Us

At Iris, every role is more than a job — it's a launchpad for growth.

Our Employee Value Proposition, Build Your Future. Own Your Journey. reflects our belief that people thrive when they have ownership of their career and the right opportunities to shape it.

We foster a culture where your potential is valued, your voice matters, and your work creates real impact. With cutting-edge projects, personalized career development, continuous learning and mentorship, we support you to grow and become your best — both personally and professionally.

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Job Description

About the Role

We are looking for a Lead Developer with strong experience in Microservices, AWS, and Kafka, along with mandatory exposure to the Banking domain. Prior Payments domain experience is highly preferred.

The candidate will also provide technical leadership to a 3–4 member development team and play a key role in the successful transition and ongoing delivery of the projects under Payment domain.

Key Responsibilities

Lead design and development of Java-based microservices and cloud-native components on AWS.
Provide hands-on technical leadership, mentorship, and code quality guidance to a 3–4 member team.
Collaborate with cross location teams (Australia & India) during the project execution.
Build and optimize secure, scalable, and high performance microservices.
Integrate and manage Kafka for event streaming and asynchronous processing.
Work closely with DevOps, QA, Architecture, and Product teams to ensure smooth delivery.
Participate in technical discussions, design reviews, and architecture decisions.

Required Skills & Experience

8-9 years of hands-on development experience in Java, Spring Boot, and Microservices.
Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and problem solving abilities.
Strong experience with AWS cloud services (Lambda, ECS/EKS, S3, API Gateway, etc.).
Experience integrating and working with Kafka (producers, consumers, topics, streaming concepts).
Banking domain experience is mandatory.
Strong preference for candidates with Payments domain exposure
Ability to lead and mentor a small development team.
Working knowledge of basic DevOps practices (CI/CD pipelines, Git, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes fundamentals).
Strong understanding of distributed systems and API integration patterns.

Good-to-Have Skills

Experience with system migrations, platform modernization, or cloud transitions.
Exposure to Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/CloudFormation).
Familiarity with observability tools (Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk, etc.).

Mandatory Competencies

Middleware - Message Oriented Middleware - Messaging (JMS, ActiveMQ, RabitMQ, Kafka, SQS, ASB etc)

Programming Language - Java - Core Java (java 8+)

Middleware - API Middleware - Microservices

Middleware - Java Middleware - Springboot

Cloud - AWS - AWS S3, S3 glacier, AWS EBS

Programming Language - Java - OOPS Concepts

Perks And Benefits For Irisians

Iris provides world-class benefits for a personalized employee experience. These benefits are designed to support financial, health and well-being needs of Irisians for a holistic professional and personal growth. Click here to view the benefits.

Java - Senior Engineer

Java - Senior Engineer