Manager, Backend Developer

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Manager, Backend Developer

The Opportunity

• Based in Hyderabad, join a global healthcare biopharma company and be part of a 130- year legacy of success backed by ethical integrity, forward momentum, and an inspiring mission to achieve new milestones in global healthcare.
• Be part of an organisation driven by digital technology and data-backed approaches that support a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines, and animal health products.
• Drive innovation and execution excellence. Be a part of a team with passion for using data, analytics, and insights to drive decision-making, and which creates custom software, allowing us to tackle some of the world's greatest health threats.
  
  

Our Technology Centers focus on creating a space where teams can come together to deliver business solutions that save and improve lives. An integral part of our company's IT operating model, Tech Centers are globally distributed locations where each IT division has employees to enable our digital transformation journey and drive business outcomes. These locations, in addition to the other sites, are essential to supporting our business and strategy.

A focused group of leaders in each Tech Center helps to ensure we can manage and improve each location, from investing in growth, success, and well-being of our people, to making sure colleagues from each IT division feel a sense of belonging to managing critical emergencies. And together, we must leverage the strength of our team to collaborate globally to optimize connections and share best practices across the Tech Centers.

Role Overview

As part of our strategic technology roadmap, we are building a resilient, scalable, and secure integration backbone that powers our enterprise applications and client-facing platforms.

This Senior Backend Developer will be a key engineering leader on the ground, responsible for translating architecture blueprints into high-performance services, ensuring API excellence, and driving automation across our AWS and MuleSoft ecosystem.

You will be part of a high-impact team that directly influences time-to-market, cost optimization, and digital transformation outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

• Design & build microservices in Java/Spring Boot (RESTful APIs, asynchronous messaging, resilient patterns, OpenAPI/Swagger).
• Integrate via MuleSoft Anypoint RAML/API specs, API Manager policies, DataWeave mappings, reusable connectors, and CloudHub deployments.
• Own AWS workloads containerize with Docker, deploy to ECS/EKS or Lambda; use API Gateway/ALB, SQS/SNS, EventBridge, RDS/Aurora/DynamoDB, S3, Secrets Manager, CloudWatch, X-Ray.
• CI/CD with GitHub Actions multi-stage pipelines (build/test/scan/package), Docker image build & push (ECR), environment promotion with approvals, infra deploy hooks (IaC).
• Quality & security unit/integration tests, contract tests, performance testing; SAST/DAST/dependency scans; least-privilege IAM; secrets management.
• Observability structured logging, metrics, tracing (OpenTelemetry), SLOs/alerts, runbooks.
• Performance profile services, tune databases/caches, right-size compute, optimize CloudHub/EKS/ECS utilization.
• Collaboration partner with product/architecture, review PRs, mentor engineers, contribute to standards and API governance.
• Operations participate in incident response and post-mortems; drive root-cause fixes and reliability improvements.
• Familiarity with software architecture and solution design, especially in cloud environments and microservices and integration methods.
  
  

Development & Integration Support

• Build and maintain Java Spring Boot microservices and RESTful APIs under senior developer guidance.
• Assist in developing MuleSoft integration flows (RAML, DataWeave transformations, API Manager configurations).
• Implement backend services on AWS (S3, RDS/DynamoDB,Redshift Lambda, API Gateway, SQS/SNS).
  
  

CI/CD & Quality Practices

• Work with GitHub Actions to build/test/deploy backend components in a controlled CI/CD environment.
• Write and maintain unit tests and integration tests to ensure code quality.
• Follow secure coding practices and participate in code reviews.
  
  

Collaboration & Learning

• Partner with senior developers, QA, and DevOps to ensure smooth delivery.
• Participate in sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and backlog grooming.
• Learn enterprise-grade API governance, performance monitoring, and cost optimization best practices.
  
  

Qualifications

• 3+ years in backend engineering with Java 11+ and Spring Boot.
• Strong microservices architecture (API versioning, idempotency, retries/circuit-breakers, saga/outbox patterns).
• Hands-on MuleSoft (Mule 4/Anypoint) publishing/consuming APIs, policies, DataWeave, Exchange assets, CloudHub operations.
• Production experience on AWS (ECS/EKS or Lambda) and core services (API Gateway, SQS/SNS, RDS/Aurora or DynamoDB, CloudWatch).
• GitHub Actions expertise reusable workflows, environments, secrets, artifact/versioning strategy.
• Proficiency with Docker, Relational DBs (SQL, schema design, migrations), and testing (JUnit/Testcontainers/contract tests).
• Solid grasp of security (OAuth2/OIDC, token flows, mTLS, OWASP Top 10) and networking (VPC, subnets, NACLs, security groups).
• Excellent problem solving, code review, and communication skills.
  
  

Tools & stack

Java 17, Spring Boot, Maven/Gradle, Docker, MuleSoft Anypoint (Mule 4, API Manager, Exchange, CloudHub), AWS (ECS/EKS/Lambda, API Gateway, SQS/SNS, EventBridge, RDS/Aurora/DynamoDB, S3, Secrets Manager, CloudWatch/X-Ray), GitHub Actions, OpenAPI/RAML, Testcontainers, JUnit, SonarQube, OWASP Dependency-Check/Snyk.

KPIs & Success Metrics

• Deployment frequency Multiple safe releases per week without rollback.
• Incident reduction Measurable drop in P1/P2 incidents.
• Cost efficiency Optimized AWS and MuleSoft operational spend without performance trade-offs.
  
  

Our technology teams operate as business partners, proposing ideas and innovative solutions that enable new organizational capabilities. We collaborate internationally to deliver services and solutions that help everyone be more productive and enable innovation.

Who We Are

We are known as Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, New Jersey, USA in the United States and Canada and MSD everywhere else. For more than a century, we have been inventing for life, bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the world's most challenging diseases. Today, our company continues to be at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions and advance the prevention and treatment of diseases that threaten people and animals around the world.

What We Look For

Imagine getting up in the morning for a job as important as helping to save and improve lives around the world. Here, you have that opportunity. You can put your empathy, creativity, digital mastery, or scientific genius to work in collaboration with a diverse group of colleagues who pursue and bring hope to countless people who are battling some of the most challenging diseases of our time. Our team is constantly evolving, so if you are among the intellectually curious, join us—and start making your impact today.

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Employee Status

Regular

Relocation

VISA Sponsorship

Travel Requirements

Flexible Work Arrangements

Hybrid

Shift

Valid Driving License

Hazardous Material(s)

Required Skills

Data Engineering, Data Visualization, Design Applications, Software Configurations, Software Development, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Solution Architecture, System Designs, Systems Integration, Testing

Preferred Skills

Job Posting End Date

08/19/2025

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Requisition ID R356992