Apexon
Website:
apexon.com
Company:
https://www.linkedin.com/company/apexon
Industries: IT Services and IT Consulting
Job details:
Job Title: Principal Architect (Java + AWS + AI)
Exp: 12 to 17 yrs
Location- Chennai
Notice Period: Only immediate Joiners
JD:
Core Technical Depth
- 12+ years of hands on software engineering experience
- Expert level Java experience with large scale microservices platforms
- Proven success designing and operating high throughput, low latency systems
Advanced knowledge of:
- Distributed systems
- Concurrency, performance tuning, and JVM internals
- Fault tolerance, resiliency patterns, and graceful degradation
- Cloud & Platform Engineering
- Extensive production experience with Kubernetes (EKS) at scale
- Deep expertise in AWS networking, security, and scaling patterns
- Experience designing cloud native, services based or event driven platforms
- Strong operational mindset (observability, incident response, reliability)
- AI & Modern Engineering Practices
- Hands on experience applying Generative AI / Agentic AI in real engineering workflows
- Active usage of GitHub Copilot or equivalent AI tooling
- Experience integrating AI into developer platforms or SDLC automation (preferred)
- Technical Leadership
- Recognized ability to influence architecture across teams and platforms
- Experience serving as a go to expert for the most complex technical problems
- Strong communication skills—able to clearly articulate trade offs to engineers and leadership alike
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in payments, fintech, or large scale transaction processing systems
- gRPC, async messaging, or streaming platforms (Kafka, etc.)
- Strong observability and SRE aligned practices
- Proven track record modernizing legacy systems to cloud native architectures
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