Senior Software Engineer

Tekion is hiring a Senior Software Engineer in Chennai Regional Office.

Requirements

• 5+ years of backend engineering experience; Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field.

• Strong Java 21 and Spring Boot 3.x expertise; solid grasp of hexagonal architecture and clean domain modeling.

• Experience with Kafka: consumer/producer patterns, at-least-once delivery, idempotent processing, and event-driven service design.

• Hands-on MongoDB experience: document schema design, indexing, aggregation pipelines, multi-tenant isolation.

• PostgreSQL experience: schema design, query optimization, migration management.

• Familiarity with Cosmos DB or equivalent distributed key-value / document stores.

• Experience with Elasticsearch for search and analytics workloads.

• Experience with Redis or Aerospike for high-throughput caching patterns.

• Familiarity with cloud-based systems on AWS (EKS, MSK, S3).

• Strong debugging, performance tuning, and system optimization skills.

• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum development practices and CI/CD pipelines.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience with Temporal for workflow orchestration.

• Familiarity with AI-native integration patterns: MCP tool registration, scoring API contracts, LLM gateway usage.

• Working knowledge of Python for understanding AI/ML service outputs and integrating scoring results.

• Background in enterprise-scale SaaS platforms: eCommerce, supply chain, or similar.

Benefits & perks

• Opportunity to work with some of the smartest minds to solve complex challenges at scale.

• Impactful role in shaping and securing a global, cloud-native & AI driven platform.

• Innovative, collaborative, and fast-paced culture.

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About Tekion

Positively disrupting an industry that has not seen any innovation in over 50 years, Tekion has challenged the paradigm with the first and fastest cloud-native automotive platform that includes the revolutionary Automotive Retail Cloud (ARC) for retailers, Automotive Enterprise Cloud (AEC) for manufacturers and other large automotive enterprises and Automotive Partner Cloud (APC) for technology and industry partners. Tekion connects the entire spectrum of the automotive retail ecosystem through