Job description
Job Title: Java Architect – Integration Engineering
Location: Pune, India Team: Integration Engineering
About Anchanto
Anchanto is a global SaaS technology company powering eCommerce automation and logistics solutions for enterprises and 3PLs. Our Integration Engineering team builds scalable, robust, and high-performance integrations connecting our products with marketplaces, ERPs, WMS, OMS, and other enterprise systems worldwide.
We are looking for a seasoned** Java Architect** to lead the design and delivery of our integration framework, guide engineering best practices, and shape the technical vision for integrations that serve businesses across the globe. You will also play a pivotal role in driving AI adoption in our development processes, leveraging emerging tools and techniques to enhance productivity and code quality.
The Role
As a Java Architect – Integration Engineering, you will:
- Define and enforce integration architecture standards, design patterns, and development best practices for the team.
- Lead the end-to-end design and development of integrations with diverse internal and external systems using Spring Boot and modern Java frameworks.
- Engage directly with customers to understand their integration requirements, processes, and business objectives.
- Collaborate with solution team to define, document, and finalize integration design, architecture, and data mapping.
- Champion AI-driven development practices, integrating tools like Cursor AI and other AI-assisted coding solutions into the team’s workflow.
- Partner with Product Management, Pre-Sales, and Implementation teams to translate business needs into scalable technical designs.
- Guide and mentor engineers, fostering technical excellence, innovation, and AI adoption within the integration team.
- Be hands-on in building Proof-of-Concepts (POCs), solving complex integration challenges, and driving mission-critical deliveries.
- Collaborate with leadership to shape the roadmap for integration products and platform capabilities.
Key Responsibilities
- Architect and oversee the implementation of integration solutions leveraging Spring Boot, REST APIs, messaging, and event-driven architectures.
- Establish integration design patterns (e.g., EAI, ESB, SOA, pub/sub, ETL) to ensure reusability, scalability, and maintainability.
- Lead technical discovery sessions with customers to gather integration requirements and define clear solution blueprints.
- Coordinate with internal solution architects, product managers, and customer success teams to ensure integration feasibility and alignment with business goals.
- Introduce, evaluate, and integrate AI-powered development tools into the engineering process to improve efficiency, testing, and documentation.
- Promote a culture of AI-first problem solving in architecture design, code reviews, and automation.
- Set up frameworks and automation to accelerate onboarding of new integrations.
- Evaluate and recommend technologies, tools, and cloud services (primarily AWS) to optimize integration performance.
- Review solution designs and code to ensure adherence to architectural principles and coding standards.
- Support pre-sales with architecture diagrams, integration approaches, and technical feasibility assessments.
- Lead technical discussions with external partners, vendors, and enterprise customers.
Required Skills & Experience
- 15+ years of software development experience, with at least 3+ years as an Architect.
- Strong hands-on expertise in Java (Java 8+), Spring Boot, and microservices architecture.
- Solid understanding of integration patterns, enterprise architecture concepts, and middleware solutions.
- Experience with REST APIs, messaging systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ), and data transformation (JSON, XML, CSV).
- Knowledge of AWS cloud services relevant to integration (API Gateway, Lambda, SQS/SNS, ECS, RDS, etc.).
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, Git, branching/merging strategies, and code quality tools.
- Proficiency in Linux environments and shell scripting.
- Experience with building connectors/adapters for ERP, WMS, OMS, CRM, or eCommerce platforms is a plus.
- Exposure to products like TIBCO, Informatica, SnapLogic, WebMethods, or MuleSoft is advantageous.
- Strong problem-solving skills, ability to think “out-of-the-box”, and adapt to fast-changing priorities.
- Excellent communication and leadership skills, with the ability to influence across teams.
Bonus / Good to Have
- Experience in AI-assisted development, particularly using tools like Cursor AI, GitHub Copilot, Tabnine, or similar.
- Knowledge of prompt engineering and integrating AI APIs (e.g., OpenAI, Anthropic) into developer tooling or backend services.
- Understanding of ML Ops principles and how AI models can be integrated into enterprise applications.
- Track record of evangelizing AI adoption in engineering teams to improve productivity and innovation.
Why Join Anchanto?
- Build integrations for a global SaaS platform serving leading retailers, brands, and logistics companies.
- Lead impactful projects with cutting-edge Java, Spring Boot, AWS, and AI-assisted development tools.
- Collaborate with a high-energy, globally distributed product and engineering team.
- Opportunity to innovate and define the future of Anchanto’s integration platform.
Engage directly with enterprise customers to design real-world solutions that power global eCommerce.