KERING Senior Software Engineer-Backend

How you will contribute

Business Requirements & System Evolution

•       Work with product managers, business analysts and users to understand processes and business rules. Contribute to application requirements, domain models and acceptance criteria, and assess the impact of proposed changes.

•       Understand existing code, data flows and dependencies before proposing changes. Plan incremental takeovers and upgrades that preserve business rules, API compatibility and service continuity.

Backend Development & Delivery Ownership

•       Build Java and Spring Boot services, REST APIs and reusable business modules using the CUS SDK. Reuse shared authentication, brand context, configuration and business services.

•       Implement relational data models and migrations, Redis caching and Kafka integrations. Address transaction integrity, duplicate-message handling, safe retries, performance and recoverability.

•       Review partners’ designs, code and tests. Complete handovers with source code, build and deployment instructions, design decisions and runbooks that enable independent in-house maintenance.

•       Maintain automated tests and application diagnostics. Release through established CI/CD and GitOps controls, and work with QA and operations on production incidents, rollback and service improvement.

AI-Augmented Engineering

•       Lead practical trials of AI-assisted coding, testing and maintenance with the development lead and AI specialists, using real application changes.

•       Prepare repository instructions, CUS SDK examples and test fixtures that guide coding agents. Review generated changes for correctness, security, compatibility and maintainability.

•       Assess delivery time, review effort, rework and defects. Turn effective approaches into reusable engineering practices that other developers can apply.

Who you are?

Experience & Technical Skills

•       Bachelor’s degree or above in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.

•       At least six years of backend software engineering experience, with a record of delivering and maintaining enterprise applications.

•       Strong Java and Spring Boot skills, including REST API design, OpenAPI documentation and automated testing. The CUS development baseline specifies Java 21+ and Spring Boot 3.

•       Hands-on SQL and relational database experience with PostgreSQL or MySQL, including transactions, indexing, query tuning and versioned schema migrations.

•       Experience with Redis caching and Kafka-based messaging, including retries, duplicate delivery and data consistency.

•       Experience extending or modernizing existing systems, including dependency analysis, data migration, API compatibility and production support.

•       Experience with Docker, Kubernetes-based application delivery and CI/CD; able to diagnose issues using logs, metrics and distributed traces.

•       Practical knowledge of API authentication, role-based access control, tenant isolation and secure handling of secrets.

•       Hands-on use of AI coding assistants or coding agents, with the ability to explain how you validate their output and assess their value in software delivery.

•       Ability to translate business processes into maintainable services and clear requirements, and to review technical work with internal colleagues and delivery partners.

•       Fluency in Mandarin and good working proficiency in English.

Preferred Experience

•       Experience maintaining or taking over vendor-developed customer, retail or enterprise systems.

•       Experience turning AI-assisted coding, test generation or code review into reusable team practices, supported by evidence of delivery or quality improvements.

•       Familiarity with Alibaba Cloud and Spring Cloud, and delivery tools such as GitHub Actions or Jenkins, Argo CD and automated code/security checks.

Personal Attributes

•       You investigate the business reason behind a request and propose practical ways to meet it.

•       You balance new functionality with the reliability and maintainability of existing services.

•       You document important decisions, share knowledge and follow issues through to a durable resolution.