Java Developer – Workflow Orchestration in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
We seek a backend developer with strong experience in Java, Spring Boot, microservices, REST API, and workflow orchestration platforms such as Orkes Conductor or Netflix Conductor.
Position: Java Developer – Workflow Orchestration
Location: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Industry: IT and Services
Function: IT-Software Development
Experience: 4–8 years
Employment Type: Full‑time
Estimated Salary: AED18,000–30,000 per month
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, enhance, and maintain backend services using Java, Spring Boot, and microservices architecture.
- Create, configure, manage, and optimize workflows using Orkes Conductor or Netflix Conductor.
- Build reliable workflow orchestration logic to automate business processes across multiple backend services.
- Integrate Java services with RESTful APIs, external systems, message queues, and third‑party services.
- Work with DevOps, QA, SRE, product, and engineering teams to deliver stable and scalable backend solutions.
- Write unit tests, integration tests, and system‑level tests to improve code quality and deployment confidence.
- Monitor backend services, workflow executions, logs, alerts, and dashboards to maintain system health.
- Troubleshoot workflow failures, service errors, API issues, queue delays, and performance bottlenecks.
- Provide L2 and L3 support for Java microservices, Conductor workflows, and production incidents.
- Investigate root causes of technical issues and deliver practical fixes, workarounds, or long‑term improvements.
- Collaborate with DevOps and SRE teams on deployment, scaling, release management, and operational readiness.
- Support CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, GitLab, GitHub Actions, or similar platforms.
- Assist development teams in integrating, testing, and operating Conductor workflows within backend applications.
- Participate in on‑call rotations to support high availability, quick incident response, and service reliability.
- Maintain clean technical documentation for workflows, service integrations, support procedures, and troubleshooting steps.
Ideal Profile
- Strong professional experience in Java development, preferably using Java8 or higher.
- Hands‑on experience with Orkes Conductor or Netflix Conductor for workflow orchestration.
- Solid understanding of Spring Boot, REST APIs, backend service design, and microservices architecture.
- Experience working with message queues such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar messaging platforms.
- Good knowledge of CI/CD tools including Jenkins, GitLab, GitHub Actions, or related DevOps platforms.
- Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, containerized deployments, and modern application delivery practices.
- Experience with monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability tools used to track system performance and reliability.
- Ability to debug distributed systems, investigate production issues, and resolve workflow or service failures.
- Strong analytical skills with a practical approach to root‑cause analysis and incident handling.
- Comfortable working with DevOps, QA, SRE, product teams, and application developers in a fast‑paced environment.
- Good communication and coordination skills for production support, technical discussions, and cross‑team delivery.
- A reliability‑focused mindset with awareness of uptime, scalability, performance, and operational stability.
Core Competencies
- Java, Java8 or higher
- Spring Boot
- Microservices architecture
- Orkes Conductor, Netflix Conductor
- Workflow orchestration
- Backend development
- RESTful APIs
- External service integration
- Kafka, RabbitMQ, message queues
- CI/CD (Jenkins, GitLab, GitHub Actions)
- Docker, Kubernetes
- Unit, integration, system testing
- Production and incident support (L2, L3)
- Root‑cause analysis, monitoring, logging, alerting, dashboards
- DevOps collaboration, SRE coordination, technical documentation