Software Engineer

FircoSoft Application Integration Engineer

Location: Hyderabad

Experience: 3–6 Years

Employment Type: Full-Time

Job Summary

We are seeking a FircoSoft Application Integration Engineer with strong experience in messaging, integration technologies, data processing, REST APIs, and event-driven architectures. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience with technologies such as Kafka and IBM MQ, along with a good understanding of enterprise application integration and transaction processing.

The role will involve supporting and integrating FircoSoft/COTS applications within a complex enterprise environment. The candidate should be comfortable working with existing applications, understanding integration flows, troubleshooting production issues, and collaborating with technical and business teams. Familiarity with AI-enabled development tools such as GitHub Copilot is expected, along with a willingness to learn new technologies and enterprise platforms.

Key Responsibilities

Enterprise Application & FircoSoft Support

• Support and maintain FircoSoft and other enterprise/COTS applications.
• Develop a strong understanding of application architecture, business processes, interfaces, and dependencies.
• Analyze application issues and provide effective troubleshooting and resolution.
• Work with application, infrastructure, middleware, database, and production support teams to resolve incidents.
• Support application upgrades, configuration changes, deployments, and production releases.
• Understand existing FircoSoft integrations and support enhancements as required.
• Coordinate with vendors and internal teams for complex application issues.

Messaging & Integration

• Design, develop, configure, and support enterprise integration solutions using Kafka, IBM MQ, and related messaging technologies.
• Work with event-driven architectures and asynchronous communication patterns.
• Understand message producers, consumers, queues, topics, partitions, offsets, acknowledgements, and message delivery patterns.
• Troubleshoot message processing failures, delayed messages, duplicate messages, and integration issues.
• Monitor message flows and ensure reliable communication between enterprise applications.
• Support integration between FircoSoft and upstream/downstream enterprise systems.
• Analyze message payloads and identify issues in data transformation or routing.

API Development & Integration

• Develop, consume, and support RESTful APIs for enterprise application integration.
• Work with API request/response structures and troubleshoot API failures.
• Handle data formats including JSON and XML.
• Understand HTTP methods, status codes, headers, authentication, and error handling.
• Perform API testing and troubleshooting using tools such as Postman or similar utilities.
• Support integration between APIs, messaging platforms, databases, and enterprise applications.

Data Processing & System Integration

• Understand data processing flows across distributed enterprise applications.
• Analyze data movement between source systems, middleware, FircoSoft, and downstream applications.
• Troubleshoot data transformation, mapping, routing, and processing issues.
• Ensure data is accurately transferred across integrated systems.
• Work with structured data formats such as JSON and XML.
• Investigate discrepancies between source and target systems.

Event-Driven Architecture

• Understand and support event-driven and distributed application architectures.
• Work with asynchronous event processing and message-based integration patterns.
• Analyze application dependencies and integration points.
• Support scalable and reliable event-processing solutions.
• Participate in architecture discussions and recommend appropriate integration approaches.

Production Support & Troubleshooting

• Provide application and integration support in production environments.
• Analyze logs, application errors, message failures, API errors, and processing issues.
• Perform root cause analysis and document corrective actions.
• Participate in incident, problem, and change management processes.
• Support production deployments and post-deployment validation.
• Monitor application and integration health and proactively identify potential issues.
• Work within defined SLA and operational support processes.

AI-Enabled Development

• Use AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot to improve developer productivity.
• Apply AI-enabled tools for code development, debugging, documentation, and troubleshooting.
• Follow enterprise security and governance guidelines while using AI development tools.
• Stay current with emerging AI-assisted software engineering practices.

Collaboration

• Work closely with developers, architects, QA, DevOps, middleware, infrastructure, and business teams.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand integration requirements and technical dependencies.
• Document application flows, integration interfaces, troubleshooting procedures, and technical solutions.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies, technical discussions, code reviews, and knowledge-sharing sessions.

Required Skills & Qualifications

Messaging & Middleware

• Strong hands-on experience with Kafka.
• Experience with IBM MQ or similar enterprise messaging technologies.
• Understanding of message queues, topics, producers, consumers, and asynchronous processing.
• Good understanding of enterprise integration patterns.

API & Integration

• Strong understanding of REST APIs.
• Experience working with JSON and XML.
• Understanding of HTTP/HTTPS protocols and API communication.
• Experience with API testing and troubleshooting.
• Understanding of system-to-system integration and data exchange.

Data Processing

• Understanding of data processing and transformation.
• Ability to analyze data flows across multiple systems.
• Experience troubleshooting data integration and processing issues.

FircoSoft / COTS Applications

• Experience working with FircoSoft/Firco applications is highly preferred.
• Exposure to enterprise COTS products and their integration with internal applications.
• Ability to quickly learn application architecture, configuration, interfaces, and business workflows.
• Experience supporting enterprise applications in production environments.

Development & Scripting

• Good programming or scripting experience.
• Ability to understand and troubleshoot application code.
• Experience with Java, Python, or similar programming languages is preferred.
• Familiarity with Git and source-control practices.

AI Development Tools

• Familiarity with GitHub Copilot or similar AI-enabled development tools.
• Understanding of responsible and secure use of AI-assisted coding tools.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with Firco Continuity / FircoSoft.
• Experience in banking, financial services, payments, or other regulated environments.
• Knowledge of transaction processing and financial messaging.
• Experience with cloud environments such as AWS or Azure.
• Exposure to CI/CD tools and DevOps practices.
• Experience with application monitoring and observability tools.
• Knowledge of Docker/Kubernetes is a plus.
• Experience with SQL and relational databases is desirable.
• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodologies.

Candidate Profile

The ideal candidate should:

• Have 3–6 years of professional experience in application integration, middleware, enterprise application support, or software engineering.
• Have strong hands-on experience with Kafka and/or IBM MQ.
• Understand REST APIs, JSON/XML, data processing, and event-driven architecture.
• Be capable of supporting complex enterprise applications and integration environments.
• Be comfortable troubleshooting production issues and performing root cause analysis.
• Have the ability to learn and support FircoSoft and other COTS applications.
• Demonstrate strong analytical, troubleshooting, communication, and collaboration skills.
• Be proactive in adopting modern development practices, including AI-assisted development tools.