At Quest Global, it’s not just what we do but how and why we do it that makes us different. With over 25 years as an engineering services provider, we believe in the power of doing things differently to make the impossible possible. Our people are driven by the desire to make the world a better place—to make a positive difference that contributes to a brighter future. We bring together technologies and industries, alongside the contributions of diverse individuals who are empowered by an intentional workplace culture, to solve problems better and faster.
## Key Focus Areas
* Delivery pipeline improvements (CI/CD, build reliability, deployment automation)
* Improving automated test coverage and quality across services, with a target of achieving and maintaining high coverage levels where appropriate
* Monitoring, telemetry, and observability for integrations with third-party services
* Fallback and resiliency mechanisms (circuit breakers, retries, failover)
* Making microservices more robust and self-healing
* Refactoring legacy services to improve maintainability, testability, performance and operational resilience
## Required Skills
* Candidate must demonstrate proficiency in Agentic AI development, including creating autonomous agents, integrating tools and APIs, implementing multi-step workflows, and effectively utilizing AI-powered coding agents (CLI and IDE-based) to enhance engineering productivity and software quality.
* **7+ years** of commercial back-end development experience
* Strong hands-on experience with **Java 8+**, with **Java 17** exposure preferred
* Deep expertise with **Spring Boot**, **microservices**, and **event-driven distributed architectures**
* Solid experience designing and building **RESTful APIs**
* Working knowledge of **Docker** and container-based deployment
* Practical experience with **AWS**, including **Lambda, SNS, SQS, DynamoDB, and KMS**
* Hands-on experience with **MySQL** — schema design, query tuning, and performance optimisation
* Experience with **observability** tooling — metrics, logging, distributed tracing (e.g. **Splunk**, **Datadog**, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, CloudWatch)
* Strong grounding in unit testing with **JUnit** and **Mockito**, with a quality-first mindset
* Familiarity with **resiliency patterns** (Resilience4j, circuit breakers, bulkheads)
* Experience with **CI/CD pipelines** (Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or similar)
* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent
## Desirable
* Kubernetes / container orchestration
* Prior experience focused on platform observability
* Experience working across distributed teams and time zones
* Experience with API and event contract testing, and establishing automated compatibility guarantees between microservices and their consumers
We are known for our extraordinary people who make the impossible possible every day. Questians are driven by hunger, humility, and aspiration. We believe that our company culture is the key to our ability to make a true difference in every industry we reach. Our teams regularly invest time and dedicated effort into internal culture work, ensuring that all voices are heard.
We wholeheartedly believe in the diversity of thought that comes with fostering a culture rooted in respect, where everyone belongs, is valued, and feels inspired to share their ideas. We know embracing our unique differences makes us better, and that solving the worlds hardest engineering problems requires diverse ideas, perspectives, and backgrounds. We shine the brightest when we tap into the many dimensions that thrive across over 21,000 difference-makers in our workplace.
