Associate Engineer - Backend Development

Job Title -  Associate Engineer – Backend Development –Associate-  ACS Song 

Management Level: Level 12 – Associate

Location: Kochi

Must have skills: Java/Springboot

Good to have skills: Agile Project Management

Experience: 1-2 years of experience is required

Educational Qualification: Graduation (Accurate educational details should capture)

Job Summary

We are seeking a skilled and motivated Java/Spring Developer with 1–2 years of hands-on experience in designing, developing, and maintaining high-performance Java applications. The ideal candidate has a strong understanding of object-oriented programming, backend development, and modern software engineering best practices. You will be responsible for writing clean, scalable code, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and contributing to all phases of the software development lifecycle.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented Java code following team coding standards, good debugging skillset
• Collaborate on technical implementation, assist other developers and consult in implementation and development
• Demonstrate capability to effectively assimilate new skills and use of new technologies.
• Exceptional productivity and attention to product quality issues
• Be accountable to deliver the task to the agreed standards
• Adhere to development standards and architectural guidelines set by the Solution Design team
• Contribute to the development of eCommerce features and support integration with external systems under guidance.
• Continuously learn and keep up with new technologies relevant to the project and team.
• Demonstrate abilities to effectively communicate ideas and to mentor less experienced team members
• Proactively explore new tools and technologies and contribute ideas during discussions.
• Act as the key trouble-shooter in complex/escalated incidents
• Provide innovative ideas and solutions in an ever-changing environment with up-to-date knowledge regarding existing technologies.

Professional and Technical Skills:

• Strong development skills in Java 11 or above. 
• Should have strong acumen in Data Structures, Algorithms, problem-solving and Logical/Analytical skills.
• Hands-on experience with Spring, Spring Boot.
• Develop and maintain backend services and RESTful APIs using Spring Boot
• Hands-on experience with any of the logging frameworks (SLF4J/LogBack/Log4j)
• Experience writing Junit test cases using Mockito / Power Mock frameworks.
• Solid understanding of OOPS concepts and basic design principles such as SOLID and DRY.
• Sound understanding of concepts like Exception handling, Serialization/Deserialization and Immutability concepts, etc.
• Good fundamental knowledge in Enums, Collections, Annotations, Generics, Autoboxing, etc.
• Basic understanding of multi-threading concepts and familiarity with Java's Concurrent package, hands-on experience is a plus.
• Basic understanding of Java Memory Management (JMM) including garbage collections concepts.
• Experience in RDBMS or NoSQL databases and writing SQL queries 
• Hands-on experience in creating RESTful webservices and consuming webservices
• Familiar with CI/CD pipeline
• Good understanding of any of the cloud technologies.
• Hands-on experience in using code quality tools like SonarQube
• Experience with Code management tools.
• Basic awareness of caching concepts such as in-memory caching and hands-on experience is a plus.

Additional Information      

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