Associate Software Engineer

About the Role

In this role, you will contribute to the design, development, testing, and delivery of scalable, secure, and user-centered software solutions. You will work closely with product managers, business stakeholders, architects, data scientists, quality engineers, and experienced software engineers to deliver small, independently demonstrable increments while developing strong engineering skills. This role will leverage AI-assisted development practices.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain applications, services, APIs, and user interfaces under the guidance of experienced engineers.
• Translate defined requirements and technical designs into clean, maintainable, and testable software.
• Contribute to backend services using Java, Spring Boot, or comparable technologies.
• Contribute to modern web applications using React, TypeScript, JavaScript, or comparable frontend technologies.
• Develop and consume REST APIs and support event-driven integrations.
• Work with relational databases such as PostgreSQL and apply basic data-modeling and query-development practices.
• Write and maintain unit, integration, API, and end-to-end tests.
• Participate in debugging, code reviews, technical discussions, backlog refinement, demonstrations, and continuous-improvement activities.
• Contribute to application security, accessibility, observability, performance, scalability, and operational readiness.
• Use AI-assisted development tools responsibly and validate generated code with guidance from experienced engineers.
• Follow repository guidance, coding standards, testing expectations, technical documentation, and Software Factory development practices.
• Ask questions, seek feedback, share knowledge, and collaborate respectfully while demonstrating ownership, accountability, attention to detail, and a willingness to learn.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Java or another object-oriented programming language
• React, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML, or CSS
• REST APIs
• Relational databases
• Source-control systems such as Git
• Basic application security and secure-coding practices
• PostgreSQL

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• 0 to two years of professional software engineering experience, including internships, co-ops, or relevant project experience.
• Foundational knowledge of software development principles, object-oriented programming, data structures, and algorithms.
• Understanding of software testing and the importance of writing maintainable and reliable code.
• Ability to deliver work incrementally through small, independently testable units.
• Ability to work effectively with product, architecture, data, quality engineering, and business stakeholders.
• Strong communication, problem-solving, collaboration, attention-to-detail, and customer-focus skills.
• Demonstrated ownership, accountability, integrity, commitment to inclusion, and willingness to receive feedback and continuously improve.