
Senior Software Engineer - Backend: Innovation Accelerator
Cloudera is looking for a passionate Backend Software Engineer to play a key role in advancing Cloudera’s database offerings across multiple cloud providers. Since its origin, Cloudera has enabled several enterprise organizations to effectively manage and use their data using the on-premise infrastructure. We are now building software solutions that enable our customers to leverage cloud infrastructure to facilitate their growing data needs, and thereby accelerating Cloudera’s next stage of growth.
At Cloudera, our culture, our ethos, is centered on our values. We're here not only because we're experts at what we do, but also because we hold these values in common.
We are always moving forward. We believe in open. We are empathetic. We believe in We.
The Team
The team is a new and growing Innovation Accelerator that is exploring new ideas to expand the business. As part of the team, you will work on innovative projects that are fast paced and iterate quickly. You will learn about the modern data stack ecosystem. You will also be involved in every stage of the project - from ideation to delivering products and features to customers. Cloudera customers include the largest banks, telecom providers, and companies in pharma, financial services, retail, manufacturing, oil and gas and government.
You will:
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Build robust and scalable data infrastructure software
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Design and create services and system architecture for your projects
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Contribute to and provide feedback to other team members
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Improve code quality through writing unit tests, automation, and code reviews
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Brainstorm and contribute ideas to our technology, algorithms and products
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Work with product, design, customer-success teams to understand end-user requirements, formulate use cases, and translate those into effective technical solutions
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Dive into challenging technical problems and successfully deliver results
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And since we believe in high quality software engineering environments, you likely have:
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Worked with a team of designers/engineers who reviewed each other's code/designs and held each other to an extremely high bar for quality of code/designs
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Be comfortable providing estimates and sticking to estimates!
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Written unit tests and testable code
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Depended on continuous integration, and participated in build and release processes
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Own the quality of the code you wrote even (especially!) when it is running in production
You have:
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Bachelor's/Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field/experience
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5+ years of experience building software
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Experience building distributed systems/databases
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Experience with one or more of the following:
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Nodejs, Python, java
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Cloud services like Amazon Web Services, Google Compute Platform, Microsoft Azure
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Kubernetes
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Overall: 4 to 8 Years
Location: Chennai
Notice: Immediate to short joiners
Job Description:
We are looking for a skilled and enthusiastic Java Developer to join our team in Chennai. The ideal candidate should have strong hands-on experience in Java development with a focus on backend frameworks such as Spring Boot and Hibernate. If you’re passionate about clean code, scalable applications, and delivering robust software solutions—this is the role for you.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, test, and maintain backend applications using Java, Spring Boot, and Hibernate.
- Write efficient, scalable, and reusable code.
- Participate in design discussions, code reviews, and deliver high-quality software.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.
- Troubleshoot, debug, and upgrade existing systems.
- Ensure best practices in software development and Agile methodologies.
Required Skills:
- Strong proficiency in Core Java (Java 8 or above).
- Hands-on experience with Spring Boot and Hibernate.
- Proficient in working with RESTful APIs and Web Services.
- Experience with SQL and relational databases (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL).
- Familiarity with version control tools like Git.
- Knowledge of software development lifecycle and Agile practices.
Experience of atleast 9 + years in developing Java Solutions and Architecture
Mandatory Experience of working on AWS, Microservices architecture, Dockers, Kubernetes
Experience in creating architecture for Cloud Applications in AWS
Should have worked on large scale Saas application for atleast 3 years
Knowledge and experience in any of the following
Javascript, AngularJS, Python, Ruby, PHP
Driving DevOps best practices by using Docker, Kubernetes.
Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills
Location Chennai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad,
- Compile and analyze data, processes, and codes to troubleshoot problems and identify areas for improvement
- Collaborating with the front-end developers and other team members to establish objectives and design more functional, cohesive codes to enhance the user experience
- Developing ideas for new programs, products, or features by monitoring industry developments and trends
- Recording data and reporting it to proper parties, such as clients or
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leadership
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- Participating in continuing education and training to remain current on best practices, learn new programming languages, and better assist other team members
- Taking lead on projects, as
The ideal candidate should be a self-motivated, multi-tasker, and demonstrated team player. You will be responsible for the production support of software products and coordinating with various teams for support. You should have outstanding communication and Team-Player skills.
Educational Qualification: BCA, MCA or BE/B.Tech (CS)
Must-know technologies: Java,
Good to know technologies: DMN tools
Experience: 02 Years - 05 Years
Skill Level: Good
Responsibilities:
- Contribute to Java development work as well as the latest Decision model and notation tools
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Comply with coding standards and directions given by his direct manager Collaborate with an international and diverse team of Data Architects, Business Analysts, and Project Managers
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Tasks will be assigned and after completion, code need to be committed and task assigned for review by Senior Java developer
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Work with technology stakeholders to devise solutions that will fulfill business requirements and meet organizational strategic goals
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Develop application functionality which meets business requirements with high quality within given deadlines - develop maintainable, well-documented application functionality with an eye toward standardization, common components, simplicity, performance, robustness and other attributes of enterprise-strength solutions
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Thoroughly test all functionality - utilize detailed and thorough practices including negative testing, testing of boundary conditions, , and work collaboratively with business areas.
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Support interfaces between the deployment of developed applications and the decommissioning of legacy applications
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Support with the Development and Infrastructure Teams
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Design, and develop scalable, high-performance, highly reliable and secure applications using waterfall and agile methodologies
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Create reusable code
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While this is an individual contributor role, you’ll be involved in many aspects– helping evolve our existing architecture, working with the team to improve operations, and implementing new features and functionality.
The job involves the following responsibilities:
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Build robust and scalable software in Nodejs
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Design and create services and system architecture for your projects, and contribute and
provide feedback to other team members
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Help improve our code quality through writing unit tests, automation, and performing
code reviews
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Participate in brainstorming sessions and contribute ideas to our technology, algorithms,
and products
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Work with the product and design teams to understand end-user requirements, formulate
use cases, and then translate that into a pragmatic and effective technical solution
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Dive into difficult problems and successfully deliver results on schedule
Essential Requirements:
- 5+ years of Software development experience
- Hands on development experience using Java technology stack with focus on architecture and design.
- Hands-on in Java Programming, J2EE, Spring or SpringBoot, Hibernate, RestAPI, Data Structures, Design Patterns, Oracle Database, PL/SQL
- Experience in application servers with prime focus on Tomcat.
- Experience in messaging systems such as RabbitMQ.
- Experience working in Linux/Unix environments. Must be hands on with Object Oriented concepts along with passion for design patterns and applicability.
- Relevant experience in Java frameworks like Spring Microservices, Spring-Boot, Hibernate, JPA etc.
- Understanding of developer testing practices and the differences between unit, functional, and system tests,
- Should have working experience in a CI/CD environment where build & test is automated.
- Should have working experience in tools like Maven, Jenkins, Bamboo etc.
- Should have used testing Frameworks such as JUnit, Selenium
- Ability to quickly learn and apply new concepts or principles
- Ability to work effectively as part of global team
- Experience working in an agile environment.
- Experience in Azure and AWS Development and Deployment, Active Directory, Containerization.
Immedite joining/Notice period upto 30 days
WFH till the end of Pendimic
Gurgaon Location
Roles & Responsibilities:
● Invent, design and build software that is stable and performant
● Primary role will be quality and timely delivery of the application/ feature/ module your team
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● Adopt and execute good design philosophy and code writing practices
● Ensure the code goes through rigorous tests and quality checks before deployment
● Work with other software engineers and database engineers to set excellent development
practices and deliver innovative changes in new and existing products
● Be hands-on technical, thus, leading by example using web, mobile and database
technologies
● Work on project ideas with customers, stakeholders and peers
● Be actively involved in code review process, design discussions, team planning
Minimum Qualifications:
● Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical
discipline
● 5-7 Years of Experience
● Expertise in software design and development
● Proficiency with at least one Object Oriented language (e.g. Java)
● Have knowledge about Computer Science fundamentals in object-oriented design, data
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● A strong track record of project delivery for large, cross-functional projects
● Experience with building high-performance, highly available and scalable distributed systems
● Experience with API Design, ability to architect and implement an intuitive customer and
third-party integration story
● Ability to think and analyse both breadthwise (client, server, DB, control flow) and depth-wise
(threads, sessions, space-time complexity) while designing and implementing services
- Java, J2EE
- Microservices
- Spring Boot
- JPA, REST API, JSON, JWT, OAuth, Spring Security, Swagger
- Oracle / MySQL / Postgres DB
- Angular / React / React Native
- JIRA, Bitbucket
Must-Have -
- Excellent knowledge of Core Java and Spring
- Strong experience in REST API and web services
- Experience in Oracle / Mysql / Postgres DB
- Should be efficient with Java J2EE and related technologies
- Should have very good communication skills and analytical skills.
- Should have good knowledge in Software Development Life Cycle and Agile methodologies.
- Good knowledge of current / emerging technologies and trends
- Good analytical and problem-solving skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills. High levels of initiative and creativity
- Good communication skills with all stakeholders, good team player with the ability to mentor juniors
Good to Have:
- Knowledge in Banking Domain
- Full-stack developers with knowledge and understanding of Javascript and associated technologies like React, Angular, HTML5, CSS will have an advantage.

· 4+ years in a software engineering role
· You want to work in a highly collaborative environment: we believe a team can be stronger than its individual parts
· Are independent and curious
· Are comfortable owning features from design through delivery to production
· Have experience with one or more modern programming languages
· Are willing to dive into a large code base and contribute immediately
· Enjoy writing code that is understandable, maintainable, and testable
· Collaborative and Communicative - you love being part of a diverse team, building consensus, and establishing credibility.
You are a Class-A communicator: curious, thoughtful, clear, and (mostly) correct.
· BA/BS degree from top institution; MBA or CompSci degree preferred but not required.
1 Bachelor’s / Masters’ degree from a reputed university
2 Technical certifications in Java is a good to have. Other programming certifications and
experience e.g., Python or C# is a plus.
3 Years of experience: 4-7 years for Senior Developer and 0-3 years for Developer
Technical Competencies
1 Hands on experience in writing software applications, in particular server side and backend
applications. Web development expertise is a plus.
2 Software development expertise
• Server technologies – Java based application development. Familiarity with various
Java based development frameworks. Spring development experience is a plus.
• Database technologies - Knowledge and familiarity with SQL. Experience with MySQL
as well as NoSQL databases such as MongoDB is a plus.
• Cloud technologies – Experience in building applications on cloud platforms,
especially on MS Azure, including familiarity with Cloud APIs, is a plus.
• Web technologies – Experience building web applications with JavaScript, CSS,
HTML, and expertise with frameworks such as Angular, Express, Node and others
3 Experience in agile software development and development in sprints






