
Software Development Engineer
Bengaluru/Hyderabad/Gurgaon/Chennai
As a Software Development Engineer at Amazon, you have industry-leading technical abilities and demonstrate breadth and depth of knowledge. You build software to deliver business impact, making smart technology choices. You work in a team and drive things forward.
Top Skills
- You write high quality, maintainable, and robust code, often in Java or C++ or C#
- You recognize and adopt best practices in software engineering: design, testing, version control, documentation, build, deployment, and operations.
- You have experience building scalable software systems that are high-performance, highly-available, highly transactional, low latency and massively distributed.
Roles & Responsibilities
- You solve problems at their root, stepping back to understand the broader context.
- You develop pragmatic solutions and build flexible systems that balance engineering complexity and timely delivery, creating business impact.
- You understand a broad range of data structures and algorithms and apply them to deliver high-performing applications.
- You recognize and use design patterns to solve business problems.
- You understand how operating systems work, perform and scale.
- You continually align your work with Amazon’s business objectives and seek to deliver business value.
- You collaborate to ensure that decisions are based on the merit of the proposal, not the proposer.
- You proactively support knowledge-sharing and build good working relationships within the team and with others in Amazon.
- You communicate clearly with your team and with other groups and listen effectively.
Skills & Experience
- Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science or relevant technical field.
- Experience in software development and full product life-cycle.
- Excellent programming skills in any object oriented programming languages - preferably Java, C/C++/C#, Perl, Python, or Ruby.
- Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and designing for performance, scalability, and availability.
- Proficiency in SQL and data modeling.
About Amazon.com
“Many of the problems we face have no textbook solution, and so we-happily-invent new ones.” – Jeff Bezos
Amazon.com – a place where builders can build. We hire the world's brightest minds and offer them an environment in which they can invent and innovate to improve the experience for our customers. A Fortune 100 company based in Seattle, Washington, Amazon is the global leader in e-commerce. Amazon offers everything from books and electronics to apparel and diamond jewelry. We operate sites in Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, Spain, United Kingdom and United States, and maintain dozens of fulfillment centers around the world which encompass more than 26 million square feet.
Technological innovation drives the growth of Amazon, offering our customers more selection, convenient shopping, and low prices. Amazon Web Services provides developers and small to large businesses access to the horizontally scalable state of the art cloud infrastructure like S3, EC2, AMI, CloudFront and SimpleDB, that powers Amazon.com. Developers can build any type of business on Amazon Web Services and scale their application with growing business needs.
We want you to help share and shape our mission to be Earth's most customer-centric company. Amazon's evolution from Web site to e-commerce partner to development platform is driven by the spirit of invention that is part of our DNA. We do this every day by inventing elegant and simple solutions to complex technical and business problems. We're making history and the good news is that we've only just begun.
About Amazon India
Amazon teams in India work on complex business challenges to innovate and create efficient solutions that enable various Amazon businesses, including Amazon websites across the world as well as support Payments, Transportation, and Digital products and services like the Kindle family of tablets, e-readers and the store. We are proud to have some of the finest talent and strong leaders with proven experience working to make Amazon the Earth’s most customer-centric company.
We made our foray into the Indian market with the launch of Junglee.com, enabling retailers in India to advertise their products to millions of Indian shoppers and drive targeted traffic to their stores. In June 2013, we launched http://www.amazon.in">www.amazon.in for shoppers in India. With www.amazon.in, we endeavor to give customers more of what they want – low prices, vast selection, fast and reliable delivery, and a trusted and convenient online shopping experience. In just over a year of launching our India operations, we have expanded our offering to over 18 million products across 36 departments and 100s of categories! Our philosophy of working backwards from the customers is what drives our growth and success.
We will continue to strive to become a trusted and meaningful sales and logistics channel for retailers of all sizes across India and a fast, reliable and convenient online shopping destination for consumers. For us, it is always “Day 1” and we are committed to aggressively invest over the long-term and relentlessly focus on raising the bar for customer experience in India.
Amazon India offers opportunities where you can dive right in, work with smart people on challenging problems and make an impact that contributes to the lives of millions. Join us so you can - Work Hard, Have Fun and Make History.

About Amazon India
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Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. We are driven by the excitement of building technologies, inventing products, and providing services that change lives. We embrace new ways of doing things, make decisions quickly, and are not afraid to fail. We have the scope and capabilities of a large company, and the spirit and heart of a small one.
Together, Amazonians research and develop new technologies from Amazon Web Services to Alexa on behalf of our customers: shoppers, sellers, content creators, and developers around the world.
Our mission is to be Earth's most customer-centric company. Our actions, goals, projects, programs, and inventions begin and end with the customer top of mind.
You'll also hear us say that at Amazon, it's always "Day 1." What do we mean? That our approach remains the same as it was on Amazon's very first day - to make smart, fast decisions, stay nimble, invent, and focus on delighting our customers.
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Job Summary:
We are seeking a seasoned Java Backend Developer Lead to drive the design, development, and deployment of robust backend systems. This role requires hands-on coding expertise, architectural vision, and the ability to mentor and lead a team of developers in delivering high-performance, scalable applications.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the backend development team in designing and implementing microservices-based architectures using Java (preferably Java 11+).
- Architect and develop RESTful APIs and backend services using Spring Boot, Hibernate, and related frameworks.
- Collaborate with DevOps teams to streamline CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Docker, and Kubernetes.
- Ensure code quality through code reviews, unit testing (JUnit/TestNG), and integration testing.
- Optimize application performance and scalability through profiling and tuning.
- Guide team members in adopting best practices in software engineering, including Agile methodologies.
- Work closely with product managers, frontend developers, and QA teams to deliver end-to-end solutions.
- Maintain documentation and ensure knowledge sharing across the team.
Required Skills:
- Strong proficiency in Java, Spring Boot, and REST API development.
- Experience with relational databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB, Redis).
- Familiarity with messaging systems like Kafka or RabbitMQ.
- Solid understanding of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
- Experience with containerization and orchestration tools (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Excellent problem-solving, debugging, and analytical skills.
- Strong leadership and communication abilities.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
- 7+ years of backend development experience, with at least 2 years in a lead role.
- Exposure to security best practices and performance testing tools like JMeter.
We’re looking for a Java Backend Developer with strong experience in Spring Boot, AWS, and Microservices to join our growing team. If you're passionate about scalable backend systems and love working in a fast-paced environment, we want to hear from you!
What You’ll Bring:
- 4+ years of backend development experience
- Strong hands-on expertise in Core Java and Spring Boot
- Experience designing and developing Microservices architecture
- Solid working knowledge of AWS services
- Familiarity with RESTful APIs, version control (Git), and CI/CD
- Strong problem-solving and debugging skills
- Ability to work independently and in a collaborative team environment
- Immediate joiners are highly preferred
Required Experience
3 - 8 Years
Skills
Java/J2EE,
Spring,
microservices
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- Develop unit, integration, and functional tests within Grails/Java and contribute to new architectures design for multi-tier Java EE-based products in a SOA environment.
- Interact with Business Analysts to understand software build configuration and testing processes, documenting application functionality and programming accordingly.
- Collaborate with a talented software team to work on various types of applications, ensuring the building of backend APIs using Java-based technologies.
- Stay updated with the latest trends and technologies, conducting POCs on new technical stacks to support and maintain a portfolio of applications.
- Utilize core Java skills to define, design, develop, integrate, test, deploy, maintain, and troubleshoot applications and tools written in Java and other related languages.
- Provide technical expertise in Java development, including Spring, Hibernate, and building scalable solutions for large web application deployments.
- Participate in the full SDLC, from requirements and design to development, testing, and deployment, ensuring the implementation of best practices and industry-standard procedures.
- Possess hands-on experience with Java, J2EE, Spring Boot, microservices, and web services, while also demonstrating proficiency in writing enterprise-strength code and developing backend APIs.
- Work in an agile environment, supporting users by developing documentation and offering assistance with tools, while promoting established development standards and change control procedures.
About the Company
An Online platform for creators, influencers and celebrities to grow, manage and monetise their community. It is aimed at both established and aspiring online creators who want to pursue their passion. Our vision is to enable anyone and everyone to make a successful living doing what they enjoy.
Skills And Qualification: -
• Must have experience with any scripting language (JavaScript/NodeJS preferred)
• Experience with API-driven and highly scalable application is a plus
• Good knowledge of non-relational DB (MongoDB preferred)
• Good with data structures and algorithms
• Good to have an experience with testing framework and CI/CD pipeline
• 1 years of experience in software development preferably B2C experience.
• Basic understanding of Frontend and client-side frameworks like React, Angular, Vue will be plus.
• Experience in building scalable Restful APIs & Services
B.Tech./ BE - Computer, IT, Electronics only
Required Skills:
- 3+ year of experience in Development in JAVA technology and springboot
- Strong Java Basics
- SpringBoot or Spring MVC
- Hands on experience on Relational Databases (SQL query or Hibernate) + Mongo (JSON parsing)
- Proficient in REST API development
- Messaging Queue (RabitMQ or Kafka
- Any Caching Mechanism
- Good at problem solving
Good to Have Skills:
- 3+ years of experience in using Java/J2EE tech stacks
- Good understanding of data structures and algorithms.
- Excellent analytical and problem solving skills.
- Ability to work in a fast paced internet start-up environment.
- Experience in technical mentorship/coaching is highly desirable.
- Understanding of AI/ML algorithms is a plus.
If yes! then join us @ Equal Experts.
Equal Experts does not work on support & maintenance projects.
It creates enterprise software applications & products for its global clients from scratch.
Things you will NOT get at Equal Experts:
Fancy designation - You will be called a Software Engineer here, regardless of your experience or expertise.
▪ Projects in only 1 language - Today you might code in Java, tomorrow in
Groovy, the day after in Scala... :-). At Equal Experts, we work on diverse tech stacks, and you simply have to be a polyglot.
▪ "Management" role - We don't hire dedicated PMs, IMs, DMs ...or any other Ms out there.
▪ If you are part of Equal Experts, you are a techie who will code every day.
Here's what else you can look forward to:
▪ Freedom - Freedom to explore new technologies & implement them on
projects.
▪ Responsibility & ownership - Writing elegant code every day. Taking design & architectural decisions.
▪ Agile expertise - TDD, BDD, XP practices. Working with experts & thoughtleaders in Agile.
▪ Cutting edge - Work on Ruby, Scala, Hadoop, MongoDB, Neo4j, Groovy,
J2EE, iOS 6, Angular JS, Cucumber and the likes.
▪ Consulting exposure - Interact with clients every day. Travel onsite
frequently.
▪ Open culture - No hierarchy. No cubicles. No formal dress codes.
Here's what you must possess:
Exceptional OOP skills - Solid, Grasp, Kiss and Dry should mean more than words to you. Your daily code must be clean, simple, modular, extensible, and always thoroughly unit tested.
▪ Conceptual understanding of whatever you've worked on - We're more
interested in knowing how & why you used a particular technology/approach to solve a problem. Definitions and theory don't interest us that much.
▪ Decision-making experience - We need you to start new projects from scratch.
Accordingly, you must have the experience of taking design decisions &
influencing architecture on projects
Work on the development backend systems for our first product
Build reliable, secure and performant backend systems
Drive test coverage and continuous delivery automation within the team
Requirements
3-5 years of software development experience
Strong computer science fundamentals
Good knowledge of Java ecosystem
Can write code that is readable, maintainable and performant
Good understanding of relational databases, transactions, entity-relationship modeling
Comfortable writing multi-threaded programs
Desired Skills and Experience
Java,J2EE,Spring,Struts
Skills required are Java, microservice,Spring boot, and knowledge of AWS.
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