About this Associate Software Engineer (Backend) role at Weekday AI
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Experience: 1+ yrs
Location: Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India
Job Type: Full-time
We are looking for a motivated and technically strongย Software Engineerย with a solid foundation in computer science and hands-on software development experience. The role is suited for an engineer who enjoys solving complex problems, building products from the ground up, and taking ownership of technical outcomes.
The ideal candidate will have strong proficiency inย Java or Python, practical knowledge of software engineering fundamentals, and experience working with modern development workflows. You should also be comfortable usingย AI coding assistants and agentsย as part of everyday development while maintaining strong engineering judgement through careful review, testing, and validation.
Requirements
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test, debug, and maintain reliable software applications and services.
- Write clean, maintainable, and production-ready code usingย Java or Python.
- Apply strong knowledge ofย data structures, algorithms, object-oriented programming, databases, operating systems, and networking fundamentals.
- Participate in the complete software development lifecycle, including version control, code reviews, testing, deployment, and production support.
- Understand existing system architecture, components, design decisions, dependencies, and technical trade-offs.
- Translate product and technical requirements into scalable and maintainable software solutions.
- Useย AI coding assistants and development agentsย such as Claude Code, Cursor, or GitHub Copilot as part of daily engineering workflows.
- Break complex engineering tasks into well-defined steps and provide effective prompts and context to AI development tools.
- Thoroughly review, test, debug, and validate AI-generated code before integrating it into production systems.
- Develop backend services, APIs, data models, and application components.
- Contribute to technical design discussions and low-level design decisions involving classes, APIs, databases, and system components.
- Troubleshoot application issues, perform root-cause analysis, and implement sustainable fixes.
- Collaborate with Product, Engineering, QA, and other stakeholders to deliver user-focused solutions.
- Build features with consideration for real-world user workflows and product outcomes.
- Contribute to engineering standards, documentation, code quality, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Take ownership of assigned problems fromย understanding and design through implementation, testing, and deployment.
- Explore new technologies, development practices, and AI-assisted engineering approaches that can improve productivity and product quality.
What Makes You a Great Fit
- 1+ years of software development experience, preferably in a product company, startup, or technology services environment.
- Practical experience working with professional development workflows includingย Git/version control, code reviews, testing, and deployments.
- Strong computer science fundamentals coveringย data structures and algorithms, OOP, databases, operating systems, and networking.
- Strong proficiency inย Java or Python.
- Hands-on experience usingย AI coding assistants or agentsย such as Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, or similar tools.
- Ability to write effective prompts, break problems into agent-friendly tasks, and critically review and test AI-generated implementations.
- Strong understanding of the systems and projects you have worked on, including architecture, components, technologies, and design rationale.
- Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to clearly explain technical reasoning and implementation decisions.
- Good written and verbal communication skills.
- Strongย builder's mindset, curiosity, ownership, and comfort working in ambiguous environments.
- Product-oriented approach with an interest in understanding users, workflows, and real-world business outcomes.
- Demonstrated depth in previous roles or projects, with a willingness to stay long enough to develop meaningful technical expertise.
- Experience withย Spring Boot or FastAPIย is an advantage.
- Familiarity withย Redis, Kafka, or other caching and messaging technologiesย is desirable.
- Exposure toย Docker, CI/CD, AWS, or other cloud platformsย is a plus.
- Experience withย LLM APIs, simple AI agents, open-source projects, internships, or side projects used by real usersย is valuable.
- Competitive programming experience is an advantage.
- Exposure to frontend technologies such asย Reactย is a plus.
- Aย B.Tech/B.E. in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related disciplineย is preferred.