Cornerstone

Overview

We are hiring an Associate Software Engineer to join Cornerstone's team in Pune. You will work on building and supporting scalable backend services, data integrations, and cloud-native applications across Cornerstone.

About Cornerstone

At Cornerstone, we believe in AI that works in the service of people, amplifying their judgment to drive high-performing, future-ready organizations forward. Cornerstone Workforce AI, the intelligence platform for workforce readiness, brings together workforce and labor market data into a proprietary Cornerstone People Graph, translating signals in

Requirements & Eligibility

• 0–2 years of relevant software development experience, including internships or project experience.
• Good programming fundamentals and proficiency in Java.
• Working knowledge of Java 8+, including object-oriented programming, collections, exception handling, streams and lambda expressions, and multithreading/concurrency fundamentals.
• Basic to intermediate knowledge of Spring Boot and REST API development.
• Understanding of microservices architecture and common service-to-service communication patterns.
• Hands-on or academic/project experience with AWS services, preferably DynamoDB, S3, SQS, SNS, Kinesis, Lambda, or EC2.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain backend services and APIs using Java and Spring Boot.
• Build scalable and maintainable REST APIs and microservices following established engineering standards.
• Work with AWS services such as DynamoDB, S3, SQS, SNS, Kinesis, Lambda, and EC2.
• Build data integrations and event-driven workflows.
• Write clean, readable, testable, and well-documented production code.