Software Engineer — Java Hireathon 2026, Track 1

Vassar Labs is hiring Java engineers across three experience tracks to build climate-technology platforms used by Indian state governments for areas such as flood early warning, reservoir operations, urban water supply and digital agriculture. Track 1 is for Software Engineers with 0–3 years of experience and focuses on building REST services, Java web applications, data stores, testing and clean, maintainable code.

Required Skills Core Java Java web framework SQL Basic NoSQL Git Linux Working SQL + at least one NoSQL database At least one stream-processing framework Hands-on self-hosted open-source infrastructure Java 8 / 11 / 17 / 21 Basic backend/platform/data engineering knowledge Preferred / Additional Skills REST API development ORM Message streaming Stream processing Containers Distributed systems Relational databases with geospatial extensions Document and wide-column databases In-memory caching Search engines Linux infrastructure Metrics and dashboards Python AI/ML services