Junior Spring Boot Developer – Ahmedabad (Thaltej, SG Highway)
A software development team based in Thaltej, off SG Highway in Ahmedabad, is hiring a Junior Spring Boot Developer for a full-time, on-site role. The position pays up to ₹41,000 a month and is open to candidates just starting out in professional development work.
No prior professional experience is required. It's an entry point into backend development, not a role that expects years of production experience.
Day-to-day
- Implement new features in existing applications based on requirements handed down from senior developers or product owners
- Debug and resolve technical issues that come up during development or after a feature ships
- Document your work so the next person picking up the code, whether that's a teammate or your future self, isn't starting from zero
- Participate in code reviews, both getting feedback on your own pull requests and reading through others'
Code review in particular tends to be where a junior developer learns fastest here. Getting a pull request sent back with comments isn't a sign something went badly; it's closer to how the team actually teaches its own conventions.
Most sprints start with a set of tickets already scoped out by a senior engineer or the team lead, so a junior developer isn't expected to define requirements from scratch in the first several months. The work leans more toward taking a well-defined feature request, working out the implementation details, and getting it through review than toward open-ended problem solving. That balance shifts over time as someone builds a track record, but it's a fair description of what the first stretch actually looks like.
What you'll need
A bachelor's degree is the baseline requirement, and it doesn't need to be in a narrowly defined field. What matters more is that a candidate can demonstrate real proficiency with the tools and languages this team actually uses day-to-day, since the interview process leans on practical questions over credential-checking.
Core skills
- Java, at a level comfortable enough to reason through logic without constant reference lookups
- Spring Boot, including how it handles dependency injection and application configuration
- Hibernate for ORM work and understanding how it maps objects to database tables
- Building and consuming REST APIs
- SQL, for writing and troubleshooting queries against a relational database
- Git, for everyday version control in a team setting
- Debugging skills that go beyond adding print statements and guessing
None of these need to be expert-level when you walk in. A candidate who's built a working Spring Boot application with a database behind it, even a small personal project rather than something used in production, usually demonstrates enough of these skills together to be worth a closer look.
Good to have
Exposure to Spring Security is useful, even if it's just from a college project or a personal build rather than production work. Some familiarity with Docker helps too, since a growing share of local development here happens inside containers. Candidates who've touched a CI/CD pipeline before, even briefly, will find the team's deployment process easier to pick up in the first few weeks.
Pay and benefits
The role pays up to ₹41,000 per month, which is a reasonable starting point for Spring Boot developer jobs for freshers in Ahmedabad, given the direct mentorship built into the position. Along with salary, the role includes:
- Health insurance coverage
- Paid time off
- Provident fund contributions
- On-site cafeteria access, along with cab or commute support for the daily trip in and out of Thaltej
In practice, commute support matters more than it might sound on paper. Traffic along SG Highway during peak hours can add a real chunk of time to a daily trip, so having a company-arranged option removes one of the more tedious parts of working on-site in this part of the city.
Working near SG Highway
The office sits in Thaltej, which has turned into a fairly active pocket for IT companies along SG Highway over the last several years. Naukri Mitra regularly carries other software development openings from this same stretch of Ahmedabad, and the commute patterns and office setups tend to look fairly similar: standard weekday hours, an in-office team, and a short walk or drive from most nearby residential areas.
The engineering team here is small enough that a junior developer works closely with two or three senior engineers rather than getting lost in a large org chart. That has real upsides for someone early in their career, since questions get answered directly instead of routed through several layers of process. It also means there's less room to coast quietly in the background; contributions and gaps both tend to get noticed fairly quickly. Onboarding runs about two weeks, mostly spent getting familiar with the existing codebase and shipping a couple of small, low-risk fixes before moving on to anything larger.
Who does well in this seat?
Recent graduates with strong Java fundamentals and some independent project work, even outside a formal internship, tend to do well here. So do candidates who interned elsewhere and are now looking for their first full-time seat. What matters most in the early months isn't how polished someone's code already is, but how quickly they ask for help when they're stuck instead of spending a full day silently circling the same bug. A candidate who flags a blocker within an hour and gets pointed in the right direction ends up further ahead by month three than one who quietly struggled through it alone.
How to apply
Submit a resume along with links to any personal projects or GitHub repositories that show real Spring Boot work, not just coursework. Candidates whose applications move ahead will complete a short coding exercise before the first conversation, which gives the team a clearer read on hands-on ability than a resume alone. From there, expect one technical round and a brief conversation with the hiring manager before a decision.
