Junior Software Engineer 1 - TS, India

Your Journey at Crowe Starts Here:

At Crowe, you can build a meaningful and rewarding career. With real flexibility to balance work with life moments, you’re trusted to deliver results and make an impact. We embrace you for who you are, care for your well-being, and nurture your career. Everyone has equitable access to opportunities for career growth and leadership. Over our 80-year history, delivering excellent service through innovation has been a core part of our DNA across our audit, tax, and consulting groups. That’s why we continuously invest in innovative ideas, such as AI-enabled insights and technology-powered solutions, to enhance our services. Join us at Crowe and embark on a career where you can help shape the future of our industry.

Job Description:

The Junior Software Engineer Analyst is an early-career role within an Agile product or application engineering team. The role develops, tests, debugs, documents, and maintains software by completing assigned stories, tasks, defects, and technical activities under experienced engineering leadership.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain software features based on assigned user stories and technical specifications.
• Write readable, reusable, secure, maintainable, and appropriately documented code.
• Apply object-oriented programming, coding standards, design principles, and approved patterns.
• Develop backend services, APIs, user interfaces, automation components, or data-processing functions based on project needs.
• Write and execute unit tests and support integration, regression, and user acceptance testing.
• Investigate and resolve defects with guidance from senior team members.
• Use debugging, logging, and monitoring tools to understand application behavior.
• Participate in code reviews and incorporate review feedback.
• Use Git-based workflows for source control and team collaboration.
• Participate in sprint planning, stand-ups, backlog refinement, demonstrations, and retrospectives.
• Maintain technical documentation, code comments, test evidence, and work-item updates.
• Follow secure development, data protection, accessibility, and performance practices.
• Understand the broader impact of code changes on modules, interfaces, data, and users.
• Seek assistance promptly when blocked and communicate progress, dependencies, and risks clearly.

Essential Job Functions

Software Development

• Complete small development tasks, defects, and user stories.
• Develop basic backend, frontend, API, database, or automation components.
• Follow coding, naming, documentation, repository, and definition-of-done standards.

Quality Engineering

• Write unit tests and participate in integration and regression testing.
• Reproduce and remediate defects.
• Validate functionality against acceptance criteria.

Collaboration and Delivery

• Estimate assigned tasks with guidance.
• Maintain accurate work-item status.
• Participate in peer reviews, demonstrations, and knowledge sharing.

Security and Operations

• Apply secure coding and responsible data-handling practices.
• Use logging and monitoring to support troubleshooting.
• Assist with build, deployment, release, and production-support activities.

Required Qualifications and Skills

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• 0 to 2 years of relevant experience, including internships, academic projects, hackathons, or personal software projects.
• Programming knowledge in Python, C#, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, or a similar language.
• Strong understanding of object-oriented programming fundamentals.
• Basic knowledge of data structures, algorithms, databases, web technologies, testing, debugging, and version control.
• Familiarity with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and an application-development framework.
• Strong communication, teamwork, analytical thinking, problem-solving, and learning agility.

Preferred Skills

• Exposure to .NET, Python, React, Angular, Node.js, or another modern development stack.
• Familiarity with SQL Server, PostgreSQL, or another relational database.
• Exposure to Microsoft Azure and cloud application development.
• Familiarity with REST APIs, JSON, authentication, and authorization.
• Exposure to GitHub, Azure DevOps, CI/CD, Docker, or Kubernetes.
• Understanding of design patterns, SOLID principles, clean code, and layered architecture.
• Exposure to Generative AI coding assistants and responsible AI-assisted development practices.

We expect the candidate to uphold Crowe’s values of Care, Trust, Courage, and Stewardship. These values define who we are. We expect all of our people to act ethically and with integrity at all times.

Our Benefits:
At Crowe, we know that great people are what makes a great firm. We value our people and offer employees a comprehensive benefits package. Learn more about what working at Crowe can mean for you!

How You Can Grow:
We will nurture your talent in an inclusive culture that values diversity. You will have the chance to meet on a consistent basis with your Career Coach that will guide you in your career goals and aspirations. Learn more about where talent can prosper!

More about Crowe:

Crowe Capability Center – India, operating under the legal entity C3 India Delivery Centre LLP (formerly known as Crowe Horwath IT Services LLP) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Crowe LLP (U.S.A.), a public accounting, consulting and technology firm with offices around the world. Crowe LLP is an independent member firm of Crowe Global, one of the largest global accounting networks in the world. The network consists of more than 200 independent accounting and advisory firms in more than 130 countries around the world.

Crowe does not accept unsolicited candidates, referrals or resumes from any staffing agency, recruiting service, sourcing entity or any other third-party paid service at any time. Any referrals, resumes or candidates submitted to Crowe, or any employee or owner of Crowe without a pre-existing agreement signed by both parties covering the submission will be considered the property of Crowe, and free of charge.

We are committed to a merit-based hiring process, evaluating all candidates consistently using objective, job-related criteria such as relevant experience, demonstrated skills, measurable impact, and alignment with the role’s responsibilities, and making employment decisions in a fair and inclusive manner free from discrimination.