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Posted 10 Aug 2026

Software Engineering Mentor

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Employment
Full time
Team
Instructors Department
Posted
10 Aug 2026

About the role

Job Description About the Role

We are looking for a Software Engineering Mentor who can guide students in building real, end-to-end projects and becoming industry-ready professionals. This is primarily a mentoring and technical guidance role — you'll spend most of your time coaching, reviewing, and unblocking students. Alongside this, you'll build quick proof-of-concepts (PoCs) and prototypes — for internal ideas, teaching demonstrations, or emerging tools — rather than owning full production development.

Key Responsibilities 1. Student Mentoring & Technical Guidance (Primary Focus)
  • Guide students in building end-to-end projects using modern software development practices.

  • Conduct technical mentoring sessions, project reviews, and mock interviews to help students improve their coding, problem-solving, and communication skills.

  • Provide structured technical guidance that enables students to become industry-ready software professionals.

  • Help students strengthen their logical thinking, debugging abilities, and engineering mindset through practical learning.

  • Monitor student progress, identify learning gaps, and recommend personalized improvement strategies.

2. Proof-of-Concept & Prototype Development (Supporting Focus)
  • Build quick proof-of-concepts, prototypes, and demos to illustrate ideas, evaluate feasibility, or support teaching — not full production builds.

  • Leverage modern AI-assisted development platforms to rapidly prototype and validate concepts.

  • Translate ideas and operational challenges into small working demonstrations that communicate the art of the possible.

  • Use these PoCs as living teaching material to show students how real-world engineering decisions are made.

3. Events & Cross-Team Collaboration
  • Support the planning and execution of hackathons, AI summits, workshops, and coding competitions.

  • Collaborate with placement and academic teams to understand evolving industry expectations and help students align with current hiring standards.

  • Contribute to technical documentation, learning resources, internal knowledge sharing, and engineering best practices.

  • Continuously explore emerging technologies, AI tools, automation platforms, and innovative development practices to bring fresh, relevant examples into mentorship.

What We're Looking For
  • Strong curiosity and enjoys solving meaningful technical problems.

  • Loves learning, building, and experimenting with emerging technologies.

  • Thinks beyond assigned tasks and proactively identifies opportunities for improvement.

  • Enjoys collaborating with people and communicating technical ideas clearly.

  • Growth mindset with a habit of continuous self-learning.

  • Comfortable taking ownership and delivering high-quality outcomes.

  • Enjoys mentoring others and celebrating their success.

  • Believes technology should simplify processes and create meaningful impact.

  • Thrives in a fast-paced, innovation-driven environment.

Technical Skills

Candidates should possess a solid understanding of software development fundamentals, logical thinking, and problem-solving skills, along with a willingness to continuously learn emerging technologies.

Exposure to one or more of the following technology domains will be considered an advantage:

  • MERN Stack Development

  • Full-Stack Web Development

  • Java Full-Stack Development

  • Front-End Development

  • Back-End Development

  • AI-Assisted Software Development

  • Generative AI & Prompt Engineering

  • Workflow Automation & Low-Code/No-Code Platforms

  • REST API Development

  • Database Design & Management

  • Version Control & Collaborative Development

  • Cloud Platforms & Application Deployment

Career Progression

You'll receive structured guidance, work on real organizational initiatives, collaborate with cross-functional teams, gain hands-on experience solving practical challenges, and gradually take ownership of meaningful responsibilities.

High-performing who demonstrate strong technical capability, problem-solving skills, ownership, communication, collaboration, and cultural alignment will be considered for full-time employment opportunities at NIAT.

Selection Process
  1. Assessment

  2. Technical Round 

  3. Technical & Communication Interview

Job Type:

  • full-time — full-time (4.5 LPA)  - 4.0 + 0.5 LPA

  • Location:PAN India

  • Experience Level:(Freshers)

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