Learning pathway · P-02
Backend Developer (Java)
Build, secure and run Java backend systems in production.
- Length
- 13–15 weeks
- Courses
- 6
- SkillLabs
- 10
- Mode
- Offline / Hybrid
- Fee
- On request
Where you can join
3 ways in, at Core Java, Spring Boot REST API or SQL & Database Design. Dates open shortly.
Tell us where you areThe route
How you get there
5 groups over 13–15 weeks, and 2 of them are places you can join. You leave each one able to do the thing it names, not having sat through it.
01 · Java Developer8 weeksJoin here
Ask about Core Java · Start at the beginning, with no Java behind you.
Ask about SQL & Database Design · Two days, if you would rather see how we teach before committing.
Write maintainable Java, work with Git as part of a team, and design and query relational databases confidently.
02 · Backend API Developer4 weeksJoin here
Ask about Spring Boot REST API · Join at the backend if you already write Java and know your Spring basics.
Build, secure and test production-style REST APIs backed by a real database: four one-week courses, three hours a day, and the testing lab to close.
03 · Distributed Systems Developer1 week
Design distributed services and build reliable synchronous and asynchronous communication between them.
04 · Production Backend Engineer
Run, containerise, troubleshoot, observe and optimise backend services in realistic environments.
05 · Cloud-Ready Backend Engineer
Deploy, operate and tune backend systems under real production conditions.
What you finish with
A deployed backend service with authentication, a real database, caching, messaging, a CI/CD pipeline and monitoring, running on a URL you can send to an interviewer.
What the cohort includes
- Cohort-paced structure with milestones, not a self-paced video library
- Code review on your own work, every sprint
- Graded capstone with individual feedback
- Verified Deesha certification
Who teaches this
Learn with experienced practitioners
All trainers and mentorsCourses on this pathway are taught by these practitioners. Each batch names its own trainer before you enrol.
Vishal Shah
Founder & Principal Trainer
Two decades building and teaching commerce, banking and cloud platforms, and still writing code
- Java & Spring Boot microservices
- TypeScript, React, Angular & Next.js
- Composable commerce (commercetools)
Shrenik Shah
Principal Trainer
Cloud and AI architect who has upskilled over 5,000 engineers in Java, React, Python and cloud
- Python: Django, Flask, GenAI & agentic workflows
- Java & Spring Boot
- React & Angular, micro-frontend architecture
Satish Mahajan
Expert Trainer (Java, Testing & Automation)
Seventeen years training enterprise engineering teams in Java, Python and test automation
- Core & advanced Java, Spring Boot
- Test automation: Selenium, Playwright, Cucumber
- JUnit 5, TestNG, Mockito, Rest Assured, Karate
Designed for
- Final-year engineering, BCA, BSc-CS and MCA students
- Freshers targeting service companies, GCCs and product firms
- Developers who write Java but have never operated what they built
About this pathway
Most backend courses stop at CRUD: a form that writes to a database. This one keeps going into the part employers actually ask about: what happens when the service is running and something goes wrong.
You finish with a deployed backend that has real authentication, a real database, caching, asynchronous messaging, a pipeline and monitoring. That is the boundary between a candidate who needs six months of hand-holding and one who is useful in week three.
Why this one goes further
Security, testing, messaging and observability are usually taught as afterthoughts, or not at all. Here security and the test suite close the API stage rather than trailing it, distribution gets a stage of its own, and the route ends in operations and cloud, because a backend that cannot be secured, watched or scaled is a prototype rather than a system.
Who this is for
You need to be able to write basic code in some language and commit around three hours a day for three to four months, with SkillLab weekends along the way. No Java experience required: the pathway starts from the language itself.
If you also want the frontend, look at Full-Stack Developer (Java), which contains this route and adds an interface to it.
Cohorts and fees
Cohorts start periodically and seat count is capped so that every capstone gets individually reviewed. Fees, instalment options and the next start date are on this page, or message us on WhatsApp and we will walk you through whether this pathway fits your situation.
Reserve a place
Tell us where you are now. We will confirm the intake, the fee and whether this route fits.
Your portfolio when you finish
Design, build, secure and test Java backend systems, distribute them across services, and deploy, observe and tune them in production.
- 01
A secured REST API with a real schema
Spring Boot service with validation, transactions, migrations and role-based access, backed by PostgreSQL.
- 02
An event-driven workflow
Producers, consumers, retries and dead letters: an asynchronous path you can reason about under failure.
- 03
A containerised, monitored service
Docker image, CI/CD pipeline, structured logs and metrics you can read when something breaks at 9pm.
- 04
A capstone running on a live URL
One backend you can send to an interviewer and talk through line by line.
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P-02 · 13–15 weeks
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