Technologies on-demand:

1. Java Spring Boot

2. Python Django

Skills on-demand:

1. Object-Oriented Programming
2. Problem Solving & DSA
3. System Design

Having any 3–4 in your projects will set you apart from other candidates:

1. Used Caching
2. Used Message Queues
3. Used Indexes in DB to optimize queries
4. Knows & Used SQL & NoSQL Databases
5. Having worked with some AWS services
6. Used any TimeSeries DB or/and performance monitoring tool
7. Working on microservices
8. Unit testing (JUnit and Mockito for Java Spring Boot) and Git
9. Version control system like GIT is a good skill to have.

Other skills:

1. Check 14 leadership principles by Amazon
2. Use the Star technique to explain anything
3. Clean & readable code
4. Good communication