Database Engineer

StarApps Studio is a product-driven SaaS company building Shopify apps that power thousands of online stores. We’ve developed 6 highly-rated Shopify apps (averaging 4.9★) used by 30,000+ Shopify merchants worldwide, including over 1,000 Shopify Plus stores. In just a few years, our bootstrapped team grew from $5.5M to $10M in Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) by obsessing over quality and merchant success. We’re a tight-knit, 20-person team based in Baner, Pune, on a mission to help e-commerce brands create world-class shopping experiences.

Role Overview

We are looking for a Full Stack Developer who will own features end-to-end with an emphasis on backend excellence. In this role, you will design and optimize complex data models and API architectures in Ruby on Rails, implement robust background job queues (e.g. delayed_job) for heavy workloads, and perform rigorous performance tuning to ensure our systems scale. On the frontend, you'll build and integrate React components to deliver complete, user-friendly features. This is a role for someone who loves tackling deep technical challenges in the backend while also crafting intuitive user interfaces – an opportunity to leverage your backend expertise while driving full-stack product ownership.

Key Responsibilities

• Architect & Optimize Backend: Design scalable database schemas and efficient data models. Develop high-performance RESTful APIs and services in Ruby on Rails, ensuring clean, maintainable code and great performance.
• Backend API Development: Design, implement, and maintain robust backend services and RESTful APIs in Ruby on Rails to support new features and internal tools.
• End-to-End Performance Tuning: Optimize application performance across the stack – from minimizing frontend load times to improving backend query efficiency – for our high-traffic, data-intensive apps.
• Collaboration & Agile Delivery: Work closely with designers, product managers, and QA to translate requirements into technical solutions. Participate in sprint planning, code reviews, and daily deployments to ship features continuously and reliably.
• Quality & Maintenance: Write clean, maintainable code with appropriate test coverage (unit and integration tests) to ensure reliability. Monitor, debug, and resolve issues in production, and continually refactor and improve existing code for stability and performance

What We’re Looking For (Requirements)

• 4–8 Years Experience: Proven experience as a software developer in a product company (experience in e-commerce or SaaS is highly preferred). You have built real products used by actual customers at scale.
• Ruby on Rails Expertise: Strong command of Ruby on Rails. Experience designing RESTful APIs, working with MVC architecture, and using Rails best practices. You should understand how to structure large Rails applications for maintainability.
• Backend Proficiency: Comfortable building server-side applications and APIs with Ruby on Rails. You can implement business logic, integrate with databases, and create RESTful endpoints (bonus if you’ve worked with GraphQL or other backend frameworks).
• Database Skills: Proficiency with PostgreSQL (or similar RDBMS). Capable of writing complex SQL queries, optimizing queries/indexes, and designing efficient relational schemas. Familiarity with Redis or caching strategies is a plus.
• Front-End Proficiency: Comfortable building user interfaces with React and modern JavaScript/TypeScript. Able to implement frontend components that consume APIs and provide a smooth user experience.
• System Design & Quality: Solid understanding of web application architecture, performance tuning, and scalability concerns. Experience with profiling, benchmarking, and optimizing web applications. Commitment to writing clean, maintainable code with proper tests.
• Product Mindset: You care about the why behind the features. You are comfortable digging into requirements, questioning assumptions, and ensuring that we build solutions that truly solve merchant problems.
• Adaptability & Collaboration: Excellent problem-solving skills, communication, and ability to work in a fast-paced, collaborative environment. You are a self-starter who can take ownership of tasks and drive them to completion, but also know when to ask for help.

Tech Stack

• Frontend: React, TypeScript/JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3 (Tailwind/Bootstrap), modern build tools (Webpack, Babel).
• Backend: Ruby on Rails (REST APIs, background jobs), some services in Python.
• Database: PostgreSQL.
• Cloud & DevOps: Amazon Web Services (EC2, S3, RDS, CloudFront), Docker, CI/CD for daily deployments.
• Tools: Git (GitHub), Agile issue tracking (JIRA/Trello), and a keen use of automated testing.

(Don’t worry if you aren’t familiar with every item – we value willingness to learn. This is our current stack, and we continually adopt new technologies that improve our products.)

Why Join Us

• High Impact & Ownership: Your work will directly enhance the shopping experience of 50M+ shoppers daily. At StarApps, developers deploy code daily and see the immediate impact on thousands of merchants – you’ll own projects end-to-end and build features that matter.
• Fast-Growing, Profitable Startup: Join a bootstrapped, profitable company on an exciting growth trajectory (from $4M to $10M ARR). There’s no bureaucracy here – just a passionate team obsessed with product quality and merchant happiness. You’ll be part of our core team as we scale, with ample opportunities to grow into leadership roles.
• Cutting-Edge Tech & Challenges: Work with modern technologies (React, Rails, AWS) on performance-intensive applications. Tackle complex challenges in scaling, optimization, and UX for a global user base – continuously sharpen your skills in a supportive, learning-focused environment.
• Collaborative Culture: We are a small 25-person team that operates like a close-knit family. You’ll work side by side with experienced founders and a talented team that values innovation, humility, and continuous improvement. Our culture is open, empathetic, and growth-oriented – every voice is heard, and every team member plays a crucial role in our success.

Growth & Benefits: We invest in our team’s growth. Expect a competitive salary, performance bonuses, and whatever tools you need to do your best work. We sponsor professional development (courses, conferences, books) and encourage knowledge-sharing. You’ll enjoy a flexible leave policy, team off-sites, and the excitement of building a global product from our new office in Baner, Pune.

Role & Responsibilities

Head and manage work intake and overall design project assignment process.

Interpreting abstract business concepts and turning them into creative ideas.

Head and direct team providing key ideas, methods and brand positioning.

Developing strategic design plans with projected timelines.

Pitching ideas and the creative vision and communicating the project outline to the design team.

Choosing the design elements for different projects.

Overseeing the design projects, from start to finish, and monitoring the team members.

Analyzing market research to create more effective designs.

Ideal Candidate

A minimum 8 years of managerial or senior-level design experience.

Strong creativity skills and the vision to turn briefs into creative projects.

Excellent leadership, organization, and analytical skills.

Good collaboration and communication skills.

Great time management and multitasking skills.

Ability to resolve complex design and communication issues.

Ability and experience of having led a team and deliver projects on timelines.

We are seeking an exceptional Lead Shopify Developer to join our incredible team. You'll be a critical participant in projects working closely with designers, performance managers, our creative team, and the Technical Director. To optimize our Shopify Plus store. Fluency in HTML5 and JavaScript, experience with custom theme development, Shopify Plus experience, and familiarity with Next and React are essential. The ideal candidate would also be expected to help manage core Shopify platform integrations such as Klavyio, Zendesk, and other vital Shopify applications.

Qualifications:

Strong proficiency in Shopify Plus and Shopify Scripts

Experience with custom theme development for Shopify Plus (advanced customer fields experience)

Fluency in HTML5, CSS, JavaScript/jQuery Experience with Shopify app integrations (integrating third-party APIs)

Familiarity with Github

Strong understanding of SEO and web development Experience with Server and DNS management Understanding cross-browser compatibility problems and the ability to offer solutions

Experience with user testing and usability analysis

Familiarity with UX/UI concepts and best practices

Responsibilities:

Actively involved in all phases of the site development

Manage our Shopify Plus store Work with the marking team to create landing pages Change website content to improve the customer journey Help manage third-party integrations and applications Optimize page load times Resolve cross-browser issues (troubleshooting server and site issues)

Familiarity with design software such as Photoshop to customize visuals and media on sites Attend group meetings and offer recommendations to improve the optimization of customer journey and conversion

Communicate regularly with team members through channels such as Slack and Asana 

Job Summary:

The Sales Executive/Manager in the manufacturing sector is responsible for generating sales, developing client relationships, and expanding market presence. The role involves identifying business opportunities, negotiating deals, and ensuring customer satisfaction.

Key Responsibilities:

 Identify and develop new business opportunities in the manufacturing sector.

 Build and maintain strong relationships with existing and potential clients.

 Understand customer requirements and provide tailored solutions.

 Prepare and deliver compelling sales presentations and proposals.

 Negotiate pricing, contracts, and payment terms to close deals.

 Collaborate with internal teams (production, logistics, finance) to ensure smooth order fulfilment.

 Monitor market trends, competitor activities, and industry developments.

 Achieve sales targets and contribute to overall business growth.

 Maintain accurate sales records, reports, and customer data.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

 Bachelor’s degree in business, Marketing, Engineering, or a related field.

 Proven experience in sales within the manufacturing industry.

 Strong negotiation, communication, and interpersonal skills.

 Ability to analyze market trends and identify business opportunities.

 Proficiency in MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint).

 Goal-oriented mindset with a track record of achieving sales targets.

Preferred Qualifications:

 Experience in [Specify Industry, e.g., Automotive, FMCG, Heavy Machinery, etc.].

 Knowledge of manufacturing processes and supply chain management.

 Ability to handle B2B sales and large-scale client accounts.

• Conducting analysis of website and application requirements.
• Writing back-end code and building efficient PHP Laravel
• Developing a back-end portal with an optimized database.
• Troubleshooting application and code
• Integrating data storage solutions.
• Responding to integration requests from front-end
• Finalizingback-endfeaturesandtestingweb
• Updating and altering application features to enhance

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a similar
• Knowledge of Laravel &PHP web frameworks including Yii, and
• Knowledge of front-end technologies Like HTML, CSS3, Bootstrap, and JavaScript.
• Understanding of object-oriented PHP
• Previous experience creating scalable applications.
• Proficient with code versioning tools including Git, Mercurial, CVS, and SVN.
• Familiarity with SQL/MYSQL databases.
• Ability to project manage.
• Good problem-solving

• Highly motivated and target driven with a proven track record in sales
• Excellent selling, negotiation and communication skills
• Prioritizing, time management and organizational skills
• Ability to create and deliver presentations tailored to the audience needs
• Relationship management skills and openness to feedback
• Bachelor’s degree in business or a related field
• Familiarity with BRM and CRM practices along with ability to build productive business professional relationships
• Stay abreast with customer needs, market trends and procedures at all time.
• Manage promotional programs to increase sales and revenue.

MoEngage is a fast-paced startup that’s helping companies run smart marketing efforts in their effort to reach the customer. We are a leading Marketing Technology Stack provider that is helping brands redefine their customer engagement in the mobile era. Brands use MoEngage to drive long-term, personalised and context-based engagement across channels to help achieve increased customer retention as well as customer LTV. Sitting at a conflux of diverse technologies like Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Web & Mobile platforms, MoEngage technology analyses billions of data points generated by customers and their devices, to predict customer behavior and build marketing campaigns that proactively engage users.

In just four years since inception, MoEngage is working with leading brands across e-commerce, entertainment, travel, publishing and banking domains among others. With marquee clients like Vodafone, Oyo, Airtel, McAfee, MoEngage has over 125+ paying Customers in the Enterprise & Internet companies space in India, US, South East Asia & EU. With a global presence spanning 35 countries, MoEngage has offices in San Francisco, Berlin, Jakarta, and Bengaluru.

Today, MoEngage is an industry pioneer in the space and engages more than 350M devices. This includes approximately 40B events tracked per month, 30B+ messages sent, to millions of users across the globe.

As part of the Engineering team at MoEngage, here are some things you can expect:

• Take ownership and be responsible for what you build - no micro management
• Work with A players (some of the best talent in the country), and expedite your learning curve and career growth
• Make in India and build for the world at scale of 350M active users, which no other internet company in the country has seen
• Learn together from different teams on how they scale to millions of users and billions of messages. 
• Explore the latest in topics like Data Pipeline, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, Kafka, Spark, Samza and share with the team 

and more importantly have fun while you work on scaling MoEngage.

About InApps team

In-app team is responsible for effectively delivering the contextual information to help companies cross-sell/up-sell on specific workflows triggered on desired actions performed by application users. As a member of in-app team, you will be working on developing high performance systems to deliver the contextual campaigns in real time. In addition to real time campaign delivery, you will work on designing a flexible platform to provide customised experience for application users using web personalization, which allows companies to present unique and personalized experiences on their applications.

• Scaling campaign delivery with personalized content to 500M unique users within 1 sec.
• Rich campaign content delivery keeping user experience native to mobile and web applications.

• Proven experience in handling large infrastructure and distributed systems
• Proven experience in managing high performing engineering teams
• Proven experience with at least one of the cloud computing infrastructure - GCP / Azure / AWS
• Hands on in Java OR Python related technologies and frameworks
• Familiarity with ElasticSearch, MongoDB is a plus
• Liaison with Product Management, DevOps, QA and other teams
• Performance management, Sprint management, Roadmap, Hiring, Onboarding, Mentoring, Costing, Documenting

At MoEngage, we are passionate about our team and technology - see below to know more about us and technology.

https://twitter.com/hashtag/lifeatmoengage?f=tweets&;vertical=default">Life @MoEngage

https://twitter.com/hashtag/techatmoengage?f=tweets&;vertical=default">Tech @MoEngage

https://www.moengage.com/blog/techatmoengage-reddit-has-330m-monthly-active-users-so-do-we/">Scale @MoEngage

We handle more than a billion messages everyday. Rest assured, you will be surrounded by really smart and passionate people as we scale much more to build a world class technology team.