Full Stack Developer - Python

HelloTrade is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Indiamart, India’s largest B2B marketplace. We are building a next-generation financial services and wealth management platform for MSMEs.

Leveraging Indiamart’s user base of over 20 million SMEs, HelloTrade aims to revolutionize access to business loans, insurance, credit cards, deposits, and financing solutions.

Our vision is to become the financial operating system for Indian MSMEs—simplifying access to credit, enabling smarter financial decisions, and building long-term financial health.

Role Overview:

We’re looking for a Tech Lead who will own the development of HelloTrade’s fintech platform.

This is a founding engineer + leadership role, where you’ll be hands-on in building scalable systems while shaping the engineering culture and aligning technology decisions with business goals.

The ideal candidate blends strong technical depth with leadership skills—someone who can code, mentor, set engineering standards, and drive delivery in a fast-paced, startup-style environment.

Key Responsibilities:

Technology Leadership

• Own key technical decisions and the overall tech roadmap aligned with HelloTrade’s fintech vision.
• Design scalable, modular, and secure architecture to support multi-product financial journeys.
• Make build-vs-buy and architectural decisions balancing speed, scalability, and compliance.
• Stay current on fintech innovations (AI/ML credit scoring, Account Aggregator APIs, digital KYC) and introduce relevant solutions.

Execution Excellence

• Be hands-on with coding and code reviews while balancing leadership duties.
• Oversee AWS infrastructure, DevOps pipelines, monitoring, and cost optimization.
• Ensure platform reliability, scalability, and security with proactive risk management.
• Deliver features on time and with quality, managing dependencies and trade-offs effectively.

People & Team Leadership

• Lead and mentor developers—setting engineering best practices, coding standards, and review processes.
• Build an engineering culture of ownership, accountability, and innovation.
• Drive agile practices (sprints, standups, retrospectives) for predictable delivery.
• Collaborate closely with Product, Design, and Business teams for seamless execution.

Must-Have Skills

• Strong proficiency in Next.js, Node.js, PostgreSQL, and AWS with 3+ years of hands-on development.
• Proven experience leading teams (mentoring, code reviews, sprint leadership).
• Expertise in designing and building scalable APIs and microservices.
• Strong understanding of system architecture, database design, and performance tuning.
• Experience with secure authentication, authorization, and partner integrations.
• Proficiency in Git, CI/CD pipelines, Docker/Kubernetes.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Good-to-Have Skills

• Experience in fintech or financial services (loans, payments, insurance).
• Familiarity with OCR, AI/ML-driven decision engines, or Account Aggregator APIs.
• Knowledge of DevSecOps and regulatory compliance frameworks.
• Prior experience in early-stage or startup environments, scaling teams and systems.

• Develop, test, and maintain web applications using PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
• Collaborate with designers and stakeholders to understand project requirements and translate them into technical specifications.
• Participate in the full software development lifecycle, including planning, designing, coding, testing, debugging, and deploying applications.
• Build responsive and user-friendly interfaces, ensuring cross-browser compatibility and optimal performance.
• Implement and integrate APIs, web services, and third-party libraries as required
• Perform code reviews, identify and fix bugs, and optimize application performance.
• Work closely with the team to continuously improve development processes and implement best practices.
• Stay up-to-date with emerging technologies and industry trends, and apply them to enhance our development practices and solutions.
• Contribute to documentation, including technical specifications, user guides, and test cases.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• Proven experience as a PHP Full Stack Developer or similar role, with a minimum of 1-8 years of professional experience.
• Strong proficiency in PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and related frameworks (e.g., Laravel, CodeIgniter).
• Experience with front-end frameworks (e.g., Laravel, React, Angular, Vue.js) and modern development tools (e.g., Webpack, Git) is a plus.
• Solid understanding of object-oriented programming principles and MVC architecture.
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs, JSON, and web services integration.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience with agile development methodologies is preferred.

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Our Client is focused on democratizing Insurance through technology. It is a cloud-based platform connecting distributors to the Insurance Ecosystem to sell and manage Insurance programs. They are creating a middleware connecting consumers, traditional insurance institutions, intermediaries, and service partners on a single platform. Basically, give distributors the ability access to the entire Insurance ecosystem via 1 API / 1 platform.

Their goal is simple - Provide a new way to do Insurance, which is secure, easy, and focuses on the consumer while staying compliant with the frameworks laid down by the regulator.

Description

This is a mission-critical role. They are a small, diverse, agile and high-performance, engineering team. They are looking for versatile developers who will:

• Innovate their existing product and work on creating tools that crunch integration times and time to market
• Improve through peer-learning and transmit them to the firm's dev ecosystem.
• Take ownership and get the job done.

They are clear. They need role shapers, not role takers.

Key Responsibilities

• You will be responsible for design, development and delivery our web-based application in an agile manner built on Java Spring Boot, React, My SQL and Mongo DB.
• You will be expected to write code on day-to-day basis while testing it on real world use cases
• You will be an independent owner of your feature on the platform.
• You will be a part of the core software development team and are expected to participate in all development cycles.
• You will be responsible for closure of business requirements end-to-end by working cross-functionally and will be expected to mentor and drive other members of the team.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer / Technology domain.
• 4-7 years of relevant work experience, preferably in a start-up environment/ building SaaS products.
• Excellent coding skills with ability to deliver in a hyper growth phase.
• Hands on experience in JAVA and practical experience in developing and designing scalable software solutions.
• Excellent Problem-solving skills & understanding of data structures in a complex environment.
• Extensive experience in Spring, Hibernate and SpringBoot
• Experience in building REST Services
• Experience in integrating third party APIs (Payment gateways, SMS gateways, Accounting software APIs, APIs of CRM tools etc.) into web applications
• Experience in working with SQL and no SQL DBs (Preferably Mongo DB)
• Working knowledge of Kubernetes and Docker is a plus
• Knowledge of how insurance processes and past experience in working on insurance applications is a plus.