Fullstack Developer

Role Overview:

We’re looking for passionate mobile developers eager to build meaningful products at the intersection of education, automation, and community. You’ll work directly with the founding team on real-world projects, from MVP development to production-ready apps.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain cross-platform mobile apps using React Native (Android & iOS).
• Integrate RESTful APIs and third-party SDKs.
• Collaborate with UI/UX designers and backend developers to deliver smooth user experiences.
• Write clean, maintainable code and debug production issues.
• Participate in code reviews, daily scrums, and product brainstorming sessions.

Requirements:

• Knowledge of JavaScript/TypeScript and React Native fundamentals.
• Familiarity with mobile debugging tools, navigation, and state management (e.g., Redux, Context).
• Understanding of Git, Firebase, or backend integration is a plus.
• A learning mindset, strong problem-solving skills, and attention to detail.
• Final-year students or freshers encouraged to apply.

Preferred:

• Prior experience with published apps or live demo projects.
• Open to grinding alongside founders for 3 months with a performance-based stipend.

Perks:

• Direct mentorship from the core team.
• Startup environment with real product impact.
• Certificate, Letter of Recommendation, and pre-placement opportunity.

• BTech, BE, BS degree in Computer Science, a similar technical field of study, or equivalent practical experience.
• 6+ years experience in web and software development.

• 3+ years of experience with the microservices architecture.
• At least 1 year of experience in leading a team.
• Demonstrated experience in Node, Mongo, Python2/3, Express, ReactJS.
• Experience with testing frameworks like Mocha, Jest, Jasmine etc.
• Experience with asynchronous messaging using RabbitMQ/Apache Kafka.
• Ability to work independently and multi-task effectively.
• Flexible and willing to accept a change in priorities as necessary.
• Strong attention to detail.

Design and build applications, bug fixing and improving application performance.

• Delegate tasks and achieve daily, weekly, and monthly goals.
• Enforce processes to improve productivity of the team.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.
• Work on continuously discovering, evaluating, and implementing new technologies to maximize

development efficiency.

Job responsibility:

• Hire and mentor a team of high-calibre front-end and Backend engineers
• Design and develop new user-facing full-stack applications.
• Building reusable components and front-end, backend libraries for future use
• Optimizing pages for maximum performance across a vast array of web-capable devices and browsers
• Optimize Backend to high scale.

Skills and Experiences:

• 6+ years of experience in software development with minimum 1 year as a tech lead.
• Experience in NodeJS, ReactJS, PostgreSQL, Redis, AWS.
• Deep understanding of at least one of React JS / Vue JS and its core principles
• Deep understanding of NodeJS.
• Experience with common front-end development tools such as babel, webpack, npm
• Familiarity with at least one code versioning tools such as Git, SVN etc.
• Good understanding of quality JavaScript code (Object oriented and commonly used design patterns)
• Capable of debugging complex issues in JavaScript
• Experience in building complex single page applications with front end and backend.
• Experience with production full stack environment debugging and DevOps experience.
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs
• Hands on coding experience.

Good to have:

• Advanced knowledge of HTML5, CSS3 and responsive web development.
• Experience with writing unit test cases with JS frameworks.
• Experience with high scalable applications.

MUST HAVE

• Design and implementation of the overall web architecture using React.js, Node.js, Mongo DB and AWS Lambda and Python
• Must have good knowledge of API
• Deployment and maintenance of AWS infrastructure -- Kubernetes, EC2, S3, Lambda
• Ensuring the entire stack is designed and built for speed and scalability
• Integrating our front-end UI with the constructed API
• Design and implementation of continuous integration
• Working knowledge of web-based application architectures and frameworks (including React) and the way it integrates with services.

Key Skillsets

• Node.js
• React.JS
• AWS
• MongoDB

Position – Principal Architect

Location – Bangalore/Mumbai/Remote

About Us

upGrad is an online education platform building the careers of tomorrow by offering the most industry-relevant programs in an immersive learning experience. Our mission is to create a new digital-first learning experience to deliver tangible career impact to individuals at scale. upGrad currently offers programs in Data Science, Machine Learning, Product Management, Digital Marketing, and Entrepreneurship, etc.

upGrad is looking for people passionate about management and education to help design learning programs for working professionals to stay sharp and stay relevant and help build the careers of tomorrow.

• upGrad was awarded the https://iamaiida.in/index.php">Best Tech for Education by IAMAI for 2018-19
• upGrad was also ranked as one of the https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/linkedin-top-startups-2018-25-most-sought-after-india-linkedin/">LinkedIn Top Startups 2018: The 25 most sought-after startups in India
• upGrad was earlier selected as one of the https://www.fastcompany.com/most-innovative-companies/2017/sectors/india">top ten most innovative companies in India by FastCompany.
• We were also https://www.ft.com/content/9150579a-f24c-11e6-95ee-f14e55513608">covered by the Financial Times along with other disruptors in Ed-Tech
• upGrad is the https://yourstory.com/2017/01/startup-india-learning-program-offers-free-online-entrepreneurship-course/">official education partner for Government of India - Startup India program
• Our program with IIIT B has been ranked https://www.analyticsindiamag.com/top-10-courses-and-training-programs-on-artificial-intelligence-in-india-ranking-2018/">#1 program in the country in the domain of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

About the Role

A highly motivated individual who has experience in architecting end to end web based ecommerce/online/SaaS products and systems; bringing them to production quickly and with high quality. Able to understand expected business results and map architecture to drive business forward. Passionate about building world class solutions.

Role and Responsibilities

• Work with Product Managers and Business to understand business/product requirements and vision.
• Provide a clear architectural vision in line with business and product vision.
• Lead a team of architects, developers, and data engineers to provide platform services to other engineering teams.
• Provide architectural oversight to engineering teams across the organization.
• Hands on design and development of platform services and features owned by self - this is a hands-on coding role.
• Define guidelines for best practices covering design, unit testing, secure coding etc.
• Ensure quality by reviewing design, code, test plans, load test plans etc. as appropriate.
• Work closely with the QA and Support teams to track quality and proactively identify improvement opportunities.
• Work closely with DevOps and IT to ensure highly secure and cost optimized operations in the cloud.
• Grow technical skills in the team - identify skill gaps with plans to address them, participate in hiring, mentor other architects and engineers.
• Support other engineers in resolving complex technical issues as a go-to person.

Skills/Experience

• 12+ years of experience in design and development of ecommerce scale systems and highly scalable SaaS or enterprise products.
• Extensive experience in developing extensible and scalable web applications with
  • Java, Spring Boot, Go
  • Web Services - REST, OAuth, OData
  • Database/Caching - MySQL, Cassandra, MongoDB, Memcached/Redis
  • Queue/Broker services - RabbitMQ/Kafka
  • Microservices architecture via Docker on AWS or Azure.
• Experience with web front end technologies - HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript libraries and frameworks such as jQuery, AngularJS, React, Vue.js, Bootstrap etc.
• Extensive experience with cloud based architectures and how to optimize design for cost.
• Expert level understanding of secure application design practices and a working understanding of cloud infrastructure security.
• Experience with CI/CD processes and design for testability.
• Experience working with big data technologies such as Spark/Storm/Hadoop/Data Lake Architectures is a big plus.
• Action and result-oriented problem-solver who works well both independently and as part of a team; able to foster and develop others' ideas as well as his/her own.
• Ability to organize, prioritize and schedule a high workload and multiple parallel projects efficiently.
• Excellent verbal and written communication with stakeholders in a matrixed environment.
• Long term experience with at least one product from inception to completion and evolution of the product over multiple years.

Qualification

B.Tech/MCA (IT/Computer Science) from a premier institution (IIT/NIT/BITS) and/or a US Master's degree in Computer Science.

Years of Exp – 14+

• Design and construction of platform with the best possible encryption and security mechanisms
• Compare different design options and take technology-driven design decision
• Define Data model/Information model
• Define services and convert functional requirements to design
• Define APIs and implement them
• Build front end based on user experience design
• Test and Debug as required
• Write Technical Documentation
• Optimize code and design for Performance
• Design and implementation of continuous integration and deployment pipelines

Expected Qualifications and Key Skills

• Working experience in Spring, Spring-boot or equivalent, Hibernate or equivalent persistence framework.
• Working experience of No SQL databases such as MongoDB or equivalent
• Working experience of setting up Production environment including SSL certificates, logging, backup, archival, etc.
• Working experience of JavaScript frameworks such as React JS, JQuery, etc.
• Working experience of API gateways and Web services such as REST
• Working experience of using GIT
• Working experience of a dev-ops tool such as Jenkins
• Deployment experience on Azure/AWS
• Microservices design and development
• Excellent understanding of Data Structures and Algorithms
• Understanding of OOP and Design Patterns
• Works well in a team setting
• Can multitask, adapt to shifting priorities, detail-oriented
• Good work ethic, including a sense of individual responsibility
• Comfortable working on changing requirements in a growing company
• Must be analytical, flexible, innovative, and self-motivated
• Experience with payment platforms and processors would be a plus

• Participate with the senior developer in the entire application lifecycle, designing, coding, testing, debugging to deployment.
• Implementing designs and coordinating the frontend development and required backend for it.
• Work on back-end development tasks and designing the architecture for the same.
• Efficient usage of database technologies such as MySQL, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, Redis etc. as part of the dev work.
• Perform research and find opportunities to utilise web development best practices, form guidelines to improve system productivity, and work on scaling and monitoring.
• Work with cross-functional teams to maintain and make sure the product should be scalable, maintainable and secure.
• Coordinate with multiple junior team members for the development of the tasks & projects.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 3+ years of experience working as a Full-stack developer or Backend but knows Frontend technology.
• Proficiency in Javascript Frameworks like React and thorough knowledge in CSS skills is an added advantage.
• Built an application from scratch earlier.
• Strong fundamental knowledge of any backend language such as Python, Java etc.
• Experience with Backend Web development.
• Strong computer science fundamentals.
• The ability to own end to end responsibility - right from the requirement to release.
• Willingness and enthusiasm drive to learn new technologies.
• The ability to pick the right tools for the job.
• Desire and ability to play different roles as necessary.

• Developing user interface components and implementing them following well-known React.js workflow.
• Architect the application out in clean MVC kind of architectures in ReactNative for Android/iOS app development.
• Developing APIs with MVC frameworks in Java / Python.
• Designing and building REST APIs.
• Building on and maintaining services on cloud platforms.
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use.

• Self-motivated, team player, action-and-results oriented.
• Well organised, good communication and reporting skills.
• Ability to successfully work under tight project deadlines.