Fullstack Developer

Founding Engineer - Full-Stack
We are hiring a Founding Engineer to anchor our engineering team. We’re looking for an enterprising and climate-conscious young engineer to build scalable financial systems and innovate on the future of climate finance. You will help build the first version of our product(s) and work
directly with our founders. The ideal candidate has demonstrated experience in product development at an early stage and an interest in climate tech. Bonus points if you’ve worked on marketplaces or lending products at a FinTech in a previous role.

Location: Hybrid / In-office (Mumbai) depending on preference

Role Type: Full-time

What you’ll be doing
• Lead the development of first product(s) across all phases of software and web
development including ideation, prototyping, design, production, and maintenance.
• Work closely with founders and internal/external stakeholders to build products, tools, and
services from scratch and deliver high-quality software solutions.
• Be actively involved in requirements gathering, customer interviews and the creation of
robust product solutions.
• Brainstorm and lay the foundations of the technology and architectural roadmap as well as
the development processes.
• Share your technical expertise to help the team make thoughtful and scalable design
decisions and identify performance bottlenecks to troubleshoot quickly.
• Manage product development priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.
• Hire and manage a small team of engineers (internal/outsourced).
• Ensure high-performant and responsive web applications and websites.

Skills & Qualities we’re looking for

Hard Skills
• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Computer Science (or equivalent experience).
• 4-7 years of experience as a full-stack developer (rare exceptions for highly skilled
developers) at a fast-paced, preferably early / growth stage start-up.
• Proficient with frontend technologies - HTML, CSS, JavaScript & ReactJS/VueJS.
• Proficient with backend technologies - Java/NodeJs/Golang/Python/Ruby.
• Hands-on experience working with any cloud AWS/GCP/Azure/DigitalOcean.
• Knowledge of codebases and version control systems (Git).
• Well-versed with SQL database design & RDBMS concepts.
• Strong arithmetic reasoning, logical and analytical thinking skills.
• Strong knowledge of code quality maintenance and performance analysis.

Soft skills
• Thoughtful problem-solving: We expect you to solve problems. Solving starts with a clear
and accurate understanding of the context. You can decompose tricky problems and work
towards a clean solution, by yourself or with teammates. You're comfortable asking for help
when you get stuck.
• Pragmatic and business-oriented: You care about the business impact of what you're
building, and you prioritise projects accordingly. You're not just going after cool stuff—you
understand the balance between craft, speed, and the bottom line.
• The right attitude toward a sense of urgency, risk, and ambiguity that comes naturally with
working at an early-stage startup.
• Clear communication skills so you can easily convey your thoughts, opinions, and feelings to
customers and teammates.
• Comfortable working in a fluid, growing organisation with minimal supervision.
• Not ideological about technology: To you, technologies and programming languages are
about tradeoffs. You may be opinionated, but you're not ideological and can learn new
technologies as you go.
• Equally effective in individual contributor or team management roles.

Bonus Points if you
• Have a genuine passion for our mission - to solve climate change and its challenges.
• Have worked on the creation of marketplace products/loan management systems (LMS) or
risk assessment solutions.
• Understand object-oriented design principles and design patterns.
• Are familiar with Authentication, Security, XSD, and System Integration concepts.
• Are proficient at product testing - with and without QA support.
• Have experience in agile software development methodologies.
• Have interests outside of technology - could be in any unrelated field (design, sports,
economics, business etc.)

Why Work with us
Aside from being a highly-motivated, mission-driven organisation we offer:
• Highly competitive salaries including attractive stock options.
• Flexibility with location (Remote / In-person) and working hours.
• 25-days paid leave every year + top-ups for key life events.
• Unlimited sick leave.
• Insurance for you and your spouse.
• A yearly learning allowance to go learn a new skill / develop new talent.
• A yearly allowance to use towards the improvement of your physical and mental health.

• 2+ years of experience with React
• Strong experience with React 16.8+ & React Hooks
• Strong experience with NodeJS & Express
• Proficiency in Typescript, AWS, Firebase, and MongoDB

You will be bringing:

• Extensive experience in HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, and front-end frameworks like ReactJS/ AngularJS
• Knowledge of new ES6 features (and actively uses them)
• Experience with popular React.js workflows such as Flux or Redux
• Experience in Redux data patterns and NgRx
• Experience working with server-client architecture projects, consuming JSON data from APIs
• Ability to ruthlessly prioritize in a chaotic and ambiguous environment
• An open, growth mindset when giving and receiving feedback

You get extra points for:

• Being familiar with WebGL/ ThreeJS/ PixiJS

Have at least 2 years of experience with two or more development languages. Experience

working on Python is a MUST and that on JAVA is nice to have.

• Experience in building web platform with Angular 9+ (React could be an alternative) is a MUST
• Experience in building applications with containerization like Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience in writing relatively complex DB queries (preferably SQL Server, MySQL). Experience working on No-SQL DB is nice to have.

• Experience in building RESTful APIs using Python and web frameworks such as Spring MVC, Flask
• Experience in working in any of the ORM tools like SQLAlchemy, SQLObject, Storm, Django
• Skillful in writing high-quality, well-tested code
• Proficient in Object-Oriented programming
• Comfortable with Agile methodologies, such as Scrum, Kanban
• Experience in working with JavaScript frameworks (such as ag-Grid, D3) to build in-app reports is nice to have

• Key competencies required: Problem-Solving, Analytical, Collaboration, and Accountability
• An influencer by always advocating for technical excellence and innovation while being open to change when needed

• Resilient in ambiguous situations and can approach challenges from multiple perspectives
• Advantage if has a working knowledge of cloud technology such as AWS, Azure
• Efficiently utilize DevOps tools and practices to build and deploy software
• Have knowledge of Test Driven Development

● AWS®, OCPJP certification preferred but not mandatory

Looking for a full stack developer for the position of technical lead with experience in angular and node.

Merkle|Sokrati, a leader in Paid Search & Social Advertising, provides a sophisticated technology solution to efficiently manage Digital Marketing campaigns for several brands in India. The technology developed takes a beating of serving and tracking 20M+ impressions a day. It runs crunching algorithms and keyword discovery routines using distributed computing, housing the entire data in distributed caches and sharded MySQL databases.

To be a geek at Merkle|Sokrati you need to know how to build scalable and high-performance systems. Nothing at Sokrati is small. We start with a proof of concept that demands a traffic rate of 10M+! To achieve any of this you need to understand Distributed Systems, Distributed Caching, High-scale Databases. And we possess the skills to create software that makes this entire heterogeneous system function together even if it runs on 100 boxes. A system that is so widely used cannot sustain any downtime and hence it uses elegant high-availability techniques to survive an outage. Not many startups can say “been there, done that”!

@Merkle|Sokrati, you will:

• Implement solutions for broadly defined problems
• Drive best practices and engineering excellence
• Be involved in the development of code in object-oriented languages like Java etc and build large scale robust distributed systems
• Be involved in full fledged product development.
• Build New Features, Push them to production fast.
• Debug production issues across services and levels of the stack
• Build services or APIs which will for easy application integrations at Sokrati to develop applications faster.
• Build scalable/fault-tolerant backend systems that process and analyze billions of data points every day.

You'd fit right in if you have:

• 2-4 years of experience in building successful production software systems
• A solid grounding in Computer Science fundamentals (based on a BE/BTech or MS in Computer Science)
• Experience developing software services and an understanding of design for scalability, performance and reliability.
• Mastery of the tools of the trade, including a variety of modern programming languages (Python, Java, JavaScript, C/C++) and open-source technologies (Linux, Spring)
• Proven ability to work in a fast paced, agile and in an ownership and results oriented culture

If you are excited about:

• Having an unmatched startup experience that allows you to work on bleeding-edge technologies.
• Making a splash in a multi-billion dollar Digital Advertising industry
• Learning & Growing far beyond your current horizon
• A place full of like-minded & ridiculously smart folks
• A start-up culture that you'd cherish forever in your work life

  

Feel like you are a good fit? We would love to hear from you!

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES - - Understand requirements and use them to create comprehensive well- designed specifications - Lead the technical team by ensuring timely deliveries and respecting Sprints using SCRUM methodology - Lead design and development of our core web application using service- oriented architecture exposing APIs for internal and external clients. - Implement architecture and design patterns to help ensure that systems scale. - Establish processes and best practices around development standards. - Review product requirements in order to give development estimates and product feedback. - Apply technical expertise to challenging architecture and design problems. SKILLS / COMPETENCIES - - Extensive experience in developing enterprise-grade applications on C#/.NET, HTML, CSS, JS. - Master building service-oriented architecture, web services, and APIs - Product delivery and product management experience compulsory. - Experience with PostgreSQL and database design. - Successful experience managing a development team on complex projects - Experience with software design patterns: MVC, MVVM - Strong knowledge of Web Standards, OWASP security principles, and data encryption/security - The proponent of continuous integration, unit testing, and automation - Knowledge of PostgreSQL, Net Core and Angular2 will be considered as an added advantage. SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS FOR THE ROLE - - 5+ years experience in software development - Excellent English communication skills, both written and spoken. - Understanding Business Logic and having Product Delivery experience is an advantage. - Experience with enterprise-scale systems a major plus. - Mandatory experience working in an Agile environment (SCRUM certification preferred)

Who we are looking for... A highly motivated, skilled and experienced professional to join us as Full Stack Developer The role would require you to · Develop, customize, maintain and monitor applications for web platforms, utilizing the latest technologies · Responsible for analyzing business requirements and translating them into technical terms · Documenting solutions and communicating with other team members on the way forward · Follow a Test Driven Development (TDD) approach to software development · Proactively Investigates, analyses and fixes reported defects. · Light work to enhance, maintain, and create microservices in Java · Design, build, and unit test software in a collaborative environment · Write clear, efficient, scalable, and maintainable code · Participate in design and code reviews · Participate regularly in an Agile team environment and schedule What we would like to see in you · Java/J2EE - Minimum 4-6 years of Java/J2EE development · Experience in developing web services/APIs (RESTFUL) · Extensive experience about Spring Framework (Springboot, dependency injection, Data access, transaction management, MVC, batch) management. · Experience in Spring Security OAuth. · Experience with microservice-development using Springboot. · In-depth knowledge of XML, WSDL, JSON, NodeJS. · Proficiency in Linux, SQL and NoSQL. · Solid knowledge pertaining to Object Oriented Design Patterns. · Previous experience delivering software as a part of an agile team. · Minimum 2-3 years of JavaScript, AngularJS, ReactJS, ViewJS development. · Develop and troubleshoot UI-components having JavaScript, Bootstrap, CSS, HTML5, Angular Material, What’s in it for you... · Opportunity to be part of the team that delivers Industry-changing technology solutions · Pride of working for India’s first innovative fintech company · Top of the line challenging work · Unmatched learning opportunities · Transparent & open-door work culture · Multi-disciplinary exposure · Quick growth

Skills • Should have work experience in a MERN Stack Developer • Experience on NodeJS, ExpressJS or Restify, ReactJS. • Experience creating front end applications using HTML, CSS. • Hands on experience with JavaScript Development on both client and server-side • Experience with modern frameworks and design patterns, minimum one-year experience with MERN Full stack paradigm • Knowledge of the following will be considered as an advantage: o Consumer Web Development Experience for High-Traffic, Public Facing web applications o Experience with cloud technologies also a plus o Creating secure RESTful-based web services in XML and JSON, JavaScript, JQuery o Continuous integration (Jenkins/Hudson) and version control (SVN, Git)

Developers should be familiar with full stack web-development, with fluency in developing front-end of a web application as well as should be able to work on server side of web programming. They should be good solutions architects, and should be able to look across the entire stack of technologies to develop great usable, solid, scalable web applications. Requirements and abilities : ● Must have a software development experience of atleast 3 years ● Knowledge of both the front-end and back-end aspects of the web application. ● Should be expert in ReactJs frontend stack ● Should be familiar with Python Django framework ● Must have lead a project development & delivery end-to-end ● Up-to-date on emerging technologies ● Network concepts that include the different set of Protocols ● Should have good interpersonal and communication skills Responsibilities : ● Build and maintain scalable and high performing web sites and solutions ● Develop and optimize existing features, as well as prototype and implement new projects ● Develop secure and robust API applications to serve data ● Integrate with external web services ● Participate in the entire application lifecycle, focusing on coding and debugging ● Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders .