Fullstack Developer

Profile Title: Software Development Engineer

Location: Pune Remote

Company Profile:

Growloc Private Limited is a leading Agri-tech company in India specializing in IoT solutions for farm management. We empower farmers with innovative technology to optimize resource usage, improve yields, and ensure consistent quality produce. Backed by a team of passionate individuals, Growloc Private Limited is committed to creating a more sustainable and productive future for Indian agriculture.

Role Overview:

 We’re looking for a MERN Stack Engineer (SDE-2) who’s passionate about building impactful products and believes in working smarter—with AI copilots, automation, and lean dev cycles. You’ll be part of a high-ownership team responsible for delivering full-stack features, writing testable code, and deploying to production with CI/CD.

Key Responsibilities:

• Build and maintain robust full-stack applications using MongoDB, Nest.js, React.js, and Node.js.

• Actively leverage AI tools (Copilot, ChatGPT, etc.) for faster development, documentation, and writing test cases.

• Write and maintain unit, integration, and end-to-end tests to ensure code quality.

• Own features end-to-end—from design to deployment using modern CI/CD workflows (GitHub Actions, Vercel, AWS).

• Collaborate with product, data, and hardware teams in a lean setup to ship fast and iterate often.

• Ensure performance, responsiveness, and scalability of front-end and backend systems.

Required Skills:

• 2–5 years of professional experience building products using the MERN stack.

• Strong understanding of frontend architecture (React Hooks, Context API/Redux).

• Proficiency in Node.js, Express, and MongoDB schema design.

• Familiarity with CI/CD tools, Git workflows, and cloud deployments.

• Experience with automated testing frameworks (Jest, Mocha, Cypress, etc.).

• Demonstrated use of AI-based coding assistants in real-world development workflows.

Good to Have:

• Exposure to IoT systems or integration with hardware devices.

• Experience working with LoRaWAN protocols and sensor data ingestion.

• Familiarity with WebSockets, MQTT, or real-time data processing.

• Background in agriculture, climate-tech, or rural tech products.

• Knowledge of TypeScript or serverless architectures.

Compensation: Best as per the market standards

At Growloc, we believe in purpose-driven technology. You’ll be part of a collaborative team working at the intersection of agriculture and innovation. If you're excited about building products that matter—and making a real-world impact—this is the place for you.

Analyse and understand the JIRA business stories and design the technical solutions.  

• Design, Develop, and evaluate the AWS Cloud based technical solutions.  
• Lead, Track tasks, Oversee, and mentor less experienced team members.  
• Integrate with other SPE proprietary applications using RESTful webservices complying latest industry design and coding standards.  
• Strong Knowledge of technical principles, practices, and procedures to implement and keep SPEs standard complex system solutions.  
• Strong understanding and first-hand experience on agile software development approaches in a fast paced and continuously changing B2B marketing business environment.  
• Working on large scale systems development or integration projects, acting as the Project lead performing analysis and documenting technical requirements, data requirements, data architecture and relationships.  
• Provide subject matter expertise on overall IT solution, system and data flow architecture for Spring based micro services.  
• Provide primary technology support for in-house proprietary B2B projects with supported application platforms.  
• Review & approve Github Pull requests using the existing Application Development Frameworks and Coding Standards. 
• Provide production support in managing the application incidents and priority-based problem resolution. 

What You’ll Be Doing

• 🛠 Write code for web and mobile apps, fix bugs, and work on features that people will actually use.
• 💡 Join brainstorming sessions and help shape our products.
• 🚀 Things move fast here, and you’ll learn as you go.
• 🤝 Work closely with everyone—designers, developers, and even marketing folks.
• 🔧 Diving into Our Tech Stack: React, React Native Node, Express, Python, FastAPI, and PostgreSQL.

What We’re Looking For

We’re not looking for perfection, but if you’re curious, motivated, and excited to learn, you’ll fit right in!

For Backend Engineers

• 💻 Strong knowledge of Python, FastAPI, and PostgreSQL.
• 🔍 Solid understanding of Low-Level Design (LLD) and High-Level Design (HLD).
• ⚡ Ability to optimize APIs, manage databases efficiently, and handle real-world scaling challenges.

For Frontend Engineers

• 💻 Expertise in React Native.
• 🎯 Knowledge of native Kotlin (Android) and Swift (iOS) is a big bonus.
• 🚀 Comfortable with state management, performance optimization, and handling platform-specific quirks.

General Expectations for All Engineers

• 🛠 While you’ll be specialized in either frontend or backend, you should be good enough to fix bugs in both.
• 🔍 You enjoy figuring things out and experimenting until you get it right.
• 🤝 Great communication skills and a collaborative mindset.
• 🚀 You’re ready to dive in and make things happen.

Interview Process

If we like your application, Be ready to:

1. Solve a data structures and algorithms (DSA) problem in your preferred programming language.
2. Answer questions about your specialized area (frontend/backend) to showcase your depth of knowledge.
3. Discuss a real-world problem and how you’d debug & fix an issue in both frontend and backend

Why Join Us?

• 💡 Your work will matter here—no busy work, just real projects with real outcomes.
• 🚀 Help shape the future of our company.
• 🎉 We’re all about solving cool problems and having fun while we do it.

• Roles and Responsibilities:
  
  Hands-on experience on Angular, CSS, Scripting, NodeJs/express
  Experience in Responsive Web, Automation, CI/CD, Github, Microservices, Postgres (or any other RDBMS)
  Experience in AWS (SQS, SNS, Cognito)
  Implementing Observability/Monitoring.
  Strong experience in REST APIs

Essential Job Functions:

1. Implement application components and systems according to department standards and guidelines.
2. Work with product and designers to translate requirements into accurate representations for the web.
3. Analyze, design, code, debug, and test business applications.
4. Code reviews in accordance with team processes/standards.
5. Understand and work with data in varying degrees of complexity and scale.
6. Responsible for planning, processing and performing all jobs in an efficient manner.
7. Provide assistance to testers and support personnel as needed to determine system problems.
8. Resolve problems involved with integrating new technologies with systems.

* Essential functions are the basic job duties that an employee must be able to perform, with or without reasonable accommodation.  The function is considered essential if the reason the position exists is to perform that function.

Supportive Job Functions:

1. Remain knowledgeable of new emerging technologies and their impact on internal systems.
2. Available to work on call when needed.
3. Perform other miscellaneous duties as assigned by management.

*These tasks do not meet the Americans with Disabilities Act definition of essential job functions and usually equal 5% or less of time spent.  However, these tasks still constitute important performance aspects of the job.

Knowledge, Skill, and Abilities:

1. Experience using Python, JavaScript, and React.
2. Experience with web services and RESTful APIs.
3. Experience in cloud infrastructure
4. Experience with Sql and NoSql databases
5. Familiarity with modern CI/CD methods
6. Ability to organize, prioritize, and handle multiple assignments on a daily basis.
7. Strong and effective inter-personal and communication skills
8. Ability to interact professionally with a diverse group of clients and staff.
9. Must be able to work flexible hours on-site and remote.
10. Must be able to coordinate with other staff and provide technological leadership.
11. Ability to work in a complex, dynamic team environment with minimal supervision.
12. Must possess good organizational skills.

Education, Experience, and Certification:

1. Associate’s or bachelor’s degree preferred (Computer Science, Engineer, etc.), but equivalent work experience in a technology related area may substitute.
2. 5+ years relevant experience, required. *
3. Experience using version control daily in a developer environment.
4. Experience with Python, JavaScript, and React is required.
5. Experience using rapid development frameworks like Django or Flask.
6. Experience using front end build tools.

• Hands on Experience on  PHP, Laravel, MySQL, jQuery, HTML5, Linux
• Knowledge of open source platforms like Wordpress will be an added advantage.
• Experience on Angular JS or React is preferable
• Experience using and deploying on Linux.
• Experience in teams using CI / CD Pipeline -  Git, Jenkins
• Experience working in agile methodology