Lead Software Development Engineer(Fullstack)

Position: Lead Software Development Engineer (SDE) - Full Stack
Time Commitment: Full-time
Location: Bangalore/Gurgaon/Mumbai
Who we are
We are an organisation driven by the mission to end poverty in our lifetime. Our work focuses on scalable
solutions for sustainable social impact. We work with our clients - corporations, philanthropists, foundations
and social organisations - to achieve social impact goals effectively and maximise the social return on their
investment. Deep understanding across sectors and collaboration with multiple stakeholders drive our work.
This approach helps us and our clients develop holistic solutions for solving critical societal problems.
We are driven by impact and powered by knowledge. We bring the right balance of head-heart-hand to our
work.
Our work is powered by the passionate energy of our mission-driven young team, guided by the strong
leadership and advisory board who bring in multi-dimensional experience in business and social sectors. Our
team of 150 (and growing rapidly) across offices in Bangalore, Mumbai and Delhi come with stellar
professional credentials from diverse backgrounds and are bound together by our common commitment to
social impact.
The Opportunity
As a Lead SDE - Full Stack at Sattva, you will:
● develop and iterate on products that drastically improve the efficacy and efficiency of social impact
projects on the ground.
● have the opportunity to help define and build products which can directly benefit many NGOs,
foundations and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) projects.
Your starting point of this journey would be with Shift, a cloud-based technology platform custom built for the
development sector by the domain experts, to provide end-to-end CSR solutions that maximise social
impact.
We at Sattva work in lean and agile teams, driven by a strong commitment to our mission of improving social
impact outcomes. If you are someone that is looking for a startup work culture and a high ownership of
aligning your work with your values, this is a great opportunity and team for you.
Key responsibilities
At Sattva, we believe technology platforms will be a key enabler of social impact and are committed to
making right sized investments towards this principle.
As a core member of Shift, you will:
● Develop new features for the Shift platform and associated new modules using Angular and
Python(Django) as stack.
● Maintain and continue to improve on code-base, for a better low-latency, high-availability, and
high-performance application.
● Implementation of security and data protection related measures into the Shift application and
infrastructure (Devops and Security).
● Support security and patch management related issues in Sattva’s internal tech tools and websites.
● Lead architecture and feature development discussions for Shift overall from technical perspective
and help align product roadmap for a long term outlook.
● Bring technology perspective to weigh in on new product development ideas across Sattva by
working closely with the business and product team.
● Create relevant tech documents for Shift architecture, application and infrastructure and facilitate the
development of new modules/features with other engineers.
What we value in a Lead SDE
We are looking for experienced and talented software developers with expertise in Frontend (Angular expert,
HTML, CSS, Javascript) and Backend (Python Django, AWS, Java) with prior experience of working in an
agile and entrepreneurial environment. The scope of the role includes coding and tech lead responsibilities in
a fast-paced agile SDLC.
Skill and requirements
● Minimum 5 year(s) of software working experience solving complex problems through technology
(best practices, how it works internally, patterns, refactoring)
● Should have at least 3 project experience with independent code design, unit and integration level
testing of the modules.
● Work experience with backend of at least 2 year having setup the whole application database
(structure, optimation, tuning)
● Must have deployed at least 2 production applications and would have gone through the launch and
testing phase of the SDLC.
● Min 2 years experience in working with JavaScript frameworks(Angular 7+)
● Min 2 years experience with Django(Python), Java frameworks for backend design
● Must have at least 1 project experience of server management like AWS and website hosting
(including Wordpress will be a plus)
● An experience of worked with a large scale and complex application is a plus (min 1 project
experience with scaling a web or a mobile app application)
● Experience of at least 1 year of leading a team of developers in the past
● Experience of developing and documenting DevOps and Architecture frameworks
● Experience with handling basic security updates and patch management for whole application and
infrastructure involved
● Any experience with Android app development would be a plus point