Principal Engineer - Java

Role & Responsibilities

We are currently seeking a Senior Engineer to join our Financial Services team, contributing to the design and development of scalable system.

The Ideal Candidate Will Be Able To-

• Take ownership of delivering performant, scalable and high quality cloud based software, both frontend and backend side.
• Mentor team members to develop in line with product requirements.
• Collaborate with Senior Architect for design and technology choices for product development roadmap.
• Do code reviews.

Ideal Candidate

• Strong Software Engineer fullstack profile using NodeJS, Python, and React
• Mandatory (Experience) - Must have 6+ YOE in Software Development using Python and NodeJS (For backend) & React (For frontend)
• Mandatory (Core Skills 1): Must have strong experience in working on Typescript
• Mandatory (Core Skills 2): Must have experience in message based systems like Kafka, RabbitMq, Redis
• Mandatory (Core Skills 3): Databases - PostgreSQL & NoSQL databases like MongoDB
• Mandatory (Company) - Product Companies Only
• Mandatory (Education) - B.Tech or Dual degree (Btech and Mtech or Integrated Msc/MS) from Tier 1 Engineering Institutes. Candidates from other institutions will not be considered unless they come from top-tier product companies
• Mandatory (Note) : This role is a hybrid role (2 days WFO)
• Preferred (Experience): Experience in Fin-Tech, Payment, POS and Retail products is highly preferred
• Preferred (Mentoring): Experience in mentoring, coaching the team.

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

Duties and responsibilities

• Responsible for the development of new highly responsive, web-based user interface
• Construct visualisations that are able to depict vast amounts of data
• Work and collaborate with the rest of the engineering team
• Work with the product team and graphic designers
• Learn and understand user interactions
• Develop a flexible and well-structured front-end architecture, along with the APIs to support it

Requirements and qualifications

• Experience in Work Frontend Frameworks like Bootstrap, MUI & Antd.
• Must have experience in ES6
• Hands-on experience with REACT REDUX
• Hands-on experience with REDUX SAGA or REDUX ToolKit
• Experience with HTML5 / CSS3
• Experience in creating REST API's based on NODE JS
• GraphQL is a plus
• Must have Git knowledge
• Team player
• Good time-management skills
• Good interpersonal and communication skill

·        Qualification: bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or related field.

·        Proven 4+ years of experience in full stack development, including proficiency with React, Tailwind CSS, Python, and Flask.

·        Strong understanding of Graph QL concepts and hands-on experience with Ariadne or similar frameworks.

·        Familiarity with containerization using Docker for application deployment.

·        Demonstrated expertise in machine learning model integration, preferably using the Hugging Face framework.

·        Experience deploying machine learning models on cloud platforms such as Replicate and AWS is a strong plus.

·        Excellent problem-solving skills and a proactive attitude towards learning and adapting to new technologies.

·        Should have experience in Backend: Python, Flask Framework, Langchain ML Ops Framework, Ariadne Graph QL Framework, Docker. Frontend: React, Tailwind. ML Model Development – Hugging Face Model Training, ML Deployment onto Replicate or AWS

We are looking for a experienced engineer with superb technical skills. You will primarily be responsible for architecting and building large scale systems that delivers AI and Analytical solutions to our customers. The right candidate will enthusiastically take ownership in developing and managing a continuously improving, robust, scalable software solutions. The successful candidate will be curious, creative, ambitious, self motivated, flexible, and have a bias towards taking action. As part of the early engineering team, you will have a chance to make a measurable impact as well as having a significant amount of responsibility.

Although your primary responsibilities will be around back-end work, we prize individuals who are willing to step in and contribute to other areas including automation, tooling, and management applications. Experience with or desire to learn Machine Learning a plus.

Position Summary

The Java Software Developer designs and develops computer applications using the Java programming language. Managing small-to-large scale projects, with respect to business impact, throughout the development life cycle. In this role, you can expect to leverage your 5+ years of Java engineering skills and knowledge to develop, test, and release features assigned to you and the Software Development team. You will be challenged daily to solve problems, expand your knowledge of the existing platform, and the technologies that can be used to continuously improve it.

Essential Functions

• Owns assigned projects throughout the development life cycle, from design through quality testing. Develops high quality code that delivers desired functionality using the technology selected for the project.
• Utilizes techniques including pair programming to ensure code quality. Additionally, maintains code quality through best practices, unit testing, and code quality automation.
• Supports continuous integration process.
• Collaborates closely with team members to determine best practices and client requirements for software.
• Develops intuitive software that meets and exceeds the needs of the company.
• Professionally maintains all software and provides regular updates that address client and/or company concerns.
• Analyzes and tests programs and products before formal launch. Addresses and troubleshoots coding problems quickly and efficiently to ensure a productive workplace.
• Ensures software security by developing programs to actively monitor the sharing of private information.
• Actively seeks ways to improve business software processes and interactions.
• When needed, provides valuable coaching and training for team members to ensure all employees are confident in the use of software applications.
• Regularly modifies software to fix errors, adapt to new hardware, improve overall performance, and/or upgrade interfaces.
• Directs system testing and validation procedures. Provides software programming and documentation development.
• Provides project proposals and project status updates to clients and departments, as needed. Prepares recommendations and project plans for the installation of new systems or modifications of an existing system.
• Works closely with clients and departments to resolve technical issues - including (but not limited to) software system design and maintenance.
• Regularly participates in an agile delivery process by helping size stories. Owns, researches, and recommends new solutions.

Skills and Abilities

• Excellent problem-solving skills and technical aptitude to solve complex issues.
• Proven ability to manage multiple high-priority projects.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Ability to quickly adapt to a changing environment.
• Skilled in object-oriented (OO) design and design pattern.
• Skilled with Java 8 features, such as lambdas and streams.
• Demonstrated knowledge of API design standards, patterns, and best practices (especially Swagger and OpenAPI 3.0, REST, SOAP, MQ, JSON, Microservices etc.).
• Expert understanding of Spring Framework, Spring MVC REST, ORM/Hibernate and JDBC. As well as Hibernate/JPA and Object-relational mapping, including performance considerations.
• Experienced with RDBM systems: MYSQL Server, Oracle.
• Strong understanding of relational databases and writing SQL queries.
• Familiarity with the following front-end technologies: HTML, Javascript, CSS, Angular, Git, SQL, Maven

Experience

• Experience as a Java Developer, Java Engineer, or similar role required (i.e., Spring Framework / Spring boot and J2EE development required).
• Experience designing and developing REST API / web applications.
• Experience working with Agile methodologies (Scrum) and cross-functional teams (Product Owners, Scrum Masters, Developers, Designers, Business Analysts) a major plus.
• Advanced knowledge and experience in Cloud/SAAS integration, a plus.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field of study or equivalent level of education and experience.

About the role(s):

Software development and platform engineering has driven our success and growth of our platform & data businesses. We are now looking for more developers to join our team and help us build the best financial inclusion platform in the world. You'll be an integral part of product development team working collaboratively with cross functional team of business heads, product managers, credit risk experts, data scientists and technologists to iteratively design and build fintech products. You'll be constantly be challenged and you'll have the freedom to discover and advocate new technologies. 

Requirements:

We are looking for people who are truly full stack, and are as comfortable working on javascript front end as they are debugging database interactions, or improving their CloudFormation templates. While we are open to any degree and colleges, we are look for people who prides in being a coder and have demonstrable (3+ years) experience in software development. In particular we look for people who can:

• Code backend services, ideally using Node.js or Java, or other server side compiled language.
• Design and develop Rest API with integrations to lots of external systems. Experience of GraphQL is an advantage
• Develop modern and secure web front ends, ideally using React, Express and Redux.
• Interface with No-SQL/ MongoDB or SQL based data bases (PortgresSQL).
• Deploy their code into the cloud and support it there, ideally on AWS and GitHub. Experience with kubernetes and serverless is an advantage.
• Deliver in agile manner while coding cleanly, automating testing and clean coding, simple solutions, automated testing and continuous deployment.
• Takes ownership of a feature from the original idea through to live.

Attractive salary compensation including employee stock options, 10% time free to pursue own project, paid training and education support.

We truly practice flexible time with focus on output and core hours for team collaboration. While we are mostly working remotely at Fundfina and are open to applications across India, we will prefer that you are open to commuting to Mumbai or Bangalore or Delhi offices when required.

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