Senior Java Full stack Developer

Key Responsibilities:

·      Contribute to all stages of software development lifecycle

·      Analyse user requirements to define business objectives

·      Envisioning system features and functionality

·      Define application objectives and functionality

·      Ensure application designs conform with business goals

·      Identify and resolve any technical issues arising

·      Conducting software analysis, programming, testing, and debugging

·      Manage Java and Java EE application development

·      Develop documentation to help users

·      Transforming requirements into stipulations

·      Prepare and produce releases of software components

·      Support continuous improvement, investigating alternatives and technologies, and presenting for architectural review

·      Create & maintain monthly/weekly reports to track progress and performance.

Key Skills & Competencies:

·      Proficiency in Java

·      Core Java, J2EE, Spring MVC, Spring REST APIs, Spring Security, JSP, Web application, Redis, Oauth2, Angular, JQuery, Html, JavaScript

·      Knowledge on MySQL

·      Good experience in SQL server enabled understanding and write complex stored procedures

·      Web frameworks like Spring Boot

                                  Job Description

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.

Primary job role

Develops software/ information systems, by creating & designing sets of new functionalities and installing software solutions and play a leadership role thorough understanding of design methodologies and overall software development lifecycle. 

Main duties/responsibilities

• Involve in all stages of the software development process including requirement gathering, design, development, testing, deployment management, issue review and perform maintenance.
• Good analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Learn and maintain up to date knowledge of latest technologies, tools and platforms.
• Responsible for maintaining a high level of expertise in all areas of technology used (or potentially used) by the team.
• Produce high quality and designs by following industry best practices and coding standards.
• Communicate with clients as and when required.
• Responsible for clear communication (both written and verbal) with technical and non-technical contacts (internal and external) and all seniority levels.
• Ability to work both independently and as a part of a team.
• Work with non-technical business teams to understand the functionality, composition, and user requirements.
• Ability to achieve tasks with minimum supervision.
• Participate in estimations.
• Participate in design discussions.
• Provides technical support to customers and employees.
• Provides training and guidance to the new developers.
• Ability to play a leadership role within the team

Experience

• 4-5 years of experience in the relevant field with 1-2 year in SSE role.

Technical Knowledge

• Angular, React/Redux (or Similar Technology)
• Node.js
• RESTfull API integration
• Experience working with Docker and containerized applications
• Experience working with Kubernetes or other container orchestration tools
• Knowledge and understanding of working in AWS environments
• Experience in full stack development (with passion)
• RDBMS and Document Database
• Experience with Agile/Scrum Development Methodology
• Exposure to Continues Integration (CI/ CD)
• Version control systems like Git/ TFS

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science / IT or an equivalent qualification.

Behavioral competencies

• Communication
• Teamwork & collaboration
• Client orientation

Expecting leads to know Angular9, React (Functional, Hooks), Nodejs(NestJS), Test Driven Development (Unit Test)/JEST, Microservice / Container ( Docker )

Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain dynamic websites and web applications using PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and other relevant technologies.
• Proficient in frontend frameworks and libraries like HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, jquery, ajax.
• Design and implement both static and dynamic websites catering to client requirements.
• Create and maintain Content Management Systems (CMS) and Customer Relationship Management Systems (CRM).
• Utilize problem-solving skills to troubleshoot and resolve issues in existing web applications.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure effective communication and successful project delivery.
• Keep abreast of industry trends and emerging technologies to continually improve development processes.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or relevant field.
• Proven work experience as a PHP/ CodeIgniter Developer with a strong understanding of frontend and backend development.
• Expertise in creating static and dynamic websites, along with hands-on experience in CRM development.
• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to analyse and resolve complex issues efficiently.
• In-depth knowledge of PHP frameworks such as CodeIgniter and Laravel, RESTfull APIs.
• Familiarity with version control systems (e.g., Git) and agile methodologies.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work in a collaborative team environment.
• Proficiency in MySQL, SQL
• Should be able to integrate thirdparty APIs

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in deploying and managing web applications on different hosting platforms.

JD:

- 12 + Yrs of total experience along with knowledge and hands-on experience in MERN (Mongo db, Express js, React js and Node js) stack.

- Experience to unblocking and helping technical teams.

- Experience in application architecture design and development

- Expertise in designing scalable applications.

- Experience in working on deployments, cloud infra and CI/CD.

- Full stack development experience 

- Hands on experience in MERN stack.

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Samagra X - Tech Architect

As Samagra expands into Digital Public Goods (DPGs), we’re looking for a Tech Architect to help us shape how open-source products and platforms can transform governments' worldwide function. As Samagra, we pride ourselves on being thoughtful and intentional about the impact that can be created through well-built products and platforms.

In this role, you’ll work with a mission-driven team on some of the world’s most complex governance problems, where technology will play a pivotal role. You’ll design the architecture of platforms, answering

questions like-

• How to deliver quality advisory services to 100mn farmers nationwide?
• How can standardised assessment/practice tools be enabled to ensure FLN1 in children?
• How to build the capacity of paramedical staff in the country?
• How can govt administrators in any domain monitor the progress of flagship programs?
• How to build an open commerce network to connect farmers to the best service providers?

Working at Samagra, you’ll be challenged and rewarded with impact at scale. We value excellence, collaboration, empathy, and high ownership mindset. The most successful candidates will exhibit work that reflects these values. We want you to enable every team member to do their best work. We expect you to have a solid technical background, excellent communication skills, a flare for open-source products/platforms and a commitment to making everyone feel included.

Your Impact

In this role, you’ll have tremendous opportunities to learn, collaborate and impact millions of citizens in India and abroad by transforming how governments function. As a Tech Architect, you will:

• Take Ownership of technical vision for a given DPG - Define standards, drive technical architecture, strategy, and roadmap with the DPG working groups
• Collaborate with the DPG development partner to translate technical vision into a deliverable roadmap and product design. Pitch in with code, code reviews, architectural reviews and technical mentoring
• Work closely with the DPG development partner at various milestones of the product delivery to ensure a high-quality product is delivered and the product meets all the requirements, including debuggability,
• supportability, availability, scalability, cost-efficiency and performance.
• Continuously develop and improve the interface between technology and the DPG community. Ensure
• that overall technical practices are scalable, constantly evaluating tech stacks to cater to evolving business needs.
• Participate in building ecosystems around DPG with the community - build platforms, plugins & apps.
• Ensure all internal processes & external services comply with security, privacy policies and regulations.
• Stay on top of digital trends, principles and paradigms and be able to relate how these trends will affect the DPG community.
• Engage with internal and external collaborators, and maintain relationships/partnerships with internal team members and adopters to develop strategies, goals and objectives consistent with the DPG
• strategy.

Skills required

• Solid technical skills - Strong experience in having architected, built, operated and scaled distributed, large-scale, fault-tolerant systems; Worked on defining problem statements at all levels - RFCs to good first issues. Experience building and cultivating strong engineering practices; Experience with enterprise software development built and delivered on both on-premise and Cloud is preferred; Ability to diagnose technical problems, debug code, and automate tasks; Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Leadership - Mix of intelligence, initiative, integrity, domain knowledge, verbal agility, and tactful stakeholder engagement, which allows you to rapidly earn the trust of astute teams and individuals across the company/community. You have a strong bias for action and being resourceful
• Collaboration and communication - with the geo-distributed teams in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment. Also, able to communicate across functional teams, keeping various engineering, product and business stakeholders informed.
• Planning & execution - Able to own and deliver large projects end to end, keeping track of timelines; keep track of (and context switch between) different threads and ensure that details don’t slip through the cracks

Qualifications

• B. tech/BE(CS/IT) & from Tier 1 or Tier 2 institutes of India/Abroad or equivalent; M. tech/Ph.D. preferred
• 8+ years of software development experience with 4+ years contributing to software architecture
• Experience in architecting, designing, developing, testing, and deploying large-scale, distributed systems.
• Experience in contributing and actively participating in multiple open source projects.
• Strong leadership skills and experience in working with a developer ecosystem.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills to work effectively with internal teams and external stakeholders.
• Automate the development and test automation processes through CI/CD pipeline (Git, Jenkins, Artifactory, Docker containers).
• Experience in one of the following programming languages: Python/Javascript/Typescript/Java.
• Experience with RDBMS (Postgres, MariaDB) and any other large scale distributed database systems.
• Have expertise in one or more areas like building and scaling web apps, Machine Learning, UI Engineering, Information Visualization, etc.

About Samagra

Samagra is a mission-driven governance consulting firm. We co-work with the bureaucratic leadership across states and the Centre on long-term systemic transformation programmes cutting across domains. Since 2012, when Samagra was founded, we have worked with the Government of India and 7 state governments on 15+ large-scale systemic transformation projects in sectors like education, agriculture, skills, employment, and public service delivery. Over the last 5 years, we have also built strong GovTech and DataGov capabilities, now housed under the SamagraX umbrella. Our mission is to improve the quality of life of citizens through better governance. And this mission is

what fuels every goal we chase. Want to know more about Samagra?

Check out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPcPdI2SHwU&;t=4s&ab_channel=Samagra-TransformingGovernance" target="_blank">this masterclass by our Founder and CEO, Gaurav Goel

Our Tech Leadership

Rahul Kulkarni - Chief Technologist

Nitin Kashyap - Senior Vice President - Product

Utkarsh Vijay - Vice President

Sukhpreet Sekhon - Vice President

Suresh Unnikrishnan - Vice President - Engineering

Product Examples

https://www.samagragovernance.in/blog/2023-03-31-leveraging-artificial-intelligence-to-deliver-advisory-to-farmers/" target="_blank">Ama KrushAI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CEo_R8XIhI" target="_blank">Nipun Lakshya App 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kR8m4VS8kqA" target="_blank">e-SAMWAD

https://www.samagragovernance.in/blog/2023-01-16-leveraging-data-science-algorithms-to-improve-data-quality-in-government/" target="_blank">Krushak Odisha database - DataScience

https://www.samagragovernance.in/blog/2023-01-16-leveraging-data-science-algorithms-to-improve-data-quality-in-government/" target="_blank">Sunbird cQube

https://saral.sunbird.org/" target="_blank">Sunbird SARAL

• 2 to 4 years experience in MERN stack
• Good problem-solving technique
• Knowledge of AWS ecosystem is a plus
• Experience in FinTech is a big plus