Skilled Full Stack Developer

Profile: Full Stack Developer (MERN Stack)

📍 Location: Andheri East, Mumbai

🏤 Work Mode: Full-time

💼 Experience: 2+ Years

What We're Looking For:

✅ 2+ years of MERN Stack experience

✅ Strong proficiency in MongoDB, Express.js, React, Node.js

✅ Docker & Kubernetes knowledge

✅ Redis for caching

✅ RESTful APIs & microservices architecture

✅ Excellent communication skills

About Cognida.ai:

Our Purpose is to boost your competitive advantage using AI and Analytics.

We Deliver tangible business impact with data-driven insights powered by AI. Drive revenue growth, increase profitability and improve operational efficiencies.

We Are technologists with keen business acumen - Forever curious, always on the front lines of technological advancements. Applying our latest learnings, and tools to solve your everyday business challenges.

We Believe the power of AI should not be the exclusive preserve of the few. Every business, regardless of its size or sector deserves the opportunity to harness the power of AI to make better decisions and drive business value.

We See a world where our AI and Analytics solutions democratise decision intelligence for all businesses. With Cognida.ai, our motto is ‘No enterprise left behind’.

Position: Python Fullstack Architect

Location: Hyderabad

Job Summary

We’re seeking a seasoned Python Fullstack Architect with 15+ years of experience to lead solution design, mentor teams, and drive technical excellence across projects. You'll work closely with stakeholders, contribute to architecture governance, and integrate modern technologies across the stack.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and review Python-based fullstack solution architectures.
• Guide development teams on best practices, modern frameworks, and cloud-native patterns.
• Engage with clients to translate business needs into scalable technical solutions.
• Stay current with tech trends and contribute to internal innovation initiatives.

Required Skills

• Strong expertise in Python (Django/Flask/FastAPI) and frontend frameworks (React, Angular, etc.).
• Cloud experience (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and DevOps/CI-CD setup.
• Familiarity with enterprise tools: RabbitMQ, Kafka, OAuth2, PostgreSQL, MongoDB.
• Solid understanding of microservices, API design, batch/stream processing.
• Strong leadership, mentoring, and architectural problem-solving skills.

• Design, develop, and maintain both front-end and back-end web applications.
• Work with front-end technologies like HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and popular frameworks (React, Angular, Vue.js).
• Build and maintain robust, scalable APIs using server-side languages like Node.js, Python, Ruby, or Java.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and other stakeholders to define technical requirements and solutions.
• Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code while following best practices.
• Implement responsive and user-friendly web designs that provide an excellent user experience.
• Work with databases (SQL/NoSQL) and optimize queries for performance.
• Ensure cross-browser compatibility, accessibility standards, and mobile responsiveness.
• Troubleshoot, debug, and upgrade existing applications.
• Participate in code reviews, testing, and ensure the quality of the software delivered.
• Stay updated with the latest industry trends and technologies to continuously improve our development practices.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• Proven experience (X+ years) in full-stack development.
• Strong proficiency in front-end technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React/Angular/Vue.js).
• Experience with back-end technologies (Node.js, Python, Ruby, Java, etc.).
• Familiarity with RESTful API design and development.
• Experience working with databases (MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, etc.).
• Familiarity with version control systems, preferably Git.
• Understanding of agile software development methodologies.
• Ability to collaborate effectively in a team environment.

• Past experience in working with any product start-up is a plus.
• Proficiency in fundamental front end languages such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
• Familiarity with JavaScript frameworks such as Angular JS, React, and others.
• Knowledge of Node.js and frameworks available for it such as Express (recommended).
• Good understanding of asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, and AJAX
• Understanding of REST Services.
• Experience with Redis.
• Familiarity with database technology such as MySQL, MongoDB and Elasticsearch.
• Proficient understanding of serverless programming.
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git.
• Good problem-solving skills.
• Attention to detail.

What you need to have:

• 8+ years of industry work experience
• Proven experience as a Full Stack Developer or similar role
• 3+ years of web application development with JavaScript as full stack
• Full stack experience designing and building scalable applications from end-to-end 
• Excellent JavaScript / Typescript skills
• Strong proficiency in React (hooks knowledge is plus)
• Strong proficiency in Nodejs
• Good HTML5 / CSS3 skills with expertise on responsive web design 
• Must have Design and development experience in Micro services using NodeJS and TypeScript
• Experience with NoSQL databases such as MongoDB, mongoose, aggregation framework and Redis 
• Experience with Web sockets and related frameworks (e.g. Socket.IO) 
• Experience in using and developing GraphQL APIs
• Experience in performance tuning
• Knowledge of code versioning tools such as Git, Mercurial or SVN.
• Open minded to take up any challenge, research and provide solutions Great attention to detail

• Testing libraries – jest, testing-library is plus
• TDD / BDD experience is plus
• Experience with AWS, K8S, CI/CD is plus
• Familiar with SDLC methodologies like SCRUM, AGILE, Continuous Integration

• Design – Analyze, design & document the system / solution based on the business needs which is scalable, resilient and maintainable with low overhead for both client and server side
• Problem solving – Solve the challenges and problems faced by team by guiding and team with best practices
• Coordinate - Communicate system requirements to developers; explain system structure to them and provide assistance

• • Code Reviews – Perform code reviews 

• • Planning – Plan and assign tasks to team members

Roles & Responsibilities:

• As one of the earliest employees, there will be a lot on your plate. All the time!
• You'll build new product features from start to finish: through conception, research, maintenance, and polish. Think features to improve our collaborative student learning platform, such as new collaborative learning activities for teaching coding and other subjects.
• You'll build improvements to performance, reliability, and product polish — for example, improving the efficiency and performance of our replicated state systems.
• You'll build and improve processes and internal tools with simplicity and productivity in mind — such as, a tool to sync updates between zoho, slack etc.

This might be for you if...

• You have knowledge of ReactJS and any backend technology along with that
• You have been professionally coding for at least 3 years
• You have worked in a startup and relish the chaos and pressure
• You've built and maintained quality user interfaces that have reached a large audience, ideally while the product is experiencing rapid growth.
• You can readily learn most technologies as you go. To you, technologies are about tools and tradeoffs, not an ideology.
• You care about the business implications of anything you build. You're not just going after cool stuff — you understand the balance between craft, speed, and the bottom line.

• 1-2 years of work experience, preferably in a startup
• An engineering degree from a reputed college or University
• Hands-on experience in developing end-to-end applications using Node.Js, ReactJs,
• Knowledge of HTML/CSS, web standards, best practices
• Experience of working with databases - MySQL, MongoDB
• Good understanding of asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, and AJAX
• An experience in writing clean, semantic code with cross-browser compatibility in mind
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git/SVN
• Excellent coding and debugging skills
• A passion and the ability to make beautiful, smooth, delightful web experiences
• A Will-Do attitude

• A team of aces, from top-tier schools and startups, to work with
• A fast-paced, data-driven, and fun work environment
• A huge appetite for new, disruptive, creative and implementable ideas
• An open work culture

• Competitive salary
• Great working environment, opportunity to work directly with the founders on very exciting real-life problems.
• Opportunity to grow really fast.

• Shortlist
• Intro call of 15min
• 1-2 Tech rounds
• HR round
• Offer rollout

• 2+ years of software development experience
• Experience designing, implementing and using web services in a Microservice Architecture
• Experience and a good understanding of Node.JS
• Experience in working with any JavaScript frameworks (React, Ember, Knockout, etc.)
• Familiar with relational & non-relational databases such as Postgres, Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, Dynamo
• Familiar with CI (Continuous Integration) and CD (Continuous Delivery)
• Nice to have - Experience with AWS  
• Nice to have - Experience working in an agile development process

• See the inherent challenges in all things; if a task is complicated, you simplify it; if it is simple, you excel at it; if it is mundane, you automate it
• Be a problem solver; be given any problem and will come back with solutions, or at least alternatives
• Be a perfectionist; you are not satisfied until your code is rock solid
• Be pragmatic; you implement the best solution for the problem, not the coolest solution, and can tell the difference
• See the big picture; we write software to solve real business problems