Software Developer

About the Role

SwitchKart is on a mission to make technology more accessible and more sustainable — we're in the business of recommerce, giving old smartphones a second life, cutting down e-waste, and extending the lifecycle of every device we touch.

We're looking for a Senior Full Stack Developer to help us build and scale the ecosystem of platforms powering this mission — from our procurement app to our retailer app, pricing engines, and warranty systems. You'll take ownership of complex features end-to-end, mentor junior engineers, and make architectural decisions that shape how we grow.

What You'll Do

• Own Features End-to-End: Design, build, and ship full stack features across our procurement, retailer, pricing, and warranty platforms — from database schema to UI polish.

• Drive Architecture: Make key technical decisions on system design, scalability, and code structure as our ecosystem of apps grows.

• Build AI-First: Design and build systems with AI at the core — not bolted on. Think about where AI can automate, assist, or enhance the products you're building from day one.

• Build Scalable Architecture: Build and monitor a highly performant, failure-resistant platform — we take pride in doing this with a small, high-ownership team.

• Automate and Integrate: Develop tools that automate our integration processes and build data pipelines across our app ecosystem.

• Foster Technical Excellence: Champion unit and integration testing and lead meaningful code reviews across the team.

• Prototype and Validate: Create interactive prototypes to prove out technical concepts and participate in pilots for new initiatives.

• Mentor the Team: Guide junior developers through code reviews, pairing, and technical direction.

• Report Upward: Provide regular updates to management on milestones, risks, issues, and mitigation plans.

• Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Work closely with product and design to translate requirements into robust technical solutions across multiple products.

What We're Looking For

Must Have

• 4+ years of full stack development experience

• Strong proficiency in React and Node.js

• Solid experience with PostgreSQL or MySQL — schema design, query optimisation

• Experience designing and scaling production systems

• Experience deploying and managing applications on a cloud platform (AWS/GCP or similar)

• Comfortable owning a feature from concept to deployment

• Strong debugging and problem-solving skills

Good to Have

• Experience mentoring or leading junior engineers

• Track record of driving scalability and time-to-market in past cloud architecture decisions

• Exposure to CI/CD pipelines

• Experience with Docker, NoSQL databases, or distributed caching

• Experience integrating third-party REST/SOAP APIs

• Experience in a fast-moving startup environment

Why SwitchKart

• Real ownership over architecture and technical direction.

• Access to the latest AI coding agents and tools — we invest in keeping our engineers on the cutting edge.

• Work on a genuinely differentiated business with measurable impact.

• Be part of a lean team where your decisions shape the product.

• Opportunity to mentor and grow the engineering team.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain full-stack web applications using MongoDB, Express.js, React.js, and Node.js
• Build and optimise RESTful APIs and micro services
• Work closely with product managers, designers, and developers to deliver scalable solutions
• Write clean, maintainable, and testable code
• Ensure application performance, security, and responsiveness
• Mentor junior developers and contribute to code reviews

🔹 Must-Have Skills

• Strong hands-on experience with MERN stack (MongoDB, Express, React, Node.js)
• Proficiency in JavaScript (ES6+), HTML5, CSS3
• Experience with Redux / State Management in React
• Solid backend expertise with Node.js & Express.js
• Database design, queries, and performance tuning in MongoDB
• Good understanding of REST APIs, authentication (JWT, OAuth)
• Familiarity with Git, CI/CD pipelines, and Agile methodology
• Exposure to cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) is a plus

🎯 Preferred Skills

• Experience with TypeScript
• Knowledge of GraphQL, Docker, Kubernetes
• Unit testing with Jest / Mocha
• Experience mentoring or leading small teams

🎓 Education

• Bachelor's / Master's in Computer Science, IT, or related field

• Develops software solutions by studying information needs, conferring with users, studying systems flow, data usage, and work processes; investigating problem areas; and following the software development lifecycle.
• Determines operational feasibility by evaluating analysis, problem definition, requirements, solution development, and proposed solutions.
• Documents and demonstrates solutions by developing documentation, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts, code comments, and clear code.
• Prepares and installs solutions by determining and designing system specifications, standards, and programming.
• Improves operations by conducting systems analysis and recommending changes in policies and procedures.
• Updates job knowledge by studying state-of-the-art development tools, programming techniques, and computing equipment, and by participating in educational opportunities, reading professional publications, maintaining personal networks, and participating in professional organizations.
• Protects operations by keeping information confidential.
• Provides information by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing development and service issues.
• Accomplishes engineering and organization mission by completing related results as needed.
• Supports and develops software engineers by providing advice, coaching, and educational opportunities.

Senior Full-Stack Engineer

To be successful in your role, it is important that you have…

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent in Computer Science or related field

• 5+ years of using .NET/.NET Core, C#, Angular, JavaScript, HTML

• 5+ years of experience with databases preferably SQL Server and T-SQL

• C# development with multi-threading principles, good knowledge of .Net data structure and objects.

• Experience with working with/ troubleshooting large volume SQL Server databases

• Experience with REST (XML, JSON), SOAP Web Services development using ASP.NET, Web API

• Experience and belief in CI/CD/DevOps

• Strong software product development/engineering with complete understanding of SDLC

• Strong full stack developer and good knowledge of frameworks

• Ability to independently deliver on stories

• Experience mentoring junior developers

• Ability to juggle multiple tasks and prioritize time as per the need

• Effective communication and collaboration and problem-solving skills.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to…

• Develop code for complex problems using .NET/.NET Core, C#, JavaScript, HTML, Angular primarily

• Create REST based API for data driven solutions

• Develop unit test cases to confidently ship your feature.

• Work with Product Owners to understand requirements and help design solutions

• Work in an agile environment

• Work in CI/CD environment using Azure DevOps

• Document design and code development for modules using Confluence

• Help mentor junior resources to implement industry best practices

• Bachelors in Computer Science, Information Systems or equivalent.
• 6 years experience delivering highly available web/mobile applications including 1-3 years as Senior/Lead developer.
• Prior experience in retail domain is a plus.
• 3 years of experience working with distributed teams.
• Deep knowledge of UI Libraries / Frameworks, API (REST), API Management and building scalable and high performance Web APIs.
• Must have experience building websites using Javascript and Java technologies (e.g. Typescript, Spring Boot etc.). Search Engine and Native App development experience is a plus.
• AWS Serverless Cloud native services experience with Lambda functions, SNS, SQS, DynamoDB, API Gateway etc.
• Strong knowledge of Caching frameworks, data structures, algorithms, operating systems, and distributed systems.
• Strong understanding of databases, NoSQL data stores, storage and distributed persistence technologies.
• Strong communication and presentation skills.
• Passionate about enabling next generation experiences.
• Experience with automated testing, deployment pipelines and cloud based infrastructure

• Develop omni-channel digital solutions leveraging serverless and micro services in a cloud based platform to develop backend services.
• Design high/low level solutions, contribute towards architecture and technical roadmap.
• Lead technical implementation/delivery.
• Host/Lead technical discussions.
• Champion software development best practices, test driven development, CI and CD.
• Build cloud native and highly cost efficient solutions.
• Innovate, Unlearn and Disrupt. Research next generation frameworks and technologies.
• Embrace change. 

Technical Roles and Responsibilities

-  Demonstrate a systematic and disciplined architecture, system design and programming approach following a standard software development lifecycle

-  Meticulous attention to detail and strong focus on clear and practical documentation

-  Work closely with senior management, Development Manager, Project Manager, and a team of developers.

- Design, Code, Unit Test and support Software components

-  Deliver quality software in a time following standard software development processes

-  Analyze problems raised in software development or production environments and provide timely solutions

-  Develop, prepare and maintain system documentation, including program descriptions, operational procedures etc.

-  Act as the second line of support during production problems.

Mandatory Skills:

Software Engineering

u  Strong experience in agile methodologies and test driven development.

u  Experience in software development using open source technologies.

u  Experience in automated software testing.

u  Knowledge in domain-driven design, design patterns and enterprise integration patterns.

u  Must have experience in delivering software via complete Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipeline.

Software Development

u  Must be able to code in Java (SpingBoot and Spring Cloud Services).

u  Experience in some of the technologies below:

o PaaS: Pivotal Cloud Foundy/Openshift/ AWS/ Azure/ Docker/ Kubernetes

o Data: MySQL/ Postgres/ Oracle/ MongoDB/ Elasticsearch

o Cache: Redis/ Memcached

o UI: HTML5,Bootstrap, CSS, Angular 4/ ReactJS/RxJS

 - Strong knowledge in CI/CD toolset such as Ansible, Artifactory, Jenkins, BitBucket, SonarQube, Fortify,  Flyway, Jira and Confluence.

-  Strong knowledge in automated testing toolset such as jUnit, Mockito, cucumber, Selenium etc.

-  Strong knowledge in scripting languages such as Groovy and Linux shell.