Solution Architect

Job Description – Full Stack Developer (React + Node.js)

Experience: 5–8 Years

Location: Pune

Work Mode: WFO

Employment Type: Full-time

About the Role

We are looking for an experienced Full Stack Developer with strong hands-on expertise in React and Node.js to join our engineering team. The ideal candidate should have solid experience building scalable applications, working with production systems, and collaborating in high-performance tech environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable full-stack applications using React and Node.js.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and deliver new features.
• Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code following OOP/FP and SOLID principles.
• Work with relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL.
• Deploy and manage applications in cloud environments (preferably GCP or AWS).
• Optimize application performance, troubleshoot issues, and ensure high availability in production systems.
• Utilize containerization tools like Docker for efficient development and deployment workflows.
• Integrate third-party services and APIs, including AI APIs and tools.
• Contribute to improving development processes, documentation, and best practices.

Required Skills

• Strong experience with React.js (frontend).
• Solid hands-on experience with Node.js (backend).
• Good understanding of relational databases: PostgreSQL / MySQL.
• Experience working in production environments and debugging live systems.
• Strong understanding of OOP or Functional Programming, and clean coding standards.
• Knowledge of Docker or other containerization tools.
• Experience with cloud platforms (GCP or AWS).
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Good to Have

• Experience with Golang or Elixir.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes, RabbitMQ, Redis, etc.
• Contributions to open-source projects.
• Previous experience working with AI APIs or machine learning tools.

Note: Apply only if you have worked minimum of 2 years  in your current organisation 

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering with specialization in Computer science or related field
• 5+ years of experience as a software engineer in a product development setting
• Love of technology and experience with one or more programming languages from Java, Python, or Go
• Experience in full-stack development including designing APIs and integration patterns, implementing security, implementing frameworks for Unit and End-to-End testing
• Experience with micro-services architecture
• Experience in one or more frameworks like Spring, GRPC, Flask, etc.
• Extensive experience in a test-driven development environment
• Understanding of CI/CD practices including code check-in policies, automated unit tests, automated code deployments, etc.
• Ability to grasp new technologies and use them effectively to create industrial-strength software.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Good communication skills. You can communicate well in the English language with product managers, your team members, and external stakeholders, to understand their needs and convey yours, in a clear, precise manner - verbally, or in writing. 
• Strong collaboration skills. You have demonstrated the ability to work with both - senior & junior technical professionals and get work done. You quickly earn the trust of the people you work with. People enjoy and have fun working with you.
• Deadline oriented. You understand that deadlines are meant to be met. Challenges will surface, and obstacles and roadblocks will cause delays, but you plan for them in advance and still ship your features on time to meet your commitments.
• Bias for action. Your default setting is to take action, and not wait for things to happen. You love to learn about new technologies and advancements in the software industry.

Role & Responsibilities

• Design and develop complex, scalable web applications using Django and Python.
• Collaborate closely with the product and design teams to define feature specifications.
• Contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle - requirements analysis, development, testing, and production release.
• Proactively identify bottlenecks in the system and work to mitigate them.
• Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications.
• Interface with clients to understand their business, goals, and visions for products.
• Assist in the preparation and execution of technical meetings with clients.
• Provide technical support to clients, help them understand our services, and resolve their issues timely.

Preferred Candidate Profile

• 3+ years of experience in Django and Python development.
• Strong understanding of the Django framework and Python language.
• Good understanding of front-end technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, AJAX).
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs and Django Rest Framework.
• Experience in working with relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL).
• Excellent debugging and optimization skills.
• Good understanding of software design patterns and principles.
• Must be fluent in English, with excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Comfortable with working in a client-facing role and able to handle communications effectively.
• Ability to work independently in a remote setup, manage tasks and time effectively.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, or a related field.

Perks and Benefits 

• Salary: ₹ 7,00,000 per annum.
• Work-from-home opportunity, offering a flexible work schedule.
• Regular virtual team bonding activities.
• Continuous learning opportunities with access to online courses.
• Performance-based bonus structure.
• Opportunities for growth and career advancement in a fast-growing company.
• A team that values and prioritizes work-life balance.

If you meet the qualifications above and are interested in pursuing this role, we would love to hear from you. Apply now and join our dynamic team!

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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

Overview:

Role: Software Development - Other

Industry Type: IT Services & Consulting

Department: Engineering - Software & QA

Role Category: Software Development

Responsibilities

• Hands-on developer who can breakdown a large/complex problem, quickly

derive an efficient design, document and implement the core framework.

• Demonstrated appreciation for code performance, scalability, and extensibility.

• Understands big picture/business cases behind individual requirements and attempts to

offer lower cost solutions.

• Oversees requirement, project planning, design reviews, and feature

implementation.

• Develop and maintain effective automated unit test coverage of new and existing code.

• Write quality, testable, maintainable, and well-documented code.

Qualification:

•Ready to relocate to Ahmedabad, Gujarat

•Solid understanding of object-oriented programming (OOP).

•Web API and MVC Framework.

•C# with .NET or .NET Core.

•Good MS SQL experience and database development using T-SQL.

•Familiarity with common developer tools GIT, SVN, or TFS.

• JavaScript frameworks such as jQuery / Angular framework / React js.

•Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.

Key Skills

• Angular

• MVC Framework

• CSS

• .Net

• JavaScript

• HTML

• JavaScript Framework

Perks and Benefits

• Rewards and Recognition.

• Flexible working hours.

• Exposure to international market

Mentor To Go is an android and web based platform to help students improve their work readiness through self-learning sessions, personalised mentorship provided by mentor professionals from a range of careers, and work experience opportunities.

The technology platform implements  functionalities such as: screening surveys of mentors and mentees, training content for mentors, matching through an algorithm, and mentorship through the delivery of structured activities. 

The application technology architecture comprises of the following:

o   a Python Django web application with NGinx and Gunicorn

o   PostgreSQL database

o   A React Android and Web app

o   Rest APIs which interact between the Android app and the Django webserver

Our vision at Mentor To Go is to provide career mentorship to young people anywhere, anytime across the length and breadth of India.

We are looking for a backend software developer who is passionate about using web technologies to solve social problems and creating experiences that are elegant and effective. You will own the back end development of features of the Mentor To Go platform from conceptualisation through design and testing, working closely with other developers, the technical project manager, and the program operations team. You are user-centric, continuously demonstrate strategic & analytical abilities, and are laser focused on executing at speed. You must have the ability to succeed in a fast paced environment, where success is dependent on your ability to collaborate with cross-functional team members in a positive, productive, and transparent way.

Minimum requirements 

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering preferably  CS  or related discipline  
• 3+ years experience working in Unix/Linux environments building web and mobile applications
• Proficiency in developing and deploying cloud based Python/Postgresql applications preferably using frameworks such as Django
• Experience with design and development of moderately complex software projects
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Familiarity with version control software such as Git

Desired  requirements 

• 5+ years of overall relevant work experience
• Experience building apps using React/React-Native
• Basic understanding of AWS cloud
• Ability to participate in technical discussions and help make technical trade-offs

About Mentor Together

https://mentortogether.org/">Mentor Together is India’s first and largest youth mentoring  non-profit organization with a mission to facilitate empowering mentoring relationships and networks that help young people break the inequalities of opportunity and actualise their potential.

http://bit.ly/mentortogo">Mentor To Go is the world’s first mobile mentoring platform created by Mentor Together with the support of Cisco India, LinkedIn Social Impact, British Telecom and Sterlite Technologies.

Major Responsibility/ Job Responsibility:    

Strong knowledge with Java frameworks (Spring, Hibernate, Mybatis)

Strong core Java 7 or Java 8 skills (with good understanding of multithreading and performance tuning)

Strong understanding of object-oriented design patterns.

Strong experience in Architecture & Designing, Web services (Rest or SOAP)

Good knowledge on Jasper Reports, iReports & XML

Strong understanding and experience on JavaScript (object oriented), AJAX, JQuery, Anuglar 2 or 4, Primefaces

Good knowledge on SQL and PL/SQL for Postgres, Oracle database

Good understanding of application and web servers – JBOSS, TOMCAT, JETTY

Hands- on experience for Eclipse IDE

Self-learner willing to experiment with latest features

Team player, willing to take responsibility and contribute

Experience in Waterfall/Agile development

Good communication skills both written and oral.

Hands on Experience with Unit Testing of Application using Junit Framework.

Key Result Areas:

Requirement analysis, design, Coding & unit testing

Technical documentation

Timely delivery of module with good quality

Sound knowledge on OOAD

Sound knowledge on n-tier, MVC architecture

Necessary Qualification/ Technical Skills:

2-5 years of total IT experience

Strong knowledge with Java frameworks (Spring, Hibernate, mybatis,)

Strong core Java 7 or Java 8 skills (with good understanding of multithreading and performance tuning)

Strong understanding and experience on JavaScript (object oriented), AJAX, JQuery, Anuglar 2 or 4,Primefaces

Good knowledge on Jasper Reports, iReports & XML

Good knowledge on SQL or PL/SQL for Postgres, MySQL, Oracle database.

Good understanding of application and web servers – JBOSS,TOMCAT,JETTY

Desirable:

Experience in short release cycles & full software life cycle.

Entire SDLC knowledge

Demonstrated problem solving, analytic and troubleshooting skills.

Basic/Advanced Java Certification

Special Skills (If Any):

Experience in Performance Tuning and creation of secured applications

Experience with high volume and highly scalable application is a plus.

Experience in Transport, Logistics & Finance domain