full stack developer (React & Java)

Job Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled Full Stack Engineer with 2+ years of hands-on experience to join our high-impact engineering team. You will work across the full stack—building scalable, high-performance frontends using Typescript & Next.js and developing robust backend services using Python (FastAPI/Django).

This role is crucial in shaping product experiences and driving innovation at scale.

Mandatory Candidate Background

• Experience working in product-based companies only
• Strong academic background
• Stable work history
• Excellent coding skills and hands-on development experience
• Strong foundation in Data Structures & Algorithms (DSA)
• Strong problem-solving mindset
• Understanding of clean architecture and code quality best practices

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable full-stack applications
• Build responsive, performant, user-friendly UIs using Typescript & Next.js
• Develop APIs and backend services using Python (FastAPI/Django)
• Collaborate with product, design, and business teams to translate requirements into technical solutions
• Ensure code quality, security, and performance across the stack
• Own features end-to-end: architecture, development, deployment, and monitoring
• Contribute to system design, best practices, and the overall technical roadmap

Requirements

Must-Have:

• 2+ years of professional full-stack engineering experience
• Strong expertise in Typescript / Next.js OR Python (FastAPI, Django) — must be familiar with both areas
• Experience building RESTful APIs and microservices
• Hands-on experience with Git, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure)
• Strong debugging, optimization, and problem-solving abilities
• Comfortable working in fast-paced startup environments

Good-to-Have:

• Experience with containerization (Docker/Kubernetes)
• Exposure to message queues or event-driven architectures
• Familiarity with modern DevOps and observability tooling

Software Engineer/ Associate Software Engineer Full stack/ Java track/ UI/ Android

Skills required: -

• Strong knowhow of data-structures and algorithms. -

• Strong core server-side technologies experience (Java/ other) and / or having any of front end/UI skills (Angular, JS, HTML).
  Knowledge of Android is a huge plus. -

• Strong understanding of OO/ design and good software development practices. 

• Strong database skills and good knowhow of databases. -

• Exposure to configuration management, testing, deployment. -

• Hands on development across technologies.

• Exp - 2-4 years
  B.E/ B.Tech (Computer Science/ Equivalent) from a reputed institute.

   

Alternately: -

• Excellent front end/UI skills (JS, HTML, Angular, Flutter) and OR Android skills. 

• Understanding of nodeJS, server-side technologies, exposure to databases. 

• Deep knowhow of data structures, algorithms. -

• Hands on development across technologies.

• Exp- 2-4yrs

• Grad- B.E/ B.Tech (Computer Science/ Equivalent) from a reputed institute

Job Description

Technical lead who will be responsible for development, managing team(s), monitoring the tasks / sprint. They will also work with BA Persons to gather the new requirements and change request. They will help solve application issues and helping developers when they are stuck.

Responsibilities

·       Design and develop application based on the architecture provided by the solution architects.

·       Help team members and co developers to achieve their tasks.

·       Maintain / monitor the new work items and support issues and have to assign it to the respective developers.

·       Communicate with BA persons and Solution architects for the new requirements and change requests.

·       Resolve any support tickets with the help of your team within service timelines.

·       Manage sprint to achieve the targets.

Technical Skills

·       Microsoft .NET MVC

·       .NET Core 3.1 or greater

·       C#

·       Web API

·       Async Programming, Threading, and tasks

·       Test Driven Development 

·       Strong expert in SQL (Table Design, Programing, Optimization)

·       Azure Functions

·       Azure Storage

·       MongoDB, NoSQL

Qualifications/Skills Desired:

·       Any Bachelor’s degree relevant to Computer Science. MBA or equivalent is a plus

·       Minimum of 8-10 years IT experience and managing a team(s) out of which 4-5 years should be as a technical/team lead.

·       Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to adapt to many different personalities and conflict resolution skills required

·       Must have excellent organizational and time management skills with strong attention to detail

·       Confidentiality with privacy-sensitive customer and employee documents

·       Strong work ethic - demonstrate good attitude and judgment, discretion, and maintain high level of confidentiality

·       Previous experience of customer interactions

Job Description

• Independently own one or more multiple modules, which includes: requirement analysis, design, development, maintenance & support
• Write extensive, efficient code to address complex modules and that handles interaction between multiple components.
• Rapidly iterate to add new functionalities and solves complex problems with simple and intuitive solutions
• Produce architecture with clean interfaces, that are efficient and scalable
• Participate and contribute to architectural discussions
• Perform design and code reviews
• Perform technical feasibility and trade off studies & guides others to perform these studies
• Solve production issues. Investigate and provide solutions to minimize the business impact due to outage
• Continuously improve performance metrics of modules you own.
• Collaborate effectively across teams to solve problems, execute and deliver results

Requirements

• 2+ years of relevant industry experience in MERN stack
• A deep understanding of JavaScript
• Experience working with SQL and NoSQL databases
• Experience with Unit and Integration tests
• Experience with CI/CD
• Experience with MathJax/Latex
• Experience with large scale video streaming

• Proven experience as a Full Stack Developer or similar role with 2+ years of experience.
• Experience developing desktop and mobile applications
• Strong knowledge of at least one back-end languages (preferably Python/Ruby/ Node.js) and JavaScript frameworks (e.g. Angular, React)
• Familiarity with databases (e.g. MySQL, MongoDB), web servers (e.g. Apache) and UI/UX design
• Database design and management, including being up on the latest practices and associated versions
• For us, security is of utmost importance - You understand security concepts deeply and write code to protect us and our users.
• Should be able to architect robust Restful APIs
• Proactive, Strong Result orientation (propose solutions based on product capabilities) and Creativity.
• Good knowledge and understanding of the product development life cycles.
• Good verbal and written communication skills (Advanced English)
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team

What you need to have:

• upGrad was awarded the Best Tech for Education by IAMAI for 2018-19,
• upGrad was also ranked as one of the LinkedIn Top Startups 2018: The 25 most sought-after startups in India.
• upGrad was earlier selected as one of the top ten most innovative companies in India by FastCompany.
• We were also covered by the Financial Times along with other disruptors in Ed-Tech.
• upGrad is the official education partner for Government of India - Startup India program.
• Our program with IIIT B has been ranked #1 program in the country in the domain of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.

• Writing clean, high-quality, high-performance, maintainable code.
• Develop and support software including applications, database integration, interfaces, and new functionality enhancements.
• Coordinate cross-functionally to insure project meets business objectives and compliance standards. 
• Support test and deployment of new products and features.
• Participate in code reviews.

• A highly talented developer with 6-9 years of hands-on experience in building secure and scalable web based applications using Java in backend and JS based frontend frameworks
• Strong knowledge of Java 8+, databases (SQL and NoSQL) , MySql, Mongo
• Experience working with Cassandra, Spring Boot, Apache Spark, Kafka, RabbitMQ is highly desirable.
• Working knowledge of any one or more of AngularJS/ReactJS/VueJS and CSS3, HTML5.
• Strong experience in data modelling for data storage tools in SQL; experience with noSQL is highly desirable.
• Experience building scalable solutions for 2x, 5x and 10x growth with high quality and flexibility.
• Practitioner of test driven development practices. Experience in creating and adhering to best practices for development.
• Experience working with container technologies like Docker and knowledge of CI/CD processes for automated integration and deployment. Basic knowledge of AWS preferred.
• Strong experience in Microservices (SRP) paradigm.
• Willing to learn new technologies (Golang).