Utsav (utsavapp.in) is a venture-backed devotion-tech startup. Devotees across India book Hindu pujas, temple services and spiritual offerings through our app and website, in five Indian languages. We recently raised our Series A led by Atomic Capital, and we're now engineering the 5→100 chapter.

Our tech team is 4 people, including the Founder & CTO. You'd be the senior-most engineering hire — effectively a founding-team role. A player-coach: you build hands-on every day AND lead the team. No silos, no "not my area" — backend, mobile, infrastructure, data, integrations: all of it is yours.

Our stack and philosophy -

Stack today: Node.js/TypeScript services, React Native (Expo) consumer app, Next.js admin panel, PostgreSQL, GKE on Google Cloud, AWS Lambda + SQS, and multi-gateway payments (Razorpay, PayU, PhonePe).

Philosophy: coding language is no longer a barrier — AI-assisted development has made syntax cheap. What we hire for is vision, competence, imagination, and the discipline to research, learn and implement anything the product needs.

Responsibilities -




- End-to-end ownership of design, build, deployment and operations across the stack
- Institutionalise the experience of scale from your previous companies — reliability, observability, performance, engineering hygiene
- Lead, mentor and raise the bar for a small, high-leverage team
- Rapid research-to-production cycles: evaluate new tech, prototype fast, ship what works
- Partner with the Founder & CTO on architecture and technical strategy
- Own the systems that matter most — bookings under festival-morning load, payments that must never lose a rupee, and an app that has to work on a ₹8,000 phone in a tier-3 town

Qualifications -
- 7–9+ years building and operating production systems, with genuine exposure to scale
- Robust fundamentals: system design, databases, cloud infrastructure, debugging under fire
- Language-agnostic, polyglot builder — tools change, judgment doesn't
- Player-coach leadership

📌 Senior Software Engineer (Bengaluru)
🏢 Utsav App
📍 Bengaluru