About the job

Role: Senior Full-Stack Product Engineer

Location: Remote / Chennai

Job Type: Full-Time

Experience: 5+ years mandatory

Start Date: Immediate

Screening Priority: Proven leadership and end-to-end product and mobile app development experience in start-up environments.

About the role:

We’re building a mobile-first hyperlocal super app that unifies commerce, services, logistics, and payments into a single operating system.

This is not a feature-shipping role.

This is a 0→1, founder-level engineering role — where you will:

- Architect systems from first principles
- Ship end-to-end products independently
- Own critical decisions across product, engineering, and scale

You will work directly with the founder and operate as a full-stack owner , not a contributor.

Perks

- Work from anywhere. Own your time. Deliver outcomes. Fully remote with flexible hours, with occasional travel as required
- Work from Bali, Thailand, Vietnam, etc — on us. Sponsored overseas workcation after one year (flights + stay covered)
- Not your typical offsites. Milestone-based team experiences (India + overseas) — escape rooms, private chef dinners, race track days
- Build with the best tools. Premium hardware + access to leading AI tools (e.g., Claude Pro/Max)
- Real ownership from day one. Shape product and technical decisions directly
- Grow into leadership. Clear path to Head of Engineering
- See the full picture. Direct exposure to product, GTM, and scaling decisions
- Stability + ambition. Backed by a public limited company with startup-level ownership

What You’ll Build You will design and ship core systems such as:

- Merchant Onboarding

-KYC, verification, compliance workflows
- Hyperlocal Discovery

-Tools that power real-world execution at scale -Geo-based ranking, density optimization, supply-demand matching
- Internal Ops Systems

-Tools that power real-world execution at scale





What You Own

- Build production-grade systems from scratch
- Translate ambiguous ideas → architecture → shipped product
- Own the entire lifecycle :
- Design → Build → Deploy → Monitor → Iterate
- Make high-stakes technical decisions independently
- Design systems that scale across:

-Commerce (food, grocery, retail) -Services (home services, salons, etc.)

-Logistics + financial flows

System Design & Architecture

- Design system architecture from first principles based on product needs
- Make pragmatic trade-offs between speed, scalability, and complexity
- Build systems that handle real-world constraints (data inconsistency, async workflows, geo-based logic)
- Model data effectively across SQL and NoSQL systems
- Evolve architecture over time as the product and scale grow

Tech Expectations

Frontend (React Ecosystem)

- Deep expertise in React + Next.js (App Router)
- Strong grasp of:

-SSR, SSG, ISR, edge middleware -Advanced patterns (compound components, hooks architecture)
- State management judgment:

-Zustand / Redux Toolkit / React Query — knows when to use what

- Performance-first mindset:

-Rendering strategies, lazy loading, bundle optimization Backend (Node.js)

- Strong experience with Node.js + Typescript
- Ability to design:

-Scalable REST APIs (versioning, rate limiting, fault tolerance)
- Experience with:

-Distributed systems -Event-driven architectures / queues (BullMQ, RabbitMQ, etc.)
- Writes clean, maintainable, production-grade code

Data & Systems Design





- Strong fundamentals in:

-Schema design (SQL + NoSQL) -Indexing, performance, trade-offs
- Experience with:

-PostgreSQL / MySQL / MongoDB / Redis
- Understands:

-Caching strategies -Data consistency vs speed trade-offs

Auth & Security

- Hands-on with:

-JWT, OAuth2, session management, refresh tokens
- Builds:

-RBAC and permission systems
- Solid understanding of:

-CORS, CSRF, injection risks, secrets management Nice to Have (High Leverage)

- Exposure to Python (FastAPI / Django / Flask)
- Familiarity with mobile (React Native / Flutter)
- Experience with AI tooling (Copilot, Claude, etc.) as a thinking partner — not a crutch

Product Mindset (Non-Negotiable)

- Thinks in systems, not tickets
- Can convert vague ideas → structured execution
- Challenges assumptions before building
- Operates with high ownership and zero hand-holding
- Optimizes for speed and correctness

Deployment & Production Ownership

- Comfortable with:

-CI/CD (GitHub Actions, etc.) -Cloud platforms (AWS / GCP / Vercel / DO)
- Sets up:

-Monitoring, logging, alerting (Sentry, Datadog, etc.)
- Handles:

-Production incidents, debugging, rollback strategies

Who This Is For

You’ll thrive if

- You’ve built 0→1 products in the real world
- You enjoy owning entire systems, not parts
- You move rapid without waiting for instructions
- You’re comfortable with ambiguity and responsibility

Who This Is NOT For

- Engineers who need detailed specs for everything
- Resume-driven “stack collectors”
- People looking to contribute to a small module

Why This Role Matters

- You’ll help build a super app architecture (rare, complex, high impact)
- Work across multiple real-world systems :

-Commerce + services + logistics + payments
- Direct exposure to:

-Product strategy -GTM

-Real scaling challenges

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