What are we looking for?

Take over Retail applications from partners and drive new change requests, features and enhancements. Quickly understand the existing architecture and deliver end-to-end solutions, across mobile and backend, with speed and quality. Start as a hands-on individual contributor, then onboard junior developers and grow into technical leadership.

Primary focus: build and enhance applications and their backend services, with production support when required

What does the job entail?

Key Responsibilities

- Own the technical handover, architecture understanding and codebase transition.
- Deliver change requests end to end: analysis, design, development, testing and release across mobile and backend.
- Design backend APIs and mobile changes together, so that the design and code are aligned and do not need rework later.
- Improve application speed, stability, security and maintainability.
- Implement authentication, SSO, token/session management and API gateway integrations.
- Build and maintain REST APIs in Node.js and Java/Spring Boot.
- Automate mobile and API testing, and work with DevOps on GitHub Actions CI/CD.
- Own App Store Connect and Google Play Console management, including signing, submissions, compliance and phased rollouts.
- Onboard and mentor junior developers, review their code, and resolve production issues when required.

Work Experience

8–10 years in software engineering,



including at least 4 years in production React Native

Essential Qualification

B Tech, BE, BSc IT,BCA

Preferred Skills

Must Have

- 8–10 years in software engineering, including at least 4 years in production React Native
- Strong hands-on skills in React Native, TypeScript and JavaScript
- Has shipped at least 4-5 production Android/iOS apps, and has maintained them after release
- Has taken over an existing application from another team and got it running in production
- Solid technical analysis, and ability to deliver within an existing architecture
- Has built production REST APIs in Node.js and/or Java/Spring Boot, with depth in backend design: data models, business logic, error handling and versioning
- Experience with authentication, token/session management and API gateway integration
- Has diagnosed performance and stability issues using profiling, monitoring and crash analytics
- Experience with automated testing, GitHub, CI/CD, and App Store / Google Play releases
- Has onboarded or mentored other developers
- Follow the security standard OWASP MASVS or similar mobile security standards

Good to Have

- Working knowledge of both Node.js or Java/Spring Boot
- Web development, including Next.js
- Insurance, BFSI or another regulated domain
- Apigee, Keycloak, Kafka
- AWS or containerised services
- Formal release governance, or vendor-to-in-house transition

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