Senior Full-Stack Engineer - React Native & Node.js

About the job

Role: Senior Full-Stack Engineer - React Native & Node.js

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 startup 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 fast 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