Software Development Engineer -1

Keka Technologies Private Limited; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 800,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Keka Technologies Private Limited in Bengaluru is looking for a curious and motivated Associate Full-Stack Engineer with around 2 years of experience. You will work closely with senior engineers to contribute to production systems and build impactful features for core platforms.

This role offers a great opportunity to deepen your engineering skills across frontend and backend systems while gaining hands-on exposure to Generative AI applications.

Qualifications

• Minimum 2 years of professional software development experience in a production environment.
• Solid hands-on commercial experience with React.js and Python.
• Strong understanding of core computer science concepts.

Responsibilities

• Build user-facing features using React.js and develop backend services using Python.
• Take ownership of building and integrating user interfaces.
• Investigate full-stack issues and optimize performance.

Skills

React.js

Python

Problem-Solving Mindset

Version Control (Git)

Tools

Node.js

CI/CD Pipelines

Job description

We are looking for a curious, motivated, and tech-savvy Associate Full-Stack Engineer with around 2 years of professional experience to join our team. In this role, you will work closely alongside senior engineers, contributing directly to production systems, implementing full-stack best practices, and building impactful features for our core platforms.

This is an excellent opportunity to deepen your engineering skills across frontend and backend systems while gaining hands-on exposure to production-grade Generative AI applications.

You will:

• Full-Stack Development: Build robust, user-facing features using React.js and develop scalable backend services using Python.
• Explore GenAI: Generative AI features.
• Feature Development: Take ownership of building, scaling, and integrating user interfaces.
• Debug & Optimize: Investigate complex full-stack issues, debug production bottlenecks, and actively work on performance tuning.
• Collaborate & Review: Participate in agile sprint planning, write technical documentation, and actively engage in peer code reviews to maintain high code quality.
• Write Quality Code: Write clean, secure, maintainable, and well-tested code across both the frontend and backend stacks.

Expertise and Qualifications

Must-have:

• Experience: Minimum 2 years of professional software development experience in a product or production environment.
• Core Stack: Solid, hands-on commercial experience with React.js (frontend) and Python (backend).
• Software Fundamentals: Strong understanding of core computer science concepts—Data Structures, Algorithms, and robust web architecture (RESTful APIs, state management, frontend-backend integration).
• Problem-Solving Mindset: Strong logical reasoning, attention to detail, and a proactive approach to troubleshooting UI layout bugs and API bottlenecks.
• Modern Tooling: Proficiency with version control (Git), modern frontend build tools, and experience working with secure-coding or CI/CD pipelines.
• Collaboration: Excellent communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively in a hybrid team setup.

Nice-to-have:

• Node.js Familiarity: Experience or familiarity with Node.js for backend services is a strong plus.