Senior Software Engineer (7+ yrs) — Utsav | Bengaluru

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

• Strong fundamentals: system design, databases, cloud infrastructure, debugging under fire

• Language-agnostic, polyglot builder — tools change, judgment doesn’t

• Player-coach leadership: leads without ego, ships without hand-holding

• Curious, research-oriented, high-energy — genuinely fun to build with

Good to have -

• Consumer-scale product experience, especially with traffic that spikes on specific days

• Payment gateway or fintech-grade correctness work

• React Native, Kubernetes, or high-concurrency PostgreSQL experience

Who should not apply -

Narrow specialists unwilling to work outside one layer of the stack, or candidates optimising for brand-name comfort and predictable scope. This is not a comfortable job — it’s a founding-team one.

What we offer -

• Competitive salary plus ESOPs

• A live product with real users, real revenue and real scale problems

• A direct line to the Founder & CTO — no layers, no politics, no waiting for approvals

• The chance to define engineering culture at a company before it hardens

Location - Bengaluru, on-site (5 days a week).

How to apply : Apply here on LinkedIn, or email your resume to [email protected] with the subject “SSE — Your Name”. We review every application and respond to shortlisted candidates within a week.