Full Stack SDE

Company Description

NikahForever is Indias most trusted Muslim Matrimony platform, committed to making marriages more convenient and fostering a better community. With over 65,000+ success stories and 2million members, we are revolutionizing the way people approach marriages. By leveraging an AI-powered algorithm, NikahForever simplifies the process of finding a match through three simple stepsRegister, Search, and Connect. Our mission is to enhance matrimonial experiences while staying rooted in cultural values.

Role Overview

We are looking for a High ownership Software Development Engineer (SDE) who can contribute across backend systems, mobile applications, and DevOps workflows.

This is not a ticket-pushing role.

You will:

• Design

• Build

• Deploy

• Monitor

• Improve real systems handling real users and real traffic.

You will work on scalable backend services, production-grade mobile apps, and cloud infrastructure and take end-to-end ownership from feature planning to deployment and monitoring.

Core Responsibilities Engineering Ownership

• Own features end-to-end: design development deployment monitoring

• Think beyond implementation consider scalability, reliability, and cost

• Debug production issues and drive root-cause analysis

• Participate in code reviews and architectural discussions

• Write clean, testable, and maintainable code

Backend Development (Node.js / TypeScript / SQL/ NoSQL, Python)

• Design scalable and modular backend architectures

• Build and optimize RESTful APIs

• Handle async programming and concurrency efficiently

• Optimize database schema, indexes, and queries

• Work with large datasets and high-traffic services

• Improve system performance and observability

• Implement caching (Redis / in-memory)

• Basic understanding of background jobs / message queues

Mobile App Development (Android & iOS)

• Build production-grade Flutter apps using MVVM architecture

• Implement scalable state management (BLOC / Provider mandatory)

• Integrate REST APIs, WebSockets, Firebase, and third-party SDKs

• Improve app performance, crash-free rate, and app size

• Participate in feature planning and release cycles

• Collaborate closely with Backend, Product, Design & QA

• Contribute to CI/CD and app deployment (Play Store / App Store bonus)

DevOps & Infrastructure

• Assist in CI/CD pipeline setup (build, test, deploy)

• Deploy and manage services on Linux (staging & production)

• Work with AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, basic IAM)

• Manage Dockerized services (multi-stage builds, containerization)

• Basic Kubernetes awareness (pods, services, deployments)

• Perform server health checks, log analysis & troubleshooting

• Configure monitoring & alerting (CloudWatch / Prometheus / Datadog)

• Handle SSL, DNS basics, reverse proxies (Nginx / Apache)

• Manage secrets and access responsibly

• Support uptime, backups, and security patches

Technical RequirementsBackend

• Strong fundamentals in Node.js, Express, TypeScript

• Solid MySQL knowledge (schema design, indexing, query optimization)

• Understanding of async programming, event loop & concurrency

• Strong DSA and problem-solving ability

• Understanding of time/space trade-offs

Flutter

• Strong Flutter & Dart fundamentals

• Experience with BLOC / Provider (mandatory)

• REST API & JSON handling

• Firebase basics (Auth, FCM, Crashlytics plus)

• Performance optimization awareness

DevOps

• Comfortable with Linux (SSH, logs, processes, systemctl)

• Basic networking knowledge (IP, DNS, ports, HTTP/HTTPS)

• Familiar with Git & branching workflows

• Basic Bash scripting

• Exposure to Docker

• Basic CI/CD awareness

Tools & Ecosystem

• Git & GitHub (PR-driven workflow)

• Docker / Docker Compose

• AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, IAM basics)

• Monitoring tools (Datadog / Prometheus / CloudWatch)

• AI Developer Tools:

• GitHub Copilot

• Cursor / similar AI IDEs

• Codex-style assistants

We expect smart usage of AI tools not blind dependency.

What Defines Success in This Role

• You take ownership instead of waiting for instructions

• You think in terms of scalability, reliability, and cost

• You proactively identify bottlenecks

• You care about performance and observability

• You ship features independently

• You write code that scales with both traffic and team size

Preferred (Nice to Have)

• Exposure to microservices architecture

• Caching strategies (Redis)

• Message queues / background workers

• Monitoring & logging experience

• PM2 & process management knowledge

• CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions / Jenkins)

• Infrastructure as Code exposure (Terraform / Ansible)

What Youll Learn & Grow Into

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• Designing production-grade scalable systems

• Handling high-traffic backend services

• Mobile architecture best practices

• Cloud deployment & infrastructure automation

• Making real architecture decisions under constraints

• Growing into SDE-2 / Backend Lead / Full-Stack Lead roles

Who Should Apply

• Engineers who want real ownership

• evelopers curious about scale and architecture

• Builders who enjoy solving hard backend + infra problems

• Product-oriented engineers (not just task executors)

• Engineers who want fast growth in a startup environment

Founder's Desk:

We are looking for more than a developer. We need a craftsman who understands that performance is measured not just in milliseconds, but in moments of delight. Who sees that scalability means being able to hold the dreams of millions, not just handle their traffic. Who believes that elegant code is the invisible thread weaving stories of "forever."

-CEO Nikah Forever