Senior Software Engineer - GCP & React

Role overview

Senior Software Engineer - GCP & React at Fulcrum Digital

Technical leadership & architecture

This role suits an engineer who enjoys owning outcomes end to end, from architecture through to production reliability.

Responsibilities

• Solution design — Own the end-to-end architecture of cloud-native applications on GCP, balancing performance, cost, security and maintainability.
• Standards — Design, develop, and optimize queries and analytics using BigQuery for reporting and data insights.
• Manage deployments, monitoring, and troubleshooting in Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Decisions — Make and document key technical decisions, weighing trade-offs transparently for stakeholders.
• Ensure application uptime, performance, and reliability, including support for production incidents.
• Act as the single point of accountability for the application, liaising with stakeholders, business users, and other technical teams Hands-on delivery
• Full-stack build — Design and build backend services and APIs in Java (Spring Boot)/Python, and modern, responsive front-ends in React.
• Cloud delivery — Deploy, monitor and optimise workloads on GCP using managed services, containers and CI/CD pipelines.
• Work with GCP services such as Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, Cloud Storage, Pub/Sub, API Gateway, BigQuery, or equivalent services based on project requirements.
• Quality — Contribute production-quality code, conduct code reviews, and uphold test coverage and quality gates.
• People & collaboration
• Mentorship — Mentor and grow a squad of mid and junior engineers; provide technical coaching and career guidance.
• Stakeholders — Partner with product owners, designers and client stakeholders to shape scope and sequence delivery.
• Delivery — Support estimation, sprint planning and risk management as part of an agile delivery team.
• Requirements Required Skills & Experience We expect a strong, hands-on engineer with a proven track record of leading full-stack teams in a cloud-first environment.
• Area What we're looking for Experience 8+ years in software engineering, including 2+ years in a technical lead or senior lead capacity.
• Java / Python (Backend) Deep expertise in Java and Spring Boot/Python; RESTful API design, microservices, and strong understanding of concurrency, JVM performance and testing.Web Components React (Frontend) Strong hands-on experience with React.js.
• Good knowledge of JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML5, and CSS3.
• Experience with React hooks, state management, reusable components, and API integration.
• Understanding of responsive web design.
• Google Cloud (GCP) Practical experience with GCP services such as GKE, Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, Pub/Sub, Cloud SQL / Firestore, and IAM.
• App Engine (application deployment, scaling, monitoring) Cloud Datastore / Firestore (data modeling, indexing, query optimization) BigQuery (ETL, complex queries, performance tuning) DevOps & CI/CD Containerisation (Docker), Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines; infrastructure-as-code (Terraform) is a strong plus.
• Architecture Demonstrated ability to design scalable, secure, distributed systems and to reason about trade-offs.
• Ways of working Agile / Scrum delivery, Git-based workflows, and a test-first, quality-driven mindset.
• Leadership Evidence of mentoring engineers, leading design discussions, and communicating clearly with technical and non-technical audiences.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field — or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience with GCP IAM, Cloud Functions, Cloud Storage, or Pub/Sub.
• Familiarity with DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines on GCP.
• Background in application ownership/transition, including knowledge transfer from existing teams

Preferred qualifications and skills

• Experience with frontend-testing frameworks is preferred.
• GCP Professional certification (Cloud Architect or Cloud Developer).
• Experience with event-driven or serverless architectures at scale.
• Exposure to observability tooling (Cloud Monitoring, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry).
• Familiarity with domain-driven design and API-first / contract-first development.
• Prior experience in a consulting or client-facing delivery environment.

Employment details

• Location: pune [Maharashtra] [India]

About the employer

• Fulcrum Digital is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to anchor the technical direction of a full-stack product team building cloud-native applications on Google Cloud Platform.

Additional role details

• This is a hands-on leadership role: you will architect and build across the stack in Java/Python and React, set engineering standards, and mentor a squad of engineers while staying close to the code.
• You will work alongside product, design and client stakeholders to translate business goals into resilient, scalable solutions — and act as a strategic technical partner rather than an order-taker.