Software Engineer

Why this role exists 

We ship fast. Our platform takes brands from brief to full research report in minutes– and the engineering behind that has to be tight, reliable, and constantly improving. We work with some of India's biggest consumer companies and fastest-moving D2C brands– Coca-Cola, Britannia, Foxtale– and partner with some of the largest agencies like WPP.

We're hiring a Software Engineer who can pick up a ticket and close it. Not someone who needs hand-holding through scope or technology choices– someone who reads the requirement, figures out the right approach, and ships something they're proud of.

What you'll actually do

• Own tickets end-to-end: understand the problem, make the call, ship the feature, handle the edge cases
• Build across the stack– frontend, backend, or both depending on where you're strongest
• Work with TypeScript, ReactJS/NextJS on the frontend and Python/Go on the backend
• Design and work with SQL and NoSQL databases as part of feature development
• Collaborate with product and design to implement experiences that actually feel good to use
• Debug, optimize, and improve systems that are already in production
• Learn fast– the stack will evolve and you're expected to evolve with it

Who we think this is for

3 to 6 years of engineering experience. Startup experience is preferred– not because corporates are bad, but because you already know what it means to ship without a safety net.

You probably:

• Have closed real features in production, not just academic or tutorial projects
• Specialize in either frontend or backend but can move across the stack when needed
• Are comfortable in Python or Go on the backend, and TypeScript with ReactJS/NextJS on the frontend
• Know your way around cloud environments– AWS or GCP
• Understand databases well enough to make sensible design decisions, SQL and NoSQL
• Have at least two projects you'd genuinely put in front of someone and say: I built this, here's why it's good
• Learn new tools by using them, not by waiting until you feel ready

This role is probably not for you if:

• You need a detailed spec before you can start
• Your best work lives in a private repo no one has seen
• You're looking for a large team with defined lanes– here, you own what you pick up
  

Compensation

We pay at a competitive end of the Indian tech market and offer meaningful ESOPs appropriate at our stage.

About Consuma

We're an AI-powered consumer research platform helping brands go from brief to report in minutes– making research faster, simpler, and more human. We've raised $1.3M, led by Equirus, with backing from Abhishek Goyal (Tracxn), Varun Mayya (Aeos Labs), Biswa Kalyan Rath, and other operators from India's tech ecosystem.

We're an in-person team in Bengaluru. We value clarity, craft, and initiative– and the kind of engineer who treats the codebase like it has their name on it.