Full Stack Engineer

Full Stack Developer
React Native | Node.js | TypeScript
Location: Pune, in office, five days a week
Employment: Full-time
Experience: 3–5 years
Reports to: Founders
About Frep
Frep is a personalized meal-planning platform built to simplify one of the most repetitive decisions households make every day: what to eat.
The product learns a household’s food preferences, dietary requirements, available ingredients, cooking habits, and constraints, then creates meal plans designed around how that household actually lives.
Our catalogue includes more than 8,000 recipes across Indian regional and international cuisines. We are building for India first, with the ambition to take the product to international markets over time.
The Role
We are looking for a Full Stack Developer who is comfortable working across the complete product stack, from React Native interfaces and backend APIs to databases, infrastructure, and production systems.
This is an early-stage engineering role with meaningful ownership. You will work directly with the founders and contribute to both product execution and technical decisions.
Your Scope of Work
Your responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:
Building and improving React Native features.
Developing and maintaining Node.js APIs and backend services.
Working with PostgreSQL, Redis, search, and application data.
Improving performance across an image-heavy catalogue of 8,000+ recipes.
Building and improving recommendation and personalization systems.
Working with AI pipelines for recipe content and food imagery.
Diagnosing production issues and improving application reliability.
Building internal tools and automations where required.
Improving performance on mid-range Android devices and inconsistent mobile networks.
What We Care About
Strong technical fundamentals.
Clear and precise communication.
Broad ownership across frontend, backend, and data.
Experience shipping and maintaining production software.
Strong problem-solving and debugging ability.
Comfort using AI development tools as part of your regular workflow.
You should be comfortable taking a problem from definition through implementation, release, and post-release investigation.
What You Will Need
3–5 years of professional software development experience.
Strong TypeScript skills.
React Native experience, or strong React experience with the ability to transition quickly.
Experience with Node.js and REST APIs.
Working knowledge of SQL and production databases.
Understanding of authentication, background jobs, and asynchronous systems.
Strong debugging and problem-solving skills.
Experience working with Git and modern development workflows.
Good to Have
Experience with any of the following is useful, but not required:
Expo and EAS.
PostgreSQL or Supabase.
Redis.
Vector or semantic search.
LLM applications and AI workflows.
Recommendation and personalization systems.
Search relevance.
CDN and large media catalogues.
App Store and Play Store releases.
Native iOS or Android development.
Consumer apps in food, health, lifestyle, or other high-frequency categories.
Our Stack
Mobile: React Native, Expo, TypeScript
Backend: Node.js, TypeScript
Data: PostgreSQL, vector search, Redis
Internal tools: React
Infrastructure: Cloudflare R2, GitHub Actions
AI: LLM pipelines for recipe content, enrichment, and food imagery
Why Frep
You will work directly with the founders and have meaningful influence over both technical and product decisions.
The engineering problems span personalization, recommendations, AI pipelines, search, large media catalogues, mobile performance, and consumer product behaviour.
You will own meaningful parts of the product at a stage where your technical decisions can have a lasting impact.
Location
This is a full-time, in-office position based in Pune.
The team works from the office five days a week.
If you are based outside Pune, you should be willing to relocate.
How to Apply
Apply here: https://forms.gle/E6ytuvR4JeyEGGvU8
Please include your resume and, where relevant, links to products, applications, repositories, side projects, or other work you have built. Every application is reviewed directly by our team.

Work arrangement
No