Hamara Jobs × ONDC
Anchor partner in ONDC's Jobs domain — India's first federated, interoperable jobs network.
Anchor partner · India's first federated jobs network
Overview
ONDC set out to do for commerce what UPI did for payments — an open, interoperable network. I led the team that took Hamara Jobs into its Work Opportunities domain, and helped shape the domain itself.
The aim was never a bigger slice of the pie. It was a bigger pie.
01 — On the network
Re-platform, then go live
We collaborated with ONDC and ONEST on upgrading the protocol, then migrated Hamara Jobs off its PHP monolith to JavaScript and microservices — and went live on the network as a job provider. The seeker app was later rebuilt as a PWA and made ONDC-compliant.
02 — Anchor partner
An SDK so anyone could join
To help the ecosystem grow, I proposed an integration SDK so any participant could join the network without re-implementing the protocol from scratch. On the strength of the work, Quess was listed as the Anchor partner for the Work Opportunities domain.
03 — Into government
e-Nijukti, with Odisha
I took the network's relevance to the Odisha state government and led the engagement for the e-Nijukti portal — a successful ONDC SDK pilot that put an open jobs network in front of a state's job seekers.
04 — The vision
UPI, but for jobs
The bigger idea I've been drafting: a unified jobs interface, analogous to UPI — one rail every seeker and provider can plug into, instead of a hundred walled portals. More to come.
What UPI did for payments, an open network can do for jobs.
Role
Led the team that took Hamara Jobs onto ONDC — the protocol work, the re-platforming, and the SDK proposal — and the engagements that followed, from Quess's anchor-partner role to Odisha's e-Nijukti pilot.