Application Development Engineer

What You'll Do:

• Designed, architected, and built the core AI-powered application from the ground up.
• You will join a small team with an unparalleled 'fire-in-belly' to close deliverables and a "hungry for more"
• Collaborate with visionary founders to define the product roadmap and bring innovative ideas to life.
• Leverage your expertise in Azure Cloud, full-stack development, and automation to develop scalable, secure, and high-performing solutions.
• Take ownership of the technical stack, system integrations, and deployment pipelines.
• Establish best development, testing, and deployment practices to ensure the product's success in a competitive market.

Who You Are:

• Proficient in full-stack technologies, including React.js, Node.js, Python/Django, and similar frameworks.
• Tech leader who thrives in startup environments and is fully hands-on in coding and working under minimal supervision.
• Highly results-driven. (very important)
• 8+ years of proven experience in the technology product space, including building and scaling applications.
• Strong knowledge of Cloud platforms, Azure Cloud architecture, and automation tools.
• Experienced in developing and deploying enterprise-grade applications.
• Passionate about AI and its potential to transform the enterprise landscape.
• Eager to solve complex problems and create products with tangible business impact.

Why Join Us?:

• Be part of a founding team, playing a critical role in shaping a cutting-edge AI product.
• Collaborate with industry leaders and visionaries who are passionate about innovation.
• This is an opportunity to grow alongside the company and lead a high-impact engineering team.
• Equity and ownership in the product’s success.

We want to hear from you if you’re ready to make a real difference, push boundaries, and build something extraordinary!

We’re hiring a hands-on Full-Stack Developer to join as our first technical hire and help turn our operational edge into scalable software. You’ll work directly with the founding team to:

* Build internal and guest-facing tools in React

* Develop a Node.js backend to power core workflows

* Integrate with property management software APIs (e.g., Guesty, Hostaway, Airbnb)

* Implement and extend functionality using AI APIs like OpenAI (required)

Our Stack

* Frontend: React

* Backend: Node.js (Express or similar)

* Database: MongoDB or Postgres

* APIs: REST/GraphQL, PMS integrations

* AI: OpenAI API and related services

Must-Have Skills

* 2+ years of full-stack development experience

* Strong proficiency in React and Node.js

* Demonstrated experience integrating external APIs (especially SaaS or PMS platforms)

* Familiarity working with OpenAI or other AI APIs

* Ability to work independently and ship quickly

Nice to Have

* Background in hospitality, rentals, or operational software

* Experience building dashboards or guest lifecycle tools

* Bonus: Prior experience with Guesty, Hostaway, or PMS APIs

About the Role :

We are seeking a highly skilled Lead Software Developer with a strong background in SaaS product development and expertise in designing scalable, secure, and resilient systems. You will lead the technical architecture of our cloud-native platforms, manage cross-functional

engineering efforts, and implement best practices across backend, frontend, and infrastructure layers.

This is a leadership role based on-site in Jaipur and ideal for someone who enjoys solving complex system challenges and building high-impact software.

Key Responsibilities:

● Lead the design and implementation of scalable SaaS application architecture

● Architect and develop solutions using Laravel, NestJS, Node.js, and AWS

● Build and manage microservices and serverless infrastructure for high availability and maintainability

● Implement and manage asynchronous and parallel request handling for optimized system performance

● Design and scale load handling and queue management systems using BullMQ and Redis

● Develop and integrate real-time data workflows using webhooks and external APIs

● Configure and manage Node.js clusters for performance and fault tolerance

● Collaborate with frontend developers working on React and Vue.js to deliver seamless UI/backend integration

● Ensure code quality, observability, and maintainability across services

● Monitor, debug, and resolve issues in production using logs and performance tracking tools

● Drive CI/CD implementation, infrastructure automation, and DevOps practices

Required Skills & Qualifications:

● 5 - 7 years of experience in full-stack or backend software development

● Proven experience as a Lead Developer on SaaS products

● Proficient in Laravel, NestJS, and Node.js

● Deep understanding of BullMQ, Redis, and message/queue-based architectures

● Experience with asynchronous processing, parallel request handling, and load distribution

● Proficient in microservices and serverless architecture patterns

● Strong command of AWS (EC2, Lambda, RDS, S3, API Gateway, IAM, CloudWatch)

● Hands-on experience with webhooks, job queues, background tasks, and rate-limiting strategies

● Familiarity with Node.js cluster mode and scaling strategies

● Solid experience in debugging, tracing, and performance monitoring

● Frontend integration experience with React or Vue.js (please specify your exposure)

● Strong leadership, collaboration, and mentoring abilities

Preferred Skills (Nice to Have):

● Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines

● Exposure to event-driven architecture and multi-tenant SaaS platforms

● Familiarity with observability tools such as Grafana, Datadog, or New Relic

About HighLevel:  

HighLevel is a cloud-based, all-in-one white-label marketing and sales platform that empowers marketing agencies, entrepreneurs, and businesses to elevate their digital presence and drive growth. With a focus on streamlining marketing efforts and providing comprehensive solutions, HighLevel helps businesses of all sizes achieve their marketing goals. We currently have 1000+ employees across 15 countries, working remotely as well as in our headquarters, which is located in Dallas, Texas. Our goal as an employer is to maintain a strong company culture, foster creativity and collaboration, and encourage a healthy work-life balance for our employees wherever they call home.

About the Role:

We are looking for an experienced software engineer with strong technical and communication skills who has developed full stack web apps, created solid APIs and beautiful interfaces for consuming them in user friendly apps. Focusing on details and well written self documented code are essential for this position. You can expect to collaborate with a solid team of designers, product managers, developers and testers on a daily basis. You must be experienced in building highly scalable and resilient systems that can meet our customer needs.

Responsibilities

• Improve and create new lead capture domain models.
• Build backend & Frontend API features and architecture.
• Work cross-functionally across our platform, experience, integrations, payments and marketplace teams.
• Drive performance through benchmarking and optimization
• Work with a wide range of systems, processes, and technologies to own and solve problems from end to end
• Collaborate closely with our leadership team including engineers, designers, and product managers to build new features and products
• Uphold high engineering standards and bring consistency to the many codebases and systems you will encounter.
• Work on 1 to 2 products.
• Create and improve lead capture tools like funnels, websites, forms, surveys, social media
• Architect and build backend & Frontend APIs and features

Your Core Skills

• 4+ years of experience in a full-stack environment.
• Proficient with various programming languages and tools such as but not limited to Javascript, TypeScript, Vue.js, NodeJS, and GraphQL
• Must be able to work with a team and collaborate remotely.
• You have an entrepreneurial mindset, are eager to take on different roles when necessary and know how to navigate a start-up environment.
• You are fulfilled by being a generalist working on both the frontend, backend, and anything it takes to solve problems and delight users and take pride in working on projects involving a variety of technologies and systems.
• Ability to stitch together many different services and processes together, even if you have not worked with them before.
• Hold a great deal of empathy for your team and users, you are a steward of crafting great experiences.
• Have great communication skills and can thrive in a highly collaborative environment when working cross-functionally with many stakeholders.
• Driven by product quality, and innately know how to balance trade-offs with time to launch new features.
• A keen eye for design and love to think about user flows and user experiences.
• Must have experience with HTML5 and CSS3

Additional Skills

• Experience with the Nuxt.js framework is a plus.
• Experience with MongoDB profiling and query optimization.
• Using CSS frameworks such as Bootstrap and TailwindCSS
• Experience working in the GCP (Google Cloud Platform) ecosystem.

What you will do

• Develop high-quality software based on the technical design provided by team lead
• Adherence with software development processes. Demonstrate problem solving skills, and attention to quality and detail
• Perform code reviews and unit testing, validation, and verification testing of program modules
• Develop well managed, high quality, scalable and reusable code using .NET components, web service API’s, database procedures, JavaScript, etc.
• Build automation pipeline (CI/CD) through appropriate tools and scripting
• Debug code, solve incidents and defects. Document unit test plans.
• Adhere toOWASP security standards while coding and regulatory requirements

Who you are

• Experienced Software Developer with 1 to 3 years of total IT experience.
• At least 2 years of development experience with Microsoft technology stack (.Net)
• Good knowledge of software development, agile methodologies, and the following technologies:

C#, http://asp.net/">ASP.NET Core, Web API, HTML/CSS, MVC, WCF, JavaScript, Oracle/SQL Server,AngularJS/ReactJS, Apache Kafka, Mule ESB, Apache Spark, PowerBI, Azure DevOps

• Experience developing highly responsive web and mobile applications (UI/UX) using HTML5/CSS3, W3.CSS, Bootstrap, JavaScript, XML, Xamarin, etc.
• Familiarity with various operating systems (Linux, Mac OS, Windows)
• Hands-on experience in software development and agile methodologies
• Proficiency in relational databases like SQL Server and Oracle. Knowledge of cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, Google cloud), container and virtualization will be a big plus.
• Familiarity with Continuous integration (Azure DevOps/Jenkins/Hudson) and version control (GitHub, SVN). Knowledge of modern frameworks and design patterns, and test automation tools for Unit and Performance testing.
• Experience creating secure RESTful web services in XML and JSON

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science (or related field)
• 5+ years of relevant work experience
• Expertise in React.js, React-native, Python, Android & Database
• Experience with Agile or Scrum software development methodologies
• Ability to multi-task, organize, and prioritize work