Assistant Director - Technical

Role Overview

We are looking for an Engineering Manager who thrives in a fast-paced startup environment, is hands-on with development, and can lead our engineering team to build and scale robust, high-performing systems. You will drive architectural decisions, mentor a team of talented engineers, and collaborate closely with product, design, and business teams to execute our ambitious roadmap. You will be at the forefront of scaling our infrastructure to support billions of messages, ensuring real-time engagement for businesses at scale.

Key Responsibilities

• Technical Leadership: Own the engineering roadmap, ensuring scalability, reliability, and performance of our systems.
• Hands-on Development: Dive into the code when necessary, set high coding standards, and lead by example.
• Team Management: Lead, mentor, and scale a high-performing engineering team, fostering a strong culture of ownership and innovation.
• System Scalability: Architect and optimize scalable and resilient backend & frontend systems handling millions of messages per day.
• High Availability & Performance: Design systems that can handle billions of API calls and ensure minimal downtime.
• Agile Execution: Drive sprint planning, prioritization, and timely delivery of features in an agile development environment.
• Collaboration: Work closely with product, design, and business teams to align engineering efforts with company goals.
• DevOps & Security: Ensure best practices for CI/CD, cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP), and security compliance.
• Tech Stack Evolution: Stay ahead of emerging technologies and drive innovation in AiSensy’s architecture.

What You Bring

• 8+ years of experience in software development, with at least 2 years in a leadership/managerial role.
• Expertise in modern tech stacks – Proficiency in MERN (MongoDB, Express, React, Node.js) stack or similar.
• Strong knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS) and microservices architecture.
• Proven experience in scaling high-traffic, distributed systems handling billions of messages per month.
• Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong problem-solving skills and an ability to hustle in a fast-paced startup environment.
• Excellent communication skills and a data-driven decision-making approach.
• Passion for building great products, coaching engineers, and driving tech excellence.

What We Offer

• Competitive Compensation & Benefits aligned with your experience and the impact you bring.
• Opportunity for Growth in a rapidly expanding B2B SaaS company.
• Cutting-Edge Technology & Projects in the WhatsApp Business API and Click to WhatsApp Ads space.
• Collaborative Work Environment that fosters innovation, learning, and career development.
• Flexible & Inclusive Culture, where every team member has a voice and the chance to make a significant impact.

Tech stack : Java, Angular JS, Mongo DB, Express JS, Node JS, HTML 5, CSS

Candidates serving notice period & immediately available can apply, should join within 20 days.

Job Description

We are looking for a skilled and ambitious Full-Stack Developer (React/React-Native, PHP, and NodeJs )to join our development team. In this role, you will be responsible for developing and implementing applications using React.js, NodeJS, PHP, and its libraries such as Redux, Redux-Saga, ExpressJs, Laravel. You will also be responsible for profiling and improving performance and documenting the codebase. To ensure success as a Full Stack developer, you should have in-depth knowledge of Javascript (ES6 or above), NodeJS, PHP 7.x, MySQL and its concepts, excellent coding skills, and a good understanding of progressive web applications.

Full Stack Developer Responsibilities:

• Reviewing application requirements and interface designs.
• Identifying web-based user interactions.
• Understand the past code and improve when needed.
• Develop components in a scalar way so, can be used again.
• Developing and implementing front-end + back-end architecture to support user interface concepts.
• Monitoring and improving application performance.
• Documenting application changes and developing updates.

Full Stack Developer Requirements:

• In-depth knowledge of Javascript, CSS, and HTML.
• In-depth knowledge of REACT libraries like Webpack, Redux, Redux-Saga and React Router.
• In-depth knowledge of NodeJs, ExpressJs, PHP, Laravel Framework
• Experience with User interface design and development.
• Experience with browser-based debugging and performance testing software
• Excellent troubleshooting skills.
• Build high-quality user interfaces from design mockups.
• Good project management skills and communication skills
• Collaborate with Product, Design, and other developers to understand requirements.
• Write tests to ensure high-grade code.
• Adhere to code style and code quality standards.
• Provide code review feedback to teammates.
• Good understanding of AWS infrastructure.

Graphene is an award-winning AI company, developing customized insights and data solutions for corporate clients. With a focus on healthcare, consumer goods and financial services, our proprietary AI platform is disrupting market research with an approach that allows us to get into the mind of customers to a degree unprecedented in traditional market research.

Graphene was founded by corporate leaders from Microsoft and P&G and works closely with the Singapore Government & universities in creating cutting edge technology. We are gaining traction with many Fortune 500 companies globally.

Graphene has a 6-year track record of delivering financially sustainable growth and is one of the few start-ups which are self-funded, yet profitable and debt free.

We already have a strong bench strength of leaders in place. Now, we are looking to groom more talents for our expansion into the US. Join us and take both our growths to the next level!

• Primary Purpose: As part of a highly productive and creative AI (NLP) analytics team, design and develop web applications and SPA’s i.e., UI/UX, and underlying backend – API’s, security framework, scalable microservices etc.
• Daily Grind: Interface with the product manager, project managers, and the engineering team to achieve sprint goals on the product roadmap.
• Career Progression: Senior Full Stack Engineer, Technical Architect

• Work in a product-development team capable of independently authoring software products.
• Guide junior programmers, set up the architecture, and follow modular development approaches.
• Design and develop code which is well documented.
• Optimize of the application for maximum speed and scalability
• Adhere to the best Information security and Devops practices.
• Research and develop new approaches to problems.
• Design and implement schemas and databases with respect to the AI application
• Cross-pollinated with other teams.

HARD AND SOFT SKILLS

Must Have

• Problem-solving abilities
• Extremely strong programming background – data structures and algorithm
• Angular/React, Strong UI/UX skills
• Very strong python background, TDD, CI/CD,
• Software design skills i.e., OOPs, design patterns
• SQL, NoSQL – design of schemas and databases
• Microservices architecture, Cloud native apps

Good to Have

• Enterprise Design Patterns
• Distributed Systems
• Exposure to ML and Data Science
• Docker, Kubernetes, AKS, Kafka, Graph databases

• Writing well-designed, stable and efficient code
• Building reusable components and libraries for future
• Troubleshooting and debugging to optimize performance
• Providing code documentation and other inputs to technical documents
• Participating in code reviews
• Troubleshooting and bug fixing
• Identifying bottlenecks and improving software efficiency
• Collaborating with the design team on developing micro-services

passion for building and delivering great software with a strong sense of ownership.

• 4+ years of experience in building web applications using React, Node.js, GraphQL integrations with NoSQL or relational database systems.
• Working experience in building and deployment applications on AWS platform a plus.
• Working experience on docker and microservice a plus.
• Strong experience with Build and Release, Agile processes and Estimation/Planning
• Must have strong debugging and troubleshooting skills, with solid understanding of logging and exception handling.