Associate Staff Engineer (JavaScript Fullstack)

Senior Software Engineer

Location: On-site, Panaji, Goa

About Joyful

Joyful is a leading AI-powered stakeholder communication management platform for voice of stakeholder analysis and contact center solutions. Our mission is to use AI to make all interactions between a company and its stakeholders joyful by removing friction. Joyful is a part of Germinait Solutions Pvt. Ltd.

Our  Joyful modules, Engage and Listen, help businesses understand and manage stakeholder interactions across digital channels. We enable companies to provide exceptional customer experiences while maximizing the productivity and efficiency of their support teams, all through one seamless platform.

At Joyful, we're committed to fostering meaningful interactions between stakeholders and brands by providing actionable insights, personalized replies, and a joyful experience for customers, users, and employees alike.

The Opportunity

We’re seeking a Senior Software Engineer who thrives on solving complex problems, architecting scalable systems, and bringing innovative AI-powered features to life. You will work on a modern, cloud-native stack—leveraging serverless deployment, microservices, and AI/ML integrations to build resilient, high-performance solutions.

In addition to delivering high-quality code, you’ll contribute to Joyful’s Vibe Coding culture—our approach to writing code that’s clean, collaborative, and a joy to work with.

What You'll Do

• Backend & Cloud Development
• Design, develop, and maintain scalable microservices for Joyful’s Engage and Listen platforms
• Build serverless applications and functions (AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, or GCP Cloud Functions) for rapid, cost-effective deployments
• Implement robust APIs and data pipelines optimized for performance and reliability
• Ensure security, compliance, and data privacy in all backend services
• AI-Powered Solutions
• Integrate AI/ML models into production workflows to enhance automation, personalization, and analytics
• Collaborate with data scientists to operationalize AI models for real-time and batch processing
• Build features that leverage NLP, sentiment analysis, and predictive analytics for stakeholder communication insights
• Vibe Coding Culture
• Write clean, well-structured, and maintainable code that engineers enjoy working with
• Participate in pair programming, peer reviews, and collaborative debugging sessions
• Share best practices and mentor junior engineers to raise the technical bar across the team
• Help maintain a development atmosphere that’s positive, creative, and focused on continuous improvement
• DevOps & Deployment
• Work closely with DevOps teams to optimize serverless deployments, CI/CD pipelines, and automated testing
• Ensure observability, monitoring, and alerting systems are in place for all deployed services
• Contribute to cost optimization strategies for serverless architectures
• Collaboration & Problem-Solving
• Partner with product managers, architects, and designers to translate business requirements into technical solutions
• Participate in sprint planning, backlog refinement, and retrospectives
• Troubleshoot production issues and drive root cause analysis for lasting fixes

What You'll Need

• 3+ years of experience in software development, preferably in SaaS or AI-driven products
• Strong expertise in backend development using Java (Spring Boot), Node.js, or Python
• Experience with serverless architectures (AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, or GCP equivalents)
• Solid understanding of cloud services (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and microservices design patterns
• Hands-on experience integrating AI/ML models into applications
• Familiarity with NLP, speech-to-text, or sentiment analysis APIs is a plus
• Knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases (PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, MongoDB, etc.)
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and monitoring tools
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work in fast-paced, collaborative environments
• Passion for clean, maintainable code and contributing to a healthy team culture

Why Join Joyful?

• Work on AI-powered solutions that transform how businesses connect with their stakeholders
• Be part of a team that embraces serverless-first development and modern cloud-native architectures
• Thrive in a Vibe Coding culture where great engineering meets great energy
• Collaborate with talented peers in a supportive, innovation-driven environment
• Enjoy professional growth opportunities in a fast-scaling company
• Work from our beautiful Goa office while building solutions used worldwide

At Joyful, we believe that combining AI innovation, scalable cloud design, and a joyful coding culture leads to exceptional products. If you’re passionate about building intelligent, high-performance systems while keeping the engineering vibe positive, we’d love to hear from you!

● In-depth knowledge of full-stack development principles and best practices.

● Expertise in building web applications with strong proficiency in languages like Node.js, React, and Go. 

● Experience developing and consuming RESTful and gRPC API Protocols.

● Familiarity with CI/CD workflows and DevOps processes. 

● Solid understanding of cloud platforms and container orchestration technologies.

● Experience with Kubernetes deployment and workflows using tools like Argo.

● Experience applying AI/ML models to optimize workflows or enhance product features, with familiarity in frameworks like TensorFlow, MLflow, Kubeflow, or PyTorch. 

● Experience fine-tuning existing AI/ML models to adapt to specific use cases or datasets, ensuring optimized performance. 

● Experience with Workflow Orchestration tools like Temporal and Windmill.

● Strong background in System Design. 

● Hands-on experience with Queuing Mechanisms such as RabbitMQ, Redis, and Kafka. 

● Experience with designing and building user-friendly interfaces using Tailwind CSS and Radix UI. 

● Excellent understanding of distributed systems, databases, and APIs. ● A passion for writing clean, maintainable, and well-documented code. ● Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently as well as collaboratively. 

● Excellent communication and interpersonal skills. 

Bonus points if you have: 

● Experience with building self-serve platforms or user onboarding experiences.

● Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform.

● A strong understanding of security best practices for Kubernetes deployments.

● Grasp on setting up Network Architecture for distributed systems. 

Required Skills:

• .NET Core 
• C#
• Web API
• Aware of Microservice concepts
• MongoDB 
• Excellent communication
  
  

Docker, Kubernetes, and Linux knowledge is desirable. Having worked in a product development environment is desirable. Having worked in the finance and banking domain is desirable.

About Company

Obeikan Investment Group is a multi-national leader in packaging, education and health, with annual revenue of USD $1 billion. We're one of Saudi Arabia's 100 largest companies, with more than 3,000 employees and operations in 16 countries.

Job Location – Remote with an opportunity to move to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

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