Engineering Manager

Senior Full Stack Engineer (React Native)

Who is Softway?

Softway is a business-to-employee solutions company.We work with businesses to impact the everyday behaviors, mindsets, and attitudes  and help drive valuable changes within.Faster innovation and more inclusion to lead cultural and  digital transformations and make human-focused technology to propel businesses. Our solutions include culture & inclusion services and products, technology experiences, and communications. Ultimately, we believe love is a business strategy.

Learn more: 

Visit us: https://www.softway.com/

Our Podcast : https://www.softway.com/laabs

Buy our book:  https://www.loveasabusinessstrategy.com/

Who are we looking for ?

Softway is on the lookout for a cross-platform mobile Engineer with hands-on experience on React Native. Someone passionate about building products that our customers love. You will join a dynamic and fast-paced environment and work with cross-functional teams to design, build and roll-out products that deliver the company’s vision and strategy.

A true-blue Engineer at heart, who constantly evolves and is on a continuous learning drive. Openness to explore different technologies and focused on solving, keeping the big picture in mind.

Responsibilities

Design and build applications for Android & iOS platform using React native

Build pixel-perfect, buttery smooth UIs across both mobile platforms.

Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications

Collaborate with a team to define, design, and ship new features

Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs

Write clean, well-documented, and testable code

Follow best practices for mobile development and maintain high standards of software quality.

Familiar with Agile software development

Analyzing user needs and software requirements to determine the feasibility of design within time and cost constraints.

Participating in code reviews and adhering to styles and standards for code quality

Work closely with other developers and stakeholders to ensure the timely completion of projects.

Coordinate with the cross-functional teams to build apps in stipulated time

Provide mentorship and guidance to junior developers, fostering their professional growth and enhancing team collaboration.

Requirements

Minimum 5 years of experience in building React Native applications.

Basic knowledge in building native android or iOS applications.

In-Depth Knowledge of React, React Native, Javascript, TypeScript, Redux, Middlewares, Hooks, ECMAScript(ES6, ES7 etc.), Node, NPM, yarn and iOS & Android Build systems.

Experience working with Backend Web Services (like REST, GraphQL etc), Fetch API, Axios and knowledge of Databases.

Proficient experience in developing web applications using any React framework.

Familiarity working with third-party dependencies and debugging dependency conflicts.

Familiarity with native build tools, like XCode, Gradle , Android Studio.

Knowledge of type checking, unit testing, and code debugging.

Experience with app store and playstore distribution process

Logical thinking and strong analytical reasoning are a must.

Hands on experience in Object Oriented Programming, Database programming, Algorithms, Data Structures

Experience with database frameworks such as SQLite, Realm DB etc.

Proficient in code versioning tools including Git, and SVN.

Familiarity with cloud message APIs and push notifications

Familiarity with continuous integration

Working knowledge in TDD and Unit Testing

Great to Have

Passion to stay up-to-date with technology and trends

Knowledge in AWS

Why should you work at Softway? 

Softway’s cross-functional team structure, varied domains and flat hierarchy offer much exposure and learning from a bird's eye-view. You’d love the interaction with our talented folks. Softway gives you ample learning opportunities, pushing you while having your back. We work hard and party harder !! We encourage you to voice your opinions and yes, we actually listen. We take pride in having an ego-less workforce, it allows us to focus on what we’re good at - bringing solutions to life. In addition to a competitive  salary and great work culture, we offer GREAT FLEXIBILITY with Flexible Time Offs. 

Position: Full-Stack Developer

Experience level: 5 + years

Location: Bangalore / Hyderabad

Tech stack: Node, Loopback, React

Essential Duties:

• Design and develop technical solutions that meet user needs with respect to functionality, performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Drive department best practices, guidelines implementation, and adhering to standards.
• Build and maintain medium-sized software platforms in the cloud.
• Build elegant, maintainable, well-documented, secure code.

Good to have:

• Development using a test-driven approach, AWS

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of progressive development experience as a Software Engineer.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent work experience.
• Strong hands-on development experience in Node JS and React.
• Hands-on Experience with RESTful Webservices/API and web-based applications is preferred.
• Experience implementing solutions using Agile delivery methodologies.

Responsibilities 

Design, implementation and delivery of solutions.

Solving new problems and address any issues regarding the architecture and performance. 

Focused on understanding customer needs and anticipate the changing business and technology landscape. 

Collaborate with teams from various verticals within and outside the company.

Qualifications 

2-5 years of Software Engineering experience in Node.js and React. 

Proven experience in architecting performant, complex application on web or mobile applications. 

Knowledge of end to end Software development life cycle.

Ability to work individually or in teams and mentor new developers to the team.

Strong knowledge of computer science, algorithms and design patterns. 

A degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent industry experience.

About

Blend-ed, the brainchild of a team of educationalists and technologists who believe in science-backed learning, is an innovative and technology-rich platform that steps early into the futuristic blended learning system, envisioning a fundamental change in the prevailing conventional teaching and learning cultures. Working with us will be your contribution towards rewriting the history of education and to building the future of learning.

We are looking for a Senior Full Stack Developer to build scalable software solutions in the Ed-tech SaaS domain. In this role, you’ll have the sole responsibility for the full software development life cycle, from conception to deployment. As a Full Stack Developer, you should be comfortable around both front-end and back-end stack, development frameworks and third-party libraries.

Requirement : Technical Lead - Senior Full Stack Engineer.

Location : Bangalore, India.

Work Model : Hybrid

Experience : Preferably 3+ years in a similar role.

Joining Date : Immediate

 Salary : Rs 12,00,000 LPA - Rs 20,00,000 LPA (negotiable) 

Role Expectations & Responsibilities

• Work with product manager/s to ideate software solutions.
• lead the project from conception through implementation.
• Design client-side and server-side architecture.
• Build the front-end of applications through appealing visual design.
• Develop and manage well-functioning databases and applications.
• Write effective APIs.
• Test, Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade software.
• Create security and data protection settings.
• Write technical documentation.
• Strong organizational and mentoring skills.

Required Experience & Skills

• Proven experience as a Full Stack Developer or similar role.
• Experience developing web and mobile applications.
• Knowledge of multiple front-end languages and libraries (e.g. HTML/ CSS, JavaScript, React etc.)
• Knowledge of back-end languages (e.g. Python/ NodeJS etc.).
• Familiarity with databases (e.g. PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB), web servers (e.g. Apache, Nginx)

Desirable Experience & Skills

• Experience with Python web frameworks, specifically Django.
• Experience with React is a plus.
• AWS skills with knowledge of EC2, VPC, S3 etc.
• Experience in containerization (Docker) and container orchestration (Kubernetes).

Why Join Us:

At Blend-ed, we are committed to create a diverse work environment with a range of opportunities for professional and personal development of all our employees. We make learning easier, more efficient, more user-friendly and far more accessible, for all sorts of people, all across the world. As a member of team Blend-ed, you will work on most innovative projects that will revolutionise the learning ecosystem and make a real difference in millions of people’s learning experience.

Work Culture: With a task-driven office culture, we believe that optimal productivity is rooted in each individual's pace and strength, rather than rigid timelines. We follow a flexible work culture along with mutual understanding and support.

Growth at a personal level: Each member of our team gets the best nourishment in terms of opportunities, mental and moral support and a stage for their existing and enhancing skills, ensuring your personal growth alongside the company.

Creativity and Innovation: We root for creativity and innovation at work and this is a fixed formula to keep things interesting. You are welcome to lay your craziest ideas on the table or board for us to have conversations and coffee over.

Work Environment: Situated at Calicut, a bustling commercial centre in Kerala, which is emerged as one of the best cities to live in India in terms of education, health, entertainment, and the environment, our workspace in HiLite Business Park, flanked by the mall and residential areas, offers an environment of networking, convenience and class, which promotes an undeniably better life quality & experience.

Our Values For All Times:

Innovate, Always: We are committed to creativity and novelty because anything remarkable ever was born out of those.

Science-driven: We base the technological developments on theories and findings in cognitive science, making learning a richer experience.

Love it? Learn it! At Blend- Ed, learning is limited only by the amount of inquisitiveness and passion for exploring. We believe in unlimited exploration and pride in seeking knowledge at any cost.

Taller, Together: Growth is a teamwork at Blend- Ed. We work towards growing together, packing in the personal growth of each team member into the company's growth, mutual respect, motivation and inspiration ingrained into our conduct.

Better Tomorrows: Along with our dreams and goals of transforming the education system, we envision a better tomorrow for the world. The very idea of a better future is rooted in hope and we nurture it.

Ethics Uncompromised: Our work culture is founded in a code of ethics that preserves smooth relationships within the company and outside it, in order to meet our goals and other values.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• As one of the earliest employees, there will be a lot on your plate. All the time!
• You'll build new product features from start to finish: through conception, research, maintenance, and polish. Think features to improve our collaborative student learning platforms, such as new collaborative learning activities for teaching coding and other subjects.
• You'll build improvements to performance, reliability, and product polish — for example, improving the efficiency and performance of our replicated state systems.
• You'll build and improve processes and internal tools with simplicity and productivity in mind — such as, a tool to sync updates between Zoho, slack etc.

This might be for you if...

• You have knowledge of ReactJS and any backend technology along with that
• You have been professionally coding for at least 3 years
• You have worked in a startup and relish the chaos and pressure
• You've built and maintained quality user interfaces that have reached a large audience, ideally while the product is experiencing rapid growth.
• You can readily learn most technologies as you go. To you, technologies are about tools and tradeoffs, not an ideology.
• You care about the business implications of anything you build. You're not just going after cool stuff — you understand the balance between craft, speed, and the bottom line.