Experienced Full Stack Tech Lead (PHP)

Who We Are

DAITA is a German AI start-up. We’re transforming the fashion supply chain with AI-powered agents that automate the mundane, freeing teams to focus on creativity, strategy, and growth.

After a successful research phase spanning 8 countries across 3 continents—gathering insights from Indian cotton fields to German retailers—we’ve secured pre-seed funding and key industry partnerships.

Now, we’re building our MVP to deliver speed, precision, and ease to one of the world’s biggest industries.

We’re set on hypergrowth, aiming to redefine textiles with intelligent, scalable tech—and this is your chance to join the ground floor of something huge.

What You’ll Do

As our Chief Engineer, you’ll lead the technical charge to make our vision real, starting with our MVP in a 3–5 month sprint. You’ll:

• Design and code an AI-driven/agent system (leveraging machine learning and NLP) with integrated workflow automation to streamline and automate tasks in the textile supply chain, owning it from scratch to finish.
• Develop backend systems, utilize cutting-edge tools, critically assess manpower needs beyond yourself, oversee a small support team, and drive toward our aggressive launch timeline.
• Collaborate closely with our founders to align tech with ambitious goals and client input, ensuring automated workflows deliver speed, precision, and ease to textile industry stakeholders.
• Build an MVP that scales to millions, integrating APIs and data pipelines, using major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud)—keeping us nimble now and primed for explosive growth later.

What You Bring

• 2–5 years of experience at high-growth startups or leading tech firms—where you shipped real products, solved complex problems, and moved fast.
• End-to-end ownership: You've taken tech projects from zero to one—built systems from scratch, made architecture decisions, handled messy edge cases, and delivered under pressure.
• Team Leadership: 1–3 years leading engineering teams, ideally including recruitment and delivery in India.
• Technical horsepower: AI Agent Experience, strong across full-stack or backend engineering, ML/NLP integration, cloud architecture, and API/data pipeline development. Experience with workflow automation tools and platforms (e.g., Apache Airflow, UiPath, or similar) to automate processes, ideally in supply chain or textiles. You can code an MVP solo if needed.
• Resource Clarity: Bring as much technical expertise as possible to build our MVP, and if you can’t own every piece, clearly identify the specific areas where you’ll need team members to deliver on time.
• Vision Alignment: You think like a builder, taking ownership of the product and team as if it were your own, while partnering closely with the founders to execute their vision with trust and decisiveness.
• Execution DNA: You ship fast, iterate intelligently, and know when to be scrappy vs. when to be solid.
• Problem-First Thinking: You’re obsessed with solving real user problems, understanding stakeholder needs beyond just writing beautiful code.
• High-Energy Leadership: Hands-on, humble, and always ready to jump into the trenches. You lead by doing.
• Geographical Fit: India-based, ideally with previous exposure to international teams or founders.
• Values-driven: You live our culture—live in the future, move fast, one team, and character above all.

Why Join Us?

• Be the technical linchpin of a hypergrowth startup—build the MVP that launches us into the stratosphere.
• Competitive salary and equity options to negotiate—own a piece of something massive.
• On-site in our Tiruppur (Tamil Nadu) offices for 2 months with the German founders, to sync with the founders, then remote flexibility long-term.
• A full-time role demanding full availability—put in the time needed to smash deadlines and reshape the second-biggest industry on Earth with a team that moves fast and rewards hustle.

• 2 - 6 years of software development experience in a professional environment
• 2.5 - 3 years of relevant experience in Node.js
• Experience in Android applications, directives, services etc.,
• Experience with Bootstrap 4.x+ (or internal framework)
• Experience in CSS3, HTML5, JavaScript, Typescript
• Able to integrate and use external (open source) libraries
• Develop high-performance and scalable APIs to serve clients.
• Experience in the creation of scalable RESTful APIs
• Experience in writing reusable, testable and efficient code.
• Collaborate with front-end developers on the integration of well-written APIs.
• Excellent verbal and written communications, ability to learn quickly and a willingness to work and add value to the team
• Experience with backend languages (e.g., Java) and JavaScript frameworks (e.g., Android, Node.js)
• Familiarity with databases (e.g., MySQL, MongoDB), web servers (e.g. Apache) and UIUX design
• Experience in the creation of scalable RESTful APIs
• Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code
• Knowledge of containers and Kubernetes
• Good to know cloud technologies like AWS Google Cloud Azure, etc

Responsibilities

• Work with stakeholders and fellow developers.
• Design and implement Python code using the Django framework.
• Identify and fix bottlenecks that may arise from inefficient code.
• Identify and fix software bugs.
• Create a wide variety of unit tests to verify the functionality of the software.
• Manage the security of the platform.
• Write detailed documentation around the code.
• Knowledge of front end languages.
• Create and maintain the application's architecture
• Write code that is reusable, testable, and efficient
• Create and implement applications that are low-latency, high-availability, and performant
• Integration of front-end developer-created user-facing components with server-side logic
• Security and data protection implementation
• Data storage solution integration

Skills

• Able to use Postman, JIRA or similar tools
• Python expert with an understanding of at least one Python web framework, such as Django, Flask, or others
• Working knowledge of several ORM (Object Relational Mapper) libraries
• Capable of combining many data sources and databases into a single system
• Knowledge of Python's threading constraints and multi-process architecture
• Solid knowledge of server-side templating languages such as Jinja 2, Mako, etc.
• Fundamental knowledge of front-end technologies such as JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3
• Knowledge of accessibility and security regulations
• Managing and maintaining AWS
• Able to create RESTful APIs
• Able to integrate third-party APIs
• Familiarity with user authentication
• Authorisation across numerous systems, servers, and settings
• Knowledge of the core design ideas underlying a scalable application
• Experience with Python event-driven programming
• Understanding the distinctions between various delivery platforms, such as mobile vs desktop, and optimising output to meet the individual platform
• Capable of developing database schemas to represent and support business operations
• Excellent unit testing and debugging abilities
• Thorough knowledge of code versioning systems such as Git, Mercurial, or SVN
• Able to deploy the app on client cloud as well.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s/Master in computer science
• 3-5 years of work experience
• Excellent problem-solving skills
• Able to work in a fast, unstructured environment
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Must have access to FTTH internet connection

•  5-10 years of experience in building API services using NodeJS Express and related frameworks
• Expert level understanding of NodeJS asynchronous runtime
• Expert level understanding of Javascript concepts on callbacks and closures
• Experience with Postgres, NoSQL, Redis, and Firebase real-time database
• Experience with AWS services like Elastic Beanstalk, Cloudfront, S3, EC2, Lambda, API Gateway, SQS, etc
• Understanding of patterns and techniques for building scalable back-end infrastructure including caching, rate limiting, authentication, and authorization schemes.
• Experience in building highly scalable and high throughput services with millisecond response times
• Experience working in a collaborative team environment
• Excellent communication & interpersonal skills
• Willingness to learn and pick up new technology along with patience to mentor

Bonus skills – 

• Experience with Elastic Search, Puppeteer
• Experience writing unit test

Mandatory Skill set:

• Multiple solution stack development experience along with MEAN(Mongo, Express, Angular and Node)

• Python with any web framework

• Micro Services, Performance Engineering, Docker, Kubernetes, AZURE, CI/CD pipeline, , MySQL and Database design

Job Role:

• Responsible for component selection, design standardization, common library building.

• Build services and templates based on published standard (RFC type)Build coding templates and architypes adhering to design standard.

• Understand NFR and define architecture, design and validation for each NFR element.

• Design data model, service contract and document framework.Define and ensure coding standards

• Define and ensure UI standards are followed. Design micro services, security, deployment Well-versed in module level effort estimationWell-versed in application integration patterns Exposure to bug fixing, maintenance, continuous integration releases.

• Exposure to building architectural view like logical, physical and deployment.Exposure to performance bottleneck, RCA and remediation.Exposure to security issues, RCA and remediation.

Process Exposure:

• Able to interact with team, stakeholders and architects. Understand functional requirements and create design documents for features.

• Participate in sprint planning and story elaboration sessions.

• Candidate should be able to work independently in an Agile project.

• Experience with Test-Driven Development, Integration testing and Agile processes.Code review from a standard and design adherence perspective.