Full Stack Developer

We're seeking an experienced Senior Tech Lead to oversee both frontend and backend teams for a production-ready enterprise project. You should possess strong managerial skills along with an entrepreneurial mindset. In this dynamic role, you'll collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, build, and deploy products aligned with our vision and strategy. Your leadership will be key in driving product success from conception to launch, ensuring they meet business objectives and user expectations.

Experience: 7+ Year

Working Time: 12.30 PM to 9.30 PM

Responsibilities:

• Lead and mentor developers: Provide guidance and support to ensure high-quality deliverables and drive engineering best practices. Experienced in leading development teams, fostering collaboration, and mentoring junior engineers for adherence to best practices.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams: Define project requirements, timelines, and priorities, and coordinate product releases.
• Architect scalable solutions: Design systems for both frontend and backend that are maintainable using modern architecture patterns and RESTful API design principles.
• Project Management Skills: Proficient in Agile methodologies, managing timelines, and prioritizing tasks effectively to ensure project success.
• Define product features: Set sprint goals and translate user feedback into actionable enhancements.
• Problem-Solving Skills: Analytical problem-solver adept at addressing technical challenges and implementing practical solutions.
• Analyze data: Validate product goals and adapt strategies accordingly, and track project progress to ensure timely delivery of features.
• Test and accept product features: Ensure accurate implementation of product features based on user stories.

Requirements

• Bachelor's / Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in a leadership role.
• Nice to have: Experience in building a product from concept to launch.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across teams.
• Strong proficiency in NodeJS, RESTful APIs, Weaviate Vector Database, and graph databases.
• Proficient in NestJS with full lifecycle experience and expertise in MongoDB integration.
• Proficient in MongoDB, with expertise in NoSQL principles, instance management, data modeling, and efficient query optimization for cloud and on-premise environments.
• Strong proficiency in ReactJS, NextJS, MaterialUI, and React Query.
• Proficient in TypeScript development, skilled in building type-safe applications and leveraging TypeScript configurations for enhanced development efficiency.
• Proficient in AWS services, specializing in Lambda for serverless computing, API,Gateway for secure API management, and integration with IAM, S3, and CloudWatch.
• ​Knowledge of CI/CD principles and tools to automate the testing and deployment of applications.

Benefits

• Gain real-world experience in corporate functioning.
• Learn to collaborate with diverse teams and meet deadlines in a professional environment.
• Access various learning and development programs to explore your passion.
• Work in a fast-paced, rapidly expanding tech team undergoing a revamp, with exposure to advanced technology and tools relevant to your role

• Ability to work in an existing codebase and collaborate with a diverse team
• Experience in building enterprise-scale backend REST APIs with frameworks such as Nest.js & Express.js using an API-first paradigm
• Intimate knowledge of crafting highly performant database queries
• Hands-on experience implementing relational database structures, including tables, indexes, views, etc.
• A mindset towards building systems for the cloud and DevOps fundamentals
• Working knowledge of cloud infrastructure services is good to have. If not then willingness to learn should be there.
• Focus towards building security, performance, and scalability into services from the beginning
• Experience with debugging code and troubleshooting technical issues in order to craft appropriate solutions
• Strong proficiency with JavaScript
• Experience in creating and deploying cloud-based web applications.
• Good at Jade, EJS,
• Good at CSS preprocessors (such as Stylus, Less, etc depending on your technology stack)
• Front-end technologies, such as HTML5, and CSS3
• User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
• Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system
• Understanding differences between multiple delivery platforms, such as mobile vs. desktop
• Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes
• Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
• Experience with Node.js using web server-based frameworks such as Express.
• PLUS - experience with React.JS, React Native, vue.js javascript framework * Experience with Amazon Web Services
• PLUS - experience with Jenkins or other Continuous Integration tools

We are looking for people who have a passion for solving problems, can write exceptional code and don't shy away from challenges and new technology. Our products affect thousands of people everyday and we want someone who would love to contribute towards that end.

If you:

• Know how to write robust and reliable systems
• Have knowledge of managing and scaling for high volume traffic
• Are someone who enjoys execution of an idea as much as finding new and innovative ideas to solve problems
• Actively try to gain more knowledge and pass on knowledge to your peers

Then we are definitely a right match for you

What we expect from you:

• Excellent understanding of web applications.
• Good knowledge about AWS or similar services.
• Ability to quickly learn new technologies.
• Good understanding of the delivery pipeline in a team environment.
• Innovative and creative problem solving.
• Ability to understand and communicate across teams and departments.

What you will be doing:

• Work as a part of a team or individually.
• Build products that help us expand our portfolio and drive growth for the organisation.
• Take up ownership of the entire lifecycle of products.
• Help, mentor and guide interns, new joinees and other developers.
• Engage with the client and people from other departments to come up with the best solutions.
• Point out existing problems with our solutions, processes and architecture

What we look for:

• Should have used/contributed to popular Open Source Libraries and Tools
• Should have worked on web technology (Rails / SpringBoot / Django / NodeJs)
• Always on the cutting edge of technology.
• Ability to divide a larger problem into smaller pieces for everyone to work on.
• Process driven and detail oriented
• Should have mentored new joinees
• More than 3 years of relevant experience in the domain
• Should be able to work out of our Bangalore office.

Our ideal candidate is someone who is an exceptional JS developer with significant experience on React and Node. You should be able to build and support complex applications single-handedly with a keen eye towards UX, design, security and performance. Additionally you will need to have a basic understanding of microservices, API integrations to aid in achieving our vision of building the most robust and scalable integration platform in the B2B Retail + Food verticals. You will be responsible for architecture, design and implementation of the entire system to support thousands of customers globally. Our stack is primarily built around Node, PHP, React, Angular, Mongo, PHP and advanced Infra and DevOps tools such as Kubernetes, Grafana, Prometheus, ELK and more.

Mentoring should come naturally to you, as well as finding the right balance towards process and documentation.

Highlights:
1) You will be working on interesting technical challenges in a product centric and open-source driven environment.
2) You will help set a very high bar on code quality with a focus on test driven development and writing highly performant, fault tolerant and secure code.
3) You will take ownership of product features from conception to implementation, testing deployment and support.
4) A lot of freedom on when and where you work from - just get stuff done.
5) You will open source as much as possible, and blog about cool things that you learnt and built.
6) You will help define who we become as a company.
7) You will get stock options in line with silicon valley standards.


Caveats:
1) We have a strict no-divas rule. There are a lot of smart engineers on the team but no one with an attitude / superiority complex.
2) If you think writing tests for your code, writing docs, doing customer support etc are not your cup of tea, this isn't the right role for you.
3) Similarly, if you're viewing this just as a 20-40% increment opportunity over your current compensation, this isn't the right role or company for you.


This role can be the growth opportunity of a lifetime for anyone who has been operating as a backend lead and wants to grow into a fullstack CTO. Check out the links below if you'd like to learn more about us. We encourage people from underrepresented groups to apply.

1) Why ShoppinPal? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cE7DgtwA0ws" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cE7DgtwA0ws
2) Our hiring philosophy and process http://techstory.in/building-startup-team/" target="_blank">http://techstory.in/building-startup-team/
3) Our culture- https://www.shoppinpal.com/culture">https://www.shoppinpal.com/culture