Full Stack Developer - MySQL | Node.js |React.js

Job Summary:

We are looking for a highly experienced Senior Full Stack Developer / Technical Lead with strong expertise in .NET technologies and React. The ideal candidate should be comfortable handling multiple projects simultaneously, possess excellent communication skills, and be capable of leading and mentoring a team while delivering scalable, high-quality solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

·       Design, develop, and maintain scalable web applications using .NET (C#, ASP.NET Core, Web API) and React

·       Lead end-to-end project execution across multiple parallel projects

·       Handle project switching efficiently with minimal ramp-up time

·       Participate in architecture, design, and technical decision-making

·       Manage, mentor, and guide a team of developers

·       Conduct code reviews, ensure best practices, and maintain coding standards

·       Collaborate with Product Owners, QA, UI/UX, and Stakeholders

·       Ensure performance optimization, security, and application stability

·       Take ownership of delivery timelines and technical quality

·       Support production issues and provide root cause analysis

Required Technical Skills:

·       Strong hands-on experience in:

o  C#, ASP.NET, ASP.NET Core, Web API

o  React.js, Redux / Context API

o  HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript

·       Experience with RESTful APIs, Microservices (preferred)

·       Database expertise: SQL Server (mandatory), NoSQL (added advantage)

·       Experience with Entity Framework / Dapper

·       Familiarity with Azure / AWS (preferred)

·       Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, Git, DevOps practices

·       Understanding of Agile / Scrum methodologies

Leadership & Soft Skills:

·       Excellent verbal and written communication skills

·       Proven experience in team handling and mentoring

·       Strong problem-solving and decision-making abilities

·       Ability to manage multiple stakeholders and priorities

·       Ownership mindset and accountability-driven approach

Nice to Have:

·       Experience working in product-based or fast-paced service environments

·       Exposure to high-availability and scalable systems

·       Client-facing experience

Who are we?

Kriyadocs is a leading document workflow platform focused on the publishing industry. At Kriyadocs®, we have partnered with prestigious publishing houses across the world for over 18 years and delivered world-class, publication-ready digital & print content by applying cutting-edge technology, streamlined processes, and extensive domain expertise. Technology is at the core of our evolution – we’ve consciously striven to always stay ahead of the curve in its adoption in order to provide best-in-class capabilities for our clients and our employees. This ethos is reflected in our vision and mission.

Our Vision: To make publishing all content as simple as clicking a button and become the partner of choice for individuals and organizations looking to share knowledge.

Our Mission: Provide a fantastic experience to authors, content publishers, and our own employees through technology and innovation, by publishing high-quality content seamlessly and quickly. We deliver Happy Authors and Happy Employees.

What is it really like to work here?

At Kriyadocs, every Kriyator is driven by our culture at the core to

• Deliver Excellence - Deliver Delight
• Stay Curious - Stay Driven
• Dream Big - Rise Together

You could also be a Kriyator, if you are

• Fearless in taking on challenges
• Focused in learning, demonstrating new skills and working towards successful outcomes
• Fanatical in taking pride and responsibility in all your work 

Job Description

We are looking for a Software engineer to join our cutting-edge development team as it grows. We want someone who is comfortable asking “why?” The ideal candidate is a divergent thinker who understands industry best practices and has experience with multiple coding languages. They are a team player possessing strong analytical as well as technical skills, and are able to communicate the logic behind technical decisions to non-tech stakeholders. They must be comfortable working in an agile environment and have the ability to “take the wheel” when necessary. They will work with multiple technologies and develop a keen sense of evaluating and using the appropriate technology to derive the best solution.

What you will do?

• Participate in the entire application lifecycle, focusing on coding and debugging
• Write and test code to ensure compatibility and stability: refine and rewrite as necessary
• Troubleshoot and debug applications
• Collaborate with Front-end developers to integrate user-facing elements with server side logic
• Follow the spec and its requirement and develop the features/project
• Providing written knowledge transfer material as documents

Requirements

Must have

• 1+ years experience coding in nodejs programming language 
• Solid understanding of data structures and algorithms, Collections, good design principles like SOLID 
• Problem solving & analytical aptitude 
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills 
• Experience in source code control with GIT/SVN
• Should be flexible to work on a variety of programming languages like NodeJS, React, etc. and on XML technologies like XSLT, XML Pipelines, etc

Good to have

• Experience working in the Node JS stack 
• Unit testing and automation frameworks 
• Experience working in a public cloud environment (AWS preferred) 
• Working with distributed microservice architectures 
• Agile product development life cycle

Eligibility Criteria 

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer science or related fields from a reputed institution
• Any internship experience is a plus
• Experience : 1-4 years 
• Location : Chennai. Work from office (Mon to Fri)

Acrobyte Technologies, founded by an IIT Delhi alumni, has been Actively Learn's technology partner for over six years. Actively Learn is an educational technology company, based out of Seattle, USA, founded by a Harvard educated former Microsoft director and an education PhD who also founded a private school in Virginia.

We’ve built a digital, award-winning, reading platform, backed by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the National Science Foundation, that is used in over 45,000 schools and by 150,000 teachers in the USA and overseas. Actively Learn is part of Achieve3000, a leading education platform that provides differentiated reading and instruction with over 2 million students using the platform. Actively Learn also serves as the innovation arm, leading new technology initiatives for the company.

Technology Stack

React JS, Typescript, Backbone JS, Node JS, C#, .NET, MySql, AWS, Mocha and Chai, JMeter, Neoload Selenium, Katalon.

Job Requirements

• 2+ years JavaScript experience
• 2+ years frontend React JS framework experience
• 1+ years of backend development experience (Node JS, C# dot NET, Java, Python, etc)
• 2+ years relational database experience (MySql, MSSQL, or PostgreSQL)
• Computer Science or related Engineering degree from a top-tier college

Job Highlights

• Do you like solving real life problems using technology? Actively Learn is on a mission to make students read for depth. Come join us on our journey.
• We are a small and skilled team. You will get to learn the complete life cycle of building a successful product.
• Opportunity to play multiple roles on the Engineering team (front-end development, back-end development, testing, devops, automation) and develop those skills.
• We maintain the strictest and highest code quality standards and take pride in that. There will be a huge learning in how to think and write clean code.
• Being an efficient agile company we work on various technologies and part of the role will be to research latest technologies and lead implementation.
• Flexible and fun work environment focused on innovation and creativity. We work out of 91 Springboard, the biggest co-working space in India, which allows for networking and collaboration opportunities.
• Highly competitive salary.
• Opportunity to travel to USA and work closely with the Seattle team.

Essential Job Functions:

1. Implement application components and systems according to department standards and guidelines.
2. Work with product and designers to translate requirements into accurate representations for the web.
3. Analyze, design, code, debug, and test business applications.
4. Code reviews in accordance with team processes/standards.
5. Understand and work with data in varying degrees of complexity and scale.
6. Responsible for planning, processing and performing all jobs in an efficient manner.
7. Provide assistance to testers and support personnel as needed to determine system problems.
8. Resolve problems involved with integrating new technologies with systems.

* Essential functions are the basic job duties that an employee must be able to perform, with or without reasonable accommodation.  The function is considered essential if the reason the position exists is to perform that function.

Supportive Job Functions:

1. Remain knowledgeable of new emerging technologies and their impact on internal systems.
2. Available to work on call when needed.
3. Perform other miscellaneous duties as assigned by management.

*These tasks do not meet the Americans with Disabilities Act definition of essential job functions and usually equal 5% or less of time spent.  However, these tasks still constitute important performance aspects of the job.

Knowledge, Skill, and Abilities:

1. Experience using Python, JavaScript, and React.
2. Experience with web services and RESTful APIs.
3. Experience in cloud infrastructure
4. Experience with Sql and NoSql databases
5. Familiarity with modern CI/CD methods
6. Ability to organize, prioritize, and handle multiple assignments on a daily basis.
7. Strong and effective inter-personal and communication skills
8. Ability to interact professionally with a diverse group of clients and staff.
9. Must be able to work flexible hours on-site and remote.
10. Must be able to coordinate with other staff and provide technological leadership.
11. Ability to work in a complex, dynamic team environment with minimal supervision.
12. Must possess good organizational skills.

Education, Experience, and Certification:

1. Associate’s or bachelor’s degree preferred (Computer Science, Engineer, etc.), but equivalent work experience in a technology related area may substitute.
2. 5+ years relevant experience, required. *
3. Experience using version control daily in a developer environment.
4. Experience with Python, JavaScript, and React is required.
5. Experience using rapid development frameworks like Django or Flask.
6. Experience using front end build tools.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Developing complete website architecture.
• Creating websites/a website using standard HTML/CSS practices
• Designing user interactions on web pages. 
• Developing back end website applications. 
• Creating servers and databases for functionality. 
• Ensuring cross-platform optimization for mobile phones. 
• Ensuring responsiveness of applications. 
• Seeing through a project from conception to finished product. 
• Designing and developing APIs. 
• Meeting both technical and consumer needs. 
• Researching different software programs, maintaining software documentation
• Implementing contingency plans in case the website goes down
• Maintaining and expanding/enhancing the website once built