Full Stack PHP Developer

We are a forward-thinking company Hookux seeking a skilled Full Stack Developer to join our team. You will work on a variety of exciting projects that require problem-solving, innovation, and scalability. One such project is, a stock market and crypto investing simulation platform that teaches children financial skills through gamified competition.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain robust, scalable, and efficient front-end and back-end systems.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.
• Design and implement API endpoints and server-side logic.
• Work closely with the design and product teams to ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs.
• Optimize the application for maximum speed and scalability.
• Write well-documented, clean code.
• Troubleshoot and debug applications.
• Stay up-to-date with emerging technologies and industry trends.

Technical Skills & Experience:

• Proficient in JavaScript/TypeScript, with expertise in React.js for front-end development.
• Strong experience with Node.js, Express.js, or other backend technologies.
• Familiarity with database technologies such as MongoDB, PostgreSQL, or MySQL.
• Experience with RESTful APIs and third-party integrations.
• Knowledge of cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Proficient in version control (e.g., Git) and collaboration tools.
• Experience with agile methodologies and continuous integration/deployment (CI/CD).

Bonus Skills:

• Experience with React Native for mobile app development.
• Familiarity with blockchain technology or cryptocurrency-related platforms.
• Experience with containerization (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
• Knowledge of testing frameworks and tools.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent practical experience).
• years of experience in full stack development.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and work independently as well as in a team environment.

Benefits:

• Competitive salary and performance bonuses.
• Opportunities for career growth and learning.
• Flexible working hours and remote working options.
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What We Offer:

• Competitive salary or hourly rate
• Flexible working hours
• Opportunity to work on impactful, real-world projects
• Creative and supportive team environment
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mail me your CV and portfolio at hr @ hookux.com

Project Overview

We’re building Express AI, a SaaS platform that allows small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to easily train and deploy their own dedicated AI agents for customer service, technical support, sales, and more.

Our vision is to give SMBs the power of enterprise-grade AI without complexity. You’ll help build the core platform that powers this – including agent training interfaces, web deployment, dashboards, and integrations.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop scalable full-stack features using modern JavaScript frameworks

• Build and maintain AI agent training modules (upload docs, FAQs, tone settings)

• Integrate OpenAI, Whisper, LangChain, and other LLM APIs

• Implement user-facing dashboards for chat/voices/social/email agent monitoring

• Design multi-tenant systems with admin-level controls

• Ensure reliability and scalability of the platform as we grow

Tech Stack

• Frontend: React.js, Next.js, TypeScript

• Backend: Node.js, Express, MongoDB (or Postgres), Redis

• AI & NLP: OpenAI API (ChatGPT, Whisper), LangChain, Python (optional)

• DevOps: Docker, AWS or GCP (basic familiarity okay)

• Other: WebSockets for real-time chat, REST APIs, Git

Role Type

• Full Stack Developer (preferred)

• Frontend or Backend specialists also considered, but must be willing to collaborate on both sides

Experience Level

• 3 to 6 years of professional experience

• Previous work with SaaS platforms, AI tools, or multi-tenant architecture is a big plus

Must-Have Skills

• Proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript

• Strong experience with React.js and Node.js

• Experience working with REST APIs and building secure web apps

• Solid understanding of cloud deployment (AWS/GCP/Firebase)

• Ability to work independently, self-manage, and deliver in a fast-paced environment

Nice-to-Have Skills

• Familiarity with LangChain, OpenAI, AI agent frameworks

• Experience with voice/chat integration

• Prior experience building tools for SMBs or customer support systems

Engagement Type

• Full-time (preferred) or part-time with clear weekly availability

• Remote (India-based candidates only)

Why Join Us?

• Work on a cutting-edge AI platform solving real problems for real businesses

• Fast-moving, no-red-tape team environment

• Build something that will impact millions of small businesses globally

What you need to have: 

• Develop and Integrate Django backend and API's with frontend framework.
• Develop Angular applications
• Working closely with UX and Front-end Developers
• Participating in architectural, design and product discussions
• Designing and creating RESTful APIs for internal and partner consumption
• Working in an agile environment with an excellent team of engineers

• Good experience developing Angular applications into production
• Good experience with the Django REST framework
• Strong understanding of the Angular framework as well as javascript, jQuery and HTML/CSS
• Good experience on designing and structuring of database most likely ORM (i.e MongoDB)
• Knowledge of how to build and use with RESTful APIs
• Good experience of Python coding skills
• Strong knowledge of version control (i.e. git, svn, etc.)
• Experience deploying Python applications into production

• Mandatory Skills : Java, Springboot, Microservices.
• Basic knowlege of HTML and CSS
• good understanding of REST API designing as well as development using spring.
• Strong Hands on experience in Angular or React JS
• Effective in using frameworks.
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools Git/bit bucket with Maven.
• hands on expereince in SQL

This person MUST have:

• BE Computer Science, MCA or equivalent
• Cloud app development experience
• Strong Django and ReactJS experience
• Advanced knowledge of Python and relational databases
• Understanding of APIs, pagination, searching, sorting 
• Experience with building, modifying and extending API endpoints (REST or

GraphQL) for data retrieval and persistence.

• Creating high performance UI etc.
• Experience with SQL and NOSQL databases

• Experience with the full software development life cycle, including requirements

collection, design, implementation, testing, and operational support.

• Experience with scrum or other agile software development methodology.
• Excellent verbal and written communication, teamwork, decision making and

influencing skills.

Experience:

• Min 3 year experience
• Not more than 15 year experience.
• Startup experience is a must. 

Location

• Remotely, anywhere in India

Timings:

• 40 hours a week but with 4 hours a day overlapping with client timezone.  Typically clients are in California PST Timezone.

Position:

• Full time/Direct
• We have great benefits such as PF, medical insurance, 12 annual company holidays, 12 PTO leaves per year, annual increments, Diwali bonus, spot bonuses and other incentives etc.
• We dont believe in locking in people with large notice periods.  You will stay here because you love the company.  We have only a 15 days notice period.

As an early hire on the core team, you’ll work on shaping projects, big and small, over short three week sprints. We’re a small team, but we get a lot of features shipped. You would be responsible for driving full-stack projects from prototype to finished stage with a lot of autonomy and creativity. This is an exciting time to join the team. We've found solid early traction, have strong basic foundations and are pushing aggressively into some incredible new feature builds. We have a small team, so you can make an incredible impact on our product very quickly. 

Responsibilities:

• Own the design of the overall architecture of the web application
• Implement a robust set of services and effective APIs to power the web application
• Build reusable and manageable code and libraries for future use
• Optimize the application for maximum speed and scalability
• Translate UI/UX wireframes to visual elements
• Develop and handle well-functioning databases and applications
• Test software to ensure responsiveness and efficiency 
• Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade software
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Experience:

• Proven expertise in shipping features in Ruby on Rails. Strong background in Ruby on Rails, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
• Strong experience in driving thought leadership and technical architecture
• Experience with mentoring juniors in the team

You are a fit if :

• You are a skilled coder. We need candidates with a strong history of shipping features in Rails with clean maintainable code. 
• You are a good communicator and a really good writer. Since we are async and remote most of our work is written. You'll need to be able to proactively communicate in concise, clear, simple writing.
• You are an expert project manager. You need to be able to break down a large, complex business deliverable into executable pieces that can be managed as individual user stories. You need to be able to keep a project on track and cut scope when needed.
• You don't need babysitting and are a Manager of One. We love people who have started companies or have freelanced in the past. You take ownership and take things across the finish line. Especially in our remote async approach, you'll need to be intrinsically motivated and keep your projects on track.
• You have strong business and product acumen. This job isn't just writing code, we solve real business problems for real people. That means you need to be able to look beyond the user story, have empathy for our end users, and solve real problems for them.

About Us:

We're solving a problem that 62% of Americans have

62% of Americans last year thought about starting a business. The #1 reason they didn’t was because they didn’t know where to start. Currents options are:

1. Going independent which is risky: no support or direction
2. Paying a franchise which is expensive:  franchises charge $100K+ fees to get started, take 10% of topline revenue, don't provide marketing support or technology

The market we're going after is bigger than e-Commerce

We’re disrupting the $2.3T franchise industry by removing the franchise fee and offering a tech-enabled franchise like product.

We’re starting with home painting where our biggest competitor is https://certapro.com/">CertaPro a $550M revenue franchise (1% market share) before quickly taking on https://www.neighborlybrands.com/our-brands/">Neighborly Brands as we expand categories (pest control, lawn care, etc.).

As we expand categories, our customer does not change

Our customer is an aspiring business owner, like https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicklaforest">Nick or https://www.linkedin.com/in/hardin-h-hawes-9ba6a72/">Hardin who doesn't care what type of business they start, as long as it is profitable. Our customers are not actually the one painting houses or completing roofing jobs, rather they are the one that hires people to do the job. Our customer has years of experience in sales and general management, which makes them suitable for any type of business — which is why as we expand to 100 categories, our customer does not change.

Our solution is an end to end platform to help you start, grow and run a business

Main Street is a combination of well-known technology platforms that provides an Uber-like simple experience in starting a business

• https://stripe.com/atlas">Stripe Atlas: Helping you incorporate and set up legal logistics for your business
• https://www.duolingo.com/">Duolingo: Learn a new skill (in our case it is about a specific type of business)
• https://www.shopify.com/online/ecommerce-solutions">Shopify: The operating tools to run your business
• https://www.womply.com/">Womply: A marketing stack to drive your customer

We're backed by top investors and built a world-class team

We're a seed-stage startup and have raised $10M+ from top investors including Greylock and Khosla. Our team previously worked at places like DoorDash, OpenDoor, Amazon, and OYO.