
Full Stack – Senior Software Developer / Technical Lead



About us
Villa Plus is UK's leading villa holiday tour operator, providing holiday makers the ability to book their own private villas across Europe. Customers have a choice of close to 2000 villas in 19 destinations with option of booking flights, car hire, transfers and travel insurance. Over the last 33 years Villa Plus has catered for holidays for nearly 200,000 customers and it manages about 50,000 bookings annually online.
Our digital platform, http://www.villaplus.com">www.villaplus.com runs totally in Azure Cloud. A headless CMS platform is used for non-villa marketing content. Ash software is value-added partner and technical arm of Villa Plus which aims at delivering delightful experience to customers.
Experience:
7+ years in Product development
Qualification:
- Bachelor / Masters degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering
- 5+ years of professional experience in software development
Our team is highly motivated and is looking for a senior engineer who can steer the team technically in our vision.
Strong belief in software craftsmanship and practicing it in day-to-day work, expert in Microsoft .NET technology stack is a must.
A good team player with expertise working as part of Agile teams. Hands-on experience in practicing Scrum, XP and Kanban.
- Strong hands-on experience in web development using ASP.NET MVC and C#.
- Usage of SQL and no SQL databases
- Hands on experience in test-driven development and DevOps practices
- Strong design capabilities, following SOLID principles using C#
- Well-versed with pair-programming
- Working on solutions hosted in cloud environments (AWS or Azure)
- Implementation of Continuous Delivery processes
- Usage of Git
- Good understanding of Behaviour-driven development and domain-driven design
The following would be beneficial:
- Working in the travel and hospitality domain including:
- .Net core 2.0, Web API
- Scripting Languages like Typescript or JavaScript
- Frontend: Angular7
- Automating business processes
- Integration with 3rd party systems
- Customer management, including CRM solutions
- Content management
- SEO
- Booking and post sales flows, web and mobile solutions
Are you interested in working from home office?
- Comprehensive experience working with remote teams
- Excellent communicator
- Self-managed
- Open to travel to Pune office occasionally
Responsibilities:
- Contribution to the product roadmap in one-week sprint model
- Helping your team to deliver at high velocity
- Practice and promote Agile practices
- Continuously learn and deliver incremental business value
- Use Continuous Delivery Practices
- Select the best tools to solve the problems at hand
- Mentor junior team members
- Effective collaboration and removal of silos
- Build high availability solutions.
- Development of asynchronous and/or multi-tiered scalable applications
Job Location Pune
- Are you a software craftsman and passionate coder with a proven track record of successful deliveries?
- Are you interested in a high growth career opportunity and enjoy building software that brings smiles to our customers?
Then you are someone who will enjoy this incredibly challenging role with us.

About Ash Software Pvt. Ltd.
About
We are a community of professionals who believe in productive partnerships and deliver the astute working software in ‘Agile’ way with our expertise in multiple domains. We follow an iterative work process.
Ash Software is a venture of picking up ever-demanding challenges and to meet them by enhancing skillsets thus delivering experience with total customer satisfaction while growing together.
Why choose us?
We are the value-added partner of Villa Plus and aim to deliver delightful experience to customers. We practice Agile and Lean WOW!
We believe in continuous innovation:
We love to shed our skin to start afresh by upping ‘our’ game each time. We don’t reboot. We only upgrade.
We are the "nerd herd":
We speak programming language. We can convert anything into the software with our pragmatic approach. We believe in setting benchmarks. We love Eureka moments.
We have a proven track record:
We have 15 years of expertise in building software and providing integrated solutions to help businesses maximize their performance. And we love competing with ourselves too.
Mission:
Being a responsive team to support Villa Plus and build quality products to deliver delightful customer experience.
Vision:
To constantly enhance customer experiences of every Villa Plus Customer. To be a reliable and efficient support system for our customer.
Values:
Continuous improvement and collaboration to deliver the best user experience with high-quality products by respecting work ethics and human values
Life @ Ash:
We love to maintain a work-life balance while enjoying our work and encourage the development of human potential to curate a dynamic and sublime work culture.
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Candidates with less than 6 years of experience in Development are kindly requested not to apply.
Role Overview
We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Staff Engineer to lead our small but talented dev team and take ownership of our architecture and infrastructure. This role is a blend of hands-on technical leadership and strategic planning, critical to our product’s growth and scalability.
Key Responsibilities
- Team Leadership: Lead and manage the technology along with a small and driven development team, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and excellence.
- Architecture Ownership: Design, review, and evolve the architecture for scalable and robust microservices and micro-products.
- Infrastructure Management: Oversee AWS and GCP environments, ensuring secure, cost-effective, and efficient operations.
- AI Integration: Collaborate with AI specialists to integrate fine-tuned models into our ecosystem seamlessly.
- DevOps Excellence: Establish CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, and alerting systems to support rapid development and reliable deployments.
- Code Quality: Set and enforce high standards for code quality, testing, and documentation.
- Strategic Planning: Collaborate with product and business teams to align technical decisions with company goals.
Requirements
- Experience: 6+ years in software development with strong backend and frontend expertise (Python, React preferred).
- Architecture Skills: Proven experience designing and implementing scalable, distributed systems.
- Cloud Expertise: Hands-on experience with AWS and GCP services, cost optimization, and infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform or CloudFormation.
- DevOps Knowledge: Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines, Docker, Kubernetes, and related tools.
- Leadership: Experience leading and mentoring small teams, driving projects to completion.
- AI Familiarity: Understanding of AI/ML model integration in production systems is a plus.
- Soft Skills: Excellent communication, problem-solving, and organizational skills.
What We Offer
- Opportunity to shape the future of accessibility technology.
- Collaborative and innovative work environment.
- Competitive compensation and equity options.
- Remote work flexibility.
Join us in making the web more inclusive and accessible!


What will your job look like?
- Develop product modules and enhancements as per functional specs
- Assist in preparing functional and technical design specifications
- Work with business analysts, QA, and IT departments as required
All you need is…
- Strong analytical abilities and problem-solving skills applying software engineering principles
- Ability to work in a collaborative team environment while also being able to execute work independently
- Ability to write modular, clean, efficient code
- Eagerness to learn and interest in new technologies
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, start-up environment
- Diligence in all aspects of work performed
Must Have
Technical Skills
- Backend languages/frameworks:
- J2EE (Java, JSP, Servlets)
- Spring Framework ecosystem and micro-services
- Tag Libraries
- UI layer programming:
- HTML
- DHTML
- JavaScript
- cascading style sheets (CSS)
- React/Angular
- Databases:
- SQL queries, indexing, views
Work Experience
- 3+ years of relevant software development experience
- Usage of SVN or similar SCM system
- Usage of Eclipse or similar IDE
Educational Experience
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field


- Microsoft technology development experience in C#, ASP.NET, .NET 4.5 onwards, Web API, Bootstrap, Jquery, Angular SQL 2012 onwards, SQL stored procedure
- Must have ReactJs with 2 projects experience or min 1.5 Years experience in ReactJS based Projects
- Troubleshooting & analysing skills
- Development Experience required for Continuous improvement program
- Good problem solving capabilities in Developed applications

Creates, modifies and maintains software applications individually or as part of a team under general supervision.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities
• Codes, tests, debugs, implements and documents software applications using established coding standards and methodologies
• Work within an agile scrum team, contributing to an atmosphere of continuous improvement
• Perform code reviews to ensure adherence to best practices
• Understands how to interpret designs and database models and effectively collaborate with Architects
• Master the technologies, languages, and practices used by the team and project assigned
• Trouble shoot and resolve issues in existing software
• Continuous performance improvement of the system
Minimum Qualifications
• Minimum three years of HL7 development experience (implementation only will not be considered) using an industry known interface engine
• Understanding of FHIR and its primary components
• Experience with AWS or Azure cloud-based technologies
• Experience with OAuth2
• Minimum two years EDIFecs experience (Rhapsody will be considered if three years minimum)
Skills/Knowledge
• Must be proficient in basic programming skills and proficient in JavaScript and/or C#
• Strong problem-solving and analysis skills
• Experience with high transactional volume systems
• Ability to design and build workflows from requirements document
• Ability to gather requirements from existing platform
• Ability to learn new development language and platforms quickly and apply that knowledge effectively
• AWS Cloud technologies
• CI/CD experience or understanding



- Is at least 2-3 startup’s old
- Has experience of building products from scratch and scaling.
- Has experience of managing at least 3-4 Engineers.
- Has experience of working with cross border / multi-ethnic teams / Different time zones.
- Has experience of building social media
- Has a formal education in technology


- Extensive experience in building REST APIs
- Experience in building, managing, and enhancing backend / server-side development using java / java scripts. Expertise in NodeJS is preferred
- The person must have built systems that consume and process volumes of data from various sources. Experience in handling and managing data in NoSQL databases such as Mongodb.
- Extensive experience of building custom UI for web using the popular frameworks like angular and react. Experience in developing mobile UI is nice to have
- Experience of working with code repositories such as Github and GitLab.
- Fluent written and spoken English.
- Experience of working on Cloud environments and experience in AWS is preferred.
- Experience in Dockers and Kubernetes for deployments




