Senior Software Engineer (FullStack)
Synup is a marketing platform for local businesses.
Ever tried to find the best Sushi restaurant in town?
- We help businesses like that be found online by helping them manage their online profiles across different platforms like Google, Facebook, Apple Maps, Yelp, etc.
- We build tools for them to interact with customers better by notifying them of latest reviews, helping them respond appropriately or collect feedback.
- We provide them with analytics reports that these businesses would not have otherwise had access to.
Our customers include businesses both small like a Sushi restaurant or large like your most trusted bank.
About your role as our new Senior Software Engineer (FullStack)
As an experienced engineer we know that you have built software to solve various business problems at your previous workplaces. You may have also explored technologies on your own for your learning or hobby projects.
- You will be building APIs for the Synup platform and also UI to make our platform capabilities available to our customers.
- You and the team that you are a part of will be collectively responsible building performant software and customer experiences that scale to our next million customers.
- You will be responsible for writing technical specs and contributing to it's implementation. We expect that you would have done the same in your previous workplaces.
- Other folks on our team are looking forward to learn from your experiences.
For engineers that join our team
- We expect you to be good with Ruby or Python to build APIs.
- You will be contributing to our UI that is built with React and GraphQL.
- We hope our team members have a strong grasp of software design patterns and know when to put them to good use.
- Experience with an SQL datastore would help a lot. PostgreSQL is our primary datastore.
- We optimize our search functionality and rollup reports by using ElasticSearch.
- We expect that you have used Redis. Redis is our swiss army knife to solve a lot of problems apart from just caching.

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ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
We are looking for a Software Engineering Manager to lead a high-performing team focused on building scalable, secure, and intelligent enterprise software. The ideal candidate is a strong technologist who enjoys coding, mentoring, and driving high-quality software delivery in a fast-paced startup environment.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Lead and mentor a team of software engineers across backend, frontend, and integration areas.
- Drive architectural design, technical reviews, and ensure scalability and reliability.
- Collaborate with Product, Design, and DevOps teams to deliver high-quality releases on time.
- Establish best practices in agile development, testing automation, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Build reusable frameworks for low-code app development and AI-driven workflows.
- Hire, coach, and develop engineers to strengthen technical capabilities and team culture.
IDEAL CANDIDATE:
- B.Tech/B.E. in Computer Science from a Tier-1 Engineering College.
- 3+ years of professional experience as a software engineer, with at least 1 year mentoring or managing engineers.
- Strong expertise in backend development (Java / Node.js / Go / Python) and familiarity with frontend frameworks (React / Angular / Vue).
- Solid understanding of microservices, APIs, and cloud architectures (AWS/GCP/Azure).
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Excellent communication and problem-solving skills.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Experience building or scaling SaaS or platform-based products.
- Exposure to GenAI/LLM, data pipelines, or workflow automation tools.
- Prior experience in a startup or high-growth product environment.
Position Overview: The Lead Software Architect - Python & Data Engineering is a senior technical leadership role responsible for designing and owning end-to-end architecture for data-intensive, AI/ML, and analytics platforms, while mentoring developers and ensuring technical excellence across the organization.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design end-to-end software architecture for data-intensive applications, AI/ML pipelines, and analytics platforms
- Evaluate trade-offs between competing technical approaches
- Define data models, API approach, and integration patterns across systems
- Create technical specifications and architecture documentation
- Lead by example through production-grade Python code and mentor developers on engineering fundamentals
- Conduct design and code reviews focused on architectural soundness
- Establish engineering standards, coding practices, and design patterns for the team
- Translate business requirements into technical architecture
- Collaborate with data scientists, analysts, and other teams to design integrated solutions
- Whiteboard and defend system design and architectural choices
- Take responsibility for system performance, reliability, and maintainability
- Identify and resolve architectural bottlenecks proactively
Required Skills:
- 8+ years of experience in software architecture and development
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
- Strong foundations in data structures, algorithms, and computational complexity
- Experience in system design for scale, including caching strategies, load balancing, and asynchronous processing
- 6+ years of Python development experience
- Deep knowledge of Django, Flask, or FastAPI
- Expert understanding of Python internals including GIL and memory management
- Experience with RESTful API design and event-driven architectures (Kafka, RabbitMQ)
- Proficiency in data processing frameworks such as Pandas, Apache Spark, and Airflow
- Strong SQL optimization and database design experience (PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB) Experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure cloud platforms
- Knowledge of containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes)
- Hands-on experience designing CI/CD pipelines Preferred (Bonus)
Skills:
- Experience deploying ML models to production (MLOps, model serving, monitoring) Understanding of ML system design including feature stores and model versioning
- Familiarity with ML frameworks such as scikit-learn, TensorFlow, and PyTorch
- Open-source contributions or technical blogging demonstrating architectural depth
- Experience with modern front-end frameworks for full-stack perspective
Technical Skills Required:
- Frontend: Proficiency in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and frameworks like React.js or Vue js.
- Backend: Hands-on experience with Node.js, PHP, or along with frameworks like Express.
- Database: Experience with relational databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL,
- Version Control: Familiarity with Git and Git-based workflows.
- Understanding of RESTful APIs and integration with third-party services.
- Basic knowledge of DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud platforms is a plus.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, or a related field.
- Proven experience working on full-stack development projects.
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
Job Description:
Responsibilities:
· Participate in the entire application lifecycle, focusing on coding and debugging
· Ability to design and document the product features, codes.
· Self-driven and ability to take up ownership of things
· Write clean code to develop functional applications, automation scripts, test cases
· Troubleshoot and debug applications
· Collaborate with developers, cross-functional teams to identify issue, new features and come up with solutions
· Gather and address technical and design requirements
· Provide training and support to internal teams
· Build reusable code and libraries for future use
· Ability to sync with other developers, designers to identify issues, new features and improvements
Requirements and skills:
· Solid understanding of linux development environment and systems
· Expert level knowledge of Python along with frameworks like Django, flask
· Proficient in writing unit test cases using Pytest framework.
· Expert level knowledge of SQL databases like MySQL and PostgreSQL
· Good knowledge of design principles and databases
· Knowledge of front technologies like Typescript, ReactJs
· Knowledge of Caching techniques using Memcached and Redis
· Experience of using queueing service line Kafka
· Solid understanding of microservices architecture
· Knowledge of AWS cloud services
· Expert in serverless technologies like lambda along with API gateway
· Knowledge of Git, Jira, CI/CD pipelines and containerization like docker
· Knowledge of logging and monitoring tools like Grafana or Newrelic
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· Experience in leading a software team and managing software delivery project. · Strong experience in Python development in a full stack environment is a requirement, including , Flask · Strong Hands-on with VueJS/Vuex, JavaScript, React, Angular · Experience with SQLAchemy or similar ORM frameworks · Experience working with mapping APIs (e.g., Google Maps, Mapbox) · Experience using Elasticsearch and docker environment is a plus · Strong knowledge of SQL, comfortable working with MySQL and/or PostgreSQL databases · Understands concepts of Data Modeling · Experience with REST. · Experience with Git, GitFlow, code review process · Good understand with basic UI and UX principles |
- Strong experience require in C# coding & Concepts & Threads
- Strong Experience require in SqlServer & MySql & Sqllite
- Experience required in ASP.NET MVC & ASP.NET
- Expericend required in Restful services using WCF & WEB API
- Strong experience using Entity Framework (Edmx,code first)
. Experience require in ADO.NET
- Familiarity with the client side framework jQuery & Javacsript & Reactjs
. Familiarity with HTML & CSS
- Familiarity with Git Repositories
. Familiarity with Microsoft Azure
. Having knowledge in Xamarin.Forms will be added advantage
First 2 months
You will be expected to setup and integrate basic tools which will allow the internal teams to function. Examples of projects would be
-Execution of WMS, POS systems and any required integrations
-Setup basic data warehousing / reporting servers to promote data democracy internally.
Post 2 months
You will now be working on creating new tools / Apps which will give our business compounding benefits over time. These could range from B2B, B2C, B2B2C apps, internal enterprise tools. This phase will lay the true foundation of the company’s future tech capabilities.
Required Skillset
Below is an example set of technology skills we expect the candidate to have hands-on experience with. Knowledge of Python is mandatory:
Back-End
• Server-side languages like Python
• Database technologies like MongoDB and Relational Database (MYSQL,
POSTGRES, SQL Server etc.).
• Microservices framework
• Aws services-EC2, SES, S3, SNS
• Additional technologies (Scrapy, Celery)
Mobile Application
• React native
• ES6- java script
• Hybrid app development in (Android/IOS) Preferred (React-Native)
Front-End
• HTML/CSS
• React.js
• JavaScript (ES6, babel)
• NodeJS
• PWA (Progressive Web Application Development)
- Developing front-end website architecture.
- 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.
- Working alongside graphic designers for web design features.
- Seeing through a project from conception to finished product.
- Designing and developing APIs.
- Meeting both technical and consumer needs.
- Staying abreast of developments in web applications and programming languages.
- Degree in computer science.
- Strong organizational and project management skills.
- Proficiency with fundamental front-end languages such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
- Familiarity with JavaScript frameworks such as React(mandatory/preferred), Angular JS, and Amber.
- Proficiency with server-side languages such as Node.js(mandatory/preferred), Java, PHP.
- Familiarity with database technology such as MySQL, Oracle, and MongoDB.
- Excellent verbal communication skills.
- Good problem-solving skills.
- Attention to detail.
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
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:
- Going independent which is risky: no support or direction
- 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.
having built a few of India's largest companies across multiple domains. This will be an opportunity to directly work with the founders. What we are looking for: An entrepreneurial, thoughtful, and positive mindset/approach to solving large problems, capable of adapting to changing market conditions, willing to join a growing startup, a rational and no-nonsense approach, and practical thought process.
Full-stack experience designing and building scalable applications from end-to-end
- Excellent JavaScript skills and strong proficiency in React
- Familiarity with the MERN stack (MongoDB, Express.JS, React.JS, and Node.JS)
- Working experience with React, Redux, ES6
- Experience building backend API's using NodeJs and ExpressJs
- Experience with NoSQL databases such as MongoDB, mongoose, aggregation framework
and Redis
- Experience with Web sockets and related frameworks (e.g. Socket.IO)
- Experience using RESTful APIs and basic authentication mechanisms
- Create and maintain microservices
- Ability Showcase past work via live web pages
Required Skills: Database - MongoDB, Restful, Express.JS, React.JS and Node.JS, MySQL,
NoSQL.








