Fullstack Developer

Job Description

The Opportunity

The Springboard engineering team is looking for software engineers with strong backend & frontend technical expertise. In this role, you would be responsible for building exciting features aimed at improving our student experience and expanding our student base, using the latest technologies like GenAI, as relevant. You would also contribute to making our platform more robust, flexible and scalable. This is a great opportunity to create a meaningful impact as well as grow in your career.

We are looking for engineers with different levels of experience and expertise. Depending on your proficiency levels, you will join our team as a Software Engineer II, Senior Software Engineer or Lead Software Engineer.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop features for the Springboard platform, which enriches the learning experience of thousands through human guided learning at scale
• Own quality and reliability of the product by getting hands on with code and design reviews, debugging complex issues and so on
• Contribute to the platform architecture through redesign of complex features based on evolving business needs
• Influence and establish best engineering practices through solid design decisions, processes and tools
• Provide technical mentoring to team members

You

• You have experience with web application development, on both, backend and frontend.
• You have a solid understanding of software design principles and best practices.
• You have hands-on experience in,
• Coding and debugging complex systems, with frontend integration.
• Code review, responsible for production deployments.
• Building scalable and fault-tolerant applications.
• Re-architecting / re-designing complex systems / features (i.e. managing technical debt).
• Defining and following best practices for frontend and backend systems.
• You have excellent problem solving skills and are comfortable handling ambiguity.
• You are able to analyze various alternatives and reach optimal decisions. 
• You are willing to challenge the status quo, express your opinion and drive change.
• You are able to plan reasonably complex pieces of work and can handle changing priorities, unknowns and challenges with support. You want to contribute to the platform roadmap, aligning with the organization priorities and goals.
• You enjoy mentoring others and helping them solve challenging problems.
• You have excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner. You are able to communicate with various stakeholders to understand their requirements.
• You are a proponent of quality - building best practices, introducing new processes and improvements to make the team more efficient.

Non-negotiables

Must have

• Expertise in Backend development (Python & Django experience preferred)
• Expertise in Frontend development (AngularJS / ReactJS / VueJS experience preferred)
• Experience working with SQL databases
• Experience building multiple significant features for web applications

Good to have

• Experience with Google Cloud Platform (or any cloud platform)
• Experience working with any Learning Management System (LMS), such as Canvas
• Experience working with GenAI ecosystem, including usage of AI tools such as code completion
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and applications deployed on Kubernetes
• Experience with refactoring (redesigning complex systems / features, breaking monolith into services)
• Experience working with NoSQL databases
• Experience with Web performance optimization, SEO, Gatsby and FE Analytics
• Delivery skills, specifically planning open ended projects
• Mentoring skills

Expectations

• Able to work with open ended problems and come up with efficient solutions
• Able to communicate effectively with business stakeholders to clarify requirements for small to medium tasks and own end to end delivery
• Able to communicate estimations, plan deviations and blockers in an efficient and timely manner to all project stakeholders

About HighLevel:  

HighLevel is a cloud-based, all-in-one white-label marketing and sales platform that empowers marketing agencies, entrepreneurs, and businesses to elevate their digital presence and drive growth. With a focus on streamlining marketing efforts and providing comprehensive solutions, HighLevel helps businesses of all sizes achieve their marketing goals. We currently have 1000+ employees across 15 countries, working remotely as well as in our headquarters, which is located in Dallas, Texas. Our goal as an employer is to maintain a strong company culture, foster creativity and collaboration, and encourage a healthy work-life balance for our employees wherever they call home.

About the Role:

We are looking for an experienced software engineer with strong technical and communication skills who has developed full stack web apps, created solid APIs and beautiful interfaces for consuming them in user friendly apps. Focusing on details and well written self documented code are essential for this position. You can expect to collaborate with a solid team of designers, product managers, developers and testers on a daily basis. You must be experienced in building highly scalable and resilient systems that can meet our customer needs.

Responsibilities

• Improve and create new lead capture domain models.
• Build backend & Frontend API features and architecture.
• Work cross-functionally across our platform, experience, integrations, payments and marketplace teams.
• Drive performance through benchmarking and optimization
• Work with a wide range of systems, processes, and technologies to own and solve problems from end to end
• Collaborate closely with our leadership team including engineers, designers, and product managers to build new features and products
• Uphold high engineering standards and bring consistency to the many codebases and systems you will encounter.
• Work on 1 to 2 products.
• Create and improve lead capture tools like funnels, websites, forms, surveys, social media
• Architect and build backend & Frontend APIs and features

Your Core Skills

• 4+ years of experience in a full-stack environment.
• Proficient with various programming languages and tools such as but not limited to Javascript, TypeScript, Vue.js, NodeJS, and GraphQL
• Must be able to work with a team and collaborate remotely.
• You have an entrepreneurial mindset, are eager to take on different roles when necessary and know how to navigate a start-up environment.
• You are fulfilled by being a generalist working on both the frontend, backend, and anything it takes to solve problems and delight users and take pride in working on projects involving a variety of technologies and systems.
• Ability to stitch together many different services and processes together, even if you have not worked with them before.
• Hold a great deal of empathy for your team and users, you are a steward of crafting great experiences.
• Have great communication skills and can thrive in a highly collaborative environment when working cross-functionally with many stakeholders.
• Driven by product quality, and innately know how to balance trade-offs with time to launch new features.
• A keen eye for design and love to think about user flows and user experiences.
• Must have experience with HTML5 and CSS3

Additional Skills

• Experience with the Nuxt.js framework is a plus.
• Experience with MongoDB profiling and query optimization.
• Using CSS frameworks such as Bootstrap and TailwindCSS
• Experience working in the GCP (Google Cloud Platform) ecosystem.

Job Requirements:

• Good with React ,Node, Express & MongoDB/Firebase
• Node JS API (Backend) Development or Firebase Cloud Function, Runtime Environment
• Express JS & Express Routing
• Mongo DB/Firebase & its Operations
• Developing Applications With React

Required Candidate profile

• Good communication skills.
• Expert knowledge of MERN technologies.
• Resolves and/or escalates issues in a timely fashion.
• Able to work in a fast-paced working environment.

B.S. in software development, computer science or related field (Equivalent experience also accepted) 

·  1+ years of relevant work experience in software development and design.  

·  Deep understanding of computer science fundamentals (e.g, algorithms and data structures).  

·  Deep understanding of JavaScript or TypeScript and at least one JS UI framework React ·  
Deep understanding of Node.js and at least one Node server framework (Express, NextJS, NestJS). 

·  Deep understanding of the full software development lifecycle. 

·  Experience designing/implementing/integrating with APIs.  

·  Solid understanding of database systems (MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLServer).  

·  Solid understanding of Git and managed source control services like GitHub. 

·  Experience working within Agile software development teams. 

·  Foundational knowledge of Amazon Web Services (AWS). 

·  Excellent written and oral communication skills. 

Roles & Responsibilities:

• As one of the earliest employees, there will be a lot on your plate. All the time!
• You'll build new product features from start to finish: through conception, research, maintenance, and polish. Think features to improve our collaborative student learning platform, such as new collaborative learning activities for teaching coding and other subjects.
• You'll build improvements to performance, reliability, and product polish — for example, improving the efficiency and performance of our replicated state systems.
• You'll build and improve processes and internal tools with simplicity and productivity in mind — such as, a tool to sync updates between zoho, slack etc.

This might be for you if...

• You have knowledge of ReactJS and any backend technology along with that
• You have been professionally coding for at least 3 years
• You have worked in a startup and relish the chaos and pressure
• You've built and maintained quality user interfaces that have reached a large audience, ideally while the product is experiencing rapid growth.
• You can readily learn most technologies as you go. To you, technologies are about tools and tradeoffs, not an ideology.
• You care about the business implications of anything you build. You're not just going after cool stuff — you understand the balance between craft, speed, and the bottom line.

Full Stack Developer - Looking for top 5% talent from growth startups

About the Company:

Torre Capital is a VC-Funded Fintech based out of Singapore focused on disrupting the Asset Management Industry. We are backed by prestigious VC firms and a network of angels and industry leaders, with over 18 months of runway. We are creating new ways to interact and service High Net Worth Individuals using latest tech and analytics interventions. Torre Capital was started by professionals (Mckinsey, Accenture, Flipkart, PayU, CIMB) with 50+ years of experience in Digital Business Build and Asset Management.

Job Description:

We are looking for an experienced Full stack Engineer with 3-7 years of programming experience in a product development team. You are in top 5% of your field, and are passionate about creating new products and innovative code.

We are building a solution that deploys elements of tokenization using blockchain, ML driven portfolio selection and risk management, and a proprietary alternate secondary market for illiquid securities. You will work on relevant and cutting-edge technologies.

Key Requirements

• BE/ BTech or MTech/ Dual degree in Computer Science/Software engineering or similar from a tier 1 institute
• Fullstack development (Node.js or Python + React + React Native + GCP/AWS)
• Writing clean, semantic HTML, CSS working across all popular browsers
• Experience with typescript
• SQL/NoSQL database design, management and optimization
• Good at Functional style programming
• You have worked with and built REST APIs & GraphQL
• Experience with continuous deployment, familiar with AWS and Devops
• Experience implementing tests at all levels – unit, integration, E2E. TDD believer.
• Strong fundamental knowledge of algorithms, data structures, design patterns and network protocols.
• Previous work experience of at least 2 years in a similar role with an established startup
• Ability to deep dive into problem-solving and build elegant, maintainable solutions to complex problems
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Deep knowledge of at least one backend frameworks

What we offer:

• Excellent fixed compensation with milestone linked bonuses
• Flexible work hours, family-friendly
• Independent work culture, no micro management
• Significant ESOPs in a fast-growing startup