Fullstack Developer

Job Title: Full Stack Engineer (Django + Next.js)

We’re looking for a Full Stack Engineer with strong backend fundamentals and solid frontend experience to build scalable web products and APIs.

Must-Have

• Django + DRF (2+ years): Models, serializers, services, API views, migrations, query optimization (select_related / prefetch_related), transaction.atomic, custom managers

• Next.js + React (2+ years): App Router, SSR, client components, dynamic imports, useQuery, responsive UIs with Tailwind

• REST APIs: Auth, permissions, pagination, error handling, CORS, JWT flows

• PostgreSQL: Schema design, indexes, constraints, JSON fields, raw SQL when needed

• Celery / async tasks: Retry logic, idempotency, task chaining

• Git: Clean commits, branching, PR workflow

Good to Have

• AI / LLM integrations

• AWS S3 and presigned uploads

• Multi-tenancy

• WebRTC / MediaRecorder

• Docker

• Testing with pytest / Django TestCase / factory_boy

We’re looking for someone who can independently own features end-to-end and write clean, scalable code.

Job Description

SquareShift is a fast-growing cloud consulting company, solving cloud challenges through excellence in technology, thought leadership, and quality in execution. We are based in Singapore, with a world-class engineering team in India. 

Founded by serial entrepreneurs, we are a team of tech-enthusiasts who have strong expertise in enterprise product development and cloud technologies.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional experience in building and designing SaaS based web applications.
• Proven backend development skills with experience in a language like Ruby
• Knowledge of open-source technologies such as Apache, Solr, Lucene, Elastic Search, Memcached.
• Experience working with Product Management to build and release products in an agile environment.
• You are familiar with SDLC tools like Ant, Maven, Git, SVN, Jenkins, Travis, Puppet, Ansible, Docker.
• You have some knowledge around how AWS services and deployments work.
• You have excellent interpersonal skills and can explain complex problems to technical

Benefits

Why SquareShift?

We firmly believe that our growth, long term success & wellbeing as an organization are a direct outcome of the culture and teamwork. At SquareShift, you can expect,

• High-growth, collaborative environment with diverse and inclusive teams
• Continuous learning, enrichment, and development opportunities
• Competitive pay and allowances for professional development 
• Flexible time off to relax and recharge

Website - squareshift.co

3+ years

• Taking an active role in architecting the solutions we build
• Designing and implementing web applications using JavaScript and its frameworks (i.a. React, Vue, Angular), HTML5 and CSS3
• Working closely with the dispersed development team, client, and project manager in SCRUM methodology
• Ensuring that programming practices and code quality are respected
• Supporting other engineers with your expertise when needed (knowledge sharing)
• Leading your colleagues’ growth and development

• 2+ years Experience with React. Good to have working knowledge of React Native, Angular, VueJS
• Strong expertise with HTML, CSS, and writing cross-browser compatible code.
• Good understanding of AJAX and JavaScript DOM manipulation Techniques
• Experience with RESTful services
• Experience in JavaScript build tools like grunt or gulp
• Hands on and implements complex React modules
• Able to implement automated testing platforms and unit tests
• Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools (Git) 
• Critical thinker and problem-solving skills

• Experience with Angular2+ and Node
• Experience with AWS or GCP infrastructure
• Curiosity about new languages, libraries, frameworks
• Contributions to open-source projects

• Passionate about making an impact
• Self-driven & eager to learn new technologies
• Intellectually curious, interested to build complex systems
• Thrive in a highly independent, remote-first environment
• Keen to work with a globally diverse team

• Hybrid Work Option - Step out when you “want to” not when you “have to”
• Work from the comfort of your home or work at the office
• Support for setting up Home-office
• Flexible Work Hours -Work-life balance becomes a lot easier to maintain with the flexibility to plan your work hours 
• Flexible Leave policies
• Life needs a break - casual, parental, sick, or just random. To help you enjoy your leaves without guilt or excuses, we have a ‘no approval needed’ policy
• Health and Wellness - Constant encouragement to stay fit
• We encourage and support our team members to participate in memberships that promote team member health (physical, emotional, and psychological) and fitness
• Reimbursements for medical support
• Career ladder: the freedom to design your own path
• Well defined career ladders to grow, assess and explore your professional journey
• Learning opportunities
• In house learning platforms to partner with you in your growth story
• Wide range of courses and certifications

We are looking for LAMP-Stack developers. Someone with a minimum of 3 years of experience.
Must have:

• Strong verbal and written communication skills, analytical skills and the ability to learn quickly
• Creative approach to problem-solving with the ability to focus on details while maintaining the "big picture" view
• Proven experience of working on/with Composer,  PHP7, CodeIgniter, MySQL.
• Experience with creating and consuming APIs.
• Knowledge of wordpress, Python, Elasticsearch, Redis, RabbitMQ, Cloudflare would be a HUGE PLUS.
• Any other experience with languages like NODE will be appreciated (but must NOT be your primary skill)

The Job responsibilities would include:

• Create new features to existing web apps.
• Maintain & enhance current features based on requirements.

You must have the ability to work independently once you are made familiar with the code/project. We need someone who can make good logical decisions without compromising the quality of code. 

• 2-5 years relevant work experience in building multiple users software solutions
• 1-2 years hands on experience building cloud based web and mobile applications
• JavaScript, React, NodeJS, structured and unstructured store
• Strong Front End or Back end experience
• Hands on experience building Restful APIs
• Hands on experience building microservices based applications
• Understanding of DevOps / DevSecOps processes and related tools including, but not limited to, IaC (Terraform, CloudFormation), config management (Chef, Puppet), Git / Bitbucket, or Jenkins, etc.
• Hands on experience with multiple frontend or backend technologies (either) / frameworks / platforms supporting web and mobile applications – Such as: NodeJS, Python, Django, Flask, PHP, Laravel, jQuery, Bootstrap, Angular, Vue.js, ReactJS, Bootstrap, React-Native, Flutter, iOS SDK, or similar.
• Hands-on end to end experience of multiple application development frameworks, monitoring tools, and deployment methodologies
• Experience building and deploying with container technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes and leveraging them throughout the CICD process
• Understanding of practices regarding system security measures

What you need to have: