Fullstack Developer

Engineer the Future of AI-Powered Recruitment Applications

About Us:

At PyjamaHR, we're creating recruitment software so intuitive you could use it in your pajamas. We integrate cutting-edge LLMs and Generative AI technologies into practical, powerful applications that are transforming how 525+ companies hire talent. While others are still talking about AI potential, we're shipping AI-powered features that deliver real value. As we scale from Bangalore to the US market, we need exceptional full-stack talent who can turn advanced AI capabilities into elegant, user-friendly experiences.

The Role:

As a Senior Full-Stack Engineer at PyjamaHR, you'll build the applications and interfaces that bring our AI capabilities to life. This isn't about training models—it's about implementing, integrating, and optimizing Generative AI within robust full-stack applications. You'll work across our entire technology ecosystem to create seamless experiences that leverage AI to solve real recruitment challenges. Your code will directly impact how companies discover, evaluate, and hire talent.

What You'll Do:

• Implement AI-Powered Features - Integrate Generative AI capabilities into practical, user-facing applications
• Build End-to-End Solutions - Develop both frontend experiences and backend services that leverage AI capabilities
• Create Scalable Architectures - Design systems that grow with our rapidly expanding user base
• Optimize Performance - Ensure our applications remain responsive even when processing complex AI operations
• Enhance User Experiences - Translate advanced AI capabilities into intuitive, accessible interfaces
• Drive Technical Excellence - Set standards for code quality and engineering practices across the team
• Collaborate Across Functions - Work with product, design, and data teams to deliver cohesive solutions
• Solve Complex Challenges - Apply your technical creativity to the unique problems of AI-powered recruitment

Who We're Looking For:

• 3-5 years of full-stack development experience building production applications
• Experience implementing and integrating Generative AI into web applications
• Expertise with either Django/React or Node.js/React technology stacks
• Strong experience with cloud platforms (Azure preferred, AWS acceptable)
• Proven ability to build performant, scalable web applications
• Excellence in modern JavaScript/TypeScript and frontend development
• Solid understanding of software architecture principles
• Product-minded approach to engineering decisions
• Ability to thrive in fast-paced environments with evolving priorities
• Bachelor's or higher in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience

The Rewards:

• Salary range of ₹30-40 LPA for exceptional talent (with room to negotiate for truly outstanding candidates)
• Equity package with significant growth potential
• Minimal bureaucracy and maximum impact
• Autonomy to make important technical decisions
• The opportunity to shape an industry-leading product
• Collaborative, innovation-focused work environment

Location: Bangalore (Koramangala 8th Block)

This role is perfect for engineers who want to apply their full-stack expertise to implement cutting-edge AI technologies in real-world applications. If you're excited about building the interfaces and systems that make advanced AI accessible and valuable to users, we want to talk to you.

• 0 to 3 years of experience (or equivalent understanding of software engineering)
• Familiar with Javascript/Typescript and React.js
• Familiar with one backend language (Node, Go, Java, Python) and one relational database (any SQL)
• Willingness and interest in learning new tech/processes (Next.js, Angular, IaaS, etc.)

Responsibilities

• Developing new user-facing features using React.js
• Building reusable components and front-end libraries for future use
• Translating designs and wireframes into high quality code
• Optimizing components for maximum performance across a vast array of web-capable devices and browsers

Skills

• Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model
• Thorough understanding of React.js and its core principles
• Experience with popular React.js workflows (such as Flux or Redux)
• Knowledge of isomorphic React is a plus
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs
• Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token
• Experience with common front-end development tools such as Babel, Webpack, NPM, etc.
• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements
• A knack for benchmarking and optimization
• Familiarity with code versioning tools such as Git, SVN, and Mercurial

• Own the development/improvement of products and features.
• Own the responsibility for creating a great user experience on the products and features you work on.
• Build features end-to-end: both the user interfaces and the backend APIs.
• Set technical standards and lead the team in building a world-class scalable software development process.
• Lead large-scale design updates and rollouts.
• Partner with infrastructure engineers to scale the product.
• Investigate state-of-the-art frameworks and tooling to build our next-generation architecture.
• Guide and mentor junior team members 

• 8+ years of relevant front-end development experience, previous start up experience is highly desirable.
• Experience building, running, and debugging single-page apps in a modern JavaScript framework.
• Demonstrated knowledge of React, Redux and CSSAbility to work independently as well as cross-functionally with other engineering teams and product.
• Tech Lead / Management experience.

• Experience with full-stack development.
• Experience with building APIs using spring boot.
• Experience with front-end test frameworks (Jasmine/Mocha/Jest)
• Exposure to mobile platforms

Requirements:

• Bachelor's or master’s degree in computer science or equivalent work experience.
• A solid understanding of the full web technology stack and experience in developing web applications
• Strong experience with React JS framework for building visually appealing interfaces and back end frameworks like Django
• Knowledge of multiple front-end languages and libraries (e.g. HTML/ CSS, JavaScript, XML, jQuery)
• Good knowledge of object-oriented programming and data structures in Python
• Experience with NoSQL databases, web server technologies, designing, and developing APIs.
• Strong knowledge and work experience in AWS cloud services
• Proficiency with Git, CI/CD pipelines.
• Knowledge in Agile/Scrum processes.
• Experience in Docker container usage.

Roles and responsibilities:

• Develop sophisticated web applications for drone control, data management, security, and data protection.
• Build scalable features using advanced framework concepts such as Microservices, Queues, Jobs, Events, Task Scheduling, etc.
• Integrate with Third-Party APIs/services
• Use theoretical knowledge and/or work experience to find innovative solutions to the problems at hand.
• Collaborate with team members to ideate solutions.
• Troubleshoot, debug, and upgrade existing software.
• Passionate to learn and adapt in a start-up environment.

Perks:

• Hands-on experience with state of the art facilities we use for robot development.
• Opportunity to work with industry experts and researchers in the field of AI, Computer Vision, and Machine Learning.
• Competitive salary.
• Stock options.
• Opportunity to be an early part of the team and grow with the startup.
• Freedom of working schedule.
• Opportunity to kickstart and lead your own projects.

Knowledge of Node.js and frameworks available for it (such as Express, StrongLoop, etc depending on your technology stack)

Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds

Good with REST Api and integration of many API's in our backend

Good understanding of server-side templating languages (such as Jade, EJS, etc depending on your technology stack)

Understanding accessibility and security compliance

User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system

Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application

Understanding differences between multiple delivery platforms, such as mobile vs. desktop, and optimizing output to match the specific platform

Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes
Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests

Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
Good Code writing skills 
Integration with Shopfy, Zoho, ERP, CRM is a plus.

In Brief
Urgent Hiring • Re-location Required
Company Founded 2018 • 1-5 employees
Internet and Technology Startup • Bootstrapped

About us
Based out of Egypt and with presence in the GCC, Quesst Technologies is an early Internet and Tech Startup committed to helping thousands of nationals, residents and travelers in the MENA region, saving them time and effort in seeking reliable and credible knowledge within their communities and localities.

Quesst, the company's flagship platform, is a hyper-local Q&A and knowledge sharing platform that offers the necessary infrastructure for users seeking information to meet, share, engage and interact with one another and with verified subject matter experts.

Who we're looking for
Ideally the successful candidate will have experience in the start-up world and is in a position for a new challenge to take this company to the next level. Someone who is passionate about delivering a scalable and highly performant state-of-the-art cloud-based platforms built with technologies utilizing the JavaScript ecosystem, AI/ML and the latest web technologies to help solve exciting real world problems.

We are looking for an agile and entrepreneurial leader with strong people leadership and technical capability who has a problem-solving and analytical aptitude, excellent communication and presentation skills, is familiar with statistics, has a business acumen, independent, positive can-do attitude, and passion for excellence to the workplace.

Your role and our tech stack
Reporting to the founder, you will be expected to develop, deploy and oversee the execution of the tech strategy, product road-map and operations to ensure alignment with our businesses goals as we grow and scale. You will play a key part in the organisation's success, taking the current MVP and developing it further to move the company through to early stage funding and into profit.

Quesst's is built using React.js [Frontend], Node.js [Backend], PostgreSQL [DB], Amazon EC2 [Application Hosting], Amazon S3 [Media Storage Service], and Amazon SES [Email Sending Service]. You will be responsible for implementing full-stack features and collaborate with other team members to plan each sprint. You’ll be working across the entire system architecture and be responsible for designing, implementing and maintaining restful APIs, micro-services and databases.

Your key responsibilities

• Develop, improve and optimize the structure, quality, and extensibility of current software technologies, codebases and databases
• Prototype ideas to quickly access viability and iterate based on feedback from the team
• Build robust, web-based applications interacting with databases, file-systems and APIs
• Write custom code or integrate open source technologies as needed to find solutions to problems
• Design and build effective APIs; Create servers and databases for functionality
• Design client-side and server-side architecture; Design the data model ensuring scalability
• Accurately translate screen designs into functional front-end code; Develop features and with a mobile responsive design
• Write high-quality, extensible, testable and reusable code and libraries; Conduct code reviews and establishment of best practices
• Participate in planning activities; Estimate accurate stores for new features and design product features
• Help define processes and build tools as needed to scale the solution and the team
• Create and lead the product road-map; Proactively breakdown work, manage development sprints, identify risks and explore solutions
• Test software to ensure responsiveness and efficiency; Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade software; Aggressive problem diagnosis and creative problem solving
• Steer the business on timescales, prioritization and costs on competing development requirements
• Drive rigorous, and weekly product releases and lead required integration efforts with partners and/or third-party software services
• Guide the development in design, architecture and platform choices with strong focus on quality, speed, stability and scalability
• Identify and establish best practices and frameworks keeping in mind parameters of performance, responsiveness, security, maintainability, extensibility, and reuse; Work collaboratively in a lean and agile environment; Write technical documentation
• Recommend and implement new technologies, improvement of existing tech and set-up and future-proofing our technology that can help the company optimize efficiency and productivity and lead edge thinking and knowledge of innovative technologies i.e. AI, ML, blockchain, etc..

Your qualifications

• Minimum of BSc in Computer Science/IT/Electronics/Software Engineering or a comparable degree program
• Proven experience of 2-5 years of full-stack development of web applications; 2+ years building front-end interfaces with React.js & Redux workflows and 2+ years building back-end and maintaining server applications on Node.js, PostgreSQL and designing APIs
• Expert in traditional web-dev stack (HTML5, CSS3, JS); Strong in core JavaScript (ES5, ES6, ESNext, TypeORM and Typescript) and JS object model
• Experience with Linux environments and using the shell and command line terminals (preferred)
• Professional coding experience in object-oriented and scripting languages; Extensive experience building client-side web applications using React
• Proficient with:
  • JavaScript Frameworks (ReactJS/NextJS/Redux) and Node.js Frameworks (Express.js)
  • Client-side MVC frameworks such as NodeJS, React JS, NextJS, Redux, and AngularJS; Knowledge of isomorphic React
  • Configuration of various servers to run web application servers, databases, etc.; Web server technologies like Nginx, NodeJS, Apache, etc.
  • Frontend CSS frameworks like Bootstrap, Material UI and preprocessors like SASS and SCSS/LESS
  • Writing and integrating middleware; Experience with Redux Saga and Thunk
  • Architecture, design, queries of Relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL and other RDBMS)
  • Modern JS tooling (NPM, Webpack, Babel, ESLint and Prettier)
  • Developer tools, such as Visual Studio Code
  • Code versioning tools and Git version control systems (Github); Containerization systems (Docker)
  • Strong in data structures, XML technologies, JSON parsing
  • Caching frameworks and mechanisms, work-task queues, transactions and messaging queues (Redis, Memcached, RabbitMQ and others)
  • Building real-time applications using Web Sockets (Socket.io)
  • Web and mobile push notifications and cloud message APIs (GCM, APNS, OneSignal, etc.)
  • Setting up cron jobs and schedule task execution
  • Handling Services, RESTful, APIs, third party libraries and APIs (Google APIs, AWS, Zendesk, etc.)

• Experience with API gateway, distributed infrastructure architectures and applications tuning/profiling; Experience working with microservices
• User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments; Understanding of “session management” in a distributed server environment
• Experience with REST API and web service construction, integration and architecture and working with remote data via REST and JSON
• Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token, Authentication and Security Technologies
• Familiarity with building secure systems (OWASP secure coding practices or similar)
• Architect and cloud-deploy applications on AWS and other cloud providers
• Deep understanding of Test-Driven Development (TDD)
• Build and manage end-to-end and UI tests; Experience writing tests (unit, integration, functional, etc.), and using testing frameworks
• Build third-party integrations like Slack, Stripe, Google and supporting their workflow
• Provision DevOps tooling with continuous integration; Build modern Front-end build pipelines and tools
• Contribute to API documentation including API description languages like Swagger; Document and diagram functional flows and architectures
• Experience in building rich PWA applications; Experience in responsive design, cross browser compatibility and website performance
• Understanding of how browsers and DOM work; Understanding and experience with asynchronous processing, partial page refresh, DOM traversal and manipulation
• Expert level using Web Analytics tools (Google Analytics and others); Experience with open source software development
• Experience with localization and internationalization of applications (working with multi-site setups, multi-language, i18n, etc.)

Some desired extras and good to have skills

• Knowledge of cyber-security, malware analysis, threat detection and/or sandboxing technology
• Preferably has knowledge of working in big data (Spark, Kafka, Hadoop) and machine learning ecosystems
• Strong background in security and data analytics and on-premise data experience
• Experience and familiarity with:
  • Architecture, design, queries and aggregation of NoSQL databases (MongoDB, Cassandra and others)
  • Elasticsearch and ELK stack
  • Developing integrations for global OTAs
  • OpenAPI
• Knowledge of multiple backend languages and framework

We offer you

• A unique entrepreneurial opportunity to build something from the ground up and scale it up to a major regionally recognizable brand
• A great learning curve in a collaborative environment with no barriers for initiatives
• Leading compensation package including salary free of local taxes, accommodation allowance for local hire or shared accommodation for international hire, free medical care from company physician, free government healthcare membership, transport allowance, paid airfare to the country of origin, paid leave and end of service according to local labor law.

Your professional career growth opportunities
As you help us grow Quesst, we will help you grow and professionally develop. Joining us at this stage, you will have the opportunity to be part of the core team if you prove you have what it takes and will be given the opportunity to:

• Lead and develop a technical strategy for the company, which involves goal setting, discussing options, and analyzing risks with the management team, CEO and board members
• An opportunity to build and manage a business unit from scratch and scale it up to success at a regional level
• Attract and retain top tech talent, mentor and manage the team as it grows
• Develop and manage KPIs for the tech team and create a challenging work environment

Have we caught your attention?
Send us your application including your resume, salary expectations and earliest starting date.

We’re looking forward to your application!