Fullstack Developer

About NxtWave

NxtWave is one of India’s fastest-growing ed-tech startups, reshaping the tech education landscape by bridging the gap between industry needs and student readiness. With prestigious recognitions such as Technology Pioneer 2024 by the World Economic Forum and Forbes India 30 Under 30, NxtWave’s impact continues to grow rapidly across India.

Our flagship on-campus initiative, NxtWave Institute of Advanced Technologies (NIAT), offers a cutting-edge 4-year Computer Science program designed to groom the next generation of tech leaders, located in Hyderabad’s global tech corridor.

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About the Role

As a PhD-level Software Development Instructor, you will play a critical role in building India’s most advanced undergraduate tech education ecosystem. You’ll be mentoring bright young minds through a curriculum that fuses rigorous academic principles with real-world software engineering practices. This is a high-impact leadership role that combines teaching, mentorship, research alignment, and curriculum innovation.

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver high-quality classroom instruction in programming, software engineering, and emerging technologies.
• Integrate research-backed pedagogy and industry-relevant practices into classroom delivery.
• Mentor students in academic, career, and project development goals.
• Take ownership of curriculum planning, enhancement, and delivery aligned with academic and industry excellence.
• Drive research-led content development, and contribute to innovation in teaching methodologies.
• Support capstone projects, hackathons, and collaborative research opportunities with industry.
• Foster a high-performance learning environment in classes of 70–100 students.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams for continuous student development and program quality.
• Actively participate in faculty training, peer reviews, and academic audits.

Eligibility & Requirements

• Ph.D. in Computer Science, IT, or a closely related field from a recognized university.
• Strong academic and research orientation, preferably with publications or project contributions.
• Prior experience in teaching/training/mentoring at the undergraduate/postgraduate level is preferred.
• A deep commitment to education, student success, and continuous improvement.

Must-Have Skills

• Expertise in Python, Java, JavaScript, and advanced programming paradigms.
• Strong foundation in Data Structures, Algorithms, OOP, and Software Engineering principles.
• Excellent communication, classroom delivery, and presentation skills.
• Familiarity with academic content tools like Google Slides, Sheets, Docs.
• Passion for educating, mentoring, and shaping future developers.

Good to Have

• Industry experience or consulting background in software development or research-based roles.
• Proficiency in version control systems (e.g., Git) and agile methodologies.
• Understanding of AI/ML, Cloud Computing, DevOps, Web or Mobile Development.
• A drive to innovate in teaching, curriculum design, and student engagement.

Why Join Us?

• Be at the forefront of shaping India’s tech education revolution.
• Work alongside IIT/IISc alumni, ex-Amazon engineers, and passionate educators.
• Competitive compensation with strong growth potential.
• Create impact at scale by mentoring hundreds of future-ready tech leaders.

• Lead the delivery of high quality, innovative, flexible and scalable technical solutions that meet business requirements.
• Design, Develop, Test and maintain software applications.
• Perform hands-on coding and provide thoughtful code reviews.
• Demonstrate ability to work within an agile team as well as collaborate with many other teams on design and implementation strategies.
• Follow SCRUM Agile Development methodology
• Problem Solving and ability to present ideas - Self-motivated, Open-minded, User Focused, Adaptive.
• Generate guidelines for other web designers to match visual design intent.
• Experience in building web application using ReactJS as the frontend framework.
• Expertise in using JavaScript framework.
• Have worked on REST client and WebSockets
• Be able to write Unit tests using a framework like Jasmine, Enzyme etc.
• Have experience in using any of the Build scripts.
• Proficient understanding of GitHub or other version control systems
• Strong programming basics, with a clear understanding of Object-Oriented and Functional programming.
• Expert in developing backend application with RESTful API's Using Rest Framework
• Understanding creation of website layout/user interfaces by using standard HTML5, CSS3, jQuery.
• Experience in Bootstrap4 or CSS pre-processor like Less or Sass is desirable.
• Low-Latency UI, Page optimization, and bundle build + caching.

We are seeking an experienced Lead Full Stack Developer with a strong background in the MERN stack and serverless technologies. The ideal candidate will have a minimum of 6 years of experience in software development, with significant expertise in both relational (RDBMS) and NoSQL databases. You will lead a team in designing and developing scalable, high-quality solutions while ensuring best practices are followed throughout the development lifecycle.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain scalable backend services using Node.js and serverless technologies such as AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Functions, or Azure Functions.
• Architect and implement front-end solutions using React.js, ensuring seamless integration with backend services.
• Design, implement, and optimise both relational (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB) databases.
• Translate business requirements into robust, efficient technical solutions.
• Conduct code reviews to maintain high standards of code quality, performance, and maintainability.
• Stay updated with the latest trends and advancements in the MERN stack, serverless architectures, and cloud platforms.
• Lead and mentor a team of developers, providing technical guidance and fostering a collaborative environment.
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Requirements:

• Minimum of 6 years of professional experience in software development, with at least 6 years specifically in the MERN stack.
• Proven leadership experience in managing and mentoring development teams.
• Proficiency in Node.js, Express.js, React.js, and MongoDB.
• Hands-on experience with serverless architectures, including AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Functions, or Azure Functions.
• Strong understanding of RDBMS (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL databases (MongoDB).
• Solid understanding of RESTful APIs, microservices architecture, and cloud platforms.
• Excellent problem-solving, debugging, and collaboration

Additional Skills:

• Experience with GraphQL, Docker, and Kubernetes is a plus.
• Contributions to open-source projects are highly valued.
• Understanding of DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines.

About the job

Whirldata Inc. is an AI/Data Sciences/App Dev company established in 2017 to provide management and technology consulting services to small and medium enterprises across the globe. We are headquartered in California and our team works out of Chennai. The specific focus is on

1. Helping clients identify areas where Data Sciences and AI-based approaches can increase revenues, decrease costs or enhance customer engagement experience
2. Help clients translate business needs into process flows for exploratory and cutting-edge applications
3. Provide appropriate and targeted solutions that can achieve the planned objective

Whirldatas management team consists of individuals with a combined 45+ years of management and technology consulting experience, spanning multiple verticals such as finance, energy, retail, manufacturing and supply chain/logistics. Please look up our website and go through the blogs/videos/articles to find out more about us.

Working Philosophy

Whirldata works on the principle that, larger business goals come first and any technology-intensive solutions need to support necessary business goals. Hence all engagements start as a management consulting exercise and solution building follows after a thorough understanding of business needs.At Whirldata, we put our minds together, mix technology, art & math to deliver a viable, scalable and affordable business solution. We are passionate about what we do because we know that our work has the power to improve businesses. You can join our team working at the forefront of new technology, solving the challenges that impact both the front-end and back-end architectures, and ultimately, delivering amazing global user experiences.

Who we are looking for:

Full Stack Engineer (Position based in Chennai)

The following criteria are mandatory requirements and we strongly encourage that you apply only if you meet all these criteria:

1. Minimum 3 years of work experience

2. Proven capability to understand clients business needs

3. At least one demonstrable stint of architecting a database from scratch

4. Multiple programming language capabilities a must. In-depth knowledge of at least one programming language

5. Willingness to wear multiple hats depending on our business needs will be a priority

6. At least 2 years of hands-on experience in front-end development

7. Knowledge of current tools, platforms and languages an absolute must

8. Hands-on experience in cloud technologies and project management capabilities will be considered favourably

What do you get in return

• AI, Data Sciences and App dev require individuals who are both business and tech-savvy. We will turn you into one and make you a rockstar!
• You will get to work in an environment where your effort helps the customer and you will get to see it
• We will provide on-the-job training that will make you a doer and not a talker on data sciences, AI and app dev
• Opportunities to shine and pave your own way forward. We are good at identifying your talents and providing a platform where you will get immense satisfaction from demonstrating the same.
• Of course - we will pay you well too!

If you are interested - please apply with a small note with your thoughts on why you find this opportunity exciting and why you are willing to consider a move.

A highly motivated and passionate individual who has experience in executing end to end web based application projects and bringing them to production quickly and with high quality. Passionate about building flexible and scalable solutions with an eye for detail and can weigh pros and cons to find best possible solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with Product Manager and Engineering Manager to plan, implement and deliver tasks and modules on a timely basis with best practices and adherence to SOPs.
• Understand the product specification and be able to ask questions and gather information and feedback to build a well rounded solution.
• Deliver end to end applications starting from front end web development, back end development, middleware integration and persisting data in no SQL or RDBMS databases.
• Should be able to use existing front-end components to build web based UI interfaces.
• Strong technical design approach to problem solving for backend services.
• Should be able to communicate and defend the tech design choices taken for long term scalability and maintainability.
• Play the role of an unblocker in a tight scrum environment.
• Should be able to help other developers with challenges and help achieve milestones as per plan.

• Prioritise to manage ad-hoc requests in parallel with ongoing projects.
• Document API specification, technical design and other key information for all projects/modules/services owned

Requirements:

• A highly talented developer with 4-7 years of hands-on experience in building secure and scalable web-based applications using Java in backend and JS-based frontend frameworks
• Strong knowledge of Java 8+, databases (SQL and NoSQL), MySql, Mongo
• Experience working with Cassandra, Spring Boot, Apache Spark, Kafka, RabbitMQ is highly desirable
• Working knowledge of any one or more of AngularJS/ReactJS/VueJS and CSS3, HTML5
• Strong experience in data modeling for data storage tools in SQL; experience with noSQL is highly desirable.
• Experience building scalable solutions for 2x, 5x and 10x growth with high quality and flexibility.
• Practitioner of test-driven development practices.
• Experience in creating and adhering to best practices for development
• Experience working with container technologies like Docker and knowledge of CI/CD processes for automated integration and deployment.
• Basic knowledge of AWS preferred
• Strong experience in Microservices (SRP) paradigm
• Willing to learn new technologies (Golang)

• Qualification B.Tech/M.Tech/MCA(IT/Computer Science)
• Years of Exp 4 - 7 years