Fullstack Developer

Lead Full-Stack Software Engineer (Node.js & React)

Location: Whitefield, Bengaluru, India (On-premise / In-office)

Experience: 10+ Years

Employment Type: Full-time, Permanent

About Us:

InnovXcare aims to play in an exciting space where advanced technologies and innovations

meet the need to provide improved access to quality care in India and beyond. We are an

early-stage startup aiming to tackle the challenges in the Imaging diagnostic reporting

industry through novel applications of Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning. As a part of

this company, you will get a chance to work in a fast-paced environment with a team of

passionate and high-performing individuals who are looking to make an impact in the

healthcare space in India. We will look to you to own significant portions of our solution

development and be a part of solving some of the most challenging problems in healthcare

today.

The Role & Impact

As the Lead Full-Stack Software Engineer, you will be the core technical anchor of the company. You will bridge the gap between our state-of-the-art data science models and enterprise-grade production software. You will directly lead, mentor, and scale a high-performing 8-person software team team consisting of 7 software developers (in-house and full-time contractors), 6 AI/data scientists, 1 product designer, and 5 QA specialists.

This is a hands-on architecture and leadership role. You will own the system design, enforce engineering excellence, and build low-latency, highly available pipelines that handle real-time clinical workflows.

Core Responsibilities

• System Architecture & Scaling: Design and scale robust, event-driven microservices using Node.js and high-performance user interfaces using React.js to support multi-modal AI clinical tools.
• AI & Software Integration: Architect the data pipelines and APIs that wrap, serve, and orchestrate heavy AI models (voice-to-text transcription, NLP, and radiology reporting tools).
• Real-Time Data Streaming: Implement secure, low-latency, full-duplex communication protocols (WebSockets, WebRTC) to stream live audio and heavy medical data feeds seamlessly between the client and backend.
• Engineering Leadership: Manage, mentor, and inspire a hybrid team of 7 software developers and 5 QA engineers. Drive agile sprint planning, set high standards for clean code, and establish robust CI/CD pipelines.
• Production Stability: Ensure high availability, data security (HIPAA/healthcare compliance standards), and performance monitoring for a product already live and actively used in market.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with the 6-member AI research team, design resources, and business stakeholders to translate complex clinical product requirements into technical roadmaps.

Required Technical Skills & Experience

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, with at least 3+ years in a Tech Lead or Engineering Manager capacity within a fast-paced startup or high-growth tech environment.
• Deep production-level mastery of Node.js (Express, NestJS, or similar) and React.js (including advanced state management like Redux, Context API, or Zustand).
• Proven experience building event-driven architectures and handling asynchronous workloads using message brokers like RabbitMQ, Kafka, or AWS SQS/SNS.
• Strong proficiency with real-time streaming tools, data processing, and protocol management (WebSockets, Socket.io).
• Heavy experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and automated testing frameworks.
• Solid understanding of database design, optimization, and scaling (SQL and NoSQL).

General Attributes

• Exceptional communication and decision making skills.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor teams and influence architecture direction.
• High ownership mindset and ability to deliver against clear plans.
• Strong adaptability and comfort operating in fast moving environments.

Preferred (Bonus) Qualifications

• Prior experience in the Health-Tech / Med-Tech domain, specifically dealing with medical imaging systems, electronic health records (EHR), or healthcare compliance.
• Familiarity with medical imaging/data standards or frontend medical web viewers (e.g., Cornerstone.js, OHIF Viewer, DICOM web protocols) is a massive plus.

What We Offer

• Competitive Compensation: Highly attractive base salary aligned with top-tier Bengaluru tech standards.
• High Autonomy: Direct influence over technical stack decisions, product architecture, and engineering culture.
• Mission-Driven Work: The opportunity to build software that directly saves lives and transforms global healthcare via artificial intelligence.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable code with full-stack development in PHP.
• Roll out new features and analyze (and react) to the results you discover from our system services and user feedback
• Optimize existing functionality for improved response times
• Collaborate with the team to design, develop, unit test, and support new features
• Searching creatively for the best solution while building for the end-user
• Consistently deliver readable, maintainable, and efficient code
• Performance tuning, testing, refactoring, usability, and automation
• Participate actively in Scrums, sprint planning meetings, and sprint retrospectives.
• Rapidly mockup-proof-of-concept implementation of ideas and present them to internal stakeholders
• Stay informed of new tools, libraries, and best practices and share ideas with the team for continuous improvement of the toolchain and development process
• Support, maintain, and help document software functionality
• Work with other departments, stakeholders, and customers on software development, improvements, internal tools, and implementation issues

Basic Requirements:

• 5+ years of programming experience in developing web apps. Experience in developing mobile apps would be a bonus.
• Front-end development with technologies such as Javascript, Typescript, VueJS, CSS, Bootstrap, etc
• Strong knowledge of database modeling and design in RDBMS and NoSQL databases
• Strong experience in API design, API Security, API Documentation and REST, GraphQL-based services
• Knowledge of Service Oriented Architecture would be a bonus
• Have a self-directed work ethic with attention to detail and good communication skills
• API Integration and extension development for 3rd party applications e.g. Facebook, Google, etc

A tick against the following skill sets would surely strengthen the candidature

• Strong PHP, JS fundamentals
• PHP frameworks: PHP Laravel
• JS frameworks: Vue.JS
• RDBMS: MySQL, Mongo DB

• Implement best practices for the engineering team across code hygiene, overall architecture design, testing, and deployment activities
• Drive technical decisions for building data pipelines, data lakes, and analyst access.
• Act as a leader within the engineering team, providing support and mentorship for teammates across functions
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent job experience
• Experienced developer in large data environments
• Experience using Git productively in a team environment
• Experience with Docker
• Experience with Amazon Web Services
• Ability to sit with business or technical SMEs to listen, learn and propose technical solutions to business problems

·       Experience using and adapting to new technologies

·       Take and understand business requirements and goals

·       Work collaboratively with project managers and stakeholders to make sure that all aspects of the project are delivered as planned

·       Strong SQL skills with MySQL or PostgreSQL

• Experience with non-relational databases and their role in web architectures desired

 Knowledge and Experience:

• Good experience with Elixir and functional programming a plus

• Several years of python experience
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent organizational skills

Proven verbal and written cross-department and customer communication skills

• Strong working knowledge of Typescript, MongoDB, MySQL, Express

• Strong proficiency in TypeScript, JavaScript including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model, ES6

• Hands-on experience in React JS

• Strong understanding of HTML5, CSS3

• Strong understanding of NodeJS fundamentals

• Knowledge and experience working with PostgreSQL is a major plus

• Experience with ORM libraries

• Familiarity with RESTful APIs

• Knowledge of tools like Git, GitHub, JIRA, Cucumber, Jasmine, and others that make coding more efficient and easier to share
• Familiarity of working in either the AWS Cloud or Azure including Docker + Kubernetes based microservice deployment.

• Collaborate with the team members to understand the client requirements.

• Advance coding skills in PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript and Scripting language desirable.

• Must have experience in working on frameworks such as Laravel, CodeIgniter.

• Write clean and well-structured codes.

• Produce detailed technical product descriptions.

• Troubleshoot, test and maintain the core product software along with the databases to ensure strong functionality and optimization.

• Contribute to all the software development phases.

• Follow the industry’s best practices for writing clean code.

• Develop and deploy the latest features that facilitate the relevant tools and procedures if required.

• Improve the code-base of our products in a significant manner