Fullstack Developer

About FrontM

At FrontM, we are on a mission to transform the lives of frontline workforces, particularly in the maritime industry. We believe in creating a more connected, empowered, and engaged workforce by building cutting-edge solutions that merge the power of technology with human-centric needs. Our vision is to develop the world’s leading digital toolbox platform for maritime operations —a platform that brings everything for frontline workforces from digital wallets, recruitment, onboarding, healthcare, and learning to welfare and human capital management under one seamless umbrella.

Role Summary

As a JavaScript Developer at FrontM, you will be at the forefront of developing our pioneering digital toolbox platform and the low-code developer framework that powers it. You will have the opportunity to work with the latest JavaScript frameworks, integrating advanced technologies such as Large Language Models (LLMs), AI, and the latest GPT models. You’ll also be part of our exciting roadmap to evolve our low-code platform into a no-code solution, making app development accessible to everyone. Your contributions will be pivotal in the creation and enhancement of the Maritime App Store, where innovation meets practicality, offering solutions that make a tangible difference in the lives of seafarers and other frontline workers.

Key Responsibilities

Application Development (≈60%)

• Build micro-apps using the frontm.ai framework
• Implement intent-based architectures, context and state management
• Develop responsive UIs, forms, collections, filters, and workflows
• Integrate AWS services (Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, Bedrock)
• Build conversational AI features and real-time capabilities (messaging, video, notifications)

Framework Development (≈25%)

• Enhance and extend the frontm.ai core framework
• Build reusable components, patterns, and accelerators
• Improve performance for low-bandwidth environments
• Contribute to documentation, examples, and design reviews
• Support migration towards TypeScript and future Rust components

AI-Assisted Development (≈15%)

• Use Claude Code for efficient development
• Write and refine prompts for code generation
• Review, validate, and harden AI-generated code
• Implement LLM integrations via AWS Bedrock / OpenAI
• Build AI assistants using the skills layer

Required Technical Skills

JavaScript / TypeScript

• 5+ years professional JavaScript experience
• Strong TypeScript, async patterns, modular design
• Clean code practices and modern tooling

Architecture & Cloud

• Microservices and event-driven systems
• Serverless AWS (Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, S3)
• REST APIs, WebSockets, CI/CD
• Infrastructure as Code experience preferred

AI & LLMs

• Hands-on use of Claude Code or similar tools
• Prompt engineering and hallucination mitigation
• Conversational AI and NLP experience

Data

• MongoDB / MongoDB Atlas
• Caching, indexing, and multi-tenant data patterns

Desired skills

• Experience with low-bandwidth or offline-first systems
• Understanding of secure, distributed deployments
• Exposure to healthcare, logistics, or maritime systems

Experience & Education

• 5+ years software development
• 2+ years AWS serverless
• 1+ year AI-assisted development
• Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience

Personal Attributes

• Strong problem-solving and critical thinking
• Comfortable reviewing AI-generated code
• Clear communicator and reliable team contributor
• Self-driven, detail-oriented, and adaptable

Why join FrontM?

Above-Market Compensation: We believe in rewarding talent, offering a salary package that reflects your skills and potential.

Long-Term Career Growth: As FrontM expands, so will your opportunities. We are committed to helping our team members develop their careers, offering mentorship, learning opportunities, and the chance to take on more responsibility.

Cutting-Edge Technology: Work with the latest in JavaScript frameworks, AI, LLMs, and GPT models, contributing to a platform that’s at the forefront of technological innovation.

Make a Real Impact: This is your chance to work on something that matters—to build solutions that directly improve the quality of life for thousands of people worldwide.

Job Location - Hyderabad & Ahmedabad 

What you'll do: 

• Perform complex application programming activities with an emphasis on mobile development:  Node.js, TypeScript, JavaScript, RESTful APIs and related backend frameworks 

• Assist in the definition of system architecture and detailed solution design that are scalable and extensible 
• Collaborate with Product Owners, Designers, and other engineers on different permutations to find the best solution possible 
• Own the quality of code and do your own testing. Write unit test and improve test coverage. 
• Deliver amazing solutions to production that knock everyone’s socks off 
• Mentor junior developers on the team 

What we’re looking for: 

• Amazing technical instincts. You know how to evaluate and choose the right technology and approach for the job. You have stories you could share about what problem you thought you were solving at first, but through testing and iteration, came to solve a much bigger and better problem that resulted in positive outcomes all-around. 
• A love for learning. Technology is continually evolving around us, and you want to keep up to date to ensure we are using the right tech at the right time. 
• A love for working in ambiguity—and making sense of it. You can take in a lot of disparate information and find common themes, recommend clear paths forward and iterate along the way. You don’t form an opinion and sell it as if it’s gospel; this is all about being flexible, agile, dependable, and responsive in the face of many moving parts. 
• Flexible and willing to accept change in priorities, as necessary 

• Demonstrable passion for technology (e.g., personal projects, open-source involvement)  
• Enthusiastic embrace of DevOps culture and collaborative software engineering 
• Ability and desire to work in a dynamic, fast paced, and agile team environment 
• Enthusiasm for cloud computing platforms such as AWS or Azure 
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills 

Preferred Qualifications:  

• Experience with Apache Cordova framework 
• Demonstrable knowledge of native coding background in iOS, Android 
• Experience developing and deploying applications within Kubernetes based containers  
• Experience in Agile and SCRUM development techniques 

Key responsibilities:

• Develop features across multiple subsystems within our applications, including collaboration in requirements definition, prototyping, design, coding, testing and deployment
• Understand how our applications operate, are structured, and how customers use them
• Provide engineering support (when necessary) to our technical operations staff when they are building, deploying, configuring and supporting systems for customers
• Participate with the engineering and operations teams to define plans for standardizing, scaling and enhancing our products and the services utilized to deploy/install/release those products
• Participate in interactions with customers as a technical expert for product subsystems
• Investigate, analyze and make recommendations to management regarding technology improvements, upgrades and modifications
• Other duties from time to time as determined by management

Key Responsibilities:

• Rewrite existing APIs in NodeJS.
• Remodel the APIs into Micro services-based architecture.
• Implement a caching layer wherever possible.
• Optimize the API for high performance and scalability.
• Write unit tests for API Testing.
• Automate the code testing and deployment process.

Skills Required:

1. At least 2.5 years of experience developing Backends using NodeJS — should be well versed with its asynchronous nature & event loop, and know its quirks and workarounds.
2. Excellent hands-on experience using MySQL or any other SQL Database.
3. Good knowledge of MongoDB or any other NoSQL Database.
4. Good knowledge of Redis, its data types, and their use cases.
5. Experience with graph-based databases like GraphQL and Neo4j.
6. Experience developing and deploying REST APIs.
7. Good knowledge of Unit Testing and available Test Frameworks.
8. Good understanding of advanced JS libraries and frameworks.
9. Experience with Web sockets, Service Workers, and Web Push Notifications.
10. Familiar with NodeJS profiling tools.
11. Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as Git.
12. Good knowledge of creating and maintaining DevOps infrastructure on cloud platforms.
13. Should be a fast learner and a go-getter — without any fear of trying out new things Preferences.
14. Experience building a large-scale social or location-based app.

Job Description:                                           

The primary responsibilities include:

• Responsible for the overall software development lifecycle.
• Management and execution against project plans and delivery commitments
• Drive effective, mature Agile practices and continuous execution improvements within your teams.
• Manage stakeholder planning and communications ensuring key outcomes
• Recruit, coach, and mentor the best engineering and management talent
• Build, coach, and manage a strong team of engineers that set the standard and can up-level the overall talent of the extended organization.
• Provide a strong understanding of native mobile developer platforms and bring broad thought leadership to the next generation mobile developer experience.
• Anticipate and aggressively remove obstacles that slow down or prevent products and programs from delivering on product and program objectives.
• Balance urgent and effective action, commitment to excellence, and taking the initiative to resolve problems; holds internal stakeholders accountable where appropriate.

REQUIRED

• 8+ years of industry experience with 2+ years of senior leadership experience.
• Solid track record of over-achieving engineering and platform delivery and scaling targets in high volume, innovative and fast-paced high-pressure environment; proven results in delivery on platform product.
• Deep understanding of one or more of Java/Python/Scala. Ability to understand and critique the core library/language constructs with skilled knowledge on UI technologies like Angular 2+, React, D3.JS
• Working experience with Agile methodologies and durable team concepts.
• Knowledge in DevOps practices and tools.
• Knowledge in Cloud Technologies, CI/CD, Jenkins, Testing methodologies is preferred.
• Experience in server-side services using ElasticSearch, Kafka
• A strong track record of project delivery for large, cross-functional, projects and bringing in and growing engineering talent
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex technical information clearly and concisely to a variety of audiences.