Fullstack developer

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Details about the job. You will ...

• Work very closely with the Head of Engineering and the CEO directly
• Own major parts of our tech stack (Node.js/React.js) and your job will be focused primarily on backend (Node/SQL/MQs etc.), but with some front-end JS work (React) as needed
• Design, code, and deliver top-quality software that performs beautifully at scale
• Take ownership for your job and treat it like it is your baby
• This job is based in Chennai (NOT Remote). But we have a lot of flexibility for when life situations require you to work from home
• We are only a 40 person company (by choice) - so you will get amazing ownership!

A Bit About You.

• Really strong in Javascript especially in Node.js with at least 5 years of experience - if you are genuinely not super strong, please do not apply as you will find our interviews challenging and it might be a waste of your time
• Also has React.js experience so that you can support the front-end work as needed
• A strong Engineer who LIKES building software - not just someone who knows the frameworks and can code
• We don't care about college degrees or if you are self taught - we only care that you're exceptional in your work and can be professional
• Must have strong communication skills
• Must be organized, and deliver their own work within deadlines, professionally
• Strong sense of ownership and take pride in your work.

What Will We Do For You?

• Office next to the beach
• "Sports team with a heart" mentality. Even though we work hard, we take care of our people.
• Free breakfast and snacks every day
• Non-hierarchical work environment
• Macbook Pro, free swag etc. of course!
• Huge potential for career growth - the limiting factor will be just your commitment and ambition.

How to apply

• Send an email to jobs AT knownuggets.com with the subject line as "Senior Backend Engineer role"
• In the email include your answer (not AI written) on (1) why you think Node.js is amazing, and (2) what you would NOT use Node.js for

Build and maintain products. Build products and features, through inception, design, implementation and launch, working closely with multiple disciplines across the company. You will spend the majority of your time working on critical projects which require focus on integrations, scalability, and performance. You will also be the first line of defense in ensuring that the product features are achievable and have a clear purpose, trimming off unnecessary detailing, especially in the earliest stages. Align across teams and stakeholders. Play a key role in ensuring that objectives and expectations are aligned across multiple concurrent products. You are expected to break down features within each project and prioritize tasks based on the expertise of the team, keeping redundancy in mind. 

Maintain a high bar for code quality and future proofing. Implement processes for checking in code that maintains a high bar of code quality. You are expected to optimize for a solution that affords the best user experience in a reasonable amount of time while ensuring to allow for adequate security, ability to scale in the future etc. 

Responsibilities

● Design, build and maintain scalable, secure web services and distributed systems

● Design and develop robust solutions for client onboarding, portfolio analytics, tokenized security issuance, authentication, and security

● Build solutions to integrate with APIs of external solutions providers including crypto custodians, exchanges, fund admins etc.

● Architecting and building frontend features in React.js

● Ensuring a highly performant and responsive UI

● Help maintain existing codebase, infrastructure, test coverage, and documentation

● Communicate requirements effectively within and across teams

● Independently work and lead project initiatives in a fast paced environment

Requirements

● 5+ years of work experience as a Senior Software Engineer or similarly senior member of a fast scaling company, ideally building products from ideation to launch with a strong engineering team. Web3 based experience preferred.

● Have experience in rapid prototyping of features across various products. Demonstrable open source contributions and experience with Git advantageous.

● Professional experience with Python, Javascript, Typescript, or Go

● Must have experience building and/or integrating with RESTful APIs

● Working knowledge of Django, FastAPI, or React.js and Redux

● Working knowledge various frontend frameworks and languages such as HTML, CSS

● Experience monitoring and scaling microservice-oriented systems

● Familiarity with websocket architecture and implementation

● Experience working with cloud-native AWS infrastructure and/or Kubernetes

● Team-building and technical leadership experience

● Being nimble and reacting quickly to changing business conditions

● BTech in Computer Science or a related field (Masters is a plus

Benefits

● Competitive salary, benefits & participation in the firm's ESOP program

● Be part of something exciting. Rare opportunity to come in early and build the next generation of institutional grade financial services.

● International work environment and flat organization. Possibility for relocation and international transfers mid-career

Founding Engineer - LITMAS

About LITMAS

LITMAS is revolutionizing litigation with the first AI-powered platform built specifically for elite litigators. We're transforming how attorneys research, strategize, draft, and win cases by combining comprehensive case repositories with cutting-edge AI validation and workflow automation. We are a team incubated by experienced litigators, building the future of legal technology.

The Opportunity

We're seeking a Founding Engineer to join our core team and shape the technical foundation of LITMAS. This is a rare opportunity to build a category-defining product from the ground up, working directly with the founders to create technology that will transform the US litigation market.

As a founding engineer, you'll have significant ownership over our technical architecture, product decisions, and company culture. Your code will directly impact how thousands of attorneys practice law.

What You'll Do

• Architect and build core platform features using Python, Node.js, Next.js, React, and MongoDB
• Design and implement production-grade LLM systems with advanced tool usage, RAG pipelines, and agent architectures
• Build AI workflows that combine multiple tools for legal research, validation, and document analysis
• Create scalable RAG infrastructure to handle thousands of legal documents with high accuracy
• Implement AI tool chains to provide agents tool inputs
• Design intuitive interfaces that make complex legal workflows simple and powerful
• Own end-to-end features from conception through deployment and iteration
• Establish engineering best practices for AI systems including evaluation, monitoring, and safety
• Collaborate directly with founders on product strategy and technical roadmap

The Ideal Candidate

You're not just an AI engineer, you're someone who understands how to build reliable, production-grade AI systems that users can trust. You've wrestled with RAG accuracy, tool reliability, and LLM hallucinations in production. You know the difference between a demo and a system that handles real-world complexity. You're excited about applying AI to transform how legal professional’s work.

What We're Looking For

Must-Haves

• Deployed production-grade LLM applications with demonstrable experience in:
• Tool usage and function calling
• RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) implementation at scale
• Agent architectures and multi-step reasoning
• Prompt engineering and optimization
• Knowledge of multiple LLM providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Cohere, open-source models)
• Background in building AI evaluation and monitoring systems
• Experience with document processing and OCR technologies
• 3+ years of production experience with Node.js, Python, Next.js, and React
• Strong MongoDB expertise including schema design and optimization
• Experience with vector databases (Pinecone, Weaviate, Qdrant, or similar)
• Full-stack mindset with ability to own features from database to UI
• Track record of shipping complex web applications at scale
• Deep understanding of LLM limitations, hallucination prevention, and validation techniques

Tech Stack

• Backend: Node.js, Express, MongoDB
• Frontend: Next.js, React, TypeScript, Modern CSS
• AI/ML: LangChain/LlamaIndex, OpenAI/Anthropic APIs, vector databases, custom AI tools
• Additional: Document processing, search infrastructure, real-time collaboration

What We Offer

• Significant equity stake true ownership in the company you're building
• Competitive compensation commensurate with experience
• Direct impact your decisions shape the product and company
• Learning opportunity work with cutting-edge AI and legal technology
• Flexible work remote-first with a global team
• AI resources access to latest models and compute resources

Interview Process

One more thing: Our process includes deep technical interviews and fit conversations. As part of the evaluation, there will be an extensive take-home test that should expect to take at least 4-5 hours depending on your skill level. This allows us to see how you approach real problems similar to what you'll encounter at LITMAS.

We need multiple MERN stack developers. As a full stack developer, you will be producing scalable software solutions and will be involved in the full software development life cycle, from conception to deployment. You should be comfortable around both front-end and back-end coding languages, development frameworks and third-party libraries. This isn't just another CRUD application. Your challenge will be to deliver a highly-available service on top of a dynamic collection of third-party data sources . Explore the limits of your own resourcefulness by designing human and automated systems that deliver true reliability in an otherwise unpredictable environment.

Tech-Stack: React, Node.js, Javascript, and MongoDB

How You Will Contribute

• Work with the development team to ideate software solutions
• Working through the application development lifecycle to launch
• Conceptualizing, creating and building applications alongside taking designer wireframes and magically turning them into effective code
• Designing user-based interactions through effective front-end architecture
• Develop and manage well-functioning databases and back end applications
• Write effective and scalable APIs
• Leading and developing best practices for Full Stack Developer team
• Developing and designing RESTful services and APIs
• Determining application responsiveness for consumers
• Ensuring company mandate is effectively addressed in technical and developmental aspects
• Create security and data protection settings
• Write technical documentation
• Keeping current with industry trends and developments that can be applied to company needs

Technical Expertise That We Believe Will Make You Successful In This Role

• Min 1 year of experience as a MERN Stack Developer
• Fluency in CSS, JavaScript and HTML
• Understanding of CSS preprocessors including Sass
• Strong knowledge of building effective APIs in Node.js (Express)
• Proficiency in writing effective React components.
• Experience working with MongoDB, Redis and AWS
• Good knowledge of data structures, system design and algorithms
• Bachelor/Master degree in Computer Science
• Soft-Skills That Will Come Handy
• Having a knack for visual design and utility
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong attention to detail
• Head for problem-solving
• Having a flexible working style
• Being a team player
• Comfortable with working unsupervised

What We Need

- Solid industry experience

- Web Development using MERN Technologies (Mongo, React / React JS, Express JS or similar, Node)

- Server-side scripting skills with Node.JS

- Good understanding of client-side scripting and JavaScript frameworks, including jQuery.

- Databases - MongoDB, PostGreSQL, Cassandra

Good to Have

- Open Source Contributors (esp. Javascript to be evident from GitHub)

- Notice period to be less than 30 days

Job Description
We are looking for Full Stack Engineer who can turn ideas into extremely reliable, beautifully written code that other people – or you, six months into the future – will find easy to comprehend and modify. You have mastered more than one technology stack in your life, and you are comfortable with the idea of mastering several more. You're competent at high levels and low levels. Technology is a means and not the ends for you.

Responsibilities
Lead and build team to deliver best product(s).
Work closely with client as they build  features, functionality and applications to make system best.
Develop visioning skills and ability to see the big picture
Implement and contribute to engineering practices and processes
Help your team decide what technologies to use. Every engineer is able to propose better ways to do things

Skills and Qualifications
Back End : NodeJS and / or PHP
Front End : ReactJs, Angular and / or PHP
Experience of full stack web development, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3 and TypeScript. DevOps knowledge is a plus
Ability to clearly communicate technical issues to laymen and to translate their feedback
An inclination to contribute to the creative process
A devotion to delivering the best possible user experience
Technology expertise with insights about technology trends and solutions
Team-player, flexible and able to work in a fast-paced environment
Experience with MySQL, and/or Cassandra, MongoDB desired