
Preferring candidates from Ahmedabad / Bangalore specifically!
Thence is searching for a highly skilled and motivated individual who is enterprising and eager to make a significant impact in the service space by enabling exceptional products. The ideal candidate should have a robust technical background, outstanding leadership skills, and a proven track record of managing complex technical projects. Moreover, this role includes consideration for a Partner role after completing one year with Thence, accompanied by sizeable equity.
Reporting directly to the COO, you will have the opportunity to shape the direction of the company's growth by delivering digital products to clients across various verticals like healthcare, hospitality, manufacturing, etc.
If you are a motivated individual with a passion for driving business growth and creating lasting client partnerships, we encourage you to apply for this exciting opportunity to join our dynamic team at Thence.
Duties & Responsibilities
- Developing digital products, applications and minimum viable product (MVP), including defining the overall architecture and system design to meet business requirements.
- Enabling our client to select the appropriate technology stack, considering factors such as scalability, performance, security and maintainability.
- Designing and configuring the infrastructure to support the software application.
- Choosing the development toolkit, frameworks and libraries best suited based on business and project's needs.
- Crafting and executing database designs, ensuring data integrity, performance and scalability.
- Enhancing and optimising application architecture to improve efficiency, reliability, and scalability.
- Ensuring application scalability to handle increased user loads and data volumes effectively.
- Upholding quality assurance standards through code reviews, testing and continuous integration practices.
- Ensuring IP security by implementing robust authentication, authorisation and encryption mechanisms.
- Exploring and integrating new technologies to enhance the software's capabilities and keep it up-to-date with industry trends.
- Developing the startup's strategic resource allocation plan, including budgeting for technology investments and staffing needs.
- Ensuring efficient utilisation of technologies by optimising resource allocation and minimising waste.
- Assessing and integrating new systems and infrastructure to support the evolving needs of the organization.
- Deliver digital products to clients across various verticals, including healthcare, Fintech, hospitality, manufacturing, etc.
- Building, attracting and mentoring talented developers to foster a culture of learning, innovation and collaboration within the team.
- Collaborating closely with the sales team to ensure effective communication and strategic positioning of technology solutions, while continuously refining sales pitch strategies based on feedback and market trends to maximize success rates and drive revenue growth.
- Defining, managing and evaluating team members based on goals and performance metrics, providing status updates to the leadership team on a bi-weekly basis.
- Identifying process gaps and development inefficiencies within the organisation and defining and driving Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) to address these gaps effectively.
- Generate business opportunities from existing clients and collaborate with the business team to convert new business.
- Work towards achieving annual and quarterly revenue targets.
Skills Required
- Strong business acumen, with the ability to make strategic decisions and take ownership of account growth, revenue and outcomes.
- Strong technical background with experience in managing complex technical projects encompassing diverse realms such as Web, Mobile, Applications (Apps), Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality (AR/VR), Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Machine Learning (ML).
- Extensive experience in establishing and refining processes and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) aimed at measuring and enhancing the quality and efficiency of development capabilities. This includes implementing frameworks to assess performance metrics, optimise workflows and drive continuous improvement across the development lifecycle.
- Excellent leadership skills and the ability to inspire and motivate teams.
- Proven track record of driving business growth and creating lasting client partnerships.
- Enterprising and adept at handling clients effectively.
Qualifications
The ideal candidate will be an inspiring and confident team player with:
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field and/or significant relevant work experience
- Minimum of 4+ years of proven agency experience in software development projects.
- Experience in leading a team of highly skilled developers, engineers, and testers
- working on multiple client projects
- Experience managing products and projects, and delivering large scale technical solutions on time and on budget
- Excellent communication, interpersonal, and negotiation skills, with a track record of managing stakeholder expectations effectively.
- Familiarity with Agile methodologies and project management tools
- Experience with cloud-based technologies and infrastructure, microservices, and serverless architecture
Additional Opportunities:
After completing one year with Thence, high-performing individuals will be considered for a Partner role, with the potential for substantial equity ownership in the company.

About Thence
About
Thence is a dedicated Digital UI/UX Design Agency with emphasis on Deep User Research, Lean UX Design Methodology, and Continuous Optimization.
Our proprietary user-centric KaiXen framework progressively improves the User Experience of your digital assets.
Working with Start-ups, Small & Medium Businesses, and Enterprises across the globe, our UI/UX solutions span Web and Mobile Apps, Websites, AR/VR, and Chat/Voice applications.
With a mission to enable every business to offer the best of User Experience, our vision is to empower the next billion with usable technology.
Founded as WinkTales in 2012, Thence started as a niche UX Design Studio and has since transformed to offer full-cycle UX Solutions.
We are a Clutch.co Global Top 15 UI/UX Design Agency.
Services:
UX Design | UI Design | UX Research | Interaction Design | UI Development | UX Testing | UX Audit | AR/VR Experiences | UX Life Cycle Management | UX Lab
Please check about the company, our work and culture at https://www.thence.co/about-us/">www.thence.co
- Clutch Global Top 15 UI/UX Design Agency & ranked #2 in India
- Accelerated learning environment amongst talented team members
- Culture that promotes challenging oneself & continuous improvement
- Perks & Employee friendly policies
- End- to-end Ownership given to team members
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Key Responsibilities
Develop and maintain scalable applications using MongoDB, MySQL/PostgreSQL, Node.js, Express.js, React.js, and TypeScript.
Design, develop, and optimize RESTful APIs and GraphQL services.
Lead and mentor a team of developers, ensuring best coding practices, performance, and security.
Collaborate with UI/UX designers, product managers, and DevOps teams to streamline development.
Contribute to AI-powered application development (if experienced in AI/ML).
Required Skills & Qualifications
✅ 3+ years of experience in MERN stack development.
✅ Expertise in React.js, TypeScript, Node.js, and Express.js.
✅ Strong database management skills with MongoDB, MySQL, or PostgreSQL.
✅ Proven experience in leading development teams and conducting code reviews.
✅ Excellent problem-solving and communication skills.
✅ Bonus: Experience in AI/ML-based applications is a plus.
Why Join Us?
🚀 Exciting Projects – Work on AI-driven and scalable web solutions.
🤝 Leadership Opportunity – Lead and mentor a talented team of developers.
🏡 Dynamic Work Environment – Collaborative, innovation-driven workplace.
Job Summary:
We are seeking a motivated and skilled Founding Engineer to join our innovative team in Mumbai. This role offers a unique opportunity to help shape our technology and product direction, leveraging your expertise in full-stack development using React.js, Node.js, and MySQL.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design and implement user-friendly frontend applications using React to enhance user experience.
- Develop robust server-side applications and APIs with Node.js to support our business logic and data processing needs.
- Manage and optimize MySQL databases, ensuring data integrity and performance while querying and updating data.
- Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams including product management and UX/UI to deliver cohesive product features.
- Participate in code reviews and ensure adherence to best practices in software development, maintaining high-quality code.
- Assist in troubleshooting and debugging issues across the stack, ensuring a smooth operation of our applications.
- Contribute to the architecture and roadmap of our technology platform, helping to define future iterations based on user feedback.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- 1 to 4 years of experience in full-stack development with a focus on React.js, Node.js, and MySQL.
- Strong understanding of web technologies, including HTML, CSS, and JavaScript frameworks.
- Proficient in database management and design, particularly in MySQL.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work in a fast-paced startup environment.
- Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively in a team and communicate technical concepts clearly.
- Passion for building innovative and scalable applications that meet user needs.
We are looking for a MEAN Stack developer to join our Technology team. As a full-stack developer, you will work closely with our Technical Architectural members to develop microservices that focus on the educational needs of Parents and Students globally. If you have excellent programming skills and a passion for developing applications from scratch, we would like to meet you. Working at Early Steps Academy is one of the best opportunities to get first-hand experience in an early-stage startup, explore different domains, and achieve your career goals.
Qualifications:
- A minimum of 3 years of relevant experience.
- Strong programming skills in Javascript/Typescript with Object-oriented design.
- Hands-on expertise in building reusable components and independently publishable packages.
- Strong experience in HTML, Angular(2+)/React, ExpressJS, MongoDB, NodeJS, and CSS frameworks.
- Practitioner of IaC (AWS), CI/CD, and Containerization(Docker).
- Accessibility, Server Side Rendering, Pre-rendering, Serverless, and Agile.
- Ability to adapt quickly to a new direction.
ONLY APPLY IF:
- Experience required: 3+ years
- Immediate joiners are needed
- Work location: Hyderabad, Telangana (currently work from home)
- Salary: INR 12LPA - 19LPA (negotiable as per your experience and expertise)
Job Responsibilities:
- Building interactive consumer data from multiple systems and RESTfully abstracting to the UI through a Node.js backend
- Define code architecture decisions to support a high-performance and scalable product with a minimal footprint
- Address and improve any technical issues
- Collaborate well with engineers, researchers, and data implementation specialists to design and create advanced, elegant, and efficient systems
- In-depth knowledge of #NodeJS, #ExpressJS or #Restify
- Experience implementing applications using Angular 2or React
- Experience creating front end applications using HTML5, Angular, LESS/SASS
- Hands-on experience with JavaScript Development on both client and server-side
- Experience with modern frameworks and design patterns, minimum one-year experience with #MEAN Fullstack paradigm
- Setting up reusable UI and tooling & best practices for the dev team.
- Identify bottlenecks and improve the application performance.
8-12 yrs experience in SQL, Oracle DB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Cross-platform application framework
Should be able to handle both frontend and backend developers at a team size of min 5-10 members
Role:
You are an experienced engineering leader, with a passion about building world-class mobile and web applications with high-performant backend and glitch-free experience. You will lead a team which will be developing technology that enables financial services brands to sell better and provide a great experience to their customers. You will architect compelling and engaging applications for Web and Mobile platforms. Employing your experience in proven backend stack like Nodejs, serverless architecture on AWS stack, ELK, Cloud formation, creating RESTful APIs with documentations and enabling complex queries for databases like MongoDB and MySQL/Postgres with discipline in collaboration and pair programming.
Our clientele majorly comprises of BFSI companies, so experience in Financial Applications and enterprise data security will be a big-plus
Responsibilities:
• Lead an Agile team to build web and mobile applications, APIs, SDKs and other tools as required
• Collaborate with various teams within Iorta to realise the requirements for the project and rapidly deliver iterative solutions
• Provide task plans and follow trends in technology and suggest new approaches to application design and development
• Review and evaluate designs for compliance with development guidelines
•. Implement best practices and methods to improve the development process within
Role - Technology Lead
Role Overview
As a Tech lead, you will take an active role in the definition and evolution of standard practices and procedures, working closely with the co-founders in building a team. You will be responsible for defining and developing software for tasks associated with the developing, designing and debugging of the software applications. The technology lead will be a part of the core leadership team and will be involved in all crucial decisions. So apart from strong technical skills, leadership is something we are looking for.
Responsibilities
▪ Work Experience between 3 to 5 years in large scale applications with desire to work in fast paced startups
▪ Must have led a team of 3 to 10 engineers. Excellent business understanding and prioritization skills. Fully hands on with coding and up to date with technology trends.
▪ Focus on code maintainability and performance of application and a demonstrated product development ability.
▪ Must be excellent with hiring and should have built a team from scratch or small size
▪ Provide technical advice and assists in solving programming problems
▪ Continuously create new and interactive features that would help to improve user experience and user engagement.
▪ Assist with troubleshooting of issues as needed
Tech Stack -
Node Js, Nativescript, Angular, React, React Native, MongoDB, AWS.
● Design and develop front-end applications using React
● Collaborate and contribute in a multi-functional team comprising of product managers,
architects, UI Designers, and customer support
● Convert UX designs in Sketch or PSDs to React components and layouts by working
closely with other front-end engineers
● Work with Redux to manage application state
● Implement latest React best practices such as Hooks and Suspense
● Contribute towards Unit/Integration/Performance Testing, System troubleshooting
● Build a rich and innovative user experience for our customers
Essential skills and qualifications:
● Ability to model data into appropriate state and props and build logical React components
● Passion for building new products in a fast paced, team-oriented environment
● Solid coding skills in modern ES6 JavaScript
● Proficiency using modern web development technologies and techniques such as
● HTML, CCS, ES6, CSS pre-processors, JavaScript, jQuery, Angular, React,
● Responsive Web Design, build tools like (Browserify, WebPack, Grunt, Gulp) etc
● Experience building customer facing UI and visualization tools
● Experience with Redux (or Flux, MobX) state management tools
● Experience with an integration testing framework, like Cypress or Testcafe
● Bonus: Experience with GraphQL and Apollo
● Bonus: Experience with React Hooks and Suspense
● Bonus: Experience with other functional programming languages like ReasonML

Your primary role will be to drive and grow our in-house software expertise. Working with a small software team in India and the UK, you will be responsible in understanding the requirements from various internal teams and taking ownership of software development, including backend database development and any front-end applications that will be developed in the future. Implementing AGILE methodologies, you will be responsible for delivering iterative results through regular sprints.
The software team manages a range of systems for the company, ranging from our client-facing applications to content delivery portals. You will be involved in all the projects and will contribute to developing, maintaining, and improving our systems. You will also be expected to keep on top of the latest developments in the software world and constantly check if we can make use of the latest technologies to deliver an even better user experience to both our internal and external clients. This role will suit someone who has extremely good technical skills but who is also ambitious to play a more strategic role in a growing company and build a strong team. The role may also require occasional travel to our UK headquarters and other offices around the world.
Essentials:
- Solid development skills and track-record of successful project delivery
- PHP and frameworks
- Database design and development
- SQL
- Open-source SQL databases, e.g. MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL
- HTML
- CSS, Sass and frameworks
- JavaScript: ES5, ES6, Ajax, libraries, and frameworks like VueJs, ReactJs.
- Front-end tooling
- Accessibility and progressive enhancement
- Git and/or other version control systems
- Project management
- Excellent communication, leadership, and motivation skills
- Willing to take on new technical projects.
- Attention to detail.
Desirable skills and experience:
- Agile development experience or certification
- .Net Framework
- Data visualisation and tools
- js
- NoSQL technologies such as MongoDB
- Continuous integration and deployment
- Big data and analytics
- Web security and development practices
- Data scraping and parsing.
- Aptitude for statistical analysis
- 2+ years of experience participating in the delivery of technology services.
- A proven ability to learn new applications & innovate in technology
- Strong Experience in technologies like Node, Webservices and Microservices
- Experience with cloud components and services and containerization technologies is desirable
- Exposure to ReactJS mandatory
- Experience working with multiple types of datastores: Mongo DB, SQL
- Experience in integrating, designing and developing solutions is desirable
- Experience with CI/CD and TDD is desirable
- Frameworks - Express , Hapi , feathers
- Strong knowledge in Javascript







