Lead Fullstack Developer

Strong Full Stack Engineer profiles

Mandatory (Experience 1) – Must have 1+ years of hands-on full stack engineering experience (avoid frontend-heavy only profiles, backend heavy will work)

Mandatory (Experience 2) – Must have strong backend engineering experience using Python, including designing and owning APIs, services, and data models in production environments

Mandatory (Experience 3) – Must have strong frontend development experience using React (or equivalent), including component architecture, state management, and building production-grade user interfaces

Mandatory (Experience 4) – Must have end-to-end ownership experience, building and shipping features across the full stack (UI + API + database) without clear handoff boundaries

Mandatory (Experience 5) – Must have strong web fundamentals, including understanding of browser rendering, performance optimization, and accessibility best practices

Mandatory (Experience 6) – Must be able to demonstrate solving complex problems on both frontend and backend, clearly articulating trade-offs, decisions, and outcomes

Mandatory (Experience 7) – Must have solid experience with databases (SQL/NoSQL), including schema design, query optimization, and handling performance bottlenecks

Mandatory (Company) - Top Product Companies, (preferred early-stage startups with Seed to Series C/D with fast-paced shipping culture)

Mandatory (Education) - Tier-1 institutes (IITs, BITS, IIITs), Can be skipped if from Top notch product companies

The key skills and expertise needed are:

1. eCommerce/Retail experience can be optional but needs to have experience with any high volume customer facing web/mobile site

2. Web Development, Front End Development, AND In the browser performance profiling

3. Java, Spring Boot, React, Node, Redux, Webpack, Microservices, AND experience with AWS technologies to make the overall application stack more resilient

4. Performance Profiling of web/mobile experiences and experience with working in CICD environment

5. Experience working with Web based and mobile ecommerce sites or similar public facing websites with high customer volume

6. Needs to be able to work at the code level doing performance profile to evaluate how the website and associated digital platform is built to find performance improvement opportunities

We are now looking for,

Senior SW Developer – IoT Platform Development

to join the team of experts at the KONE Services & Solutions R&D. You will work together with other professionals to develop advanced KONE digital solutions that leverage the latest in cloud and connectivity technologies.

You are a cloud development expert who is passionate about designing and implementing solutions for our connectivity solutions. You are familiar with the software development patterns and can turn the architectural plans to concrete SW designs. You understand and appreciate the modern SW development practices. You work at your best when you are working with people, and you enjoy helping others.

You will work in a key role inside our Agile SW development team. Your closest colleagues will be other developers, test professionals and the PO of the team. You will be part of KONE Technology and Innovation unit’s IoT Tribe.

Main responsibilities include,

• Producing more efficient software designs for new features in our IoT platform tribe
• Developing clean and efficient code based on the specifications.
• Unit and Integration Testing for the developed code and integrate with code coverage tools.
• Verify and deploy programs and systems
• Recommend and execute improvement for the existing offerings from the IoT platform.
• Create technical documentation for reference and reporting.
• Participating in knowledge sharing and demos

To be successful in this role,

• Having a degree in Computer Science or equivalent with minimum 5+ years of relevant working experience.
• More than 3 years proven experience in developing high volume scalable cloud solutions utilizing platforms like Amazon AWS with IoT domain.
• Having hands on development experience with Java, Node JS and TypeScript.
• Experience working with MVC, WEB API, RESTful services with IoT domain

• Team player with capabilities to take the lead and develop own competencies around the core knowledge is a must.
• Understanding of React JS is an added advantage.

• Strong experience with Serverless Cloud Compute Services with AWS or Azure

• Experience in working with AWS platform and its core services like Lambda, CloudWatch, CloudFormation, CDK, SQS, S3 etc., or its equivalent Azure services
• Understanding of Serverless design, network security, cloud design patterns, high availability and secure systems.

• Hands on experience with both SQL and No-SQL databases.
• Experience on DevOps ways of working with good understanding on CI/CD

• Develop new user-facing features
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use
• Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs
• Optimize applications for maximum speed and scalability
• Assure that all user input is validated before submitting to back-end services
• Define APIs for front-end and back-end
• Consume 3rd party APIs
• Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders

• Strong understanding of JavaScript, its quirks, and workarounds
• Basic understanding of web markup, including HTML5 and CSS3
• Good understanding of advanced JavaScript libraries and frameworks - Angular, RxJS, Internationalization
• Good understanding of asynchronous request handling, partial page updates and reactive components
• Proficient understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to work around such issues
• Familiarity with front-end build tools
• Proficient understanding of Git
• Good understanding of browser rendering behavior and performance
• Basic understanding of HTTP requests and proficiency in creating REST APIs using Swagger
• Strong understanding of relational databases and its concepts - MySQL
• Ability to write database queries and transactions using sequalize ORM
• We would prefer it the candidate has an experience of min 1 year but a maximum of 3 years with all above mentioned technologies, libraries and frameworks

• 2-4 years of experience working with web platforms (at a corporate, startup, or digital agency)

Work Ethic & Requirements

• Experience with the development of large-scale websites and a strong understanding of web development technologies, third-party applications and platforms, and social media.
• You should be able to handle multiple projects at the same time.
• You should have the ability to motivate, support, and understand teams and easily work with everyone from our UX/visual designers to tech developers to content strategists.
• You should be motivated and organized. A proactive attitude is most important.
• Ability to effectively manage time, prioritize tasks and work within deadlines with little or no supervision
• The ability to work both autonomously and as part of a team 

Tech Skills

• Python/Django
• React JS
• Node JS

• 2+ years of experience with React
• Strong experience with React 16.8+ & React Hooks
• Strong experience with NodeJS & Express
• Proficiency in Typescript, AWS, Firebase, and MongoDB

You will be bringing:

• Extensive experience in HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, and front-end frameworks like ReactJS/ AngularJS
• Knowledge of new ES6 features (and actively uses them)
• Experience with popular React.js workflows such as Flux or Redux
• Experience in Redux data patterns and NgRx
• Experience working with server-client architecture projects, consuming JSON data from APIs
• Ability to ruthlessly prioritize in a chaotic and ambiguous environment
• An open, growth mindset when giving and receiving feedback

You get extra points for:

• Being familiar with WebGL/ ThreeJS/ PixiJS

Responsibilities:

• Development and Integration of user-facing design elements with server-side logic.
• Design and develop backend API services and databases to serve frontend applications.
• Code for multi-platform environments.
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use.
• Ensure responsiveness of applications.
• Optimization of the application for maximum speed and scalability.

Skills and Qualifications:

• Basic understanding of front-end technologies and platforms, such as JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3.
• Proficient in Angular JS or ReactJS, Node.js and JavaScript.
• Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system.
• Management of hosting environment, including database administration and scaling an application to support load changes.
• Understanding differences between multiple delivery platforms such as mobile vs desktop, and optimizing output to match the specific platform.
• Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes in one or more database technologies such as Mongo, MySQL etc.
• Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests.
• Proficient knowledge of a back-end programming language. (Depending on the specific case, a developer should have the knowledge of one or more of Python, Ruby, JavaScript etc.)
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git.

Academic Qualifications:

• Engineering degree from a reputed institute