Lead Security Engineer

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

✅ 2.5+ 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.

💰 Competitive Compensation – ₹50K - ₹60K per month.

🏡 Dynamic Work Environment – Collaborative, innovation-driven workplace.

Our IT Project Managers are responsible for assisting various tasks throughout the project lifecycle. Being a central liaison between all project stakeholders consisting Executive Board, Developers, and QA, they makes sure that we do not miss any deliverables from the schedule.

Curious about your work?

• Processing new projects that come in from the client.
• Attending calls/meetings with the client’s teams as needed.
• Determining work flow, steps and timelines for all projects.
• Assisting in the creation of documentation and reports such as project overviews and communicating the same to various internal stakeholders.
• Maintains ongoing daily communication with other departments and resources regarding project status.
• Ensuring each project flows within the timeline, receives checks, and is completely ready for delivery on time.
• Providing timely updates to the client side

Who will you work with?

Everyone, in a way! At SimplePlan, ours is an intentionally flat setup — you will be working directly with team leads, execution heads as well as team members across the length and breadth of the agency.

Who are you?

We're looking for someone who is passionate about scaling teams and working with groups of people towards a common objective — someone who:

• has 0-1 year of experience in Website Projects
• has a tech bachelors' degree
• is proactive as we care deeply about what we do & when we see opportunities/problems, we act
• is good on getting on and doing things
• is clear, concise and precise with a lot of documentation
• has an ability to communicate effectively and professionally with clients

You'll fit right in if:

• you really care about nurturing a delightful team environment
• you possess excellent active listening, presentation and communication skills
• you enjoy solving problems
• you have an innate sense of ownership when it comes to work
• you enjoy discourse on people and operations management
• you enjoy close collaboration with cross-functional teams and individuals from different backgrounds
• you are good with people and to people - whether it’s your fellow team leads, or those who help run SimplePlan behind the scenes

You won't fit right in if:

• you default to waiting for instructions rather than figuring things out yourself
• you are disinterested in being on top of everything
• you would rather keep quiet than speak up in a meeting

Description of Skills/abilities:

We are looking for a Python Web Developer responsible for managing the interchange of data between the server and the users. Your primary focus will be the development of all server-side logic, ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end. You will also be responsible for integrating the front-end elements built by your co-workers into the application; therefore, a basic understanding of front-end technologies is necessary as well.

Responsibilities:

1. Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code.
2. Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications.
3. Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers with server side logic.
4. Implementation of security and data protection.
5. Integration of data storage solutions may include databases, key-value stores, blob stores, etc. Experience administering innovation with methodologies such as design thinking.
6. Experience working on Agile Scrum and DevOps aligned delivery teams.
7. Interest and ability to learn other coding languages as needed.
8. Strong communication skills and great product sense.
9. Proficient communication skills verbal and written.
10. Understanding of accessibility and security compliance depending on the specific project.
11. Knowledge of user authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments.
12. Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application.
13. Familiarity with event-driven programming in Python, using of Pycham.
14. Understanding of the differences between multiple deliveries platforms, such as mobile vs desktop, and optimizing output to match the specific platform.
15. Able to create database schemas that represent and support business processes.
16. Strong unit test and debugging skills.

Skills:

1. Expert in Python, with knowledge in Python web framework such as Django, Flask depending on technology stack.
2. Familiarity with some ORM (Object Relational Mapper) libraries.
3. Able to integrate multiple data sources and databases into one system.
4. Understanding of the threading limitations of Python, and multi-process architecture.
5. Good understanding of server-side templating languages such as Jinja 2, Mako, etc depending on your technology stack.
6. Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, Typescript, react, react hooks, HTML5, and CSS3.
7. Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as Git, Mercurial or SVN.

Skill Set:

1. 4+Years Full stack Python Developer - exposure to web frameworks like Django, Flask and Falcon.
2. Experience building APIs for a rapidly iterating product and restful APIs and development of services layer using Pythons Flask framework and should be proficient in writing unit test cases using Pytest package.
3. Database level programming using both SQL (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle) and No SQL (Mongo DB/Casandra) and designing the database level stored procedures and persistence logic.
4. HTML/CSS/JavaScript and JavaScript framework and knowledge on React JS is a plus.
5. Experience in developing Arduino libraries is an added advantage.
6. Experience working with two or more from the following: Web Application development, Unix/Linux environments, mobile application development, distributed and parallel systems, machine learning, information retrieval, natural language processing, networking, developing large software systems, and/or security software development

• Developing change management plans for projects and/or change initiatives.
• Evaluating the impact of planned organisational change.
• Identifying risks and developing risk mitigation tactics.
• Identifying and managing anticipated resistance to change.
• Leading change management work streams with a structured methodology / process.
• Supporting development of communications relevant to change initiatives.
• Providing coaching and training to employees at all levels.
• Defining success metrics and measuring performance against these.
• Providing reporting and other updates to management and project teams.