Lead engineer

Job Title: Fullstack Developer

Experience Level: 5+ Years

Location: Borivali, Mumbai

About the Role:

We are seeking a talented and experienced Fullstack Developer to join our dynamic engineering team. The ideal candidate will have at least 5 years of hands-on experience in building scalable web applications using modern technologies. You will be responsible for developing and maintaining both front-end and back-end components, ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, test, and deploy scalable web applications using Node.js, React, and Python.
• Build and maintain APIs and microservices that support high-volume traffic and data.
• Develop front-end components and user interfaces using React.js.
• Leverage AWS services for deploying and managing applications in a cloud environment.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including UI/UX designers, product managers, and QA engineers.
• Participate in code reviews and ensure adherence to best practices in software development.
• Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade existing systems.
• Continuously explore and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience in fullstack development.
• Strong proficiency in Node.js, React.js, and Python.
• Hands-on experience with AWS (e.g., Lambda, EC2, S3, CloudFormation, RDS).
• Solid understanding of RESTful APIs and web services.
• Familiarity with DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines is a plus.
• Experience working with relational and NoSQL databases.
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git.
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Excellent communication and teamwork abilities.

Nice to Have:

• Experience with serverless architecture.
• Knowledge of TypeScript.
• Exposure to containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Familiarity with agile development methodologies.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain both front-end and back-end components of web applications.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and other developers to build user-friendly features.
• Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code that adheres to coding standards and best practices.
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use.
• Optimize applications for maximum speed and scalability.
• Implement responsive design to ensure consistent user experience across all devices.
• Work with databases (SQL/NoSQL) and integrate with third-party services and APIs.
• Troubleshoot, debug, and optimize application performance.
• Participate in code reviews, ensuring code quality and consistency across the team.
• Stay updated on the latest industry trends and best practices in full-stack development.
• Contribute to an agile development process, attending sprints, standups, and retrospectives.

Required Skills and Qualifications:

• Proven experience as a Full Stack Developer or similar role.
• Proficiency in front-end technologies such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and modern frameworks (React.js, Next.js, Angular, or Vue.js).
• Strong experience in back-end technologies such as Node.js, Python, Ruby, Java, or PHP.
• Familiarity with database technologies (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB).
• Experience with version control systems, particularly Git.
• Knowledge of RESTful API design and integration.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud is a plus.
• Experience in microservices based architecture is a plus.
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to work independently as well as part of a team.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.

• Plan, architect, integrate, and develop back-end and database driven features using the Python language and frameworks (Flask/ Falcon, MongoDB ).
• Create decoupled, interactive web UIs using JavaScript (Angular, jQuery)
• Aid in the development and ongoing maintenance of our DevOps platform (Ansible)
• Provide technical advice and recommendations for language and software choices.
• Develop code that is cross-browser and cross-platform friendly
• Collaborate with project stakeholders to ensure all requirements are met
• Evaluate technologies and manage technical planning
• Support and ongoing development for existing projects
• Provide clean code and proper documentation for each project
• Fix bugs and resolve ongoing issues

Senior Full Stack Engineer - TalkingYak

Talking Yak is an Android-based English teaching system made specifically for native Hindi and Tamil speakers.

Our program includes over 400 intelligently-structured videos, thousands of exercises, over 10,000 vocabulary words and phrases, and a system that adapts itself to each learner. In a matter of months, we can elevate most learners to a 100% functional English capability.

We are one team at TalkingYak consisting of honest, moral & ethical individuals who are heard and valued! We hold ourselves accountable- delivering on expectations & celebrating each other for the great work we do!

We’re looking for a senior developer who has a lot of passion towards solving real world problems using technology. 

Below are some of the developer qualities we like a lot,

• Good team player
• Ability to write clean readable code
• Good logical and problem solving skills
• Clear communication skills
• Never give up attitude
• Passionate to learn and acquire new skills

Our current technology stack includes Android, Python, Flask, MongoDB, RabbitMQ, ElasticSearch and AWS. While it is a bonus to have worked on the same set of above listed technologies, it is not a must until you have hands-on experience with similar technologies.

To give you an idea about what you will be working on after joining us, you will be

• Dockerizing different services and automating our AWS infrastructure provisioning steps
• Optimising our backend services to scale for a few hundreds of concurrent users
• Managing our backed service and adding new features to it
• Working on refactoring our current android codebase to a cleaner design
• Mentoring junior developers

While we feel a developer with 4 to 8 years of hands-on experience will be more suitable for this role, it shouldn't be a hard constraint if you have the required skills.

We would love to get in touch immediately and have a conversation, if you feel our interests align.

Selected candidates day-to-day responsibilities include:

1. Working on computer vision/image processing applications like object classification, segmentation, etc.
2. Working on deep learning algorithms for machine vision based inspection usecases
3. Working on Machine Vision Cameras involving variety of Lens, Filters and other Optical Elements to collect data
4. Having full stack development experience will be plus

Designing, architecting and developing the backend and APIs, primarily using the MEAN/MERN stack, for products or platforms for end-clients to consume our technology in Infrastructure Monitoring from Satellite Imagery and Robotic Process Automation in Banking and Mortgage Services.

- Interfacing with the customer, tech team members, project managers and other relevant product people for a thorough understanding of the product, use case and business objective, detailed specification and data flow for the requirement, demonstration of the solution and clarification of queries at appropriate times during the life-cycle of the product.

- Preparing test cases, setting up CI/CD and integration with logging and monitoring systems for the products or platforms 

- Seeking customer feedback to continuously optimize the product for great customer experience and high technical performance in areas such as hardware efficiency, latency and throughput

- Delivering a robust backend platform for the products and platforms by incorporating important considerations regarding minimal downtime, high availability, data redundancy, tight security, etc. into the design