Mean Stack Technical Lead

Who We Are 

Studio Management (studiomgmt.co) is a uniquely positioned organization combining venture capital, hedge fund investments, and startup incubation. Our portfolio includes successful ventures like Sentieo (acquired by AlphaSense for $185 million), as well as innovative products such as Emailzap (emailzap.co) and Mindful Minutes for Toddlers. We’re expanding our team to continue launching products at the forefront of technology, and we’re looking for an Engineering Lead who shares our passion for building the “next big thing.”

The Role 

We are seeking a hands-on Engineering Lead to guide our product development efforts across multiple high-impact ventures. You will own the overall technical vision, mentor a remote team of engineers, and spearhead the creation of new-age products in a fast-paced startup environment. This is a strategic, influential role that requires a blend of technical prowess, leadership, and a keen interest in building products from zero to one.

Responsibilities

• Technical Leadership: Define and drive the architectural roadmap for new and existing products, ensuring high-quality code, scalability, and reliability.
• Mentorship & Team Building: Hire, lead, and develop a team of engineers. Foster a culture of continuous learning, ownership, and collaboration.
• Product Innovation: Work closely with product managers, designers, and stakeholders to conceptualize, build, and iterate on cutting-edge, user-centric solutions.
• Hands-On Development: Write efficient, maintainable code and perform thorough code reviews, setting the standard for engineering excellence.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with different functions (product, design, marketing) to ensure alignment on requirements, timelines, and deliverables.
• Process Optimization: Establish best practices and processes that improve development speed, code quality, and overall team productivity.
• Continuous Improvement: Champion performance optimizations, new technologies, and modern frameworks to keep the tech stack fresh and competitive.

What We’re Looking For

• 4+ Years of Engineering Experience: A proven track record of designing and delivering high-impact software products.
• Technical Mastery: Expertise in a full-stack environment—HTML, CSS, JavaScript (React/React Native), Python (Django), and AWS. Strong computer science fundamentals, including data structures and system design.
• Leadership & Communication: Demonstrated ability to mentor team members, influence technical decisions, and articulate complex concepts clearly.
• Entrepreneurial Mindset: Passion for building new-age products, thriving in ambiguity, and rapidly iterating to find product-market fit.
• Problem Solver: Adept at breaking down complex challenges into scalable, efficient solutions.
• Ownership Mentality: Self-driven individual who takes full responsibility for project outcomes and team success.
• Adaptability: Comfort working in an environment where priorities can shift quickly, and opportunities for innovation abound.

Why Join Us

• High-Impact Work: Drive the technical direction of multiple ventures, shaping the future of new products from day one.
• Innovation Culture: Operate in a remote-first, collaborative environment that encourages bold thinking and rapid experimentation.
• Growth & Autonomy: Enjoy opportunities for both leadership advancement and deepening your technical skillset.
• Global Team: Work alongside a diverse group of talented professionals who share a passion for pushing boundaries.
• Competitive Benefits: Receive market-leading compensation and benefits in a role that rewards both individual and team success.

Job Overview: We are looking for a highly skilled and experienced Node.js Developer to join our team. The ideal candidate will have over 5 years of experience in developing scalable, high-performance backend applications using Node.js and related technologies. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to design, develop, and deploy robust solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

· Develop, maintain, and optimize server-side applications using VueJs, Node.js and Express.js.

· Design and implement scalable RESTful APIs and GraphQL APIs.

· Work with databases such as MongoDB, PostgreSQL, or MySQL.

· Ensure the security, performance, and responsiveness of applications.

· Collaborate with front-end developers, UX designers, and product managers.

· Implement automated testing and continuous integration.

· Debug and optimize existing code for performance improvements.

·  Stay updated with the latest trends and best practices in Node.js development.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

· 5+ years of experience in backend development using Node.js.

· Proficiency in JavaScript & TypeScript.

· Strong knowledge of Express.js, Nest.js, or similar frameworks.

· Experience with microservices architecture and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).

· Expertise in database technologies such as MongoDB, PostgreSQL, or MySQL.

· Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines.

· Experience with authentication and security best practices (JWT, OAuth, etc.).

· Strong debugging and performance optimization skills.

·  Ability to work in an agile environment and collaborate with cross-functional teams.

Preferred Qualifications:

· Experience with message queues (RabbitMQ, Kafka, etc.).

· Knowledge of DevOps practices and infrastructure as code (Terraform, Ansible).

· Familiarity with front-end technologies such as VueJs or React.

· Contributions to open-source projects or a strong GitHub portfolio.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Become an expert in our technology and platforms
• Provide top-tier, highly skilled and attentive support to our consumer app teams.
• Perform production support, troubleshooting and maintenance tasks with a focus on quality and timeliness
• Work with the Implementations and Delivery Teams on defect resolution and solution delivery
• As an active member of the backend team you would utilize and promote best practices and standards
• You’ll develop new technical skills and gain industry knowledge
• You’ll provide occasional “after-hours” incident response and support
• Maintain software to integrate with internal back-end systems
• Build tools to reduce occurence of errors and improve customer experience
• Manage system troubleshooting and maintenance.

Required skills and qualifications

• 4+ years’ experience supporting Web and Backend based application software and environments preferred

• Ability to prioritize effectively and handle shifting priorities professionally

• Experience with version management systems like GIT, Subversion

• Knowledge on Payment gateways (Razorpay, Juspay)

• Experience with web application servers, basic idea on AWS and Azure

• Databases (SQL and NoSQL) and SQL query language.

• Good understanding of Networking principles.

• An understanding and background with Object Oriented Programming languages

• Required Full stack development knowledge.

Preferred skills and qualifications

• Bachelor of science degree (or equivalent) in computer science, engineering, or relevant field

Who we are?

Cybrilla is a financial infrastructure company. We are building the frontend applications & APIs from the ground up to support a variety of use cases and enable a superior digital experience for different user personas. Cybrilla's current focus is to build the underlying operating system for mutual funds.

AMCs / Fintech startups / Wealth management businesses can choose the product that works best for them to enable an awesome experience for their customers and internal stakeholders.

About the team

FPApp is a hosted UI platform to build, operate and invest in Indian wealth management instruments. Our vision is to create products for all user personas in the ecosystem, be it an investor, distributor, business team, operation, or support.

We are looking for minds that have a knack for understanding user problems, simplifying investment journeys and building meaningful products!

Responsibilities

• Own implementation of frontend functional workflows and applications for Fintech ecosystem.
• Analyse problem statements and design technical solutions which may involve building client-side API integrations or server side business logic.
• Ensure enterprise level scalability, reliability and security standards for front end workflows and applications.
• Continuously evolve ways of designing for better user experience and lead the implementation of same.

Requirements

Technical Skills

Frontend

• Hands-on experience on Typescript is a must
• Deep Expertise in Javascript - including manipulating DOM, acquaintance with newer specifications of ECMAScript
• Understanding of Javascript Tooling - Build Tools, Lint Tools, Tree Shaking. Must have basic understanding of Babel, Webpack etc.,
• Hands on Experience in breaking complex UI Components into small reusable components
• Hands on Experience in using state management using Redux and understanding of React Context
• Understanding of Patterns in Javascript

Backend

• Strong understanding of SQL.
• Hands-on experience in Node.js Applications.
• Experience with Ruby on Rails, Java would be a value add.
• Extensive background in designing, developing, testing, deploying, maintaining, and improving software.

General

• 8+ years of experience in building web and responsive apps in a customer-facing or B2B SaaS environment
• Interest in engaging with latest technologies and evaluating strategies to keep technology stack up to date
• Experience mentoring junior engineers in all aspects of planning, development and testing
• Demonstrable experience architecting scalable and cost-effective technical solutions to solve business goals
• Understanding of Git - Merging, Basing etc.,
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines - one of Github Workflows, Gitlab CI or anything else
• Experience with hosting in any of the cloud hosting providers

What’s in it for you?

• Opportunity to work on a growing product that solves unique digital use cases for the Indian wealth management industry.
• Flexible work options.
• Opportunity to solve deep domain and technology problems, for very large enterprises.
• Opportunity to work with the best brains in fintech.
• Increasing your geek quotient, by attending meetups and conferences. Yes we dig that stuff.
• Grow exponentially by working in small and transparent teams.
• Who says you can’t make friends at work, we do!

MERN Stack Developer

2.5+ YEARS

Roles and Responsibility

Working experience as a MERN Stack Developer.

Design, code and manage large scale services using cutting edge technologies (NodeJs, ReactJS/AngularJS/VueJs etc).

In-depth knowledge of NodeJS.

Creating secure RESTful-based web services in XML or JSON.

Good knowledge in ECMAScript(6/7/8) is essential.

Strong fundamentals in Data Structures and Algorithms.

Experience implementing applications using Angular or React.

Should have an working experience with state management, React Hooks, React Fragments etc.

Should have a good Knowledge of Redux, Flux, and Webpack.

Writing the test case for components.

Experience working with Docker, Redis, MySQL, MongoDB.

Comfortable taking challenges and learning new technologies.

Excellent communication skills and client-facing experience.

Ability to mentor and build the team.

Knowledge of code versioning tools such as Git, Bitbucket or SVN.

Knowledge of the following will be considered as an advantage

Experience with Socket.IO for Real time communications.

Consumer Web Development Experience for High-Traffic, Public Facing web applications.

Caching with Redis For Speedy Performance.

Experience with cloud message APIs.

Knowledge of GraphQL, PostgreSQL.

Knowledge of NextJs.

Knowledge of any frameworks of NodeJS.

Experience with Progressive Web applications.

Knowledge of SSR.

Essential duties and responsibilities include the following. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Work on a remote cross-functional team where you’ll play a critical role in designing, planning, development, deployment and observing your code in production.   
• Develop high performance, highly scalable and accessible web applications. Our web app is used by over 20 million educators, students and parents worldwide.  
• Meet tight deadlines in a rapid application development environment.  
• Collaborate with Product Management, Design, and Operations teams to create and deliver tested features to production.  
• Collaborate with specialists across web, mobile, and operations to achieve a better user experience for our product.  
• Be able to assess and bring in industry information into your decisions and learn new technologies: AWS is releasing new tools every day, there are new open source libraries to vet and you will be a party to helping us vet and pick the best tool for the job.  
• Be willing to work in any area of the codebase if needed, this can include JavaScript/TypeScript/Node, PHP, Java or other technologies.  
• Help staff, build, and form the culture around a team of 5 engineers, a product manager, designer, QAs and associated supporting roles.

Qualifications include:

• Strong CS fundamentals including familiarity with data structures and especially the asynchronous challenges that face JavaScript developers today.   
• Experience developing in at least 2 server side languages (PHP, node.js, …)  
• Experience developing in at least 1 client side JS framework (ReactJS, Angular, …)  
• Experience testing software in alignment with the Test Pyramid.  
• Experience with datastores, either SQL (MySQL preferred) or NoSQL, and the ability to talk deeply about them.  
• Able to identify the source of complex problems occurring as a result of multiple systems interacting (experience with observability tools such as datadog/newrelic is a plus).   
• Experience working on a team of 5 engineers plus supporting roles (e.g. QA, design, etc), preferably as a Senior Software Engineer.  
• Experience with code review, being able to sign-off on another team member’s code ensuring high quality standards.  
• Be self-sustained even when tackling the highest profile, most difficult work across the organization.  
• Willingness to accept responsibility and be accountable not only for your own work but the work of the team as a whole.  
• Experience working with other people’s code, how to dig into it and make tactical changes with minimal side effects.  
• A solid understanding of how to break down user stories and give estimates that include accessibility and security requirements.  
• Be able to see roadblocks far ahead, across many vectors of risk  
• Be a true team player! Ensuring their knowledge and expertise is shared amongst other team members and even cross-team and be willing to seek out opportunities to mentor teammates.  
• A commitment to learning about anything you don’t know on your own and without much supervision.  
• Superior communications, organization and relationship building skills — you’re going to be working on cross-team efforts, so this is essential.  
• Self-motivation as well as ability and desire to learn new technologies, applications, processes, and environments.  
• A belief that delivering code to production is just one step in the process. Observing and owning the code you wrote goes hand in hand with construction.  
• A desire to take on whatever challenge is most important. This could be tackling something you are familiar with, or it could require a deep dive into a whole new world. The key is having the right attitude.   

Technical Roles and Responsibilities

-  Demonstrate a systematic and disciplined architecture, system design and programming approach following a standard software development lifecycle

-  Meticulous attention to detail and strong focus on clear and practical documentation

-  Work closely with senior management, Development Manager, Project Manager, and a team of developers.

- Design, Code, Unit Test and support Software components

-  Deliver quality software in a time following standard software development processes

-  Analyze problems raised in software development or production environments and provide timely solutions

-  Develop, prepare and maintain system documentation, including program descriptions, operational procedures etc.

-  Act as the second line of support during production problems.

Mandatory Skills:

Software Engineering

u  Strong experience in agile methodologies and test driven development.

u  Experience in software development using open source technologies.

u  Experience in automated software testing.

u  Knowledge in domain-driven design, design patterns and enterprise integration patterns.

u  Must have experience in delivering software via complete Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipeline.

Software Development

u  Must be able to code in Java (SpingBoot and Spring Cloud Services).

u  Experience in some of the technologies below:

o PaaS: Pivotal Cloud Foundy/Openshift/ AWS/ Azure/ Docker/ Kubernetes

o Data: MySQL/ Postgres/ Oracle/ MongoDB/ Elasticsearch

o Cache: Redis/ Memcached

o UI: HTML5,Bootstrap, CSS, Angular 4/ ReactJS/RxJS

 - Strong knowledge in CI/CD toolset such as Ansible, Artifactory, Jenkins, BitBucket, SonarQube, Fortify,  Flyway, Jira and Confluence.

-  Strong knowledge in automated testing toolset such as jUnit, Mockito, cucumber, Selenium etc.

-  Strong knowledge in scripting languages such as Groovy and Linux shell.