Senior Software Engineer

• Very strong core Java/Spring developer
• Minimum 6 months of hands-on experience in React.js development.
• Decent experience in implementing observability (monitoring/alerts) for Java apps
• Capable of working with scripting languages.
• Skills Required: Java, Core Java, Data Structures, OOPS, Multithreading, Algorithms, Collection Framework, Java/J2EE, Hibernate, Spring, Spring Boot, Microservices, Restful Services ,SQL.

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.

We are looking for an experienced Senior Software Engineer who will develop designing and develop new software solutions; as well as support existing product updates and enhancements. Our Senior Software Engineer will join a growing team of developers responsible for building new and supporting existing products.

The ideal candidate will have the ability to prioritize well, communicate clearly, have a consistent track record of delivery and have excellent software engineering skills. Creative engineering is balanced with high quality and a customer focus. Must be able to work across multiple facets of the project and juggle multiple responsibilities at the same time. Strong analytic capability and the ability to create innovative solutions. We are looking for a highly motivated individual who is looking to grow their career in a fast-paced environment.

• Understand complex application design and program activities in the latest techniques and technologies: PHP, MySQL, Laravel, Rest APIs, Javascript, React, CSS, HTML and AWS Infrastructure
• Implement high-quality code in an agile, test-driven development environment
• Create high-performance APIs, libraries and microservices that scale to meet/exceed client expectations
• Participate in design and code reviews 
• Perform performance and scalability analysis as needed
• Find creative and elegant solutions to complex problems
• Research, evaluate and adopt next-generation technologies 
• Build automated unit and integration tests as needed 
• Work closely with our Designers, Engineers, Product Owners and Application Engineers and build automated solutions
• Determine operational feasibility by evaluating analysis, problem definition, requirements, solution development and proposed solutions
• Develop software solutions by studying information needs; conferring with users; studying systems flow, data usage and work processes; investigating problem areas; following the software development lifecycle
• Prepare and install solutions by determining and designing system specifications, standards and programming
• Accomplish engineering and organization mission by completing related results as needed
• Protect operations by keeping information confidential

• Mentor junior and mid-level engineers
• Make informed decisions quickly and take ownership of services and applications at scale
• Understand business needs and know how to create the tools to manage them
• Grow engineering teams by interviewing, recruiting and hiring

• 5+ years of experience with PHP, MySQL, Rest APIs, 
• 3+ years of experience with Javascript, React, CSS, and HTML
• Experience with AWS Infrastructure a plus 
• Experience with Github and tools like Bugsnag and Crashlytics 
• Experience working in an agile environment that follows Scrum or other agile methodologies 
• Experience developing software for Enterprise clients is preferred 
• Experience working with project management tools such as Asana or Trello is a plus
• Excellent time management skills, with the ability to work under deadlines in a fast-paced environment
• Attention to detail and commitment to high-quality/error free deliverables
• Great communication and problem-solving skills
• Detail-oriented and a critical thinker 
• Collaborate with team to brainstorm and create new products
• Stay on the leading edge of development practices
• A team player and leader but can work independently

About you

• Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science or Computer Engineering  
• 6+ years of software development experience 
• Experience in SaaS (Software as a Service) model building scalable platforms utilizing micro services/distributed systems architecture using: restful APIs by internal and external partners 
• Understanding of data structures and algorithms
• Demonstrated experience with multi-tier applications
• Additional experience in customer-facing sustaining, support work and customer communication 

Our Culture

We help companies manage their biggest asset, their people. We are disrupting the corporate wellness market to help companies large and small to support employee and workplace wellbeing. If you’re ready to join our growing team and have the opportunity to be a part of a company that is focused on Woliba (Work-Life-Balance) then we’d love to hear from you. 

As a developer at CultureMonkey, you will be joining a world-class team of domain experts who are passionate about technology and people. An ideal day at CultureMonkey will see you working closely with the founding team to ideate and implement new features to enhance our product. As an organization helping top companies build a positive work culture, we are pretty serious about practicing what we preach. Work-life balance is a big deal here!

What you bring to the table:

• Writing and maintaining reliable code that abides to Object Oriented Design.
• Own up implementation of the entire module (comprises front-end and back-end components)
• Identifying and fixing bottlenecks and bugs in the product.
• Collaborate with customer success team to understand and analyze the requirements to build efficient solutions.
• Maintaining APIs.
• Participate in design reviews and architecture discussions.
• Optimize application for performance and scalability.

What it takes:

• Ability to learn and write production-ready code
• Basic understanding of Object oriented programming and MVC.
• Exposure to front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3.
• Familiar in database concepts and writing SQL queries.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills with an ability to communicate technical information, both written and oral, to technical and non-technical reviewers.

Extra brownie points if you have

• Hands on experience in Ruby on Rails.
• Basic understanding of Elastic-search
• Proficient understanding of Git
• Exposure to RESTful api.

Apart from financial gains, to know more about the benefits of working at CultureMonkey, you can refer to the following link: https://www.culturemonkey.io/life-at-cultureMonkey/

This person MUST have:

• BE Computer Science, MCA or equivalent
• Cloud app development experience
• Strong Django and ReactJS experience
• Advanced knowledge of Python and relational databases
• Understanding of APIs, pagination, searching, sorting 
• Experience with building, modifying and extending API endpoints (REST or

GraphQL) for data retrieval and persistence.

• Creating high performance UI etc.
• Experience with SQL and NOSQL databases

• Experience with the full software development life cycle, including requirements

collection, design, implementation, testing, and operational support.

• Experience with scrum or other agile software development methodology.
• Excellent verbal and written communication, teamwork, decision making and

influencing skills.

Experience:

• Min 3 year experience
• Not more than 15 year experience.
• Startup experience is a must. 

Location

• Remotely, anywhere in India

Timings:

• 40 hours a week but with 4 hours a day overlapping with client timezone.  Typically clients are in California PST Timezone.

Position:

• Full time/Direct
• We have great benefits such as PF, medical insurance, 12 annual company holidays, 12 PTO leaves per year, annual increments, Diwali bonus, spot bonuses and other incentives etc.
• We dont believe in locking in people with large notice periods.  You will stay here because you love the company.  We have only a 15 days notice period.

You are a motivated and energetic rockstar full stack developer. Go-getter, think out of box to create awesome front-end (jQuery or ReactJS) and back-end (APIs) of an application platform.

Skills:

- Develop web apps using jQuery or ReactJS, HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap, PHP Advanced, any MVC framework and Ajax.

- Hands on knowledge of Adobe Photoshop

- Experience of setting up a production workflow with git and cloud deployment will be plus.

- Knowledge of web technologies such as NodeJS, ReactJS, VueJS etc will be plus


// must have a strong understanding of UI, cross-browser compatibility, general web functions and standards.

// willingness to learn and improvise skills

// "NEVER SAY NO" attitude towards new and challenging projects

// good verbal and communication skills

// excel in a fast-paced startup-like environment. Should be goal-orientated and be able to work without any supervision or mentorship.