Senior Software Engineer/Engineering Lead - Node.js/React.js

Job Description:

We are seeking a Full stack Developer to contribute to the development of our Analytics platform. The ideal candidate will play a key role in each stage of the product development process, collaborating with a team of developers and designers to deliver high-quality work within tight timeframes.

Responsibilities:

- Develop and maintain web applications using PHP (Laravel), React (Next.js), Node.js

- Implement server-side scripting, API development

- Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code

- Build and scale an analytics platform that meets business requirements.

- Stay up-to-date with industry trends and incorporate best practices into the development process.

Requirements:

- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.

- Tech Stack: PHP (Laravel), React (Next.js), MySQL, Tailwind

- Strong analytical and problem solving skills

- 2-3 years of experience using PHP, MySQL

- 1 years of experience in Laravel, React.js

- Knowledge of Design patterns and OOPs concepts

- Knowledge of Linux / Unix flavors

- Familiarity with RESTful API principles and best practices

- Knowledge of Git

- Should be able to work independently

BONUS POINTS

- Familiarity with Node.js, Python

- Exposure to any of the cloud platforms like AWS/GCP/Azure

- Familiarity with LLMs

About Us:

We’re a young team of F&B enthusiasts who live and breathe data. At Kitchen Spurs, we believe decisions should be driven by insights—not instincts. We partner closely with restaurant teams, taking the operational burden of marketplace management off their shoulders—handling aggregator platforms, uncovering trends, and eliminating hours of manual work. All of this is powered by our robust analytics platform, designed to decode performance data into clear, actionable strategies. With our support, restaurants can focus on what truly matters: delivering exceptional customer experiences—the only metric that drives lasting success.

Job Description – Lead Full Stack (Javascript) Engineer 

 About Freespace* (a.k.a. Workplace Fabric)  

Workplace Fabric develops solutions that makes workplaces intelligent. Our solutions help increase productivity of office workers while helping to lower the cost of real estate. Our Flagship 

product Freespace is installed in over 40 cities around the world and serves over 30,000 people every day. Starting with the first deployment in March 2016 we have rapidly grown with our solution being rolled out globally while continuing to stay cash positive. With successes at several blue-chip clients Workplace Fabric has carved a unique leadership position in workplace management and employee engagement SaaS solutions. 

*To find out more, follow us on social media – LinkedIn & Facebook @ workplace-fabric 

What is on our offer?  

• An absolutely action packed, fun, and demanding workplace lets our employees to thrive in a team-based environment with passion, fun, pride and teamwork as our core values. 
• We can offer you career opportunities to challenge, develop and exceed your aspirations with training and development throughout your career. 
• Life is never dull at Freespace as there is always something to learn, constantly pushing you to develop your skills and take on the next exciting challenge. 

 Profile Brief:  

You will be an experienced Full Stack Javascript Engineer with an interest in data and analytics, developing our fast growing Analytics Team. Working closely as an active team member, having ownership & accountability to develop analytics stories, in delivering timely projects through Scrum. Working with product owners and team leads to clarifying requirements, challenge assumptions in order to ensure successful executions and push the client analytics to its best.  

Key Skills and Experience  

Required Skills: JavaScript (ES6+), SQL, Nodejs, React 

Good to have: AWS (Lambda, Athena, S3) & AWS Certification, TypeScript, IoT, amCharts, D3.js (or industry equivalent) 

Experience: 6-10 years  

• Data processing and manipulation expert 
• Able to easily comprehend and write complex & efficient SQL queries  

• Ability to understand, design and fully document end-to-end scalable IoT systems 
• Expert in in building Well-Architected solutions using AWS Services (eg Lambda, Athena, S3 etc) 
• Experience in developing frontend analytics dashboards using .js charts 
• Hands-on and well-versed with at least one of React (preferred), Angular or Vue  
• Master in JavaScript with excellent understanding of asynchronous patterns  

• Comfortable with of ES6+, TypeScript & emerging web technologies  
• Experience of building REST APIs with Spring Boot & Express  
• Hands-on programmer 

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Key Behaviours  

• Be passionate about understanding the business problem and using data to tell the stories in delivering solutions which drive client decisions. 
• Lead by example by demonstrating best practice and mentoring of team members 
• Clear thinker with a systematic problem-solving approach, breaking the problem down into simple achievable and realistically estimated steps 
• Seeing a project through from conception into production and support ensuring quality throughout. 

• Ensure high standards by instilling  data quality checks, code reviews and documentation in work and team practices. 
• Able to challenge solutions and processes in creating the best products and environment to work. 
• Unafraid to own mistakes  
• Customer focussed 

As a Staff Full-stack engineer, you will work across the Acceldata platform products. We’re looking for people with a strong background or inclination towards data engineering and systems; you’re comfortable in dealing with lots of moving pieces and can work at the  intersection of Databases, API's and Frontends

You will:          

• Be actively involved in strategic direction and product decisions.
• Design, build and maintain APIs, user-facing experiences, and services.
• Work closely with our customers and sales teams on a regular basis to carve out new features and use cases
• Work with MVC frameworks such as React or Angular 
• Work with database systems, RDBMS, Mongo, Elastic Search.
• Develop shared front-end components (JavaScript & CSS) for use across all of our products, enabling other UI engineers to build better products faster.

You need:      

• 8+ years of significant of web-application development experience in one or more JS frameworks. You care about building better products.
• Strong Computer Science fundamentals in data structures, algorithm design, and problem-solving.
• You're as comfortable writing plain JavaScript as working with modern frameworks like Angular. You've built your own controls and widgets in JavaScript. 
• You write unit tests for your JavaScript (really, you do). You've probably used Node. You have built complex JS web applications.
• Organized, thorough, and detail-oriented 

Good to have:

• Contribution to open-source projects.
• Background in enterprise software
• JVM performance tuning and debugging

Technical Skills & Competencies: Mandatory:

Web Development – HTML, CSS, JavaScript

Frameworks – ReactJS/AngularJS

Server-side development – Python/Django/Node.js

Database: SQL or NoSQL Databases (SQL Server/ MongoDB)

API Design concepts and Development of RESTful web services

Preferable:

• Familiarity with the Development of reusable frameworks, libraries to be used by multiple development teams
• Familiarity with cloud-native application architecture patterns
• Hands-on experience on project management tools like Jira
• Experience using DevOps Tools for CI/CD
• Conversant with agile methodologies

Roles & Responsibilities

• Work independently or in a small team setup
• Manage a team of highly skilled Frontend/Full Stack and Backend developers
• Creating, executing, and maintaining project plans including activity definition, sequence, dependencies, work effort, duration, and resource requirements
• Work with the technical team, communicating requirements and ensuring all product development meets the goals of the project and overall business and strategic goals
• Project management including release management, add-on compatibility reporting, updating documentations
• Assist in other ad-hoc or administrative tasks as part of daily/routine business activities
• Work with product technical architects to design new products or enhancements. Take part in system development including analysis, coding, and testing
• Performs design and code reviews with senior technical staff
• Act like the person everyone turns to resolve tough technical problems
• Work closely with other teams/vendors to connect front-end components with the other (often third-party) web and data services and support the back-end developers by integrating their work with the application
• Mentors team on proper standards/techniques to improve their accuracy and efficiency
• Performs the unit testing, system integration testing and assist with user acceptance testing
• Articulates business requirements in sufficient detail such that a technical solution can be designed and engineered
• Develops technical understanding of how the data flows from various source
• Provide ongoing support to applications used within the organization

Requirement

• 5+ years of experience in product development, with 2+ years of experience in a leadership role in current organization
• Reliable, self-motivated, and self-disciplined individual capable of planning and executing multiple projects simultaneously within a fast-paced environment
• Exceptional debugging skills and strong experience with performance tuning
• Excellent technical, analytical, and organizational skills
• Good range of hands-on technical experience
• Expert knowledge in Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Expert understanding of Node.js and JavaScript
• Familiarity with code revisioning and repo maintenance on Git, code profiling and auditing

• Design and development of IT infrastructure of Jobaaj Group which includes multiple sites,

ensuring the best user experience.

• Help to design new functionality and features in our existing products like job portal or learning management system.
• Willing to complete the development of new products.
• Having experience of PHP frameworks(Laravel and codeigniter) will preferred
• Having Experience of JS framwork (React, Node, Angular, Vue) strongly preferred
• Deep experience with AJAX and Javascript required
• Strong familiarity with OOPS
• Experience integrating third party APIs, familiarity with both REST and SOAP APIs is required!
• Ability to work independently and manage time effectively
• Outcome driven and able to deliver both speed and quality output.
• Take ownership and see it through from idea to execution.
• Problem solvers
• Hustlers: Relentlessly pushing boundaries to deliver.