Software Architect

About Us:

We are a cutting-edge startup reshaping the construction management landscape with AI-driven solutions that simplify complex processes and maximise efficiency. Our platform leverages the latest web and mobile technologies to solve real-world challenges for the construction industry, blending innovation with usability. If you're passionate about building scalable systems and love solving problems, we want you on board!

Who You Are:

A tech enthusiast with a knack for both front-end finesse and back-end brilliance. You’re eager to dive into code and bring ideas to life. You think in Angular components, dream in Node.js APIs, and are equally comfortable navigating MongoDB queries as you are crafting mobile interfaces with React Native or Flutter. You thrive in a fast-paced startup environment and have a passion for building things from scratch, continuously optimising for performance, and ensuring scalability.

What You’ll Do:

• Full-stack Magic: Craft seamless, intuitive UIs with Angular and powerful, RESTful backend services using Node.js and MongoDB.
• Mobile Innovation: Build responsive mobile applications using React Native or Flutter—taking our platform to the field and making it accessible from any device.
• End-to-End Development: Own features from brainstorming to deployment—handling everything from database architecture to front-end performance.
• Optimise and Scale: Ensure that our platform is high-performing, scalable, and future-proof. You’ll be part of laying the groundwork for big, exciting growth.
• Collaborate & Conquer: Work closely with our design, product, and AI teams to integrate machine learning and automation features into our platform, pushing the boundaries of what tech can do in construction.

Tech Stack:

• Frontend: Angular for web, React Native for mobile
• Backend: Node.js, Express/Fastify
• Database: MongoDB
• Cloud & DevOps: AWS, Docker, CI/CD pipelines

What You Bring:

• Angular wizardry—you know your way around components, services, and everything in between.
• Node.js expertise—you can build robust, scalable APIs and thrive in an asynchronous environment.
• React Native/Flutter mobile skills—a passion for crafting intuitive mobile experiences.
• MongoDB knowledge—you understand database design, indexing, and aggregation pipelines.
• Code Quality Focus—whether it's writing tests or reviewing pull requests, you're all about clean, maintainable code.
• Experience with Git, CI/CD, and working in an agile, fast-paced team.

Bonus Points For:

• Experience in AI/ML integrations or a curiosity about machine learning’s potential in web and mobile apps.
• Familiarity with GraphQL and modern state management libraries.
• A solid understanding of the construction industry or experience building SaaS products.

Why Work With Us:

• Impact: Be part of a mission-driven startup solving real-world problems in a trillion-dollar industry.
• Innovation: Collaborate with a forward-thinking team to build AI-powered, scalable tools from the ground up.
• Growth: We’re a fast-growing startup, so your career can skyrocket here. Bring your ideas, and we’ll give you the space to make them happen.
• Culture: A collaborative, tech-driven, and fun work environment that values creativity, ownership, and growth.

Roles & Responsibilities

• You will be a key member in building modern web application platforms.
• Building user interfaces for management products
• Creating wireframes, prototypes based on the requirements.
• Building api for UI backend.
• Provide assistance in the up-gradation and maintenance of web applications.

Job Requirements

• 3 to 5 years of web development experience is required.
• Hands-on experience with api and microservice development.
• Proficiency with fundamental front-end languages such as JavaScript, HTML, CSS.
• Proficiency with JavaScript frameworks such as ReactJs.
• Proficiency with server-side languages such as NodeJs, Java, GoLang, etc.
• Exposure to wireframing and prototyping.
• Familiarity with database technology such as MongoDB.
• Good to have:
  1. Experience in UX design.
  2. Working experience on Linux environments.
  3. Working experience on Docker and Kubernetes.
  4. Working experience in microservices.
  5. Knowledge of the networking domain.

Responsibilities

• Plan, develop and implement large-scale projects from conception to completion.
• Interface with clients and gather business requirements and objectives.
• Translate clients’ business requirements and objectives into technical applications and solutions.
• Understand and evaluate complex data models.
• Design, develop and implement new integration.
• Execute system development and maintenance activities.
• Develop solutions to improvise performance and scalability of systems.
• Mentor junior and mid-level engineers.

Minimum Requirements

• 3-5 years of relevant experience, working in Java related technologies.
• A Good Engineering or Masters degree from a reputed university
• Should have strong technical skills with a good grasp of OO concepts and design patterns

• Good knowledge of SQL database ( MySQL, Oracle, etc )
• Good understanding of frameworks like Spring, Hibernate, etc.
• Good understanding of spring boot and microservices.
• Exposure to AWS services - S3, SQS, Lambda, DynamoDB, API Gateway, etc.

Good to have

• Knowledge of No-SQL DBs like mongo, dynamoDB, etc.
• Knowledge of message brokers/queuing services like SQL, rabbitMQ, Kafka, etc.

Key Skills: Java, Node.js, React js, PHP , JSON, Mongo DB, Rest APIs, Word Press, Web Services, Mern Stack, Mean Stack, Express Framework, Bootstrap with Angularjs.

1. Overall 3 to 4+ years of experience is required with the following skills.
2. Strong knowledge of JavaScript, Nodejs, Angular. Expresses, Reactjs, AJAX, and jQuery
3. Good working knowledge of working database platforms like dynamo DB MYSQL and Mongo DB Experience
4. working on wasp user interface technologies HTML and JavaScript, Knowledge of web servers and app servers AWS and MongoDB.
5. You need to work in an agile cross-functional team to create a customer experience and implement high-quality code into production.
6. Work on bug fixes and improvement of application performance.
7. Hands on experience with a framework with Angular JS and Node JS
8. Hands on experience with utility library with jQuery lib, bootstrap.js, Angularjs, Bootstrap, Date Picker, canvasjs.min.js, Socket.io, Moment timezone.js
9. Good Knowledge of AWS Amazon web services.
10. Should be Proficient in Linux
11. Experience on Node.js and Json rest APIs developments and web services knowledge are highly preferred.
12. Knowledge of cross-browser platform issues and implementation is highly preferred.

Thoughtworks is a global software consultancy with an aim to create a positive impact on the world through technology. Our community of technologists thinks disruptively to deliver pragmatic solutions for our clients' most complex challenges. We are curious minds who come together as collaborative and inclusive teams to push boundaries, free to be ourselves and make our mark in tech.

Our developers have been contributing code to major organizations and open source projects for over 25 years. They’ve also been writing books, speaking at conferences and helping push software development forward, changing companies and even industries along the way. We passionately believe that software quality is driven by open communication, review and collaboration. That’s why we’re such vehement supporters of open source and have made significant contributions to open source tools for testing, continuous delivery (GoCD), continuous integration (CruiseControl), machine learning and healthcare. 

As consultants, we https://www.thoughtworks.com/careers/hub/consultant-life">work with our clients to ensure we’re evolving their technology and empowering adaptive mindsets to meet their business goals. You could influence the digital strategy of a retail giant, build a bold new mobile application for a bank or redesign platforms using event sourcing and intelligent data pipelines. You will use the latest Lean and Agile thinking, create pragmatic solutions to solve mission-critical problems and challenge yourself every day.

For a team to thrive, it needs active collaboration and room for healthy, respectful debate. Senior Developers are the technologists who cultivate this environment while driving teams toward delivering on an ambitious tech vision and acting as mentors for more junior-level consultants. You will leverage deep technical knowledge to solve more complex business problems and actively assess your team’s health, code quality and nonfunctional pipelines. 

You’ll spend time on the following:

• You will use continuous delivery practices to deliver high-quality software as well as value to end customers as early as possible.
• You will work in collaborative, value-driven teams to build innovative customer experiences for our clients
• Create large-scale distributed systems out of microservices
• You will apply the latest technology thinking from ourhttps://www.thoughtworks.com/radar"> tech radar to solve client problems
• Efficiently utilize DevOps tools and practices to build and deploy software
• You will lead or take part in the entire cycle of software consulting and delivery from ideation to deployment and everything in between
• You will act as a mentor for less-experienced peers through both your technical knowledge and leadership skills 

Here’s what we’re looking for:

• 4-8 years of experience with two or more development languages such as Java/C#/Python/Go/Node.js etc
• You can skillfully write high-quality, well-tested code and you are comfortable with Object-Oriented programming
• Presence in the external tech community: you proactively share your expertise with others via speaking engagements, contributions to open source, blogs and more
• Comfortability with Agile methods, such as Extreme Programming (XP), Scrum and/or Kanban
• You enjoy influencing others and always advocate for technical excellence while being open to change when needed 
• You’re willing and able to commit to travel to client sites in order to solve their business problems
• You’re resilient in ambiguous situations and can approach challenges from multiple perspectives
• Bonus points if you have working knowledge of cloud technology such as AWS, Azure, Kubernetes and Docker

Required Candidate profile

Perks and Benefits 

• As a Senior Software Engineer you will work closely with the Tech Lead, and the rest of the engineering team to build and scale a data-driven platform. This role will act as a great springboard to accelerate career growth & transition into a Tech Lead level role.
• Your primary focus will be the development of server-side logic, building new services and APIs, developing UI components, supporting the maintenance of current APIs, reviewing work, and improving the performance and reliability of our systems as we rapidly scale our product and organization.
• An effective Senior Software Engineer will be a self-motivated learner; a highly creative engineer having obsessive attention towards detail and thoroughness.

Must Haves

• You’ve been building web applications professionally for 5+ years
• You’re proficient in NodeJS, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB
• You possess strong OOP and design pattern knowledge
• Familiar with modern engineering practices: Code Reviews, Continuous Deployment, Automated Testing, etc
• You write understandable, testable code with an eye towards maintainability and experienced with TDD (Test Driven Development)
• You’ve the ability to build RESTful APIs
• Explaining complex technical concepts to designers, support team, and fellow engineers is not a problem for you
• Well versed with the fundamentals of computer science and distributed systems

Nice-to-haves

• FrontEnd experience; have built applications in either: React, Vue, Angular, or Svelte
• Startup experience, preferably a tech startup
• Open Source contributor
• You have experience with other programming languages -- e.g. Python, Ruby, PHP, Go, C, etc.
• Passionate about/experienced with open source and developer tools
• You have a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field, or equivalent training, fellowship, or work experience

Benefits

• Feel good factor / impact driven work- Be part of the journey that is creating an impact in people’s lives after retirement. The work we do has a direct impact on the size of someone’s retirement pot
• Ownership driven work- you own problems within the organisation and not an implementer of someone else’s idea. You have the ability to design solutions and work with multiple stakeholders to implement them
• Job stability- ClearGlass is very well funded by top tier VCs and can provide job stability in the COVID world
• Stock Options- we would love every employee of ClearGlass to have stock options
• Top-of-the-line gear- to help you be super-productive while working. No one likes a slow laptop
• Flexible work environment- we are working from home currently but will slowly move to a hybrid set-up; we offer support (incl. financial) to set-up your home office