Team Lead

About Dino Ventures

Dino Ventures is a Bharat-focused, app-first technology company with 5M+ app downloads across a portfolio of 10+ live applications. Our flagship products—including Samaj Saathi, Samjho, and Stick—serve millions of users across India, solving meaningful problems at scale.

We’re building products that impact everyday lives, and we’re looking for experienced engineers who thrive on ownership, performance, and shipping high-quality software.

What You’ll Do

• Architect, build, and scale high-performance, real-time applications across the entire stack.
• Design robust backend services, APIs, and distributed systems that power millions of users.
• Build fast, responsive, and polished user experiences with a strong focus on performance and usability.
• Optimize databases, caching layers, and application architecture for scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency.
• Lead technical design discussions, make architectural decisions, and mentor fellow engineers.
• Drive projects from concept to production with complete ownership.
• Collaborate closely with product and design teams to build impactful user experiences.
• Leverage modern AI-assisted development tools (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, etc.) to maximize engineering productivity.

Our Tech Stack

Backend

• Node.js
• TypeScript
• PostgreSQL
• Redis
• Elasticsearch

Frontend

• SvelteKit
• TypeScript
• Tailwind CSS
• tRPC
• TanStack Query

(We’re pragmatic about technology—we choose the right tool for the job.)

What We’re Looking For

• 2+ years of experience building and shipping production-grade software.
• Strong expertise in TypeScript/JavaScript across frontend and backend development.
• Deep understanding of software engineering fundamentals, system design, and scalable architecture.
• Strong knowledge of relational databases, indexing strategies, query optimization, and database internals.
• Experience building scalable REST APIs and real-time systems.
• Familiarity with caching, asynchronous processing, networking, and distributed systems.
• Experience using modern AI coding tools to accelerate development workflows.
• Strong attention to engineering quality, including latency, reliability, race conditions, bundle size, and user experience.
• Ability to balance speed with maintainability, making thoughtful engineering trade-offs.
• Self-driven with a strong sense of ownership and a product mindset.

Intent > Experience > Skills

Why Join Dino Ventures?

• Build products that solve real problems for millions of Bharat users.
• Work across multiple products with opportunities to build new systems from scratch.
• High ownership, minimal bureaucracy, and fast decision-making.
• Collaborate with an ambitious, product-first engineering team.
• See your work reach production from Day 1.
• Shape the technical direction of products used at massive scale.

If you enjoy solving challenging engineering problems, care deeply about software craftsmanship, and want your work to make a real-world impact, we’d love to hear from you.

We are seeking a skilled MERN Stack Developer to join our dynamic development team. The ideal candidate will be proficient in MongoDB, Express.js, React.js, and Node.js, and will play a key role in building and maintaining web applications.

Key Responsibilities:

• Frontend Development: Develop user-facing features using React.js, ensuring appealing and responsive user interfaces.

• Backend Development: Build efficient and scalable server-side systems using Node.js and Express.js.

• Integration: Integrate front-end components with server-side logic, ensuring seamless communication between the two.

• Data Management: Implement data storage solutions using MongoDB and other relevant technologies.

• Troubleshooting: Identify and address bugs, glitches, and performance issues to maintain application functionality.

• Collaboration: Work closely with cross-functional teams to conceptualize, define, and implement new features.

• Innovation: Keep abreast of emerging technologies and trends to contribute to continuous improvement.

Required Skills and Qualifications:

• React Proficiency: In-depth knowledge of React.js and its core concepts for building dynamic user interfaces.

• Node.js and Express: Strong expertise in Node.js and Express.js to create efficient and scalable backend systems.

• MongoDB: Experience with MongoDB for data storage and management.

• Full-Stack Development: Ability to work on both frontend and backend development.

• Problem-Solving: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

• Communication: Excellent communication and teamwork skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with RESTful APIs and GraphQL.

• Familiarity with version control systems like Git.

• Understanding of Agile methodologies.

That can include the following tasks:

• Develop and revamp creative, eye-catching websites as per the client's needs.
• Work with project managers to discuss the desired website functionality and provide solutions.
• Integrate custom templates/themes into WordPress.

• Knowledge of WordPress Architecture, WooCommerce, Page Builder’s (like Elementor, Divi, Visual Composer etc), and other best practice solutions
• Knowledge of PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS, Javascript/jQuery.
• Knowledge of child theme creation and customization as per designed based on the requirements
• Knowledge of WordPress plugin and back-end development

Vah Vah! is an ed-tech company that offers online makeup courses in micro-batches to students across India to learn from the leading teachers in top cities. We provide holistic education with lots of practical training that makes our students job-ready with not just the base skills but also the soft skills for great customer service. Our teachers have more than 15+ years of experience in training makeup and have certified more than 1000+ students. Vah Vah! is founded by executives with extensive experience running consumer business and mobile games at scale (over 100 million players) at Zynga. Vah Vah! is backed by a leading investment firm.

Website Link: https://vahvah.com/

The Mission

Vah Vah teaches professional makeup to budding makeup artists and influencers through live online classes. We have students from Srinagar, all the way to the Andamans. And experienced teachers who have worked in Bridal Makeup, Ramp Shoots, Film and more. We empower our students to join the workforce as fully trained makeup artists. This is the future of vocational education, and you can help build it.

Our Culture

• Amazing workplace and colleagues to work with
• We have the right mixture of creativity, analytics and hustle to move fast in the right direction.
• You will work with colleagues who don’t take themselves too seriously but move mountains.
• See yourself evolving every month with new problems to solve and new skill to master.
• Work with the smartest engineers so you can learn from them.
• Competitive salary at par with the best in the industry
• Great stock options so you can benefit from the company's growth.
• Immense exposure to new technologies

Responsibilities:

• Complete ownership of building and maintaining Web APP
• Deliver across the entire app life cycle design, build, deploy, test, release to production and support
• Should be comfortable in building a great consumer user interface and responsive web apps.

Requirements:

• Overall experience of 2-4 years
• React Web Developer with 2+ years of experience
• Should have worked on NodeJS with express framework
• Understanding of Backend services, API implementation, and database systems. - Familiarity with MySQL and Mongo databases
• We encourage all our devs to have a base level of DevOps skills & w.r.t
• Source Control, CI/CD systems, Cloud Services such as AWS, Firebase, GCP Minimum 1 year of experience in responsive app development
• Ability to implement designs and functionality provided by UI/UX teams
• Strong knowledge of JavaScript ES6
• knowledge of Java/J2EE, Spring, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud is a plus

Key Skills:

• React/JS, NodeJS, Typescript
• Familiarity with Analytics integrations
• Conversant with Github, CI/CD pipeline

What you get:

• Amazing workplace and colleagues to work with
• Competitive salary at par with the best in the industry
• Immense exposure to new technologies

What you will get:

1. To be a part of the Core-Team 💪
2. A Chunk of ESOPs 🚀
3. Creating High Impact by Solving a Problem at Large (No one in the World has a similar product) 💥
4. High Growth Work Environment ⚙️

What we are looking for:

1. An 'Exceptional Executioner' -> Leader -> Create an Impact & Value 💰
2. Ability to take Ownership of your work
3. Past experience in leading a team

Requirements:

1. Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or in any related engineering discipline.
2. (2-4) years of experience in building scalable web applications.
3. Backend Maverick with proficiency in Java
4. Experience in requirement analysis, failure analysis, API design, distributed
5. Experience with React.js and modern JavaScript libraries and tooling.
6. consistency
7. Deep understanding of the "behind-the-scenes" of HTML rendering, CSS, and Javascript.
8. Ability to troubleshoot complex systems problems, debug, and find root causes.
9. Ability to effectively articulate and drive solutions to meet technical and business challenges
10. Excellent verbal and written communication skills

What you will do:

• Work with stakeholders (product owners, project managers, and scrum masters) to define and clarify requirements.
• Provide technical and work direction to the other global developers (be their conduit to the local team)
• Hands-on development of defined architecture and design of both front-end and back-end programming.
• Ability to keep informed of industry trends and technologies.
• Ability to break down complex requirements into specific work items.
• Implement and carry out unit testing.
• Leverage the DevOps team to ensure the product can be automatically built, deployed, and tested using CI/CD pipelines across all of the release cycles from dev to production.
• Strong grasp of modern security principles and how to apply them to applications

Minimum Qualifications:

• Degree in Computer Science, technical field, or equivalent professional experience.
• Proven ability to develop resilient code that performs, and scales based on application usage.
• 6+ years of experience in developing using JavaScript and JavaScript libraries and frameworks such as Angular and React
• 6+ years of experience building applications using JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Web, JSON/XAML-based REST API.
• 3+ years of experience building RESTful web services using NodeJS
• Experience with Unit Testing Frameworks like UnitJS, Mocha
• Understanding of code versioning tools such as Git or Visual Studio Team Services
• Experience with Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, Atom or Eclipse
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Ability to work in a distributed and global environment
• Understanding of building applications deployed in the cloud (Azure, AWS, GCP) leveraging PaaS and IaaS Services
• Able to work in a fast-paced environment with a diverse group of people

Preferred Qualifications:

• Proven ability to quickly learn new technologies
• Experience with agile methodologies
• Strong problem-solving orientation
• Can manage multiple competing tasks/projects at the same time
• Strong team and customer service focus

• Work with development teams and product managers to ideate software solutions
• Design client-side and server-side architecture
• Build the front-end of applications through appealing visual design
• Develop and manage well-functioning databases and applications
• Write effective APIs
• Test software to ensure responsiveness and efficiency
• Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade software
• Create security and data protection settings
• Build features and applications with a mobile responsive design
• Write technical documentation
• Work with data scientists and analysts to improve software

• Proven experience as a Full Stack Developer or similar role
• Experience developing desktop and mobile applications
• Familiarity with common stacks
• Knowledge of multiple front-end languages and libraries (e.g. HTML/ CSS, JavaScript)
• Knowledge of multiple back-end languages (e.g. Javascript, PHP, WordPress) and JavaScript frameworks (e.g. Angular, React, Node.js)
• Familiarity with databases (e.g. MySQL, MongoDB), web servers (e.g. Apache)
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills
• Great attention to detail
• Organizational skills
• An analytical mind
• Degree in Computer Science, Statistics or relevant field