
About the Role
We are seeking a highly skilled Tech Lead who can drive the development of high-performance, scalable products while contributing hands-on to coding, architecture, and system design. You will work closely with a small engineering team, guiding them in technology decisions, quality delivery, and best practices while also taking ownership of key modules yourself.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end product development from design to deployment.
- Act as both a technical contributor and mentor within a small, agile team.
- Architect scalable, robust, and secure backend and frontend systems.
- Participate in and guide:
- System design & architecture decisions
- Algorithmic analysis and performance optimization
- Database modeling and API design
- Write clean, maintainable, high-quality code.
- Own deployment pipelines and ensure reliable production releases.
- Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to translate requirements into actionable technical plans.
- Conduct code reviews, enforce coding standards, and ensure engineering excellence.
- Troubleshoot and solve complex technical challenges in production environments.
Required Technical Skills
- Strong expertise in Node.js and/or Python.
- Hands-on experience with TypeScript and React.js for frontend development.
- Knowledge of Go (Golang) is a strong advantage.
- Deep understanding of:
- Data Structures & Algorithms
- System Design
- Distributed systems concepts
- Microservices architecture
- Experience with deployment using:
- Docker, Kubernetes, or similar orchestration tools
- CI/CD pipelines
- Cloud platforms (AWS / GCP / Azure)
- Strong understanding of databases (SQL and NoSQL).
Soft Skills
- Strong leadership and ability to guide a small development team.
- Clear communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Ownership mindset with focus on delivering quality, on time.
- Problem-solver with the ability to make quick and correct technical decisions.
Preferred Qualifications
- 4–10 years of experience in software development.
- Prior experience in a startup or fast-moving product environment.
- Experience deploying and managing real-world products at scale.
What We Offer
- Opportunity to build and influence real products end-to-end.
- A collaborative, high-ownership environment.
- Freedom to experiment and drive product and engineering decisions.

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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 Backend 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, AWS (Lambda, Athena, S3)
Good to have: TypeScript, IoT, AWS Certifications
Experience: 4-6 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)
- Master in JavaScript with excellent understanding of asynchronous patterns
- Comfortable with of ES6+, TypeScript & emerging web technologies
- Experience of building secure, metered REST APIs and connectors for BI tools like Tableau and PowerBI
- 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
Responsibilities:
- Design the architecture of new services to deliver timely communication from server to client and server to server, while still functioning alongside existing server components
- Describe and implement the communications across multiple network layers, considering performance, reliability, and flexibility with respect to the underlying infrastructure
- Enhance and expand the ORM layer of MZ’s in house web framework
- Craft software solutions for supporting flexibility in resource allocation, from compute to storage
- Serve as a technical leader for projects of year-long scope involving multiple contributors and customers
- Consult with technical operations on appropriate Kubernetes-based infrastructure design
- Design for performance, and measure the effects
- Review your colleagues’ code, and learn from their reviews as well
- Identify, document, and communicate best practices for the engineers who use the fruits of your labor
Requirements:
- 7+ years professional work experience
- BS or MS degree in Computer Science or a related technical field
- Must be proactive, self-directed, detailed and organized
- Proficient in PHP, C++, or Go
- Knowledge of relational databases and SQL, preferably MySQL
- Experience with in-memory NoSQL databases, such as Redis
- Ability to debug issues within custom code quickly
- Passion for developing scalable and maintainable software systems
Bonus Points:
- An open-minded and technology-agnostic approach to engineering
- Passion for performance debugging and benchmarking
- Real world experience developing distributed systems
Desired candidates must have 3-6 years of experience as NodeJs Developers.
If the candidate cannot relocate to Gurgaon, we can also provide permanent Work from home for this position.
Roles and responsibilities:
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- Provide support till deployment of code into production.
- Ownership for ensuring code optimization, problem diagnosis, and on-time delivery
- Implement solutions as per the pre-defined framework /guidelines and adherence to processes
- Finding an optimal solution for the problem statement
- Conduct peer code review.
What candidate should know about:
- Excellent hands-on experience with Node.Js, Express.Js, JavaScript
- Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds
- Excellent hands-on experience with MongoDB, Mongo aggregation, MySQL
- Ability to build REST services, Authentications, MVC applications
- Excellent Object Oriented Programming skills and ability to write modular, secure, scalable, and maintainable code
- Experience with Elastic Search, Redis.
- Knowledge about AWS components (S3, EC2, Cloudfront, Redis Clusters, etc.)
- Self-learning abilities are required
- Familiarity with upcoming new technologies is a strong plus
- Develop, record and maintain cutting edge web-based PHP applications on portal plus premium service platforms
- Build innovative, state-of-the-art applications and collaborate with the User Experience (UX) team
- Ensure HTML, CSS, and shared JavaScript is valid and consistent across applications
- Prepare and maintain all applications utilizing standard development tools
- Utilize backend data services and contribute to increase existing data services API
- Lead the entire web application development life cycle right from concept stage to delivery and post launch support
- Convey effectively with all task progress, evaluations, suggestions, schedules along with technical and process issues
- Document the development process, architecture, and standard components
- Coordinate with co-developers and keeps project manager well informed of the status of development effort and serves as liaison between development staff and project manager
- Keep abreast of new trends and best practices in web development
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Funded by SnapDeal founders, it is a cross platform gaming organisation focused on real money gaming and strategy games. The founder is an INSEAD and IIT-B alumni with more than 10 years of work experience across various countries.
- Handling the server side programming of the multiplayer gaming application
- Writing scalable, robust,, testable, efficient, and easily maintainable code
- Translating software requirements into stable, working, high performance software
- Translating design mockups and prototypes into working applications.
- Building customer facing technology products, Developing Highly Scalable Code and Working Closely with Engineering and Product Team.
- Building social, web and mobile based games for users across India
What you need to have:
- Key expertise areas: Client Server realtime communication, MYSQL-POSTGRES database
- Web protocols like: HTTP, MQTT and Web Sockets, Deadlock detection and locking techniques for mutual exclusion, hyper thread and multi threading server model
- Cloud based application management and interfacing it with 3rd party services, Payment gateways and REST APIs.
- Candidates with experience in Golang will be preferred
- Working experience in a Product StartUp (Internet/E-commerce) building scalable applications.
- Hands on experience in system architecture and gaming apps
- Good spoken and written communication skills.
- Good team player.
- Sharp analytical abilities with proven design skills
- Able to think critically of the current system in terms of software development
- Expertise in Golang, AWS cloud computing, Frontend languages like HTML, CSS, Javascript
Responsibilities:
- Write well designed, testable, scalable and efficient code and oversee assigned programs (e.g. conduct code review) and provide guidance to team members
- Apply design principles to ensure code modularity and error handling at appropriate levels
- Communicate software requirements to development teams
- Evaluate and select appropriate software or hardware and suggest integration methods
- Address technical concerns, ideas and suggestions and provide technological solution to it
- Monitor systems to ensure they meet both user needs and business goals
- Design the overall structure of the platform and oversee programs to ensure the proper implementation of the architecture
Desired Skills and Experience
- 2-7years of relevant experience in an online start-up with a record of substantial achievements
in the specific role
- Strong programming foundation in PHP, MySQL, Oops Concepts and can develop core PHP based applications
- Must have worked on MVC frameworks – Laravel, CodeIgniter, Cake PHP or Zend.
- Experience with JavaScript and jQuery for producing AJAX applications.
- HTML5, CSS3, XML knowledge is mandatory
- Ability to make modifications to the systems with little or no interruption of service
- Solid exposure to API integrations and familiar with various design & architectural patterns
- Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment









