Tech Lead

Role Overview

As a Software Engineer, you will build and maintain features across our SaaS platform. You will work on well-scoped tasks and features, collaborate closely with senior engineers, and grow your skills in software design, cloud-native development, and modern engineering practices. This role is a great fit for engineers who have solid programming fundamentals, are curious and quick to learn, and take pride in writing quality code. You will be supported and mentored while taking on increasing ownership over time.

Required Qualifications

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related discipline.·       

5–8 years of software engineering experience building production-grade applications.

Strong experience building and operating cloud-native SaaS or web applications.

Solid understanding of software design, distributed systems, and modern engineering practices.

Proven ability to own and deliver complex features independently.

Experience debugging and resolving performance, scalability, and reliability issues.

What We Look For

Strong programming fundamentals and a quality mindset.

Curiosity and a strong desire to learn and grow.

Ability to deliver well-scoped tasks reliably.

Good problem-solving and debugging skills.

Collaboration and communication skills.

Ownership and accountability for the work you do.

Passion for building software and continuous learning.

Responsibilities :

• Design and write lots of bug-free, efficient, scalable, and reusable code
• Developing front-end architecture and ensuring responsiveness of the application
• Work across the full stack, building highly scalable products that enable positive user experiences and measurable business growth. 
• Working on refactoring the current codebase and determining the root cause for the most complex software issues and developing practical, efficient, and permanent technical solutions
• Optimizing backend services to scale for a few hundred concurrent users
• Develop APIs and scripts using backend programming languages like Node.js and Nest.js 
• Dockerizing different services and automating our AWS infrastructure provisioning steps
• Design and implementation of continuous integration and deployment. 
• Determine process improvements, and best practices, and develop new processes
• Mentor and coach other software engineers
• Integrating with third-party APIs and existing frameworks.
• Ensuring responsiveness of applications and writing maintainable, scalable, and unit-testable code. Be passionate about the long-term stability, scalability, and reusability of shared components.
• Implement new requirements, handle change requests, and fix bugs for different releases. Deliver a high-quality and functioning code.
• Integrating solutions to enterprise software and legacy software
• Actively Participate in sprint ceremonies and work towards continually improving the process
• Prioritizes tasks and keeps manager up to date on status and roadblocks
• Help the junior engineers to unblock them and guide them on best design practices. Help in code reviewing on a regular basis
• Prepare thorough technical documentation which can be used by other engineers
• Stay up to date with new technologies and determine how to incorporate these into future platform capabilities

Requirements:

• Minimum 4-8+ years of overall experience developing B2B SAAS products 
• 3+ years of Experience working on React.js and its core principles
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field
• Hands-on experience with Node.js and Express.js including state management like Redux
• Good understanding of NestJS, Next.JS, Tailwind CSS, Server-Side Rendering, Storybook/Bit, Bootstrap, and Material UI.
• Thorough understanding of modeling and scaling databases like MongoDB, DynamoDB or Firestore
• Deep understanding of object-oriented JavaScript and design principles and standards
• Hands-on experience in UI optimization best practice implementations
• Understanding of Serverless architecture like Lambda or Google Cloud functions
• Significant experience in developing high-performance, distributed, and scalable applications with container deployment (Docker and Microservices)
• Well-versed with collaboration, and Testing tools like Git, Swagger, and Cypress
• Proven experience with unit testing, integration testing, and end-to-end testing.
• Knowledge of open-source technologies and common front-end development tools such as Babel, Webpack, NPM, PNPM etc.
• Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token
• Knowledge of Nginx and AWS services like S3, and EC2 will be helpful

Preferred Skills:

• Exposure to Terraform, GItlab CI/CD, and GitOps is a plus
• A keen eye for UX has experience building complex B2B applications
• Comfortable working in a dynamic startup environment where experimentation is one of the most common practices for product innovation and improvements
• Basic understanding of the Figma Tool and app development via React Native
• Good experience with deploying applications on AWS & DevOps

Nice to Have:

• Great learning attitude and eagerness to take ownership
• Passionate personality with great enthusiasm for life outside of work
• Critical thinker and a problem solver who has a sense of urgency and wants an interesting job that pushes you out of your comfort zone.
• An innovator who is inspired by the endless ways in which everything we do can always be improved
• High-energy personality, with a strong and demonstrable work ethic

What we Offer:

• Competitive salary 
• Health Insurance
• Remote working environment
• Workday Swap
• Learning Culture

• Conducting analysis of website and application requirements.
• Writing back-end code and building efficient PHP Laravel
• Developing a back-end portal with an optimized database.
• Troubleshooting application and code
• Integrating data storage solutions.
• Responding to integration requests from front-end
• Finalizingback-endfeaturesandtestingweb
• Updating and altering application features to enhance

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a similar
• Knowledge of Laravel &PHP web frameworks including Yii, and
• Knowledge of front-end technologies Like HTML, CSS3, Bootstrap, and JavaScript.
• Understanding of object-oriented PHP
• Previous experience creating scalable applications.
• Proficient with code versioning tools including Git, Mercurial, CVS, and SVN.
• Familiarity with SQL/MYSQL databases.
• Ability to project manage.
• Good problem-solving

What we're looking for

An experienced Software Engineer with a love for Web products, with demonstrated ability to contribute individually as well as in a team. If you love spending time on Hackernews/Github and love experimenting with latest technologies, this might be the role for you.

Responsibilities

• Own the development of product features end-to-end including scoping, architecting, coding, testing, and rolling out features
• Work closely with PMs, designers, and other engineers to ideate solutions to user problems
• Become an expert in your product area and our tech stack
• Make improvements to developer productivity through process / code improvements and mentorship

• 3+ years of experience designing and building complex JavaScript web based software systems
• Demonstrable Full Stack development experience with Angular or React and Node.JS in Typescript.
• Knowledge of multiple modern computer languages and frameworks with an understanding of using the right technology for the right purpose
• Experience with remote development teams working on the same platform
• Experience with writing testable code and driven by best practices Agile development process knowledge/experience
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

What you need to have:

Technical Manager: We are looking for someone who can report to the firm’s chief technology officer, the technical lead is a full-time position that participates in all phases of the project lifecycle and consistently delivers business value to our clients. The technical lead is a leader within our client-facing project delivery team structure and sets best practices, approach and direction for the technical aspects of our practice. The ideal candidate has a passion for the web and higher education and is a champion for Laravel or similar frameworks.  And guide our passionate Software Developers to design, develop robust products. Candidates should be open minded to new solutions, forward thinking and strong ability to adapt. As a Lead, you’ll work closely with our engineers to ensure system consistency and improve user experience. Ultimately, you should be able to lead, develop and maintain functional and stable web applications to meet our company’s needs along with managing the team.

Primary Responsibilities

• Participates in pre-project business development activities including writing proposals, developing price estimates, and delivering pitches for new work. 

• Participates in pre-project business development activities including writing proposals, developing price estimates, and delivering pitches for new work. 

• In partnership with the other technical lead, sets direction for all aspects of our technology practice. 

• Leads and advances our growing Laravel practice. 

• Responsible for various aspects of ongoing support and maintenance engagements. Partners with project managers and web developers to successfully manage these client relationships
  
  

•  Understand requirements & plan the architecture for frontend/backend of the application
• Plan out the contracts & APIs for communication of various components.
• Work on integration of any external libraries and tools as per required by the application needs
• Working with modern tools to make the application more robust, efficient and scalable

• Understands each client’s organizational goals and objectives. 

• Develops lasting relationships with client personnel that foster client ties. 

• Seeks opportunities to increase customer satisfaction and deepen client relationships. 

• Delivers training to client personnel of various skill levels and technical capabilities.

Communication Responsibilities:

•    Delivers engaging, informative and well-organized presentations.
•    Resolves and/or escalates issues in a timely fashion. 
•    Understands how to tactfully communicate difficult/sensitive information.
•    Demonstrates strong interpersonal skills. 
•    Elicits cooperation from a variety of sources including Froogal management and client  

   team  members.

•    Comfortable using teleconferencing and web-based technology to communicate with our 

   Clients.

Other Responsibilities: 

•   Helps team members progress toward their professional development goals.
•   Defines and disseminates technology best practices.
•   Ensures we are proactive in our pursuit of new solutions and innovation within our   

   technology practice. 

•   Advances the firm’s thought leadership, specifically around web technologies, via the    

              mStoner blog, social media outlets and industry events and conferences. 

• Strong understanding of Object-Oriented Programming & its implementation in any programming language. Knowledge of PHP and/or JS is a plus
• Proven industry experience as a Tech Lead
• Experience/Knowledge of microservice architecture
• Fluency and Hands-on Experience on Laravel 5+ PHP Framework (specially working with Eloquent Models/Collections) and/or React/Redux is a plus.
• Excellent knowledge of relational databases such as MySQL and/or NoSql based DB such as MongoDB.
• Experience in JavaScript. Vue JS/React JS is a plus