Tech Lead / Solution Architect

REVIEW CRITERIA:

MANDATORY:

• Strong Forward Deployed / Client-Facing Software Engineer / Integration / Product Support Engineer profiles
• 1–6 years of professional experience or strong internship/project work in software engineering.
• Strong proficiency in at least one programming language (Python / Java / JavaScript / TypeScript)
• Solid foundation in Data Structures, Algorithms, System Design, and ability to build production-grade solutions quickly
• Experience working on API integrations, backend services, data pipelines, or workflow-based systems
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving capability; ability to work directly with enterprise clients to diagnose and solve complex technical issues
• Strong communication skills and proven ability to collaborate with product, engineering, and customer teams
• Willingness to travel frequently to global client sites for deployments and solution delivery
• B.Tech / B.E. in Computer Science from Tier-1 institutes (IITs, BITS, NSIT, DAIICT, DTU, etc.)
• Product Company only

PREFERRED SKILLS:

• Exposure to cloud services, data integration, ETL/Reverse ETL, or workflow automation tools.
• Experience with React / frontend frameworks, low-code development, or building internal tools.
• Familiarity with AI/ML, GenAI tools, LLM-driven automation, or experience applying them to real use cases.

ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES:

As a Forward Deployed Software Engineer (FDSE) at UnifyApps, you’ll work at the intersection of engineering, problem-solving, and customer impact. You’ll embed with enterprise clients, understand real-world problems, and design and implement solutions using the UnifyApps platform. This role is ideal for high-potential engineers from Tier-1 colleges who want to work on real enterprise-scale problems, gain full-stack exposure, and grow rapidly in a high-impact SaaS environment.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Work with client and internal teams to understand complex business processes, legacy systems, and integration needs.
• Design, build, and deploy solutions using the UnifyApps platform across data, workflows, and GenAI/LLM use cases.
• Develop data pipelines, API integrations, and low-code apps to solve high-impact problems.
• Collaborate closely with UnifyApps’ product and engineering teams to shape platform capabilities through real deployments.
• Rapidly prototype, iterate, and deliver production-grade solutions with high ownership.
• Contribute to internal accelerators, templates, and best practices.

IDEAL CANDIDATE:

QUALIFICATIONS - REQUIRED:

• B.Tech / B.E. in Computer Science from Tier-1 institutes such as IITs, BITS, NSIT, DAIICT, DTU etc.
• 1–6 years of professional experience or strong internship/project work in software engineering.
• Proficiency in at least one programming language: Python, Java, JavaScript, or TypeScript.
• Strong foundation in data structures, algorithms, and system design.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong communication and ability to work collaboratively.
• Willingness to travel frequently to client sites across the globe.

QUALIFICATIONS - PREFERRED:

• Exposure to data integration, APIs, cloud services, or workflow tools.
• Experience with React / frontend frameworks or low-code platforms.
• Familiarity with AI/ML concepts or GenAI tools.
• Prior internships in SaaS, enterprise tech, or consulting environments.

PERKS, BENEFITS AND WORK CULTURE:

• Competitive salary package.
• Opportunity to learn from and work with senior leadership & founders.
• Build solutions for large enterprises that move from concept to real-world impact.
• Exceptional career growth pathways in a highly innovative and rapidly scaling environment.

Strong Software Engineer fullstack profile using NodeJS / Python and React

Mandatory (Experience) - Must have 6+ YOE in Software Development using Python OR NodeJS (For backend) & React (For frontend)

Mandatory (Core Skills 1): Must have strong experience in working on Typescript

Mandatory (Core Skills 2): Must have experience in message based systems like Kafka, RabbitMq, Redis

Mandatory (Core Skills 3): Databases - PostgreSQL & NoSQL databases like MongoDB

Mandatory (Company) - Product Companies Only

Mandatory (Education) - Tier 1 Engineering Institutes (IIT, NIT, BITS, IIIT, DTU or equivalent)

Full Stack Development:

● Develop, test, and deploy high-quality software solutions across front-end and back-end stacks.

● Implement responsive and dynamic web applications using JavaScript, Angular, or React. 

● Ensure backend services and APIs are well-structured and optimized for performance. 

Collaboration and Stakeholder Management: 

● Work closely with product managers, designers, and engineers to define technical requirements. 

● Participate in code reviews and provide technical mentorship to junior developers. 

Technical Expertise:

● Implement and maintain secure, scalable, and high-performance applications. 

● Ensure applications meet non-functional requirements such as security, reliability, and performance.

 Agile Execution & Continuous Improvement: 

● Contribute to Agile development practices, including iterative releases and continuous integration. 

● Identify opportunities for technical improvements and optimize existing features  

 Required Skills and Qualifications 

● Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field. 

● 6+ years of professional experience in Full Stack Development. 

● Strong proficiency in Java, JavaScript, Angular, React, and RESTful APIs. 

● Experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps tools for continuous deployment.

 ● Knowledge of containerization and cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP. 

● Proficiency in databases such as MongoDB, SQL, and NoSQL. 

● Strong analytical, problem-solving, and debugging skills. 

● Experience with Agile frameworks like Scrum or Kanban.  

Preferring candidates from Ahmedabad / Bangalore specifically!

Thence is searching for a highly skilled and motivated individual who is enterprising and eager to make a significant impact in the service space by enabling exceptional products. The ideal candidate should have a robust technical background, outstanding leadership skills, and a proven track record of managing complex technical projects. Moreover, this role includes consideration for a Partner role after completing one year with Thence, accompanied by sizeable equity.

Reporting directly to the COO, you will have the opportunity to shape the direction of the company's growth by delivering digital products to clients across various verticals like healthcare, hospitality, manufacturing, etc.

If you are a motivated individual with a passion for driving business growth and creating lasting client partnerships, we encourage you to apply for this exciting opportunity to join our dynamic team at Thence.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Developing digital products, applications and minimum viable product (MVP), including defining the overall architecture and system design to meet business requirements.
• Enabling our client to select the appropriate technology stack, considering factors such as scalability, performance, security and maintainability.
• Designing and configuring the infrastructure to support the software application.
• Choosing the development toolkit, frameworks and libraries best suited based on business and project's needs.
• Crafting and executing database designs, ensuring data integrity, performance and scalability.
• Enhancing and optimising application architecture to improve efficiency, reliability, and scalability.
• Ensuring application scalability to handle increased user loads and data volumes effectively.
• Upholding quality assurance standards through code reviews, testing and continuous integration practices.
• Ensuring IP security by implementing robust authentication, authorisation and encryption mechanisms.
• Exploring and integrating new technologies to enhance the software's capabilities and keep it up-to-date with industry trends.
• Developing the startup's strategic resource allocation plan, including budgeting for technology investments and staffing needs.
• Ensuring efficient utilisation of technologies by optimising resource allocation and minimising waste.
• Assessing and integrating new systems and infrastructure to support the evolving needs of the organization.
• Deliver digital products to clients across various verticals, including healthcare, Fintech, hospitality, manufacturing, etc.
• Building, attracting and mentoring talented developers to foster a culture of learning, innovation and collaboration within the team.
• Collaborating closely with the sales team to ensure effective communication and strategic positioning of technology solutions, while continuously refining sales pitch strategies based on feedback and market trends to maximize success rates and drive revenue growth.
• Defining, managing and evaluating team members based on goals and performance metrics, providing status updates to the leadership team on a bi-weekly basis.
• Identifying process gaps and development inefficiencies within the organisation and defining and driving Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) to address these gaps effectively.
• Generate business opportunities from existing clients and collaborate with the business team to convert new business.
• Work towards achieving annual and quarterly revenue targets.

Skills Required

• Strong business acumen, with the ability to make strategic decisions and take ownership of account growth, revenue and outcomes.
• Strong technical background with experience in managing complex technical projects encompassing diverse realms such as Web, Mobile, Applications (Apps), Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality (AR/VR), Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Machine Learning (ML).
• Extensive experience in establishing and refining processes and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) aimed at measuring and enhancing the quality and efficiency of development capabilities. This includes implementing frameworks to assess performance metrics, optimise workflows and drive continuous improvement across the development lifecycle.
• Excellent leadership skills and the ability to inspire and motivate teams.
• Proven track record of driving business growth and creating lasting client partnerships.
• Enterprising and adept at handling clients effectively.

Qualifications

The ideal candidate will be an inspiring and confident team player with:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field and/or significant relevant work experience
• Minimum of 4+ years of proven agency experience in software development projects.
• Experience in leading a team of highly skilled developers, engineers, and testers
• working on multiple client projects
• Experience managing products and projects, and delivering large scale technical solutions on time and on budget
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and negotiation skills, with a track record of managing stakeholder expectations effectively.
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies and project management tools
• Experience with cloud-based technologies and infrastructure, microservices, and serverless architecture

Additional Opportunities:

After completing one year with Thence, high-performing individuals will be considered for a Partner role, with the potential for substantial equity ownership in the company.

Job Description 

We are looking for a Full Stack Developer to produce scalable software. You’ll be part of a cross-functional team that’s responsible for the full software development life cycle, from conception to deployment.

As a Full Stack Developer, you should be comfortable around both front-end and back-end coding languages, development frameworks and third-party libraries. With problem-solving approaches and rigorous thinking abilities, we are looking for learners who may not know all the answers but are obsessive about finding them and know exactly where to look for them.

“If you’re also familiar with Agile methodologies, we’d like to meet you.”

Responsibilities 

• Writing code for both the front end and the back end using MERN stack [MongoDB, Express.js, React.js and Node. js]
• Creating RESTful API with Node.js
• Maintaining all the required documents for your project.
• Constantly coming up with new ideas and also implementing them to improve the app’s performance.
• Writing code for the app logic as well as the business logic using Reducers, Actions and Redux framework.
• Create Unit and Integration tests to ensure the quality of code

Requirements 

• At iDC, we value your skills more than your background and some certificates. Attempting the assignment will be your door to the opportunity.
• Knowledge of the database and familiarity with the schema design in NoSQL (i.e MongoDB) 
• A good understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle
• Knowledge of API design and development using REST
• Good understanding of object-oriented programming(OOP) and OOP patterns.
• Again, You don’t have to know it all in-depth but you should know how to dig the internet for finding the solutions.

Duties and responsibilities:

• Design and defining architecture of complex web applications and microservices.
• Address and improve any technical issues
• Collaborate well with engineers, researchers, and data implementation specialists to design and create advanced, elegant, and efficient systems

Requirements and Qualifications:

• Previous working experience as a MEAN Stack Developer for 3 years
• BSc/B.tech degree in Computer Science or similar relevant field 
• In-depth knowledge of NodeJS, ExpressJS or Restify
• Experience implementing applications using Angular or React
• Experience creating front end applications using HTML5, Angular, LESS/SASS
• Hands-on experience with JavaScript Development on both client and server-side
• Experience with modern frameworks and design patterns, minimum one-year experience with MEAN stack paradigm
• Knowledge of the following will be considered as an advantage:
• Consumer Web Development Experience for High-Traffic, Public Facing web applications
• Experience with cloud technologies like AWS or google cloud is also a plus
• Creating secure RESTful-based web services in Node js and Express and MongoDB.
• Continuous integration (Jenkins/Hudson) and version control (SVN, Git)

Qualifications for Ruby

Time Zone EST Overlap of 3-4 hours/day

• Proficient in Ruby, and one of the Javascript UI frameworks like React, Ember, Angular, etc.
• Experience working with MySQL, BigQuery, and Snowflake.
• Experience in UI frameworks like React, Ember, Angular, etc.
• Experience building and deploying applications in an Amazon Web Services (AWS) ecosystem. 
• 5+ years of software engineering experience developing scalable production software incorporating testing, evaluation, and monitoring.
• Full-stack development experience
• Strong knowledge of CS fundamentals and code organization best practices
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
• Built systems that make use of complex job queues and offline processing
• Experience with Docker/ECS/AWS
• Experience with testing and writing test cases
• Experience with Jest, Enzyme, and RSpec

Key Responsibilities:

• The Laravel/CodeIgniter (HMVC) Developer is expected to be able to perform all aspects of the development tasks, including front- end, back- end, and database development.
• Develop web sites, applications and rich multi- media experiences according to the brief and technical specifications.
• Must have experience and knowledge in Laravel/CodeIgniter (HMVC)/Symphony Framework.
• The applicant is expected to possess strong problem-solving skills programming, testing and troubleshooting skills.
• Proficiency in Laravel/CodeIgniter (HMVC)/Symphony framework(s), jQuery, JavaScript, AJAX, CSS, HTML, MySQL/Postgre SQL/Mongo DB.
• Eagerness to contribute to a team-oriented environment.
• Troubleshoot, test and maintain the core product software and databases to ensure strong optimization and functionality.
• Knowledge of object-oriented programming using HMVC framework.
• Good knowledge of the common Laravel/CodeIgniter (HMVC)/Symphony framework(s) or web server exploits and their solutions.
• Develop, record and maintain cutting edge web-based PHP applications on portal plus premium service platforms.
• Familiar with REST API's and Integration with third-party API's.
• Hands on Experience in an e-commerce environment would be an added advantage.
• Adhering to project coding standards and recommending improvements.
• Modifying existing software to correct errors, allowing it to function in new operating environments.

Additional Technical skillset:

• AWS/Azure deployments and architecture.
• Knowledge of Web RTC.
• API
• Financial and Accounting related product knowledge.

Mandatory Skills :

Laravel/CodeIgniter (HMVC)/Symphony framework(s), CSS, HTML, MySQL/Postgre SQL/Mongo DB, JavaScript, jQuery, AJAX

Education

UG: B.Sc. in Any Specialization, B.Tech/B.E. in Any Specialization, BCA in Computers

PG: Any Postgraduate in Any Specialization

Doctorate: Doctorate Not Required.

Job Type: Full-time