Technical Lead/Team Lead

What You'll Do:

• Designed, architected, and built the core AI-powered application from the ground up.
• You will join a small team with an unparalleled 'fire-in-belly' to close deliverables and a "hungry for more"
• Collaborate with visionary founders to define the product roadmap and bring innovative ideas to life.
• Leverage your expertise in Azure Cloud, full-stack development, and automation to develop scalable, secure, and high-performing solutions.
• Take ownership of the technical stack, system integrations, and deployment pipelines.
• Establish best development, testing, and deployment practices to ensure the product's success in a competitive market.

Who You Are:

• Proficient in full-stack technologies, including React.js, Node.js, Python/Django, and similar frameworks.
• Tech leader who thrives in startup environments and is fully hands-on in coding and working under minimal supervision.
• Highly results-driven. (very important)
• 8+ years of proven experience in the technology product space, including building and scaling applications.
• Strong knowledge of Cloud platforms, Azure Cloud architecture, and automation tools.
• Experienced in developing and deploying enterprise-grade applications.
• Passionate about AI and its potential to transform the enterprise landscape.
• Eager to solve complex problems and create products with tangible business impact.

Why Join Us?:

• Be part of a founding team, playing a critical role in shaping a cutting-edge AI product.
• Collaborate with industry leaders and visionaries who are passionate about innovation.
• This is an opportunity to grow alongside the company and lead a high-impact engineering team.
• Equity and ownership in the product’s success.

We want to hear from you if you’re ready to make a real difference, push boundaries, and build something extraordinary!

About ProjectDiscovery

ProjectDiscovery is an open-source powered cyber security company with a mission to democratize security. With one of the largest open-source security communities in the world, we host contributions from security researchers and engineers to our 20+ open-source projects, including tools like Nuclei and httpx, which have earned us over 100k GitHub stars and millions of downloads.

We’re a passionate, globally distributed team of ~35, driven by the shared mission of revolutionizing the application security landscape. Backed by $25M in funding, we’re looking for talented individuals to join us in Jaipur office.

Learn more at:

🌐 ProjectDiscovery.io

📂 ProjectDiscovery GitHub

About the Role

We are looking for a software engineer to join our core platform team. The Platform team is a small group of experienced engineers managing ProjectDiscovery infrastructure, improving developer velocity, and ensuring the security, reliability, and scalability of our software. We are highly engaged in shaping the engineering culture at ProjectDiscovery, and operate as “the execution arm” working closely with founders and our CTO.

• Own codebase health, iteration velocity, and developer experience for all of ProjectDiscovery engineering.
• Build and maintain scalable, high-performance web applications.
• Work across the stack, from crafting intuitive front-end interfaces to building robust backend systems.
• Design and implement secure, maintainable APIs for seamless integration of tools and platforms.

What We’re Looking For:

• Expert with JavaScript (Next.js, React) and backend technologies like Node.js and Go.
• Experience with cloud services (Vercel, AWS, GCP) and modern DevOps practices.
• Knowledge of RESTful APIs and database systems like PostgreSQL, Elastic or MongoDB.
• Self-motivated and passionate about solving complex problems at scale.
• Operating and optimizing CI/CD systems to improve developer velocity

Why Join Us?

• Competitive compensation package and stock options.
• Inclusive Healthcare Package.
• Learn and grow - we provide mentorship and send you to events that help you build your network and technical skills.
• Learn with intense innovation and software shipping cycles. We ship multiple times a week and push major releases a couple of times a month.

Our Interview Process

We value efficiency and technical excellence in our hiring process:

1. Application Review: Your application is reviewed by a technical team member.
2. Initial Screening: A short call to understand your background, goals, and fit.

• Technical Rounds:Coding Assessment: Solve challenges using our tech stack.
• Create PR: Develop or enhance a feature related to one of our open-source tools.

1. Final Round: Showcase your work, share your vision, and discuss how you can contribute to ProjectDiscovery at our office in Jaipur.

Roles and Responsibilities:

·       Create, develop, and manage cutting-edge PHP web applications on portals and paid service platforms.

·       Create cutting-edge apps in collaboration with the User Experience (UX) group.

·       Check that the shared JavaScript, HTML, and CSS are all credible and reliable across apps.

·       Using standard development tools, create and manage all apps.

·       Use backend data solutions and expertise to expand current data service APIs.

·       From the idea stage through delivery & post-launch maintenance, you will be in charge of the whole web development lifecycle.

·       Convey all work progress, assessments, proposals, timetables, and technical and analytical difficulties properly.

·       The development process, standard components, and architecture should all be documented.

·       Keep up with the latest web development trends and technologies.

               Laravel Developer Requirements

·       Overall 5+ year experience in Laravel framework and Minimum 2 years of experience in Core PHP and object-oriented programming.

·       Experience in developing applications using Laravel frameworks.

·       Should have an excellent grasp of version control technologies, relational databases, and web service development.

·       Strong understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3

·       Knowledge of code versioning tools like Git, SVN, and Mercurial

·       Familiarity with the limitations of PHP as a platform and its workarounds

·       Intentional commitment to code quality through bug fixes, refactoring, unit testing, and automation

·       Creative problem-solving skills with a focus on delivering business value quickly    

Key Responsibilities:

1. Be part of the team responsible for the enterprise grade SAAS platform.

2. Own end-to-end design and development of Product Features.

3. Design and implement software for testability, maintainability, scalability, supportability.

4. Troubleshoot and support field issues, microservices monitoring.

5. Hands-on working on SAAS based applications.

6. Experience with working on scalable, highly available distributed systems.

7. Robust understanding of Agile development along with CI/CD pipeline.

8. Solid understanding of software development Life Cycle.

9. Solid understanding of end to end Application Security and incorporating the same during development.

10. Exposure to micro-services architecture and microservices development frameworks, platform based architecture.

11. Experience in AWS/Azure.

12. Experience in Dockers, and Kubernetes. ECS, EKS, AKS etc

13. Experience with RDBMS such as Postgres(Preferred), MySQL and nosql databases(Desired).

14. Experience in languages such as Python(Preferred), Java.

15. Exposure to development of data platforms for analytics, reporting etc.

16. Exposure to the development of IOT applications is a plus.

Other requirements

1. Proficient in JavaScript, TypeScript, Vue.js(preferred), ReactJS

2. Solid understanding of UI/UX principles, responsive design techniques, and front-end performance optimization.

3. Exposure to the development of API-driven Single Page Applications

4. Exposure to AWS Cloudfront, Akamai etc.

5. Experience in Application monitoring and log management tools.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• As one of the earliest employees, there will be a lot on your plate. All the time!
• You'll build new product features from start to finish: through conception, research, maintenance, and polish. Think features to improve our collaborative student learning platform, such as new collaborative learning activities for teaching coding and other subjects.
• You'll build improvements to performance, reliability, and product polish — for example, improving the efficiency and performance of our replicated state systems.
• You'll build and improve processes and internal tools with simplicity and productivity in mind — such as, a tool to sync updates between zoho, slack etc.

This might be for you if...

• You have knowledge of ReactJS and any backend technology along with that
• You have been professionally coding for at least 3 years
• You have worked in a startup and relish the chaos and pressure
• You've built and maintained quality user interfaces that have reached a large audience, ideally while the product is experiencing rapid growth.
• You can readily learn most technologies as you go. To you, technologies are about tools and tradeoffs, not an ideology.
• You care about the business implications of anything you build. You're not just going after cool stuff — you understand the balance between craft, speed, and the bottom line.