Technical Project Manager

Position : Tech Lead – Fullstack Developer

Experience : 7 to 15 Years

Location : MG Road, Bengaluru (Hybrid – 3 Days in Office)

Notice Period : Immediate / Serving / 15 Days or Less

About the Opportunity :

We are hiring a Tech Lead – Fullstack Developer for a well-funded product startup building an enterprise-grade SaaS platform in the Cybersecurity domain.

The role involves designing and delivering scalable microservices and cloud-native applications in a high-performing, Agile engineering environment.

You'll work alongside industry veterans from billion-dollar digital firms, contributing to technical design, product architecture, and engineering best practices.

Mandatory Skills : Java, Spring Boot, ReactJS (or any modern JavaScript framework), RESTful APIs, PostgreSQL, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Hibernate/JPA, Multithreading, and Microservices architecture.

Role Highlights :

• Lead fullstack product development using Java (Spring Boot) and ReactJS (or similar frameworks).
• Design, develop, test, and deploy scalable microservices and RESTful APIs.
• Collaborate with Product, DevOps, and QA teams in a fast-paced Agile environment.
• Write modular, secure, and efficient code optimized for performance and maintainability.
• Mentor junior developers and influence architecture decisions across the team.
• Participate in all stages of the product lifecycle, from design to deployment.
• Create technical documentation, UML diagrams, and contribute to knowledge-sharing through blogs or whitepapers.

Key Skills Required :

1. Strong expertise in Java (mandatory) and Spring Boot.
2. Proficient in frontend development using ReactJS or similar frameworks.
3. Hands-on experience building and consuming RESTful APIs.
4. Solid knowledge of PostgreSQL, Hibernate/JPA, and transaction management.
5. Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms (Azure/GCP).
6. Understanding of API Gateway, ACID properties, multithreading, and performance tuning.
7. Experience with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI) and Agile methodologies.
8. Strong debugging and profiling skills for performance bottlenecks.

Nice to Have :

• Experience with data integration tools (e.g., Pentaho, Apache NiFi).
• Exposure to the Healthcare or Cybersecurity domain.
• Familiarity with OpenAI APIs or real-time analytics tools.
• Willingness to contribute to internal documentation, blog posts, or whitepapers.

Perks & Benefits :

• Opportunity to build a product from scratch.
• Flat hierarchy and direct access to leadership.
• Strong focus on learning, mentorship, and technical innovation.
• Collaborative startup culture with long-term growth opportunities.

Interview Process :

1. Technical Round – Technical Assessment
2. Technical Interview – Core Development
3. Advanced Technical Interview – Design & Problem Solving
4. Final Round – CTO Discussion

• Develops software solutions by studying information needs, conferring with users, studying systems flow, data usage, and work processes; investigating problem areas; and following the software development lifecycle.
• Determines operational feasibility by evaluating analysis, problem definition, requirements, solution development, and proposed solutions.
• Documents and demonstrates solutions by developing documentation, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts, code comments, and clear code.
• Prepares and installs solutions by determining and designing system specifications, standards, and programming.
• Improves operations by conducting systems analysis and recommending changes in policies and procedures.
• Updates job knowledge by studying state-of-the-art development tools, programming techniques, and computing equipment, and by participating in educational opportunities, reading professional publications, maintaining personal networks, and participating in professional organizations.
• Protects operations by keeping information confidential.
• Provides information by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing development and service issues.
• Accomplishes engineering and organization mission by completing related results as needed.
• Supports and develops software engineers by providing advice, coaching, and educational opportunities.

Technical Skills & Competencies: Mandatory:

Web Development – HTML, CSS, JavaScript

Frameworks – ReactJS/AngularJS

Server-side development – Python/Django/Node.js

Database: SQL or NoSQL Databases (SQL Server/ MongoDB)

API Design concepts and Development of RESTful web services

Preferable:

• Familiarity with the Development of reusable frameworks, libraries to be used by multiple development teams
• Familiarity with cloud-native application architecture patterns
• Hands-on experience on project management tools like Jira
• Experience using DevOps Tools for CI/CD
• Conversant with agile methodologies

Roles & Responsibilities

• Work independently or in a small team setup
• Manage a team of highly skilled Frontend/Full Stack and Backend developers
• Creating, executing, and maintaining project plans including activity definition, sequence, dependencies, work effort, duration, and resource requirements
• Work with the technical team, communicating requirements and ensuring all product development meets the goals of the project and overall business and strategic goals
• Project management including release management, add-on compatibility reporting, updating documentations
• Assist in other ad-hoc or administrative tasks as part of daily/routine business activities
• Work with product technical architects to design new products or enhancements. Take part in system development including analysis, coding, and testing
• Performs design and code reviews with senior technical staff
• Act like the person everyone turns to resolve tough technical problems
• Work closely with other teams/vendors to connect front-end components with the other (often third-party) web and data services and support the back-end developers by integrating their work with the application
• Mentors team on proper standards/techniques to improve their accuracy and efficiency
• Performs the unit testing, system integration testing and assist with user acceptance testing
• Articulates business requirements in sufficient detail such that a technical solution can be designed and engineered
• Develops technical understanding of how the data flows from various source
• Provide ongoing support to applications used within the organization

Requirement

• 5+ years of experience in product development, with 2+ years of experience in a leadership role in current organization
• Reliable, self-motivated, and self-disciplined individual capable of planning and executing multiple projects simultaneously within a fast-paced environment
• Exceptional debugging skills and strong experience with performance tuning
• Excellent technical, analytical, and organizational skills
• Good range of hands-on technical experience
• Expert knowledge in Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Expert understanding of Node.js and JavaScript
• Familiarity with code revisioning and repo maintenance on Git, code profiling and auditing

Job Description

We are seeking a well experienced Java Technical Lead for our product. In this position you will design and implement technological solutions for our product on Java/J2EE stack.

What are my roles and responsibilities?

• Design, develop and implement software programming applications.
• Build highly scalable product.
• Participate in gathering business requirements and assessing existing architectures and resources.
• Ownership in producing the solutions conceptual architecture and associated artifacts.
• Work with application development team in delivering the project and deliverable within time and with good quality.
• Perform unit testing, oversee quality assurance of applications through system testing.
• Establishes processes for performance and conducts code review.
• Manage and mentor junior members of the team on good coding practice

What skills and experiences would I bring into this role?

1. B.E/ B.Tech / MCA in computer science or a related field
2. 6+ Years of Java/J2EE work experience.
3. Minimum 2+ years into Team Lead position.

1. Object-Oriented design, patterns, algorithms, data structures
2. Well knowledge about Spring Hibernate framework.
3. Exposure to React JS / Angular JS.

1. Experience with SQL/No-SQL database technologies – MySQL, Mongo dB, Cassandra, Redis, PostgreSQL, etc.
2. Good working experience in OpenStack/AWS & cloud application development and deployment
3. Experience in Web services (REST or SOAP)

1. End to end web development experience is highly preferred
2. Good understanding of unit testing methodologies.
3. Good analytical and communication skills
4. Startup work culture mindset.

ABOUT IDEAPOKE
Emerging Technologies | Bengaluru, India

Ideapoke is a global, fast growing start-up with offices in Bengaluru, Bay Area, Tokyo and Shanghai. Our software, search and insights power the innovation agenda of the largest Fortune 500 and Global 2000 companies worldwide.

Our growth is powered by our people and their unwavering commitment to the company-wide vision, strong work ethic and an entrepreneurial do-it-all spirit. We push the boundaries and break existing thought processes with the strong belief that innovation amplifies success in every piece of work we do and by extension, amplifying the success of our clients.

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