Training and Internship

🎯 Role Overview

We are a UK-based SaaS company powering online ordering, POS, and mobile apps for restaurants and takeaways. We already serve 1200+ clients on our legacy platform and are migrating to a modern Python-Django, React, Flutter, microservices stack hosted on OVH Cloud.

We’re looking for a hands-on Senior Architect/Lead based in India (preferably Kerala) who can:

• Audit and stabilize our current build,

• Deliver MVP in weeks, not months,

• And evolve into the future CTO of the company.

This role is high-impact: you’ll work closely with the UK leadership team and lead a growing India-based engineering group.

🛠️ Key Responsibilities

• Architecture & Ownership

• Review and refactor existing codebase (Django backend, Flutter apps, React admin).

• Define clean architecture, APIs, and service boundaries.

• Simplify into a stable MVP (modular monolith first, microservices later).

• Delivery Management

• Enforce agile sprints (2-week cycles).

• Set up CI/CD pipelines, test automation, QA cycles.

• Ensure smooth and secure deployments on OVH cloud.

• Hands-On Development

• Lead by example — write/refactor core backend/frontend code.

• Mentor and guide 3 in-house developers (transitioning from PHP/Opencart).

• Scaling & Future Roadmap

• Prepare system for multi-language support, payments, POS integrations.

• Define a 12–24 month tech roadmap aligned with business goals.

• Explore AI-assisted coding/testing to boost team productivity.

• Leadership

• Act as technical counterpart to business leadership in the UK.

• Build and lead a strong India-based engineering team as we scale.

✅ Required Skills & Experience

• 7–10 years professional development experience, with at least 3 years leading teams or projects.

• Strong hands-on expertise in:

• Python-Django (backend, APIs, ORM, migrations)

• Flutter (cross-platform apps)

• React (admin dashboards)

• DevOps (CI/CD, Docker, cloud deployments)

• Proven track record of shipping SaaS products from MVP → production.

• Experience cleaning up/refactoring messy codebases.

• Ability to mentor mid-level and junior devs.

• Bonus: Experience with restaurant/retail tech, POS, or fintech/payments.

🚀 Desirable Traits

• Pragmatic “builder” mindset → knows how to cut complexity and ship fast.

• Hands-on problem solver, not just a PowerPoint architect.

• Ambition to grow into CTO role (lead a larger tech org, own platform strategy).

• Strong communicator — can bridge between UK business team and India dev team.

💼 What We Offer

• Competitive salary for senior-level (₹12 -  ₹18 lakhs INR / year depending on experience).

• Future CTO track opportunity.

• Chance to lead the rebuild of a SaaS platform already trusted by 1200+ businesses.

• Direct collaboration with UK leadership, high ownership and visibility.

📌 How to Apply

Send CV + GitHub/LinkedIn. In your cover note, describe:

• A time you had to rescue a struggling project.

• Your experience with Django + Flutter + React in one product.

• Why you’d want to grow into CTO responsibilities.

JOB DESCRIPTION

Overview - We always put our users first. We start by looking at things from the user’s perspective and end by evaluating how the solution has impacted the user.  We are looking for People who are continuously adapting to new technologies and excited to work on products that influence millions of people every day. The Android and iOS mobile applications are used by millions of people around the world and are some of India’s best known and most loved applications and we’re looking for someone to lead the engineering teams that build these apps.

Role - We are looking for a highly skilled computer programmer who is comfortable with both front and back end programming. Full Stack Developer will be required to see out a project from conception to final product, requiring good organizational skills and attention to detail. You will strike a balance between the consumers’ intent and the business’s needs.

What you will do in this role

• Developing front end website architecture.
• Translate requirements and mock-ups into fully functional features by working closely with business and product owners, creative designers and back-end developers.
• Creating servers and databases for functionality.
• Review requirements, design specifications, propose solutions and implementation.
• Work with team leads on the requirements and create estimates against those requirements.
• Deliver projects on time in an agile and continuous development environment.
• Writing tests in a client-side test framework such as Jest, Jasmine, etc.
• Designing and developing APIs.
• Monitor systems to ensure they meet both user needs and business goal.

What you should have

• 2-5 years of hands-on experience in software development and system administration.
•  Experience in Micro services, Serverless applications, Container-based applications.
•  Strong Experience on AWS cloud (Lambda, S3, Kinesis, SQS, SNS, ECS, Dynamo DB).
•  Good understanding of Devops, Apache Kafka.
•  Familiarity with JavaScript frameworks such as ReactJS.
•  Proficiency with server side languages such as NodeJS, Python and PHP.
•  Familiarity with database technology such as MySQL, Mongo DB and Dynamo DB.
•  Familiarity with Logging & Monitoring tools like Kibana, NewRelic, DataDog
• Proficiency with fundamental front end languages such as HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
• Experience with unit testing & Test Driven Development (TDD) and CI/CD.

• BE (Comp/IT), ME (Comp/IT), MCA, M.Tech, B.Tech.

• Track record of delivering various features in large-scale applications or core systems with at least 5 years of experience. If you've written code in big data applications handling multitudes of data or real-time events, you're in.
• Experience writing multi-component systems or micro-services, with architectures requiring efficient inter-application communication. If you know what Kafka is, and think it's the bee's knees, we will think the same of you.
• Experience writing in a high-level language such as Go, C, Rust, Python, Ruby, etc.. If you're already writing Go, or spent a weekend debugging the worse memory leak ever, that's a big plus.
• Experience writing APIs (either RESTful or not) and RPCs. If you've broken backwards compatibility for your customers once, and dealt with the fallout, we want you (to deal with the fallout again).
• Experience with RDBMS systems (e.g. MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQLite) and/or NoSQL databases (e.g. MongoDB, Redis, Cassandra, Couchbase). If you've written queries with more than two joins, or have a strong opinion of why an integer is better as a primary key (or maybe a UUID), we'd like to hear from you.
• Experience with container platforms and orchestrators such as Docker, Kubernetes and OpenShift is a plus. If you can name one way in which a container is different than a regular process, you're golden.
• Are you a free software/open source nerd? Do you maintain open source projects? Are you a Hacker News reader? Do you remember the days when you had to compile your own Linux kernel? Do you believe it should be called GNU/Linux? Have you ever been in a fight with an Emacs user? Are you an Emacs user? Well, we have the job for you!

𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭?

You will be part of the founding team at LDU and will be responsible for the end-to-end technology of the company including:

- Formulate long-term technology & product strategy along with implementation roadmap, while envisioning the tech-stack required to scale the business 100X

- Architecting and engineering solutions across the entire technology stack including front-end, back-end, infrastructure, architecture, server-side engineering, UI, etc. in line with the company's strategy.

- Plan and collaborate with the other teams including marketing/ growth, customer success/ sales, design, operations, etc. to implement new product features, growth hacks/ initiatives identified through user interviews/ insights, etc in a timely manner.

- Build processes/mechanisms to track the KPIs across product/ technology and ensure religious execution of the targets

- Build and lead the technology team including the engineering team, product team, Quality Assurance, etc.

- Awesome work-culture (flexible work timings; no need to wear formals; awesome snacks to name a few)

𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫?

We are looking to onboard a Senior Software Engineer, who has a founder's mindset including the following traits:

- Experience of full stack development across web & mobile based technologies and should have scaled a business 

- Ability to build scalable products/ platforms, fully redundant fault-tolerant infrastructure while working on modern technologies.

- Stronghold in both front-end & back-end development/ algorithms with experience of building agile, highly scalable, data-driven platforms from scratch

- Ability to be hands-on with coding across big data, mobile apps, AI & ML, analytics, DevOps, business intelligent solutions, etc. apart from strategically guiding/ mentoring the team

- Ability to manage end-to-end delivery of large-scale initiatives from concept, scope, planning, estimation, project management, and deployment.

- Stronghold in executing stuff on the ground and hustle around to “Get things done”

- Ability to think and see the big picture while focusing on short term goals and deliverables

- Leadership qualities to hire and build a kick-ass technology/ product team going forward

- Experience as a founder/ being part of founding team is huge plus but not mandatory

- Experience in the Fashion/ Apparel industry is a plus but not mandatory

𝐀𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐋𝐃𝐔:

- LDU is has been selected as one of the top 17 startups (amongst 1200+ startups in South-East Asia) by Lightspeed Venture Partners, one of the top VCs in the world. We are building India’s version of Stitch Fix – Personalized clothing (your size, your style) at Scale. We personalize the user experience by building a Designer layer for the user through technology. Also, we leverage technology to aggregate the highly unorganized and broken supply side of tailor-units/ boutiques/ small manufacturers etc.

- LDU is a pre-series A start-up and has closed two rounds of funding. We are backed by India's top VC and angels.

𝐅𝐀𝐐

- Full time role.

- Location: Gurgaon

- CTC : INR 24 Lacs (with hansome Esops/ Equity)

- Experience: Preferably 2-5 years

• Ability to code and implement front-end web applications and backend processing systems.
• Research, evaluate, and prototype new methodologies, technologies, Prepare proofs-of-concept.
• Convert business requirements into technical documentation using UML diagrams.
• Accountable for peer review, and quality using various design principles and patterns.
• Responsible for team members learning.
• Enforce to follow Secure Coding guidelines.
• Provide clear communication and set expectations to team members.
• Assist Project Manager in defining and refining project scope and work.
• Foreseeing the project risk and define mitigation plan and keep the manager updated.

Skills Required:

• Multi-tier Web Services / RESTful APIs
• C++, Java, C#, .Net
• Web API Frameworks (spring, ASP .NET Core, ExpressJS, etc.)
• Frontend Javascript Frameworks (Angular, React, etc.)
• Understanding and usage of the unit testing framework. Like NUnit, x unit, and JUnit
• Knowledge of SQL and writing queries
• Agile and DevOps methodologies
• Effective communication, Teamwork, Team Handling, Adaptability, Flexibility, Leadership, Problem-solving, Work Ethics, and Creativity.
• Well-versed with the version control systems. Like git, gitlab, bitbucket etc. 
• Good to have knowledge of Microservices architecture.

Education Required:

• Candidates with Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science (or equivalent) are preferred.

• React Js
• React - Redux
• redux - Thunk middleware
• Tailwind CSS / Saas
• HTML & CSS