
About Maximl Labs
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We are a technology startup incubated at IIT Madras with a goal to empower industries with next generation technologies to bring breakthrough improvements in efficiency and safety of industrial operations. We are a fast-paced organisation that is working on a product to crash the downtimes and improve productivity across all industries. Our flagship product SyncOps is a new age project management tool for industries that brings the power of data, mobility and real-time collaboration to improve productivity and safety of large scale industrial projects. We are currently working with Fortune 500 companies in Oil & Gas and Steel sector to intelligently plan and execute their projects.
Maximl has been recognised as the top 5 on-campus startups by Economic Times Startup Awards 2017 and is selected by BPCL Innovation Startup Fund under Startup India scheme. It is part of the Axilor winter batch - an accelerator program backed by Infosys founders.
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Key Responsibilities:
Backend Ownership
- Own the design, evolution, and reliability of mission-critical backend systems.
- Ensure scalability, performance, maintainability, and overall system health.
- Lead technical initiatives to address scaling challenges, technical debt, and architectural improvements.
System Design & Architecture
- Drive both High-Level Design (HLD) and Low-Level Design (LLD).
- Design scalable APIs, data models, service boundaries, and asynchronous workflows.
- Make sound engineering trade-offs balancing delivery speed with long-term system health.
Code Quality & Engineering Excellence
- Improve backend code quality through architecture reviews, code reviews, and refactoring.
- Simplify complex codebases and establish maintainable engineering patterns.
- Introduce best practices and guardrails to improve long-term maintainability.
Database & Performance Optimization
- Optimize PostgreSQL performance through schema design, indexing, query optimization, and tuning.
- Improve application performance using caching strategies and asynchronous processing.
- Design and operate analytics pipelines using ClickHouse or similar large-scale data systems.
- Work with messaging systems such as RabbitMQ or equivalent.
Technical Leadership
- Mentor backend engineers on architecture, debugging, and engineering best practices.
- Influence technical direction through thoughtful design discussions and strong technical reasoning.
- Raise overall engineering standards across teams.
Production Ownership
- Own production stability, incident management, and root cause analysis.
- Improve observability, monitoring, debugging, and operational excellence.
- Drive long-term reduction in production incidents and operational overhead.
Required Skills & Experience
Must Have
- 7+ years of backend engineering experience.
- Strong expertise in Node.js.
- Deep experience with PostgreSQL, including performance tuning and optimization.
- Experience designing and operating distributed backend systems.
- Strong understanding of system design, scalability, and microservices architecture.
- Experience owning backend services end-to-end—from architecture to production support.
- Strong debugging and problem-solving skills.
- Experience improving code quality, maintainability, and engineering standards.
Good to Have
- Experience with RabbitMQ or similar messaging systems.
- Experience with ClickHouse or large-scale analytics platforms.
- Experience deploying and managing applications on AWS.
- Strong knowledge of observability, monitoring, and production reliability.
What We're Looking For
Engineering Mindset
- Passion for improving existing systems rather than simply building new ones.
- Ability to simplify complex architectures and create maintainable solutions.
- Strong focus on writing clean, readable, and scalable code.
- Testing mindset with emphasis on reliability and long-term quality.
- Ability to evaluate technical trade-offs and design for future scalability.
Leadership Without Authority
- Influence technical decisions through expertise and clear reasoning.
- Challenge scope or timelines when necessary to protect system health.
- Mentor engineers and elevate overall engineering standards.
- Lead by example through hands-on technical excellence.
Why Join Vahan?
- Unlimited Paid Time Off (PTO)
- Comprehensive Medical Insurance
- Monthly Wellness Leaves
- Competitive Compensation
- Opportunity to solve large-scale engineering challenges impacting millions of users
- Ownership-driven engineering culture with significant technical autonomy
- Work alongside exceptional engineers building products that create meaningful social impact
3+ years of experience in cybersecurity, with a focus on application and cloud security.
· Proficiency in security tools such as Burp Suite, Metasploit, Nessus, OWASP ZAP, and SonarQube.
· Familiarity with data privacy regulations (GDPR, CCPA) and best practices.
· Basic knowledge of AI/ML security frameworks and tools.
- Candidate should have good Platform experience on Azure with Terraform.
- The devops engineer needs to help developers, create the Pipelines and K8s Deployment Manifests.
- Good to have experience on migrating data from (AWS) to Azure.
- To manage/automate infrastructure automatically using Terraforms. Jenkins is the key CI/CD tool which we uses and it will be used to run these Terraforms.
- VMs to be provisioned on Azure Cloud and managed.
- Good hands on experience of Networking on Cloud is required.
- Ability to setup Database on VM as well as managed DB and Proper set up of cloud hosted microservices needs to be done to communicate with the db services.
- Kubernetes, Storage, KeyValult, Networking(load balancing and routing) and VMs are the key infrastructure expertise which are essential.
- Requirement is to administer Kubernetes cluster end to end. (Application deployment, managing namespaces, load balancing, policy setup, using blue-green/canary deployment models etc).
- The experience in AWS is desirable
- Python experience is optional however Power shell is mandatory
- Know-how on the use of GitHub
- Proven 4+ years of experience in MEAN or MERN stack frameworks
- In-depth knowledge of NodeJS, React Js Express.JS along with the
- JavaScript Development frameworks on both client and server-side
- Skilled in Web App development (React + Redux) with Frameworks like Bootstrap / Material
- Deep understanding of HTML DOM objects, CSS & JavaScript events, and experience in various build tools like NPM / Webpack.
- Proficiency with both consuming, designing, and integrating APIs (RESTful and SOAP) using redux/thunk
- Designing database for a scalable and secure system using NoSQL (MongoDB) or RDBMS (MySQL or PostgreSQL)
- Thorough understanding and relatable experience of Git, repository management, and related workflows.
- Excellent communication and customer interfacing skills
- Should have problem-solving, prioritizing tasks, multitasking abilities
- Experience with CI/CD, DevOps practices
- Collaborate with engineering, design and product teams to build and ship new features.
- Seeing through a project from conception to finished product using Agile methodologies.
- Maintain and improve web applications. Optimize applications for maximum speed
- Design mobile-based features
- Self-contribution & able to manage and execute work through team members.
- Developing features to enhance the user experience.
- Create quality mockups and prototypes
- Translate application storyboards and use cases into functional applications.
- Create proof of concepts to demonstrate feasibility of proposed solution
- Continuously discover, evaluate and learn new technologies to stay at the forefront of technology innovation
- Write good quality, modular, reusable, well documented, unit-tested code.
Job Description
We are looking for a great Go developer who possesses a strong understanding of how best to leverage and exploit the language’s unique paradigms, idioms, and syntax. Your primary focus will be on developing Go packages and programs that are scalable and maintainable. You will ensure that these Go packages and programs are well documented and has a reasonable test coverage. You will coordinate with the rest of the team working on different layers of the infrastructure. A commitment to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and quality product is essential.
Responsibilities
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Writing scalable, robust,, testable, efficient, and easily maintainable code
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Translating software requirements into stable, working, high performance software
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Playing a key role in architectural and design decisions, building toward an efficient micro services distributed architecture
WE ARE GRAPHENE
Graphene is an award-winning AI company, developing customized insights and data solutions for corporate clients. With a focus on healthcare, consumer goods and financial services, our proprietary AI platform is disrupting market research with an approach that allows us to get into the mind of customers to a degree unprecedented in traditional market research.
Graphene was founded by corporate leaders from Microsoft and P&G and works closely with the Singapore Government & universities in creating cutting edge technology. We are gaining traction with many Fortune 500 companies globally.
Graphene has a 6-year track record of delivering financially sustainable growth and is one of the few start-ups which are self-funded, yet profitable and debt free.
We already have a strong bench strength of leaders in place. Now, we are looking to groom more talents for our expansion into the US. Join us and take both our growths to the next level!
WHAT WILL THE Full Stack Engineer DO?
- Primary Purpose: As part of a highly productive and creative AI (NLP) analytics team, design and develop web applications and SPA’s i.e., UI/UX, and underlying backend – API’s, security framework, scalable microservices etc.
- Daily Grind: Interface with the product manager, project managers, and the engineering team to achieve sprint goals on the product roadmap.
- Career Progression: Senior Full Stack Engineer, Technical Architect
YOU CAN EXPECT TO
- Work in a product-development team capable of independently authoring software products.
- Guide junior programmers, set up the architecture, and follow modular development approaches.
- Design and develop code which is well documented.
- Optimize of the application for maximum speed and scalability
- Adhere to the best Information security and Devops practices.
- Research and develop new approaches to problems.
- Design and implement schemas and databases with respect to the AI application
- Cross-pollinated with other teams.
HARD AND SOFT SKILLS
Must Have
- Problem-solving abilities
- Extremely strong programming background – data structures and algorithm
- Angular/React, Strong UI/UX skills
- Very strong python background, TDD, CI/CD,
- Software design skills i.e., OOPs, design patterns
- SQL, NoSQL – design of schemas and databases
- Microservices architecture, Cloud native apps
Good to Have
- Enterprise Design Patterns
- Distributed Systems
- Exposure to ML and Data Science
- Docker, Kubernetes, AKS, Kafka, Graph databases








