Web Developer

Candidates with less than 6 years of experience in Development are kindly requested not to apply.

Role Overview

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Staff Engineer to lead our small but talented dev team and take ownership of our architecture and infrastructure. This role is a blend of hands-on technical leadership and strategic planning, critical to our product’s growth and scalability.

Key Responsibilities

• Team Leadership: Lead and manage the technology  along with a small and driven development team, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and excellence.
• Architecture Ownership: Design, review, and evolve the architecture for scalable and robust microservices and micro-products.
• Infrastructure Management: Oversee AWS and GCP environments, ensuring secure, cost-effective, and efficient operations.
• AI Integration: Collaborate with AI specialists to integrate fine-tuned models into our ecosystem seamlessly.
• DevOps Excellence: Establish CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, and alerting systems to support rapid development and reliable deployments.
• Code Quality: Set and enforce high standards for code quality, testing, and documentation.
• Strategic Planning: Collaborate with product and business teams to align technical decisions with company goals.
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Requirements

• Experience: 6+ years in software development with strong backend and frontend expertise (Python, React preferred).
• Architecture Skills: Proven experience designing and implementing scalable, distributed systems.
• Cloud Expertise: Hands-on experience with AWS and GCP services, cost optimization, and infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform or CloudFormation.
• DevOps Knowledge: Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines, Docker, Kubernetes, and related tools.
• Leadership: Experience leading and mentoring small teams, driving projects to completion.
• AI Familiarity: Understanding of AI/ML model integration in production systems is a plus.
• Soft Skills: Excellent communication, problem-solving, and organizational skills.
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What We Offer

• Opportunity to shape the future of accessibility technology.
• Collaborative and innovative work environment.
• Competitive compensation and equity options.
• Remote work flexibility.
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Full Time @ Anywhere in India

3+ years

• Architecting and implementing the solutions we build
• Working with the team, client and project manager to efficiently deliver projects
• Translating business needs to technical solutions and communicating with the client
• Ensuring that good programming practices are followed
• Supporting other engineers’ growth with your expertise and mentorship
• Taking part in internal initiatives such as performance reviews, technical recruitment, estimation of pre-sale projects

• Ideally 2 years of commercial experience using Node.js

• 3 years of experience using JavaScript (ES2015+)
• Comfortable with DRY & SOLID principles in your own code
• Experience in writing tests using Mocha/Chai/Jest
• Experience with Express.js
• Experience with version control systems, preferably Git
• Hands-on experience with Unix/Linux environment
• Understanding of non-relational/relational databases

• Experience with Angular 2+ and React JS
• Experience with AWS or GCP infrastructure
• Curiosity about new languages, libraries, frameworks
• Contributions to open-source projects

• Passionate about making an impact
• Self-driven & eager to learn new technologies
• Intellectually curious, interested to build complex systems
• Thrive in a highly independent, remote-first environment
• Keen to work with a globally diverse team

• Hybrid Work Option - Step out when you “want to” not when you “have to”
• Work from the comfort of your home or work at the office
• Support for setting up Home-office
• Flexible Work Hours -Work-life balance becomes a lot easier to maintain with the flexibility to plan your work hours 
• Flexible Leave policies
• Life needs a break - casual, parental, sick, or just random. To help you enjoy your leaves without guilt or excuses, we have a ‘no approval needed’ policy
• Health and Wellness - Constant encouragement to stay fit
• We encourage and support our team members to participate in memberships that promote team member health (physical, emotional, and psychological) and fitness
• Reimbursements for medical support
• Career ladder: the freedom to design your own path
• Well defined career ladders to grow, assess and explore your professional journey
• Learning opportunities
• In house learning platforms to partner with you in your growth story
• Wide range of courses and certifications

• Creating RESTful services with Node.js (Express)
• React & React Native
• Mongoose & MongoDB.

• Hands-on experience with Ubuntu-based servers
• Hands on experience in deploying on Digital Ocean Droplets
• Hands on experience with google maps integration

Responsibilities

• Ability to translate Wireframes and PSD Designs into functional web apps using HTML5, AngularJS, React , Node.js, and Mongo

• Binding of UI elements to JavaScript object models

• Creating RESTful services with Node.js

• Architect scalable web architectures

• Work in a cross-functional team to deliver a complete user experience

• Create Unit and Integration tests to ensure the quality of code

• Be responsive to change requests and feature requests

• Write code that is cross-platform and cross-device compatible

• Ability to wear many hats and learn new technologies quickly

• Discussing project aims with the client and development team.
• Designing and building web applications using Laravel.
• Troubleshooting issues in the implementation and debug builds.
• Working with front-end and back-end developers on projects.
• Testing functionality for users and the backend.
• Ensuring that integrations run smoothly.
• Scaling projects based on client feedback.
• Recording and reporting on work done in Laravel.
• Maintaining web-based applications.
• Presenting work in meetings with clients and management.

• A degree in programming, computer science, or a related field.
• Experience working with PHP, performing unit testing, and managing APIs such as REST.
• A solid understanding of application design using Laravel.
• Knowledge of database design and querying using SQL.
• Proficiency in HTML and JavaScript.
• Practical experience using the MVC architecture.
• A portfolio of applications and programs to your name.
• Problem-solving skills and critical mindset.
• Great communication skills.
• The desire and ability to learn.

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.

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- Full time role.

- Location: Gurgaon

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

- Experience: Preferably 2-5 years