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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Job Description:

Responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining full-fledged software platforms that can function independently without relying on third-party applications. Work on both the front-end and back-end development processes, using a range of technologies and languages such as Java, Springboot, microservices, cloud with Angular or react.

Essential functions:

• Strategic Architectural Design Lead the design and development of complex, enterprise-level software systems.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend optimal architectural patterns.
• Ensure software solutions align with business requirements and long-term goals.
• Technical Leadership Mentor and guide junior developers on best practices and coding standards.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to coordinate development efforts.
• Make data-driven decisions to optimize system performance and scalability.
• FullStack Development Hands-on coding and implementation of front-end, back-end, and database components.
• Develop robust APIs, microservices, and cloud-native applications.
• Implement security measures and ensure compliance with industry standards.
• Continuous Improvement Identify opportunities to refactor and modernize existing systems.
• Automate deployment pipelines and streamline DevOps processes.
• Conduct code reviews and provide constructive feedback to the team.
• Knowledge Sharing Document technical specifications, design patterns, and implementation details.
• Conduct training sessions and workshops to upskill the development team.
• Stay-up-dated on the latest Java ecosystem and share industry insights.

Qualifications/ Experience & Skills:

• Computer engineering/ Computer Science OR equivalent degree.
• 10-15 Years of total experience.
• As an experienced Full Stack Architect, individuals would be responsible for driving the technical vision, leading the development team, and ensuring the delivery of high-quality, scalable software solutions that meet business objectives.
• Notice period: immediate - 30 days would be preferred.

Would be a plus :

• Experience in Enterprise architecture

• Working knowledge of NodeJS, and JAVASCRIPT, is a must.
• Working knowledge of AWS cloud concepts is a must.
• Must be familiar with AWS serverless architecture.
• Must be familiar with data structure & algorithm concepts.
• Design, develop, and implement beautiful UI components to support business requirements.
• Follows approved life cycle methodologies, creates design documents, and performs program coding and testing.
• Resolves technical issues through debugging, research, and investigation.
• Own & Develop the REST APIs.
• Stay updated with new technologies and of changes in technologies that affect front-end web development.

Full Stack Developer Job Description:

1. Knowledge in MERN Stack is mandatory

2. Work with development teams and product managers to ideate software solutions

3. Design client-side and server-side architecture

4. Conduct Testing & Debugging, utilize script tools & write basic codes for design specifications

5. Build the front-end of applications through appealing visual design

6. Develop and manage well-functioning databases and applications

7. Write effective APIs

8. Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade software

9. Create security and data protection settings

10. Build features and applications with a mobile responsive design

11. Write technical documentation

12. Work with data scientists and analysts to improve software

Vah Vah! is an ed-tech company that offers online makeup courses in micro-batches to students across India to learn from the leading teachers in top cities. We provide holistic education with lots of practical training that makes our students job-ready with not just the base skills but also the soft skills for great customer service. Our teachers have more than 15+ years of experience in training makeup and have certified more than 1000+ students. Vah Vah! is founded by executives with extensive experience running consumer business and mobile games at scale (over 100 million players) at Zynga. Vah Vah! is backed by a leading investment firm.

Website Link: https://vahvah.com/

The Mission

Vah Vah teaches professional makeup to budding makeup artists and influencers through live online classes. We have students from Srinagar, all the way to the Andamans. And experienced teachers who have worked in Bridal Makeup, Ramp Shoots, Film and more. We empower our students to join the workforce as fully trained makeup artists. This is the future of vocational education, and you can help build it.

Our Culture

• Amazing workplace and colleagues to work with
• We have the right mixture of creativity, analytics and hustle to move fast in the right direction.
• You will work with colleagues who don’t take themselves too seriously but move mountains.
• See yourself evolving every month with new problems to solve and new skill to master.
• Work with the smartest engineers so you can learn from them.
• Competitive salary at par with the best in the industry
• Great stock options so you can benefit from the company's growth.
• Immense exposure to new technologies

Responsibilities:

• Complete ownership of building and maintaining Web APP
• Deliver across the entire app life cycle design, build, deploy, test, release to production and support
• Should be comfortable in building a great consumer user interface and responsive web apps.

Requirements:

• Overall experience of 2-4 years
• React Web Developer with 2+ years of experience
• Should have worked on NodeJS with express framework
• Understanding of Backend services, API implementation, and database systems. - Familiarity with MySQL and Mongo databases
• We encourage all our devs to have a base level of DevOps skills & w.r.t
• Source Control, CI/CD systems, Cloud Services such as AWS, Firebase, GCP Minimum 1 year of experience in responsive app development
• Ability to implement designs and functionality provided by UI/UX teams
• Strong knowledge of JavaScript ES6
• knowledge of Java/J2EE, Spring, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud is a plus

Key Skills:

• React/JS, NodeJS, Typescript
• Familiarity with Analytics integrations
• Conversant with Github, CI/CD pipeline

What you get:

• Amazing workplace and colleagues to work with
• Competitive salary at par with the best in the industry
• Immense exposure to new technologies

• Key Result Areas

1. End to end ownership in the consumer facing B2C tech team and deliver solutions to solve business problems.

1. Advanced Javascript, CSS, HTML 5, D/XHTML, XML, JSON, DOM Concepts

1. Must have worked on a SPA framework: ReactJS, Node JS, AngularJS or InfernoJS

1. Own the development methodology. Align with the executive team to improve the development process, prioritize projects and manage multiple work streams

1. Extensive Work with open-source technologies and built services architecture as this will prove to be an invaluable asset in building solutions.

1. Lead a team of Software Developers, Server Engineers and QA Engineers, establishing development practices and standards

1. Extensive skill on React JS, Node JS

1. Experience on various PHP frameworks like Cakephp, Laravel, CI etc would be plus

1. Work with scrum teams and product managers using agile methodologies to deliver high quality solutions on time
2. Jumping on a call with clients to understand the requirement and profile them the right solution, helping formulate an effective solution and turning it into a working application
3. Conducting website performance and unit tests
4. Heavy involvement in the requirements gathering, development and operational stages of new projects
5. Troubleshoot and debug related application defects with existing and new applications
6. Work collaboratively with the frontend team and other team members, train other members and get trained if required

• Own and implement features used by large customers like Truecaller, Mozilla, Zomato, Netflix, etc.
• Performance, Security and Usability goals are in DNA.
• Full ownership and accountability of Microservices which includes day-to-day operations and maintenance.
• Business and technical Metric definitions and reviews.
• Drive CI & CD Evaluate technologies and development stacks for API-based platform which scales to 100,000 transactions per second.
• Perform push-button deployments of any version of the software to any environment on demand.
• Design and build web apps that are scalable and puts user experience front and center.
• Develop modular UI components for company-wide reuse.
• Evolve a common design language for UI across apps.
• Establish and advocate front-end coding guidelines.
• Meld UX and great-looking UI while keeping excellent code quality.
• Own end-to-end life cycle of the product from requirement analysis, design, development, test, release, and maintenance.
• Develop reusable tools/libraries
• Identify opportunities for automation and collaboration points.
• Continuously improve cycle time, throughput, and code quality.
• Continuously improve value-adding-activities/non-value-adding activities ratio.

• 4 - 6 years of experience in large-scale distributed systems.
• Proficient in Python/Golang/Java/ http://node.js/">Node.js 
• Understanding of CSS, Advanced Javascript, http://vue.js/">Vue.js, http://react.js/">React.js, and other web technologies.
• Understanding of Rest based API Architecture
• Writing high-performance, reliable and maintainable code.  
• Excellent microservices pattern understanding.  
• Ability to define cross-core contracts and bring them to closure through collaboration.
• Good knowledge of database structures, theories, principles, and practices.  
• Experience working with AWS components [EC2, S3, RDS, SQS, ECS, Lambda].
• Analytical and problem-solving skills  
• Good aptitude in multi-threading and concurrency concepts.  
• Working knowledge of Git and proficiency with at least one build server: Jenkins/Travis/Bamboo.
• Good to have a telecom background

We believe that great change begins with individuals who are given the freedom to make a difference, and we champion this in all that we do here at Vamstar. Hence we are urgently looking to hire a senior person to fill in for a Full Stack Engineer

The ideal candidate will be responsible for developing high-quality applications along with designing and implementing testable and highly scalable codes. If you have a gig towards Java, Node, AWS, Javascript and Typescript and have worked extensively in web application development; we are looking for you.

Responsibilities

• Managing team(s)
• Develop quality software and web applications
• Analyze and maintain existing software applications
• Design highly scalable, testable code
• Discover and fix programming bugs

Qualifications

• B.Tech - CS from a Tier 1/2 college
• Minimum 5 years of experience
• Great communication skills

Key Benefits 

• Performance Bonus on a Quarterly basis on performance 
• 25 days paid holidays each year including your accrued leaves, sick leaves, fixated and optional holidays. 
• Flexible working hours 
• Permanent Work from home 
• Yearly virtual cross-tribe pollinations (we have another engineering team in UK, US and Vietnam) 
• Wholesome development experience with MacBook Pro and extra monitor(s) post completion of Probation period/ machine bonuses 
• Regular and transparent appraisals based on performance. 

More about our Team: As an engineering team, we are dedicated, hardworking and always looking to learn and improve our craft. This happens in regular knowledge sharing sessions with both Full Stack and Machine Learning teams, and we are always keen to collaborate when a challenging problem comes up. In our work, we use industry best practices like Github. AWS, Ally, Trello, Slack, TDD, CI/CD and code reviews as part of building every feature. We also continually evaluate new technologies to see if they can help improve our platform.