Senior Full-Stack Engineer

Job Title: Senior Full-Stack Engineer

Experience Level: 6+ Years
Employment Type: Full-Time
Location: Vadodara, Gujarat, India
Shift Time: UK Shift (10-hour shift including a 1-hour break)

About the Role

We are looking for a highly skilled Senior Full-Stack Engineer (Tech Lead) to lead the design, development, and evolution of a modern enterprise web platform.

This is a hands-on technical leadership role responsible for driving architecture and technical decisions, mentoring engineers, establishing engineering standards, and delivering scalable, secure, and high-performance applications.

The Senior Full-Stack Engineer (Tech Lead) will work closely with Product, Engineering, Design, and QA teams while providing technical leadership across backend services, frontend applications, platform architecture, and engineering practices.

Requirements

Experience

• 6-10 years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong experience developing and maintaining production-grade web applications.
• Proven experience working across both frontend and backend technologies.
• Experience providing technical leadership, mentoring engineers, or owning technical modules.

Programming

• Strong proficiency in TypeScript and JavaScript.
• Strong hands-on experience with Node.js.
• Strong hands-on experience with React.
• Solid understanding of HTML5 and CSS3.

Backend

• Strong experience with NestJS; Express.js or Fastify experience is also valuable.
• Strong understanding of REST API design and development.
• Experience with authentication and authorization.
• Strong PostgreSQL and SQL knowledge.
• Understanding of database design, relationships, indexing, transactions, and query optimization.
• Experience with backend architecture, services, modules, validation, error handling, and middleware.

Frontend

• Strong experience with React and TypeScript.
• Experience building reusable, component-driven applications.
• Experience with state management and API integration.
• Strong understanding of responsive web development.
• Ability to build maintainable frontend architecture and user interfaces.

Infrastructure and Engineering Tools

• Experience with Docker.
• Experience with Redis or similar caching/background-processing technologies.
• Strong understanding of Git and collaborative development workflows.
• Experience with CI/CD processes and deployment workflows.
• Solid understanding of Linux-based development and production environments.

Responsibilities

Technical Leadership

• Lead architecture, system design, and technical design discussions.
• Make informed technical decisions and communicate architectural trade-offs.
• Define engineering standards, coding practices, and development guidelines.
• Conduct code reviews and provide constructive technical feedback.
• Mentor Junior and Mid-Level Engineers and support their technical growth.
• Identify technical risks and recommend scalable and maintainable solutions.
• Drive technical excellence across frontend and backend development.
• Participate in sprint planning, technical reviews, and engineering discussions.

Backend Development

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services using Node.js and NestJS.
• Build secure, reliable, and well-structured REST APIs.
• Design and optimize relational database schemas using PostgreSQL and SQL.
• Implement authentication, authorization, permissions, and secure API communication.
• Develop business logic and service-layer architecture following clean separation of concerns.
• Optimize application performance, database queries, and backend workflows.
• Implement background processing and asynchronous workflows where required.
• Integrate third-party APIs and external services.
• Troubleshoot complex backend and production issues.

Frontend Development

• Design and develop modern web applications using React and TypeScript.
• Build reusable, scalable, and maintainable UI components.
• Develop responsive interfaces that work across common browsers and screen sizes.
• Integrate frontend applications with backend APIs.
• Implement forms, dashboards, tables, filters, modals, workflows, and other product interfaces.
• Manage application state using appropriate state-management patterns and tools.
• Handle loading, error, empty, validation, and success states appropriately.
• Work closely with Product and Design teams to deliver high-quality user experiences.

Platform and Architecture

• Design and improve scalable enterprise web application architecture.
• Build secure authentication and authorization systems.
• Contribute to multi-tenant application architecture and tenant-aware data handling.
• Improve application reliability, scalability, performance, and maintainability.
• Support monitoring, observability, logging, and production troubleshooting.
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines and deployment processes.
• Apply security and engineering best practices across the application stack.
• Support containerized application development using Docker.

Collaboration and Mentorship

• Partner closely with Product, Design, QA, DevOps, and Engineering teams.
• Translate product requirements into technical designs and implementation plans.
• Help teams identify technical dependencies, risks, and edge cases.
• Mentor developers through code reviews, technical discussions, and hands-on guidance.
• Promote knowledge sharing and continuous improvement within the engineering team.
• Communicate technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.