Job Description
Tessembl | Founding Full-Stack Product Engineer
Location: [Mumbai / Hybrid]
Type: Full-time
Compensation: Competitive + meaningful ESOP
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About TessemblTessembl is an early stage workforce intelligence company building software that helps organisations make better data informed workforce decisions.
Our platform will combine workforce data, behavioural insights and analytics within a secure enterprise SaaS environment.
We are looking for our first engineering hire to help build the product from the ground up.
The roleThe Founding Full-Stack Product Engineer will work directly with the founders and quantitative team to design and build the first commercial versions of Tessembl.
This is a broad product-engineering role.
You will have substantial influence over:
- technical architecture;
- backend systems;
- frontend design;
- database structure;
- APIs;
- cloud infrastructure;
- security;
- engineering standards.
You will help develop:
- organisation and employee data structures;
- secure enterprise dashboards;
- workforce analytics interfaces;
- assessment workflows;
- reporting and benchmarking tools;
- decision support interfaces;
- data import systems;
- customer administration;
- authentication and access controls;
- analytics and visualisation components.
- Design and build the initial SaaS architecture.
- Develop frontend and backend systems.
- Design relational data models.
- Build secure multi tenant infrastructure.
- Develop APIs and data-ingestion pipelines.
- Build analytics-heavy user interfaces.
- Integrate statistical and machine learning outputs into the product.
- Implement authentication, permissions and role based access.
- Establish audit logging and data quality controls.
- Support cloud deployment, monitoring and backups.
- Integrate with external enterprise systems where required.
- Establish testing, documentation and engineering standards.
- Work directly with early customers during implementation.
- Strong full stack development capability.
- Experience building modern web applications and APIs.
- Strong understanding of databases and data modelling.
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure or GCP.
- Understanding of authentication, permissions and SaaS security.
- Ability to work independently in an early-stage environment.
- Strong product judgement.
- Ability to collaborate closely with data scientists and quantitative teams.
The final stack will be shaped with the founding engineer, but may include:
- Python;
- TypeScript / JavaScript;
- React or similar modern frontend framework;
- PostgreSQL or similar relational database;
- REST and/or GraphQL;
- Docker;
- AWS / Azure / GCP;
- GitHub;
- modern CI/CD and monitoring tools.
Useful experience includes:
- B2B SaaS;
- enterprise software;
- analytics platforms;
- HR tech;
- data heavy applications;
- dashboards and visualisation;
- ML/data science production systems;
- enterprise integrations;
- secure multi-tenant architecture.
You will be the first engineering hire and will have meaningful influence over:
- product architecture;
- technology choices;
- engineering culture;
- infrastructure;
- security;
- future technical hiring.
This role is suited to someone who wants the ownership and influence of an early founding engineer position.
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Key Skills
authentication permissions and SaaS security
cloud deployment monitoring and backups
web applications and APIs
React or similar modern frontend framework
databases and data modelling
REST and/or GraphQL
enterprise integrations
secure multi-tenant architecture
modern CI/CD and monitoring tools
data-ingestion pipelines
PostgreSQL or similar relational database
audit logging and data quality controls
analytics-heavy user interfaces





