Role & Responsibilities
You will lead backend (Node.js, TypeScript) and frontend (React Native, JavaScript, TypeScript) development while ensuring architectural integrity, execution discipline, and delivery visibility.
Your responsibilities include:
- Reviewing all backend and frontend code before merge and maintaining high code quality standards
- Conducting daily pull request reviews and enforcing clean architecture practices
- Ensuring strict TypeScript implementation and preventing technical debt
- Identifying security risks, scalability concerns, and performance bottlenecks
- Supervising individual developer output and productivity
- Providing structured daily updates to the founder without fail
Daily updates must clearly include:
- Work completed by each backend developer
- Work completed by each frontend developer
- Blockers or dependencies
- Technical risks or architectural concerns
- Sprint and timeline health
You will also be responsible for:
- Validating backend system design and API structure
- Overseeing database schema design and optimization
- Reviewing authentication and role-based access systems
- Monitoring scalability decisions and long-term architecture
- Managing sprint planning and engineering workflow
If required, you must be capable of working side by side with developers and writing production-level code yourself. This includes fixing critical backend issues, refactoring architecture, helping unblock integrations, and improving performance where necessary.
This role is approximately 50% technical oversight and code review, 30% team supervision and planning, and 20% hands-on development when needed.
Required Experience & Skills
- 6 to 8+ years of hands-on experience as a software developer
- Strong expertise in Node.js and TypeScript
- Strong understanding of scalable React Native architecture
- Deep knowledge of backend architecture and API design
- Experience reviewing production-level code
- Strong debugging and refactoring skills
- Ability to detect architectural weaknesses early
You must understand:
- Monolith vs microservices tradeoffs
- API versioning strategy
- Database optimization principles
- Authentication and authorization systems
- Background job processing and async workflows
- Logging, monitoring, and performance optimization
- Git branch strategy and pull request workflows
- CI/CD fundamentals
Preferred Experience
- Marketplace platform development
- Payment gateway integrations
- Inventory or supplier management systems
- AWS or cloud infrastructure knowledge
- Startup experience building products from early stage
Who We Are Looking For
We are looking for someone who thinks in systems, not tickets.
Someone who protects architecture, enforces discipline, and takes ownership of engineering execution.
You should be confident enough to challenge developers technically, structured enough to maintain daily reporting discipline, and strong enough to step in and build when needed.
If you are looking for a coordination-only position, this role is not suitable.
