About Smart Working
At Smart Working, we believe your job should not only look right on paper but also feel right every day. This isn’t just another remote opportunity - it’s about finding where you truly belong, no matter where you are. From day one, you’re welcomed into a genuine community that values your growth and well-being.
Our mission is simple: to break down geographic barriers and connect skilled professionals with outstanding global teams and products for full-time, long-term roles. We help you discover meaningful work with teams that invest in your success, where you’re empowered to grow personally and professionally.
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About the Role
As a Fullstack Engineer, you will play a key role in delivering high-growth SaaS applications, working across the full technology stack to build, enhance and evolve the platform. You will work closely with the Lead Engineer and Product Organisation to align technical improvements with the wider product roadmap while contributing to the long-term evolution of the platform.
In this role, you will collaborate with engineers across backend, frontend and hardware disciplines to deliver robust, scalable solutions. This is a hands-on engineering role suited to a high mid to low senior level engineer with 5+ years of experience who enjoys taking ownership and accountability for projects while working alongside other engineers rather than managing them.
Responsibilities
- Own and implement changes across the SaaS platform, including backend services, batch processing, data analytics and frontend features.
- Focus on decoupling the backend from the legacy frontend by creating a solid API foundation for a modern React-based user interface.
- Contribute to defining target architectures for current and future platform iterations, balancing pragmatic iterative improvements with larger-scale changes.
- Collaborate with backend, frontend and hardware teams to deliver robust and integrated solutions.
- Recommend and implement improvements to the codebase and engineering processes, with a particular focus on automated testing, CI/CD and deployment strategies.
- Mentor other members of the engineering team.
- Stay current with best practices and rapidly acquire new skills to remain up to date within your technical field.
- Be accountable for GDPR, general data and system security in your day-to-day work.
- Propose technical solutions to meet business requirements and resolve technical support enquiries.
- Work closely with the Lead Engineer to define the future state of the platforms and play a pivotal role in evolving and transforming the current technology stack.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience at a high mid to low senior level.
- Experience delivering high-growth SaaS-based applications.
- Experience with modern PHP Laravel (v12+) and Lumen.
- Full stack development experience using JavaScript (jQuery).
- Demonstrable experience writing well-designed, reliable, loosely coupled object-oriented code, including SOLID principles and common design patterns.
- Experience building cloud-native architectures to solve scalability and reliability requirements.
- Practical understanding of Agile SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) and embedding quality and security throughout the development lifecycle.
- Experience using SDLC tools including GitHub, Jenkins, Jira and Confluence.
- Deep knowledge of relational databases, including schema design, profiling and query optimisation (MySQL preferred).
- Strong communication skills with the ability to work effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders, bridging the gap between Product and Engineering.
- Open-minded, forward-thinking and willing to adapt to new solutions.
- Able to take ownership and accountability for projects.
Nice to Have
- Cloud experience, with exposure to Google Cloud Platform being advantageous.
- Understanding of Shift-Left and Shift-Right testing and why each is important.
- Previous experience mentoring other engineers.
- Familiarity with application monitoring tools such as New Relic or Nightwatch.
- Familiarity with DevOps practices including containerisation, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
- Experience with data warehousing systems, particularly Google BigQuery.
- Experience using Node.js and TypeScript, or a willingness to learn.
Benefits
- Fixed Shifts: 12:00 PM - 9:30 PM IST (Summer) | 1:00 PM - 10:30 PM IST (Winter)
- No Weekend Work: Real work-life balance, not just words
- Day 1 Benefits: Laptop and full medical insurance provided
- Support That Matters:Mentorship, community, and forums where ideas are shared
- True Belonging: A long-term career where your contributions are valued
