Web Full Stack Developer

Who we are:

We are reinventing personal communication for the digital era.

TouchNote is an app designed to help nurture your most important relationships. Our creative platform lets you send custom-made real cards, straight from your phone, to anywhere in the world. We help our members share the everyday, any day. From postcards, greetings cards & prints, to framed photos and much more, we’ve helped send over 15 million cards to 180 countries worldwide.

About the Team:

We’re a team of passionate individuals trying to make a difference, bridging the gap between digital and physical. With an office in Shoreditch, you can expect the exposed brick, ping pong table and popcorn machine (of course) but we’re about so much more than that, we take the culture of our team incredibly seriously, and have big ambitions when it comes to what we do and how we do it.

The Role:

• We are looking for a full-stack developer that can join one of our cross functional teams working on our customer facing website/web app and internal tools.
• The ability to hit the ground running, develop a thorough understanding of our platform and quickly learn about its components & infrastructure will be essential.

• Our main website and web application are currently separate systems but we would like to unify the experience for our customers and increase our mobile optimised pages significantly in 2022. This represents a significant investment in our web properties because we see significant potential for growth via this channel.

• The internal tools are used by our customer service team to keep track of customer orders, as well as manage customer accounts and memberships. Additionally, it is used by our product and growth teams to upload content to our apps and to configure sales, promotions, and products.

• Duties will include creating and implementing a user-friendly front-end UI, updating APIs where needed, connecting the two, and setting up our server infrastructure. This includes all associated areas such as database and architecture design. You will be required to see out a project from conception to final product, requiring good organisational skills and attention to detail.

• As a Full Stack Developer, you should be comfortable around both front-end and back-end coding languages, development frameworks and third-party libraries.

Requirements

• Familiarity with React/ Angular 8+ (or similar)
• Proficiency with JavaScript, HTML, and SCSS
• Thorough understanding of the responsibilities of the platform, database, API, caching layer, proxies, and other services used in the system
• Experience with building infrastructure for serving front-end app and assets
• Proficiency with server-side languages such as NodeJs / GoLang / PHP
• Familiarity with database technology such as MySQL, or PostgreSQL
• Experience with agile methodology, professional, precise communication skills .

Responsibilities:

• Design client-side and server-side architecture
• Build a clean, user-friendly UI
• Creating self-contained, reusable, and testable modules and components
• Design and construction of our REST API
• Develop and manage well-functioning databases
• Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade software
• Write technical documentation
• Seeing through a project from conception to finished product
• Design and implementation of continuous integration and deployment

Benefits

• Company laptop (Mac or PC - you choose!)
• Choice of wellbeing benefits which include Private Medical Insurance and/or a gym membership
• 20 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Friday drinks
• Team lunches
• Team socials every month
• Free TouchNote credits to use our product!

This is a full-time role based in our Hyderabad Office.

Office hours: 11:00 AM - 8:30 PM (Mon - Fri)