Instinctive Studio is a Bangalore-based startup building digital products across education, enterprise tools and AI.

We’re looking for a hands-on Full-Stack Engineer with strong backend and systems architecture experience. You’ll contribute directly to the codebase while coordinating the day-to-day work of three to four junior developers.

This is not an HR or traditional people-management role. You won’t handle salaries, appraisals or performance reviews. Your responsibility is technical delivery: breaking down work, maintaining the task pipeline, reviewing code, unblocking developers and keeping projects moving.

You’ll work closely with a semi-technical founder, so you should be able to explain architecture, risks and trade-offs clearly and concisely.

Compensation: ₹60,000–₹90,000 per month.

WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING

Engineering and Architecture

- Build and ship production features using TypeScript, Node.js, Express, React and Next.js
- Design APIs, database schemas, authentication systems and background processes
- Translate product requirements into practical technical architecture
- Diagnose production issues, improve performance and refactor existing modules
- Make sensible architectural decisions without overengineering straightforward problems
- Handle deployments, patches, rollbacks and environment configuration
- Technical Delivery Coordination

Coordinate the work of three to four junior developers

- Break larger features into clear tasks with dependencies and acceptance criteria
- Maintain and prioritise engineering work in Linear and Notion




- Identify blockers and unclear requirements before they delay delivery
- Review progress and keep the founder informed about risks, decisions and changes in scope
- Ensure work moves properly through development, review, testing and deployment

Code Quality and Engineering Processes

- Review pull requests for correctness, security and maintainability
- Use CodeRabbit as part of the review process while applying your own engineering judgement
- Define, document and improve development SOPs as the company grows
- Establish practical standards for branches, pull requests, testing, releases and documentation
- Maintain coding conventions, architecture notes and release checklists
- Help junior developers improve their engineering habits and use AI tools responsibly

DevOps and Agentic Engineering

- Work with Vercel, AWS or Azure, Docker and CI/CD pipelines
- Monitor logs, errors, uptime and application performance
- Use coding agents to explore codebases, implement scoped work, refactor, test and document
- Review and verify agent-generated code before it reaches production
- Help define effective agentic engineering workflows for the wider development team

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR

- 3+ years building and maintaining commercial web applications
- Strong experience with Node.js,



Express and TypeScript
- Valuable working knowledge of React and Next.js
- Solid understanding of systems architecture, API design and database modelling
- Experience with MongoDB and/or PostgreSQL
- Familiarity with authentication, caching, queues and third-party integrations
- Working knowledge of cloud deployment, Docker, CI/CD and Git workflows
- Experience reviewing code and giving developers actionable feedback
- Ability to break complex requirements into well-scoped engineering tasks
- Experience coordinating work across a small development team
- Practical experience with coding agents such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or similar
- Clear written and spoken communication
- Comfortable working in a startup where some processes already exist and others still need to be created
- Strong ownership: you notice gaps, raise risks and help solve them

NICE TO HAVE

- Production experience with both Next.js and Vue.js
- Experience deploying and maintaining Node.js services on AWS or Azure
- Familiarity with Vercel deployments, previews and environment management
- Experience with Docker, GitHub Actions and CI/CD pipelines
- Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code and cloud configuration
- Experience with Redis, queues, background workers or real-time systems
- Familiarity with application monitoring, structured logging and error tracking
- Experience integrating AI services, vector databases or agentic product features
- Previous experience defining engineering SOPs or mentoring junior developers

📌 Full-Stack Engineer - Backend & Technical Delivery (India)
🏢 Instinctive Studio
📍 India