Front-End Engineer — Trainee → Full time
Nova| Product: AIRA / Nova | Hyderabad
Structure: 6-month paid traineeship (up to ₹20K/month) → converts to full-time (up to ₹6L CTC) based on performance
Location: Hyderabad (in-person, early-stage team)
Reports to: Founder & CEO / Engineering lead
What this role actually is
This is not a "build nice screens" job. AIRA lives inside Slack, Gmail, and Teams — inside message boxes, compose windows, and threads that we don't own. You'll be writing UI that has to survive inside someone else's platform, follow someone else's rules, and disappear when it's not needed. That's a fundamentally different discipline from building a standalone web app, and it's the experience we're hiring for — not visual polish.
You'll be working directly with a 6-person founding team, seeing the product end-to-end, and making decisions that ship to real users within your first few months. If you want to sit in a corner and build components off a Figma file, this isn't that role.
What you'll actually be doing
Building inside third-party platform surfaces — Slack Block Kit / Slack app UI, Gmail Add-ons (Workspace Add-on framework / Apps Script), Microsoft Teams SDK & Adaptive Cards. You'll learn constraints most front-end engineers never touch: sandboxed rendering, platform review processes, surface-specific state limits.
Wiring UI state to backend intervention logic — every nudge we show is gated by a backend-computed "Invisible / Nudge / Escalate" signal. You'll build the logic that respects cooldowns, dismissals, and thresholds precisely — get this wrong and the product becomes the annoying bot we explicitly refuse to be.
The manager dashboard (React) — lower-constraint, more conventional work: weekly snapshots, trend views, selective highlights. This is where you'll build faster and see more standard patterns.
Working close to the metal of a real 0→1 product — no legacy codebase, no 12-layer approval process. You ship, you see it used, you fix it.
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