About the Role

We are looking for a Senior Full Stack Developer / Technical Lead with 4+ years of hands-on development experience and robust expertise in backend engineering, system architecture, and technical leadership

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The person will be responsible for leading the development team technically

, making architecture decisions, reviewing code, guiding developers, and ensuring that features are developed using scalable, secure, and maintainable approaches.

This is a hands-on technical leadership role

. The candidate should continue to contribute to development while also taking ownership of the team's technical direction and delivery.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Leadership

- Lead and mentor the development team.
- Assign and review technical work with the team.
- Provide technical guidance to developers when they face complex issues.
- Conduct code reviews and ensure development standards are followed.
- Identify technical risks and address them proactively.
- Help the team make appropriate technical and architectural decisions.
- Establish and maintain coding, API, database, and development standards.
- Work closely with the Product Manager/Business Analyst to understand requirements and convert them into technical solutions.





Architecture & Backend

- Design scalable application and backend architecture.
- Design REST APIs and backend services using Node.js.
- Design and optimize PostgreSQL databases.
- Review existing architecture and recommend improvements.
- Handle performance, scalability, security, and reliability considerations.
- Troubleshoot complex backend and production issues.
- Ensure appropriate authentication, authorization, validation, logging, and error handling.

Full Stack Development

- Develop backend services and APIs hands-on.
- Develop and maintain React.js applications when required.
- Work closely with frontend developers on API contracts and integration.
- Take ownership of technically complex features from design through deployment.

Delivery & Team Collaboration

- Work with QA, DevOps, UI/UX, and Product teams.
- Support sprint planning and technical estimation.
- Identify dependencies and blockers early.
- Ensure the team follows agreed development and deployment processes.
- Support production releases and troubleshooting when required.
- Maintain technical documentation for architecture and key modules.

📌 Senior Fullstack Developer (Kerala)
🏢 Planet Media India
📍 Kerala