Job Title: Founding Engineer — Delivery
Employment Type: Full time
Location: Chennai, India (in-office)
Experience: 5-8 years

About Yalabs Yalabs Solutions is a Chennai-based software studio building products and delivering client engagements across healthtech (US) and proptech/HR-tech (Singapore). We're a small, hands-on team — no bureaucracy, real ownership from day one.

About the Role We're hiring someone to own delivery end-to-end — not manage tickets, but run it like it's their own company. You'll be the technical and client-facing anchor for our engagements: making architecture calls, reviewing code, mentoring the team, and staying hands-on with development when bandwidth allows.
This is a build-and-own role, not a corporate management seat.

Responsibilities
Run client requirement calls directly and translate business needs into technical specs
Make architecture and technical design decisions for ongoing projects
Review code and set the quality bar for the development team
Mentor and unblock junior developers day-to-day




Contribute hands-on to development when project load allows
Track project status and proactively flag/resolve delivery risks with clients

Requirements
5-8 years of full-stack experience (MERN preferred)
Direct client-facing experience — owning requirement gathering and delivery communication, not relaying through a PM
Demonstrated track record of building and owning systems end-to-end, not just maintaining existing ones
Experience mentoring or informally leading other developers
Currently hands-on with code — this role stays technical, not purely managerial
Startup or small-team background preferred; comfortable with ambiguity

What We're Looking For This role rewards ownership over tenure. If you've been doing solid work but feel capped or under-utilized, and you're ready for real decision-making authority — this is built for you.

Compensation: Competitive, based on experience.

📌 Founding Engineer (Chennai)
🏢 Yalabs Solutions
📍 Chennai