We're looking for someone who wants to run delivery like it's their own company — not manage tickets, but own outcomes. You'll sit at the center of client relationships, technical architecture, and team growth. This isn't a management role in the corporate sense — it's a build-and-own role for someone hands-on who's ready to stop being told what to build and start deciding it. If you've been doing solid work for 5-8 years but feel like you're capped, coasting, or just executing someone else's roadmap — this is the opposite of that. What you will own.
• Client relationships — run requirement calls directly, translate business needs into technical specs without a middleman
• Architecture decisions — make the calls on how things get built, not just how they get coded
• Code quality — review the team's work, set the bar
• Team growth — unblock junior developers, mentor them into stronger engineers
• Hands-on development — when bandwidth allows, build features yourself; this isn't a pure-management seat
• Project health — track delivery status, catch issues before the client does, fix them quick What we are looking for
• 5-8 years of full-stack experience (MERN preferred); comfortable across the stack, not siloed




• Real client-facing experience — you've sat in requirement calls and owned the outcome, not relayed messages
• A track record of building and owning something end-to-end — not just maintaining what others designed
• Startup or small-team background preferred — you're used to ambiguity, not process for its own sake
• Some experience mentoring or leading other developers, even informally
• Still writes code regularly — if you haven't shipped anything hands-on in 2+ years, this isn't the fit
• Low job-hop history — we're looking for someone who wants to build something over years, not months What this isn't
• Not a pure people-management role — you'll still write code
• Not a ticket-execution job — we want judgment, not just delivery against a spec
• Not a place for "20 years of experience, comfortable in my lane" — if the title matters more to you than the ownership, this probably isn't it Compensation Competitive, based on experience — with room to grow as the role and the company do. Location Chennai, in-office. Apply at: https://hire.yalabs.tech/apply

📌 Founding Engineer (Chennai)
🏢 Yalabs Solutions
📍 Chennai