About Euphrasia Technologies

Euphrasia Technologies Private Limited builds CloudSon Enterprise Suite, a cloud-based hospitality management platform for hotels, resorts, serviced apartments and hospitality groups in India and the Gulf. It covers the whole property: front office, finance, point of sale, banquets, housekeeping, inventory, sales and CRM, and business intelligence. Our first release brings Front Office, Finance and Point of Sale to our first paying hotels.

About the role

We're hiring our Founding Software Engineer, a full time hybrid role in Chennai that mixes on-site collaboration with work from home. As our first engineering hire, you'll work directly with the founders to take CloudSon from a well-tested product to software hotels run every day. You'll help shape our stack, our development process and our engineering culture, and have a real say in how we grow the team.

What you'll do

- Own features end to end, from the PostgreSQL schema to the screen
- Design REST APIs and move business rules to the server, with transactions, locks and tests that hold when ten desks book at once
- Lead our production move to AWS: deployments, monitoring, backups and restore drills
- Build security in: sign-in with 2FA, roles and rights, per-hotel data isolation and audit trails
- Review code, including code written with AI tools, as strictly as code written by hand
- Work with product, design and hotel operations to turn requirements into written specs and tests
- Set our engineering standards: code review, CI/CD, documentation and runbooks

Skills we need

- Front end: React, TypeScript, Vite, React Router, TanStack Query, Zustand, React Hook Form with Zod,



Tailwind CSS, Radix UI, accessibility, right-to-left (Arabic) layouts
- Back end: Node.js, Express, RESTful APIs, PostgreSQL (schema design, migrations, transactions, row locking, query tuning)
- Testing: Vitest, React Testing Library, Playwright, MSW
- Cloud and DevOps: AWS (containers, RDS, S3, IAM, CloudWatch), Docker, Git, GitHub Actions CI/CD, Vercel, Cloudflare, staging environments
- Security: OWASP Top 10, CSP and secure headers, sessions and TOTP, secrets management, rate limiting, dependency patching, logging and incident response
- Multi-tenant SaaS: one database per customer, safe schema changes across many databases
- Strong computer science foundations: data structures, algorithms and system design
- Awareness of Indian rules that touch software: DPDP Act, CERT-In logging, GST e-invoicing and accounting audit trails (we'll help with the details)

Nice to have

- Hotel technology: PMS, POS, channel managers, Booking.com or Expedia APIs
- Accounting basics: ledgers, vouchers and GST
- Payments and PCI DSS
- Arabic or Tamil

About you

- 1+ years building and running production web applications, full stack
- A degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
- You ask "what happens if two people do this at the same moment?" before you ship
- You write things down: decisions, specs and runbooks
- Clear written and spoken communication, and the ownership to make pragmatic decisions in a startup

How to apply

Apply here, or send your resume and a few lines about the hardest production bug you've fixed to [email protected] with the subject "Founding Software Engineer".

📌 Founding Software Engineer (Chennai)
🏢 Euphrasia Technologies Private
📍 Chennai