Who are we?

For the past 20 years, we have powered many Digital Experiences for the Fortune 500. Since 1999, we have grown from a few people to more than 4000 team members across the globe that are engaged in various Digital Modernization. Our current focus and innovation in Digital Hyper expansion TM offers nearly limitless opportunities for career growth. For a brief 1-minute video about us, you can check out

Photon is an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We bring out the best in each other.

Development & Architecture

• Design & Development : Lead the front-end development of a mobile application, focusing on delivering a high-quality, user-friendly experience. Design scalable and maintainable front-end solutions using frameworks such as React Native, Swift, or Kotlin and PWA applications
• Develop Proof of Concepts: Lead the technical delivery of minimum viable experiments for emerging opportunities like conversational & social commerce, mobile app, product finders, etc.
• API Design and Development: Provide technical leadership and guidance on API architecture, design decisions, and implementation strategies. Design APIs with a focus on performance, scalability, reliability, and security.
• Quality and Performance : Define and uphold code quality standards; automate testing to drive consistency and reliability. Focus on application uptime, scalability, and performance optimizations.
• Observability : Implement robust monitoring for component health, availability, and performance. Partner with other squads to diagnose issues and proactively improve component reliability.

Technical Leadership

• Best Practice Definition: Determine and evangelize standards and practices to maximize integrity, stability, and performance at all steps in the software development lifecycle.
• Cross-Team Collaboration: Align with architects, product managers, and agile leads on design patterns and standards. Work with peer squads to ensure technical consistency and integration across our ecosystem.
• Backlog & Roadmap Management: Contribute to the squad’s backlog, prioritizing technical debt, performance enhancements, and modernization initiatives. Help refine and break down epics into achievable deliverables.

Team Development & Mentorship

• Mentorship : Guide and upskill junior and senior engineers on the squad, sharing best practices and fostering skill development.

YOU ARE

• A strong communicator who excels in remote and in-person collaboration, conveying technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• A technical innovator with a proactive mindset, staying up to date with emerging technology trends
• A skilled teacher, able to effectively share knowledge and elevate the technical skills within the team

YOU HAVE

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience with increasing responsibility and leadership
• Proven experience in cross platform mobile application development.
• Experience building social commerce experiences with the following platform is a huge plus (Instagram or Tik Tok).
• Extensive experience in backend and frontend technologies and frameworks like React, React Native, Angular, HTML/CSS, Node.js, Python, API, SQL or similar query language technologies
• Knowledge of UI/UX design principles and experience working closely with design teams.
• Experience designing and building scalable APIs and back-end systems.
• Strong knowledge of headless and composable orchestrations.
• Expertise working with Generative AI technologies, LLMs (like GPT), NLP and Azure AI studio.
• Familiarity with generative AI libraries and machine learning frameworks (e.g. TensorFlow, PyTorch, hugging face) for developing or fine-tuning AI models.
• Hands-on experience with Azure as a platform for application deployment.
• Experience implementing and scaling web services and functions in Azure
• Strong grasp of asynchronous service-bus messaging paradigms in Azure
• Skilled in DevOps practices and integrating CI/CD pipelines for cloud resource delivery projects to automate testing, building, and deployment
• Experience setting up monitoring and observability tools for backend applications to ensure uptime and performance
• A deep passion for emerging technologies and a curiosity to experiment with new ideas, tools and frameworks. You thrive in an environment that encourages exploration and technical innovation.