Full-time | Hands-on Tech Lead/Senior Fegmo is hiring a hands-on Lead/Senior Full Stack Developer to help build our next-gen, AI-first PXM platform. If you’re an expert in Symfony with strong frontend chops, and want to write impactful code, we want to talk. About Fegmo Fegmo is reimagining how product content gets created, enriched, and syndicated across channels like Amazon, Shopify, Walmart, and TikTok Shop — using autonomous AI agents. We’re an early-stage startup with traction, purpose, and serious ambition. What You’ll Do Lead architecture and development of Symfony modules for our core PIM/DAM engine. Build scalable APIs, services, and clean backend logic using PHP + Symfony. Own frontend development across React.js, Vue.js, backbone.js or vanilla JS — using Tailwind or Bootstrap. Guide 2–3 engineers through code reviews, technical direction, and quality practices. Integrate with external platforms via APIs, feeds, and automated workflows. Collaborate with AI engineers to bring smart automation into product content workflows. You Must Have 5–12 years of hands-on experience in full-stack or backend-heavy roles. 3+ years of deep Symfony (PHP) experience — this is a hard requirement. Strong experience building scalable REST APIs and third-party integrations. Fluency with MySQL/PostgreSQL and data modeling best practices. Proficiency with React.js, Vue.js , backbone.js , or vanilla JavaScript . Comfort using TailwindCSS or Bootstrap for responsive UI. Familiarity with Git, Docker, Linux, and fast-moving dev teams. Nice to Have Experience with PIM/DAM systems or marketplace integrations (Amazon, Shopify, etc). Knowledge of AI/ML concepts, embeddings, or content automation. Startup or v1 product experience; bias for clean, modular code. Why Fegmo? Code with purpose: You’re helping build a real product, not internal tooling. Remote-first: Work from anywhere in India with async-friendly collaboration. Tech-first culture: Lead decisions, not meetings. We ship fast and smart. Ownership without distraction: You’ll guide and mentor, not manage people. Join us early with the opportunity to earn equity: G row your upside based on impact.
Job Description: Software Development Manager (SDM) – India (Full-Stack + AI + DevOps) Location: Remote (India) Seniority: Mid-Level Management Company: Fegmo – AI-Driven Commerce & Product Data Platform About Fegmo Fegmo is building the next-generation AI-powered commerce platform - redefining Product Information Management (PIM) and Digital Asset Management (DAM), product content automation, and multi-channel syndication. We use the latest in LLMs, agentic AI, GCP cloud, vector search, and a modern microservices architecture. We help retailers, brands, and marketplaces automate product onboarding, taxonomy, attributes, images, 360 spins, virtual try-on, and global listings using cutting-edge AI. We’re expanding our engineering leadership team in India. If you’re a hands-on leader who loves code, AI, and building teams – this one's for you. Role Overview We are seeking a hands-on Software Development Manager (SDM) with strong full-stack engineering depth, experience building AI-driven systems, and excellent DevOps/cloud knowledge. This is a highly technical leadership role – you will write code, review code, define architecture, and lead medium sized engineering team. You will work directly with the US-based leadership team to scale our platform across global retail clients. This role requires deep full-stack engineering expertise, strong DevOps/cloud knowledge, and experience delivering AI-driven features in a fast-paced startup environment. Key Responsibilities Engineering Leadership Manage, mentor, and grow a 12-15+ member engineering team. Own sprint planning, code quality, architecture decisions, and delivery timelines. Establish coding standards, architecture patterns, documentation quality. Review PRs, enforce engineering standards, and guide best practices. Collaborate tightly with US-based leadership, product, AI, and platform teams. Ensure the team delivers scalable, reliable, high-quality features on time. Hands-on Full-Stack Development Build and maintain features in our Fegmo PIM (Symfony + PHP 8.x). Develop microservices in Python (FastAPI) for AI, data pipelines, and integrations. Build internal UI dashboards using React/TypeScript. Optimize APIs, schema, and data models across the platform. AI & Agentic Systems Integrate and orchestrate AI models across Gemini, Claude, Vertex AI, and CrewAI. Build agentic workflows for product understanding, attributes, taxonomy, image generation, video, virtual try-on, and enrichment. Work with embeddings, vector stores, and metadata pipelines. Ensure latency, scalability, and cost efficiency for AI workloads. DevOps & Cloud Infrastructure Manage deployments on Google Cloud (Cloud Run, GCE VMs, GCS). Own and maintain GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines. Optimize Docker builds, reduce cold start times, and service reliability. Monitor logs, metrics, uptime, performance, and cost optimization. Support VM-based PIM deployments using Docker Compose. Quality, Reliability & Operations Handle environment configuration, secrets, release management, and version control. Define and enforce testing, observability, release pipelines, and documentation. Lead operational readiness and root-cause analysis for issues. Ensure developers follow security best practices and environment hygiene. Own reliability of production and non-prod environments. Required Skills & Experience Technical Skills 10–12+ years of experience in software engineering. Strong full-stack coding ability in: Python (FastAPI, microservices) PHP 8.x (Symfony framework) React/TypeScript Experience with AI/ML integrations using Gemini, Claude, CrewAI, or similar. Strong competency in GCP (Cloud Run, VMs, GCS, IAM). Excellent Docker, Linux, and CI/CD experience (GitHub Actions). Solid data modeling & SQL skills (MySQL / PostgreSQL). Proven experience building scalable APIs and distributed systems. Experience building scalable, production-grade APIs and microservices. Leadership Skills Experience managing, mentoring, or architecting for teams of 8–12+ developers while remaining hands-on. Ability to enforce engineering discipline, code quality, and documentation. Strong communication skills with US-based leadership and stakeholders. Strong sense of ownership and urgency mindset – drives outcomes, not tasks. Able to operate in a fast-paced startup culture, AI-first environment. Nice-to-Have Prior PIM or DAM customization experience (job queue daemon, bundles, UI extensions). Experience with enterprise retail/ecommerce systems or marketplace APIs. CrewAI multi-agent orchestration experience. Experience with Terraform, Kubernetes, or advanced infra-as-code experience. Familiarity with image/video processing & media pipelines. Why Join Fegmo? Shape foundational systems in an early-stage AI-native company Ship at speed with a highly driven, experienced team Remote-first: Work from anywhere in India, with flexible hours High ownership & impact: Your contributions will directly shape the product Earn equity options based on impact and performance Culture Note We’re building a thoughtful, mission-driven team that values collaboration, creativity, and inclusion. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and are especially excited to hear from candidates with unique perspectives and a passion for building meaningful tools.