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Founding Software Engineer

  • Source: LinkedIn
  • What Next Overseas Education Consultancy Service
  • On-site
  • Bengaluru
  • Full-Time
  • Mid level

Job Description

🚀 WE’RE HIRING: FOUNDING SOFTWARE DEVELOPER | WHATNEXT OVERSEAS

📍 Bangalore | On-site | Full-time

💼 3+ years of Full-time experience

⚡ Immediate joiners preferred (Date:16th Sep)

💰 ₹75,000/month in hand + uncapped incentives

About the Role

This is not a conventional Full-Stack Developer role.

We are looking for a Founding Developer who will take complete ownership of our website today and help us build the technology, systems, and products behind the next stage of WhatNext Overseas.

The website is just Phase 1.

You will work closely with the CEO, Head of Business & Strategy, and Marketing Lead , with the freedom to make technical decisions and build from scratch.

What You’ll Own

🌐 Website — End-to-End

  • Own our Next.js + React website
  • Redesigns, new features, bug fixes, and maintenance
  • Performance, responsiveness, and deployments
  • APIs, forms, and third-party integrations

🎯 Landing Pages & CRO

  • Build landing pages for campaigns, seminars, webinars, and education fairs
  • Lead capture and conversion tracking
  • A/B testing of layouts, CTAs and copy

✍️ Content & Blog

  • Study-abroad guides, visa explainers, scholarships and course content
  • Blog strategy, writing, editing and publishing
  • Web copy, banners, thumbnails and multimedia

🔎 SEO & Organic Growth

  • Keyword research
  • On-page and technical SEO
  • Schema markup, internal linking and structured data
  • Core Web Vitals, indexation, sitemaps and Search Console

📊 Analytics & Reporting

  • GA4, Search Console and Google Tag Manager
  • Conversion tracking
  • Monthly reporting focused on business decisions, not just dashboards

The Bigger Roadmap

Once the website foundation is in place, you’ll move into building:

Phase 2 — Internal Systems & Automation

  • In-house CRM
  • AI-powered student application processing
  • Outreach and email automation
  • Employee task management
  • Pipeline and revenue dashboards
  • Backend systems and data architecture

Phase 3 — Student Products

  • AI-powered interview preparation
  • SOP development and refinement
  • Communication and personality development tools
  • End-to-end application journey tracking

Phase 4 — EdTech & Engineering Team

  • In-house EdTech products and courses
  • Building and eventually leading the technical team

What We’re Looking For

Must-have:

  • 3+ years of hands-on experience in web development and content creation
  • Next.js, React, and JavaScript
  • HTML5, CSS3 and Tailwind
  • Git & GitHub
  • Responsive web development
  • APIs and forms
  • SEO implementation
  • Google Search Console and GA4
  • Keyword research and on-page optimisation
  • Experience independently managing a live website
  • Experience creating content that ranks and generates leads
  • Strong ownership and ability to work independently

Great to Have

  • Node.js
  • PostgreSQL / MongoDB
  • API design
  • LLM / AI integration
  • OpenAI, Anthropic, or similar
  • Sanity, Strapi or Contentful
  • SSR / SSG
  • Hotjar / VWO
  • WordPress / Webflow
  • Marketing automation
  • EdTech / Study Abroad experience

Who We’re Looking For

You’ll thrive here if you:

  • Like owning things end-to-end
  • Can work independently without constant supervision
  • Enjoy both technology and growth
  • Want to build systems from scratch
  • Want direct exposure to business leadership
  • Want to grow from an individual contributor into a technical leader

What’s In It For You

💰 ₹75,000/month in hand + uncapped incentives

🚀 Build systems and products from scratch

🎯 Real ownership from Day 1

🤝 Direct access to leadership

📈 Visible impact on business growth

🧑‍💻 Opportunity to grow into a technical leadership role

How to Apply

Send us your work, not just your resume.

Please share:

  • CV
  • Links to websites you’ve built
  • Landing pages you’ve worked on
  • Blogs/content you’ve written
  • Portfolio/GitHub, if available

📧 [email protected]

📱 +91 99009 62629

WhatNext Overseas

Barton Centre, MG Road, Bangalore

AIRC & ICEF Accredited

Hiring #FoundingDeveloper #FoundingEngineer #FullStackDeveloper #NextJS #ReactJS #WebDevelopment #SoftwareEngineer #BangaloreJobs #TechHiring #EdTech #AIJobs #SEO #StartupJobs

Skills

  • next-js
  • React
  • google-search-console
  • google-tag-manager
  • javascript
  • HTML5
  • css-3
  • Tailwind
  • Github
  • NodeJS
  • PostgreSQL
  • MongoDB
  • sanity_2
  • strapi
  • contentful
  • hotjar
  • vwo
  • WordPress
  • webflow
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