The Antara Foundation, Lead Full Stack Engineer
About the portfolio organization
The Antara Foundation (TAF) envisions a world where women and children do not suffer from preventable health conditions. We believe that every mother and each child deserves an equal start to a healthy life. We support the public health system deliver solutions at scale, to improve maternal and child health outcomes, by partnering with government and communities. Interventions of The Antara Foundation follow two closely integrated paths: to help the government system deliver better quality health care to the community and to support the community to mobilize and seek better health outcomes. For more information visit www.antarafoundation.org.
About the Fellowship role
TAF’s Digital Public Health Program is building the next generation of scalable, interoperable digital health systems in India, combining WhatsApp-based nudging, workflow automation, conversational AI, and data-driven decision support. After developing initial sets of solutions and a healthy partner ecosystem, we are now looking to expand our in-house technical development capabilities.
The Lead Full Stack Engineer will independently own and drive end-to-end product development, from prototype to production, across multiple stacks, ensuring products are reliable, scalable, and adaptable to rural or low-connectivity environments. If you are excited to build cutting-edge digital public health systems that touch the lives of millions, we would love to hear from you.
Location: In person – Delhi, India or Remote with travel to Delhi and program locations
Employment: Full-time, one-year Fellowship
Starting Date: July 2026
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the design and development of scalable, cloud-native digital health applications.
- Translate user and field requirements into scalable technical designs and MVPs.
- Build and deploy full-stack web/mobile apps (React/Next.js, Flutter, PWA platforms).
- Design and implement clean, modular APIs and integrate external services (Gemini API, WhatsApp/Gupshup, Google Sheets, Firestore, etc.).
- Handle database setup and schema design (Postgres, Firebase, SQLite).
- Optimize apps for low bandwidth environments with offline-first and multilingual support.
- Build and maintain modular, interoperable systems using GCP (Cloud Run, Firestore, Cloud Functions, BigQuery).
- Support the development of WhatsApp-based workflow and nudge systems.
- Integrate ASR-LLM-TTS pipelines, predictive AI workflows, and community feedback analytics to enable proactive, personalised interventions.
- Work closely with data/AI engineer to embed intelligence into products, including predictive risk models, smart nudges, and AI-assisted decision support.
- Establish DevOps best practices (version control, CI/CD, deployment automation).
- Document architecture, APIs, and workflows to ensure scalability and handover readiness.
Requirements
Education and experience:
- B.Tech/M.Tech in Computer Science or a related discipline.
- 3–7 years of full-stack development experience with proven end-to-end product ownership.
- Experience in digital health, GovTech, or other social impact domains is a plus.
- Prior experience building and deploying applications on GCP.
- Experience integrating APIs for chatbots or low-code automation platforms (Glific, Gupshup, WATI, Twilio, etc.).
- Frontend: React/Next.js, Flutter.
- Backend: Node.js (Express/Nest), Python (FastAPI/Django).
- Database: PostgreSQL, Firestore, BigQuery.
- Cloud: GCP (Cloud Run, Functions, IAM, Secret Manager, Cloud Storage).
- DevOps: Docker, GitHub Actions, automated testing and deployment.
- Preferred add-ons: Experience integrating AI workflows (LLM, predictive models, ASR/TTS) and designing UI/UX for low-literacy, rural health workers.
Attributes
- Takes ownership from design to deployment, balancing autonomy with accountability.
- Comfortable balancing rapid prototyping with robust, maintainable code.
- Strong problem-solving orientation and hands-on approach.
- Passion for building technology that drives social change.
- Collaborative, empathetic, and comfortable working across disciplines
Must Haves:
- Authorisation or permit to work in India
About the LGT Impact Fellowship
As part of LGT Venture Philanthropy's and Lightrock's strategic efforts to scale positive impact, the LGT Impact Fellowship was established to provide additional know-how and capacity to portfolio organisations and companies. Each year a limited number of professionals are nominated to work full-time for one year with the organisations and companies supported by LGT Venture Philanthropy and Lightrock in Africa, India and Latin America as per the above job description.
LGT Impact Fellows are part of an enriching cohort of like-minded Fellows. They benefit from various program activities, including a 1-week in-person kick-off workshop, webinars, access to the network and know-how of LGT Venture Philanthropy, etc.
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