Job Description

Location: Remote

Experience: 1–3 years

Compensation: We will take care of you

Why this role (and why now)

In a post-AI world, the best skill is adaptability. We celebrate people who learn fast, switch tools on demand, and keep business impact front-and-center. If you can connect dots across tools and code, you’ll have outsized leverage here.

About Zostel

We didn’t just build hostels—we built communities. As AI reshapes how software is made, we’re shipping faster by mixing no-code, low-code, and just-enough-code. If you love turning messy real-world problems into clean automations and scrappy services, you’ll fit right in.

What you’ll do:

• Ship automations end-to-end: e.g., listen to a Slack message → trigger a WhatsApp/email notification → log to a sheet/DB → update a dashboard.
• Build lightweight services: spin up a small API (Node/FastAPI/Cloudflare Workers) to mine insights from text using LLMs; add simple auth, logging, and tests.
• Wire up data & reporting: model tables, write SQL, and publish clean Metabase dashboards with alerts and ownership tags.
• Integrate business systems: connect Zoho (CRM/Books/Creator/Flow) via webhooks, Deluge functions, or REST; expose/selective APIs when needed.
• Own the last mile: deploy to Vercel/Cloud Run/Lambda, manage env secrets, write a 1-pager runbook, and leave things better-documented than you found them.
• Learn in public: pick up new tools on Monday, ship with them by Friday. Switch stacks when it makes the solution simpler.

You’ll thrive if You:

• Think product-first: start from the business outcome, not the framework.
• Are tool-agnostic: you can jump between n8n/Make/Zapier/Pipedream and plain code without ego.
• Care about DX & UX: clear docs, pragmatic error handling, helpful logs, neat UIs when needed.
• Are allergic to over-engineering: simplest thing that works, safely.

Must-have:

• BE/BTech in Computer Science/Computer Engineering.
• Hands-on/Experience with Cursor/Claude Code/Gemini Cli or AI based dev IDEs/tools. 
• Languages: solid in JavaScript/TypeScript or Python (ideally both); can write small services, CLIs, and scripts.
• Databases & SQL: Postgres/MySQL/Supabase basics, schema design, joins, indexes, migrations.
• Automation stack: hands-on with at least one of n8n / Make / Zapier / Pipedream / Apps Script; can build non-trivial flows.
• LLM fluency: prompt engineering basics, prompt design, calling APIs (OpenAI/Anthropic/DeepSeek/Openrouter), basic evaluation, and guardrails for PII.
• Dashboards: Metabase setup, models, permissions, and alerting.
• Prototype fast with Supabase (Postgres + Auth + Storage + RLS) and pipe data into Metabase for clean, shareable dashboards.
• Ship flows on Vercel (serverless functions + preview URLs) to stand up quick APIs/webhooks and internal tools with sane env/secrets.
• Integrations: Slack/Discord bots, WhatsApp Business (Cloud API/Twilio/WATI), email (SendGrid/SES), and REST APIs.
• Operational hygiene: Git, PRs, basic tests, observability (logs/alerts), secrets management, and a deployment story.