Backend Developer

We are seeking a highly skilled Team Lead – MERN Stack Developer to lead the development and delivery of scalable, maintainable, and high-performance applications using MongoDB, Express.js, React.js, and Node.js. The ideal candidate will have strong technical expertise, leadership skills, and a passion for building innovative solutions. If you have experience in microservices, micro-frontends, message queues, Redis, CI/CD, and best practices for large-scale applications, we’d love to have you on our team.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Leadership & Team Management

• Lead and mentor a team of developers, ensuring smooth collaboration, technical growth, and high-quality deliverables.
• Assign tasks, set priorities, track progress, and ensure project deadlines are met.
• Conduct code reviews to maintain coding standards, ensure maintainability, and improve code quality.
• Promote a culture of innovation, continuous learning, and problem-solving.
• Architect and implement microservices, micro-frontends, and modular micro-apps for scalable and maintainable solutions.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical designs and implementation plans.
• Optimize performance and scalability for large-scale applications with dynamic data flows.

Backend Development (Node.js & Express.js)

• Design and implement secure, scalable backend structures and APIs.
• Develop reusable tools and libraries to support a microservices architecture.
• Handle error management and debugging for seamless application functionality.
• Work with message queues like RabbitMQ, Kafka, or Redis for event-driven communication.
• Use tools like New Relic or Prometheus to monitor and debug production systems.
• Solve challenging technical problems with smart, scalable solutions.

Database Management (MongoDB)

• Design efficient and scalable database schemas for large-scale projects.
• Optimize database performance using indexing, aggregation, and advanced querying techniques.
• Leverage MongoDB features like sharding and replication to handle large datasets efficiently.

Frontend Development (React.js & JavaScript)

• Build and optimize reusable, high-performance React.js components and dynamic user interfaces.
• Develop robust solutions for complex UI interactions, including drag-and-drop functionality.
• Implement efficient state management using Redux, Context API, or React Query.
• Optimize web performance, including DOM manipulation, memory management, and responsiveness.
• Ensure applications adhere to WCAG accessibility standards and provide excellent user experiences.

Best Practices & Continuous Improvement

• Define and enforce coding standards, workflows, and best practices for high-quality development.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines for automated testing and deployment.
• Write secure and robust code to protect against vulnerabilities like XSS and CSRF.
• Regularly monitor and optimize application performance, security, and scalability.
• Stay updated on the latest trends in MERN stack technologies and software development practices.
• Collaborate with DevOps teams for containerized deployments using Docker and Kubernetes.

Based on experience, developers will be responsible for building various elements of a music app for an international client. Urgent requirement and immediate joining as project is already underway.

Must have extensive and in-depth knowledge and experience in developing APIs in NodeJS, HTML5/CSS/Javascript, MongoDB, Git, production application deployments. And optionally ReactJS Components/Websites/UI/UX, Redux etc.

Cloud infra management

AWS SDK, Google Maps SDK

Elastic Search engine

Mocha or any testing framework

Continuous delivery

Redis, ExpressJS, Apollo Client, PubSub

Responsibilities

Development of web applications and modules

Drafting ReactJS front ends components based on provided mock-ups.

Architecting database and REST/GraphQL APIs for front end.

Integrating multiple 3rd party SDKs including but not limited to AWS, Messagebird, Twilio, Lalamove, Google Maps etc.

Write and execute unit tests

Bug fixes, support and enhancements

UAT and Production deployments

Performance optimizations and app security implementations

Cloud infra management

Backup plans and risk mitigation techniques implementation

Requirements:

• Bachelor's or master’s degree in computer science or equivalent work experience.
• A solid understanding of the full web technology stack and experience in developing web applications
• Strong experience with React JS framework for building visually appealing interfaces and back end frameworks like Django
• Knowledge of multiple front-end languages and libraries (e.g. HTML/ CSS, JavaScript, XML, jQuery)
• Good knowledge of object-oriented programming and data structures in Python
• Experience with NoSQL databases, web server technologies, designing, and developing APIs.
• Strong knowledge and work experience in AWS cloud services
• Proficiency with Git, CI/CD pipelines.
• Knowledge in Agile/Scrum processes.
• Experience in Docker container usage.

Roles and responsibilities:

• Develop sophisticated web applications for drone control, data management, security, and data protection.
• Build scalable features using advanced framework concepts such as Microservices, Queues, Jobs, Events, Task Scheduling, etc.
• Integrate with Third-Party APIs/services
• Use theoretical knowledge and/or work experience to find innovative solutions to the problems at hand.
• Collaborate with team members to ideate solutions.
• Troubleshoot, debug, and upgrade existing software.
• Passionate to learn and adapt in a start-up environment.

Perks:

• Hands-on experience with state of the art facilities we use for robot development.
• Opportunity to work with industry experts and researchers in the field of AI, Computer Vision, and Machine Learning.
• Competitive salary.
• Stock options.
• Opportunity to be an early part of the team and grow with the startup.
• Freedom of working schedule.
• Opportunity to kickstart and lead your own projects.

Job Description :

- Should have handson experience of more than 1+ years

- Good knowledge of NodeJS, ExpressJS or Restify

- Should have good knowledge of JavaScript.

- Experience implementing frontend using Angular 2+.

- Any database knowledge (SQL.Mongo or NoSQL)

- Basic understanding of version control using GIT

- TypeScript knowledge would be a plus

- Should have good logical skills.