Engineering Manager - MERN
at We are a fast-growing, US-based EdTech start-up
• 8+ years of experience into Technical Expertise & People Management
• 5+ Years of Experience into MERN Stack
• Have deep expertise in React.js, Node JS, and MongoDB
• Must have relevant experience in designing, building, maintaining, and extending large-scale production systems.
• Bootstrap, NO-SQL, Backbone Lookout
• Proven leadership skills: courage to challenge with candour, motivate and inspire teams.
• Comfort working with multiple groups within the business
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, for both technical and non-technical audiences.
About Us: -
We are a fast-growing, US-based EdTech start-up that is shaping the future of education. Our SaaS platform now serves over 10M students in over 8,000 schools across the USA and that number is growing. We are making such a splash that teachers, schools, and districts call us "a game-changer." We are focused on helping teachers teach and students learn and work hard to support educators by providing them with robust ways to track student progress and inform instruction with instant data.
Our employees are the secret sauce to our success. With our team of motivated, positive, and skilled professionals, we continue to maintain, build, and grow a strong product offering. Innovation, listening to customers, and service are at the forefront of what continues to guide us to success. Diligence, excellent team communication, knowing that our work makes a difference, and a good sense of humor are the elements that carry us through each day.

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Role & Responsibilities
This is not just another dev job. You’ll help engineer the backbone of the world’s first AI Agentic manufacturing OS.
You will:
- Build and own features end-to-end — from design → deployment → scale.
- Architect scalable, loosely coupled systems powering AI-native workflows.
- Create robust integrations with 3rd-party systems.
- Push boundaries on reliability, performance, and automation.
- Write clean, tested, secure code → and continuously improve it.
- Collaborate directly with Founders & Snr engineers in a high-trust environment.
Our Tech Arsenal:
- We believe in always using the sharpest tools for the job. On that end we always try to remain tech agnostic and leave it up to discussion on what tools to use to get the problem solved in the most robust and quick way.
- That being said, our bright team of engineers have already constructed a formidable arsenal of tools which helps us fortify our defense and always play on the offensive. Take a look at the Tech Stack we already use.
Ideal Candidate
- Strong Full stack/Backend engineer profile
- Mandatory (Experience): Must have 2+ years of hands-on experience as a full stack developer (backend-heavy)
- Mandatory (Backend Skills): Must have 1.5+ strong experience in Python, building REST APIs, and microservices-based architectures
- Mandatory (Frontend Skills): Must have hands-on experience with modern frontend frameworks (React or Vue) and JavaScript, HTML, and CSS
- Mandatory (AI): Must have hands on experience with using AI tools (eg: Claude, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Codeium, Deepdcode) for coding
- Mandatory (Database Skills): Must have solid experience working with relational and NoSQL databases such as MySQL, MongoDB, and Redis
- Mandatory (Cloud & Infra): Must have hands-on experience with AWS services including EC2, ELB, AutoScaling, S3, RDS, CloudFront, and SNS
- Mandatory (DevOps & Infra): Must have working experience with Linux environments, Apache, CI/CD pipelines, and application monitoring
- Mandatory (CS Fundamentals): Must have strong fundamentals in Data Structures, Algorithms, OS concepts, and system design
- Mandatory (Company) : Product companies (B2B SaaS preferred)
- Mandatory (Stability): Must have atleast 2 years of experience in each of the previous companies (if less exp, then proper reason)
- Preferred (Location) - Mumbai, Bangalore
- Preferred (Skills) : Candidates with strong backend or full-stack experience in other languages/frameworks are welcome if fundamentals are strong
- Preferred (Education) : B.Tech from Tier 1,Tier 2 institutes
Opportunity
We are looking for a young and enthusiastic personality who loves coding. Who is passionate and ready to tackle some of the most difficult problems in the laundry industry.
We believe that user-centric design ultimately leads to the best products, so we listen closely to our users, both external and internal. As an engineer on our close-knit, cross-functional team, you’ll be an active voice in shaping our product.
You will play a role in product planning, drive the implementation and release of major features, and be a champion of best practices for writing well-tested, well-organized code.
Tech Stack
Our tech stack is ASP.NET, MVC, Webform, WebAPI, MSSQL Server, JQuery, Javascript, Angular 2 and micro services architecture.Our platform is hosted on Google Cloud.
Responsibilities
- Work with internal business teams and management to define requirements and develop technical specifications.
- You will be creating modules and components and coupling them together into a functional app.
- Creating self-contained, reusable, and testable modules and components
- Developing and integrating RESTful API services.
- Convert legacy code to new tech stack single-page web applications.
- You will be working with payment gateway, barcodes, QR codes, biometrics, integrating different hardware (printer, scanner, cash register, POS terminal, laundry and drycleaning machines, conveyor belt etc), map routing and distance algorithms.
What an ideal candidate looks like
- Strong knowledge of Computer Science fundamentals in object-oriented design, data structures, algorithm design, problem-solving, complexity analysis, databases, networking, and distributed systems.
- 3-4 years of experience with product development (.ASP.Net, C#.Net, WCF, MVC, SQL Server development applications, version control, CI/CD pipelines).
- Should have a strong online presence on different forums like stack overflow etc, Github etc.
- Excellent verbal and written skills. The ability to explain sophisticated architectures to engineers, product managers, and support & operation executives. You should also be able to write a proposal for your idea/solutions and take feedback from the team.
- Previous work experience at a product-based company or startup would be a bonus.
Personality traits we really admire
- Great attitude to ask questions, learn and suggest process improvements.
- Pays great attention to detail and helps identify edge cases.
- Gives equal importance to planning, coding, code reviews, documentation, and testing.
- Highly motivated and coming up with fresh ideas and perspective to help us move towards our goals faster.
- Follows release cycles and absolute commitment to deadlines.
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About Quick Dry Cleaning
We are on a mission to make Dry Cleaners and Laundry business winning in the digital era.
We believe in
- Helping traditional laundries to come at par with digital businesses: Traditional We help laundry businesses adapt modern technology and deliver the customer experience that today’s digital businesses like Swiggy, OLA and Flipkart are delivering. We feel successful when we hear stories like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbB828K28zs&feature=emb_title">these.
- Building a large profitable business: We envision building a capital-efficient, large profitable business to achieve our mission of making laundry business win. This means less dependence on investors & more ownership with the team. We are one of the few profitable Indian SaaS startups buildinghttps://valuesaas.co/"> value SaaS
- Employee Wellness <> Customer Success: We give as much importance to each team member’s personal & professional success as much as we care about our customer's success. We believe it’s all about balance.
Our impact so far
- 3 Billion garments processed through QDC Dry Cleaning Cloud
- 47 countries
- 1000+ Paid subscribers
- 5000+ Users
- All this could be achieved with a nimble team of 20 from our single office in Noida
Why join QDC?
- Freedom & Responsibility: If you are a person who wants to take up challenging work & push your boundaries with no one monitoring you, then this is the right place for you. There are no hierarchies. No managers to please.
- Holistic Growth: Building a career doesn’t have to be at the cost of missing out on your personal front. We believe that professional success is worth when the personal goals are nurtured with equal importance. We will support you all in on that journey of yours.
- Transparency: If you ever wanted to know what it’s like to be on an entrepreneurial journey, then working with QDC gives you that opportunity to experience it all first hand.
Great Environment: We spend more time of our day at work than at home while awake, so it is important that we feel comfortable at our workplace. Our office space is fun and the team is funnier. We never miss out on any opportunity to have fun. We don’t experience monday blues rather we have Monday excitement.
- Strong knowledge in .NET application development with hands-on experience in .Net core and azure.
- Good knowledge in front-end design (HTML5, CSS (SASS/LESS), Bootstrap, JQuery.
- Develop code based on design/architectural patterns, adhere to coding standards.
- Experience in developing and using RESTful Services and APIs.
- Knowledge of using Git and Version Control Systems.
- Testing and debugging with unit tests.
- Understanding of Agile methodologies.
- Mandatory skills: NET Core, http://asp.net/" target="_blank">ASP.NET, C#, LINQ, Entity Framework, MS SQL, HTML5, JavaScript, jQuery.
Skills:-
Asp.Net, .Net Core, Web API,ASP.NET MVC, ReactJS,Jquery,Javascript,HTML
Desired profile
- Good verbal & written communication
- Proactive
- Flexible to working hours
- Good in team work as well as individual contributor
- Must be able to contribute to productivity in short time
- Design and develop high-quality web applications using the Django web framework
- Collaborate with other developers, product managers, and UX/UI designers to create innovative experiences
- Write reusable, testable, and efficient, clean, modular, and well-documented code
- Test and debug applications for optimal performance
- Monitor applications for performance and security issues
- Create and maintain the application's architecture
- Create and implement applications that are low-latency, high-availability, and performant
- Security and data protection implementation
- Data storage solution integration
- Develop user interfaces with React and Redux technologies
- Collaborate with other developers to ensure efficient delivery of features
- Troubleshoot, debug, and upgrade existing applications
- Monitor application performance and address any issues
- Research and suggest new technologies to improve existing applications
- Remain up-to-date with industry standards and best practices
- Managing and maintaining AWS
- Containerizing the solution with Docker
- Upgrade, update the existing solution
- Collaborate with the mobile app developer
- Stay up-to-date with the latest technologies and trends
Skills
- Proven work experience as a Django developer
- Strong knowledge of Python, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
- Experience with relational databases such as MySQL or PostgreSQL
- Familiarity with developing RESTful APIs
- Strong knowledge of Django, Docker, AWS, React.js
- Able to use and understand different browser developer tools.
- Strong knowledge of GIT
- Able to use Postman, JIRA or similar tools
- Familiar with JSON
- Working knowledge of Django-compatible libraries like GeoDjango
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s/Master in computer science
- 5-7 years of work experience
- Excellent problem-solving skills
- Able to work in a fast, unstructured environment
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
Must have access to FTTH internet connection
- Strong working knowledge of Typescript, MongoDB, MySQL, Express
- Strong proficiency in TypeScript, JavaScript including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model, ES6
- Hands-on experience in React JS
- Strong understanding of HTML5, CSS3
- Strong understanding of NodeJS fundamentals
- Knowledge and experience working with PostgreSQL is a major plus
- Experience with ORM libraries
- Familiarity with RESTful APIs
- Knowledge of tools like Git, GitHub, JIRA, Cucumber, Jasmine, and others that make coding more efficient and easier to share
- Familiarity of working in either the AWS Cloud or Azure including Docker + Kubernetes based microservice deployment.

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electronics, or related field; Master’s degree or equivalent
experience desired
• Minimum 3 years software engineering experience
• Proficiency in one or more of the following programming languages (Python / Java / Scala / C / C++ /
Objective-C / Swift)
• Strong working knowledge of web application frameworks – node.js. Experience deploying and maintaining
cloud-based web applications (Azure preferred)
• Experience with data persistence and manipulation (sql, nosql, Splunk, etc.)
• Hands-on Test-Driven Development experience and able to author Unit, Integration and Functional Tests
• SOLID OO-skills. Must demonstrate strong familiarity of design patterns
• Shall be familiar with Agile Processes – Scrum or Kanba
Key Responsibilities:
- You will play a key strategic and consultative role in developing, delivering and maintaining digital ad tech products
- Work as part of the engineering and product teams to develop complex platforms and systems that are scalable to millions of users
- Result-oriented full-stack development for world-class products with high degree of performance and quality
- Developers in our teams are also adept at formulating product strategies, research best practices, bring in expertise and mentor younger talent and drive the organization’s goals higher with a self-starter attitude
- Strong sense of commitment, problem-solving, professional ethics and willingness to learn new things are a standard requirement for all our openings.Requirements:
- Knowledge of digital ad tech ecosystem
- Minimum 3 years of experience working in a professional environment on full-stack development
- Proven expertise in creating and developing scalable enterprise or B2C web applications
- Experience in REST API development and MVC/MVVM development methodologies
- Deep understanding of the underlying architecture of web servers, load balancing, and browser nuances. Basically, a solid understanding of fundamentals - including execution models, asynchronous programming, object-oriented concepts, relational concepts, etc.
- Proficiency in one or more of Node.js/MEAN stack, Python, Java or other frameworks and willing to be flexible on stack as per the requirement of the project. Most of our current development is on the MEAN stack - expertise in the stack will be a definite plus
- Proficiency in one or more of databases such as MySQL, MongoDB, Cassandra or other equivalent databases and willing to be flexible as per the requirement of the project. Most of our current development is on MongoDB and MySQL - expertise in these will be a definite plus
- Good understanding of developer tools and devops such as Git, Ansible, cloud platforms such as AWS, Docker, etc.
2) Must have good analytical and problem solving skills.
3) Good Knowledge of OOPS, PHP, MVC frameworks, NodeJs, Frontend Framework: ReactJs/AngularJS, GIT, MySql, NoSql/MongoDb, CSS, AJAX, HTML5.
4) Write error free code and follow coding standards. Able to perform Code Review job.
5) Work closely with QA person to assist in the testing process.
6) Perform R&D tasks if assigned and communicate with the Designer and UI team.
6) Build reusable code and libraries for future use.
7) Able to work closely with the team and meet the tight deadlines where necessary.
8) Strong Communication Skills.
2. Knowledge of JSON, XML, REST, SOAP, Git/SVN, Mvvm Architecture
3. The ability to manage scripts, CRON jobs.
4. Familiarity with continuous integration/build tools such as Jenkins, gitlab, basic CI CD.
5. Object oriented programming using node.js(Preferred)
6. Experience with frameworks such as Express js, Laravel framework is an added advantage
7. The candidate will also be responsible for developing webservices, dashboard, etc.for android app/web portal
8. Good exposure in OOPS and core node.js.
9. Knowledge of e-commerce will be preferred.
10. Knowledge of joomla, drupal, magento and other cms will be an advantage
11. Hacker ability
12. Familiarity with php, Python and Server side devops.
13. Should have knowledge of Android SDK, different versions of Android, and how to deal with different screen sizes
14. Should have knowledge of Android UI design principles, patterns, and best practices
15. Should have the ability to design applications around natural user interfaces
16. Should have an understanding of Google's Android design principles (material design) and interface guidelines
17. Should have a good understanding of activity, fragments lifecycle
18. Should have debugging and problem-solving skills
19. Familiar with database design principles







