Full Stack Developer

About Us

At Tequity, we specialize in end-to-end product development, delivering insightful research, user-centric design, and scalable engineering solutions. Our dedicated team of product managers, designers, and engineers work collaboratively to ensure your business achieves its goals.

Job Description

We are seeking a skilled and experienced MERN (MongoDB, Express.js, React, Node.js) Stack Developer to join our dynamic team. As a MERN Stack Developer, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining full-stack applications. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality software solutions.

Roles and Responsibilities :

• Develop and maintain robust and scalable web applications using the MERN stack.
• Collaborate with front-end and back-end developers to define and implement innovative solutions.
• Deliver 3 major projects within the next 6 months, ensuring they are completed on schedule and under the allocated budget.
• Develop and implement a comprehensive training program that enables new hires to become fully productive within 3 months of their start date.
• Improve the development and testing strategy to achieve a 80% reduction in the number of bugs produced within the next 6 months.
• Design and implement RESTful APIs for seamless integration between front-end and back-end systems.
• Work closely with UI/UX designers to create responsive and visually appealing user interfaces.
• Set up Large Language Models (LLMs) as part of the development workflow, aiming to increase productivity per engineer by 20% in the next 6 months.​
• Troubleshoot, debug, and optimize code to ensure high performance and reliability.
• Implement security and data protection measures in line with industry best practices.
• Stay updated on emerging trends and technologies in web development.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• Minimum of 5 years in software engineering roles with a track record of delivering projects successfully.
• Proven ability to lead teams and improve development processes.
• Demonstrated experience in spotting, training, and retaining junior engineers.
• Node.js, Reactjs and database proficiency: Deep understanding of Node.js, Reactjs and experience with SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Experience with software development methodologies and testing frameworks.
• Familiarity with Large Language Models (LLMs) and their application in software development.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and benefits.
• Opportunities for professional growth and development.
• A dynamic and inclusive work environment.

Our front-end applications are written in React with TypeScript using Gatsby and Next.js. For our REST and GraphQL APIs we use TypeScript and NodeJS, with PostgreSQL and ElasticSearch behind the scenes.

All of our services are hosted on AWS using Elastic Kubernetes Service. CI/CD is handled by Jenkins, with automated Docker builds and deployments to staging. We use Github and JIRA to help us keep on top of our tasks, manage and host our code.

We have a strong culture for testing. We are individually responsible for our work and are immensely proud of the quality we produce. We try and automate as much of the testing as possible.

We have a learning and development budget for keeping up to date which can be spent on conferences, courses, and even books. We encourage sharing what we learn with the rest of the team and the wider community.

We are truly cross-functional: as well as designers and product managers, our teams include data analysts, mortgage advisers and marketing specialists. We’re focused on results: meetings are banned two days a week, and if you need to work from home to finish a project or leave early to manage your energy we encourage you to take it.

About the Role

• Develop scalable web applications for award-winning consumer-facing financial tools
• Develop quick internal admin tools for analysts to create and maintain critical rule sets around consumer financial data
• Integrate new external APIs from vendors or other teams into platform
• Work with UX and design team to transform wireframes into living products
• Build new REST and/or GraphQL endpoints for representing our data to consumer applications
• Own full development requirements and implementation, release management, QA regression scripts, and deployment to containerized production environments
• Communicate results and impact to business stakeholders

About You

• Experience with Node.js and a UI framework (React a plus)
• Experience with unit, integration and end to end testing tools and practices
• Experience with documenting, creating, and consuming REST APIs (GraphQL a plus)
• Keen eye for detail when translating design and requirements into working code
• Proficiency with security requirements, authentication and authorization layers (OAuth2, Google Sign-in)
• Aware of front-end performance implications and best practices
• Familiarity working in the cloud, especially as it pertains to the front end: (Amazon S3 or Azure Blob, Cloudfront, Cloudflare, Fastly, etc.)
• Familiarity with tag and event tracking libraries (e.g. Segment, Google Analytics)
• Fluent at using Git
• Excellent communication, collaboration and writing skills
• You feel comfortable that our values - being brave, investing in each other, making it simple, and owning it - reflect aspects of your personality and approach to work.

• 1-5 years of experience in a full stack software development role.
• Experience in technologies - PHP, Bootstrap, Vuejs and MySQL.
• Knowledge of Cloud services (GCP/AWS), MongoDB and Nodejs is a plus.
• Experience of working in an Agile environment
• Ability to design for scale and performance
• Ability to do peer code reviews
• Solid problem-solving skills