Fullstack Developer - MERN

Key Responsibilities

Develop and maintain scalable applications using MongoDB, MySQL/PostgreSQL, Node.js, Express.js, React.js, and TypeScript.

Design, develop, and optimize RESTful APIs and GraphQL services.

Lead and mentor a team of developers, ensuring best coding practices, performance, and security.

Collaborate with UI/UX designers, product managers, and DevOps teams to streamline development.

Contribute to AI-powered application development (if experienced in AI/ML).

Required Skills & Qualifications

✅ 2.5+ years of experience in MERN stack development.

✅ Expertise in React.js, TypeScript, Node.js, and Express.js.

✅ Strong database management skills with MongoDB, MySQL, or PostgreSQL.

✅ Proven experience in leading development teams and conducting code reviews.

✅ Excellent problem-solving and communication skills.

✅ Bonus: Experience in AI/ML-based applications is a plus.

Why Join Us?

🚀 Exciting Projects – Work on AI-driven and scalable web solutions.

🤝 Leadership Opportunity – Lead and mentor a talented team of developers.

💰 Competitive Compensation – ₹50K - ₹60K per month.

🏡 Dynamic Work Environment – Collaborative, innovation-driven workplace.

This role will report to the Chief Technology Officer

You Will Be Responsible For

* Driving decision-making on enterprise architecture and component-level software design to our software platforms' timely build and delivery.

* Leading a team in building a high-performing and scalable SaaS product.

* Conducting code reviews to maintain code quality and follow best practices

* DevOps practice development on promoting automation, including asset creation, enterprise strategy definition, and training teams

* Developing and building microservices leveraging cloud services

* Working on application security aspects

* Driving innovation within the engineering team, translating product roadmaps into clear development priorities, architectures, and timely release plans to drive business growth.

* Creating a culture of innovation that enables the continued growth of individuals and the company

* Working closely with Product and Business teams to build winning solutions

* Led talent management, including hiring, developing, and retaining a world-class team

Ideal Profile

* You possess a Degree in Engineering or a related field and have at least 20+ years of experience as a Software Engineer, with a 10+ years of experience leading teams and at least 4 Years of experience in building a SaaS / Fintech platform.

* Proficiency in MERN / Java / Full Stack.

* Led a team in optimizing the performance and scalability of a product

* You have extensive experience with DevOps environment and CI/CD practices and can train teams.

* You're a hands-on leader, visionary, and problem solver with a passion for excellence.

* You can work in fast-paced environments and communicate asynchronously with geographically distributed teams.

What's on Offer?

* Exciting opportunity to drive the Engineering efforts of a reputed organisation

* Work alongside & learn from best in class talent

* Competitive compensation + ESOPs

Are you passionate about backend development and eager to learn real-world skills? We're looking for a Node.js Intern who is excited to grow, explore, and build with experienced developers.

About the Opportunity:

Join a fast-paced, collaborative environment where learning is the core focus. You’ll work alongside experienced developers, contribute to real projects, and sharpen your skills in Node.js, APIs, databases, and modern backend architectures.

What We’re Looking For:

• Basic knowledge of JavaScript & Node.js
• Curiosity to learn and improve daily
• Eagerness to take ownership and ask questions
• A team player with a positive attitude

You’ll Get To:

• Learn by working on live projects
• Understand backend design and API development
• Collaborate with a supportive and skilled dev team
• Gain experience with tools like Express.js, MongoDB, Git, etc.

Ideal For:

Students, recent grads, or self-taught devs looking for real-world exposure.

**Work remotely / Work From Home with BigStep Technologies throughout your tenure**

Desired candidates must have 7+ years of total experience in backend development with good expertise in MEAN Stack (MongoDB, ExpressJS, AngularJS, Node.js) and JavaScript, along with strong development and coding skills, good analytical and problem-solving skills.

Roles and Responsibilities :

What You'll Do

• Create the system architecture for any product from scratch as well as drive it for more than one development teams
• Design and deliver solutions that enable fast and efficient deployment of quality code to production
• Document the architectural blueprint and end to end design through flowcharts and diagrams.
• Set coding standards for development teams and ensure all released code is following standards
• Oversee the code review process, performing reviews when necessary
• Establish strong communication channels and relationships with the development teams, supporting them throughout the release cycle
• Continuously evaluate the existing software to identify areas of improvement and ensure architectural integrity as additional features are added.
• Lead DevOps and implement tooling and process improvements when you identify gaps
• Work with various stakeholders and identify the scope of the work, provide high level estimations, create a timeline and come up with the approach and design for the same.
• Evaluate and recommend tools, technologies and processes to ensure the highest quality product platform.
• Coach and mentor the development teams to improve the overall expertise and skills of the team.
• Take care of the development of critical components and POCs for new technologies to be used.
• Deliver high quality deliverables individually/as a team adhering to industry best practices.
• Troubleshoot any errors or issues that arise in the application/infrastructure components quickly and efficiently.

What You Bring

• 7+ years in software development or product engineering
• Proficient in MEAN Stack
• Good experience in backend development with Node.js
• Expertise in developing RESTful APIs
• Have created multi-transactional and highly redundant systems from ideation to production
• Customer-centric mindset
• Expertise in Agile SCRUM best practices
• Expertise in implementing front-end of applications using HTML5, Angular.js
• Proficient in MVC, OOPS concepts, Web Development Concepts, HTML, JSON, REST API development
• Strong coding skills, good analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to break down complex technical concepts into something digestible by non-technical stakeholders

Skills & Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Full Stack Developer or similar role
• Experience developing desktop and mobile applications
• Familiarity with common stacks
• Knowledge of multiple front-end languages and libraries (e.g. HTML/ CSS, JavaScript, XML, jQuery)
• Knowledge of multiple back-end languages (e.g. PHP, Java, Python) and JavaScript frameworks (e.g. Angular, React, Node.js)
• Knowledge of AWS Cloud (EC2,S3,Lambda,SES) 
• Familiarity with databases (e.g. MySQL, DynamoDB, MongoDB), web servers (e.g. Apache, Nginx, Tomcat) and UI/UX design
  Knowledge of code versioning tools (such as Git, SVN).
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills
• Great attention to detail
• Organizational skills
• An analytical mind
• Degree in Computer Science, or relevant field

• Benefits
• Being part of a startup that’s turning out to be a game-changer, you will be blessed with:
• Freedom to try new things.
• 2 Saturday’s off.
• Dress code – Casual.
• Take-it-when-you-need-it vacation.
• No. of working days:- 05

• Proficiency with NodeJs, ES6, Express;
• Experience in Source Control (Bitbucket/GIT);
• Experience in developing and scaling B2B applications.
• Knowledge and experience with using Restful API;
• Must be able to design components to drive reusability and performance;
• Must be able to build responsive design;
• Design, develop, and maintain code that meets requirements, is high quality, and performs efficiently and effectively to provide a great customer experience;
• Write production quality and thoroughly tested code.

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Open to adapt to new technologies.
• Ability to multi-task and work under pressure.
• Work with development teams and reporting managers to ideate software solutions
• Should have ability to understand Client requirements & deliver quality services based on those requirements.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills required.
• Design client-side and server-side architecture
• Build the front-end of applications through appealing visual design
• Develop and manage well-functioning databases and applications
• Write effective APIs
• Test software to ensure responsiveness and efficiency
• Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade software
• Create security and data protection settings
• Build features and applications with a mobile responsive design
• Write technical documentation
• Work with data scientists and analysts to improve software

REQUIREMENTS

1. Expertise in Angular 6/7 with 2+ Years’ experience is MUST.
2. Proven experience as a Full Stack Developer or similar role.
3. Experience developing web, mobile or hybrid applications.
4. Knowledge of multiple front-end languages and libraries as HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, XML, jQuery, JSON.
5. Knowledge of JavaScript/Typescript frameworks as js.
6. Familiarity with databases as MySQL, MongoDB and web servers with UI/UX design
7. Experience on web application & RESTful web service
8. Experience implementing testing platforms and unit tests.
9. Job involves 80-90% hands-on coding.
10. Good to have the knowledge of Cloud deployment AWS and Docker

Job Description

• ​Be able to drive a team of around 4 developers
• Should be able to effectively lead from the front, integrating developers, analysts and QA
• Should be able to pair, and effectively mentor junior developers
• The ability to think innovatively and turn ambiguous problem spaces into clear solutions
• Be an inspiration for the team and a trusted partner to our customers

Requirements

• Familiar with PHP or Ruby or NodeJS. Strong experience in Laravel and/or ReactJS a plus
• Familiarity with the entire development -> prod flow a strong plus (our dev owns the DevOps)
• Familiarity with performance tuning a web stack a strong plus
• Comfortable working in an Agile highly dynamic start-up environment
• Demonstrate leadership skill and be accustomed to driving results in a collaborative, cross-functional environment