Fullstack Developer (MERN stack remote job)

Join an Innovative Growth Team as an Engineering Architect!

Fresh Prints is an NYC-based custom apparel startup. We find incredible students and give them the working capital, training, and support to build the business at their schools. We have 400+ students who will contribute significantly to our revenue in the next 12 months. We develop, host, and operate a custom-built OMS and a client-facing application.

We’re looking for a dynamic, driven, and experienced professional who wants to take on the challenges mentioned below. We need you to participate in feature discussions, dig into business requirements, and understand the user.

Some of the questions that you'll work on:

• How do we ensure that our Customer facing and Internal tech scales with the growth of the business?
• How do we improve our application performance? 
• What new unique value propositions can we create through tech?
• How do we develop additional revenue channels?
• How do we increase operational efficiency?
• How do we usher in the next stage at Fresh Prints?

This role reports to Srini Raju, our AD of Engineering, and you will work with an extremely talented and professional team.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Delivers solution or infrastructure development services, such as coding, programming, and creating program specifications in a defined project, using sound technical capabilities.
• Develops, modifies, and maintains solutions or infrastructure, ensuring compliance with the relevant standards.
• Lead the Development & Engineering team in the area of specialization and developed the team to ensure it has the right capability.
• Contributes to the strategic direction within the area of specialization, including standards, culture, and ways of working in line with the departmental strategy
• Strategically leverage networks to drive innovation, best practices,s and continuous improvement culture.
• Drives the relationship with other departments and significantly contributes to the development of the design, technology, product development, and vendor strategy
• Work with business users to capture requirements and review code & design, ensuring excellent delivery as per standards.

Your Focus Area at Work will be:

Customer orientation with a strong focus on quality

• Knowledge in the following areas is beneficial: AWS, CI/CD, NodeJS, Angular, React
• Good communication skills to discuss, gather requirements from businesses and recommend technologies with Architecture design.
• Contributes to defining the product's architecture with the solution architect.
• Supports the product owner in writing user stories and offers crucial Technical knowledge for shaping the end-to-end process and data flow.
• Support and advise product owners by ensuring technical and architectural feasibility, readiness, and compliance.
• Drive adoption of newer cutting-edge technology within the organization through knowledge sessions, adoption of the same in the solution, etc.
• Assist the product teams in translating business and product requirements into technical requirements, models, and software architecture.
• Guide team development efforts toward successful project delivery.
• Identify and encourage areas for growth and improvement within the team. Collaborate with other software developers, business analysts, and software architects to plan, design, develop, test, and maintain applications built on JS technologies.
• Assist in the collection and documentation of user requirements and development of user stories, estimates, and work plans.

You Are

• Proactive: You believe it’s always on you to make sure anything you do is a success.
• In love with challenges: You revel in solving problems and want a job that pushes you out of your comfort zone.
• Goal-oriented and ambitious: You’re dedicated to a long-term vision of who you are and where you want to go.
• Open to change: You’re inspired by the endless ways in which everything we do can be improved.
• Calm under pressure: You have a sense of urgency but channel it into productively working through any issues.

Compensation & Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Health insurance
• Personal Accident Insurance (India only)
• The opportunity to learn a lot rapidly
• Working in a great culture

Job Location

• This is 100% remote work.

Working Hours:

• 1:30 pm IST - 11:30 pm IST

Fresh Prints is an equal employment opportunity employer and promotes diversity, actively encouraging people of all backgrounds, ages, LGBTQ+, and those with disabilities to apply.

• Experience : 5-10 yrs
•  Past experience in working with any product start-up is a plus.
•  Proficiency in fundamental front end languages such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
•  Familiarity with JavaScript frameworks such as Angular JS, React, and others.
•  Knowledge of Node.js and frameworks available for it such as Express (recommended).
•  Good understanding of asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, and AJAX
•  Understanding of REST Services.
•  Experience with Redis.
•  Familiarity with database technology such as MySQL, MongoDB and Elasticsearch.
•  Proficient understanding of serverless programming.
•  Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git.
•  Good problem-solving skills.
•  Attention to detail.

1. should have strong communication skill
2. able to communicate to client about technical solutions and needs
3. Able to deliver the project from end to end without management support
4. Should be able to code Full stack development Ex: MERN
5. Manage team independently
6. Minimum 5+ years of experience

Our ideal candidate is someone who is an exceptional JS developer with significant experience on React and Node. You should be able to build and support complex applications single-handedly with a keen eye towards UX, design, security and performance. Additionally you will need to have a basic understanding of microservices, API integrations to aid in achieving our vision of building the most robust and scalable integration platform in the B2B Retail + Food verticals. You will be responsible for architecture, design and implementation of the entire system to support thousands of customers globally. Our stack is primarily built around Node, PHP, React, Angular, Mongo, PHP and advanced Infra and DevOps tools such as Kubernetes, Grafana, Prometheus, ELK and more.

Mentoring should come naturally to you, as well as finding the right balance towards process and documentation.

Highlights:
1) You will be working on interesting technical challenges in a product centric and open-source driven environment.
2) You will help set a very high bar on code quality with a focus on test driven development and writing highly performant, fault tolerant and secure code.
3) You will take ownership of product features from conception to implementation, testing deployment and support.
4) A lot of freedom on when and where you work from - just get stuff done.
5) You will open source as much as possible, and blog about cool things that you learnt and built.
6) You will help define who we become as a company.
7) You will get stock options in line with silicon valley standards.


Caveats:
1) We have a strict no-divas rule. There are a lot of smart engineers on the team but no one with an attitude / superiority complex.
2) If you think writing tests for your code, writing docs, doing customer support etc are not your cup of tea, this isn't the right role for you.
3) Similarly, if you're viewing this just as a 20-40% increment opportunity over your current compensation, this isn't the right role or company for you.


This role can be the growth opportunity of a lifetime for anyone who has been operating as a backend lead and wants to grow into a fullstack CTO. Check out the links below if you'd like to learn more about us. We encourage people from underrepresented groups to apply.

1) Why ShoppinPal? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cE7DgtwA0ws" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cE7DgtwA0ws
2) Our hiring philosophy and process http://techstory.in/building-startup-team/" target="_blank">http://techstory.in/building-startup-team/
3) Our culture- https://www.shoppinpal.com/culture">https://www.shoppinpal.com/culture