JavaScript Developer

Location: Mumbai

Experience Required: 2+ Years

Job Type: Full-Time

Notice Period: Immediate Joiners

About the Role

We are seeking a skilled and experienced Full Stack (MERN) Developer to join our product engineering team. The ideal candidate must have experience working in a product-based software development company and should have hands-on involvement in e-commerce platform projects.

Mandatory Criteria

• Candidate must be currently working or have prior experience in a product-based software development company
• Candidate must have worked on at least one e-commerce platform project (end-to-end involvement)

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain scalable web applications using MongoDB, Express.js, React.js, and Node.js
• Translate UI/UX designs into high-quality front-end code
• Build and integrate RESTful APIs
• Ensure performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications
• Participate in design discussions, code reviews, and contribute to technical documentation
• Work in a collaborative, agile development environment

Required Skills

• Strong proficiency in JavaScript, React.js, Node.js, and Express.js
• Hands-on experience with MongoDB or other NoSQL databases
• Solid understanding of RESTful APIs and architectural patterns
• Knowledge of version control systems like Git
• Understanding of CI/CD and cloud-based deployment practices
• Good grasp of performance optimization, caching, and security practices

Job Description

• Gather and analyse information on existing business processes in order to make
• recommendations that seek to improve business systems and processes.
• Analyse and document requirements for enhancements to systems and / or business
• processes. May involve investigation of third-party vendors or systems.
• Clearly document solutions and recommendations to business problems
• Review requirements and designs with relevant stakeholders to obtain agreement and sign off proposals.
• Create cost and time estimates along with project plans to enable prioritization and execution of work.
• Assist and/or coordinate user testing, ensuring issues are resolved in a pragmatic and appropriate manner.
• Assist the design and implementation of ongoing support arrangements for delivered systems.
• Work as part of a project team, reporting progress and escalating issues to project management in a timely manner to ensure successful completion of projects / reviews.
• Complete all tasks related to technical analysis, building and unit testing, quality assurance,
• system test and implementation in accordance with the IT development life cycle.
• Provide post implementation support.
• Create and maintain documentation for systems and processes.
• Adhere to standards set by the Invesco project methodology.
• Contribute the improvement of the existing processes.
• Assist with developing improvements to team processes and procedures.
• Provide On Call support for systems based on agreed coverage timeframe.

• 5-6 years of ASP.NET, C#, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript and SQL Server, AWS and Microservices
• 3+ years technical leadership and architecture experience in software development
• 4+ years working in SQL-backed environments.
• 3+ knowledge of client-side JavaScript frameworks like React and Redux
• In depth knowledge of REST services (WCF, Web API, Microservices)
• In depth knowledge of Solid work experience in building SaaS based products.
• Experience and clear understanding of how to plan and execute within iterations and sprints.
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development process.
• Innovative, challenging programming work in the Microsoft stack, with SQL Server as a back end
• Ability to work independently with the knowledge and capability to come in and make an immediate impact.
• Experience working in a sprint-driven development process.

• Web Apps built with .NET, using both Web Forms and MVC
• APIs built on .NET (C# / REST services)
• SQL Server 2014
• Cloud : AWS
• UI: in depth knowledge on client side JavaScript framework like React
• Experience on DevOps tools

• FORMAL EDUCATION:
• A Bachelor’s Degree in Management Information Systems or Computer Science is preferred or
• commensurate relevant work experience

we are building a professional network for the top 1% of women with a simple mission - more women in leadership positions. we launched in may 2020, and have an early product-market fit (10k paying members, great nps, retention) and strong business signals. we are backed by some of the best investors in india. click https://love.leap.club/" target="_blank">here to read what our members say about us ❤️

our founding team members have previously built zomato, uber, linkedin, facebook, wework. our 0-1 journey is done and we are now ready to scale 🤞

about the role - full stack developer:

• you will work on a disruptive product that is in its early stages.
• you are someone with experience in building products that have significant user base/revenue and robust backend systems running in production catering to real-world users.
• 2+ years of experience in engineering with applied knowledge of restful api design principles and best practices are a must. 
• an ideal candidate would have exceptional application development skills with experience working with nodejs, react, typescript, cloud (aws), mongodb amongst other in-demand technologies.
• having a good understanding of cloud technologies, deployments, backend & frontend end-to-end operations is key for this role.

skills required:

• experience with building and deploying cloud-based backend systems. operating the backend at low latency, high availability, and quality
• experience with developing distributed systems and scalable real-time applications
• excellent programming skills in node.js, react, express.js with a solid understanding of event-driven architecture
• understanding of sql and nosql databases. experience with designing and maintaining scalable databases
• experience with 3rd party libraries and api integrations. eg. stripe, razorpay, etc
• strong problem-solving skills with an understanding of core algorithms and complexity analysis
• solid understanding of operating system fundamentals, networking and concurrency concepts
• experience with aws technologies like lambda, api gateway, beanstalk, ecs, ec2 etc
• experience with docker, kubernetes good to have

why you should work with us:

• you will be part of our founding team and get a front seat view of building a company. we promise a steep learning curve
• work with smart folks who like to have fun and don't take themselves too seriously
• independently lead projects and own your deliverables
• we are generous with esops for folks who treat leap.club like their own company
• 5 day work week, flexible leave policy, health and accidental insurance
• regular offsites and travel to gurgaon (our hq)

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our thesis:

there are 3 critical factors that help us live our best social-professional life -

1. connections & network
2. jobs and opportunities
3. learning & development (courses, coaching etc.)

in the next 5 years, leap.club will transform all three for our members.

• the current-gen platforms have a simple playbook - big networks, feeds, photos, followers/ influencers and monetize through ads. 
• the next gen networks will be smaller/focused and algo driven
• linkedin enables connections, jobs, learning but it's built for scale and not depth.

our goals :

• 2022 - 10,000 members and $1 mil+ annual revenue 
• 2024 - 100,000 members and $10 mil+ annual revenue 
• 2027 - 1,000,000 members and $100 mil+ annual revenue 

Job Description:-

• Proven experience with coding using JAVA/J2EE.
• Experience developing MultiChannel responsive web application.
• experience working with Windows, Unix/Linux Operating system environments.
• Familiarity with common stacks.
• Experience/Knowledge of multiple front - end languages and libraries (e.g. HTML/ CSS, JavaScript, XML, jQuery).
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills.    
• Willingness to travel within India or aboard for short term or long term would an added advantage.

Responsibilities:

• Developing and maintaining all server-side network components.
• Ensuring optimal performance of the central database and responsiveness to front-end requests.
• Collaborating with front-end developers on the integration of elements.
• Designing customer-facing UI and back-end services for various business processes.
• Developing high-performance applications by writing testable, reusable, and efficient code.
• Implementing effective security protocols, data protection measures, and storage solutions.
• Running diagnostic tests, repairing defects, and providing technical support.
• Documenting Node.js processes, including database schemas, as well as preparing reports.
• Recommending and implementing improvements to processes and technologies.
• Keeping informed of advancements in the field of Web development.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information science, or similar.
• At least One year of experience as a Full Stack developer.
• Extensive knowledge of JavaScript, web stacks, libraries, and frameworks.
• Should have hands on experience in using sockets, express, SQL query builder.
• Should have worked on database like SQL, MYSQL, MongoDB.
• Knowledge of front-end technologies such as HTML5 and CSS3
• Superb interpersonal, communication, and collaboration skills.
• Exceptional analytical and problem-solving aptitude.
• Great organizational and time management skills.
• Availability to resolve urgent web application issues outside of business hours.