Jr. MERN Stack Developer

We are a Florida-based nonprofit organization seeking a full-time remote AI Programmer to support automation and AI-driven workflows.

Schedule:

42 hours per week

Flexible schedule overlap with EST preferred

Compensation:

$750 to $1,000 + bonus

Long-term contractor role

Responsibilities:

• Build and maintain AI-driven websites, apps, and automation systems
• Work with large language model APIs (OpenAI, Gemini, etc.)
• Improve prompt engineering and structured outputs
• Optimize performance and reliability

Requirements:

• Experience working with APIs (REST, JSON)
• Experience with PHP, React.js, and database systems.
• Familiarity with LLM models and prompt design
• Understanding of automation workflows
• Reliable high-speed internet
• Ability to communicate clearly in English

Preferred (not required):

• Experience with image generation APIs
• Experience with Google Sheets / Apps Script
• Experience deploying lightweight cloud functions

To apply, please reply with:

• Your resume
• Examples of relevant AI or automation work
• GitHub or portfolio (if available)
• Your current location and availability

Qualified applicants will receive a follow-up application link.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable microservices and RESTful APIs using Python (Flask, FastAPI, or Django).
• Architect data models for SQL and NoSQL databases (PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, MongoDB, DynamoDB) to optimize performance and reliability.
• Implement efficient and secure data access layers, caching, and indexing strategies.
• Collaborate closely with product and frontend teams to deliver seamless user experiences.
• Build responsive UI components using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and frameworks like React or Angular.
• Ensure system reliability, observability, and fault tolerance across services.
• Lead code reviews, mentor junior engineers, and promote engineering best practices.
• Contribute to DevOps and CI/CD workflows for smooth deployments and testing automation.

Required Skills & Experience

• 10+ years of professional software development experience.
• Strong proficiency in Python, with deep understanding of OOP, asynchronous programming, and performance optimization.
• Proven expertise in building FAST API based microservices architectures.
• Solid understanding of SQL and NoSQL data modeling, query optimization, and schema design.
• Excellent hands on proficiency in frontend proficiency with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and a modern framework (React, Angular, or Vue).
• Experience working with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and containerized deployments (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Familiarity with distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and messaging queues (Kafka, RabbitMQ).
• Excellent problem-solving, communication, and system design skills.

Job Description:

• Design and architect highly scalable web services applications
• Develop and maintain all server-side network components
• Collaborate with front-end developers on the integration of elements Architect
• Content Management Solution and scalable API platform
• Design back-end services for various business processes
• Partner with third-party technology services and make strategic inputs.
• Develop high-performance applications by writing testable, reusable, and efficient code
• Create workflows and solutions involving search, recommendations, rights
• management, monetization, identity management, SSO, authorization, authentication, etc.
• Work with large datasets and optimize server-side performance
• Implement effective security protocols, data protection measures, and storage
• solutions

Requirements

• 4-7 years of Knowledge of Node.js and ReactJS frameworks
• Experience in creating and maintaining efficient NoSQl databases GRPC and Json Elasticsearch
• Experience in AWS environment, cloud deployments and lambda
• DevOps and web security
• API development and deployment
• Unit and integration testing

• Coding Complex Modules
• Code review and enforcing best practices
• Improve application architecture
• Constantly improve his/her own skill set
• Customisation to existing open souce and custom built applications
• Building a knowledge base of the latest programming trends, best practices and methodologies.

• B.Tech/BCA/MCA or M.Tech
• Experience into Javascript (Node.js, Angular.js/React.js)
• Experience representing work to a broader product team and other leaders, clearly and succintly articulating the goals and concepts

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.

Job Requirements

Must have:

• Experience working on Node.js with Typescript and Express.
• Experience working with SQL and NoSQL databases. Experience with PostgreSQL and DynamoDB would be preferred.

Nice to have:

• Experience in ReactJS and its main fundamentals like JSX, Virtual DOM, component lifecycle, etc.
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript, object model, DOM manipulation and event handlers, data structures, algorithms.
• Knowledge of Unit testing frameworks

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Job Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain software applications.
• Write well-designed, testable, efficient code by using best software development practices.

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Outstanding career growth & development opportunities

Competitive salary & work benefit package

Passionate, energetic & innovative work culture

Experience building high-performance, large-scale, distributed server applications.

Experience with any of the back-end programming languages such as JavaScript (NodeJS), Java, C#, Python, PHP, etc.

Commitment to developing clean code that is easy to maintain and enhance strong logical thinking, analytical and problem-solving skills

Candidate must possess at least Diploma/Advanced/Higher/Graduate Diploma, Bachelor's Degree/Post-Graduate Diploma/Professional Degree in Computer Science/Information Technology or equivalent.

Required language(s): English, Mandarin

Preferably Junior Executive specialized in IT/Computer - Software or equivalent.

Preferably candidate with at least 2-year experience in IT/Computer - Software or equivalent.