MEAN/MERN stack developer

About the role

You'll work on cloud software that helps technical teams collaborate and move faster: an established, in-production product that real customers rely on every day. You'll work directly with leadership who built products at Meta and Apple, on a team where you own meaningful work and your decisions have direct impact.

Location: On-site, Financial District, Hyderabad

What you'll do

• Lead the engineering team day to day, owning delivery and technical direction
• Architect projects end to end and make the high-leverage technical decisions across the stack, in ReactJS, NodeJS, and AWS
• Set up the engineering processes, standards, and rituals that let the team ship fast without breaking things
• Mentor and grow engineers, raising the bar across the team
• Break complex, ambiguous problems into clear plans and drive them to done
• Make deliberate tradeoffs between creating tech debt and delivering business requirements

What we're looking for

• 8+ years of full stack engineering experience (strong senior engineers ready to step into a lead role are welcome)
• Deep, hands-on command of ReactJS, NodeJS, and AWS
• A track record of technical leadership: architecting systems, mentoring engineers, and setting up engineering processes
• Strong fundamentals in data structures and algorithms
• Excellent communication and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment
• Bonus if you know: TypeScript, SQL, ExpressJS

Who you are

• You have serious work ethic. You get a high from checking things off and seeing results.
• You're curious, resourceful, and self-learning.
• You take ownership and bring the hustle.
• You lead by example and bring momentum to everything and everyone you work with.

📌Important: To complete your application for this role, please fill out this short screening form: [https://app.botfriday.ai/#/open/external-job-application/792cccfa-c046-4092-b20d-814705d5314f].

Only candidates who complete this step will be considered for further rounds."

About the Role

We are looking for a Technical Lead with 5–7 years of experience in the JavaScript/TypeScript and Node.js ecosystem to drive core platform development. This is a hands-on leadership role that requires strong backend expertise, as well as exposure to mentoring and team management.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead development of core platform components including frameworks, APIs, and backend services
• Design and build scalable RESTful APIs and microservices using Node.js (NestJS preferred)
• Take ownership of system design, architecture, and performance optimization
• Mentor junior developers and ensure adherence to coding standards and best practices
• Drive Agile development (JIRA-based) and ensure smooth sprint execution
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (UI, DevOps, Product)
• Conduct code reviews and enforce efficient coding using DSA principles
• Manage version control and collaboration using Git/Bitbucket

Required Technical Skills

• Strong proficiency in JavaScript / TypeScript
• Hands-on experience in Node.js (NestJS preferred)
• Good understanding of Data Structures & Algorithms (DSA)
• Experience with SQL databases
• Strong knowledge of REST services and API development
• Experience with Git (version control)
• Understanding of backend architecture and scalable systems

Good to Have Skills

• Experience with Bitbucket
• Knowledge of AWS Cloud (EC2, S3, Load Balancer)
• Exposure to SAP UI5 or frontend frameworks
• Basic understanding of CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices

Leadership & Behavioral Skills

• Experience in team handling / mentoring developers
• Strong knowledge of JIRA and Agile methodologies
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical thinking
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills

Roles and Responsibilities 

1) Understand client requirements and functionalities. 

2) Write well-designed, testable, efficient code. 

3) Responsible for solving complex technical issues. 

4) Ensure quality projects are delivered within defined timelines. 

5) Active involvement in client communication to understand functional requirements. 

6) Maintain high standards of quality for code, documentation and other deliverables. 

Required Skills 

1) Good experience in Angular/React

2) Hand on Node.JS./Express JS 

3) Database : MYSQL/MongoDB 

4) Experience in Java Script, Typescript. 

5)Good experience in HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, Jquery 

6) Experience working in an Agile environment. 

7) Good communication skills.

As a developer at CultureMonkey, you will be joining a world-class team of domain experts who are passionate about technology and people. An ideal day at CultureMonkey will see you working closely with the founding team to ideate and implement new features to enhance our product. As an organization helping top companies build a positive work culture, we are pretty serious about practicing what we preach. Work-life balance is a big deal here!

What you bring to the table:

• Writing and maintaining reliable code that abides to Object Oriented Design.
• Own up implementation of the entire module (comprises front-end and back-end components)
• Identifying and fixing bottlenecks and bugs in the product.
• Collaborate with customer success team to understand and analyze the requirements to build efficient solutions.
• Maintaining APIs.
• Participate in design reviews and architecture discussions.
• Optimize application for performance and scalability.

What it takes:

• Ability to learn and write production-ready code
• Basic understanding of Object oriented programming and MVC.
• Exposure to front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3.
• Familiar in database concepts and writing SQL queries.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills with an ability to communicate technical information, both written and oral, to technical and non-technical reviewers.

Extra brownie points if you have

• Hands on experience in Ruby on Rails.
• Basic understanding of Elastic-search
• Proficient understanding of Git
• Exposure to RESTful api.

Apart from financial gains, to know more about the benefits of working at CultureMonkey, you can refer to the following link: https://www.culturemonkey.io/life-at-cultureMonkey/

• - Work with UX and Product Management teams to design software
• - Work with Architects and Engineering leads to build scalable software
• - Back-end software development
• - Proficient in low level system arch design
• - Strong knowledge of web development - MVC, React / Angular Framework
• - Take Product Ownership
• - Testing and fixing bugs
• - Create security and data protection settings
• - Build features with a mobile responsive design
• - Experience with Agile/Scrum methodology, Behavior Driven Development, and CI/CD
• - Ability to think critically and creatively in a dynamic environment, while picking up new tools and domain knowledge along the way

• - 3+ years of industry experience as a Backend/Full Stack Engineer
• - Degree in Computer Science or related field
• - Experience with developing web and mobile applications
• - Must have 2-5 years of experience building applications using front end technologies like – React, Angular 2+, JavaScript/Typescript, HTML5, CSS3 and Bootstrap 
• - Must have 2-5 years of full time Python (Django) experience, and hands-on experience through all stages of Agile software development life cycle. 
• - Ability to write optimized codes, debug programs, and integrate applications with third party tools by developing various APIs.
• - Proficiency with Python or relevant back-end scripting language
• - Proficiency with SQL/NoSQL databases, web servers (e.g. Nginx)
• - Experience with Cloud infrastructure (e.g. AWS), relevant microservices and load scaling
• - Maintains a strong knowledge base of new open source tech stacks, applications, techniques, and skills

• - A positive attitude, and a growth mindset
• - Great attention to details

• - Experience with serverless deployment  (e.g. Lambda)
• - Experience with API testing software (e.g. Postman)
• - Experience with multiple front-end languages and libraries (e.g. HTML/CSS, JS)
• - Good Humor

Technical Skills:

• Hands-on experience with JavaScript/TypeScript ( NodeJS & ExpressJS) in) Development on both client and server-side
• Proficiency in HTML, CSS and front end frameworks(Angular 7, AngularJS) 
• Having experience in building a responsive web design
• Experience with MongoDB and good knowledge in database concepts
• Experience with web frameworks like ExpressJS
• Developing secure Node.js end points using Passport, JWT, OAuth, and related technologies.
• Knowledge in Restful API Design
• Knowledge in unit testing tools like Karma, Jasmine etc..
• Experience with Version control systems like GIT and knowledge in GIT branching is necessary.
• Knowledge in continuous integration
• Strong object-oriented knowledge in any platform is a plus
• Proficiency and hands-on experience with one or more of the following: Backbone / KnockoutJS / EmberJS / ReactJS is a plus
• Knowledge in payment gateway integration is a plus

Responsibilities:

• Working with an Agile Scrum team using tools such as JIRA.

• Involving in writing functional specifications and technical documentation

• Working with the peer developers and writing good quality codes and release features

• Participation in internal code reviews

• Direct interaction with the client