MEAN/MERN stack developer

Fountane Archipelago  ·  Island Role

A Little Bit About the Role

We are looking for a Senior Product Engineer (L3) who thrives in complexity. Most engineers build on blank canvases — you build on someone else’s mess and leave it better than you found it.

The majority of your work at L3 will be on existing, live codebases — disorganised, partially documented, built by multiple teams over multiple years. Your job is to enter those systems, understand them before touching them, extend and clean them without breaking what works, and progressively bring them up to a standard where AI tooling can accelerate further development. This is the core of what L3 does at Fountane. If you have only built greenfield projects, this role will be hard.

You are expected to be genuinely full stack: comfortable owning web applications and mobile apps, the frontend, backend, database, state management, and API integration layer — without needing to hand off to a specialist.

You will work closely with the Concept Engineer on your Island — translating their prototypes into production architecture, raising technical blockers early, and keeping the sprint honest. You will also review code, mentor junior engineers, respond to production incidents, and contribute to the network’s shared knowledge base.

All of this is done primarily with Cursor and Claude as your execution and reasoning tools. AI-assisted engineering is not a feature of this role — it is the method.

AI-First Engineering Expectation

Cursor and Claude are your primary tools — not supplements. Engineers at L3 who are not using AI at the codebase level are not operating at this level.

At L3, AI-assisted engineering means:

• Loading full codebase context into Cursor before writing a single line — understanding the system before touching it.
• Writing scoped, precise refactor prompts that isolate changes to one concern at a time.
• Using Cursor to generate tests that document existing behaviour before any restructuring begins.
• Using Claude for architecture reasoning, decision documentation, and translating CE briefs into structured technical plans.
• Producing inline documentation and decision records as part of the AI-assisted workflow — not as an afterthought.
• Sharing effective prompt patterns and Cursor discoveries with the broader Fountane network — kept to yourself, they are a missed contribution.

Key Responsibilities

Legacy Codebase Refactoring & the Cleaning Phase

This is the primary L3 engagement type at Fountane. You will be handed existing, partially documented codebases — built by previous teams, often without tests, with inconsistent patterns — and your job is to refactor them into a clean, AI-promptable state without losing existing functionality. You use Cursor’s codebase context window to navigate safely, write characterisation tests before touching anything, and make changes in small, reviewable increments. The standard is: every module you leave should be easier to extend by AI tooling than when you found it.

Full Stack Development — Web & Mobile

Build and own the full application layer: React / Next.js web frontends, React Native or Flutter mobile apps, Node.js / Python backends, and relational and non-relational databases. You should be able to pick up web or mobile on any engagement without needing a handoff. Schema design, data modelling, and state architecture are yours to own — including diagnosing and fixing broken or leaking state in existing frontends.

Third-Party API Integrations

Integrate complex third-party services — payments (Stripe), communications (Twilio), auth (Auth0), and others — reliably and without creating brittle dependencies. Own the integration layer end to end: error handling, retries, failure modes, and documentation. If a third-party integration is flaky in production, that is your problem to own.

CE Collaboration & Sprint Integrity

Work directly with the Concept Engineer to translate prototypes into buildable technical plans. Review CE briefs before the sprint starts — if the scope is technically unrealistic, the time to say so is before work begins, not on demo day. Raise blockers against acceptance criteria proactively. You are the technical check on what the CE promises the client.

Security Awareness

Write code that does not require the Lead to security-audit every line. This means: input validation by default, no hardcoded secrets, correct auth scoping, safe handling of user data, and awareness of common vulnerabilities (injection, broken auth, insecure direct object references) in the context of the stacks you work in. You are not the security architect — the Lead owns that — but you are expected to produce code that does not introduce obvious vulnerabilities.

Production Incident Response

When something breaks in production, you are on it. Diagnose the issue, apply a safe fix or rollback, document what happened and why, and hand a clear summary to the Lead for the client post-mortem. Speed matters, but a bad fix that causes a second incident is worse than a slow fix that is correct. Response expectation: acknowledged within 1 hour, resolved or escalated with a clear status within 4 hours.

Codebase Navigation & Safe Refactoring

On all engagements — not just Cleaning Phase work — keep changes small, focused, and reviewable. One type of change per commit. Write tests that document existing behaviour before restructuring. Leave every module easier to understand than when you found it.

Code Review

Review pull requests from L1 and L2 engineers with specific, actionable feedback — not rubber-stamp approvals. A good code review at L3 leaves the author understanding what to do differently next time, not just what to fix now. Review weekly; do not let PRs age.

Mentoring

Review junior engineers’ code weekly with specific, useful feedback — this is distinct from quality-gate code review. The goal here is teaching, not gatekeeping. Run monthly pairing sessions to help them grow. The measure of good mentoring is whether they are becoming more capable and less dependent on you over time.

Documentation

Write short decision records when you make significant technical choices. Leave every module you touch easier to understand than when you found it. Treat documentation as part of the engineering work, not a separate task you do at the end.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as a software engineer, with a strong track record on real production codebases you did not build from scratch — incomplete documentation, inconsistent patterns, other people’s decisions. If your experience is primarily greenfield, this role will be a difficult fit.
• Genuinely full stack across web and mobile: proficient in React / Next.js and at least one of React Native or Flutter, Node.js or Python on the backend, and comfortable with both relational and non-relational databases including schema design.
• Hands-on, daily Cursor and Claude usage at the codebase level. You should be able to describe concretely how you use AI in your engineering workflow — not in general terms.
• Experience integrating complex third-party APIs in production environments — not just following a quickstart guide. You should be able to describe an integration that failed in production and what you did about it.
• Solid security awareness for the stacks you work in: input validation, auth scoping, safe data handling. You do not need a security specialism, but you should not be writing code that introduces obvious vulnerabilities.
• Has conducted meaningful code reviews that improved the code and the author, not just approved the PR.
• Has coached or mentored junior engineers before, and done it well.
• Comfortable with production incident response — diagnosing issues under pressure, applying safe fixes, and communicating clearly to a Lead or client about what happened.
• Treats documentation as part of the job, not an afterthought.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience.

About Fountane

Fountane is a technology ventures lab - one part product studio, one part startup engine. We build high-quality software and AI products for clients ranging from fast-moving startups to large enterprises, and we co-build and invest in new companies when we see the right opportunity.

Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Minneapolis, we have grown to 60+ people across four continents and were recognised as one of America’s fastest-growing companies, ranking No. 699 on the Inc. 5000 with 595% three-year growth.

We are radically open-minded, serious about craft, and direct about expectations. If you want to do meaningful work without politics, this is the place.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Leadership

• Lead the design and implementation of scalable, high-performance modules and APIs

• Architect robust solutions utilizing PHP (Yii framework), Vue.js, CSS, HTML, and JavaScript

• Demonstrate advanced expertise in SQL development and optimization across PostgreSQL and

AWS Aurora environments

• Execute comprehensive query optimization and database performance tuning initiatives

• Design and implement efficient data access patterns and database architectures

• Establish and enforce coding standards, best practices, and development methodologies

• Drive technical decision-making for feature development, system enhancements, and

infrastructure improvements

• Conduct comprehensive code reviews and ensure delivery of production-ready solutions

Team Management & Mentoring

• Lead and mentor a team of 5-10 fullstack developers

• Foster a collaborative, high-performance development culture

• Provide technical guidance and professional development opportunities for team members

• Facilitate knowledge sharing and cross-training initiatives

• Coordinate with cross-functional teams including Product, QA, and DevOps

Product Development

• Drive core product development from conception to deployment

• Manage critical issue resolution and system maintenance

• Build reusable code libraries and establish development frameworks

• Ensure optimal application performance, security, and scalability

• Collaborate with stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical solutions

Lead Software Engineer

Process & Quality Assurance

• Implement and optimize Agile development methodologies

• Drive technical project planning and delivery timelines

• Ensure comprehensive documentation and knowledge management

• Monitor system performance and implement proactive improvements

Required Qualifications

Experience & Background

• 12+ years of overall software development experience

• 8-10+ years of hands-on experience with PHP, preferably using Yii framework or similar MVC

frameworks

• 3+ years of technical leadership or team lead experience

• Proven track record in fullstack development with significant contributions to web and backend

systems

Technical Expertise

• Expert-level proficiency in Object-Oriented Programming (OOP), PHP, and JavaScript

• Advanced experience with Vue.js (Vue 2/3, Vuex, Vue Router) and modern frontend

development practices

• Deep understanding of SQL and database design principles

• Production experience with PostgreSQL and complex database operations

• Proficient in version control systems (Git/GitHub) and collaborative development workflows

Leadership & Soft Skills

• Demonstrated ability to lead technical teams and drive project deliveries

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities

• Experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies and project lifecycle management

• Ability to work independently while maintaining strong collaboration with distributed teams

Preferred Qualifications

• Extensive reporting and analytics experience with complex data visualization and dashboard

development

• Proven experience working with large datasets (millions of records) and optimizing query

performance

• Advanced SQL expertise including complex joins, stored procedures, window functions, and

query optimization

• Experience with reporting services such as SSRS, Crystal Reports, Tableau, Power BI, or similar

business intelligence tools

Work Location

Hyderabad, India - On-site position with flexible working arrangements to accommodate both India and onsite teams

Mandatory Skills

• Backend: Java, Spring Boot
• Frontend: Angular
• Database: Oracle / SQL
• Node js

Job Description

Contribute to all software-development life-cycle phases including: domain and non-domain problem analysis, solution requirement gathering and analysis, solution design, implementation, code review, source-code control, source building deployment, validation, QA support, and production support.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

•⁠ ⁠Maintain and enhance multi-tier messaging application suites (Java EE, Springframework, WAS, Oracle, DB2, MQ)

•⁠ ⁠Build and maintain IRIS4Health middle-tier message applications (IRIS Interop/Cache; Java, Drools, Kafka, Restful, MLLP, SQL)

•⁠ ⁠Build and maintain multi-tier Clinical Toxicology application (Angular, Java EE, Springframework, WAS, RHOS, Cache, SQL)

•⁠ ⁠Maintain stat-tracking application (two-tier Delphi, MySQL)

•⁠ ⁠Maintain and enhance Cytogenetics three-tier application (Java EE, WAS, DB2, Oracle, SQL, )

•⁠ ⁠Maintain and enhance Fibrosure application (Java EE, WAS, Derby)

•⁠ ⁠Define develop, validate, and release software products via agile processes for small and large projects

•⁠ ⁠Support applications and people via Kanban processes

•⁠ ⁠Collaborate with laboratory users to analyze problems, design and implement solutions for enterprise systems

•⁠ ⁠Provide support and troubleshooting of production systems according to an on-call schedule

•⁠ ⁠Document problem analysis, solution design, implementations, and system support guidelines

•⁠ ⁠Coach and train team members across lab system organizations to support and develop Java applications

•⁠ ⁠Communicate effectively and constructively with developers, QA, business analysts, and system users

•⁠ ⁠Design and depict via UML relational DB table models, object-oriented class models, messaging models, configuration models

•⁠ ⁠Understand, document, support, and improve inherited code and processes

•⁠ ⁠Help document knowledge and discovery with peer developers

Minimum Requirements

•⁠ ⁠Solid Java EE experience (Servlets, JMS, JSP, EJB, JCA, and JPA) development and support

•⁠ ⁠Solid InfoSystems Cache/IRIS for Health development and support

•⁠ ⁠A minimum of 1 years of JPA/ORM (Hibernate), Junit, XML/XSD, JSON experience or equivalent

•⁠ ⁠Solid SQL (and optionally PLSQL) experience

•⁠ ⁠Experience with Oracle DB including explain plan and or other query optimization techniques/tools

•⁠ ⁠Excellent verbal and written communication skills

•⁠ ⁠Strong UML modeling, ER and OO design, and data-normalization techniques

•⁠ ⁠Strong code-factoring philosophies and techniques

•⁠ ⁠Eclipse or NetBeans (or equivalent) IDE

•⁠ ⁠Strong understanding of client/server design, and smart recognition of separation-of-concern like functional behavior versus non-functional performance

Desired Requirements

•⁠ ⁠Java EE, Angular

•⁠ ⁠InfoSystem's Cache and/or IRIS for Health

•⁠ ⁠Springframework

•⁠ ⁠Modern deployment architectures using containers, API Gateways, load balancers, and AWS cloud based environments

•⁠ ⁠WebSphere or WebLogic, RHOS

•⁠ ⁠RESTful Web Services

•⁠ ⁠JMS interfacing, Apache Kafka, and IBM MQ

•⁠ ⁠Node.js/NPM, Bootstrap, or similar frameworks

•⁠ ⁠Git/BitBucket (git flow), Maven, Nexus, UCD, Jira (Kanban and SCRUM), agile workflow

•⁠ ⁠Unix shell script, DOS script

•⁠ ⁠SQL (optionally PLSQL)

•⁠ ⁠Design patterns

•⁠ ⁠HTML5, CSS3, and TypeScript development

•⁠ ⁠Ability to transform specific domain requirements into generalized technical requirements, and design and implement abstract solutions that are understandable and scalable in performance and reuse

•⁠ ⁠HL7 and/or Healthcare and/or Clinical Toxicology

•⁠ ⁠Oracle, MySQL, Derby DB

Technical & Professional
Requirements

• Reactjs Nodejs developer must know MongoDB, Express, Node.js, & React.
• Creating RESTful services with Node.js
• MERN stack developer must have proven experience in front & back-end development
• Work in a cross-functional team to deliver a complete user experience
• Create Unit and Integration tests to ensure the quality of code
• Be responsive to change requests and feature requests
• Candidate must have good Knowledge of Node Debugging
• Understanding & proficiency in REST APIs.
• MERN stack developer should know Git Repository
• Integration of data storage solutions [RDBMS, NoSQL DB]

• Implementation of security and data protection
• Elementary knowledge of GRAPHQL
• Understanding of performance testing and optimization techniques
• MERN software developer must have good communication & interpersonal skills
• Ability to work independently with minimum supervision.

Type of Work

• 80% Backend 20% Frontend
• Building SAAS products inhouse and working on SI(System integrator) projects for other SAAS companies

• Graduation in computers –Full-time B.E / B. Tech or an MCA degree (Regular Program, no part-time or long-distances courses).

Skills we are looking for:

• Excellent problem-solving skills
• Readily hands-on and "techy" habits
• Great spoken and written communication skills
• Self-starter, team player
• High levels of ethics, commitment & responsibility
• Demonstrable excellence in an area of their interest

Upto 3 years of experience in Angular.

About PrepBytes(A CollegeDekho company)

PrepBytes(A CollegeDekho company) is a Gurgaon-based ed-tech startup focused on helping students improve their coding skills. PrepBytes offers India’s only Mentorship driven personalized coding programs.

In a short span of time , we have achieved a reach in 1000+ engineering colleges and established a brand among 100k+ students. 

PrepBytes was started by two IIT/NIT Alumnus having work experience in fast paced startups & tech giants like Amazon and Samsung. Since then, the startup has grown into a team of individuals working towards revolutionizing the way students learn coding and making them successful in their tech career. 

To fulfill the vision to be one of the largest personalised coding platforms , we are looking for passionate folks to join our team & contribute to success stories of thousands of students and be part of the next big revolution in the edtech industry.

Job Description

• Working with the founders to implement innovative ideas and improvising the existing backend.
• Development and implementation of cutting-edge Educational Technology with the aim of revolutionizing the sector.
• Work on innovative features of the Learning Management System, Coding Platforms, Hiring Platforms, Assessment Platforms, and many more new products.
• Building scalable and secured backend for smooth learning of users
• Get involved and mentor in System, Architecture, and Database Design discussions with the team
• Maintain high-quality code by getting involved in code reviews

What are we looking for?

• Overall 4+ years of technical experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science Engineering or a related field.
• Strong problem-solving skills.
• A keen learner who will develop & own cutting-edge consumer-facing product 
• Experience in building projects from scratch.
• Excellent technical, diagnostic, and troubleshooting skills.
• High-level proficiency in Javascript and web development technologies-JS/Node JS/MongoDB.

Hiring Software developers to build the next-gen Wealth Management Platform.

We’re looking for a Senior Platform Engineer who is passionate about the development and implementation of distributed cloud-based SaaS Platforms on B2C and B2B2C models.

You must be self-motivated and ready to achieve the goals assigned working with everyone. ● Knowledge in the successful development and implementation of large cloud-based SaaS platforms on B2C and B2B2C models.

● Hands-on with Modern cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.

● Strong aptitude for Serverless Technologies on the cloud such as Lambdas, Streaming based architectures.

● Solid understanding of Open REST APIs-based architectures, web-based platforms strategy, working with product, UI, back-end engineering teams.

● Endorsestest-driven development, best deployment practices, continuous integration, and continuous build, handling git repositories.

● Hands-on Python, Java, Multi database platforms such as Relational and NoSQL

● Knack for microservices-based architectures.

● Must have an architectural sense of building highly scalable platforms on the cloud

● Experience with building asynchronous, message-driven platforms would be a plus.

● Interest and Experience in Capital Marketsis a plus.

We are looking for a seasoned full-stack engineer to build out and manage our entire web infrastructure. Successful candidates will have a minimum of one year recent experience with all of the skills listed below.

Our project entails implementing our pre-approved UI, constructing our API, connecting the two, and setting up our server infrastructure. This includes all associated areas such as database and architecture design.

• Design and implementation of the overall web architecture
• “Pixel-perfect” implementation of our approved user interface
• Design and deployment of our database
• Ensuring the entire stack is designed and built for speed and scalability
• Design and construction of our REST API
• Integrating our front-end UI with the constructed API
• Design and implementation of continuous integration and deployment