MEAN Stack Developer

Wednesday is a digital agency. We work with startups and enterprises to build digital products for their users.

At our core, we are a group of makers - designers, developers, product & project managers. We care about our work and think of it as a craft. We're always learning so we can build better and faster.

As a Technical Lead, your time will be divided between programming and technical oversight.

Core Responsibilities

• Code Reviews: Review all pull requests to ensure features are built correctly following the conventions and guidelines of the project.
• Communication: Work with your team to ensure they understand all the requirements clearly.
• Architecture: Have a clear picture of the system architecture in mind. Lead your teams to implement that design.
• Learn: Learn from the practices followed by other teams and evangelize your learnings.

Skills Required

• Technical expertise with our tech stack - JS, Nodejs, React, and AWS.
• Understanding of Agile processes and methodologies.
• Understanding of the continuous software delivery process using CD.
• The ability to debug corner cases, hypothesize and fix bugs.

Responsibilities :

• Design and write lots of bug-free, efficient, scalable, and reusable code
• Developing front-end architecture and ensuring responsiveness of the application
• Work across the full stack, building highly scalable products that enable positive user experiences and measurable business growth. 
• Working on refactoring the current codebase and determining the root cause for the most complex software issues and developing practical, efficient, and permanent technical solutions
• Optimizing backend services to scale for a few hundred concurrent users
• Develop APIs and scripts using backend programming languages like Node.js and Nest.js 
• Dockerizing different services and automating our AWS infrastructure provisioning steps
• Design and implementation of continuous integration and deployment. 
• Determine process improvements, and best practices, and develop new processes
• Mentor and coach other software engineers
• Integrating with third-party APIs and existing frameworks.
• Ensuring responsiveness of applications and writing maintainable, scalable, and unit-testable code. Be passionate about the long-term stability, scalability, and reusability of shared components.
• Implement new requirements, handle change requests, and fix bugs for different releases. Deliver a high-quality and functioning code.
• Integrating solutions to enterprise software and legacy software
• Actively Participate in sprint ceremonies and work towards continually improving the process
• Prioritizes tasks and keeps manager up to date on status and roadblocks
• Help the junior engineers to unblock them and guide them on best design practices. Help in code reviewing on a regular basis
• Prepare thorough technical documentation which can be used by other engineers
• Stay up to date with new technologies and determine how to incorporate these into future platform capabilities

Requirements:

• Minimum 4-8+ years of overall experience developing B2B SAAS products 
• 3+ years of Experience working on React.js and its core principles
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field
• Hands-on experience with Node.js and Express.js including state management like Redux
• Good understanding of NestJS, Next.JS, Tailwind CSS, Server-Side Rendering, Storybook/Bit, Bootstrap, and Material UI.
• Thorough understanding of modeling and scaling databases like MongoDB, DynamoDB or Firestore
• Deep understanding of object-oriented JavaScript and design principles and standards
• Hands-on experience in UI optimization best practice implementations
• Understanding of Serverless architecture like Lambda or Google Cloud functions
• Significant experience in developing high-performance, distributed, and scalable applications with container deployment (Docker and Microservices)
• Well-versed with collaboration, and Testing tools like Git, Swagger, and Cypress
• Proven experience with unit testing, integration testing, and end-to-end testing.
• Knowledge of open-source technologies and common front-end development tools such as Babel, Webpack, NPM, PNPM etc.
• Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token
• Knowledge of Nginx and AWS services like S3, and EC2 will be helpful

Preferred Skills:

• Exposure to Terraform, GItlab CI/CD, and GitOps is a plus
• A keen eye for UX has experience building complex B2B applications
• Comfortable working in a dynamic startup environment where experimentation is one of the most common practices for product innovation and improvements
• Basic understanding of the Figma Tool and app development via React Native
• Good experience with deploying applications on AWS & DevOps

Nice to Have:

• Great learning attitude and eagerness to take ownership
• Passionate personality with great enthusiasm for life outside of work
• Critical thinker and a problem solver who has a sense of urgency and wants an interesting job that pushes you out of your comfort zone.
• An innovator who is inspired by the endless ways in which everything we do can always be improved
• High-energy personality, with a strong and demonstrable work ethic

What we Offer:

• Competitive salary 
• Health Insurance
• Remote working environment
• Workday Swap
• Learning Culture

• Develop website and its successful deployment as per requirements
• Translate storyboards and wireframes to create functional and high-performing websites
• Write, execute, and maintain clean, reusable, and scalable code
• Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications
• Implement security and data protection
• Ensure to code that is platform and device agnostic
• Collaborate with other team members for the design and content of the website
• Integration testing to ensure the quality and robustness of code
• Monitoring website traffic with Google analytics to ensure high GTmetrix score
• Maintain well-documented, reusable, and transferrable code
• Troubleshooting and debugging

Responsibilities

• Responsible for end-to-end development (front-end to back-end) eb based applications
• Design and develop robust, scalable and highly efficient website
• Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the application
• Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs
• Help maintain code quality, organization, and automation

Skills

• Strong development experience in Java, JavaScript on Node.js
• Proficiency in full stack web application development (MEAN stack)
• Strong programming skills with experience in design, coding, and testing
• Proficiency with relational databases such as MySQL
• Good understanding of server-side CSS preprocessors (such as Sass, based on project requirements)
• Good experience with AJAX, REST and JSON
• Experience with AWS cloud services will be an added advantage
• Understanding of Source Control tools for version control: GIT/SVN

Requirements

• Bachelor degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject
• 2 - 6 years of hands on experience developing, implementing and delivering web applications
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills 

What you need to have:

Will be developing mobile and web applications using latest technology. Should be good in analysing requirements and translate into applications. Good in understanding application flows.

Tech Skills –

MEAN (MongoDB, Express, Angular/React, Node.js) – Expert level - at least 2-3 full sized projects

Cloud technology – Familiar with using cloud technology (AWS, GCP etc) – Intermediate – Should be able to interact with the services from cloud (e.g. firebase etc)

HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, Java script – Intermediate level - Good understanding of concepts and should be able to realize application screens based on the UI provided by designers

Mobile technology – Hybrid (ionic, Cordova, capacitor, flutter), Native (Android, iOS) – Beginner – Should have understanding of concepts, good with basics