MEAN Stack Developer

Position: Lead Software Engineer

Practice: Development

Reporting To: Project Manager

Experience: 8 - 10 Years

Job Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled Lead Software Engineer to lead a team of software developers in designing, developing, testing, and maintaining high-quality software applications. The ideal candidate will provide technical guidance, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and ensure that software solutions align with business objectives and user requirements

Key Responsibilities

Technical Leadership

• Lead, mentor, and guide a team of developers, providing technical direction, coaching, and performance feedback.
• Define and implement architectural designs for scalable, robust, and maintainable applications.
• Ensure adherence to coding standards, quality assurance practices, and performance optimization.

Full-Stack Development

• Design and develop responsive and user-friendly interfaces using React.js and reusable component architecture.
• Build and maintain backend services using Node.js , including RESTful APIs, business logic, and data integrations.
• Implement real-time features and integrate third-party APIs for enhanced functionality.

Project Management & Collaboration

• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and stakeholders to translate requirements into effective technical solutions.
• Participate in design and technical discussions, evaluating alternatives and mitigating potential risks.
• Oversee the end-to-end software development lifecycle, from requirement analysis to deployment and post-release support.

Quality Assurance & DevOps

• Conduct regular code reviews to ensure clean, maintainable, and well-tested code.
• Identify and resolve complex technical issues and performance bottlenecks.
• Contribute to cloud deployment strategies, CI/CD pipelines, and containerization practices.

Innovation & Continuous Improvement

• Stay updated with emerging technologies and frameworks in full-stack development.
• Recommend process improvements and technical upgrades to enhance system performance and team efficiency.

Mandatory Skills

Frontend: JavaScript, React.js, Redux, HTML5 CSS3

Backend: Node.js, Express.js, REST API design

Database: PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or other relational/non-relational databases

DevOps & Cloud: Familiarity with AWS, Azure, GCP, CI/CD pipelines

Version Control: Git and branching strategies

Architecture: Scalable design principles, microservices architecture

Desired Skills

• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and containerized deployments.
• Exposure to Agile/Scrum development methodologies.
• Familiarity with performance monitoring and application observability tools.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills to collaborate effectively with stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field.
• Proven experience as a full-stack developer, with significant hands-on experience in React.js and Node.js .
• Demonstrated experience in leading and managing software development teams.
• Solid understanding of software development methodologies and best practices.
• Passion for innovation, continuous learning, and delivering high-quality solutions.

About HighLevel:  

HighLevel is a cloud-based, all-in-one white-label marketing and sales platform that empowers marketing agencies, entrepreneurs, and businesses to elevate their digital presence and drive growth. With a focus on streamlining marketing efforts and providing comprehensive solutions, HighLevel helps businesses of all sizes achieve their marketing goals. We currently have 1000+ employees across 15 countries, working remotely as well as in our headquarters, which is located in Dallas, Texas. Our goal as an employer is to maintain a strong company culture, foster creativity and collaboration, and encourage a healthy work-life balance for our employees wherever they call home.

About the Role:

We are looking for an experienced software engineer with strong technical and communication skills who has developed full stack web apps, created solid APIs and beautiful interfaces for consuming them in user friendly apps. Focusing on details and well written self documented code are essential for this position. You can expect to collaborate with a solid team of designers, product managers, developers and testers on a daily basis. You must be experienced in building highly scalable and resilient systems that can meet our customer needs.

Responsibilities

• Improve and create new lead capture domain models.
• Build backend & Frontend API features and architecture.
• Work cross-functionally across our platform, experience, integrations, payments and marketplace teams.
• Drive performance through benchmarking and optimization
• Work with a wide range of systems, processes, and technologies to own and solve problems from end to end
• Collaborate closely with our leadership team including engineers, designers, and product managers to build new features and products
• Uphold high engineering standards and bring consistency to the many codebases and systems you will encounter.
• Work on 1 to 2 products.
• Create and improve lead capture tools like funnels, websites, forms, surveys, social media
• Architect and build backend & Frontend APIs and features

Your Core Skills

• 4+ years of experience in a full-stack environment.
• Proficient with various programming languages and tools such as but not limited to Javascript, TypeScript, Vue.js, NodeJS, and GraphQL
• Must be able to work with a team and collaborate remotely.
• You have an entrepreneurial mindset, are eager to take on different roles when necessary and know how to navigate a start-up environment.
• You are fulfilled by being a generalist working on both the frontend, backend, and anything it takes to solve problems and delight users and take pride in working on projects involving a variety of technologies and systems.
• Ability to stitch together many different services and processes together, even if you have not worked with them before.
• Hold a great deal of empathy for your team and users, you are a steward of crafting great experiences.
• Have great communication skills and can thrive in a highly collaborative environment when working cross-functionally with many stakeholders.
• Driven by product quality, and innately know how to balance trade-offs with time to launch new features.
• A keen eye for design and love to think about user flows and user experiences.
• Must have experience with HTML5 and CSS3

Additional Skills

• Experience with the Nuxt.js framework is a plus.
• Experience with MongoDB profiling and query optimization.
• Using CSS frameworks such as Bootstrap and TailwindCSS
• Experience working in the GCP (Google Cloud Platform) ecosystem.

• 5 to 8 years ‘Hands-on’ experience in Java/J2EE/Microservices development
• Hands on with CODING in both JAVA and Angular 2+
• Experience constructing custom Microservices applications using Java, SpringBoot, Spring Cloud and Spring Core.
• Experience in Spring boot 4 or more years.
• Last job to be completely hands on in Spring Boot and looking for hands on in Spring Boot the next role.
• Experience in writing unit test cases (JUnit)
• Well used to Agile (XP, Scrum, SAFe)
• REST Services (HTTP methods, CRUD, Status codes, Authentication, Authorisation)
• Angular 2+, HTML,CSS

Roles and Responsibilities
1. Ability to work on diverse backend stack such as Node JS, Java, Express JS
2. Ability to work on diverse frontend stack such as React JS, Angular 6/7/8/9, HTML5, CSS3

3. Ability to deliver quick POC’s using cutting edge technologies.

4. Preparing reports, manuals and other documentation on the status, operation and maintenance of software.

5. Design, develop, and unit test applications in accordance with established standards

6. Developing, refining, and tuning integrations between applications. Analysing and resolving technical and application problems.

7. Ability to debug application.

8. Should have complete knowledge on developing RESTful Services.

9. Should be able to also work in agile development methodology.
10. Work with designated JavaScript framework to design, develop, and debug web applications
11. Can work on Angular and Integrate backend services
12. Work with the team to manage, optimize, and customize multiple web applications
13. Manage end to end module lifecycle management of the product
14. Push and pull codes via Git repository

Competency Requirements

1. Experience in NodeJS, Java and development using AngularJS / ReactJS
2. Experience in front end frameworks such as Angular.js, React.js, Bootstrap, Foundation etc
3. Experience in client/server application development
4. Knowledge of agile development methodologies
5. Knowledge of unit testing theory
6. Knowledge of AWS cloud
7. Experience in Java, Python and Go will be added advantage

Who we are:

We are leading CMMI Level 3 global organization. We enjoyed a stable leadership since its inception in the Silicon Valley, California in 1996. We have expanded from a single location to current presence in 5 global cities with round-the-clock connectivity.

Since inception, the driving core values inculcated by our founder, management team and investors have been the ongoing guiding force.

We emerged as a leading custom software development organization, spread across the globe. We made business easier and more profitable for varied small to medium size projects. As a technology partner, we deliver solutions in line with your business goals. With 2000+ happy customer base, vast experience of 20+ years, backed by offices in the US, Australia and India, providing next-door assistance and a round-the-clock connectivity. Our software solutions cover all major industries such as healthcare, digital enterprises, business automation and IT services, highlighting our expertise in Microsoft open source platform, mobile platforms and new technologies.

 To know more about we visit http://www.smartdatainc.com">http://www.smartdatainc.com

About You:

Should build interactive consumer data from multiple systems and restfully abstract to the UI through a Node.js backend.

• Should define code architecture decisions to support a high-performance and scalable product with a minimal footprint
• Should address and improve any technical issues
• Should be good in communication skills and teamwork ability to work between different levels of developers.
• Should be able to work/handle projects single handed by own
• Should perform unit/per testing for creating a bug free solution.

You should possess:

• Experience of Node JS, Express JS, Mongo DB, Angular 2+.
• Knowledge of GIT, Jenkins tools or similar.
• Knowledge working with AWS (S3, EMR, EC2, RDS).
• Experience of Agile development and methodology.

Good to have:

•  Project management and deployment skills.
• Knowledge of Dockers and Kubernetes.

• Onsite experience.
• US business Visa.