MEAN Stack Developer

Role Summary

We are looking for a seasoned Full Stack Developer with strong backend expertise in PHP (Laravel/Symfony) and modern frontend experience using React (Vue.js or Angular exposure is a plus). The ideal candidate should possess a full-stack mindset with experience in building scalable REST APIs and interactive UI applications.

Key Responsibilities

• End-to-end feature development (Backend + Frontend)
• Design and develop scalable, secure, and maintainable applications
• Build and optimize REST APIs and reusable UI components
• Participate in technical design discussions and code reviews
• Mentor junior developers and ensure coding best practices
• Collaborate with QA, DevOps, and Architects
• Focus on performance tuning and security enhancements

Must-Have Skills

• Strong hands-on experience in PHP (Laravel/Symfony)
• Experience building and consuming REST APIs
• Expertise in React.js (Vue.js/Angular acceptable)
• Strong knowledge of JavaScript/TypeScript
• Solid understanding of HTML5, CSS3
• Experience with scalable and maintainable application architecture

Nice-to-Have Skills

• Full-stack exposure with Node.js
• Experience with MongoDB / NoSQL databases
• Familiarity with Docker, CI/CD pipelines, Cloud platforms
• Knowledge of HCM and Payroll domain

Location: Mumbai

Experience Required: 2+ Years

Job Type: Full-Time

Notice Period: Immediate Joiners

About the Role

We are seeking a skilled and experienced Full Stack (MERN) Developer to join our product engineering team. The ideal candidate must have experience working in a product-based software development company and should have hands-on involvement in e-commerce platform projects.

Mandatory Criteria

• Candidate must be currently working or have prior experience in a product-based software development company
• Candidate must have worked on at least one e-commerce platform project (end-to-end involvement)

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain scalable web applications using MongoDB, Express.js, React.js, and Node.js
• Translate UI/UX designs into high-quality front-end code
• Build and integrate RESTful APIs
• Ensure performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications
• Participate in design discussions, code reviews, and contribute to technical documentation
• Work in a collaborative, agile development environment

Required Skills

• Strong proficiency in JavaScript, React.js, Node.js, and Express.js
• Hands-on experience with MongoDB or other NoSQL databases
• Solid understanding of RESTful APIs and architectural patterns
• Knowledge of version control systems like Git
• Understanding of CI/CD and cloud-based deployment practices
• Good grasp of performance optimization, caching, and security practices

Decoding Youth Talent (DYT) Private Limited is a sports technology start-up which aims to enable coaches, clubs and academies scout, hire and develop youth talent through technology

Decoding Youth Talent is incubated and backed by one of the most prestigious MBA institutes in Asia, the Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow (IIM-L).

Are you a person who is extremely passionate about sports and looking to make a difference in the industry? If yes, there was not a better time than now! We are looking for a Full Mean Stack Developer with experience in building highly technical products that will help us bring change the way how sports stakeholders interact and communicate in India and across the globe. If you are passionate about the challenges of big scale, this is your chance to make history!

Responsibilities:

• As a full-stack MEAN developer (Angular), you will code back-end services in Java/Node JS and front-end in HTML, CSS3 and JavaScript.
• Strong system design skills backed with analytical and problem-solving ability with deep understanding of distributed systems and microservice architecture.
• Implementing algorithms and use of advanced data structures.
• Exposure to working in an agile development environment.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills - Knowledge of SVN/Git repository.
• Provide technical direction to the development teams including hands-on development of POCs where appropriate.
• Deploy realized solutions to appropriate environments using CI/CD process. Supports clients through testing Consumer Web Development Experience for High-Traffic, Public Facing web applications.
• Participate in agile software prototyping, development, maintenance, support, and code reviews of IoT Products.
• Implement modern and responsive UI for the web and a variety of devices.
• Unit, End-to-End, and performance testing software under load to ensure reliability and scalability.
• Ownership of Bug Fixes across environments for the assigned module/application.
• Collaborate on the design with internal & external project team members.
• Use JIRA effectively with daily updates to the work log and status of the issues.

Requirements:

• 5+ years or hands-on experience as a Full-stack Developer in web and Mobile application Product Engineering.
• Hands-on experience in creating Rest APIs using NodeJS. Perform 3rd party API integration with NodeJS.
• Hands on experience in HTML5 CSS3 JS libraries like Bootstrap, JQuery, and Angular Material.
• Experience in MongoDB and MySQL design, development, deployment, scaling and optimization.
• Experience working with the AWS stack (Lambda, S3 EC2 setup).
• Hands-on experience in writing queries and optimizing them for large data sets in MongoDB and MySQL.
• Good Communication and client-facing experience. Practice and enforce Agile and Scrum development methodologies.
• Hands-on experience working with Web frameworks, RESTful APIs and relational and/or NoSQL databases.
• Experience in implementing logging to identify performance issues and building monitoring and alerting on the API using Splunk/Grafana/Prometheus/New Relic.

Good to have

• Worked from scratch in the Tech Architect, frontend, coding, and tech product development with at least 6 -50 Mobile apps (multifunction app).
• Experienced in server-side languages such as Java and PHP.

• Expertise with NodeJS (extensively using ExpressJS), AngularJS and MySQL
• Rich user interface development experience with HTML5, JQuery, w3css/bootstrap etc and JavaScript frameworks like AngularJS and Angular 
• Expertise in building real-time web applications using MQTT, Websocket, Socket.IO, and EventSource frameworks
• Comfortable with developing MVC architecture-based code
• Comfortable in using at least one of the Graph/Chart libraries
• Ability with report generation from HTML contents
• Skilled in implementing security features across the applications and components
• Experience with tools usage - Code quality, Memory/CPU profiling tools
• Skilled with code optimization techniques
• Experience with docker container usage
• Experience with LDAP is a plus
• Strong troubleshooting techniques
• The strong defect resolution process for minimized latency
• Familiarity with confluence management (JIRA)
• Good to have a basic understanding of PHP frameworks like Yii, Codeigniter and databases like  MongoDB
• Good to have strong networking fundamentals, prior working experience in network technologies and protocols
• Ability to build supportability features to reduce the defects in software components
• Knowledge of GNU tools, revision control software (SVN, Git, etc.) and development lifecycle is a plus

• +2 years experience working as a react.js developer.
• In-depth knowledge of JavaScript, CSS, HTML, and front-end languages.
• Knowledge of REACT tools including React.js, Redux, Material UI.
• Experience with user interface design & user experience design
• Knowledge of performance testing frameworks including Mocha and Jest.
• Experience with browser-based debugging and performance testing software.
• Excellent troubleshooting skills.
• Good project management skills.
• Developing applications in React including component design and state management for specific use cases
• Experience working with at least one SQL and NoSQL Database (MongoDB, SQL Server, Snowflake, Postgres preferred)
• Basic experience with AWS platform

Full Stack Developer Job Description:

1. Knowledge in MERN Stack is mandatory

2. Work with development teams and product managers to ideate software solutions

3. Design client-side and server-side architecture

4. Conduct Testing & Debugging, utilize script tools & write basic codes for design specifications

5. Build the front-end of applications through appealing visual design

6. Develop and manage well-functioning databases and applications

7. Write effective APIs

8. Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade software

9. Create security and data protection settings

10. Build features and applications with a mobile responsive design

11. Write technical documentation

12. Work with data scientists and analysts to improve software