MERN Full Stack Developer Intern

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.

Our Website - https://www.gohighlevel.com/

YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXFiV4qDX5ipE-DQcsm1j4g

Blog Post - https://blog.gohighlevel.com/general-atlantic-joins-highlevel/

Our Customers:

HighLevel serves a diverse customer base, including over 60K agencies & entrepreneurs and 450K businesses globally. Our customers range from small and medium-sized businesses to enterprises, spanning various industries and sectors.

Scale at HighLevel:

We work at scale; our infrastructure handles around 3 Billion+ API hits & 2 Billion+ message events monthly and over 25M views of customer pages daily. We also handle over 80 Terabytes of data across 5 Databases.

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.

Responisbilities

• Responsible for developing scalable backend services for memberships & courses

• Taking the lead in designing, developing and managing APIs, services
• Creating / customizing various components and web applications in Vue.js
• Work with a great team of developers, designers and QA testers
• Reviewing, writing clean, tested, manageable code for services that scale to affect thousands of users everyday
• Troubleshoot, test, and maintain the core product software and databases to ensure strong optimization and functionality

Qualifications

• Solid Experience in Full stack engineering with Node.js and modern Javascript frameworks like Vue.js[preferred], React.js, Angular.
• Proficient in building scalable applications and should be comfortable understanding the flow of the software
• Experience with relational/non-relational databases ex: MySQL / MongoDB / Firestore and have used them to build backend services
• Ability to design and build web services, and integrations with third parties through API
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as Git / SVN
• Experience with GCP technologies
• Experience with Stripe integrations
• Experience building media streaming applications

EEO

EEO Statement: 

At HighLevel, we value diversity. In fact, we understand it makes our organisation stronger. We are committed to inclusive hiring/promotion practices that evaluate skill sets, abilities, and qualifications without regard to any characteristic unrelated to performing the job at the highest level. Our objective is to foster an environment where really talented employees from all walks of life can be their true and whole selves, cherished and welcomed for their differences while providing excellent service to our clients and learning from one another along the way! Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

We are seeking an experienced Lead Full Stack Developer with a strong background in the MERN stack and serverless technologies. The ideal candidate will have a minimum of 6 years of experience in software development, with significant expertise in both relational

(RDBMS) and NoSQL databases. You will lead a team in designing and developing scalable, high-quality solutions while ensuring best practices are followed throughout the development lifecycle.

Responsibilities:

● Develop and maintain scalable backend services using Node.js and serverless technologies such as AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Functions, or Azure Functions.

● Architect and implement front-end solutions using React.js, ensuring seamless integration with backend services.

● Design, implement, and optimise both relational (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB) databases.

● Translate business requirements into robust, efficient technical solutions.

● Conduct code reviews to maintain high standards of code quality, performance, and maintainability.

● Stay updated with the latest trends and advancements in the MERN stack, serverless architectures, and cloud platforms.

● Lead and mentor a team of developers, providing technical guidance and fostering a collaborative environment.

Requirements:

● Minimum of 6 years of professional experience in software development, with at least 6 years specifically in the MERN stack.

● Proven leadership experience in managing and mentoring development teams.

● Proficiency in Node.js, Express.js, React.js, and MongoDB.

● Hands-on experience with serverless architectures, including AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Functions, or Azure Functions.

● Strong understanding of RDBMS (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL databases (MongoDB).

● Solid understanding of RESTful APIs, microservices architecture, and cloud platforms.

● Excellent problem-solving, debugging, and collaboration skills.

Additional Skills:

● Experience with GraphQL, Docker, and Kubernetes is a plus.

● Contributions to open-source projects are highly valued.

● Understanding of DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines.

Skills

• Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model.
• Expertise in backend programming with Node.js and MongoDB.
• Experience with React.js and redux.
• Material UI and 3rd party libraries.
• Experience with clean code writing practices like avoiding callback hell like promises, async.
• Thorough understanding of Node.js and its core principles.
• Experience with popular React.js workflows (such as Flux or Redux).
• Familiarity with newer specifications of ECMAScript.
• Experience with data structure libraries (e.g., Immutable.js).
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs.
• Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token.
• Familiarity with modern front-end builds pipelines and tools.
• A knack for benchmarking and optimization.
• Familiarity with code versioning tools (such as Git, SVN, and Mercurial).

Responsibilities:

• Build Node.js APIs using microservices.
• Rewriting backend code with microservices architecture & Unit tests.
• Developing new user-facing features using React.js.
• Building reusable components and front-end libraries for future use.
• Translating designs and wireframes into high-quality code.
• Optimizing components for maximum performance across a vast array of web-capable devices and browsers.

Year of experience- 2+ years

Skills

• Experience with designing, developing, deploying, and maintaining secure and scalable web-based applications.
• Experience using JavaScript based frameworks- ReactJS/AngularJS, HTML/CSS, Java Script, XML, jQuery, NodeJS, Express and other related technologies.-Good understanding of data structures and algorithm-Familiarity with databases.
• Experience working with container technologies like Docker and knowledge of CI/CD processes for automated integration and deployment.-Basic knowledge of AWS preferred.

• Experience with Scrum or other Agile development methodologies.-Comfortable working in multi-disciplinary, self-organized teams.-Good at written and verbal communication skills.

• Design and develop high-quality software used by millions of customers, in an agile and iterative development culture.
• Support and maintain existing applications and develop new modules as and when required for feature enhancements.
• Adopt best practices in web development, design, testing, code review, version control, documentation, build, deployment, and operations.
• Participate in design reviews, code reviews, and provide improvement recommendations.
• Working closely with product lead, delivery lead, and other agile team members, and ensures that the desired result for our projects are achieved.

As a Full Stack Developer, you will be working on the development of all server-side logic, definition, and maintenance of the central database, and ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end

• Participating in the full development life cycle, including implementing design, coding, testing, and production release
• creating modules and components in React and coupling them together into a functional app
• Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workaround
• Integrating multiple data sources and databases into one system
• Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes
• Driving innovation through rapid prototyping and iterative development

Desired Candidate Profile

Technical knowledge

• Design and implement software components using up-to-date technologies and best practices.
• Comprehensive understanding of the REST architecture.
• Strong working experience in Angular,HTML5, CSS3
• Strong working experience in Container Orchestration Management on-premise and public cloud (Docker, Kubernetes or similar)
• Overall understanding of the Service Oriented Architecture
• Experience with widely used design patterns.
• Should possess prior experience in building distributed multi-tier applications with single sign-on.
• Continuous Integration (CI) and Automated Deployment on AWS/Azure
• Static and dynamic code quality analysis
• Should understand the dynamics of the full-stack development and guide junior team members.
• Experience in developing enterprise-scale software platforms
• Should have hands-on experience in managing releases.
• Build applications using Azure Services and deploy them on Azure Infrastructure.