MERN Full Stack (React - Node.js)

We are looking for a talented full-stack software engineer to join our small and extremely talented product team. We love to build amazing products fast and with a high standard of code and UX, always on the cutting edge of new technologies.

Tasks

• Design and build features end-to-end. You'll be working on the frontend, backend, and anything in-between, whatever it takes to solve problems and delight users.
• Build beautiful and usable UIs with our modern toolset of React (NextJS, ES11, TypeScript) and TailwindCSS.
• Continue developing our distributed backend using Node (NestJS + TypeScript) and Rust. Technologies also include PostgreSQL, Redis, and RabbitMQ.
• Stitch many different services and APIs together, even if you have not worked with them before.
• Build solutions that take scaling and growth into consideration while balancing the time to launch.
• Engineer solutions to solve existing tech debt and write maintainable, sound and safe code.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience as a Software Engineer, working with Typescript, React and serious interest or even better experience with Rust. However, we care much more about your general engineering skill than your knowledge of a particular language or framework.
• The ability to put yourself in the users' shoes and craft intuitive, high-quality web UI experiences
• A high bar for code quality and robustness for long-term expansion and use
• High personal initiative to learn, improve, and excel
• A Can-Do, entrepreneurial mentality with enjoyment for being a generalist
• DevOps: Experience with CI/CD pipelines, Docker, Kubernetes, and other DevOps tools.
• Experience with distributed systems, scaling applications, and/or microservices.
• Fluent in English (German is a plus)

Plus:

• Hands-on experience with the Rust
• Experience with functional programming
• Previously worked in an early-stage startup and experienced scaling of engineering teams

1. Developing and maintaining web applications: coding, testing, and debugging both client-side (front-end) and server-side (back-end) components of web applications. This includes working with languages like HTML, CSS, JavaScript for the front-end, and server-side languages like Node.js, MySQL, MongoDB, or PostgreSQL.

2. Collaborating with cross-functional teams: The candidate need to collaborate with other team members, such as UI/UX designers, product/operations managers, and other developers, to understand requirements and implement solutions.

3. Learning and applying new technologies: Given the rapid pace of technological advancement in web development, candidates are often expected to learn and adapt to new frameworks, libraries, and best practices. They might spend time researching and experimenting with new tools or technologies and applying them to current projects. This continuous learning is crucial for personal development and for staying relevant in the field.

JOB SUMMARY

Great Manager Institute® (“Company”) is a global digital platform for personalized development and certification of people managers, having the vision of creating a world where every individual gets the opportunity to work with a Great People Manager.

Our vision is to ensure that everyone gets an opportunity to work with a great people manager. Our mission is to ensure that anyone can be a great people manager who delivers sustained results by building high-trust relationships.

We take pride in saying that our short-term plan is for 1000 years!

We need amazing Software Developers to evolve our solutions into world-class products and become a part of a journey that is setting off a movement on people management. Imagine the impact of creating a product that helps evolve human behavior in a scalable manner.

OUR DNA

• Customer Obsession: We believe in the concept of understanding customers deeply by putting ourselves in their shoes and gather and use relevant data to take decisions.
• Speed: Speed is paramount to become a global start-up.
• Global Outlook: We are creating a product for the world, and it can be possible only if we combine personalized and localized offerings with global outlook.

OUR VALUES

• Be Transparent
• Bring the Best
• Have Faith
• Care
• Respect Individuality

This is a unique opportunity at the high growth start-up. The Technology Head will be a part of the core executive group at the Company.

ROLE DESCRIPTION

• Development of features and modules of Great Manager Certification product
• Engagement in new innovations within the core products and various extensions of the core product
• Solving coding-related problems of the junior software developers in the team
• Mentoring and supporting new techies, helping create a team of rockstar developers

Who will this role report to?

This role will report to the Technology Head of the Company.

Growth Opportunities for You

• This role is a great opportunity for contributing to the growth of a global company
• This is a critical role that will shape the technology roadmap of the Company and gives an opportunity to lead from the front
• Become an entrepreneur. We operate in a highly entrepreneurial culture. Almost all roles at the Company are constructed to operate with an entrepreneurial mindset.
• The role prepares you to become Lead/Head of Technology while establishing your brand value as a rockstar developer

Who Should Apply?

• Candidates with 5+ years overall experience in full-stack software development
• Hands-on MEAN Stack is required
• Strong understanding of latest full-stack technologies and their strengths, shortcomings, and applicability to the Company’s context
• Excellent analytical skills with an attention to detail
• Integrity, with an ability to handle sensitive information
• Drive to build something. The role is not for those seeking comfort, stability and a strict 9-5 schedule. Building market leadership is not an easy path. Motivation and speed are essential qualifying criteria

Who We Are Looking For:

We are looking for a driven Blockchain & Solidity Developer who learns fast, who is humble and values teamwork. The ideal candidate will be technical, data-driven, creative, and efficient. The kind of person who joins our Team is passionate and willing to think outside of the box and execute on it. We are committed to helping you grow, challenging you with hard, meaningful work and celebrating our successes and failures together.

Preferred Experience:

• 3+ years of software experience ( Full stack) , 1+ years of Solidity development experience
• Presently leading as CTO, Tech Lead or Technical Project manager at established crypto project

Technical Skills

• Experience in development of solidity smart contracts and operating mechanism of blockchain encryption algorithms, consensus mechanism, security protocols etc.
• Proven work experience of deployments on ETH/BSC/MATIC networks and other EVM Chains
• Understanding of virtual machine architecture, memory, and stack.
• Familiar with Truffle, Waffle, and Hardhat, and the pros and cons of each framework.
• Familiarity with code versioning tools (git) and repo management.
• (Plus) Understanding of mainstream DeFi ecosystems like Uniswap, Compound, Curve etc.

Soft Skills

• Proficiency in English & Communication
• Team Collaboration and task management

What You Will Be Doing:

• Collaborates with the team on conceptualizing and developing new applications. Write high-quality, pragmatic code as part of a multidisciplinary agile team.
• Participate in design, development and code reviews.
• Take accountability for end-to-end production, testing, and shipping of code.

Our Offering:

• Purpose: You’ll be part of something bigger, working towards building a decentralized financial ecosystem.
• Culture: You’ll work in a thriving, friendly, and fun environment that promotes open discussions, jokes, learning, video games, and lots of fun.
• People: You’ll work with some of the most driven and intelligent people in the crypto space, engaging with a network of diverse talent team members & advisors.
• Flexible vacation policy: work with your manager to take time off when you need it

• 2+yrs of experience in Frontend Development
• 2yrs of experience in NodeJS Development
• AngularJS (v1.+) proficiency and web development experience using AngularJS
• Good hands on experience in HTML, CSS, JavaScript.
• Strong communication and problem-solving skills
• Desire to work in a fast-paced, results-driven agile environment with varied

Responsibilities:

• Use markup languages like HTML to create user-friendly web pages
  Develop the frontend and Backend of the Application
• Integration of the front-end and back-end aspects of the web application
• Constantly and consistently implementing new features and optimize existing ones from controller-level to UI Vigilantly and rapidly fix bugs

Note: Candidate will be working on developing applications using NodeJS