MERN/MEAN Stack Developer

Job Title : Tech Lead - MERN Stack

Experience : 5+ Years

Location : Mohali

Job Summary :

We are seeking a dynamic Tech Lead - Full Stack (MERN) to spearhead our web development team. The ideal candidate will lead the design, development, and delivery of robust web applications while mentoring team members and ensuring adherence to industry best practices. This is a hands-on role requiring exceptional leadership, technical expertise, and a commitment to driving excellence.

Key Responsibilities :

• Oversee project execution, ensuring adherence to scope, budget, and timelines.
• Make critical technical and product decisions while collaborating with Product Managers and clients.
• Lead and mentor the development team in coding best practices and modern web technologies.
• Design and develop scalable web applications using the MERN stack (MongoDB, Express.js, React.js, Node.js).
• Coordinate cross-functional teams to define project requirements and goals.
• Analyze resource needs, assess project feasibility, and create detailed project plans.
• Represent the team in planning meetings and provide technical guidance to stakeholders.
• Stay updated on industry trends, challenges, and new technologies to enhance team performance.
• Participate in hiring and onboarding new team members.

Required Skills and Qualifications :

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• Proven experience as a Full Stack Developer with expertise in the MERN stack.
• Previous experience in a leadership or technical lead role.
• Strong understanding of the software development lifecycle (SDLC) and Agile methodologies.
• Excellent problem-solving, communication, and interpersonal skills.
• Team handling experience is essential.
• Ability to balance hands-on coding with leadership responsibilities.

Why Join Us?

• Be part of a forward-thinking and collaborative team.
• Work on exciting and innovative projects with the latest technologies.
• Contribute to shaping the technical vision of the company.

• Coding Complex Modules
• Code review and enforcing best practices
• Improve application architecture
• Constantly improve his/her own skill set
• Customisation to existing open souce and custom built applications
• Building a knowledge base of the latest programming trends, best practices and methodologies.

• B.Tech/BCA/MCA or M.Tech
• Experience into Javascript (Node.js, Angular.js/React.js)
• Experience representing work to a broader product team and other leaders, clearly and succintly articulating the goals and concepts

Due to the high volume of applicants, we are only able to interview candidates who have actively contributed to Keyshade by attempting at least one of our GitHub (https://git.new/keyshade) issues. It’s okay if your PR doesn’t get merged—we are looking for genuine effort. Please include your GitHub username in the question section of this job post.

We’re looking for a talented Full Stack Intern who thrives in a collaborative, fast-paced environment (but without the hustle culture). You’ll work on both frontend and backend tasks, learn from our experienced team, and make meaningful contributions to an open-source project. If you’re eager to grow and have prior experience contributing to open-source, we’d love to hear from you!

Who We're Looking For

You’re a great fit if you:

• Have a solid foundation in TypeScript (mandatory).
• Are excited to learn more and work in an open-source development environment.
• Can translate designs and business logic into clean, efficient code.
• Love solving complex problems and debugging tricky issues.
• Have prior experience contributing to open-source projects (preferred).
• Are proactive, curious, and willing to collaborate across teams.
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Responsibilities

As a full-stack intern, you will:

Frontend Tasks:

• Translate Figma designs into pixel-perfect React/Next.js code using TailwindCSS.
• Ensure apps are responsive and visually polished.
• Write and maintain tests to ensure features are stable and bug-free.
• Optimize UI performance and address any frontend issues raised by the open-source community.

Backend Tasks:

• Build and maintain scalable Nest.js applications.
• Implement robust backend solutions using Node.js and TypeScript.
• Write tests to ensure backend stability before deployment.
• Troubleshoot backend issues and optimize app performance.
• Collaborate with design and development teams to ensure seamless integration between frontend and backend systems.

Qualifications

Must-Haves:

• Strong proficiency in TypeScript, React, and Next.js.
• Familiarity with Nest.js, Git, and GitHub workflows.
• Experience with CSS frameworks like TailwindCSS.
• A working laptop/desktop capable of handling development tasks.

Good-to-Haves:

• Experience with state management tools .
• Understanding of monorepo tools like Turborepo and pnpm workspaces.
• Familiarity with Shadcn/UI and atomic design principles.
• Prior open-source contribution experience (highly preferred).

Benefits

• 100% remote work with no rigid time limits—your productivity defines your work hours.
• Flexible schedule—we’re night owls, but your schedule is yours.
• Performance bonuses for exceptional contributions.
• Open-source exposure and networking opportunities with contributors worldwide.
• A cool Swag Kit to make you feel like you're part of Keyshade forever.
• A chance to shape an innovative product in the secrets management domain.

About Us

Keyshade is a self-funded, remote, open-sourced startup, based out of India. We are a small team working entirely remotely, and also being sustained a lot by the open-source ecosystem.

Our product deals in the domain of data and information security. We provide developer teams of all sized with the solution to the age-old problem of managing configurations for their applications. Keyshade aims at providing developers with an intuitive platform that enables them to outsource secret and configuration management, while they can put their entire focus in developing their application. We have developed our product with a security-first mindset, while also keeping into consideration the ease of use of the product.

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•  Developing both frontend and backend of application using technologies like Java,   Angular, JavaScript, HTML5.
•  Designing user interactions on web pages.
•  Designing and Developing back end API's and databases.
•  Meeting both technical and customer’s needs.
•  Seeing through a project from conception to finished product.
•  Take complete ownership of the project and deliver with good quality.
•  Staying abreast of developments in web applications and programming languages.

• Relevant experience of 8+ yrs
• Strong communication, organizational skills. Good in Agile, Scrum, Dev-Ops practices.
• Proficiency with fundamental front end languages such as HTML5, CSS and JavaScript.
• Familiarity with JavaScript frameworks such as Angular, React and Amber.
• Proficiency in Java, Springboot, Microservices
• Familiarity with database technology such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle and MongoDB.
• Good in writing quality code and Unit Tests. Good knowledge of DevOps practices.
• Excellent verbal communication skills.
• Good problem solving skills

Skills

• 3 to 7 Years of experience in Full Stack Technologies-  Express, Lambda, SQL, React, Node JS, Java
• Knowledge of web framework.
• Able to create database schemes that represent and support business processes
• Having a Start-Up experience is a plus
• Having a degree from Premier Engineering Institute is a plus

KRA 

• Work collaboratively in architecture/developing/maintaining solutions Design, efficient, testable, reusable, reliable, and clean code using best software development practices
• Contribute towards the entire development life cycle of analysis, design, implementation and test
• Integration of user-facing elements with server-side logic
• Automation, including writing unit and integration tests
• Maintain high standards of quality for code technical documentation, and deliverable
• Detect, report, investigate, and fix product defects
• Stay abreast of emerging technologies/industry trends
• Ability to learn a lot quickly
• Be active in the community by participating in meetups and conferences
• Participate in brainstorming and idea generation activities.

What Makes You A Great Fit

• Ability to communicate clear timelines and the ability to over achieve them
• Fast Learner, very good interpersonal skills, positive attitude
• Ability to pick something new and learn it fast whatever way possible

Location : 

 As Grip is a company started during the Covid-19 Era we believe in working from wherever you want and meeting you virtually every now and then.  

About the compnay : Grip:

GRIP is an online fintech company aimed at providing a convenient, hassle free investment experience through investing in physical assets. The company kickstarted its journey in 2019 and was founded by Nikhil Aggarwal, who previously served as the COO of Chalo and Vice President of Morgan Stanley. He also worked for the World Bank.

The leasing industry in India remains largely unexplored and GRIP's objective is to make retail investors aware of it as an investment option. Through GRIP, one can invest in physical assets leased to corporates and earn stable monthly returns. The proposition is not as volatile as the share market and the returns are extremely healthy. GRIP focuses on the employed upper-middle class spectrum and aims to provide an effective alternative to these investors.

Why Grip :

While we offer competitive cash compensation along with ESOPs to participate in our long-term growth, the real upside is simply the challenge ahead and the awesome, friendly team by your side. And an opportunity to learn and grow at a breakneck speed as we redefine the contours of finance for Investors in India.

Do you want to develop products and experiences that mean the world to your clients and their users? Do you want to work on transformative projects as opposed to minor tweaks to a product? Do you want to be exposed to work ranging from startups to Fortune 500 enterprises to global non-profits?

We are Finiteloop, a growing design and technology studio in Bangalore. We work hard to build grounded and exhilarating experiences for our customers and their users. Our design work dives deep into Design Thinking, Experience design, and Service design. On the technology side, we work on Solution architecture of large enterprise applications and, cutting-edge explorations on new technologies like Machine Learning and Blockchain.

We strive for client success and push our clients into thinking and doing more for their customer's experiences. All of us are self-driven individuals passionate about building products that deliver great experiences at scale. Our team is currently working on a wide variety of projects: communication design for safety culture on board cargo ships, mobile app for seafarer community, transforming how public radio can integrate with the digital world and, simplifying the user experience of oil and gas explorers.

We are looking for a person with excellent visual sensibilities with an ability to code jaw-dropping designs that make people feel like a part of the future. We want to look towards you as our Usability champion, especially when designing for accessibility. You will have to be self-driven, understand your brief and think more on it before executing it as per schedule. You will juggle couple of projects at the same time and we will create a space you follow your creative processes within these project constraints.

We have an extremely open culture that promotes questioning, honest critique and, quirky thinking. Over and above everything, we only can work with people who will do anything to follow the highest ethics of business and teamwork and a dedication to their craft.

Applications we want to work with you on:

• Digital applications and media (web or Mobile)
• Detailed component-level reusable UI libraries
• Applying micro interactions and creating components for the same.
• Developing user friendly, interactive, responsive web and mobile apps.

Things we would love to surprise us with:

• Independently design & develop new user-facing features
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use
• Optimise application for maximum speed and scalability on front-end side
• Collaborate with team members and key stakeholders
• Ensures latest technology standards, guidelines are utilized for development
• Assess & analyse web performance, come with resolution & causes and guide the team in implementation
• Guide and mentor team members
• Image authoring tools, to be able to crop, resize, or perform small adjustments on an image
• Enable and use automation tools to fast track development

Technologies & Tools we would want you to work on:

• ReactJS
• Angular
• HTML, CSS, CSS Pre-Processors
• NodeJS
• SEO, Accessibility
• Automated Unit & End-End tests
• React Native, Flutter

Some of our projects which you will get to work on: COVID-19 response | Service design exercise for reorganizing a $200mil company | Creating UX experience for products using Blockchain technology | Speculative design exercises for imagining the future | Creating an award-winning marketing website | Reimagining public radio digital experience

Write to us with any samples of work and a small note on why you would be interested to work with us.