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.

Location: Hybrid/ Remote

Openings: 5

Experience: 0 - 2Years

Qualification: Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science or a related technical field

Key Responsibilities:

Backend Development & APIs

• Build microservices that provide REST APIs to power web frontends.
• Design clean, reusable, and scalable backend code meeting enterprise security standards.
• Conceptualize and implement optimized data storage solutions for high-performance systems.

Deployment & Cloud

• Deploy microservices using a common deployment framework on AWS and GCP.
• Inspect and optimize server code for speed, security, and scalability.

Frontend Integration

• Work on modern front-end frameworks to ensure seamless integration with back-end services.
• Develop reusable libraries for both frontend and backend codebases.

AI Awareness (Preferred)

• Understand how AI/ML or Generative AI can enhance enterprise software workflows.
• Collaborate with AI specialists to integrate AI-driven features where applicable.

Quality & Collaboration

• Participate in code reviews to maintain high code quality.
• Collaborate with teams using Agile/Scrum methodologies for rapid and structured delivery.

Required Skills:

• Proficiency in JavaScript (ES6+), Webpack, Mocha, Jest
• Experience with recent frontend frameworks – React.js, Redux.js, Node.js (or similar)
• Deep understanding of HTML5, CSS3, SASS/LESS, and Content Management Systems
• Ability to design and implement RESTful APIs and understand their impact on client-side applications
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) – deployment, storage, and scalability
• Experience working with Agile and Scrum methodologies
• Strong backend expertise in Java, J2EE, Spring Boot is a plus but not mandatory

Job Description

We are looking for a hands-on Technical Lead Engineer (Full Stack) to spearhead the design, development, and delivery of our scalable web platforms and core application ecosystems. In this role, you will bridge the gap between front-end experiences and robust back-end systems. You will lead an agile development team through technical architecture, feature implementation, integration, testing, deployment, and production support.

The ideal candidate has deep technical expertise in both frontend and backend modern frameworks, a passion for system design, and practical experience building secure, scalable, and high-performance distributed web applications.

Key Responsibilities

• Technical Leadership: Lead end-to-end full-stack software development, architectural design, and system evolution.
• Backend Architecture: Design scalable, fault-tolerant backend architectures, optimizing high-volume data ingestion pipelines and processing engines.
• Frontend Excellence: Direct the development of highly responsive, intuitive, and modular user interfaces that ensure a seamless user experience.
• API & Integrations: Architect secure RESTful APIs and integrate external enterprise platforms, third-party microservices, and identity providers.
• Team Mentorship: Mentor developers, run strict code reviews, define engineering best practices, and guide sprint-level execution.
• Data & Messaging: Maintain and optimize relational, NoSQL, and time-series databases alongside message queues for real-time application events.
• Production Ownership: Own technical troubleshooting for live production bottlenecks, system latency issues, and deployment bugs.
• Documentation: Create clean technical documentation, structural architecture diagrams, and system deployment guidelines.

Required Skills

• Experience: 6+ years of software development experience with at least 2+ years leading engineering teams or owning technical delivery.
• Backend Core: Advanced hands-on experience with Java, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, multithreading, and REST API development.
• Frontend Core: Mastery of modern JavaScript/TypeScript frameworks (such as React, Angular, or Vue.js), HTML5, and responsive CSS architectures.
• Data Platforms: Proficient with relational databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL/Caching systems (Redis, MongoDB).
• Messaging Systems: Experience implementing asynchronous workflows using message brokers like Kafka or RabbitMQ.
• Design Patterns: Strong grasp of microservices patterns, distributed system caching, load balancing, and failover mechanisms.

Preferred / Nice-to-Have Skills

• Experience deploying workloads to Cloud environments (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Familiarity with containerization tools like Docker and orchestration via Kubernetes.
• Hands-on experience setting up continuous integration and automated deployment pipelines (CI/CD).
• Exposure to system observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack).

Education Requirement

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, Electronics, Electrical Engineering, or a related field. Candidates with equivalent exceptional hands-on full-stack engineering experience will be highly considered regardless of formal degree background.

 Sr. Java Software Engineer:

Preferred Education & Experience:

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Applications, Mathematics, or related technical field. Relevant experience of at least 3 years in lieu of above if from a different stream of education.
• Well-versed in and 5+ years of hands-on designing experience in Object Oriented Design, Data Modeling, Class & Object Modeling, Microservices Architecture & Design.
• Well-versed in and 5+ years of hands-on programming experience in Core Java Programming, Advanced Java Programming, Spring Framework, Spring Boot or Micronaut Framework, Log Framework, Build & Deployment Framework, etc

. • 3+ years of hands-on experience developing Domain-Driven Microservices using libraries & frameworks such as Micronaut, Spring Boot, etc.

• 3+ years of hands-on experience developing connector frameworks Apache Camel, Akka framework, etc.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience in RBDMS & NoSQL Databases concepts and development practices (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Amazon S3).
• 3+ years of hands-on experience developing Webservices using REST, API Gateway using Token based authentication, access management.
• 1+ years of hands-on experience developing and hosting microservices using Serverless and Container based development (AWS Lambda, Docker, Kubernetes, etc.).
• Having Knowledge & hands-on experience developing applications using Behavior Driven Development, Test Driven Development Methodologies is a Plus.
• Having Knowledge & hands-on experience in AWS Cloud Services such as IAM, Lambda, EC2, ECS, ECR, API Gateway, S3, SQS, Kinesis, CloudWatch, DynamoDB, etc. is also a Plus.
• Having Knowledge & hands-on experience in DevOps CI/CD tools such as JIRA, Git (Bitbucket/GitHub), Artifactory, etc. & Build tools such as Maven & Gradle.
• 2+ years of hands-on development experience in Java centric Developer Tools, Management & Governance, Networking and Content Delivery, Security, Identity, and Compliance, etc.
• Having Knowledge & hands-on experience in Apache Nifi, Apache Spark, Apache Flink is also a Plus. • Having Knowledge & handson experience in Python, NodeJS, Scala Programming is also a Plus. Required Experience: 5+ Years

Job Location: Remote / Pune

Open Positions: 1

EXPERTISE AND QUALIFICATIONS

• 14+ years of experience in Software Engineering with at least 6+ years as a Lead Enterprise Architect preferably in a software product company
• High technical credibility - ability to lead technical brainstorming, take decisions and push for the best solution to a problem
• Experience in architecting Microservices based E2E Enterprise Applications
• Experience in UI technologies such as Angular, Node.js or Fullstack technology is desirable
• Experience with NoSQL technologies (MongoDB, Neo4j etc.)
• Elastic Search, Kibana, ELK, Logstash.
• Good understanding of Kafka, Redis, ActiveMQ, RabbitMQ, Solr etc.
• Exposure in SaaS cloud-based platform.
• Experience on Docker, Kubernetes etc.
• Experience in planning, designing, developing and delivering Enterprise Software using Agile Methodology
• Key Programming Skills: Java, J2EE with cutting edge technologies
• Hands-on technical leadership with proven ability to recruit and mentor high performance talents including Architects, Technical Leads, Developers
• Excellent team building, mentoring and coaching skills are a must-have
• A proven track record of consistently setting and achieving high standards

Five Reasons Why You Should Join Zycus

1. Cloud Product Company: We are a Cloud SaaS Company, and our products are created by using the latest technologies like ML and AI. Our UI is in Angular JS and we are developing our mobile apps using React.

2. A Market Leader: Zycus is recognized by Gartner (world’s leading market research analyst) as a Leader in Procurement Software Suites.

3. Move between Roles: We believe that change leads to growth and therefore we allow our employees to shift careers and move to different roles and functions within the organization

4. Get a Global Exposure: You get to work and deal with our global customers.

5. Create an Impact: Zycus gives you the environment to create an impact on the product and transform your ideas into reality. Even our junior engineers get the opportunity to work on different product features.

About Us

Zycus is a pioneer in Cognitive Procurement software and has been a trusted partner of choice for large global enterprises for two decades. Zycus has been consistently recognized by Gartner, Forrester, and other analysts for its Source to Pay integrated suite. Zycus powers its S2P software with the revolutionary Merlin AI Suite. Merlin AI takes over the tactical tasks and empowers procurement and AP officers to focus on strategic projects; offers data-driven actionable insights for quicker and smarter decisions, and its conversational AI offers a B2C type user-experience to the end-users.

Zycus helps enterprises drive real savings, reduce risks, and boost compliance, and its seamless, intuitive, and easy-

to-use user interface ensures high adoption and value across the organization.

Start your #CognitiveProcurement journey with us, as you are #MeantforMore

Requirements:

• Bachelor's or master’s degree in computer science or equivalent work experience.
• A solid understanding of the full web technology stack and experience in developing web applications
• Strong experience with React JS framework for building visually appealing interfaces and back end frameworks like Django
• Knowledge of multiple front-end languages and libraries (e.g. HTML/ CSS, JavaScript, XML, jQuery)
• Good knowledge of object-oriented programming and data structures in Python
• Experience with NoSQL databases, web server technologies, designing, and developing APIs.
• Strong knowledge and work experience in AWS cloud services
• Proficiency with Git, CI/CD pipelines.
• Knowledge in Agile/Scrum processes.
• Experience in Docker container usage.

Roles and responsibilities:

• Develop sophisticated web applications for drone control, data management, security, and data protection.
• Build scalable features using advanced framework concepts such as Microservices, Queues, Jobs, Events, Task Scheduling, etc.
• Integrate with Third-Party APIs/services
• Use theoretical knowledge and/or work experience to find innovative solutions to the problems at hand.
• Collaborate with team members to ideate solutions.
• Troubleshoot, debug, and upgrade existing software.
• Passionate to learn and adapt in a start-up environment.

Perks:

• Hands-on experience with state of the art facilities we use for robot development.
• Opportunity to work with industry experts and researchers in the field of AI, Computer Vision, and Machine Learning.
• Competitive salary.
• Stock options.
• Opportunity to be an early part of the team and grow with the startup.
• Freedom of working schedule.
• Opportunity to kickstart and lead your own projects.

Position profile

Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities and duties

Skill Set

Primary

• 4-7 years’ experience developing scalable Mobile, Web and Cloud based applications.
• 3-4 years’ experience with hybrid mobile applications using IonicJS.
• 3-4 years’ experience with backend frameworks: Node.js, Express.js, Mongoose.js.
• 3-4 years’ experience with JavaScript Frameworks such as Angular, CSS and HTML5.
• 1-2 years’ experience with Azure Cloud, Azure PaaS (Functions, Service Bus, etc.).
• 1-2 years’ experience with SQL Server and MongoDB database.
• Experience in developing applications involving data extraction, transformation, and visualization using tools like Power BI.
• Very strong experience with the orchestration of multiple asynchronous API calls via call backs, promises, and async/await.
• Hands-on experience with TDD, using libraries such as Mocha/Jasmine.
• Define and implement application & infrastructure migration methodologies and techniques to migrate workloads into Azure.
• Knowledge of CI/CD, Jenkins pipelines would be a plus.
• Knowledge of AWS Cloud would be a plus.
• Experience in developing native iOS and Android applications would be a plus.

Strong experience on core Java (Version >=1.8 )

Strong experience on Spring ecosystem (Core, MVC, data, JPA, transaction management, security, AOP, Batch & Boot). Comfortable performing integration tests in Spring context.

Strong experience on JDBC and DB concepts.

Experience of TDD/BDD approach and prior experience working with CI/CD tools (Maven, Git, jenkins)

Strong experience on ORM (hibernate) and PL/SQL procedures

Knowledge of some of UI latest languages / frameworks ( Html5, Angular 4+)

Knowledge of SOA/Microservices (REST, Soap) and its challenges

Strong knowledge on APP server (Tomcat, Weblogic)

Strong knowledge on Microservices

Exposure on Digital stack

-          UX/UI

-          API

-          Machine Learning

-          Big Data

-          Cloud/Docker/IaaS/PaaS

Knowledge on Java Swing

Experience delivering sound development, testing, implementation, deployment and support strategies in complex distributed environments.

Knowledge on production monitoring tools.

Good experience in leading change within a team, especially around testing and quality practices.

Team player, who relentlessly involves others and shares knowledge with them

Should have experience of participant in design reviews and code reviews.

Curiosity in all the latest trends and ready to do POCs with new technical stack