MERN Stack Developer

Role & Responsibilities

• work with peers in Product, QA, and other Engineering departments;
• coach and mentor team members;
• cautiously drive adoption of new technologies and processes;
• preserve our engineering values of quality, scalability, and maintainability;
• “see around corners” — identify blind spots and prioritize work across teams;
• work with international teams to ensure successful product development and delivery; and
• own the overall architecture and systems engineering for your products.

Ideal Candidate

• exceptional communication and organizational skills;
• experience recruiting for and building software engineering teams;
• the ability to inspire and motivate team members;
• a strong technical background in software engineering and architecture, and experience with modern programming languages and frameworks;
• 6+ years of software development experience; and
• 4+ years of experience managing software teams (as a Team Lead or a Manager) or similar experience as an individual contributor.

Location: Mumbai

Experience Required: 2+ Years

Job Type: Full-Time

Notice Period: Immediate Joiners

(Looking for Local Candidates of Mumbai)

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

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design, architecture, and development of core B2C and B2B platforms from the ground up.
• Balance hands-on coding with technical leadership and team mentorship.
• Make critical decisions on system architecture, technology stacks, and implementation strategies.
• Collaborate closely with the Fractional CTO and product team to define the technical roadmap and align engineering efforts with business objectives.
• Build and maintain robust, secure, and scalable backend services with a strong emphasis on performance and maintainability.
• Set up and promote efficient development workflows, CI/CD pipelines, and engineering best practices across the team.

Requirements

• 4–6 years of experience building and scaling full-stack or backend-heavy systems in production environments.
• Deep expertise in backend development using frameworks like NestJS or Node.js (PERN stack preferred).
• Strong understanding of relational database design and query optimization, ideally with PostgreSQL.
• Proficient in frontend frameworks like React or Next.js, with an eye for clean architecture and good UX.
• Solid knowledge of DevOps practices including CI/CD, Docker, Git workflows, and cloud deployments (AWS or GCP).
• Demonstrated ability to lead and mentor junior developers, especially in early-stage or fast-paced startup environments.
• Experience with greenfield product development or scaling products from 0 to 1 is a strong plus.

About HighLevel:  

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.

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.

Responsibilities

• Improve and create new lead capture domain models.
• Build backend & Frontend API features and architecture.
• Work cross-functionally across our platform, experience, integrations, payments and marketplace teams.
• Drive performance through benchmarking and optimization
• Work with a wide range of systems, processes, and technologies to own and solve problems from end to end
• Collaborate closely with our leadership team including engineers, designers, and product managers to build new features and products
• Uphold high engineering standards and bring consistency to the many codebases and systems you will encounter.
• Work on 1 to 2 products.
• Create and improve lead capture tools like funnels, websites, forms, surveys, social media
• Architect and build backend & Frontend APIs and features

Your Core Skills

• 4+ years of experience in a full-stack environment.
• Proficient with various programming languages and tools such as but not limited to Javascript, TypeScript, Vue.js, NodeJS, and GraphQL
• Must be able to work with a team and collaborate remotely.
• You have an entrepreneurial mindset, are eager to take on different roles when necessary and know how to navigate a start-up environment.
• You are fulfilled by being a generalist working on both the frontend, backend, and anything it takes to solve problems and delight users and take pride in working on projects involving a variety of technologies and systems.
• Ability to stitch together many different services and processes together, even if you have not worked with them before.
• Hold a great deal of empathy for your team and users, you are a steward of crafting great experiences.
• Have great communication skills and can thrive in a highly collaborative environment when working cross-functionally with many stakeholders.
• Driven by product quality, and innately know how to balance trade-offs with time to launch new features.
• A keen eye for design and love to think about user flows and user experiences.
• Must have experience with HTML5 and CSS3

Additional Skills

• Experience with the Nuxt.js framework is a plus.
• Experience with MongoDB profiling and query optimization.
• Using CSS frameworks such as Bootstrap and TailwindCSS
• Experience working in the GCP (Google Cloud Platform) ecosystem.

• Front-end skills (HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, ES6+, Ajax);
• 3+ years working with React/Redux + Typescript front-end applications
• Must have experience technologies like Python, React, node.js, PostgreSQL, AWS
• Experience with centrally managed state (Redux) and React Router
• Experience with data structuring libraries (Immutable.js / Immer)
• Experience of TDD/BDD, QA/Test frameworks such as Selenium, load testing (Blazemeter), unit testing (Mocha/Chai/Jest) etc.
• Experience optimising the performance of front-end applications
• A good understanding of agile development practices and common methodologies
• Experience building responsive, cross browser compatibility websites and applications
• Experience of integrating with web services and APIs, including REST endpoints.
• Experience using code version control systems (GIT) and CI/CD.

As a Software Engineer, you will build and scale Clockwork, creating an engaging experience for our users. As one of the first few engineers, you will work on 0 to 1 type projects, partnering closely with our product, design and business teams to build the future of Clockwork.

• Write, test and deploy code to enhance our product
• Design software systems for new features
• Diagnose bugs and system bottlenecks as our product scales
• Work closely with product and design to define our roadmap

• 3+ years of professional experience as a software engineer
• Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience
• Solid engineering, coding and problem solving skills
• Strong product/business sense
• Excited about working in a fast-paced, dynamic startup environment

Clockwork encourages applications from people of all races, religions, national origins, genders, sexual orientations, gender identities, gender expressions and ages, as well as veterans and individuals with disabilities.

• Must have strong exposure working on Java Script 
  
• Proficient in Javascript frameworks (Vue Js / React Js) is a must
• Strong understanding of REST APIs
• Have experience with common front-end development tools such as Babel, Webpack, NPM is a definite advantage
• Good understanding of asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, and AJAX
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as GitHub
• Good to have working experience on CSS pre-processor either LESS or SASS
• Good understanding of BEM (Block, Element, Modifier) methodology

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Developing complete website architecture.
• Creating websites/a website using standard HTML/CSS practices
• Designing user interactions on web pages. 
• Developing back end website applications. 
• Creating servers and databases for functionality. 
• Ensuring cross-platform optimization for mobile phones. 
• Ensuring responsiveness of applications. 
• Seeing through a project from conception to finished product. 
• Designing and developing APIs. 
• Meeting both technical and consumer needs. 
• Researching different software programs, maintaining software documentation
• Implementing contingency plans in case the website goes down
• Maintaining and expanding/enhancing the website once built