MERN Stack Developer

Founded by a Harvard Business School and IIT Kharagpur alumna, is revolutionizing what and how students learn in the 21st century. With 1000+ subjects outside the school on which structured thinking and effective communication are developed.

The academy provides children with curated, Harvard-like content that inspires them every day, and exposes them to a wide range of topics, careers, and leaders. Here the student will enhance both the knowledge as well as skills of the 21st century.

Job Details: Full Stack Engineer - FSE - 1

Role Scope:

We are looking for a MEAN/MERN Stack developer to join our Technology team.

As a full-stack developer, you will work closely with our Technical Architectural members to develop microservices that focus on the educational needs of Parents and Students globally.

If you have excellent programming skills and a passion for developing applications from scratch, we would like to meet you. Working at Early Steps Academy is one of the best opportunities to get first-hand experience in an early-stage startup, explore different domains, and achieve your career goals.

Preferred Qualifications & Skills

A minimum of 3 years of relevant experience

Strong programming skills in Javascript/Typescript with Object-oriented design

Hands-on expertise in building reusable components and independently publishable packages

Strong experience in HTML, Angular(2+)/React, ExpressJS, MongoDB, NodeJS and CSS frameworks

Practitioner of IaC (AWS), CI/CD, Containerization(Docker), Accessibility, Server Side Rendering, Pre-rendering, Serverless and Agile Ability to adapt quickly to a new direction.

Location - Bangalore

We are a B2B SaaS company that is re-imagining how companies use sales incentives to motivate their employees. We believe great results are only achieved when people are motivated - and our product is nothing but an extension of that philosophy.

On a more day-to-day level, our product takes away the ambiguity and grunt-work behind manual sales incentive calculation, and allows companies to experiment with incentive plans that actually work for every employee - and not just top performers. We are a team of experienced founders who between them have built and sold software products pretty much all across the globe. We are backed by some of the best angels and institutional investors in India - and are growing at breakneck speed.

Responsibilities

• Work as part of a collaborative, agile team to deliver industry-leading engagement capabilities in web.
• Integrate with other services to help Elevate seamlessly provide value to more companies
• Design and develop feature enhancements that continue to deliver on the value and provide an excellent customer experience
• Troubleshoot and resolve emergency server or code issues at any stack level
• Ability to empathize with end-users; build with scale and ease of adoption in mind
• Experience building in an agile setting with code reviews and quality as a priority
• Strong design skills for separation and modularity of code; aversion to overly complex, spaghetti code

Qualifications

• A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, related technical field, or commensurate experience
• 1+ years experience in production web application development
• 1+ years of experience working with NodeJS or an equivalent web framework and language
• Experience writing JavaScript code, either vanilla JS or using a framework such as Node.js or React, Redux
• Unit testing experience (Jest)
• 3rd party API usage and integration experience
• RDBMS usage (e.g. MySQL, PostgreSQL)
• AWS

Persistence: design it, build it, if it breaks, fix it, but make it work, and make it shine

Bonus Skills

• Free and/or Open Source project work
• Amazon Web Services, DevOps experience
• Database Design

Perks

• Competitive salary and equity package
• Great culture and team camaraderie
• Work from Anywhere
• Health Insurance
• Flexible vacation and sick policy
• Macbook Pro or similar Linux laptop

You’ll be our: Business Software Team Lead

You’ll be based at: IBC Knowledge Park, Bengaluru

You’ll be Aligned with: Engineering Manager, Ather Web Stack.

You’ll be a member of:  Software & Intelligence

What you’ll do at Ather:

• Guide development team efforts towards successful project delivery.

• Provide technical leadership to teammates through coaching and mentorship.

• Maintain high standards of software quality within the team by establishing good practices and habits.

• Identify and encourage areas for growth and improvement within the team.

• Collaborate with other software developers, business analysts and software architects to plan, design, develop, test, and maintain web-based business applications.

• Design, develop, and unit test applications in accordance with established standards. Participate in peer-reviews of solution designs and related code.

• Package and support deployment of releases.

• Develop, refine, and tune integrations between applications.

• Analyze and resolve technical and application problems.

• Assess opportunities for application and process improvement and prepare documentation of rationale to share with team members and other affected parties.

• Adhere to high-quality development principles while delivering solutions on-time and on-budget.

Here’s what we are looking for: 

• Expert level of experience working with technologies like Nodejs and javascript.

• Strong DevOps focus and experience building and deploying infrastructure with cloud deployment technologies.

• Hands-on experience in writing applications at scale.

• Experience with test-driven development and automated testing frameworks.

• Experience with Scrum/Agile development methodologies.

• Expertise with code reviews with a major focus on best performance, scalability, security and future expansion.

• Should have worked on Scalable projects / large applications / Microservices architecture.

• Should have worked primarily on Backend Development projects.

• Good to have Object Oriented Development in languages like Java.

• Familiar with various design and architectural patterns.

• Experience in leading a high performing engineering team of ~5 members.

You bring to Ather:

• 5+ years’ experience as a Software Developer

• Prior experience in a technical leadership position

• College or University degree in Computer Science or a related discipline