MERN Stack Developer

Profile Title: Software Development Engineer

Location: Pune Remote

Company Profile:

Growloc Private Limited is a leading Agri-tech company in India specializing in IoT solutions for farm management. We empower farmers with innovative technology to optimize resource usage, improve yields, and ensure consistent quality produce. Backed by a team of passionate individuals, Growloc Private Limited is committed to creating a more sustainable and productive future for Indian agriculture.

Role Overview:

 We’re looking for a MERN Stack Engineer (SDE-2) who’s passionate about building impactful products and believes in working smarter—with AI copilots, automation, and lean dev cycles. You’ll be part of a high-ownership team responsible for delivering full-stack features, writing testable code, and deploying to production with CI/CD.

Key Responsibilities:

• Build and maintain robust full-stack applications using MongoDB, Nest.js, React.js, and Node.js.

• Actively leverage AI tools (Copilot, ChatGPT, etc.) for faster development, documentation, and writing test cases.

• Write and maintain unit, integration, and end-to-end tests to ensure code quality.

• Own features end-to-end—from design to deployment using modern CI/CD workflows (GitHub Actions, Vercel, AWS).

• Collaborate with product, data, and hardware teams in a lean setup to ship fast and iterate often.

• Ensure performance, responsiveness, and scalability of front-end and backend systems.

Required Skills:

• 2–5 years of professional experience building products using the MERN stack.

• Strong understanding of frontend architecture (React Hooks, Context API/Redux).

• Proficiency in Node.js, Express, and MongoDB schema design.

• Familiarity with CI/CD tools, Git workflows, and cloud deployments.

• Experience with automated testing frameworks (Jest, Mocha, Cypress, etc.).

• Demonstrated use of AI-based coding assistants in real-world development workflows.

Good to Have:

• Exposure to IoT systems or integration with hardware devices.

• Experience working with LoRaWAN protocols and sensor data ingestion.

• Familiarity with WebSockets, MQTT, or real-time data processing.

• Background in agriculture, climate-tech, or rural tech products.

• Knowledge of TypeScript or serverless architectures.

Compensation: Best as per the market standards

At Growloc, we believe in purpose-driven technology. You’ll be part of a collaborative team working at the intersection of agriculture and innovation. If you're excited about building products that matter—and making a real-world impact—this is the place for you.

A full stack developer job description for MERN stack developers centers on designing, developing, and maintaining robust web applications using MongoDB, Express.js, React, and Node.js as core technologies.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain scalable web applications using the MERN stack.
• Build interactive and responsive user interfaces with React.
• Implement server-side APIs and business logic using Node.js and Express.js.
• Design, model, and manage databases with MongoDB to ensure efficient data storage and retrieval.
• Integrate front-end with back-end systems and third-party services.
• Optimize applications for speed and scalability, troubleshoot and debug code, and ensure reliability.
• Collaborate with other developers, designers, and stakeholders in an agile environment to clarify requirements and deliver solutions.
• Implement security best practices and protect sensitive data.
• Participate in code reviews and mentor junior developers.

Requirements

• Proven experience with the MERN stack (MongoDB, Express.js, React, Node.js).
• Strong skills in JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3.
• Familiarity with RESTful API design, version control systems (Git), and front-end frameworks like Bootstrap or Material-UI.
• Understanding of database design, schema management, and NoSQL principles.
• Problem-solving ability and communication skills.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field (preferred).
• Experience working collaboratively in a team-oriented environment.

Key Skills

• JavaScript, React.js, Node.js, Express.js, MongoDB.
• HTML/CSS, RESTful APIs, Git.
• Familiarity with agile methodologies and UI/UX best practices.
• Testing, debugging, code optimization, and deployment.

Experience: -

* Minimum 2 year of coding experience in ReactJS (TypeScript), HTML, CSS-Pre-processors, or CSS-in-JS in creating Enterprise Applications with high performance for Responsive Web Applications.

* Minimum 2 year of coding experience in NodeJS, JavaScript & TypeScript and NoSQL Databases.

* Developing and implementing highly responsive user interface components using React concepts. (self-contained, reusable, and testable modules and components)

* Architecting and automating the build process for production, using task runners or scripts

* Knowledge of Data Structures for TypeScript.

* Monitoring and improving front-end performance.

* Banking or Retail domains knowledge is good to have.

* Hands on experience in performance tuning, debugging, monitoring.

Technical Skills: -

* Excellent knowledge developing scalable and highly available Restful APIs using NodeJS technologies

* Well versed with CI/CD principles, and actively involved in solving, troubleshooting issues in distributed services ecosystem

* Understanding of containerization, experienced in Dockers, Kubernetes.

* Exposed to API gateway integrations like 3Scale.

* Understanding of Single-Sign-on or token-based authentication (Rest, JWT, OAuth)

* Possess expert knowledge of task/message queues include but not limited to: AWS, Microsoft Azure, Pushpin and Kafka.

* Practical experience with GraphQL is good to have.

* Writing tested, idiomatic, and documented JavaScript, HTML and CSS

* Experiencing in Developing responsive web-based UI

* Have experience on Styled Components, Tailwind CSS, Material UI and other CSS-in-JS techniques

* Thorough understanding of the responsibilities of the platform, database, API, caching layer, proxies, and other web services used in the system

* Writing non-blocking code, and resorting to advanced techniques such as multi-threading, when needed

* Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model

* Documenting the code inline using JSDoc or other conventions

* Thorough understanding of React.js and its core principles

* Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools

* Experience with popular React.js workflows (such as Flux or Redux or ContextAPI or Data Structures)

* A knack for benchmarking and optimization

* Proficient with the latest versions of ECMAScript (JavaScript or TypeScript)

* Knowledge of React and common tools used in the wider React ecosystem, such as npm, yarn etc

* Familiarity with common programming tools such as RESTful APIs, TypeScript, version control software, and remote deployment tools, CI/CD tools

* An understanding of common programming paradigms and fundamental React principles, such as React components, hooks, and the React lifecycle

* Unit testing using Jest, Enzyme, Jasmine or equivalent framework

* Understanding of linter libraries (TSLINT, Prettier etc)

Functional Skills: -

* Experience in following best Coding, Security, Unit testing and Documentation standards and practices

* Experience in Agile methodology.

* Ensure quality of technical and application architecture and design of systems across the organization.

* Effectively research and benchmark technology against other best in class technologies.

Soft Skills: -

* Able to influence multiple teams on technical considerations, increasing their productivity and effectiveness, by sharing deep knowledge and experience.

* Self-motivator and self-starter, Ability to own and drive things without supervision and works collaboratively with the teams across the organization.

* Have excellent soft skills and interpersonal skills to interact and present the ideas to Senior and Executive management.

Full Stack Developers : (5 persons required)

• Should have excellent working technical skills in NodeJS, React JS, PreactJS and Mongo DB + AWS
• Must have done projects either at work or in college using these technical skills
• Should have sound logical and problem solving capabilities.
• Must have good communication and articulation skills in English.
• Overall should have a good go-getter attitude and willing to work in a Start-up environment.