MERN Stack Developer

Job Description

The Opportunity

The Springboard engineering team is looking for software engineers with strong backend & frontend technical expertise. In this role, you would be responsible for building exciting features aimed at improving our student experience and expanding our student base, using the latest technologies like GenAI, as relevant. You would also contribute to making our platform more robust, flexible and scalable. This is a great opportunity to create a meaningful impact as well as grow in your career.

We are looking for engineers with different levels of experience and expertise. Depending on your proficiency levels, you will join our team as a Software Engineer II, Senior Software Engineer or Lead Software Engineer.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop features for the Springboard platform, which enriches the learning experience of thousands through human guided learning at scale
• Own quality and reliability of the product by getting hands on with code and design reviews, debugging complex issues and so on
• Contribute to the platform architecture through redesign of complex features based on evolving business needs
• Influence and establish best engineering practices through solid design decisions, processes and tools
• Provide technical mentoring to team members

You

• You have experience with web application development, on both, backend and frontend.
• You have a solid understanding of software design principles and best practices.
• You have hands-on experience in,
• Coding and debugging complex systems, with frontend integration.
• Code review, responsible for production deployments.
• Building scalable and fault-tolerant applications.
• Re-architecting / re-designing complex systems / features (i.e. managing technical debt).
• Defining and following best practices for frontend and backend systems.
• You have excellent problem solving skills and are comfortable handling ambiguity.
• You are able to analyze various alternatives and reach optimal decisions. 
• You are willing to challenge the status quo, express your opinion and drive change.
• You are able to plan reasonably complex pieces of work and can handle changing priorities, unknowns and challenges with support. You want to contribute to the platform roadmap, aligning with the organization priorities and goals.
• You enjoy mentoring others and helping them solve challenging problems.
• You have excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner. You are able to communicate with various stakeholders to understand their requirements.
• You are a proponent of quality - building best practices, introducing new processes and improvements to make the team more efficient.

Non-negotiables

Must have

• Expertise in Backend development (Python & Django experience preferred)
• Expertise in Frontend development (AngularJS / ReactJS / VueJS experience preferred)
• Experience working with SQL databases
• Experience building multiple significant features for web applications

Good to have

• Experience with Google Cloud Platform (or any cloud platform)
• Experience working with any Learning Management System (LMS), such as Canvas
• Experience working with GenAI ecosystem, including usage of AI tools such as code completion
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and applications deployed on Kubernetes
• Experience with refactoring (redesigning complex systems / features, breaking monolith into services)
• Experience working with NoSQL databases
• Experience with Web performance optimization, SEO, Gatsby and FE Analytics
• Delivery skills, specifically planning open ended projects
• Mentoring skills

Expectations

• Able to work with open ended problems and come up with efficient solutions
• Able to communicate effectively with business stakeholders to clarify requirements for small to medium tasks and own end to end delivery
• Able to communicate estimations, plan deviations and blockers in an efficient and timely manner to all project stakeholders

Key Responsibilities:

• Frontend Development: Build responsive, modern, and engaging user interfaces using React.js, ensuring a seamless user experience across all devices.
• Backend Development: Design and implement RESTful APIs, manage databases, and handle business logic using Node.js and Express.js.
• Database Management: Build and manage MongoDB databases, including schema design, data modeling, and query optimization.
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Work closely with UX/UI designers, product managers, and other developers to deliver high-quality, performant web portals.
• Performance Optimization: Implement best practices for performance tuning, scalability, and reliability across both frontend and backend.
• Code Quality: Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code, adhering to best practices, and conduct code reviews for your peers.
• Testing and Debugging: Write unit and integration tests, and debug issues to ensure stability, security, and quality in production.

Qualifications:

• Proven experience (3+ years) in full-stack web development using the MERN stack (MongoDB, Express.js, React.js, Node.js).
• Strong understanding of HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript (ES6+), along with modern JavaScript frameworks and libraries.
• Experience with state management in React (e.g., Redux, Context API).
• Solid understanding of RESTful API design, asynchronous programming, and Node.js server-side development.
• Hands-on experience with MongoDB and integrating databases with Node.js.
• Familiarity with modern development tools and workflows such as Git, CI/CD pipelines, and containerization (Docker).
• Strong problem-solving abilities and an eye for detail.
• Ability to work in an agile development environment, with a focus on continuous delivery and iterative improvement.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Familiarity with additional frontend technologies such as TypeScript, GraphQL, or Next.js.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and serverless architectures.
• Knowledge of performance optimization techniques and scalability best practices.
• Understanding of DevOps processes, containerization, and microservices architecture.

Why Join Us?

• Innovative Projects: Work on cutting-edge, high-impact projects that challenge your technical skills and creativity.
• Collaborative Culture: Join a team of talented professionals who are passionate about technology, learning, and continuous improvement.
• Career Growth: We offer opportunities for mentorship, skill development, and career advancement.
• Flexible Work Environment: Enjoy a healthy work-life balance with options for remote work, flexible hours, and more.

Required Skills for this Role:

 Strong experience with full-stack Javascript framework, Mongo DB,Express,

React.JS, Node JS.

 Must have worked with creation of deeplinks for mobile apps

 Must be well experienced in AWS, especially elastic bean in AWS

 Must have worked with push notifications service

 Must know socket programming

 Self-motivated with the ability to work independently or jointly in a self-directed

way.

 Demonstrated successful development of enterprise-grade web applications

 Proven analytical and problem-solving capabilities

 Comfortable leading product development

 Strong work ethic and desire to build industry-leading products

Also Nice to Have Skills and Background:

 Startup experience

 Worked on product development

Required Skills 

1) Good experience in Angular

2) Hand on Node.JS./Express JS 

3) Database : MYSQL/MongoDB 

4) Experience in Java Script, Typescript. 

5)Good experience in HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, Jquery 

6) Experience working in an Agile environment. 

7) Good communication skills.

• Work with product managers to find solutions to critical problems, face internal customers, and create requirements.
• Triage and fix critical issues that arise in the field that affect our core product.
• Manage git repositories, pull requests, and review code.
• Communicate properly & promptly with all stakeholders.
• Build a proof-of-concept for new products from scratch.
• Optimize, clean up, and comment on the existing codebase.

• Must have 5-8 years of hands-on engineering experience.
• Must be an expert in Javascript with ES6+ features, Node.js, ReactJS, and Redux
• Must be an expert in HTML5, CSS3, SASS, and Webpack.
• You are proficient with RESTful API design and implementation using Node.js.
• Proficiency in relational (MySQL, Cloud Spanner, etc.) and non-relational (MongoDB, Google Cloud Firestore, etc.) databases.
• Must be an expert in data structure and creating highly optimized algorithms.
• Should have a working knowledge of GCP services like App Engine, CloudSQL, Compute Engine, etc.
• Should have a working understanding of microservices patterns, serverless design, and event-based architecture.
• Willingness to learn new programming languages, frameworks, and paradigms.

What we offer

• A fast-paced environment to learn and grow. You’ll get opportunities to represent the company in events like Devoxx, Google Developer Days India, etc.
• Very high autonomy; freedom to take risks, to experiment, and to fail. You’ll collaborate with product managers and designers, data scientists and algorithm experts, even dairy farmers, to build exciting new features
• An opportunity to work on something that really matters. Check out the reviews for our app.
• Very high transparency.
• We pay top of the market with excellent benefits
• Personal CFO Services with IndMoney.
• Employee assistance program- Counselling and consultation services for work and home- life topic
• Group medical insurance family floater for Employees, spouses and kids

With millions of transactions each month, Animall is one of the world’s fastest-growing agritech companies. We continue to re-imagine and re-engineer the dairy ecosystem in India, and each team member will have significant ownership of the key components that go into this mission!

🗞 Animall in the News

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https://www.techcircle.in/2021/07/14/animall-raises-14-mn-series-b-from-new-and-existing-investors">Animall raises $14 mn Series B from new and existing investors (techcircle.in)

Duties and responsibilities

• Responsible for the development of new highly responsive, web-based user interface
• Construct visualisations that are able to depict vast amounts of data
• Work and collaborate with the rest of the engineering team
• Work with the product team and graphic designers
• Learn and understand user interactions
• Develop a flexible and well-structured front-end architecture, along with the APIs to support it

Requirements and qualifications

• Experience in Work Frontend Frameworks like Bootstrap, MUI & Antd.
• Must have experience in ES6
• Hands-on experience with REACT REDUX
• Hands-on experience with REDUX SAGA or REDUX ToolKit
• Experience with HTML5 / CSS3
• Experience in creating REST API's based on NODE JS
• GraphQL is a plus
• Must have Git knowledge
• Team player
• Good time-management skills
• Good interpersonal and communication skill

Full Stack Engineer Role

🏘 Why Propacity?

In a country like India where every Indian aspires to have a home which provides both emotional & financial stability. Typically, real estate brokers are responsible for closing transaction for buyers, and sellers. In fact, the data suggests > 90% transactions occur via 1.5 million real estate brokers.

Unfortunately, real estate brokers are having a painful time managing their business on their own. This is leading to awful customer experience for buyers, and sellers.

Propacity is creating a platform which empowers real estate brokers to create trustworthy experience for Indians customers looking to invest their life savings.

🏚 What does Propacity Platform do?

• Solve for lead generation, lead management, market insights, growth opportunities, and more
  
  
• The platform makes the broker more efficient, more data informed, increases his income, and enables him to engage better with customer.

💛  Team Propacity

Started in 2020, we are of one of India's fastest-growing PropTech startup. We are a team of startup heroes, technology enthusiasts, product makers and business operators who want to create trustworthy real estate experience for Indians investing their lifesavings in the real estate.

Currently, working with over 200+ real estate brokers in 20+ Indian Cities.

Our team is super passionate, customer obsessed and extremely supportive of each other.

🚀 Why join us?

As a Full Stack Founding Engineer, you will be responsible for the technical implementation of Propacity Platform with other A+ Engineers

We are redefining the real estate industry. It will be hard and there are a ton of challenges facing us. However, with the right mindset, strategy, and the world-class team that we’re building, we know we can push the world forward, and build the biggest business imaginable.

 👩🏽‍💻👨‍💻 YOUR ROLE 

• Develop code for the Propacity Platform
• Collaborate with the product & design team for making decisions based on your codebase expertise
• Own the development process from the architecture stage till the product is shipped
• Promote code quality, new technologies, and architectural design within the company
• Work and develop a team of engineers who can ship fast
• Have fun collaborating with your team, and communicate as much as you can

✅  Should Have Expertise:

• Experience: You have 3+ years of professional product development experience with MERN Stack :  building server applications in Node.js along with JS Frameworks, system design.

• Server expertise: Good experience with deploying applications on AWS & devops

• Databases: You have in-depth knowledge of RDMS as well as no-sql databases and are capable of designing scalable database models based on the product and security requirements. You have also experience with in-memory databases such as Redis and queuing frameworks for running tasks asynchronously.

• Front end expertise: Good understanding of React.js, frameworks, and libraries

• CS Fundamentals: You possess strong computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, API’s, micro-services, distributed systems, and information retrieval.

• 3rd Party API integrations: API Integrations for fb, Instagram, google ads & more into our product

• Github: You have some JS projects/products on GitHub Repository that are worthy of public view.

• Product focused: You take pride in building innovative and shipping fast

• Problem solver: You excel at understanding and solving complex problems. You have great attention to detail.

• Quality communicator: You can break down tricky topics in writing and work with the team together

• Feedback: You are humble, kind, and are open to product feedback

• Location: Remote/New Delhi

✅  Good to Have:

• Automated Tests: Automated Tests to test the Restful API’s

• Design Basics: Basic understanding of the Figma Tool

• Mobile Applications: Basic Understanding of app. development via React Native 

 🤙  OUR HIRING PROCESS

Yes, we make sure every candidate who joins Propacity brings in the right DNA, has growth mindset, maximises peer-to-peer learning, ownership oriented and enjoys building tech products. 

Step 1: You apply for the job at Propacity

Step 2: Short Intro Call with the Founder(s)

Step 3: Technical Interview Round(s)

Step 4: Evaluation of your Technical Expertise

Step 5: Founder Round for DNA Check

Step 6: Job offer rollout

Step 7: Join the Team Propacity & start building

🎁  PROPACITY BENEFITS 

🕰 Generous Office Timings 

• Flexible working hours
• Flexible Leave Policy

✍️ Investing in Your Growth 

• Mentoring by top industry talent
• Working Directly with the Founders
• Shared Learning with Super Smart Team Members
• Ownership to build products and teams

💰 Financial Success 

• Company ESOPS
• Expected CTC : 18 - 25 Lakhs per annum