MERN Stack Developer

Job Title:Full Stack Developer 

Location: Bangalore, India

About Us:

Meraki Labs stands at the forefront of India's deep-tech innovation landscape, operating as a dynamic venture studio established by the visionary entrepreneur Mukesh Bansal. Our core mission revolves around the creation and rapid scaling of AI-first and truly "moonshot" startups, nurturing them from their nascent stages into industry leaders. We achieve this through an intensive, hands-on partnership model, working side-by-side with exceptional founders who possess both groundbreaking ideas and the drive to execute them.

Currently, Meraki Labs is channeling its significant expertise and resources into a particularly ambitious endeavor: a groundbreaking EdTech platform. This initiative is poised to revolutionize the field of education by democratizing access to world-class STEM learning for students globally. Our immediate focus is on fundamentally redefining how physics is taught and experienced, moving beyond traditional methodologies to deliver an immersive, intuitive, and highly effective learning journey that transcends geographical and socioeconomic barriers. Through this platform, we aim to inspire a new generation of scientists, engineers, and innovators, ensuring that cutting-edge educational resources are within reach of every aspiring learner, everywhere.

Role Overview:

As a Full Stack Developer, you will be at the foundation of building this intelligent learning ecosystem by connecting the front-end experience, backend architecture, and AI-driven components that bring the platform to life. You’ll own key systems that power the AI Tutor, Simulation Lab, and learning content delivery, ensuring everything runs smoothly, securely, and at scale. This role is ideal for engineers who love building end-to-end products that blend technology, user experience, and real-time intelligence.

Your Core Impact

• You will build the spine of the platform, ensuring seamless communication between AI models, user interfaces, and data systems.
• You’ll translate learning and AI requirements into tangible, performant product features.
• Your work will directly shape how thousands of students experience physics through our AI Tutor and simulation environment.

Key Responsibilities:

Platform Architecture & Backend Development

• Design and implement robust, scalable APIs that power user authentication, course delivery, and AI Tutor integration.
• Build the data pipelines connecting LLM responses, simulation outputs, and learner analytics.
• Create and maintain backend systems that ensure real-time interaction between the AI layer and the front-end interface.
• Ensure security, uptime, and performance across all services.

Front-End Development & User Experience

• Develop responsive, intuitive UIs (React, Next.js or similar) for learning dashboards, course modules, and simulation interfaces.
• Collaborate with product designers to implement layouts for AI chat, video lessons, and real-time lab interactions.
• Ensure smooth cross-device functionality for students accessing the platform on mobile or desktop.

AI Integration & Support

• Work closely with the AI/ML team to integrate the AI Tutor and Simulation Lab outputs within the platform experience.
• Build APIs that pass context, queries, and results between learners, models, and the backend in real time.
• Optimize for low latency and high reliability, ensuring students experience immediate and natural interactions with the AI Tutor.

Data, Analytics & Reporting

• Build dashboards and data views for educators and product teams to derive insights from learner behavior.
• Implement secure data storage and export pipelines for progress analytics.

Collaboration & Engineering Culture

• Work closely with AI Engineers, Prompt Engineers, and Product Leads to align backend logic with learning outcomes.
• Participate in code reviews, architectural discussions, and system design decisions.
• Help define engineering best practices that balance innovation, maintainability, and performance.

Required Qualifications & Skills

• 3–5 years of professional experience as a Full Stack Developer or Software Engineer.
• Strong proficiency in Python or Node.js for backend services.
• Hands-on experience with React / Next.js or equivalent modern front-end frameworks.
• Familiarity with databases (SQL/NoSQL), REST APIs, and microservices.
• Experience with real-time data systems (WebSockets or event-driven architectures).
• Exposure to AI/ML integrations or data-intensive backends.
• Knowledge of AWS/GCP/Azure and containerized deployment (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Strong problem-solving mindset and attention to detail.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Build scalable and loosely coupled services to extend our platform
• Build bulletproof API integrations with third-party APIs for various use cases
• Evolve our Infrastructure and add a few more nines to our overall availability
• Have full autonomy and own your code, and decide on the technologies and tools to deliver as well operate large-scale applications on AWS
• Give back to the open-source community through contributions on code and blog posts
• This is a startup so everything can change as we experiment with more product improvements

Some specific Requirements:

• Atleast 2+ years of Development Experience
• You have prior experience developing and working on consumer-facing web/app products
• Hands-on experience in JavaScript. Exceptions can be made if you’re really good at any other language with experience in building web/app-based tech products
• Expertise in Node.JS and Experience in at least one of the following frameworks - Express.js, Koa.js, Socket.io (http://socket.io/)
• Good knowledge of async programming using Callbacks, Promises, and Async/Await
• Hands-on experience with Frontend codebases using HTML, CSS, and AJAX
• Working knowledge of MongoDB, Redis, MySQL
• Good understanding of Data Structures, Algorithms, and Operating Systems
• You've worked with AWS services in the past and have experience with EC2, ELB, AutoScaling, CloudFront, S3
• Experience with Frontend Stack would be added advantage (HTML, CSS)
• You might not have experience with all the tools that we use but you can learn those given the guidance and resources
• Experience in Vue.js would be plus

Location: Mumbai

Experience Required: 2+ Years

Job Type: Full-Time

Notice Period: Immediate Joiners

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

• Drive the architecture and design of large-scale, multi-tiered, distributed software applications, tools, systems and services using object-oriented design, distributed programming, Java/Node/ Python, .Net.
• Hands on experience in delivering high quality software products.
• Gather business and functional requirements from external and/or internal customers and end-users, and translate requirements into technical specifications to build robust, scalable, supportable solutions that work well between a ranges of complex systems.
• Serve as technical lead throughout the full development lifecycle, end-to-end, from scoping, planning, conception, design, implementation and testing, to documentation, delivery and maintenance.
• Provide design reviews for other engineers, including feedback on architecture and design issues, as well as integration, performance and scalability.
• Manage resources on multiple technical projects and ensure schedules, milestones, and priorities are compatible with technology and business goals.

Job Description:

Experience - 4 to 8 Years

Ideally Applicants have:

We are looking for a highly skilled computer programmer who is comfortable with both front and back end programming. Full stack developers are responsible for developing and designing front end web architecture, ensuring the responsiveness of applications, and working alongside graphic designers for web design features, among other duties.

Full stack developers will be required to see out a project from conception to final product, requiring good organizational skills and attention to detail.

Full Stack web developer responsibilities:

• Developing front end website architecture.
• 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.
• Working alongside graphic designers for web design features.
• Seeing through a project from conception to finished product.
• Designing and developing APIs.
• Staying abreast of developments in web applications and programming languages.

Job Types: Full-time, Fresher

Salary: ₹25,000.00 - ₹55,000.00 per month

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain software applications.
• Go the extra mile to identify customer needs and pain-points. 
• Relentless focus on delivering high quality, bug-free code.
• Help and mentor those around you to achieve the team and company goals.
• Closely work with the SRE and DevOps team to set up microservices infrastructure. 
• Maintaining and auditing code/design quality as per set guidelines and standards in assigned projects.
• Testing of completed tasks in ongoing projects in the team before sending updates to reporting authority/client.
• Participate in application design, code reviews and documentation.

Requirements:

• Experience in agile development process.
• Excellent knowledge of HTML5, CSS3.
• Excellent knowledge of JavaScript.
• Experience with cross-browser, cross-platform and design constraints on the web
• Good understanding and experience of working on Vue.js/React.js.
• Prior experience building REST APIs
• Hands-on experience with Node.js/Golang/Java + Redis + Elasticsearch.
• Experience with AWS/GCP is a plus
• Knowledge of version control systems like GIT.
• Experience in developing automated unit and functional tests
• 1+ years of experience with a Bachelor's in Computer Science or related field