MERN Stack Lead Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with the project team to gather requirements and understand user needs.
• Design and develop web applications using the MERN stack.
• Write clean and efficient code for both the front-end and back-end.
• Ensure the creation of responsive and cross-browser compatible web applications.
• Optimize applications for speed, performance, and scalability.
• Debug and troubleshoot issues, and participate in code reviews.
• Develop and maintain RESTful APIs for front-end interactions.
• Integrate third-party libraries and APIs when required.
• Keep up-to-date with the latest web development trends and best practices.
• Conduct unit and integration testing to ensure code quality.
• Collaborate with team members and stakeholders to meet project deadlines.
• Document code and technical specifications.
• Participate in knowledge sharing and continuous learning within the team.

Requirements:

• A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field is preferred, but not mandatory.
• A minimum of 2 years of hands-on experience as a MERN Stack Developer.
• Proficiency in Node.js and Express.js for building the back-end of web applications.
• Strong knowledge and experience in React.js for front-end development.
• Expertise in MongoDB for database design and management.
• Strong understanding of JavaScript, ES6+
• Familiarity with RESTful API development and integration.
• Ability to work with HTML, CSS, and responsive design principles.
• Experience with version control systems, such as Git.
• Problem-solving skills and an aptitude for learning new technologies.
• Strong communication and teamwork skills.

• 2 years of strong development background building complex applications.
• Proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model.
• Experience building applications using NodeJS and frameworks such as Express.
• Thorough understanding of React.js and NodeJS including its core principles.
• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements.
• Familiarity with code versioning tools (such as Git, SVN, and Mercurial).
• Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds
• Strong experience with MongoDB, Postgres
• Developing new user-facing features using React.js
• Thorough understanding of React.js & popular Workflows (such as Flux or Redux)
• Building reusable components and front-end libraries for future use

What you need to have:

• End-to-end full-stack development experience
• Full hands-on experience with at least one of the following languages Java, PHP, Python, .NET and code repositories like GIT, SVN
• Expertise with HTML5, JQuery, CSS
• Proficiency with front-end JavaScript frameworks like Angular, React, etc.
• Experience of designing and developing APIs in a micro-service architecture
• Experience with webserver technologies like Node.js, J2EE, Apache etc.
• Good understanding and working experience with either relational or non-relational databases like Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Mongo DB, Cassandra
• Good understanding of the changing trends of user interface guidelines for mobile apps and be able to transform apps to newer form factors
• Hands-on with Native UI Components
• Familiar with Cloud components & deployment procedures.
• Familiar with code repository

Role: Full Stack Web Developer (full time, remote)

Job description:
Ycenter is looking for a Full Stack Developer to join its Digital Innovations and product development team. This is a fully remote, full time position. You will be employed under the Ycenter India office.

We’re looking for a dynamic coder and problem-solver to work with our Digital Innovations team and help build web products that solve complex global problems for our clients. Preferably a Full Stack Developer / Software Engineer with 2-4 years of experience in building & maintaining web applications, not afraid of taking on new challenges in a fast paced startup environment, able to take leadership decisions independently (read: without a boss) and an obsession for effective & timely communication.

Why you should work with us:

1. If you’ve ever felt that technology should be used for social good, or wanted to create measurable impact through your work, this is the opportunity
2. Be a part of a global team of engineers, entrepreneurs, researchers, designers, and a bot to tackle complex business & social problems for our clients. Past clients include Abbott Global Healthcare, US Department of Commerce, GODAN (Global Open Data For Agriculture & Nutrition), Microsoft and United Nations.
3. Work directly with Ycenter’s leadership team and grab optional opportunities to learn Design Thinking, Leadership and Entrepreneurship (read: what makes a startup successful. We will tell you from experience)
4. Work on end-to-end projects that add real value to your portfolio.
5. We care about you as a person and the work you do, more than spreadsheets and corporate KPIs. In fact if you love spreadsheets, this role is not for you.
6. We are obsessed about pop culture, good movies, TV shows, books and music. We will probably judge you by your Netflix Watch History more than your CV.

Responsibilities:

1. Build end-to-end web applications and test for performance based on predefined scope.
2. Work with Ycenter's leadership team to integrate business requirements with technical architecture and understand the product development roadmap.
3. Analyze & optimize user metrics, system performance and database security.
4. Work with Ycenter’s leadership team to conduct user research and design UX/UI.
5. Optimize search engine performance.
6. Maintain third-party API integrations & help automate client business processes. 

Skills & technologies: 

• Should be proficient in at least one object oriented programming language: C++ / Java / Python / JavaScript
• Skilled at and experienced in web application development with the following full-stack competency:

1. Preferred stack: MERN (MongoDB, ExpressJS, React, NodeJS)
   Alternate stack: LAMP with Laravel framework
2. Should be familiar with building Progressive Web Applications using custom service workers for offline functionality
3. Experience with offline storage, threading, and performance tuning 
4. Proficient in frontend development using HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, JQuery, JSON
5. Knowledge of Javascript-based data visualization & graph libraries
6. Knowledge of and experience in server-side scripting and process automation
7. Knowledge of and experience in MySQL database operations & optimization.
8. Knowledge of and experience in building & handling REST APIs
9. Knowledge of and experience in server environment setup & application deployment in either AWS or Microsoft Azure
10. Knowledge of building Python-based applications is a bonus but not a requirement

• Should have experience with UI/UX design
• Should be familiar with the Git version control system.
• Should be experienced in application testing (manual) and CI/CD workflow
• Should be comfortable working with DevOps processes using Agile methodology

Job Description in brief: 

• Must have good communication skills and Team management skills
• Must be multi tasking
• Strong knowledge of HTML5, CSS, Bootstrap, WordPress, Java, Php, React.Js (Any other technical skills)
• Shall be responsible to handle the Projects solely
• Shall be responsible to handle the clients
• Meetings with the Clients
• Understand the requirement of the clients
• Assigning the task to the developers
• Creating IT project budgets
• Preparing the Commercial Proposals for the clients
• Preparation of the Work Reports
• Assuring to meet the deadline of the projects