MERN stack Developer

• 01+ years of experience as a Full Stack Developer using Node.js and React.js.
• A strong sense of ownership—you care about business impact, not just code.
• Experience working in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.
• Exceptional communication skills in both formal and informal settings.
• A team player with a strong work ethic, who’s in it for the long run.

Swaypay is looking for a detail driven Senior Full Stack Software Engineer with remote startup experience who is comfortable asking “why?”. We want someone who can prioritize well, communicate clearly, and has a track record of delivery and excellent software engineering skills.

You'll work with the team to plan, shape, and build our new product features for both mobile and web. You'll get to use some of the latest technologies in order to build the best product possible.

During your time here, you will get the opportunity to work with most (if not all) of our systems — improving consumer facing products, helping to build the API, improving internal tooling, and simplifying our developer experience.

What you’ll do

• Work closely with other developers, UX designers
• Write and test code to ensure stability while refining as necessary
• Expand existing software and write new software to meet the evolving needs of our key demographics
• Build our mobile and web applications using React Native and React
• Write test cases to ensure product functionality across versions
• Design and implement the overall architecture of the system
• Design, construct, and integrate our API offerings
• Take complete ownership of features/work and deliver end to end

What we’re looking for

• 5+ years of experience building mobile and web applications using modern frameworks
• 2+ years of experience with React Native (mandatory)
• 1+ years of experience with backend technologies such as NodeJS, Golang, or Python
• Understanding of AWS, production deployment, and monitoring tools. K8 / Docker Swarm experience is an added bonus
• Excellent verbal and written communication
• “If it can go wrong – it will go wrong" mindset
• Familiarity with both unit and e2e tests
• Experience with databases (MySQL or other relational database)

You will be a great fit if you

• Are proactive about anticipating needs and solving for them before they become a problem
• Enjoy being part of a highly collaborative environment, including healthy conflict and debate to ensure the best product possible
• Have the ability to be self-directed and be effective working independently, yet feel equally comfortable contributing in a team environment
• Value quality
• Enjoy keeping up with the latest release to ensure our products are state of the art

Benefits

• Competitive pay and equity
• Remote-friendly
• Beautiful office in Jaipur (after COVID restrictions lift)
• India team retreats to places like Goa (after COVID restrictions lift)

Your Day-to-Day Tasks Include: 

Ship product, independently and/or as part of a small team 

Collaborate with other engineers to build new features 

Debugging using dev consoles, firebug, firecookie, or any of your favorite tools. 

Help troubleshoot production issues and resolve critical customer facing issues Provide top-notch support to our customers 

You Should Have: 

A strong body of prior front end work, including significant projects written in JavaScript. Mastery of JavaScript; expertise in most of the following technologies, and proficiency in all of them: jQuery, CSS, HTML5, AJAX. 

Deep understanding of closures, prototypal inheritance, DOM manipulation, HTTP, web security, cross browser compatibility challenges. 

Strong Experience with NodeJS and Express JS. 

Hands-on with a code management system like GIT, SVN. 

Experience with NoSQL databases, preferably CouchDB or CouchBase. 

Good to have: Experience with ReactJS and Typescript. 

Responsibilities:

• Development and Integration of user-facing design elements with server-side logic.
• Design and develop backend API services and databases to serve frontend applications.
• Code for multi-platform environments.
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use.
• Ensure responsiveness of applications.
• Optimization of the application for maximum speed and scalability.

Skills and Qualifications:

• Basic understanding of front-end technologies and platforms, such as JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3.
• Proficient in Angular JS or ReactJS, Node.js and JavaScript.
• Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system.
• Management of hosting environment, including database administration and scaling an application to support load changes.
• Understanding differences between multiple delivery platforms such as mobile vs desktop, and optimizing output to match the specific platform.
• Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes in one or more database technologies such as Mongo, MySQL etc.
• Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests.
• Proficient knowledge of a back-end programming language. (Depending on the specific case, a developer should have the knowledge of one or more of Python, Ruby, JavaScript etc.)
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git.

Academic Qualifications:

• Engineering degree from a reputed institute