Principal Engineer - MERN Stack

JOB TITLE: Senior Full-Stack Developer (with Stronger Backend Expertise)

LOCATION: Remote/Hybrid

A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE ROLE:

We're looking for a talented developer who thrives on solving complex problems and designing scalable, modular systems. You should excel at breaking down problem statements into smaller chunks and developing algorithms to address all possible scenarios. With a strong focus on backend technologies and experience in full-stack development, you will play a critical role in driving our technical solutions.

Fountane operates on a scrum-based Agile delivery cycle, and you will actively contribute to refining and optimizing this process. You’ll collaborate with product owners, user experience designers, QA engineers, infrastructure, and operations teams to deliver effective and robust solutions.

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING:

• Develop production-grade, modular, reusable, and scalable software.
• Take ownership of the end-to-end development and deployment of portfolio company solutions.
• Design system architecture, flowcharts, layouts, and documentation to identify and implement solutions.
• Write clean, testable, and maintainable code.
• Produce technical specifications and assess operational feasibility.
• Integrate software components into cohesive systems.
• Develop software verification plans and implement quality assurance procedures.
• Maintain and document software functionality.
• Troubleshoot, debug, and upgrade existing systems to improve performance.
• Deploy applications and evaluate user feedback for continuous improvement.
• Adhere to project plans, industry standards, and best practices.

WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO BE GREAT IN THIS ROLE:

• Experience:5 -7 years of professional experience in backend and full-stack development.
• Backend Expertise: Proficient in designing APIs, database management, and building scalable backend architectures.
• Full-Stack Skills: Demonstrable experience with technologies like React.js, Node.js, Angular, and Firebase.
• Programming Foundations: Strong understanding of object-oriented programming and proficiency in JavaScript and its ecosystem.
• Cloud Platforms: Experience with cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services (preferred) or Google Cloud Platform.
• Tech Stack Familiarity: Hands-on experience with MongoDB, Express, Hasura, GraphQL, and other modern tools in the backend ecosystem.
• Agile Methodologies: Ability to work efficiently in an Agile environment and collaborate effectively with diverse teams.

SOFT SKILLS:

• Collaboration: Thrive in a team-oriented environment across diverse geographies.
• Adaptability: Excel in dynamic, fast-paced scenarios.
• Open-mindedness: Embrace innovative ideas and unconventional approaches.

LIFE AT FOUNTANE:

• Fountane offers an environment where all members are supported, challenged, recognized & given opportunities to grow to their fullest potential.
• Competitive pay
• Health insurance
• Individual/team bonuses
• Employee stock ownership plan
• Fun/challenging variety of projects/industries
• Flexible workplace policy - remote/physical
• Flat organization - no micromanagement
• Individual contribution - set your deadlines
• Above all - culture that helps you grow exponentially.

Qualifications - No bachelor's degree required. Good communication skills are a must!

A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE COMPANY:

Established in 2017, Fountane Inc is a Ventures Lab incubating and investing in new competitive technology businesses from scratch. Thus far, we’ve created half a dozen multi-million valuation companies in the US and a handful of sister ventures for large corporations, including Target, US Ventures, and Imprint Engine.

We’re a team of 80 strong from around the world that are radically open-minded and believes in excellence, respecting one another, and pushing our boundaries to the furthest it's ever been.

Acceldata is creating the Data observability space. We make it possible for data-driven enterprises to effectively monitor, discover, and validate Data pipelines at Petabyte scale. Our customers include a Fortune 500 company, one of Asia's largest telecom companies, and a unicorn fintech startup. We are lean, hungry, customer-obsessed, and growing fast. Our Engineering team values productivity, integrity, and pragmatism. We provide a flexible, remote-friendly work environment. 

As a Principal Full-stack engineer, you will work across the Acceldata platform products. We’re looking for people with a strong background or inclination towards data engineering and systems; you’re comfortable in dealing with lots of moving pieces and can work at the  intersection of Databases, API's and Frontends

You will:          

• Be actively involved in strategic direction and product decisions.
• Design, build and maintain APIs, user-facing experiences, and services.
• Work closely with our customers and sales teams on a regular basis to carve out new features and use cases
• Work with MVC frameworks such as React or Angular 
• Work with database systems, RDBMS, Mongo, Elastic Search.
• Develop shared front-end components (JavaScript & CSS) for use across all of our products, enabling other UI engineers to build better products faster.

You need:      

• 10+ years of significant of web-application development experience in one or more JS frameworks. You care about building better products.
• Strong Computer Science fundamentals in data structures, algorithm design, and problem-solving.
• You're as comfortable writing plain JavaScript as working with modern frameworks like Angular. You've built your own controls and widgets in JavaScript. 
• You write unit tests for your JavaScript (really, you do). You've probably used Node. You have built complex JS web applications.
• Organized, thorough, and detail-oriented 

Good to have:

• Contribution to open-source projects.
• Background in enterprise software
• JVM performance tuning and debugging

NetSysCon is looking for a Full Stack Engineer for a travel/airline SaaS start-up. They have partnered with major airlines and entertainment brands such as Disney Theatrical Group, Qantas, Iberia, Alaska, Malaysia Airlines, Vistara, IndiGo, Volaris, and others. Their platform offers innovative tools to drive revenue, operational efficiency, and digital shopping conversion.

Job Profile

Work on all elements of the stack from data modeling and back end API's to UI implementation.
Working with airlines on integrations deep within their systems (in person, if you like!).
Assisting with key architecture, platform and infrastructure design.
Ensuring the system runs and scales smoothly, with high availability and resilience to failure.

What we use:
Python, Django, Celery
React, TypeScript
Scikit-learn, PyTorch, Tensorflow
Postgres, Redis
Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, Terraform, CDK, Github Actions

Our client is a tech company first so engineering is the largest, most important department. They care about developer ergonomics and believe investing time and effort in getting software and platform right is not-negotiable. They have:

A comprehensive automated unit test suite (frontend + backend);
Fully automated CI/CD (git push is all you need);
Fully containerized / reproducable dev environment (single-command bootstrap);
Redundant, self-healing, auto-scaling infrastructure;

Requirements

Full-stack engineering experience in at least one of the following languages/frameworks - Backend: Python/Django (preferred), Ruby/Rails, Node;
Frontend: React (preferred), Angular, Vue.
Evidence of exposure to architectural patterns of large, complex web applications (eg, well-designed APIs, asynchronous data pipelines/message queues, distributed systems).
Engineers who have experience with software best practices such as unit testing, reusable components, traceability.

Technical knowledge

• Design and implement software components using up-to-date technologies and best practices.
• Comprehensive understanding of the REST architecture.
• Strong working experience in Angular,HTML5, CSS3
• Strong working experience in Container Orchestration Management on-premise and public cloud (Docker, Kubernetes or similar)
• Overall understanding of the Service Oriented Architecture
• Experience with widely used design patterns.
• Should possess prior experience in building distributed multi-tier applications with single sign-on.
• Continuous Integration (CI) and Automated Deployment on AWS/Azure
• Static and dynamic code quality analysis
• Should understand the dynamics of the full-stack development and guide junior team members.
• Experience in developing enterprise-scale software platforms
• Should have hands-on experience in managing releases.
• Build applications using Azure Services and deploy them on Azure Infrastructure.

What you need to have:

• React Js
• React - Redux
• redux - Thunk middleware
• Tailwind CSS / Saas
• HTML & CSS