Senior MERN Stack Developer

Note: We are looking for real, hands-on experience—not certifications or copy-paste portfolios. Selected candidates will be given a short real-world task to evaluate skills before interview.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable full-stack applications using MongoDB, Postgresql, Express.js, React.js, and Node.js
• Develop RESTful APIs and integrate them with frontend systems
• Collaborate with designers and project managers for timely project delivery
• Optimize code for performance and scalability
• Troubleshoot, debug, and upgrade applications as needed
• Follow Git-based workflows for version control

Must-Have Skills

• Strong hands-on experience in:
• React.js with hooks, context API, component architecture
• Node.js with Express.js
• MongoDB (CRUD operations, schema design) & Postgresql
• API development and integration
• Strong JavaScript fundamentals (ES6+)
• Basic understanding of deployment (e.g., cPanel, Vercel, Heroku, or VPS)
• Git and GitHub for code versioning

Good-to-Have Skills

• Knowledge of Redux or any other state management tools
• Experience with Next.js or TypeScript
• Familiarity with Tailwind CSS or Material UI
• Experience integrating third-party APIs (e.g., payment gateways, social logins)

Who Should Apply

• You’ve worked on real client projects or have built and shipped working applications.
• You are disciplined and take ownership without constant follow-up.
• You are not here to "fake it till you make it"—you’re here to grow with a real team.

• Participating in design discussions, documentation, and development with the team as needed.
• Working closely with the product manager for deliverables and milestones identification.
• Reporting to technical lead/manager on daily activities planned, expected deliverables, and reports as defined for the project.
• Participating in requirement gatherings as required.

• At least 3 years of proven experience of working as a software developer, out of which at least 2 years must be spent in a solid back end role
• Be able to write clean, maintainable code which others can work on
• Familiarity with RDBMS (MySQL, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB) databases, web servers (e.g. Apache) and UI/UX design
• Experience in taking a problem to a product solution (module/product) from scratch - a proven record of shipping on time and budget
• You've worked with startups before and understand the fast-paced, dynamic nature of work
• People with high attention to detail, flexible and focused on solutions, organized and self-sufficient, prioritize learning and growth and will enjoy working with a team usually tend to excel in this role

Cloud Platform Core forms the foundation of SAP Cloud Platform, providing key capabilities and services around platform core components [like Cloud Foundry, Kubernetes], extension factory, commercial infrastructure services, platform services, data management services etc

As an integral member of the SAP Cloud Platform Core Unit in Bangalore, India, you will be contributing to development in one of the following areas:

1. Data Management Services for Cloud Foundry, Kubernetes Environments – Both SAP Managed and Cloud Provider based data management services
2. Kubernetes as a Service – Multi-Cloud Kubernetes Cluster as a Service
3. Kernel Services – Enable the development of SAP CP Kernel Services -   technical services used by all SAP cloud solutions to make the Intelligent Enterprise a reality for our customers

EXPECTATIONS AND TASKS

• Demonstrate excellent quality, design, development and delivery skills in scrum teams working in short development and release cycles.
• Use and extend Open Source frameworks heavily and contribute to them, as well.
• Work with geographically distributed teams seamlessly
• Building upon domain knowledge in the area of application and service development in cloud and also in the technical/proprietary skills to reach levels of expertise
• Having a logical approach to problem solving and have the ability to respond to detailed queries
• Working as a fully contributing team member with independent planning & execution responsibilities
• Site reliability engineering for the Service that your team is responsible for

SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES

• Excellent programming know-how in JAVA/JavaScript/C++/NodeJS/Ruby/GO or in any other languages especially framework development. Deep expertise in at least one programming language & tech stack to write maintainable, scalable, unit-tested code
• Passion towards adopting and contributing to open source
• Ability to work with the team in the design and development aspects for the product
• Good understanding of building scalable Web Applications/Cloud Services using cutting edge Web Technologies (JQuery, Server-Side JS, REST, OData)
• Sound knowledge in Object Oriented Programming Principles, Design Patterns, Software Architecture
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Goal-oriented team worker with good communication skills. Fluent in English, both written and spoken.
• Ability to work independently, and eagerness to learn and explore new topics
• Prior experience in working with Agile software methodologies
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

TECHNOLOGY STACK

• Languages – Java, NodeJS, Golang
• Scripting Languages – Chef, Python, Shell Scripting
• UI – AngularJS, Object Oriented JavaScript, CSS, HTML, SAP UI5
• Storage & Databases – Swift, S3, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis
• Messaging - RabbitMQ
• PaaS & Container Orchestration – Cloud Foundry, Kubernetes
• IaaS – AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, OpenStack

EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS/WORK EXPERIENCE

• Masters or bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Technology, majoring in Computer Science, from a premiere institute, with excellent academic records.
• Sound understanding cloud native development and architecture
• 2-6 years of relevant experience in software development

• Working directly with clients to understand requirements for a green field development
• Designing the technology and cloud infrastructure architecture to achieve the functional and nonfunctional requirements
• The product you will be working on needs to scale up to support millions of users an efficient micro service distributed architecture
• Solution needs to be easy to deploy and manage on multiple cloud providers (AWS, GCP or Azure)
• Mentoring, guiding and training the team on various technology, quality and security aspects
• Guiding the team to implement automated CI/CD processes
• Strong analytical, problem solving and data analysis
• Excellent communication, presentation and interpersonal skills are a must
• Micro service frameworks such as Java SpringBoot
• Design and implement automated unit and integration tests
• Writing scalable, robust, testable, efficient, and easily maintainable code
• Familiarity with most AWS Services - EC2, ECS, RDS, ECR, S3, SNS, SQS, and more
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes
• Deploying and Scaling microservices to AWS
• Hands-on experience with AWS cloud platform in evaluation and cost estimation

• Strong architecture and design skills and keen business sense. -
• Ownership of projects and technical areas. -
• Strong core server-side technologies experience (Java), database design & performance tuning exposure. -
• Strong OO design skills, knowledge of frameworks such as Spring/ Spring Boot/ exposure to functional programming a plus. -
• Good knowledge of nodeJS/ noSQL a definite plus. -
• Good exposure to front end/UI skills (JS, HTML, Angular). -
• Good exposure to configuration management, testing, deployment. -
• Deep knowhow of data structures, algorithms. -
• Hands on development across technologies.
• Exp- 6-8 years.
• Qual- B.E/ B.Tech (Computer Science/ Equivalent) from a premier institute.

• Responsible for the successful technical delivery of code and design documents
• Responsible to evaluate and review design frameworks and methodologies.
• Responsible for organizing, documenting, and review work items scope from a technical point of view.
• Responsible for scoping, designing, development, reviews, and complete delivery from the technical end.
• Review and validate estimates for complex projects to ensure correct sizing of work.
• Participates in POCs, validates the complex technical solution, performs estimates and collateral consolidation.
• Lead and coach a team of junior developers

Requirement

• Strong experience in the development of microservices-based applications using JEE technologies Spring Boot, and Spring MVC, JPA, and Hibernate.
• Experience in handling integration with multiple legacy systems by creating/consuming services in SOAP/REST/MQ, Apache Camel integration framework.
• Strong experience in developing web applications using single-page architecture and a responsive design using Angular, Bootstrap, and building hybrid mobile applications
• Understanding of front-end technologies, such as HTML5, and CSS3
• Containerizing applications using Docker/Kubernetes
• Setting up CI/CD pipelines using GIT, Jenkins, SonarQube is a plus
• Setting up applications for log monitoring using ELK stack and performance monitoring using Prometheus and Grafana is a plus
• Ensure quality and timeliness of implementation of activities related to design, build and implementation of work product; participate in activities related to requirements elicitation, validation of architecture, creation, and review of design; provide pseudo code to the team; assign and review tasks for work product implementation with the objective of ensuring the highest levels of service offerings in own technology domain
• Performs high and low-level design provides pseudo-codes, implements the prototype, and does design reviews in order to deliver design documents as per customer requirements
• Provides inputs for an overall implementation plan, lead deployment of applications, infrastructure, and post-production support activities
• Interface with customer for issue resolution, provide status updates, Build customer confidence in team`s ability to deliver in order to support high customer satisfaction
• Understand client-side business requirements and provide value-led solutions. Should have strong and clear verbal and written communication skills including addressing escalations, presenting status in management meetings. Excellent client interfacing skills, mentoring skills
• Experienced in developing microservices/APIs using REST principles
• Experienced in JEE technologies, Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Hibernate, Swagger
• Experienced in using Queues (ActiveMQ/RabbitMQ, Kafka) and integration frameworks like Apache Camel
• Experienced in Front End skills include Angular, CSS, SAAS, Node, NPM, Bootstrap
• Experience with one of the application servers like Tomcat, JBoss EAP, IBM WebSphere
• Experience with relational databases like Postgres, Oracle DB2, and NoSQL databases like Elastic Search, MongoDB, Neo4J
• Experience in containerizing applications using Docker/Kubernetes
• Experience in setting up CI/CD pipelines using GIT, Jenkins, SonarQube is a plus
• Experience in setting up applications for log monitoring using ELK stack and performance monitoring using Prometheus and Grafana is a plus

Role description:

We are looking for Senior Software Engineer with expertise and experience in designing and developing

applications including new developments, enhancements, maintenance and support. The role involves continuous collaboration with team, partners.

Candidate description:

Should have:

 Passion for technology and financial domain with demonstrated ability to learn quickly

 Delivery focus with ability to take full ownership

 Strong commitment to quality and delivery

 Strong communication skills

Skills/Knowledge and experience:

 Object oriented design and development skill

 Webservices - Node JS/Express JS, Rest API

 Frontend – Angular (Javascript and Typescript), React

 Unix and Shell scripting

 SQL Proficiency, good to know MongoDB

Ideal skills:

1) 2-5 years of professional JavaScript development experience

2) Understanding of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds

3) Comfortable working through the entire stack from the user interface through systems levels

4) Understanding accessibility and security compliance

5) Strong Logical and Analytical Skills

6) Experience in consuming web services (REST) and processing data (JSON)

7) Experience with SQLite, NoSQL, Redis or other databases

8) Proven experience in building API services using NodeJS Express and related frameworks

9) Good understanding of NodeJS asynchronous runtime

10) Good understanding of JS concepts on callbacks and closures

11) Experience in debugging issues related to memory leaks

12) Experience in building highly scalable and high throughput services with sub-second response times

13) Experience with ElasticSearch/Solr

14) Experience working in a collaborative team environment

15) Ability to understand and analyse issues across multiple vendors and interfaces

16) Experience with NoSQL queries

17) Experience with AWS

18) Experience with Android Development

19) Experience in managing/mentoring small teams

In depth knowledge of all of the above is not mandatory but the nature of the work will involve learning and getting involved with all of the above. You would be working directly with key members of the management team to define and drive technical strategy.

Experience in the mobile space is mandatory. Please only apply if you have been part of building a mobile product. Since our product is mobile only, it is essential that you understand implications on the front end.

• Minimum 3+ years' experience as a software developer.
• Proficiency in JavaScript, Angular.js, HTML 5, CSS.
• Familiarity with Git.
• Linux and/or OS X experience.
• Experience consuming API endpoints.
• Good to have - Kafka/queuing system
• Should be well-versed in using multiple Databases - SQL/NO SQL,
• Should have experience using in- memory Data Bases-Redis
• Experience with Unit-Testing.
• Experience building web applications with responsive design.
• Experience with Node.js and/or other server-side JavaScript technologies and tools.
• Strong knowledge of design principles, user interfaces, web standards and usability.
• ES6, React JS/JSX, Redux, Web pack, Immutable.js.