Software Asset Management

Front-End Software Engineer (React, Next.js)

Location: Mumbai, India

Experience: 3+ years

Industry: Fintech / Startup

About MethodTech

At MethodTech, we’re building the next-generation platform for institutional investors, combining cutting-edge technology with advanced quantitative models, real-time analytics, and execution tools. Our goal is to empower institutional investors to make data-driven, informed decisions with ease. You will have the opportunity to work closely with the co-founders and play a pivotal role in shaping the future of MethodTech.

Job Description

We’re looking for a driven and innovative Front-End Software Engineer with expertise in React and Next.js. In this role, you will work closely with the co-founders to design, develop, and scale our platform’s front-end architecture. You’ll take ownership of key front-end decisions, collaborate with back-end teams, and contribute to the overall vision of the product. This is an exciting opportunity to make a lasting impact in a fast-growing startup.

Responsibilities

• Lead front-end development efforts using React and Next.js, delivering high-quality, scalable applications.
• Collaborate closely with the co-founders to define and implement the technical direction of the platform.
• Work alongside the product and design teams to turn ideas and concepts into user-centric features and functionality.
• Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code for the front-end of the platform.
• Optimize the performance and scalability of the application for enterprise use.
• Contribute to the overall architecture and design of the platform to ensure reliability, speed, and scalability.
• Participate in code reviews, mentor junior engineers, and foster a culture of collaboration and learning.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in front-end development with hands-on expertise in React and Next.js.
• Experience with state management tools (e.g., Redux, Context API).
• Familiarity with Django Rest Framework is a plus.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to work independently in a dynamic startup environment.
• Excellent communication skills and comfort working directly with leadership.

Why Join Us?

• Work Directly with Co-Founders: Play a critical role in shaping the product and the company’s technical future.
• Early Impact: Your work will have a direct impact on the company’s success and growth.
• Growth Opportunities: We’re scaling quickly, and there’s a lot of room for personal and professional growth.
• Collaborative Team: Join a team that values innovation, teamwork, and an entrepreneurial mindset.
• Competitive Salary and Benefits: We offer a competitive compensation package to attract top talent.

Who You Are:

• You’ve built scalable, production-ready APIs in fast-paced environments, and are comfortable with the challenges that come with a growing startup.
• You understand event-driven architectures and have hands-on experience building real-time applications.
• You are fully capable of taking ownership of backend systems, from designing the database schema to writing efficient, maintainable code.
• You think beyond the code: optimizing performance, scalability, and security are as important as building new features.
• You’re comfortable troubleshooting complex issues, whether that’s API bottlenecks, database performance, or production issues.

Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and manage a NestJS backend with a modular, scalable architecture that can easily handle real-time events and communication.
• Develop and maintain WebSocket services for real-time event-driven updates and ensure seamless communication across the system.
• Integrate RabbitMQ for reliable internal messaging, handling queues and ensuring event-driven workflows are efficient and fault-tolerant.
• Implement database management strategies using MongoDB, Redis, and Elasticsearch, ensuring efficient data handling, indexing, and optimization.
• Integrate with external APIs (JSON-RPC, XML-RPC, REST) to enhance system capabilities.
• Ensure high performance of the system by optimizing database queries, implementing caching strategies using Redis, and ensuring optimal indexing and data flow.
• Implement role-based authentication and authorization mechanisms using JWT, OAuth, and RBAC patterns within NestJS.
• Follow security best practices to ensure sensitive data is protected, credentials are stored securely, and the system is resilient to common vulnerabilities.
• Work collaboratively with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration between different services and technologies.

Must-Have Skills:

• Strong proficiency in Node.js and NestJS with TypeScript.
• Solid experience with MongoDB, Redis, and Elasticsearch for data storage and real-time data handling.
• In-depth knowledge of WebSockets and Socket.IO in NestJS Gateways, enabling real-time communication and updates.
• Experience with RabbitMQ for message queuing and asynchronous task handling.
• Strong understanding of authentication & authorization systems using JWT, OAuth, and RBAC (Role-Based Access Control).
• Expertise in optimizing APIs, including techniques for caching, improving database performance, and reducing latency.
• Familiar with API security best practices, including secure storage of credentials, encryption, and safeguarding sensitive data.

Key Skills:

• TypeScript, NestJS, WebSockets, Socket.io
• Redis, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, RabbitMQ
• API Optimization, JWT, OAuth, RBAC
• Real-time communication, Event-driven architecture

We are looking for a highly motivated senior developer with at least 3+ years of strong hands-on experience in Java to join our startup. You would be playing pivotal role in contributing to the initial tech stack. You would be further responsible for designing and implementing product requirements that are highly usable, scalable, extensible and maintainable. You should be comfortable on working across different technologies/frameworks that we work on - Microservices, Java, Spring, Spring Boot, MySQL, Kubernetes, AWS.

Responsibilities and Duties:

• Design and build scalable REST APIs on Spring Boot
• Develop, test, tune for performance and deploy microservices
• Collaborate with the team, optimize and refactor the back-end architecture
• Maintain high standards of quality for code, documentation and other deliverables
• Active cross-team coordination would be expected
• Architecture and tech stack discussions to optimize for increasing server load
• DevOps tasks along with AWS features exploration

What are we looking for?

• Strong 3+ year experience in Core Java & backend technologies
• Good working knowledge of design patterns & OOAD
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• The skills that we consider: Java, MySQL/RDS, Spring/ Play, Maven, Redis, Kafka/SQS, Elasticsearch, AWS
• Experience with designing, implementing and deploying microservices
• Previously worked in a startup

REQUIREMENTS:

• Strong desire to learn
• Knowledge of different marketing techniques
• Creative approach towards problem-solving
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Passion for the marketing industry and its best practices
• Staying updated with recent trends happening in the startup industry

JOB ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Come with innovative marketing ideas
• Assist in marketing and advertising promotional activities
• Analyze user journeys to provide actionable insights and recommendations followed by quick experimentation.
• Work closely with a range of cross-functional teams and develop a market strategy.
• Should be flexible with business needs - copywriting, content strategies, and so on.

Must have:

• Proficiency with fundamental front-end languages such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
• Familiarity with JavaScript frameworks such as Angular JS, React, and Amber.
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript, object model, DOM manipulation and event handlers, data structures, algorithms, JSX, and Babel 
• Complete understanding of ReactJS and its main fundamentals like JSX, Virtual DOM, component lifecycle, etc. 
• Preceding experience with ReactJS workflows like Redux, Create React App, data structure libraries

• Strong understanding of Javascript, ReactJS, HTML, CSS, Ruby and Ruby on Rails 
• Strong understanding of scalable, modular, open and robust application / database architecture. 
• Strong analytical, problem solving skills for ambiguous high level business / technical issues
• Familiarity with concepts of MVC, ORM, and RESTful
• Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application 
• Able to create database schemas that represent and support business processes
• Hands on Experience with relational databases Postgresql and MySQL
• Solid understanding of object-oriented programming 
• Proficient in writing unit and functional tests with RSpec, Capybara
• Familiarity with Couchbase and ElasticSearch (NoSQL DB)
• Able to implement automated testing platforms and unit tests with RSpec
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools (e.g. Git)
• Familiarity with development aiding tools (such as Bower, Bundler, Rake, etc)
• Familiarity with continuous integration/continuous development (CI/CD) tools and methodologies
• Proficient in verbal and written communication.
• Experience in debugging system performance issues and creating long term solutions for the same would be an added benefit.