Software Developer Trainee

Job Summary:

We are looking for a highly skilled MERN Stack Developer with at least 3 years of experience to join our team. As a Team Lead, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and optimizing web applications while mentoring junior developers. Strong communication skills and leadership abilities are essential for this role.

Key Responsibilities:

Full-Stack Development

• Develop, optimize, and maintain scalable applications using MongoDB, Express.js, React.js, and Node.js.
• Implement best coding practices, reusable components, and maintain high-performance applications.

Technical Leadership

• Lead a team of developers, conduct code reviews, and provide technical mentorship.
• Ensure the team follows best practices, development standards, and project timelines.

Backend & Database Management

• Design and implement RESTful APIs, GraphQL, and backend logic.
• Optimize MongoDB queries, indexing, and schema design for performance.

Frontend Development

• Develop interactive and responsive UI components using React.js, Redux, Next.js, or TypeScript.
• Ensure seamless user experience and cross-browser compatibility.

Collaboration & Deployment

• Work closely with UI/UX designers, product managers, and DevOps for smooth project execution.
• Manage CI/CD pipelines, cloud deployments (AWS, Firebase, Heroku), and ensure system security.

Requirements:

✔ 3 years of experience in MERN Stack development.

✔ Strong expertise in JavaScript, TypeScript (preferred), and modern frameworks.

✔ Experience leading teams, conducting code reviews, and mentoring junior developers.

✔ Knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud platforms.

✔ Strong problem-solving skills and ability to troubleshoot performance issues.

✔ Excellent communication skills and ability to work in an Agile team environment.

Responsibilities:

 Leads technical design and development.

 Ensure high-quality, scalable, and testable application architecture through

rigorous design leadership and best practices.

 Owning complex features, writing quality code and tests, mentoring engineers,

and championing quality standards within a CI/CD environment.

Experience and Expertise Requirement :

 8+ years related software development experience.

 Proficiency in Java, SQL, Mongo and Angular, JavaScript, TypeScript, NodeJS.

 Working experience in Angular 6+

JOB DESCRIPTION

 Expertise in Gen AI frameworks, Lang Chain ecosystem, Hugging Face,

LLM capabilities, AI cost optimization

 Very strong programming skills and should be able to write optimized,

modular code.

 Should have good communication, and interpersonal skills.

 Ability to work in faced-paced agile environment and cope with the speed of

scrum process.

 Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.

 Traits to take ownership of the components and deliver work that including

development, unit testing, and bug-fixing.

 Deep understanding of design principles

 Strong architecture knowledge with experience in HLD + LLD

 Very strong debugging & problem-solving skill

 Ownership mindset and ability to lead design

 Ability to mentor other engineers

 Strong coding excellence (clean code, SOLID, modular design)

 Hands-on across Java, Node, Angular, SQL, Mongo

 GenAI stack proficiency & integration patterns

 Debugging proficiency is required across:

 Distributed services

 API integrations

 UI state management

 Query performance issues

 AI pipeline debugging (Lang Chain, LLM cost optimization, prompt

chains)

JOB DESCRIPTION

1.Supervisory Responsibility

This position may have supervisory responsibilities.

Educational Qualification

 Bachelor’s degree in computers or software engineering or

 Master’s degree in computer science, Computer Applications

Experience: -

* Minimum 2 year of coding experience in ReactJS (TypeScript), HTML, CSS-Pre-processors, or CSS-in-JS in creating Enterprise Applications with high performance for Responsive Web Applications.

* Minimum 2 year of coding experience in NodeJS, JavaScript & TypeScript and NoSQL Databases.

* Developing and implementing highly responsive user interface components using React concepts. (self-contained, reusable, and testable modules and components)

* Architecting and automating the build process for production, using task runners or scripts

* Knowledge of Data Structures for TypeScript.

* Monitoring and improving front-end performance.

* Banking or Retail domains knowledge is good to have.

* Hands on experience in performance tuning, debugging, monitoring.

Technical Skills: -

* Excellent knowledge developing scalable and highly available Restful APIs using NodeJS technologies

* Well versed with CI/CD principles, and actively involved in solving, troubleshooting issues in distributed services ecosystem

* Understanding of containerization, experienced in Dockers, Kubernetes.

* Exposed to API gateway integrations like 3Scale.

* Understanding of Single-Sign-on or token-based authentication (Rest, JWT, OAuth)

* Possess expert knowledge of task/message queues include but not limited to: AWS, Microsoft Azure, Pushpin and Kafka.

* Practical experience with GraphQL is good to have.

* Writing tested, idiomatic, and documented JavaScript, HTML and CSS

* Experiencing in Developing responsive web-based UI

* Have experience on Styled Components, Tailwind CSS, Material UI and other CSS-in-JS techniques

* Thorough understanding of the responsibilities of the platform, database, API, caching layer, proxies, and other web services used in the system

* Writing non-blocking code, and resorting to advanced techniques such as multi-threading, when needed

* Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model

* Documenting the code inline using JSDoc or other conventions

* Thorough understanding of React.js and its core principles

* Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools

* Experience with popular React.js workflows (such as Flux or Redux or ContextAPI or Data Structures)

* A knack for benchmarking and optimization

* Proficient with the latest versions of ECMAScript (JavaScript or TypeScript)

* Knowledge of React and common tools used in the wider React ecosystem, such as npm, yarn etc

* Familiarity with common programming tools such as RESTful APIs, TypeScript, version control software, and remote deployment tools, CI/CD tools

* An understanding of common programming paradigms and fundamental React principles, such as React components, hooks, and the React lifecycle

* Unit testing using Jest, Enzyme, Jasmine or equivalent framework

* Understanding of linter libraries (TSLINT, Prettier etc)

Functional Skills: -

* Experience in following best Coding, Security, Unit testing and Documentation standards and practices

* Experience in Agile methodology.

* Ensure quality of technical and application architecture and design of systems across the organization.

* Effectively research and benchmark technology against other best in class technologies.

Soft Skills: -

* Able to influence multiple teams on technical considerations, increasing their productivity and effectiveness, by sharing deep knowledge and experience.

* Self-motivator and self-starter, Ability to own and drive things without supervision and works collaboratively with the teams across the organization.

* Have excellent soft skills and interpersonal skills to interact and present the ideas to Senior and Executive management.

Responsibilities 

Design, implementation and delivery of solutions.

Solving new problems and address any issues regarding the architecture and performance. 

Focused on understanding customer needs and anticipate the changing business and technology landscape. 

Collaborate with teams from various verticals within and outside the company.

Qualifications 

2-5 years of Software Engineering experience in Node.js and React. 

Proven experience in architecting performant, complex application on web or mobile applications. 

Knowledge of end to end Software development life cycle.

Ability to work individually or in teams and mentor new developers to the team.

Strong knowledge of computer science, algorithms and design patterns. 

A degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent industry experience.

Varivas is a community that allows users to create, support, and recommend content. The mission of Varivas is to give the community freedom, ease, and complete control of their content.

Varivas is an early-stage startup looking for its first few members. 

https://www.varivas.community/

Become part of a core team of an upcoming startup building an exciting product from scratch.

• Progressive Web App (PWA)
• JavaScript, Typescript
• MEAN stack https://angel.co/recruit/jobs/1383984">Angular, Node JS, Express, MongoDB
• Azure for hosting and data storage etc.
• Any previous experience in building a social network, payment system or content hosting is a big plus. (Please mention this in your application)

• Payment for work done (of course 🙂)
• Remote work from anywhere
• Complete flexibility of working hours
• Complete freedom and ownership of your work
• No meetings, standups, or daily status group calls. (We prefer asynchronous communication like slack)
• High equity (1-2.5%) if you are interested

• Should be able to work independently without any hand-holding.
• Problem solver who takes complete ownership of given work.
• Smart developer who delivers on results. (You will be assessed based on what you deliver, not by how hard or how long you work)
• Self-motivated candidates who do the work because they like it and are good at it.
• Self-managed individuals. You will not be managed by anyone on day to day basis. (There are no managers in the company)

Technical Skills:

• Hands-on experience with JavaScript/TypeScript ( NodeJS & ExpressJS) in) Development on both client and server-side
• Proficiency in HTML, CSS and front end frameworks(Angular 7, AngularJS) 
• Having experience in building a responsive web design
• Experience with MongoDB and good knowledge in database concepts
• Experience with web frameworks like ExpressJS
• Developing secure Node.js end points using Passport, JWT, OAuth, and related technologies.
• Knowledge in Restful API Design
• Knowledge in unit testing tools like Karma, Jasmine etc..
• Experience with Version control systems like GIT and knowledge in GIT branching is necessary.
• Knowledge in continuous integration
• Strong object-oriented knowledge in any platform is a plus
• Proficiency and hands-on experience with one or more of the following: Backbone / KnockoutJS / EmberJS / ReactJS is a plus
• Knowledge in payment gateway integration is a plus

Responsibilities:

• Working with an Agile Scrum team using tools such as JIRA.

• Involving in writing functional specifications and technical documentation

• Working with the peer developers and writing good quality codes and release features

• Participation in internal code reviews

• Direct interaction with the client