Software Engineer

We are seeking an experienced Technical Lead with expertise in the MERN (MongoDB, Express.js, React.js, Node.js) stack to join our dynamic team. As a Technical Lead, you will play a pivotal role in leading the development of cutting-edge web applications. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, mentor junior developers, and contribute to architectural decisions.

Responsibilities:

1. Technical Leadership:

• Lead a team of developers in the design, development, and deployment of high-quality web applications.
• Provide technical guidance, mentorship, and support to team members.
• Take ownership of the technical architecture, ensuring scalability, reliability, and maintainability.

1. Development:

• Hands-on development using the MERN stack to build robust and scalable web applications.
• Collaborate with the team to define technical specifications and implement solutions according to requirements.

1. Code Review and Quality Assurance:

• Conduct code reviews to ensure adherence to coding standards, best practices, and architectural guidelines.
• Implement and maintain automated testing processes to guarantee the quality of deliverables.

1. Technical Strategy:

• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and other stakeholders to define technical requirements and priorities.
• Contribute to the development of the technical roadmap and ensure alignment with business goals.

1. Problem Solving:

• Identify technical challenges and provide innovative solutions.
• Troubleshoot and resolve technical issues as they arise.

1. Documentation:

• Create and maintain technical documentation including architecture diagrams, API specifications, and system documentation.

1. Stay Updated:

• Keep abreast of industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in web development.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's or higher degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• Proven experience as a Technical Lead or Senior Developer with expertise in the MERN stack.
• Strong proficiency in MongoDB, Express.js, React.js, and Node.js.
• Proficient in front-end technologies such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
• Experience with version control systems (e.g., Git).
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure) and containerization (e.g., Docker).
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Strong communication and leadership abilities.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a cross-functional team environment.

About Us:

We’re a team of finance and technology enthusiasts who enjoy revolutionizing the investment industry through digital products & services. We’re building the next generation investment management platform for our financial professional customers so they can build better investment portfolios & help their clients retire in style.

About the role:

We’re looking for a full stack engineer to be part of a team of talented engineers and help us build high quality financial products that we launch to the market via partnerships with banks and broker-dealers. The candidate should be an innovator, highly technical, and passionate about speed, quality, and building amazing products. The candidate should also have demonstrated success in scaling platforms. Our team operates in a start-up environment with the backing of a large, industry leader and we actively cultivate a culture of innovation and excellence. The ideal candidate should enjoy working in this setting.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, test, deploy and maintain highly performant api-driven web applications on our stack (Angular, React, SASS, Java SpringBoot, Mulesoft).
• Design and implement REST APIs to industry/company standards
• Work with our amazing product design team to develop and iterate on user interfaces that bring simplicity to complicated financial data.
• Interact with engineering members across the organization to ensure consistency in engineering practices and foster active exchange of ideas
• We have development centers in Atlanta, Houston, New York City and India and the ability to collaborate across a global organization is a key skill.
• Perform peer code reviews. Review performance, security and flexibility of the code.
• Participating in agile ceremonies (e.g. daily standup, release and sprint planning, demos, scrum of scrums).
• Work with Architect to define technical roadmaps
• Participate and help to evangelist and promote enterprise solutions with business and technology partners

What we're looking for:

• 3+ years experienced in front-end frameworks, such as Angular and React
• 3+ years experience in back-end technologies, such as Node.JS, ExpressJS, or Java Springboot
• 2+ years experience with Mulesoft
• Experience with core AWS services
• Experience working in an Agile team and environment
• Familiarity with software engineering support systems and tools, such as Git, Jenkins, Bamboo, Gulp, Bower, Maven, Log4j
• Familiar with SSO solutions, such as SAML, OAuth, OpenID a plus
• Knowledge of the Financial Services industry a plus

Good to Have:

• Experience with DevOps tools like Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, etc.
• Experience in developing microservices-based architectures
• Knowledge of frontend technologies like HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
• Experience with Python technologies

• Observe, strategize, develop and design required software solutions.
• Designing Client-Side and Server-Side Architecture and Rendering and Static Site Generation.
• To confer with users - by studying systems flow, data usage & work related bottlenecks.
• Design and implement Back End and Front End code
• Interact with the production team, understand their workflow and find new ways to automate their workflow.
• Write effective APIs as well as Integrate third-party APIs.
• Test software to ensure responsiveness and efficiency
• Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade software
• Create security and data protection settings
• Build features and applications with a mobile responsive design
• Write technical documentation
• Work with data scientists and analysts to improve software
• Manage huge data sets including structured and unstructured data sources.
• Machine learning tools for workflow automation.
• Knowledge of Spark and Map Reduce.

• Strong Knowledge of and C#, .NET
• Strong knowledge of client-side dynamic and rich UI applications development.
• Hands-on experience on HTML, CSS, bootstrap, JavaScript, AJAX, jQuery and Prototyping.
• Strong hands-on experience in popular frameworks and JavaScript ecosystem – JS, Node, Angular, Jquery.
• Experience in Spark, Hadoop, Scala, and Elastic Search is a plus point.
• Experienced in building applications that meet enterprise needs – secure, scalable, loosely coupled design
• Exceptional design, coding, and problem-solving skills, with a bias for architecting at scale.
• Experience using NPM, Web-Pack, Gulp.
• Familiarity with performance testing and optimization’s.
• Strong knowledge of computer science, algorithms, and design patterns
• Write robust modular code for the full stack using the latest technologies, test and optimize it to work for high performance and scale and deploy it to the UiPath cloud platform.
• Work with various horizontal teams such as Structure, Electrical, Mechanical, Accessibility, Legal, and Finance and also interact with other core teams across locations at UiPath
• Own the smooth running of your cloud service or docker service, and respond to live site issues.
• Strong oral and written communication, and other soft skills critical to collaborating and engage with teams

• Developing front-end website architecture.
• Designing user interactions on web pages.
• Developing back-end website applications.
• Creating servers and databases for functionality.
• Ensuring cross-platform optimization for mobile phones.
• Ensuring responsiveness of applications.
• Working alongside graphic designers for web design features.
• Seeing through a project from conception to finished product.
• Designing and developing APIs.
• Meeting both technical and consumer needs.
• Staying abreast of developments in web applications and programming languages.

• Degree in computer science.
• Strong organizational and project management skills.
• Proficiency with fundamental front-end languages such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
• Familiarity with JavaScript frameworks such as React(mandatory/preferred), Angular JS, and Amber.
• Proficiency with server-side languages such as Node.js(mandatory/preferred), Java, PHP.
• Familiarity with database technology such as MySQL, Oracle, and MongoDB.
• Excellent verbal communication skills.
• Good problem-solving skills.
• Attention to detail.

What you’ll do - 

1. Design and implementation of the overall web architecture.
2. Design and deployment of database.
3. Ensuring the entire stack is designed and built for speed and scalability.
4. Design and construction of our REST API
5. Integrating our front-end UI with the constructed API
6. Design and implementation of continuous integration and deployment.
7. Work remotely with our global clients and teams across the US

What you should have - 

1. Should have 5+ years of experience expertise in developing applications using any of the frameworks and programming languages
2. 5-8 years’ experience Fluent in CSS (Foundation or Bootstrap), JavaScript and HTML, with an understanding of CSS, React.JS
3. Experience working with server technologies Node.js
4. Experience in API design and development.
5. Understanding of SQL / NoSQL databases MongoDB.
6. Strong knowledge of data structures, system design, and algorithms.
7. Great organizational and time-management skills.
8. Great interpersonal and communication skills.

Skills

• 3 to 7 Years of experience in Full Stack Technologies-  Express, Lambda, SQL, React, Node JS, Java
• Knowledge of web framework.
• Able to create database schemes that represent and support business processes
• Having a Start-Up experience is a plus
• Having a degree from Premier Engineering Institute is a plus

KRA 

• Work collaboratively in architecture/developing/maintaining solutions Design, efficient, testable, reusable, reliable, and clean code using best software development practices
• Contribute towards the entire development life cycle of analysis, design, implementation and test
• Integration of user-facing elements with server-side logic
• Automation, including writing unit and integration tests
• Maintain high standards of quality for code technical documentation, and deliverable
• Detect, report, investigate, and fix product defects
• Stay abreast of emerging technologies/industry trends
• Ability to learn a lot quickly
• Be active in the community by participating in meetups and conferences
• Participate in brainstorming and idea generation activities.

What Makes You A Great Fit

• Ability to communicate clear timelines and the ability to over achieve them
• Fast Learner, very good interpersonal skills, positive attitude
• Ability to pick something new and learn it fast whatever way possible

Location : 

 As Grip is a company started during the Covid-19 Era we believe in working from wherever you want and meeting you virtually every now and then.  

About the compnay : Grip:

GRIP is an online fintech company aimed at providing a convenient, hassle free investment experience through investing in physical assets. The company kickstarted its journey in 2019 and was founded by Nikhil Aggarwal, who previously served as the COO of Chalo and Vice President of Morgan Stanley. He also worked for the World Bank.

The leasing industry in India remains largely unexplored and GRIP's objective is to make retail investors aware of it as an investment option. Through GRIP, one can invest in physical assets leased to corporates and earn stable monthly returns. The proposition is not as volatile as the share market and the returns are extremely healthy. GRIP focuses on the employed upper-middle class spectrum and aims to provide an effective alternative to these investors.

Why Grip :

While we offer competitive cash compensation along with ESOPs to participate in our long-term growth, the real upside is simply the challenge ahead and the awesome, friendly team by your side. And an opportunity to learn and grow at a breakneck speed as we redefine the contours of finance for Investors in India.

What you need to have:

What we offer: A great learning experience across different business verticals, Very Strong Tech mentors with about 10-15Yrs of industry experience

Looking for AngularJs / NodeJS Developer. (Immediate Joinee Preferred)
Ideal candidate will be an enthusiastic developer eager to learn and grow his/her skills in the field.

Primary KRA:

1. a) Portal Management and build
2. b) third Party API Integrations
3. c) Full stack implementation

Mandatory skills: Angular, Nodejs, JavaScript, Bootstrap

Job Description:
- Experience with Building Web-based Applications and service-based architecture using  modern framework node.js
- Should have hands-on expertise in some of the following technologies including Node JS, SOAP, RESTful, JSON, XML,
- Common frameworks such as MVC.

 - Deep understanding of fundamental data structures and algorithms
- Experience in integrating API for client-server communication with security considerations.

 - Experience with web services API integration (Rest, JSON, XML).
- Ability to understand, documenting features, technical specifications & infrastructure requirements and map to technical implementation.
- Strong knowledge of best practices and modern web design trends is necessary.
- Excel at rapid prototyping and at writing good code.
- Experience with modern version control. (GITHub, BitBucket)
- Experience with testing/debugging and validating work produced as part of the development process in multiple platforms
- Experience with HTML & CSS frameworks such as bootstrap.
- Understanding of general user experience and UI design principles
- Good understanding of cross browser front end development issues

- Cloud Computing Services – AWS will be an added advantage.

- Platforms – Linux, Windows

- Knowledge of MEAN Stack will be an added advantage
- Worked on e-commerce platform solutions will be an added advantage.
- Self-motivated, thinking up and executing own ideas.
- Strong communication skills

If you are keen to be a part of a close knit family and aspire to grow insanely big, do write back.