Software Engineer

Job Summary:

We are looking for an experienced MERN Project Manager to lead and oversee the development and maintenance of our MERN (MongoDB, Express.js, React.js, Node.js) stack projects. The ideal candidate will have a strong technical background, excellent communication skills, and the ability to manage cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality software solutions on time and within budget.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Project Planning & Execution:

• Define project scope, goals, and deliverables in collaboration with stakeholders.
• Develop detailed project plans, timelines, and milestones.
• Monitor project progress, identify risks, and implement mitigation strategies.

1. Team Management:

• Lead, mentor, and manage the development team, ensuring alignment with project goals.
• Allocate tasks and responsibilities among team members based on expertise and project needs.
• Conduct regular team meetings to track progress and address challenges.

1. Technical Oversight:

• Provide technical guidance and ensure best practices in the MERN stack development process.
• Review code and ensure adherence to coding standards, scalability, and performance optimization.
• Collaborate with DevOps for CI/CD pipeline implementation and AWS/EC2 infrastructure management.

1. Stakeholder Communication:

• Act as the primary point of contact for clients and stakeholders.
• Provide regular updates on project status, milestones, and potential roadblocks.
• Gather and translate business requirements into technical specifications.

1. Quality Assurance:

• Ensure proper testing and debugging practices are followed.
• Facilitate UAT (User Acceptance Testing) and incorporate feedback into the development cycle.
• Oversee deployment and post-deployment support.

1. Documentation & Reporting:

• Maintain comprehensive project documentation, including requirements, design, and progress reports.
• Prepare and deliver project status reports to management and stakeholders.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

 Educational Background:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.

 Technical Skills:

• Strong hands-on experience with MongoDB, Express.js, React.js, and Node.js.
• Familiarity with DevOps practices, especially in AWS EC2 environments.
• Proficiency in Git and version control systems.
• Experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies.

 Soft Skills:

• Excellent problem-solving and decision-making abilities.
• Strong leadership and team management skills.
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills.

 Preferred Qualifications:

• Certifications in project management (PMP, Agile, or Scrum Master).
• Experience with additional cloud platforms or DevOps tools.
• Prior experience managing MERN stack projects at scale.

Our front-end applications are written in React with TypeScript using Gatsby and Next.js. For our REST and GraphQL APIs we use TypeScript and NodeJS, with PostgreSQL and ElasticSearch behind the scenes.

All of our services are hosted on AWS using Elastic Kubernetes Service. CI/CD is handled by Jenkins, with automated Docker builds and deployments to staging. We use Github and JIRA to help us keep on top of our tasks, manage and host our code.

We have a strong culture for testing. We are individually responsible for our work and are immensely proud of the quality we produce. We try and automate as much of the testing as possible.

We have a learning and development budget for keeping up to date which can be spent on conferences, courses, and even books. We encourage sharing what we learn with the rest of the team and the wider community.

We are truly cross-functional: as well as designers and product managers, our teams include data analysts, mortgage advisers and marketing specialists. We’re focused on results: meetings are banned two days a week, and if you need to work from home to finish a project or leave early to manage your energy we encourage you to take it.

About the Role

• Develop scalable web applications for award-winning consumer-facing financial tools
• Develop quick internal admin tools for analysts to create and maintain critical rule sets around consumer financial data
• Integrate new external APIs from vendors or other teams into platform
• Work with UX and design team to transform wireframes into living products
• Build new REST and/or GraphQL endpoints for representing our data to consumer applications
• Own full development requirements and implementation, release management, QA regression scripts, and deployment to containerized production environments
• Communicate results and impact to business stakeholders

About You

• Experience with Node.js and a UI framework (React a plus)
• Experience with unit, integration and end to end testing tools and practices
• Experience with documenting, creating, and consuming REST APIs (GraphQL a plus)
• Keen eye for detail when translating design and requirements into working code
• Proficiency with security requirements, authentication and authorization layers (OAuth2, Google Sign-in)
• Aware of front-end performance implications and best practices
• Familiarity working in the cloud, especially as it pertains to the front end: (Amazon S3 or Azure Blob, Cloudfront, Cloudflare, Fastly, etc.)
• Familiarity with tag and event tracking libraries (e.g. Segment, Google Analytics)
• Fluent at using Git
• Excellent communication, collaboration and writing skills
• You feel comfortable that our values - being brave, investing in each other, making it simple, and owning it - reflect aspects of your personality and approach to work.

Requirement

• Strong knowledge of Php frameworks (Laravel, Zend must).

• Strong knowledge of front-end technologies, such as react js or Vue js.

• Knowledge of Object-Oriented Programming.

• Write effective APIs.

• Write technical documentation.

• Familiarity with SQL/No SQL databases.

• Understanding of code versioning tools like Github.

• Take full responsibility for task/project execution

• Good problem-solving skills, Data structures, and Algorithms.

• Should have experience in Webservices (SOAP/REST) and JSON

• Develop and deploy new features to facilitate related procedures and tools if necessary.

• Excellent communication and teamwork skills.

• Work with us as a team leader.

The ideal candidate is a self-motivated, multi-tasker, and demonstrated team-player. You will be a lead developer responsible for the development of new software products and enhancements to existing products. You should excel in working with large-scale applications and frameworks and have outstanding communication and leadership skills. 

Responsibilities

• Writing clean, high-quality, high-performance, maintainable code
• Develop and support software including applications, database integration, interfaces, and new functionality enhancements
• Coordinate cross-functionally to insure project meets business objectives and compliance standards
• Support test and deployment of new products and features
• Participate in code reviews
• Technical Lead experience exploring other open source frameworks and technologies and integrating with project

Qualifications

• 5+ years of development experience at least two or more of the following languages (Python, Ruby, javascript and Java)
• Expertise in object oriented design and design patterns
• Experience releasing highly scalable enterprise products full lifecycle
• Experience mentoring and training others on complex technical issues
• Experience with implementing algorithms to solve complex real world problems
• Solid coding practices including good design documentation, unit testing, peer code reviews
• Excellent verbal and written communication
• A proven ability to learn and adapt to new, complex development environments with deep dive analytical skills
• Strong object-oriented programming skills, knowledge of design patterns, and an uncanny ability to design intuitive module and class-level interfaces
• Experience in algorithm design and problem solving
• Experience leading small teams of engineers
• Experience with technologies like MongoDB, DynamoDB is highly desirable
• Experience developing full stack web applications using Perl, Java, Python or PHP
• Experience in any of the top JavaScript MVC frameworks, like Backbone, Angular, Ember, Spine or Knockout
• Passion for creating efficient, scalable, highly usable web interfaces
• Candidates from  Product Start-up companies would be highly preferred.

Job Description:

We are looking for a skilled and ambitious Senior Full-Stack Developer (React/React-Native, PHP, and NodeJs )to join our development team. In this role, you will be responsible for developing and implementing applications using React.js, NodeJS, PHP, and its libraries such as Redux, Redux-Saga, ExpressJs, Laravel. You will also be responsible for profiling and improving performance and documenting the codebase. To ensure success as a Full Stack developer, you should have in-depth knowledge of Javascript (ES6 or above), NodeJS, PHP 7.x, MySQL and its concepts, excellent coding skills, and a good understanding of progressive web applications.

Full Stack Developer Responsibilities:

• Reviewing application requirements and interface designs.
• Identifying web-based user interactions.
• Understand the past code and improve when needed.
• Develop components in a scalar way so, can be used again.
• Developing and implementing front-end + back-end architecture to support user interface concepts.
• Monitoring and improving application performance.
• Documenting application changes and developing updates.

Full Stack Developer Requirements:

• In-depth knowledge of Javascript, CSS, and HTML.
• In-depth knowledge of REACT libraries like Webpack, Redux, Redux-Saga and React Router.
• In-depth knowledge of NodeJs, ExpressJs, PHP, Laravel Framework
• Experience with User interface design and development.
• Experience with browser-based debugging and performance testing software
• Excellent troubleshooting skills.
• Build high-quality user interfaces from design mockups.
• Good project management skills and communication skills
• Collaborate with Product, Design, and other developers to understand requirements.
• Write tests to ensure high-grade code.
• Adhere to code style and code quality standards.
• Provide code review feedback to teammates.
• Good understanding of AWS infrastructure.

• Lead and direct UI team of user experience designers, UI software engineers and graphic designers.
• Design portal-style UI framework, modular and its API interfaces.
• Design intuitive look, innovative plus feel of next-generation UI.
• Collaborate with clients, product management as well as UI team.
• Design entire technical architecture of UI portal framework along with pluggable modules.
• Perform closely with customers, product management, graphic designers plus usability experts to present compelling user experience.