Software Engineer

We are seeking a skilled and experienced MERN Stack Developer to join our development team. The ideal candidate will have in-depth knowledge of MongoDB, Express.js, React.js, and Node.js, along with a passion for building high-performance, scalable web applications.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop, test, and deploy robust and scalable web applications using the MERN stack.
• Design and maintain RESTful APIs and integrate front-end with back-end logic.
• Work closely with UI/UX designers to implement design specifications.
• Optimize applications for maximum speed and scalability.
• Write clean, reusable, and well-documented code.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including designers, product managers, and other developers.
• Perform unit and integration testing.
• Stay up-to-date with emerging technologies and industry trends.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model.
• Hands-on experience with MongoDB, Express.js, React.js, and Node.js.
• Knowledge of modern front-end build pipelines and tools (Webpack, Babel, etc.).
• Experience with version control systems like Git.
• Good understanding of database design and management.
• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodologies.
• Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills.
• Strong communication and teamwork abilities.

Preferred Skills:

• Experience with Next.js or React Native is a plus.
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines.
• Understanding of cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or GCP.

Position Full-Time: Investment Engineering Associate

Specific Responsibilities

The Investment Engineering Associate’s main responsibilities will include supporting the investment team by building technology-based analytical tools. The Investment Engineering Associate will design and maintain workflows vital to the firm’s investment process - this ranges from creating adhoc analysis to information rich dashboard construction. Typical tasks will include web crawler scripting/collection, web application development, programming (including API integrations), and optimal database/library/query management.

Qualifications

• BS or MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or Data Science

• 2+ years of experience • Candidates should have extensive experience with several of the following languages: Python, Ruby, C/C++, Javascript, HTML5, CSS3, SQL, PHP, etc.

• The Investment Solutions Associate should be familiar with Office VBA • Characteristics of the Solutions Associate include: effective communication skills, attention to detail, and strong ethical values

Designation: Tech Lead

● Location: Bandra West, Mumbai, India

● Position Type: Full-time, Permanent

Company Description

Brown Living (www.brownliving.in) is a platform focused on making Sustainable Living Easy, Accessible, and Affordable. As India's first plastic-free marketplace, we promote a sustainable and earth-friendly lifestyle. Our team curates a wide range of everyday-use products that are

ethically sourced and promote minimal waste. We support artisan groups and sustainable brands dedicated to creating a positive environmental impact. Through our platform, we are building India's largest ecosystem for sustainable living and empowering artisans, women entrepreneurs, and innovators to combat plastic pollution.

Role Description

The Tech Lead is responsible for providing technical leadership and direction to the technology team. This role involves overseeing technology projects, setting the technology strategy, and ensuring the smooth operation of digital assets. The ideal candidate will have a strong technical

background and the ability to translate business requirements into technical solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

■ Lead and manage the technology team (currently outsourced).

■ Oversee all technology-related projects and initiatives, ensuring timely delivery and adherence to quality standards.

■ Develop and implement the technology strategy and roadmap aligned with business goals.

■ Manage the development, maintenance, and optimization of the website, e-commerce platform, and other digital assets.

■ Ensure technology solutions are scalable, reliable, secure, and compliant with industry standards.

■ Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand their technology needs and provide effective solutions.

■ Stay up-to-date on emerging technologies and industry trends to identify opportunities for innovation.

Key Result Areas (KRAs):

● Successful delivery of technology projects within budget and timeline.

● Improved website and e-commerce platform performance and user experience.

● Enhanced system reliability, security, and scalability.

● Effective collaboration with cross-functional teams to meet business objectives.

● Development and implementation of a robust technology roadmap.

● Increased efficiency and productivity of the technology team.

Required Qualifications and Skills:

● Bachelor's degree in computer science engineering, or a related field.

● Proven experience in a technical lead role.

● Strong technical expertise in web development, e-commerce platforms, and related technologies.

● Ability to translate business requirements into technical solutions.

● Excellent project management and organizational skills.

● Strong leadership and team management abilities.

● Problem-solving and analytical skills.

● Ability to stay up-to-date with emerging technologies.

● Tech Stack:

○ Frontend: Angular 18

○ Backend: Nodejs

○ Database: MySQL

○ AWS: S3, ECS, Lambda etc

Note: This role offers an exciting opportunity for a young professional who is passionate about technology and making a positive impact in the sustainability space. Based in Mumbai, India, the successful candidate will join a collaborative and passionate team dedicated to driving innovation and positive change at Brown Living.

How to Apply:

Interested candidates can apply online via the job application form available here - https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdgb8MMrZX0STJb1Nt63jizdYccAxTQWbAmFAt4YcoAJBJlmg/viewform

Read More:

1. Website - https://brownliving.in/

2. About Brown Living’s Mission & Vision - https://brownliving.in/pages/about-us

3. Meet the Brown Living Team - https://brownliving.in/pages/our-team

4. Work with Us - https://brownliving.in/pages/work-with-us

5. The Brown Lens Curation Method - https://brownliving.in/pages/the-brown-lens

6. Brown Living’s Impact - https://brownliving.in/pages/our-impact-plastic-free-carbon-neutral-shopping

Technical & Professional
Requirements

• Reactjs Nodejs developer must know MongoDB, Express, Node.js, & React.
• Creating RESTful services with Node.js
• MERN stack developer must have proven experience in front & back-end development
• Work in a cross-functional team to deliver a complete user experience
• Create Unit and Integration tests to ensure the quality of code
• Be responsive to change requests and feature requests
• Candidate must have good Knowledge of Node Debugging
• Understanding & proficiency in REST APIs.
• MERN stack developer should know Git Repository
• Integration of data storage solutions [RDBMS, NoSQL DB]

• Implementation of security and data protection
• Elementary knowledge of GRAPHQL
• Understanding of performance testing and optimization techniques
• MERN software developer must have good communication & interpersonal skills
• Ability to work independently with minimum supervision.

Type of Work

• 80% Backend 20% Frontend
• Building SAAS products inhouse and working on SI(System integrator) projects for other SAAS companies

• Graduation in computers –Full-time B.E / B. Tech or an MCA degree (Regular Program, no part-time or long-distances courses).

Responsibilities :

• Design and write lots of bug-free, efficient, scalable, and reusable code
• Developing front-end architecture and ensuring responsiveness of the application
• Work across the full stack, building highly scalable products that enable positive user experiences and measurable business growth. 
• Working on refactoring the current codebase and determining the root cause for the most complex software issues and developing practical, efficient, and permanent technical solutions
• Optimizing backend services to scale for a few hundred concurrent users
• Develop APIs and scripts using backend programming languages like Node.js and Nest.js 
• Dockerizing different services and automating our AWS infrastructure provisioning steps
• Design and implementation of continuous integration and deployment. 
• Determine process improvements, and best practices, and develop new processes
• Mentor and coach other software engineers
• Integrating with third-party APIs and existing frameworks.
• Ensuring responsiveness of applications and writing maintainable, scalable, and unit-testable code. Be passionate about the long-term stability, scalability, and reusability of shared components.
• Implement new requirements, handle change requests, and fix bugs for different releases. Deliver a high-quality and functioning code.
• Integrating solutions to enterprise software and legacy software
• Actively Participate in sprint ceremonies and work towards continually improving the process
• Prioritizes tasks and keeps manager up to date on status and roadblocks
• Help the junior engineers to unblock them and guide them on best design practices. Help in code reviewing on a regular basis
• Prepare thorough technical documentation which can be used by other engineers
• Stay up to date with new technologies and determine how to incorporate these into future platform capabilities

Requirements:

• Minimum 4-8+ years of overall experience developing B2B SAAS products 
• 3+ years of Experience working on React.js and its core principles
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field
• Hands-on experience with Node.js and Express.js including state management like Redux
• Good understanding of NestJS, Next.JS, Tailwind CSS, Server-Side Rendering, Storybook/Bit, Bootstrap, and Material UI.
• Thorough understanding of modeling and scaling databases like MongoDB, DynamoDB or Firestore
• Deep understanding of object-oriented JavaScript and design principles and standards
• Hands-on experience in UI optimization best practice implementations
• Understanding of Serverless architecture like Lambda or Google Cloud functions
• Significant experience in developing high-performance, distributed, and scalable applications with container deployment (Docker and Microservices)
• Well-versed with collaboration, and Testing tools like Git, Swagger, and Cypress
• Proven experience with unit testing, integration testing, and end-to-end testing.
• Knowledge of open-source technologies and common front-end development tools such as Babel, Webpack, NPM, PNPM etc.
• Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token
• Knowledge of Nginx and AWS services like S3, and EC2 will be helpful

Preferred Skills:

• Exposure to Terraform, GItlab CI/CD, and GitOps is a plus
• A keen eye for UX has experience building complex B2B applications
• Comfortable working in a dynamic startup environment where experimentation is one of the most common practices for product innovation and improvements
• Basic understanding of the Figma Tool and app development via React Native
• Good experience with deploying applications on AWS & DevOps

Nice to Have:

• Great learning attitude and eagerness to take ownership
• Passionate personality with great enthusiasm for life outside of work
• Critical thinker and a problem solver who has a sense of urgency and wants an interesting job that pushes you out of your comfort zone.
• An innovator who is inspired by the endless ways in which everything we do can always be improved
• High-energy personality, with a strong and demonstrable work ethic

What we Offer:

• Competitive salary 
• Health Insurance
• Remote working environment
• Workday Swap
• Learning Culture

MERN Stack Developer

2.5+ YEARS

Roles and Responsibility

Working experience as a MERN Stack Developer.

Design, code and manage large scale services using cutting edge technologies (NodeJs, ReactJS/AngularJS/VueJs etc).

In-depth knowledge of NodeJS.

Creating secure RESTful-based web services in XML or JSON.

Good knowledge in ECMAScript(6/7/8) is essential.

Strong fundamentals in Data Structures and Algorithms.

Experience implementing applications using Angular or React.

Should have an working experience with state management, React Hooks, React Fragments etc.

Should have a good Knowledge of Redux, Flux, and Webpack.

Writing the test case for components.

Experience working with Docker, Redis, MySQL, MongoDB.

Comfortable taking challenges and learning new technologies.

Excellent communication skills and client-facing experience.

Ability to mentor and build the team.

Knowledge of code versioning tools such as Git, Bitbucket or SVN.

Knowledge of the following will be considered as an advantage

Experience with Socket.IO for Real time communications.

Consumer Web Development Experience for High-Traffic, Public Facing web applications.

Caching with Redis For Speedy Performance.

Experience with cloud message APIs.

Knowledge of GraphQL, PostgreSQL.

Knowledge of NextJs.

Knowledge of any frameworks of NodeJS.

Experience with Progressive Web applications.

Knowledge of SSR.

• Architect, develop and maintain core products and services of the company.
• Create database architecture and best practises for optimization in speed and product operating costs.
• Design client-side and server-side architecture
• Build the front-end of applications through appealing visual design
• Develop and manage well-functioning databases and applications
• Write effective APIs with high-volume large scale transaction processing capabilities.
• Collaborate with design teams to ensure flawless UI and UX is achieved 
• Build features and applications with a mobile responsive design
• Write technical documentation
• Test software to ensure responsiveness and efficiency
• Work with customers in evaluating technical requirements.
• Work closely with the product managers to achieve product vision and goals
• Review work of other developers and contractors, provide feedback and mentoring.
• Assist in the hiring of technical talent.

• Proven experience as a Full Stack Developer or similar role for atleast 3 years 
• In depth knowledge of Ruby on Rails, NodeJS, ExpressJS or Restify
• Experience implementing applications using Angular 1 or React
• Experience creating front end applications using HTML5, Angular, LESS/SASS
• Hands on experience with JavaScript Development on both client and server-side
• Automating the building and deploying of code along with continuous integration (Jenkins/Hudson) and version control (SVN, Git)
• Strong experience is deploying and managing application in AWS and Google Cloud
• Creating secure RESTful-based web services in XML and JSON, Javascript, JQuery
• Experience with modern frameworks and design patterns, minimum 2 years experience with MEAN Fullstack paradigm

• Know how to create apis and applications
• Know how to architect and scale databases
• Know how to build front end for applications
• Know how to deploy applications on the cloud

• 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