Software Engineer [Junior]

Job Title: Full Stack Developer (Node.js + Next.js + Firebase Firestore)

Experience: 5–7 Years

Location: On-Site

Employment Type: Full-Time

Industry: Product-Based Company

About the Role

We are seeking a seasoned Full Stack Developer with strong architectural and development experience using Node.js, Next.js, and Firebase Firestore. The ideal candidate should have built complete CMS systems from scratch, with solid command of both frontend and backend architectures, clean coding principles, and modern JavaScript tooling.

This is a high-impact role requiring deep technical knowledge, attention to detail, and the ability to contribute to the core engineering efforts of a fast-paced product environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Architect, develop, and maintain scalable full-stack web applications using Node.js and Next.js
• Design and manage cloud-native databases using Firebase Firestore, including rules, queries, and performance optimization
• Build highly responsive and dynamic user interfaces using shadcn/ui, Tailwind CSS, and TanStack (React Query, React Table)
• Apply clean code principles (SOLID, DRY, KISS, YAGNI) to create maintainable, scalable solutions
• Implement metaprogramming techniques such as higher-order functions, dynamic modules, and decorators
• Develop and integrate RESTful and GraphQL APIs
• Handle secure authentication, authorization, and user management
• Lead or significantly contribute to CMS development projects
• Conduct code reviews, mentor junior developers, and enforce best practices

Required Skills

✅ 5–7 years of full-stack development experience

✅ Expertise in Node.js, Next.js, and JavaScript/TypeScript

✅ Demonstrated experience in building a custom CMS end-to-end

✅ Solid understanding of Firebase Firestore including security rules, real-time updates, and performance tuning

✅ Advanced knowledge of clean code architecture and reusable coding techniques

✅ Proficiency with shadcn/ui, Tailwind CSS, and TanStack libraries

✅ Experience working with both REST and GraphQL APIs

✅ Strong grasp of serverless architecture within Firebase ecosystem

✅ Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and automated testing

✅ Excellent communication and collaboration abilities

Nice to Have

• Experience with Firebase Authentication, Functions, and Storage
• Exposure to cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, or Azure
• Experience in SaaS or multi-tenant platforms
• Contributions to open-source projects or writing technical blogs
• Experience creating internal tools, developer libraries, or design systems

Why Join Us?

• Be part of a product team that values clean code, scalable architecture, and modern tech stacks
• Contribute to mission-critical systems and new product features
• Work in a fast-paced environment with opportunities for growth and leadership

Decoding Youth Talent (DYT) Private Limited is a sports technology start-up which aims to enable coaches, clubs and academies scout, hire and develop youth talent through technology

Decoding Youth Talent is incubated and backed by one of the most prestigious MBA institutes in Asia, the Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow (IIM-L).

Are you a person who is extremely passionate about sports and looking to make a difference in the industry? If yes, there was not a better time than now! We are looking for a Full Mean Stack Developer with experience in building highly technical products that will help us bring change the way how sports stakeholders interact and communicate in India and across the globe. If you are passionate about the challenges of big scale, this is your chance to make history!

Responsibilities:

• As a full-stack MEAN developer (Angular), you will code back-end services in Java/Node JS and front-end in HTML, CSS3 and JavaScript.
• Strong system design skills backed with analytical and problem-solving ability with deep understanding of distributed systems and microservice architecture.
• Implementing algorithms and use of advanced data structures.
• Exposure to working in an agile development environment.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills - Knowledge of SVN/Git repository.
• Provide technical direction to the development teams including hands-on development of POCs where appropriate.
• Deploy realized solutions to appropriate environments using CI/CD process. Supports clients through testing Consumer Web Development Experience for High-Traffic, Public Facing web applications.
• Participate in agile software prototyping, development, maintenance, support, and code reviews of IoT Products.
• Implement modern and responsive UI for the web and a variety of devices.
• Unit, End-to-End, and performance testing software under load to ensure reliability and scalability.
• Ownership of Bug Fixes across environments for the assigned module/application.
• Collaborate on the design with internal & external project team members.
• Use JIRA effectively with daily updates to the work log and status of the issues.

Requirements:

• 5+ years or hands-on experience as a Full-stack Developer in web and Mobile application Product Engineering.
• Hands-on experience in creating Rest APIs using NodeJS. Perform 3rd party API integration with NodeJS.
• Hands on experience in HTML5 CSS3 JS libraries like Bootstrap, JQuery, and Angular Material.
• Experience in MongoDB and MySQL design, development, deployment, scaling and optimization.
• Experience working with the AWS stack (Lambda, S3 EC2 setup).
• Hands-on experience in writing queries and optimizing them for large data sets in MongoDB and MySQL.
• Good Communication and client-facing experience. Practice and enforce Agile and Scrum development methodologies.
• Hands-on experience working with Web frameworks, RESTful APIs and relational and/or NoSQL databases.
• Experience in implementing logging to identify performance issues and building monitoring and alerting on the API using Splunk/Grafana/Prometheus/New Relic.

Good to have

• Worked from scratch in the Tech Architect, frontend, coding, and tech product development with at least 6 -50 Mobile apps (multifunction app).
• Experienced in server-side languages such as Java and PHP.

Skills:

• 8+ years of software development experience using traditional software development life cycle methodologies (covering requirements, design, development, testing and Implementation of n-tier architecture)
• Extensive experience with object-oriented software development methodologies and practices. Strong in following technologies
• OOAD/OOPS/UML, Design Patterns, MVC, Spring, Hibernate, Java, J2EE
• UI technologies AngularJS, HTML5, CSS3, java script library, Ajax and other UI frameworks
• Exposure to component model design, SOA, open sources framework/tools
• Web Services, JMS, XML, SQL& Oracle
• Must have exposed with Test Driven Development/Re-factoring ideas/ Domain driven design patterns/continuous integration/Build Automation / Data-Mapper framework/Mocks.

Good to Have: Microservices

Competencies:

• Experience in developing platforms or frameworks, components
• Excellent knowledge of the open source software/ tools/ technologies

Responsibilities

• Work with Sales Engineering, Solution Architect and Services teams to ideate software solutions
• Work closely with product management to extend existing software to fit geo & domain specific needs
• 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
• 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

Requirements

Proven experience of 4 to 7 years as a Software Engineer

Experience developing cloud SaaS solutions

Knowledge of multiple front-end languages and libraries (e.g., HTML/ CSS, JavaScript, XML, jQuery)

Strong knowledge of multiple back-end languages (e.g., C#, Java, Python) and JavaScript frameworks (e.g., Angular, React, Node.js)

Development in Core Java, J2EE, Struts, spring, Client-Side scripting, Hibernate, Database

Strong experience with Spring Boot stack (spring cloud, spring-data)

Extensive experience in developing and consuming REST APIs

Experience in Kafka distributed messaging is preferred

Hands-on experience in Redis, Apache Ignite, Hazelcast

Familiarity with databases (e.g. MySQL, MongoDB), web servers (e.g. Apache) and UI/UX design

Experience working in an Agile methodology

Strong communication skills

Experience in speech technologies is a plus

Experience in building real time solutions is a plus

Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or similar field

Our ideal candidate is comfortable collaborating with Product Owners, UX and UI Designers, Data Scientists and senior technical team members to build sound solutions to complex business challenges. A Self-starter and problem-solver will thrive in this position.

You should be strong JavaScript developer comfortable in all areas of the software development lifecycle and have experience with React, Node, Mongo, MySQL and Express in a scalable production environment. Some Python and familiarity with AWS would be welcomed.

Focus Areas and Core Responsibilities

Accountable for day-to-day implementation and launch of product roadmap features and updates.

Collaborate with Data Science, Tech and UX teams to create systems design and information architecture based off of user stories and requirements. Ensure test cases are properly written.

Maintain and work on the continuous improvement and development of company tools.

Coordinate with dev ops and QA to ensure continuous integration and deployment of production ready code.

Skillset, Qualifications, and Experience

• 5+ years of web application development experience including strong working knowledge of JavaScript, ReactJS, NodeJS, Mongo and Express.
• Familiar with asynchronous programming and object-oriented programming best practices. Must have prior experience with MVC design pattern
• Experience with node and linux commands necessary for debugging installations and deployment locally and on cloud services such as AWS
• Strong familiarity with a variety of APIs and RESTful interfaces
• Familiar with various methods for performance optimization
• Ability to work with UX/UI team to create a frictionless user experience and pixel perfect web components and data visualizations
• Experience integrating security best practices into the SDLC
• Expert level Git, including branching and best practices to resolve merge conflicts
• 1+ years of Agile development experience
• Experience manipulating and working with data in a variety of forms: csv, xml, json, structured and unstructured
• Excellent communicator who can work independently and be a team player
• Passion for Technology: excitement for new technology, bleeding edge applications, and a positive attitude towards solving real world challenges

• Previous experience working as a React.js Developer.
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model Thorough understanding of React.js and its core principles
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs
• Knowledge of performance testing frameworks including Mocha and Jest.
• Familiarity with code versioning tools (such as Git )
• Experience with browser-based debugging and performance testing software.
• Excellent troubleshooting skills.
• Good project management skills.

• 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.