Sr. Mern Stack Developer

Job Description

We are seeking a skilled MERN Stack Developer to join our dynamic development team. The Candidate must be familiar with MongoDB, Express.js, React.js, and Node.js and play a key role in building and maintaining web applications. This position will be responsible for working on both the front and back end of our web projects, which in turn will ensure that the web applications are stable, responsive, and effective.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop web applications using the MERN stack.
• Create responsive web interfaces using React.js.
• Develop server-side logic and APIs using Node.js and Express.js.
• Ensure database operations are seamless and database schemas are well designed using MongoDB.
• Collaborate with other team members, such as UI/UX and backend developers, to define and achieve project goals.
• Suggest code reviews and provide feedback to other developers.
• Troubleshoot and fix any issues to maintain and improve overall application performance.

Skills and Qualification

• A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or relevant field is required.
• Hands-on experience with React.js, Node.js, Express.js, and MongoDB.
• Solid understanding of JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.
• Experience with Redux for state management.
• Familiarity with RESTful API development and integration.
• Ability to design and build user interfaces and server-side applications.
• Experience with version control systems - Git knowledge preferred.
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Good communication skills and ability to work collaboratively in a team environment.

Technical Lead

The ideal candidate should possess the following qualifications:

• Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• Experience: 9+ years in software development with a proven track record of delivering scalable applications.
• Leadership Skills: 4+ years of experience in a technical leadership role, demonstrating strong mentoring abilities.
• Technical Lead must Lead and mentor a team of software developers and validation engineers.
• Technical Skills: Technical Lead must have Proficiency in programming languages such as C#, React js, SQL, MySQL, Javascript, Web API are required .NET, or Python, along with frameworks and tools used in software development.
• Technical Lead must have General working knowledge of Selenium to support current business automation tools and future automation requirements.
• General working knowledge of PHP desired to support current legacy applications which are on the roadmap for future modernization.
• Technical Lead must have Strong understanding of software development lifecycle (SDLC).
• Experience with agile methodologies (Scrum/Kanban or similar).
• Knowledge of version control systems (Git or similar).
• Development Methodologies: Experience with Agile development methodologies and experience with CI/CD pipelines.
• Problem-Solving Skills: Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities that enable the identification of complex technical issues.
• Collaboration: Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively within a team environment.
• Innovation: A passion for technology and innovation, with a keen interest in exploring new technologies to find the best solutions.

The Full-Stack Engineer role involves working across prosuct development stack, including various backend systems, frontend systems as well as quick prototyping of proof-of-concept features and projects.

Responsibilities:

• Architecting Figuring out all levels of designing and structuring systems, deciding on optimal levels of abstraction and future-proofing, patterns of orchestration of components and finally planning its execution.
• Implementation Should be able to structure and write code like prose for others to read, design and adhere to common principles and patterns that make everyone better at their jobs. Should have the ability to contribute according to timelines and type of projects - from working POCs to stable production code and the ability to work with a large breadth of knowledge.
• Orchestration and integration Interact with the larger engineering team for integrating your work into the ecosystem, help others in building over the base that you provide, help in orchestrating your work into CI/CD, testing, QA and automation pipelines.
• Mentorship We all love to learn and grow as engineers and human beings and we believe in synchronous growth as a team fueled by each and every individual's personal abilities, specializations, and interests.
• To enable this you'll be required to mentor others by sharing your expertise in various forms and be subject to be mentored by others and thus maintain a continuous learning culture.
• Ownership End-to-end ownership of services and specialised components required for various projects - starting from prototypal stage to production-hardened. These may include anything from document parsing to solving problems using deep learning.
• Documentation Create advanced technical content including articles, samples, whitepapers, and training.

YOptima is a well capitalized digital startup pioneering full funnel marketing via programmatic media. YOptima is trusted by leading marketers and agencies in India and is expanding its footprint globally.

We are expanding our tech team and looking for a prolific Staff Engineer to lead our tech team as a leader (without necessarily being a people manager). Our tech is hosted on Google cloud and the stack includes React, Node.js, AirFlow, Python, Cloud SQL, BigQuery, TensorFlow.

If you have hands-on experience and passion for building and running scalable cloud-based platforms that change the lives of the customers globally and drive industry leadership, please read on.

1. You have 6+ years of quality experience in building scalable digital products/platforms with experience in full stack development, big data analytics and Devops.
2. You are great at identifying risks and opportunities, and have the depth that comes with willingness and capability to be hands-on. Do you still code? Do you love to code? Do you love to roll up your sleeves and debug things?
3. Do you enjoy going deep into that part of the 'full stack' that you are not an expert of?

Responsibilities:

• You will help build a platform that supports large scale data, with multi-tenancy and near real-time analytics.
• You will lead and mentor a team of data engineers and full stack engineers to build the next generation data-driven marketing platform and solutions.
• You will lead exploring and building new tech and solutions that solve business problems of today and tomorrow.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent discipline.
• Excellent computer systems fundamentals, DS/Algorithms and problem solving skills.
• Experience in conceiving, designing, architecting, developing and operating full stack, data-driven platforms using Big data and cloud tech in GCP/AWS environments.

What you get: Opportunity to build a global company. Amazing learning experience. Transparent work culture. Meaningful equity in the business.

At YOptima, we value people who are driven by a higher sense of responsibility, bias for action, transparency, persistence with adaptability, curiosity and humility. We believe that successful people have more failures than average people have attempts. And that success needs the creative mindset to deal with ambiguities when you start, the courage to handle rejections and failure and rise up, and the persistence and humility to iterate and course correct.

1. We look for people who are initiative driven, and not interruption driven. The ones who challenge the status quo with humility and candor.
2. We believe startup managers and leaders are great individual contributors too, and that there is no place for context free leadership.
3. We believe that the curiosity and persistence to learn new skills and nuances, and to apply the smartness in different contexts matter more than just academic knowledge.

Location:

1. Brookefield, Bangalore
2. Jui Nagar, Navi Mumbai

We are building a core technology team at our new startup. If you are interested in working with a startup and growing along with a startup, this is the opportunity for you.

Backend: PHP Laravel (must), NodeJS (knowhow)

Frontend: Any Javascript, ReactJS (preferred)

Others: MySQL or any SQL database, Knowhow of Microservices architecture

• Strong working knowledge of Typescript, MongoDB, MySQL, Express

• Strong proficiency in TypeScript, JavaScript including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model, ES6

• Hands-on experience in React JS

• Strong understanding of HTML5, CSS3

• Strong understanding of NodeJS fundamentals

• Knowledge and experience working with PostgreSQL is a major plus

• Experience with ORM libraries

• Familiarity with RESTful APIs

• Knowledge of tools like Git, GitHub, JIRA, Cucumber, Jasmine, and others that make coding more efficient and easier to share
• Familiarity of working in either the AWS Cloud or Azure including Docker + Kubernetes based microservice deployment.

• Demonstrated experience as a software engineer, with at least 8+ years’ experience in technology roles
• Experience working on complex systems and cloud architectures, preferably in a B2B or enterprise context
• Significant experience with the Java programming language and frameworks such as Spring & SpringBoot
• Good working experience with front-end Javascript frameworks such as ReactJS
• Experience optimizing databases and SQL queries for high-performance 
• Good knowledge of AWS services, design patterns and practices - ideally certified
• Experience and keen understanding of the value of working in agile teams
• A “quality-first” mindset, with experience working in continuous integration environments
• Highly effective at communicating, and comfortable whiteboarding design ideas with teams of engineers, product managers, and business analysts
• Desire to challenge the status quo and maturity to know when to compromise
• Respect for other team members and a highly collaborative approach to working and learning together

• Ability to translate Wireframes and PSD Designs into functional web apps using HTML5, AngularJS, React , Node.js, and Mongo

• Binding of UI elements to JavaScript object models

• Creating RESTful services with Node.js

• Architect scalable web architectures

• 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

• Write code that is cross-platform and cross-device compatible

• Ability to wear many hats and learn new technologies quickly