Technical/Project Lead(Java with React)

MERN STACK DEVELOPER

ABOUT US

Datacultr is a global Digital Operating System for Risk Management and Debt Recovery, we drive Collection Efficiencies, Reduce Delinquencies and Non-Performing Loans (NPL’s). Datacultr is a Digital-Only provider of Consumer Engagement, Recovery and Collection Solutions, helping Consumer Lending, Retail, Telecom and Fintech Organizations to expand and grow their business in the under-penetrated New to Credit and Thin File Segments.

We are helping millions of new to credit consumers, across emerging markets, access formal credit and begin their journey towards financial health. We have clients across India, South Asia, South East Asia, Africa and LATAM.

Datacultr is headquartered in Dubai, with offices in Abu Dhabi, Singapore, Ho Chi Minh City, Nairobi, and Mexico City; and our Development Center is located out of Gurugram, India.

ORGANIZATION’S GROWTH PLAN

Datacultr’s vision is to enable convenient financing opportunities for consumers, entrepreneurs and small merchants, helping them combat the Socio-economic problems this segment faces due to restricted access to financing.

We are on a mission to enable 35 million unbanked & under-served people, access financial services by the end of 2026.

Position Overview

We are looking for a talented and enthusiastic MERN Stack Developer to join our development team. As a MERN developer, you will be responsible for building and maintaining full-stack web applications using MongoDB, Express.js, React.js, and Node.js.

Core Responsibilities

• Develop, test, and maintain full-stack web applications using the MERN stack (MongoDB, Express.js, React.js, Node.js).
• Design and implement robust, scalable, and secure RESTful APIs and backend services.
• Collaborate with UI/UX designers to build responsive, intuitive, and user-friendly web interfaces.
• Optimize applications for performance, speed, and scalability.
• Write clean, well-documented, and maintainable code following best practices.
• Participate in code reviews, team discussions, and agile ceremonies to ensure high-quality software delivery.
• Bonus skills: Familiarity with TypeScript, Docker, and CI/CD pipelines is a strong plus.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS will be considered an added advantage.

Key Requirements

• 1 – 2.5 years of hands-on experience in full-stack development using the MERN stack.
• Proficiency in React.js, Node.js, Express.js, and experience with both PostgreSQL and MongoDB.
• Strong foundation in JavaScript, along with HTML5 and CSS3.
• ·Experience integrating and working with REST APIs and third-party APIs.
• ·Familiarity with Git and collaborative version control workflows.
• ·Solid problem-solving, debugging, and analytical skills.
• · Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development environment.

What We Offer

•  Opportunity to shape the future of unsecured lending in emerging markets
•  Competitive compensation package
•  Professional development and growth opportunities
• Collaborative, innovation-focused work environment
• Comprehensive health and wellness benefits

Location & Work Model

• Immediate joining possible 
• Work From Office only
• Based in Gurugram, Sector 65

Build and maintain products. Build products and features, through inception, design, implementation and launch, working closely with multiple disciplines across the company. You will spend the majority of your time working on critical projects which require focus on integrations, scalability, and performance. You will also be the first line of defense in ensuring that the product features are achievable and have a clear purpose, trimming off unnecessary detailing, especially in the earliest stages. Align across teams and stakeholders. Play a key role in ensuring that objectives and expectations are aligned across multiple concurrent products. You are expected to break down features within each project and prioritize tasks based on the expertise of the team, keeping redundancy in mind. 

Maintain a high bar for code quality and future proofing. Implement processes for checking in code that maintains a high bar of code quality. You are expected to optimize for a solution that affords the best user experience in a reasonable amount of time while ensuring to allow for adequate security, ability to scale in the future etc. 

Responsibilities

● Design, build and maintain scalable, secure web services and distributed systems

● Design and develop robust solutions for client onboarding, portfolio analytics, tokenized security issuance, authentication, and security

● Build solutions to integrate with APIs of external solutions providers including crypto custodians, exchanges, fund admins etc.

● Architecting and building frontend features in React.js

● Ensuring a highly performant and responsive UI

● Help maintain existing codebase, infrastructure, test coverage, and documentation

● Communicate requirements effectively within and across teams

● Independently work and lead project initiatives in a fast paced environment

Requirements

● 5+ years of work experience as a Senior Software Engineer or similarly senior member of a fast scaling company, ideally building products from ideation to launch with a strong engineering team. Web3 based experience preferred.

● Have experience in rapid prototyping of features across various products. Demonstrable open source contributions and experience with Git advantageous.

● Professional experience with Python, Javascript, Typescript, or Go

● Must have experience building and/or integrating with RESTful APIs

● Working knowledge of Django, FastAPI, or React.js and Redux

● Working knowledge various frontend frameworks and languages such as HTML, CSS

● Experience monitoring and scaling microservice-oriented systems

● Familiarity with websocket architecture and implementation

● Experience working with cloud-native AWS infrastructure and/or Kubernetes

● Team-building and technical leadership experience

● Being nimble and reacting quickly to changing business conditions

● BTech in Computer Science or a related field (Masters is a plus

Benefits

● Competitive salary, benefits & participation in the firm's ESOP program

● Be part of something exciting. Rare opportunity to come in early and build the next generation of institutional grade financial services.

● International work environment and flat organization. Possibility for relocation and international transfers mid-career

Key Qualifications

1) BS/MS in Computer Science or relevant field and 6+ years of experience in building backend services with

Python 3.7.x using Django >= 2.2.1, Django REST framework >= 3.13.1, Flask >=1.1.2 and relational databases

design and maintenance.

2) At least 4 years of solid experience in working with front-end MVC framework React and caching strategies

(memcached, Redis).

3) Expertise in building microservices-based and cloud-based architectures including development and deployment

in AWS.

4) At least 3 years of experience with Web Application technologies: REST, MongoDB, MySQL, NoSQL, AWS

Lambda, API Gateway and web servers Apache, Nginx.

5) Follows coding best practices to produce tested, scalable, reliable and maintainable code.

6) Hands-on experience in developing, deploying, and releasing large-scale applications.

Responsibilities

1) Understand complex requirements, scope and architect major features and perform API technical design for

junior developers to enhance the product at all layers.

2) Think in terms of future possibility of features, backward compatibility, and application performance.

3) Build cloud-based Python Django software products and implement UI components in React.js framework.

4) Write quality code (with comments, unit tests & documentation), design, implement and manage data pipelines

at enterprise scale with data migration and production data maintenance.

5) Collaborate with different teams to conceptualize, design, and build highly scalable and reliable software

solutions with REST APIs following SDLC best practices and DevOps principles.

6) Work closely with product, project and business teams to translate user feedback and company vision into

technical roadmap.

7) Possess strong product-centric mindset. You should be interested in the way software products are built and

comfortable to be proactive with your ideas and opinions.

 Must Have: BE/BTech/ME/MTech in Computer Science or Information Technology

Our Stack

Back-end: Python, Django REST, MySQL, Celery, Rabbitmq, Sqlalchemy, RDS

Front-end: JavaScript, React, HTML, CSS, Bootstrap

Ops: Docker, AWS, RDS, Terraform, Github Actions, AWS Route53, AWS cloudwatch

Fuzen is a no-code SaaS platform founded and backed by IIT alumni.

We help non-technical SaaS founders bring their product ideas to life at ZERO upfront cost. We are building a marketplace of simple SaaS apps by helping founders to build products with our no-code platform.

The majority of our customers come from traditional industries like - construction, engineering, transportation, consulting etc. and we have recently received seed funding from angel investors.

We are looking for software developers who are good at problem-solving and are interested in product building.

1. Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code
2. Design robust, scalable and secure systems
3. Contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle
4. Follow best practices (test-driven development, continuous integration, SCRUM, refactoring, and code standards)
5. Drive continuous adoption and integration of relevant new technologies into the design.
6. You will be expected to work on Ruby On Rails, React JS, AWS, Heroku, Google Cloud and 3rd party API integrations.

IMPORTANT - Fuzen is an early-stage startup. The work culture is fast-paced and challenging. The job will be demanding and will offer a lot of learning. You should apply only if all of this excites you.

• Very strong in HTML & mobile techniques;
• Strong knowledge of Codeigniter / Laravel;
• Front-end skills HTML, CSS, CSS3, CSS3 animations, JavaScript,bootstrap;
• Experience with Angular or React;
• Popular JavaScript libraries/frameworks e.g. jQuery, LESS / Sass;
• Back-end skills PHP, MySQL or equivalent language such as C#, java, etc.;
• Strong knowledge of source control e.g. Bitbucket, Github;
• Experience with deployment and configuration of common stacks (LAMP, MERN, MEAN)
• Ability to work with design files for web development needs;
• In-depth experience with MongoDB & MySQL, including SQL & PL/SQL, or NoSQL query building
• Knowledge of tools & frameworks such as Gulp, Grunt, Node, Composer, etc.
• Ability to work with APIs;
• Experience working with CMS systems e.g. Magento, Wordpress;
• Good knowledge of web hosting environments e.g. cPanel, AWS, Google;
• Python skills are a plus