Lead Software Engineer (MERN)

Role Hands-on ownership (~70% IC). Design, build, and scale MERN applications. Lead technical decisions, mentor a small team, and deliver production-ready solutions.

Responsibilities Architect and implement backend APIs, services, and microservices using Node.js + TypeScript

Build high-performance frontends with React (Hooks, state management, optimization)

Design MongoDB schemas, indexes, aggregations , and data flows

Implement auth, caching, eventing, rate-limits, queues, CI / CD

Ensure code quality, SOLID, test coverage, performance and security

Debug bottlenecks, conduct reviews, and unblock engineers

Collaborate closely with product / design to ship features with clear timelines

Requirements 6–10 yrs experience; 4+ yrs in Node.js + React + TypeScript

Proven experience with REST, microservices, async patterns

Strong fundamentals in MongoDB and distributed architecture

Exposure to Docker, CI / CD, monitoring, logging

Nice to Have Redis / ElasticSearch / Next.js / message queues