Mern Stack Developer

Job Description

Key Responsibilities

- Solution Design: Analyze business requirements for ecommerce and marketplace platforms, translating them into scalable, robust technical solutions.
- Development: Design and implement features that support marketplace scalability, including multi-vendor capabilities, inventory management, and dynamic pricing models.
- Integration Expertise: Build and integrate APIs for third-party services such as payment gateways, logistics providers, marketing tools, and seller management systems.
- Performance Optimization: Ensure high performance and availability of marketplace systems, including optimizing page load times, search functionality, and transaction processes.
- Scalability: Architect solutions to handle growing marketplace traffic, vendor onboarding, and product catalog expansion.
- Data Strategy: Work with large data sets, ensuring effective integration and processing of customer, vendor, and product data.
- Customer Experience: Collaborate with UX/UI teams to optimize customer and vendor journeys, including advanced search, personalization, and checkout flows.
- Compliance and Security: Ensure marketplace compliance with regulations (e.g., GDPR, PCI-DSS) and implement fraud prevention and secure payment mechanisms.
- Cloud Deployment: Leverage cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) to deploy, monitor, and maintain scalable ecommerce and marketplace systems.
- Cross-functional Collaboration: Work with stakeholders across product, engineering, and business teams to deliver end-to-end solutions.
- Mentorship and Leadership: Guide junior engineers and contribute to team development by sharing best practices and expertise.

Required Skills and Qualifications

- Experience: 5+ years of experience in solution engineering, with specific expertise in ecommerce and marketplace platforms.
- Ecommerce & Marketplace Systems: Experience building or scaling multi-vendor marketplaces on platforms like Magento, Shopify Plus, BigCommerce, Mirakl, or custom solutions.
- Full-stack Development: Strong proficiency in the MERN stack (MongoDB, Express.js, React.js, Node.js) or similar frameworks.
- API Design: Advanced knowledge of RESTful and GraphQL APIs, with experience in creating and managing third-party integrations (e.g., payment, shipping, marketing tools).
- Scalable Architectures: Experience designing microservices and headless commerce solutions tailored for marketplace environments.
- Performance Optimization: Expertise in scaling high-traffic ecommerce systems, load balancing, caching, queuing, and database optimization.
- Cloud Platforms: Proven experience deploying applications on AWS, Azure, or GCP, with a focus on scalability and reliability.
- Data Management: Strong knowledge of database technologies (SQL and NoSQL) and analytics integration for actionable insights.
- DevOps Practices: Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, Docker, Kubernetes, and monitoring tools to ensure uptime and system health.

Preferred Skills

- Marketplace-Specific Features: Experience with commission models, dispute resolution workflows, and vendor performance tracking, ads management.
- Familiarity with advanced personalization engines and recommendation systems.
- Knowledge of multi-currency and multi-language implementation for global marketplaces.
- Experience integrating with enterprise tools like ERP, CRM, and WMS systems.
- Exposure to analytics and reporting tools like Google Analytics, Adobe Analytics, or Power BI

Soft Skills

- Strong problem-solving skills and a focus on delivering business value through technical solutions.
- Excellent communication skills to engage with technical and non-technical stakeholders, including vendors and partners.
- Proven ability to manage multiple projects and deliver on tight deadlines.
- Leadership skills, with a track record of mentoring and guiding engineering teams.

Education

Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, Engineering, or related fields (or equivalent experience).