MERN Stack Technical Lead

About the Role

We are looking for a hands-on MERN Stack Technical Lead who can lead a development team, own architecture and cloud infrastructure end to end, and bring practical Generative AI capabilities into client products. You will work closely with product, pre-sales, QA, DevOps, and UI/UX teams to turn business requirements into scalable, secure, production-grade systems.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Leadership Architecture

• Lead, mentor, and manage a team of frontend and backend developers.

• Define application architecture, coding standards, and engineering best practices.

• Drive technical decisions and own end-to-end delivery of projects.

• Conduct code reviews and ensure code quality, performance, and security.

• Translate business requirements into technical solutions alongside product managers, architects, and stakeholders.

Cloud Architecture DevOps (Critical)

• Design and implement scalable, highly available, fault-tolerant architectures on AWS, Azure, or GCP.

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, or Azure DevOps.

• Manage containerised workloads with Docker and Kubernetes.

• Provision infrastructure using Terraform or CloudFormation.

• Implement cloud security, IAM, monitoring, logging, backup, and disaster recovery.

• Optimise infrastructure for performance, scalability, and cost.

AI Generative AI Integration

• Evaluate and integrate LLM services (OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, or similar) into MERN applications.

• Build AI features such as chatbots, intelligent automation, document processing, and RAG pipelines.

• Apply prompt engineering, embeddings, and vector databases to real product use cases.

• Ensure AI implementations follow security, data privacy, and responsible AI practices.

Delivery Team Management

• Lead sprint planning, technical discussions, and architecture reviews.

• Identify technical risks early and resolve complex engineering challenges.

• Ensure timely, high-quality delivery within Agile/Scrum processes.

• Maintain clear technical documentation.

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