MERN Stack Technical Lead

The NineHertz; Jaipur; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 4,500,000; Full time

Job summary

The NineHertz in Jaipur, India seeks a senior hands-on MERN Stack Technical Lead to guide a development team, own architecture and cloud infrastructure end to end, and bring practical Generative AI capabilities into client products.

You will work with product, pre-sales, QA, DevOps, and UI/UX teams to turn business requirements into scalable, secure, production-grade systems.

Qualifications

• Lead hands-on MERN stack development and architecture design.
• Experience delivering secure, production-grade systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead frontend and backend teams, mentoring and delivery.
• Define application architecture, coding standards, and best practices.
• Drive end-to-end project delivery, code reviews, and performance improvements.
• Collaborate with product managers, architects, and stakeholders to translate requirements.
• Design scalable cloud architectures on AWS/Azure/GCP and manage CI/CD pipelines.
• Implement cloud security, IAM, monitoring, and disaster recovery.

Skills

Architecture

Leadership

Azure

MongoDB

React.js

Cloud

AI

Express.js

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI/CD

Jenkins

Azure DevOps

Job description

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.

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.

Skills: architecture,leadership,azure,mongodb,react.js,cloud,ai,express.js