Role: Mean Stack Developer

Location: (Madison, NJ | Manhattan, NY | Boston, MA | Aventura, FL | Seattle, WA)

Type: Hybrid (3 days onsite)

Rate: $55-65/Hr on W2/ 1099

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Duties and responsibilities:

• Develop responsive Angular web application features including component design, routing, forms, and HTTP client integration
• Build Express.js REST API endpoints with proper HTTP method handling, status codes, and JSON response formatting
• Implement MongoDB data models using Mongoose with appropriate validation, indexing, and schema design for web application needs
• Write Angular services that abstract API calls and share state between components using RxJS Observables
• Configure Angular environments for development and production, managing API base URLs and feature flags
• Set up JWT authentication end-to-end — token issuance in Express, storage and inclusion in Angular, route guard protection
• Implement file upload features using Angular forms with multipart handling in Express and storage in MongoDB GridFS or cloud storage
• Write Jasmine unit tests for Angular services and components and Jest tests for Express route handlers
• Deploy MEAN stack applications to cloud environments using Docker containers and manage environment configuration
• Debug cross-origin issues, async timing problems, and Angular change detection issues in deployed web applications

Required Skills:

Should have completed bachelors degree in computer science, web development, or information systems

Should have minimum 8+ years of total work experience with 6+ years in Mean stack development

Angular proficiency:

• Components: lifecycle hooks (OnInit, OnDestroy, OnChanges), template syntax, event binding, two-way binding
• Directives: structural (ngIf, ngFor, ngSwitch) and attribute directives, custom directive creation
• RxJS fundamentals: subscribe, map, filter, switchMap, mergeMap, combineLatest, share and shareReplay
• HTTP client: HttpClient module, interceptors for auth headers and error handling, typed responses
• Angular Material or another component library for production UI

Node.js/Express proficiency:

• Express 4.x routing, middleware chain, static file serving
• Body parsing, query string handling, file upload with multer
• Error handling middleware with consistent error response format
• Environment variable management with dotenv or cloud secrets

MongoDB/Mongoose:

• Schema definition with appropriate field types, required flags, defaults, and validators
• Index creation: single field, compound, text, and sparse indexes
• Query patterns: filtering, sorting, pagination (skip/limit and cursor-based)
• Population: Mongoose populate for document references versus manual $lookup

Web development skills:

• CSS and responsive design: media queries, flexbox, grid — Angular Material or Tailwind CSS common
• HTTP fundamentals: methods, status codes, headers, cookies vs. localStorage for token storage
• CORS: understanding and configuring Express CORS middleware for Angular development proxy
• Browser developer tools: network panel, console, Angular DevTools

Regards,

Martin