MERN Stack Lead

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About Us:

Nitro Commerce is a fast-moving e-commerce infrastructure company rethinking how digital storefronts are built and scaled.

We don’t do boring checkout pages or cookie-cutter templates. We're crafting high-performance commerce experiences—from the ground up—that feel like magic to use and powerful to build on.

We’re backed by early-stage operators and technologists who believe in fast execution, beautiful code, and clear impact.

Founded by a team of builders with backgrounds in full-stack engineering, design, and scaling infra at startups, Nitro is where real ownership meets technical depth.

hands-on MERN Tech Lead

What will you work on:

You’ll be leading the development of core platform components used by multiple high-growth e-commerce brands.

Think:

Here’s what your day-to-day might look like:

• Architect full-stack features using MongoDB, Express, React, and Node
• Review code like a hawk and write it like an artist
• Design scalable systems that are easy to reason about and hard to break
• Debug gnarly performance issues and hunt down edge-case bugs
• Collaborate with product + design on shaping delightful UX
• Mentor developers, help them level up, and create a strong engineering culture
• Be involved in hiring decisions, roadmap planning, and early-stage technical direction

What will you bring?

• 4+ years of full-stack development experience with MERN
• 1+ year leading or mentoring dev teams (formally or informally)
• Deep comfort with React.js (hooks, routing, state management, SSR)
• Node/Express wizardry — REST APIs, auth, middleware, async flows
• Solid understanding of MongoDB (schema design, queries, indexing)
• Experience with CI/CD, Docker, and deployment workflows
• You care deeply about clean code, testing, and performance
• You’ve shipped real-world projects that people actually use

Who we're looking for?

• A system thinker who sees both the big picture and low-level details
• A builder who’s not afraid to get their hands dirty in unfamiliar code
• Someone who takes ownership, defaults to action, and values clarity
• A pragmatic technologist—knows when to refactor and when to ship
• Bonus: experience with headless CMS, GraphQL, or e-commerce infra

Perks

• Work on real problems with real autonomy
• Influence architecture and dev culture from the ground up
• Competitive comp + generous equity
• Fast-paced, no-BS team that values curiosity and execution