Principal Engineer - Web(React.JS/Node.JS)

Description

We’re looking for a Senior Engineer to join our growing team in Vietnam and play a critical role in shaping the architecture, technical strategy, and engineering culture across internal and client facing projects. You’ll work hands-on with a cross-functional team to solve complex technical problems, and help ensure delivery of high-quality, scalable digital products.

This is a role for someone who is proactive and happy to take the lead when needed — combining deep technical expertise with strong communication and decision-making skills. You’ll be involved from concept to deployment, helping teams choose the right tools, build robust solutions, and deliver real business impact.

What You’ll Do

• Play an early and key role in the development of scalable, secure, and maintainable software
• Play a key role in technical decision-making, trade-offs, and problem-solving
• Work closely with product owners to ensure solutions meet business needs
• Contribute to strategic planning around tooling, technology choices, and platform direction
• Perform technical reviews and provide input on system design, integration, and performance
• Advocate for engineering best practices, clean code, testing, observability, and performance
• Stay up to date with emerging technologies and propose relevant improvements

Requirements

• 6+ years of software engineering experience, with a strong background in full-stack or frontend/backend systems
• Experience with modern frontend ecosystems (React, Vue, [link removed] etc.) and/or backend stacks ([link removed])
• Exposure to cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, or Azure
• Familiarity with DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and performance monitoring tools
• Strong coding ability in at least one major language or framework (JavaScript/TypeScript, [link removed], etc.)
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills; able to break down complex challenges
• A strong communicator with good English who can translate technical detail into clear plans and decisions
• Experience working in collaborative product and delivery teams

Nice to Have

• Experience working with open source software
• Experience mentoring other engineers across, fostering growth and shared standards
• Previous experience in eCommerce, retail, or large-scale customer-facing platform

Benefits

About Mindera

At Mindera we use technology to build products we are proud of, with people we love.

Software Engineering Applications, including Web and Mobile, are at the core of what we do at Mindera.

We partner with our clients, to understand their products and deliver high-performance, resilient, and scalable software systems that create an impact on their users and businesses across the world.

You get to work with a bunch of great people, where the whole team owns the project together.

We are proud of our work and we love to learn all and everything while navigating through an Agile, Lean and collaborative environment.

Check out our Blog and our Handbook!

With offices located across Portugal, the UK, the USA, Australia, India, Romania, and Brazil, join us as we expand and influence the future of software engineering worldwide.

Originally posted on Himalayas