MERN Developer

Post Date

Dec 19, 2022

Location

Chicago,
Illinois

ZIP/Postal Code

60654
US
Aug 16, 2025 Insight Global

Job Type

Perm

Category

Software Engineering

Req #

CHI-592114

Pay Rate

$130k - $135k (estimate)

Job Description

Our client is an independent, employee-owned firm founded in 1937. As specialists in investment, risk management and advisory services, they are committed to helping their institutional, corporate, and individual clients achieve their objectives. Their professionals are inspired by an entrepreneurial desire to develop tailored solutions designed to deliver measurable results.



Our client is seeking an energetic, enthusiastic, and eager to learn professional to join their Web development team as a MERN Stack Developer. The MERN Stack Developer will be working on a web application on a Acquia Drupal platform and a custom portal in MERN stack. The ideal candidate must have demonstrable experience building business-oriented solutions using SPAs and have strong understanding of Modern Web Development stack. This candidate must be self-motivated, detail oriented with strong analytical thinking, and organizational skills. This role provides opportunities to gain experience in DevOps, middle-tier, backend development, and financial services integrations (Bloomberg, FX Connect and GTSS Web Services).

Responsibilities Include:

* Build rich visual and reusable components for complex financial systems

* Participate in creating and translating wireframes, UI mocks from user stories

* Develop client and internal facing features ensuring technical feasibility of the UI/UX designs

* Develop quality code paired with unit testing coverage

* Maintain and support existing solutions

* Translate business requirements into functional code

Required Skills & Experience

* 3+ years of overall software development experience with MERN

o Strong experience with React

* Willingness to learn new technologies including AWS/Azure, CI/CD, API development, Acquia Drupal, and SQL

* Experience building out a development environment and gathering user requirements directly with the business

* Familiarity with code versioning such as GIT

* Experience with Linux environment

Nice to Have Skills & Experience

* Experience deploying into AWS or Azure

* Experience working on CI/CD pipelines with YAML configurations

* Experience building APIs from scratch

* SQL experience

* PHP or Acquia Drupal development experience

* Consulting background

* Typescript

* Strong understanding or experience in TDD and DDD

Benefit packages for this role will start on the 31st day of employment and include medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as HSA, FSA, and DCFSA account options, and 401k retirement account access with employer matching. Employees in this role are also entitled to paid sick leave and/or other paid time off as provided by applicable law.