Build MERN Invoice Management Platform -- 2

I’m building a full-stack invoice manager and need someone who can take it from concept to a polished, production-ready web application on the MERN stack. The core flow is straightforward: a user signs up with a traditional email-and-password form, completes a one-time company profile, and from then on every invoice they create automatically applies that branding.

Here’s what I need you to deliver:

• Secure authentication (email + password) with hashed storage, JWT sessions and basic password-reset flows
• A responsive React dashboard that works smoothly on mobile, tablet and desktop, styled with clean CSS (Tailwind or plain CSS-in-JS is fine)
• Invoice creation, live preview, PDF generation and download
• A simple table to view past invoices with search by invoice number, client name or client email
• RESTful API endpoints in Express, wired to MongoDB/Mongoose models for users, company data and invoices
• Clean, maintainable code and a short README explaining environment variables, build steps and how to deploy

Tech keywords you’ll touch: React, JavaScript, Node.js, Express.js, MongoDB, Mongoose, JWT, PDF libraries such as pdf-make or jsPDF.

Acceptance criteria
– A new user can register, log in, finish company setup and immediately create an invoice.
– Downloaded PDFs match the on-screen preview and include company logo/details.
– Search returns accurate results within 200 ms for up to 5 000 stored invoices.
– All protected routes reject unauthenticated requests with proper HTTP status codes.
– Code passes eslint/prettier checks and basic unit tests for key utilities.

If you’ve shipped similar MERN projects and can hit these benchmarks, I’d love to see your approach and timeline.