Associate Web Backend Engineer

Brief:

We are pursuing a complex set of problems that involve building for an international audience and for an industry that has largely been service-centric. As an SDE at GradRight, you’ll bring an unmatched customer-centricity to your work, with a focus on building for the long term and large scale.

You’ll contribute to frameworks that enable flexible/scalable customer journeys and tying them with institutional knowledge to help us build the best experiences for students and our partners.

Responsibilities:

1. Contribute to design discussions and decisions around building scalable and modular architecture
2. Build clean, modular and scalable backend services
3. Participate in sprint ceremonies and actively contribute to scaling the engineering organization from a process perspective
4. Stay on top of the software engineering ecosystem and propose new technologies/methodologies that can be adopted
5. Contribute to engineering hiring by conducting interviews
6. Champion infrastructure as code mindset and encourage automation
7. Manage and mentor a small team of junior engineers

Requirements:

1. At least 4 years experience as an SDE, building large scale services
2. Extensive experience in at least one programming language and ability to write maintainable, scalable and unit-testable code
3. Strong understanding of software design principles and patterns
4. Excellent command over data structures and algorithms
5. Passion for solving complex problems
6. Good understanding of various database technologies with strong opinions around their use cases
7. Experience with performance monitoring and scaling backend services
8. Experience with microservices and distributed systems in general
9. Experience with team management
10. Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Good to have:

1. Experience working with node.js, MongoDB and Google Cloud
2. Experience in CI/CD and cloud infrastructure management
3. Worked on products that addressed an international audience
4. Worked on products that scaled to millions of users

We are looking for a passionate and skilled Node.js Developer to join our dynamic team. If you're excited about building scalable and efficient backend applications using modern technologies, we’d love to hear from you!

Responsibilities

Develop and maintain server-side components using Node.js

Design and build scalable RESTful APIs

Ensure high performance and responsiveness of applications

Implement security and data protection measures

Collaborate with team members to define and deliver high-quality software

Write unit and integration tests to ensure software quality

Required Skills

✅ Strong proficiency in JavaScript

✅ Good understanding of Node.js and Express

✅ Experience with NoSQL databases, especially MongoDB

✅ Familiarity with Git and version control workflows

✅ Ability to write reusable, testable, and efficient code

✅ Experience with JWT and modern authorization mechanisms

✅ Knowledge of security and data protection best practices

✅ Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

As a Node.js Developer, you will be responsible for:

Designing, developing, and maintaining server-side applications and systems using Node.js, a JavaScript runtime environment. Your expertise in backend development, JavaScript, TypeScript, and REST APIs will play an essential role in creating efficient and powerful server-side applications.

Responsibilities:

● Design and implement efficient, secure, and maintainable server-side code using Node.js.

● Collaborate with the front-end development team to integrate user-facing elements with server-side logic.

● Develop APIs for seamless data flow between the front-end and back-end.

● Optimize application performance and ensure high availability and scalability.

To succeed in this role – you should have the following:

● Minimum of 3-4 years of experience as a backend developer.

● Must have proven experience as a Back-End Developer, with a focus on Node.js.

● Proficiency in JavaScript, TypeScript, and related frameworks (Express.js, Hapi.js, etc.).

● Experience with RESTful API design principles.

● Experience with agile development methodologies.

● Familiarity with working with at least one of PostgreSQL or MongoDB.

● Familiarity with version control systems (Git)

● Strong communication skills and ability to work collaboratively in a team.

● Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.

Added bonus:

● Familiarity with frontend development technologies like HTML and CSS.

● Experience working with Docker, Github Actions, and other common CI/CD pipelines

● Knowledge about AWS components (S3, EC2, Cloudfront, Redis Clusters, etc.)

Education:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field

Job Category: Software Development

Job Type: Full Time

Job Location: Bangalore

Gnani.ai aims to empower enterprises with AI based speech technology.

Gnani.ai is an AI-based Speech Recognition and NLP Startup that is working on voice-based solutions for large businesses. AI is the biggest innovation that is disrupting the market and we are at the heart of this disruption. Funded by one of the largest global conglomerates in the world, and backed a number of market leaders in the tech industry,

We are working with some of the largest companies in the banking, insurance, e-commerce and financial services sectors and we are not slowing down. With aggressive expansion plans, Gnani.ai aims to be the leader in the global market for voice-based solutions.

Gnani.ai is building the future for voice-based business solutions. If you are fascinated by AI and would like to work on the latest AI technologies in a high-intense, fast-growing and flexible work environment with immense growth opportunities, come and join us. We are looking for hard workers, who are ready to take on big challenges.

NLP Software Developer

Gnani.ai is looking to hire software developers with 0 to 2+ Years of experience, with a keen interest in designing and developing chat and voice bots. We are looking for an Engineer who can work with us in developing an NLP framework if you have the below skill set

Requirements :

• Proficient knowledge of Python
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git / SVN.
• Good knowledge of algorithms to find and implement tools for NLP tasks
• Knowledge of NLP libraries and frameworks
• Understanding of text representation techniques, algorithms, statistics
• Syntactic & Semantic Parsing
• Knowledge/work experience on No-SQL database Mongo.
• Good knowledge of Docker container technologies.
• Strong communication skills

Responsibilities :

• Develop NLP systems according to requirements
• Maintain NLP libraries and frameworks
• Design and develop natural language processing systems
• Define appropriate datasets for language learning
• Use effective text representations to transform natural language into useful features
• Train the developed model and run evaluation experiments
• Find and implement the right algorithms and tools for NLP tasks
• Perform statistical analysis of results and refine models
• Constantly keep up to date with the field of machine learning
• Implement changes as needed and analyze bugs

Good To Have :

Start up experience is a plus

Responsibilities

Understand systems enabling third party integration 

Translate business requirements to the APIs and SDKs exposed by these systems. Figure out the optimum interfaces to interact with these. 

Build generic connectors to interact with these technologies. 

Design, implement, deploy and maintain the connectors. 

Minimum Qualifications 

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related fields. 

Experience needs to be around 8+ years 

Strong problem-solving skills. 

Ability to understand the technology and its APIs in quick time. 

Strong design pattern fundamentals. 

Good core java skills like Multi-threading, collection framework. 

Good communication and mentorship skills 

Ability to put together architecture diagrams and designs