Backend Developer

Our vision is to be the world’s leading Ed-Fin Tech company dedicated to making higher education accessible and affordable to all. Our mission is to drive transparency and accountability in the global higher education sector and create significant impact using the power of technology, data science and collaboration.

GradRight is the world’s first SaaS ecosystem that brings together students, universities and financial institutions in an integrated manner. It enables students to find and fund high return college education, universities to engage and select the best-fit students and banks to lend in an effective and efficient manner.

In the last three years, we have enabled students to get the best deals on a $ 2.8+ Billion of loan requests and facilitated disbursements of more than $ 350+ Million in loans. GradRight won the HSBC Fintech Innovation Challenge supported by the Ministry of Electronics & IT, Government of India. With a strong presence in the U.S. and subsidiaries in India and commencement of UK operations, GradRight is well-poised for global expansion, having raised a Series A round of investments. GradRight’s 200+ team members across Hyderabad, Gurgaon, Bangalore, Kolkata and the US are led by alumni of IIT Delhi, IIT Kharagpur, BITS Pilani, ISB Hyderabad and University of Pennsylvania.

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 a 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 tie them with institutional knowledge to help us build the best experiences for students and our partners.

• Responsibilities:Contribute to design discussions and decisions around building scalable and modular architecture
• Build clean, modular and scalable backend services
• Participate in sprint ceremonies and actively contribute to scaling the engineering organization from a process perspective
• Stay on top of the software engineering ecosystem and propose new technologies/methodologies that can be adopted
• Contribute to engineering hiring by conducting interviews
• Champion infrastructure as code mindset and encourage automation
• Manage and mentor a small team of junior engineers
• Requirements:At least 4 years experience as an SDE, building large scale services
• Extensive experience in at least one programming language and ability to write maintainable, scalable and unit-testable code
• Strong understanding of software design principles and patterns
• Excellent command over data structures and algorithms
• Passion for solving complex problems
• Good understanding of various database technologies with strong opinions around their use cases
• Experience with performance monitoring and scaling backend services
• Experience with microservices and distributed systems in general
• Experience with team management
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Good to have:Experience working with Node.js, MongoDB and Google Cloud
• Experience in CI/CD and cloud infrastructure management
• Worked on products that addressed an international audience
• Worked on products that scaled to millions of users
• Location: GurgaonAdditional resources:Our team - https://gradright.com/team.html
• Customer testimonials - https://gradright.com/testimonials.html
• GradRight on social media - LinkedIn, Instagram
• People will be eligible for ESOPs only after the 6 months of engagement with Gradright.

You will be responsible for both back-end and front-end development, including creating WordPress themes and plugins.

WordPress Developer duties and responsibilities :-

- Designing and implementing new features and functionality

- Establishing and guiding the website's architecture

- Ensuring high-performance and availability, and managing all technical aspects of the CMS

- Helping formulate an effective, responsive design and turning it into a working theme and plugin.

- Generating WordPress themes and plugins.

- Conducting website performance tests.

- Troubleshooting content issues.

- Conducting WordPress training with the client.

- Monitoring the performance of the live website

- WordPress Developer requirements and qualifications :-

- Good understanding of front-end technologies, including HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery

- Experience building user interfaces for websites and/or web applications

- Experience designing and developing responsive design websites

- Comfortable working with debugging tools like Firebug, Chrome inspector, etc.

- Ability to understand CSS changes and their ramifications to ensure consistent style across platforms and browsers

- Ability to convert comprehensive layout and wireframes into working HTML pages

- Knowledge of how to interact with RESTful APIs and formats (JSON, XML)

- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as Git, SVN, and Mercurial

- Strong understanding of PHP back-end development

Job Profile :Sr. Software Engineer/Software Engineer/Associate Software Engineer

Technologies :NodeJS Developer

Eligibility Criteria :Requires minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree in IT, Computer Science, MCA or equivalent experience.

Experience :1 to 3 year

Job Description

Job roles and responsibilities

The candidate’s primary focus will be developing new features for our modern web application. They will get exposure to an ‘agile-centric’ delivery model, while leveraging modern / innovative JavaScript approaches. A candidate who is driven, innovative and has passion for elegant technical solutions will thrive in this role.

• You should have deep understanding of NodeJS

• You should be strong in Javascript and TypeScript

• You should be capable of writing complex queries

• ES6, Express, Apollo Server, Send Grid Email, Twilio SMS, Payment Gateway,

• Error Loggin, API Developement, API Security,

• PostGreSQL/MSSQL/MySQL, MongoDB/CouchDB

• Very good knowledge on REST API

• Good experience in Agile methodologies

• Ability to design and write code complying with coding standards and other factors like performance, scalability, reliability, reusability, modularity in mind

• You should have strong logical and problem solving skills

• Excellent communication and customer interfacing skills

• AWS certification is nice to have

• Strong proficiency with JavaScript and good to have ES6(Typescript) knowledge

• Knowledge of Node.js and frameworks such as Express, Restify

• Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds

• Understanding accessibility and security compliance

• User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments

• Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system

• Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application

Competencies and Skills Required

• Requires excellent analytical, problem solving, and good communications skills

• Must be able to work effectively with business stakeholders

• Strong passion for delivering technical solutions to business problems

• Understanding and mindset of Agile software delivery (Ability to adapt to continually changing priorities)

• Team player who understands the importance of teamwork and collaboration

• Passion for delivering new approaches and challenging the ‘status-quo’

• Hungry to learn and always in search of continuous improvement

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES 

• Proven working experience in backend app development and experience with Node JS.  
• Build advanced ecommerce backend applications for the multiple client platforms (both React and Android).  
• Understanding of design principles and good architecture patterns.  
• Proper Data Structures and Algorithm knowledge is a must.  

• Graph QL and Apollo Server knowledge.  
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features. Work with outside data sources and APIs like the one of Unicommerce.  
• Create Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability.  
• Work on bug fixing and improving application performance.  
• Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency.  

• Translate designs and wireframes into high quality code.  
• Have a good understanding of CI/CD tools (any).  
• Robust knowledge of popular databases like MongoDB, Elastic Search, DynamoDB, Redis etc;  
• Knowledge about AWS Services like EC2, Lambda, Kinesis, Redshift, S3 is super plus. 
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CANDIDATES MUST HAVE  

• Node JS. 
• Data Structures and Algorithm  
• HTML5 and CSS3 
• Graph QL and Apollo Server  
• MongoDB, Elastic Search, DynamoDB, Redis 

• AWS Services like EC2, Lambda, Kinesis, Redshift, S3  

REQUIREMENTS  

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information science, or similar.  
• Extensive knowledge of JavaScript, web stacks, libraries, and frameworks.  
• Knowledge of front-end technologies such as HTML5 and CSS3.  

• Superb interpersonal, communication, and collaboration skills.  
• Exceptional analytical and problem-solving aptitude.  
• Great organisational and time management skills.  
• Availability to resolve urgent web application issues outside of business hours 

About Univariety

Univariety (https://www.univariety.com">https://www.univariety.com) is India's Leading Career Counselling & College Guidance Platform for K-12 Schools and is a fast growing Ed-tech company which has pioneered the use of technology in education, right from the level of schools.

With Info Edge (India) Private Limited (parent company of Naukri.com) as a key investor, we are a proud addition to the company’s robust portfolio which includes leading companies across Recruitment, Matrimony, Real Estate and Education.

• March 2020: https://inc42.com/buzz/univariety-gets-fresh-funding-from-info-edge-to-scale-up-higher-education-services/">https://inc42.com/buzz/univariety-gets-fresh-funding-from-info-edge-to-scale-up-higher-education-services/
• Dec 2017: https://inc42.com/buzz/info-edge-univariety-edtech-funding/">https://inc42.com/buzz/info-edge-univariety-edtech-funding/

With 4,00,000+ connections made so far, Univariety’s guidance solutions act as a comprehensive platform for 600+ premier schools for their students across India, Singapore, Indonesia, and Dubai.

Univariety’s students are placed in 50 of the top 100 universities of the world and have received over $20 million inscholarships.

Univarietyis always at the forefront of successful partnerships in the education space with UCLA Extension endorsing its flagship 'Global Career Counselor' certification for teachers, psychologists, and career counselors. Read more here: https://www.univariety.com/gcc/">https://www.univariety.com/gcc/

Also, along with Fortune India magazine, we have established a School Certification process called “Future 50 Schools Shaping Success” which has its presence spread across 82 Cities, 654 Schools, 12587 Educators, and 125921 Students. Read more here: http://www.future50schools.com/">www.future50schools.com.

Job Details

Job Description

• Design and build web applications
• Work with business stakeholders, managers & other developers to create solutions to business problems.
• Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency
• Work on bug fixing and improving application performance

Ideal candidate must have following skills/experience

• Expert level understanding of object-oriented web development in PHP
• Good understanding of Object-Oriented Architecture & Design
• Profound knowledge of any PHP framework like Yii
• Excellent JavaScript competence and command over JQuery
• Excellent understanding of any RDBMS like Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL
• Knowledge of Web Services and micro services
• Hands on experience with CSS & frameworks like Bootstrap/Material
• Experience with GIT & continuous integration
• Practical experience with well-implemented Scrum

Candidates with following skills/experience are preferred along with must have silks above

• Experience on Yii framework (PHP)
• Experience with AngularJs
• Experience with MongoDB
• Write elegant, well-documented code
• Experience in setting up, managing servers & continuous integration
• Should have good interpersonal skills, communication (verbal & written) skills and ability to work independently