Node Js Developer

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

• Lead in the design and development of robust, scalable, and efficient software solutions, ensuring the highest standards in all aspects of software development.
• Design and implement high-quality, test-driven, scalable backend code for various client projects using TypeScript and Nest.js Develop and maintain APIs to support consuming teams.
• Work closely with frontend teams to optimize REST API integrations, ensuring efficient data fetching and caching strategies.
• Create and maintain documentation, implement and follow best practices for development workflow.
• Partner closely with Project Managers and other teams to ensure the successful delivery of significant software projects, coordinating resources and managing timelines for smooth project execution.
• Efficiently prioritizes and plans complex tasks, and influences a respectful, inclusive work environment, fostering continuous learning and growthContribute innovative ideas to ensure we deliver the best solutions for our clients.
• Act as a technical mentor to more junior engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement.

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR:

• Strong proficiency in English (written and verbal communication) is required.
• Experience working with remote teams in North America and Latin America, ensuring smooth collaboration across time zones.
• Deep expertise with Typescript and NestJs framework.
• Experience with authentication workflows and authorization mechanisms (OAuth, JWT)Experience with testing frameworks and best practices, including unit testing, integration testing, and e2e testing.
• Solid understanding of web technologies in general.
• Solid understanding of backend design patterns.
• Experience with designing applications that use and consume databases (SQL, ORM, etc).
• Extensive experience with building and maintaining versioned APIs Strong knowledge of GCP or other equivalent cloud platforms.
• Understanding of containerization technologies for development environments.
• Experience with messaging systems and patterns, ideally with tools like Google Pub/Sub or equivalentExperience with CI/CD pipelines for deployments (GitHub Actions preferred).
• Knowledge of security best practices, including CSP and OWASP Top 10, Ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• You should feel comfortable explaining technical concepts in simple terms.
• Experience working in fast-paced, Agile environments, balancing priorities across multiple projects.
• Experience mentoring junior engineers and leading development teams.

Nice to Haves:

• Experience with Algolia, Ninetailed, and Salsify
• Experience with front-end technologies like React and frameworks like NextJs
• Experience with Terraform and DevOps principles
• Certification in Cloud Development on any modern platform

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.

JD-Backend Developer

Job Location: Andheri, Mumbai

Job Summary:

As a Python based Backend developer, you shall be responsible for software development of greenfield projects -an platform

for automated testing using Python as a main language. You will work with a team of developers, collaborating on projects to

create efficient and effective software solutions that meet the needs of clients or end-users in the testing domain. You will

need to have a strong understanding of Python & other languages with knowledge of test automation frameworks and tools/

libraries.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain an automated testing platform using Python programming language.

• Design and implement software solutions that automate the testing process.

• Collaborate with other developers and cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality software solutions.

• Participate in code reviews, debugging, and troubleshooting to improve software quality.

• Stay up-to-date with the latest developments in Python and JavaScript programming language and related

testing frameworks and tools.

• Ensure software is delivered on-time and meets or exceeds customer expectations.

• Develop and maintain documentation related to software development processes and projects.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related field.

• Proven experience as a Back-end Developer.

• Strong understanding of Python & other programming language along with its ecosystem (libraries, frameworks,

tools, etc.).

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Preferences:

• Preference shall be given to local candidates

• Preference shall be given to candidates having experience in greenfield software development projects related

to automated testing.

Node JS Developer

Position Type: Full time

Job Description:     

We are looking for a Node.js Developer responsible for managing the interchange of data between the server and the users. Primary focus will be the development of all server-side logic, definition and maintenance of the databases, and ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end. Will also be responsible for integrating the front-end elements built by the UI team into the application. Therefore, a basic understanding of front-end technologies is a bonus.

Responsibilities:

• Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers with server-side logic
• Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code
• Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications
• Implementation of security and data protection
• Integration of data storage solutions

Skills and Qualifications:

• Strong proficiency with JavaScript
• Knowledge of Node.js and frameworks available for it such as Express
• Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds
• Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as HTML5, and CSS3
• Understanding 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
• Understanding of Relational Databases
• Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes
• Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
• 8-15 years relevant progressive experience.

Role description:

We are looking for Senior Software Engineer with expertise and experience in designing, developing and testing applications including new developments, enhancements, maintenance and support. The role involves continuous collaboration with team, partners.

Candidate description:

Responsibilities

• Building interactive consumer data from multiple systems and RESTfully abstract to the UI through a Node.js backend
• Address and improve any technical issues
• Strong commitment to quality and delivery
• Collaborate well with engineers, and specialists to design and create advanced, elegant and efficient system
• Create Unit and Integration tests to ensure the quality of code
• Be responsive to change requests and feature requests
• Write code that is cross-platform and cross-device compatible
• Ability to wear many hats and learn new technologies quickly
• Used CI/CD and AWS platform

Qualifications

Experience

• 4-8 years of experience in IT industry
• Experience with modern frameworks and design patterns, minimum one-year experience with MERN Fullstack paradigm

Requirements

• In depth working knowledge of NodeJS 
• Database – MongoDB, SQL, postgre

• Obsession with lean, clean and organized code

• Solid Understanding of HTTP protocol and how server-side code is processed on the client

• Knowledge of the following will be considered as an advantage:
• Experience with cloud technologies also a plus
• Creating secure RESTful-based web services in XML and JSON, Javascript,
• Creating Unit test cases