
Responsibilities:
- Ability to work in an existing codebase and collaborate with a diverse team
- Experience in building enterprise-scale backend REST APIs with frameworks such as Nest.js & Express.js using an API-first paradigm
- Intimate knowledge of crafting highly performant database queries
- Hands-on experience implementing relational database structures, including tables, indexes, views, etc.
- A mindset towards building systems for the cloud and DevOps fundamentals
- Working knowledge of cloud infrastructure services is good to have. If not then willingness to learn should be there.
- Focus towards building security, performance, and scalability into services from the beginning
- Experience with debugging code and troubleshooting technical issues in order to craft appropriate solutions

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About Us
Classplus is India's largest B2B ed-tech start-up, enabling 1 Lac+ educators and content creators to create their digital identity with their own branded apps. Starting in 2018, we have grown more than 10x in the last year, into India's fastest-growing video learning platform.
Over the years, marquee investors like Tiger Global, Surge, GSV Ventures, Blume, Falcon, Capital, RTP Global, and Chimera Ventures have supported our vision. Thanks to our awesome and dedicated team, we achieved a major milestone in March this year when we secured a “Series-D” funding.
Now as we go global, we are super excited to have new folks on board who can take the rocketship higher🚀. Do you think you have what it takes to help us achieve this? Find Out Below!
What will you do?
- Connect the dots between business goals and consumer problems through product development
- Solve the most challenging problem of scaling and business logic
- Design and develop services using test driven development with near 100% code coverage
- Develop and deploy services continuously using CI/CD on a daily basis
- Identify and own meaningful metrics for success and move them dramatically.
- Prepare and present management updates on key initiatives. Communicate clearly at all levels in the organization.
- Conduct multivariate experiments to constantly validate hypotheses and bash all the myths
You should apply, if you
- Display expertise: Have strong proficiency with Nodejs, My SQL, MongoDB and Caching and with code versioning tools, such as Git
- Can improvise: Understand the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds
- Showcase all round knowledge: Understand accessibility, security compliance, user authentication, and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
- Can simplify: Can integrate multiple data sources and databases into one system. This also includes creating database schemas that represent and support business processes, and can implement unit tests
- Can figure out the basics: Understand fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
Being a Part of the Clan!
At Classplus, you’re not an “employee” but a part of our “Clan”. So, you can forget about being bound by the clock as long as you’re crushing it workwise😎. Add to that some passionate people working with and around you, and what you get is the perfect work vibe you’ve been looking for!
It doesn’t matter how long your journey has been or your position in the hierarchy (we don’t do Sirs and Ma’ams); you’ll be heard, appreciated, and rewarded. One can say, we have a special place in our hearts for the Doers! ✊🏼❤️
Are you a go-getter with the chops to nail what you do? Then this is the place for you.
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Mandatory Skills |
Good to Have Skills |
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JDK 1.8 + |
PLSQL |
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Microservices |
Knowledge of SQL Performance Tuning |
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Spring framework |
Experience with Cloud |
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Spring Boot |
Knowledge of Cloud Foundry (Pivotal CF) |
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Java Messaging Services (JMS) / Kafka / Rabbit MQ |
On-call support experience with PagerDuty, Service Now |
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SOAP & REST APIs |
Knowledge of infrastructure monitoring tools like Nagios, New Relic |
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SQL |
Knowledge of Splunk |
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ORM technologies like Hibernate / IBatis / MyBatis |
Experience working with Lean and Extreme Programming (XP) |
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Continuous integration tools like Jenkins/ Bamboo |
NoSQL databases such as MongoDB or any other NoSQL DB |
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Code Quality tools/frameworks like Sonar / PMD |
Automated Integration Testing & Contract Testing |
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Automated Testing. Unit Testing, |
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Agile development methodologies |
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Roles and responsibilities:
- Responsible for understanding functional and business requirements and translate them into effective code
- Provide support till deployment of code into production.
- Ownership for ensuring code optimization, problem diagnosis, and on-time delivery
- Implement solutions as per the pre-defined framework /guidelines and adherence to processes
- Finding an optimal solution for the problem statement
- Conduct peer code review.
What candidate should know about:
- Excellent hands-on experience with Node.Js, Express.Js, JavaScript
- Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds
- Excellent hands-on experience with MongoDB, Mongo aggregation, MySQL
- Ability to build REST services, Authentications, MVC applications
- Excellent Object Oriented Programming skills and ability to write modular, secure, scalable, and maintainable code
- Experience with Elastic Search, Redis.
- Knowledge about AWS components (S3, EC2, Cloudfront, Redis Clusters, etc.)
- Self-learning abilities are required
- Familiarity with upcoming new technologies is a strong plus
Following are the things that we are looking for in our NodeJS developer:
- Full SDLC knowledge, preferably in an agile environment.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills. Strong critical thinking & problem solving skills.
- Understanding of Unix / Linux based systems.
- Hands-on exposure to deeply linked relational databases – preferably in MySQL
- Ability to take a feature or product through the full Software Development Life Cycle.
- Strong communication skills, including the ability to both collaborate well and also the ability to convey technical ideas and concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
- Identify the interaction needs and how the API. must be developed based on design comps, product specs, etc.
- Continuously evaluate and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency.
- Address and prioritize production level bugs and application performance improvements.
- An adaptable attitude and understanding of the agile methodology.
- Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and release new features.








