Node.js 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.

Immediate Joiners Preferred. Notice Period - Immediate to 30 Days

Interested candidates are requested to email their resumes with the subject line "Application for [Job Title]".

Only applications received via email will be reviewed. Applications through other channels will not be considered.

About Us

adesso India is a dynamic and innovative IT Services and Consulting company based in Kochi. We are committed to delivering cutting-edge solutions that make a meaningful impact on our clients. As we continue to expand our development team, we are seeking a talented and motivated Backend Developer to join us in creating scalable and high-performance backend systems.

Job Description

We are looking for an experienced Backend and Data Developer with expertise in Java, SQL, BigQuery development working on public clouds, mainly GCP. As a Senior Data Developer, you will play a vital role in designing, building, and maintaining robust systems to support our data analytics. This position offers the opportunity to work on complex services, collaborating closely with cross-functional teams to drive successful project delivery.

Responsibilities

• Development and maintenance of data pipelines and automation scripts with Python
• Creation of data queries and optimization of database processes with SQL
• Use of bash scripts for system administration, automation and deployment processes
• Database and cloud technologies
• Managing, optimizing and querying large amounts of data in an Exasol database (prospectively Snowflake)
• Google Cloud Platform (GCP): Operation and scaling of cloud-based BI solutions, in particular
• Composer (Airflow): Orchestration of data pipelines for ETL processes
• Cloud Functions: Development of serverless functions for data processing and automation
• Cloud Scheduler: Planning and automation of recurring cloud jobs
• Cloud Secret Manager: Secure storage and management of sensitive access data and API keys
• BigQuery: Processing, analyzing and querying large amounts of data in the cloud
• Cloud Storage: Storage and management of structured and unstructured data
• Cloud monitoring: monitoring the performance and stability of cloud-based applications
• Data visualization and reporting
• Creation of interactive dashboards and reports for the analysis and visualization of business data with Power BI

Requirements

• Minimum of 4-6 years of experience in backend development, with strong expertise in BigQuery, Python and MongoDB or SQL.
• Strong knowledge of database design, querying, and optimization with SQL and MongoDB and designing ETL and orchestration of data pipelines.
• Expierience of minimum of 2 years with at least one hyperscaler, in best case GCP
• Combined with cloud storage technologies, cloud monitoring and cloud secret management
• Excellent communication skills to effectively collaborate with team members and stakeholders.
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Nice-to-Have:

• Knowledge of agile methodologies and working in cross-functional, collaborative teams.

• Clarify feature requirements with product team
• Design end to end feature flow
• Write scalable and bug free code
• Take care of test and deployment pipeline
• Maintaining the existing products

• Must have experience with any scripting language (Javascript/NodeJS preferred)
• Experience with API-driven and highly scalable application is a plus
• Good knowledge of non relational DB (MongoDB preferred)
• Good with data structure and algorithms
• Good to have an experience with testing framework and CI/CD pipeline

Key Responsibilities: 

• Rewrite existing APIs in NodeJS. 
• Remodel the APIs into Micro services-based architecture. 
• Implement a caching layer wherever possible. 
• Optimize the API for high performance and scalability. 
• Write unit tests for API Testing.
• Automate the code testing and deployment process.

Skills Required: 

• At least 2.5 years of experience developing Backends using NodeJS — should be well versed with its asynchronous nature & event loop, and know its quirks and workarounds. 
• Excellent hands-on experience using MySQL or any other SQL Database. 
• Good knowledge of MongoDB or any other NoSQL Database. 
• Good knowledge of Redis, its data types, and their use cases. 
• Experience with graph-based databases like GraphQL and Neo4j. 
• Experience developing and deploying REST APIs. 
• Good knowledge of Unit Testing and available Test Frameworks. 
• Good understanding of advanced JS libraries and frameworks. 
• Experience with Web sockets, Service Workers, and Web Push Notifications. 
• Familiar with NodeJS profiling tools. 
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as Git. 
• Good knowledge of creating and maintaining DevOps infrastructure on cloud platforms. 
• Should be a fast learner and a go-getter — without any fear of trying out new things Preferences. 
• Experience building a large scale social or location-base

You will be responsible for developing features on the application and integrations end to end. You will be working closely with the Technical Team to come up with high-quality, resilient, and highly performant applications.

• Design and develop SaaS-based applications based on microservices architecture.
• Work on the core backend and ensure it meets the performance benchmarks.
• API and Integrations.
• Designing and developing APIs for the front end to consume.
• Constantly improve the architecture of the application by clearing the technical backlog.
• Meeting both technical and consumer needs.
• Staying abreast of developments in web applications and programming languages.
• Work on the front end with ReactJS is a plus point.

• An enthusiastic individual with the following skills. We are open to promising candidates who are passionate about their work and are team players.
• A subset of the below skills should be fine as long as you are good.
• OAuth, API Integrations.
• Overall 6+ yrs of experience.
• Agnostic/Polyglot with multiple tech stacks.
• Worked on open source technologies – NodeJS, ReactJS, MySQL, NoSQL, MongoDB, CouchDB, DynamoDB, Clickhouse, Kafka.
• Backend exposure – good knowledge of building and integrating APIs.
• Efficient in building microservices in combining server & front-end.
• Knowledge of cloud architecture.
• Excellent knowledge and understanding skills on OAuth.
• Should have sound working experience with relational and columnar DB.
• Should be innovative and communicative in approach.
• Will be responsible for functional/technical track of a project.

You will closely work with the engineering team and support the Product Team of Plum.

A fast-growing SaaS commerce company based in Bangalore with offices in Delhi, Mumbai, SF, Dubai, Singapore, and Dublin. We have three products in our portfolio: Plum, Empuls and Compass. Xoxoday works with over 1000 global clients. We help our clients in engaging and motivating their employees, sales teams, channel partners or consumers for better business results.

We look forward to connecting with you. As you may take time to review this opportunity, we will wait for a reasonable time of around 3-5 days before we screen the collected applications and start lining up job discussions with the hiring manager. We however assure you that we will attempt to maintain a reasonable time window for successfully closing this requirement. The candidates will be kept informed and updated on the feedback and application status.

We are looking for a Node.js Developer responsible for managing the interchange of data between the server and the users. Your primary focus will be the development of all server-side logic, definition and maintenance of the central database, and ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end. You will also be responsible for integrating the front-end elements built by your co-workers into the application. Therefore, a basic understanding of front-end technologies is necessary as well.

Responsibilities

• Developing and maintaining all server-side network components.

• Ensuring optimal performance of the central database and responsiveness to front-end requests.

• Collaborating with front-end developers on the integration of elements.

• Designing customer-facing UI and back-end services for various business processes.

• Developing high-performance applications by writing testable, reusable, and efficient code.

• Implementing effective security protocols, data protection measures, and storage solutions.

• Running diagnostic tests, repairing defects, and providing technical support.

• Documenting Node.js processes, including database schemas, as well as preparing reports.

• Recommending and implementing improvements to processes and technologies.

• Keeping informed of advancements in the field of Node.js development.

Requirements

• At least 1 - 3 years experience as a Node.js developer.
• 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 organizational and time management skills.
• Availability to resolve urgent web application issues outside of business hours.

Key Skill

Node.Js, Object Oriented Programming, Java Script, HTML/HTML5, CSS/CSS3