
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:
- 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

About GradRight
About
Gradright is an ed-fin start-up aiming to foster accountability and create a long-lasting impact in global higher education using the power of technology, data science and collaboration. Our mission is to aid a million students in making rational and informed decisions about their universities and finances by 2025 and help them in pursuing their passion without unnecessary financial burden.
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Basic Requirement :
node.js
•Writing web services REST and GraphQL using node.js frameworks such as express and node SDKs
•Develop low-latency, high-availability, and high-performance applications using node.js framework
•Develop using microservices architecture style and asynchronous using loopback
•Implementation of security such as web service authentication and data storage (such as database, key-value stores, and object storage) in the application
•No other fuss only code
Required Technical Expertise
•Strong proficiency in node.js, and AWS Lambda.
•Experience in PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Amazon SQS, Kafka, Amazon SNS, Dynamodb, and Firebase
•Experience in using node.js frameworks (such as express, StrongLoop)
•Experience in asynchronous programming and use of libraries in node.js
•User authentication and authorization in a microservices architecture
•Integration of multiple data sources and databases into the application
•Understanding of microservices and scalable architecture
•Experience in creating database schemas (SQL & NoSQL) for the applications
Will be responsible for Backend and infrastructure for mobile app and website.
We are looking to recruit a candidate for a role that will require:
● Talented Leader who will be responsible for Leading a group of talented technical individuals to build
scalable, and secure products
● Leads our Back-End and infrastructure
● Drives architecture and the design of enterprise mobile/web/API solutions at scale
● Work with Product, Testing and Infrastructure teams to understand product vision and requirements
● Oversee the development and execution of development plans and report on execution
● Work with Product and testing teams to understand product vision and requirements
● Has deep exposure to all aspects of engineering, modern web, desktop & mobile application architectures,
data modelling, high level design, low level design, non-functional technical requirements and visual design
Requirement
● 5+ years of experience in hard core development in predominantly product development companies
● Strong troubleshooting, debugging and problem-solving skills
● Proven track record of building scalable and reliable services on Cloud
● Architecture & Design
● Solid experience of designing end-to-end architecture and design of applications using one or more
platforms for large-scale high-throughput solutions
● Design and implement technical governance process as appropriate across the application development
lifecycle
● coding guidelines, quality standards, best practices, code acceptance criteria, automation
● Experience in collaborating with the team in reviewing application architecture. - Node.js, Web Services
REST, MySQL/MongoDB/NoSQL
Education: Engineering/MBA
Work experience: 5 years relevant experience
Compensation: Based on Industry Standards
Our Tech Stack :
- PHP, Code igniter, MVC Framework
- Node JS, React JS, JavaScript, HTML, CSS
- Ajax, JQuery - Redis, SQL/Maria DB
- Linux
Few Challenges we are working on right now:
- Working on various optimization to improve page speed.
- Improving Server Response & Load balancing.
- Server side development on various projects.
- Customized CRM to increase leads handled per salesperson to double a day.
- Create a platform for users to create
Job Objectives:
- Integration of user
- facing elements developed by front
- end developers with server
- side logic
- Optimize web applications to maximize speed and scale. Support diverse clients from high
- powered desktop computers to small mobile devices
- Optimization of the application for maximum speed and scalability
- Implementation of security and data protection
- Collaborate with senior management, operations & business team
- Building Rest APIs and maintain Database optimizations
Looking For:
- Great understanding of Node, react, Express, Socket.io, MVVM framework
- Worked on e- commerce website, server handling and deployments scripts
- The one who has worked on customer facing product for 2 years
- Strong knowledge of MEAN stack ( Min 1 yr professional working experience) with basic understanding of LAMP
- Experience designing scalable, fault tolerant systems and databases.

- 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
#Skills-
- Extensive knowledge of JavaScript, web stacks, libraries, and frameworks.
- Strong Knowledge of Back-end technologies (Node JS).
- Superb interpersonal, communication, and collaboration skills.
- Exceptional analytical and problem-solving aptitude.
- Great organizational and time management skills.
#ExperienceRequired:-
- Minimum 1.5+ years of experience in Project Management
#Responsibilities:-
- Set project timeline
- Monitor project deliverables
#Qualifications:-
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience
- Strong business acumen in project planning and management
- Strong verbal, written, and organizational skills
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#workfromoffice
#location-Mohali
#Industry:-
Information Technology & Services.







