
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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Location: Remote
Type: Full-time or Project Basis
About Us:
At Tese, we are committed to advancing sustainability through innovative technology. Our platform helps SMEs and financial institutions manage their Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) goals using AI, IoT, and data-driven insights. We are looking for a skilled Backend Engineer with mid-level experience to join our dynamic team and contribute to building scalable, robust backend systems.
Role Overview:
As a Mid-Level Backend Engineer, you will be responsible for developing and maintaining backend services that power our core platform. You will work closely with our frontend developers, product team, and data scientists to implement solutions that are scalable, secure, and efficient. You will focus on building APIs, managing databases, and optimizing the performance of our services.
Key Responsibilities:
- API Development:
- Design, develop, and maintain RESTful APIs that serve our frontend applications and third-party integrations.
- Ensure high-performance and responsiveness of APIs, while following best practices for security and scalability.
- Database Management:
- Work with both NoSQL (MongoDB) , SQL (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and databases, ensuring efficient data storage and retrieval.
- Optimize database queries and manage migrations, ensuring data integrity and consistency across the platform.
- Microservices and Cloud Infrastructure:
- Develop microservices architecture using Docker and Kubernetes, ensuring that services are scalable and maintainable (Good to have).
- Work with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) to deploy and manage backend services, ensuring high availability and fault tolerance.
- Collaboration and Documentation:
- Collaborate with frontend developers, data scientists, and product managers to gather requirements and develop backend solutions.
- Write clear, maintainable code with proper documentation, including technical designs, API specifications, and test cases.
- Performance and Security:
- Monitor backend services to ensure optimal performance, identifying bottlenecks and implementing improvements.
- Implement security best practices for APIs, databases, and backend systems, including authentication, authorization, and data encryption.
Qualifications:
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience: 3-5 years of experience in backend development, with a strong focus on building scalable and efficient systems.
- Technical Skills:
- Proficiency in backend programming languages such as Node.js, Python.
- Strong understanding of RESTful APIs.
- Hands-on experience with SQL (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB, DynamoDB) databases.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS, Google Cloud.
- Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and version control (e.g., Git).
- Soft Skills:
- Strong problem-solving abilities and the capacity to work independently as well as in a collaborative environment.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- A strong passion for sustainability and a desire to contribute to impactful projects that drive positive environmental change.
Preferred Qualifications:
The following qualifications are bonus, but not strictly necessary:
- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes for containerisation and orchestration (Good to have).
- Experience working with microservices architecture.
- Knowledge of ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) metrics and sustainability (Good to have).
- Familiarity with serverless architectures and API gateways.
Benefits:
- Competitive salary and benefits package and performance bonuses.
- Flexible working hours and remote work options.
- Opportunity to work on cutting-edge technology with a focus on sustainability.
- Professional development opportunities, including access to conferences and training.
How to Apply:
Interested candidates should submit their CV and a cover letter detailing their experience and passion for backend development and sustainability here.
Join Us:
Be a part of a forward-thinking team that is making a real difference in the world. At Tese, you'll have the opportunity to innovate, grow, and contribute to a more sustainable future through technology.

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● Delivering high quality and well-structured code
● Manage individual project priorities and deadlines
● Participate in enhancing tools and processes
● Participate in production observance and technical incident management
● Ability to quickly learn and adapt to keep up in a fast-paced environment
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● Great problem-solving skills
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● Experience in Microservices and Docker
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● Working knowledge of MongoDB/DynamoDB
About the role:
We are looking for an experienced Software Development Engineer II (SDE2) to help deliver high visibility and impact features for the ChakraHQ Platform. ChakraHQ Platform is the world's first Omnichannel Process Automation Platform. Imagine AWS but for operations and business teams; built on cutting edge technology stacks, to solve problems for modern businesses.
Technology specialists at ChakraHQ are at the core of the company's decisions and vision. As an SDE2, you will contribute to the design and development of the core technology stack of the ChakraHQ Platform. Working closely with Engineering, Product Management, Sales and Customer Success you will take ownership to develop features, plugins and custom fixes that will materially impact customer’s and ChakraHQ’s business. You will also be responsible for maintaining a streamlined build and CI/CD system. You will help coordinate the incorporation of upstream features into the ChakraHQ Platform.
Technologies you will work with: NodeJs, PostgreSQL, Serverless, Elasticsearch, Kibana, AWS, Google Cloud
Responsibilities:
- Design, develop and maintain features, services, products that are part of ChakraHQ
- Own delivery of said features and services
- Own success of the products by tracking its lifecycle with customers
- Build systems that scale horizontally
- Write automated tests to ensure code quality
- Work with customers to build a product roadmap
- Work with sales & marketing to sell your product to end-users
- Work as an integral part of an agile software development team to build features end-to-end
- Support those features in the ChakraHQ production environment by participating in an on-call rotation
Position Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science.
- 3+ years of experience working on teams to develop and deploy web or mobile applications
- Extensive experience in any one backend programming language - Java, NodeJS
- A solid foundation in computer science, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, and software design
- Experience in building highly scalable business applications, which involve implementing large complex business flows and dealing with huge amounts of data.
- Proficiency with git and Github workflows
- Expertise with test-driven development and automated testing
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
- Excellent communication skills and fluent English
- Open to learn and work on new technologies

Job Location : Mumbai / Bangalore
Expereince : 3 to 8 Years
JD :
Hands on experience in Python in 2.x and 3.x versions
- Developed and deployed services in AWS serverless Architecture
- Developed REST API’s using serverless framework, AWS Lambda, API Gateway
- Developed queue and notification services using AWS components - SQS, SNS
- Implemented authorization and authentication using AWS Cognito pool
- Developed Facial recognition systems using AWS Rekognition
- Hands on experience in Flask, Tornado, Quartz framework
- Hands on experience in designing and working on MicroService & Monolithic architecture
- Basic understanding of front-end technologies HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery
Mongo dB experience is must
Job Description
- Contribute in all phases of the development lifecycle
- Understand/learn the existing applications
- Provide support on IT Applications to customers
- Prepare and produce build release
- Strive for continuous improvement, developing well designed and efficient code
- Keep up with changes in technology and propose solutions
- Ensure defect free deliveries by actively participating in quality assurance
Education & Job Qualification
- Good academic qualifications
- Experience in developing web applications using Java, Spring, Hibernate, DWR, JSP
- Knowledge in Oracle Database concepts
- Sound knowledge in the following is a must
o Hibernate
o Spring
o Oracle & MongoDb
o HTML & CSS
o Javascript
o Jquery
o Angular 4
o Node JS
Knowledge of Japer Reports will be an added advantage - Good communication skills and be a good listener
- Problem solving skills
- Willingness to learn and do all development activities including quality assurance
- Team player

Responsibilities :
- Design and develop highly scalable, highly available, reliable, secure and fault-tolerant systems with minimal guidance for one of the fastest-growing company in India
- Translate business requirements into scalable and extensible design
- Pair with team members on functional and nonfunctional requirements and spread design philosophy, goals and improve the code quality across the team
- Partner with the product management team to define and execute the feature roadmap
- Coordinate with cross-functional teams (Mobile, UX etc.) on planning and execution
- Proactively manage stakeholder communication related to deliverables, risks, changes and dependencies
- The building of all server-side logic, definition and maintenance of the central database, and ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end.
Experience and Skills :
- 2+ years of hands-on experience in designing, developing, testing and deploying applications on Node.JS for large scale applications.
- Strong proficiency with JavaScript
- Understanding of Asynchronous Request handling techniques.
- Deep knowledge of Linux : CentOS, Fedora, or Ubuntu
- Data modeling experience in Relational and NoSQL databases(MONGO DB)
- Ability to understand and implement Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery
- Well versed with Agile methodologies, TDD and Test Engineering and Automation
- Ability to design and implement low latency RESTful services
- Experience troubleshooting server performance - memory issues, GC tuning, resource leaks, etc.
- Excellent understanding of interactive application development paradigm, memory management, performance/resource optimizations, database interactions, network programming, concurrency and multithreading, fault tolerance, monitoring, security and operability of systems
- Continuously refactor applications to ensure high-quality design
- Ability to plan, prioritize, estimate and execute releases with a good degree of predictability

- Good experience on RESTful services
- .Hands on experience on NodeJs
- .Should have previous working experience on Sql and Postgresql
- Must have relevant experience in NodeJS from 3-5years.




