
Location: Remote
Reporting to: Product Manager
Principal Accountabilities:
● Develop, Enhance, and Modify Applications for a Global Market Environment.
● Design, Code, Test, Debug, and Document programs for corporate systems architecture.
● Work closely with Business stakeholders to define requirements for system applications
Work Dimensions:
● API integration, Application deployment, Test Driven Development & Agile methodologies
● Database designing ; (Knowledge of NoSQL databases is a plus).
● Familiarity in Unix/Linux development environments & tools including scripting.
● Designing system architecture for solving complex problems with a sound understanding of object-oriented programming and design patterns.
Work Context:
● A fast moving, high growth, entrepreneurial environment.
● Need to work on Git and work in a highly collaborative environment.
● Timely reporting is required.
● Must typically have in-depth knowledge of development tools and languages
● Ensure full legal and ethical compliance and conduct of business at all times and under all circumstances
● Attention to detail needed to maintain a global standard of work output
● Supervise, mentor, coach a small team of associates on a day to day basis for better
management of their performance.
Role requirements:
● 2 to 6 years of experience in the IT industry
● 2+ years of experience in NodeJS
● Graduate degree (B.Tech/ BSc. IT) in IT/Engineering/Computer Science
● Strong problem-solving abilities
● Good communication skills.
● A good team player

About ISchoolConnect Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
About
iSchoolConnect is an online platform that makes the University Admissions process hassle-free, fun and accessible to students around the globe. Using our unique AI technology, we allow students to apply to multiple universities with a single application. iSchoolConnect also connects with institutions worldwide and aids them in the transformation of their end-to-end admission processes using our various cutting-edge use cases. Our technologies include the Conversational AI chatbot, Document Grader, Video Interview Analyzer, and a Single application use case which aids institutions with International Enrollment Management.
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About the Role:
We are seeking a skilled and driven Backend Developer to join our team. The ideal candidate will have experience in database design (RDBMS and NoSQL), REST API and GraphQL development, cloud services, and programming with a strong foundation in Node.js and TypeScript. You’ll be responsible for designing and implementing scalable backend solutions, ensuring high performance, security, and reliability.
If you’re passionate about backend development, learning new technologies, and building modern applications, this is the role for you.
Key Responsibilities:
Backend Development:
Develop and maintain robust, scalable backend services using Node.js with TypeScript (strict mode).
Build APIs with REST and GraphQL, ensuring high security and performance.
Implement various authentication mechanisms such as OAuth2.0, SAML, JWT, MFA, and optionally, passkeys.
Database Design:
Design and optimize schemas for both relational (PostgreSQL, YSQL) and NoSQL (DynamoDB, MongoDB) databases.
Develop efficient data models for large-scale applications.
Cloud Services & Serverless Architecture:
Work extensively with AWS Cloud services, and optionally Azure and GCP.
Design and implement serverless architectures and event-driven systems using frameworks like AWS Lambda or equivalent on Azure/GCP.
Configure and manage webhooks for event notifications and integrations.
Programming Principles:
Apply design patterns, SOLID principles, and functional programming practices.
Showcase eagerness to learn new programming languages and paradigms.
DevOps & Deployment:
Utilize Docker and Kubernetes (K8s) for containerization and orchestration.
Collaborate with DevOps teams for CI/CD pipelines and scalable deployments.
Tools & Utilities:
Use Postman, Swagger, and cURL for API testing and documentation.
Demonstrate strong knowledge of Unix commands for troubleshooting and development.
Version Control:
Work collaboratively using Git for versioning and code management.
Key Skills & Qualifications:
Must-Have:
Proficiency in Node.js with TypeScript (strict mode).
Experience with the NestJS framework.
Expertise in RDBMS and NoSQL database design and optimization.
Hands-on experience with REST API and GraphQL development.
Familiarity with authentication protocols such as OAuth2.0, SAML, JWT, and MFA.
Strong understanding of AWS Cloud Services and Serverless Architecture.
Nice-to-Have:
Exposure to Azure and GCP serverless frameworks.
Knowledge of webhooks for event handling.
Experience with passkeys as an authentication option.
Soft Skills:
Problem-solving mindset with a passion for tackling complex challenges.
Ability to learn and adapt to new tools, frameworks, and programming languages.
Collaborative attitude and strong communication skills.
What We Offer:
Competitive compensation and benefits package.
Opportunity to work with modern technologies in a fast-paced environment.
A culture of learning, growth, and collaboration.
Exposure to large-scale systems and exciting technical challenges.
2. Strong knowledge in Nodejs, Javascript & Typescript
3.Develop and maintain all server-side components.
4.Develop high-performance and scalable APIs to serve clients.
5.Collaborate with front-end developers on the integration of well written APIs.
6.Implement effective security protocols, data protection measures, and storage solutions.
7.Investigate issues by reviewing/debugging code, provide fixes and workarounds, and review
changes for operability to maintain existing software solutions.
8.Develop and manage well-functioning databases and applications
9.Run diagnostic tests, repairing defects, and provide technical support.
10.Be our NodeJS champion by keeping an eye out for emerging technologies and recommending
improvements.
11. You will work within a team, collaborate and add value through participation in peer code
reviews, provide comments and suggestions, and work with cross functional teams to achieve
goals.
12. Design back end services for various business processes
13. You will assume technical accountability for your specific work products within an application
and provide technical support during solution design for new requirements.
14. Design server side architecture


Technical Skills Preference
- PHP Laravel
- Javascript
- Jquery,
- CSS,
- HTML
- Following optional skill (good to have)
- MongoDB,
- Node js
- Must know the use of multi_curl for parallel multiple API processing.
- Expertise with NodeJS (extensively using ExpressJS) and databases like MongoDB or MySQL
- Comfortable with developing MVC architecture-based code
- Skilled in implementing security features across the applications and components
- Skilled with code optimization techniques
- Strong troubleshooting techniques
- Strong defect resolution process for minimized latency
- Familiarity with confluence management like JIRA/Trello/Youtrack
Good to have:
- Networking fundamentals, prior working experience in network technologies and protocols
- Tools usage - Code quality, Memory/CPU profiling tools
- Ability to build supportability features to reduce the defects in software components
- Knowledge of GNU tools, revision control software (SVN, Git, etc.) and development lifecycle, docker container usage and LDAP is a plus

We are looking for a skilled and experienced Node.js Developer with at least 4 years of professional experience to join our team. As a Node.js Developer, you will be responsible for developing robust and scalable web applications using JavaScript and various frameworks.
Roles and Responsibilities
• Production platform hands-on experience involving Node JS & REST API.
• Hands-on production platform experience working with micro-service back-end architecture.
• Working knowledge of GRPC, HTTPS, and GRAPHQ protocols.
• Well-versed in cloud deployment of code blocks.
• Experience with JS testing and code analysis frameworks such as Mocha.
• Utilize modern JavaScript frameworks such as Express.js and Sails.js to build efficient and scalable applications.
• Work with databases like MongoDB and PostgreSQL using Mongoose and Sequelize ORM.
• Integrate messaging systems like Kafka and RabbitMQ for reliable event-driven communication.
• Write unit tests using Mocha, Chai, and Jest frameworks to ensure code quality and reliability.
• Utilize AWS S3 bucket for secure and scalable storage of data and media files.
• Collaborate with QA engineers to perform thorough testing and bug fixes.
• Work with third-party APIs such as Postman, Twilio, SendGrid, Firebase, and KeyCloak for various integrations.

- Building products that impact millions
- Working on really tough problems that challenge you
- Being part of a small team where you are impactful
- 50K+ API requests/min
- 25K+ concurrent users every second
- Code, code & code
- Independently implement small to medium features
- Pick up & master new technologies
- Be a kickass developer
- A team that loves coding & building exceptional quality products
- Challenges that will push you beyond your limits
- A democratic place where everyone is heard & aware
- No hierarchy, politics, bosses, managers or anything like that
- And most importantly, Happy Vibes!
At Embibe, we have just one mission - to truly personalize education. Because every child deserves it. This has led us to embark on this noblest of journeys to deliver life and learning outcomes for every student! Rooted in consumer behavior, we are leveraging AI and Data Science to deliver personalized achievement journeys for every student.
We are a tribe of intellectually fierce people from diverse backgrounds, focused on building cutting-edge products that empower everyone in the education ecosystem - students, teachers, educational institutes and parents. We enable a deeper understanding of student behavior, their strengths and weaknesses through analysis at a granular level. It is this shared vision of democratizing and personalizing education that unites us all.
Embibe is powered by AI and data science algorithms, using these contents being recommended across platforms and millions of learning outcomes delivered to students. Since its inception, millions of students have used the imbibe platform for learning concepts and outcomes. Academic users have spent 52mins on average with an average of 3 sessions daily. Embibe has been launched for 12 languages across India with support for 361 Exams (English), and 120 Exams (Hindi) for K6-K12 having 22.6L+ Qs and 58k+ Tests, 29k videos, 50k+ 3D assets. Embibe is the world's largest live online public sector implementation in edtech for test preparation, NTA app which is powered by Embibe has 3.1Mn+ downloads, and 14.3Mn hours spent by users with total 13.4Mn sessions and 1.64Bn attempts.SchoolApp is currently being used by 1000s of schools across India and we are planning to scale it to 100Mn students with 1Mn schools with 10Mn teachers in the period of the next 3yrs.
Prerequisite
We are looking for a Software Engineer across levels who have ever contributed to any large-scale systems be it content platform e.g. Quora/Medium, streaming platform e.g. Netflix or Hotstar, activity log system e.g. Twitter feeds or payment systems like Razorpay to name a few. I/O, Read-Writes, DB connections, Distributed Locking, Memory, Bandwidth, High Throughput, Low Latency and minimal CPU cycles excite you!! You are deep thinkers and can bring ideas to the table, before starting writing the code!!
Interested? We'd love to hear from you.
Who are you?
● 2-14yrs years of relevant large-scale product company experience ideally in a fast-moving B2C/B2B environment.
● Programming. Proficiency in object-oriented and multi-threaded programming in at least one of the following languages: Java, Python,React.js, Node.js, Next.js, PHP, Golang etc.
● Deep understanding & experience of high-performance web-scale & real-time response systems, and large scale distributed systems.
● CS Fundamentals – exposure to a wide variety of problem spaces, Good in Data Structures and Algorithms Design, Problem Solving.
● Open source contributors and can do quick POC of technologies will catch our eyes.
● Expertise in designing, implementing and operating distributed Systems architectures and concepts, especially on public cloud infrastructure (AWS/Azure)
● Demonstrated expertise in applying systems patterns (e.g., Client-server, N-tier, Master/Slave, MVC) and API constructions (e.g., Swagger, OpenAPI).
● Experience in a high-availability 24/7 environment (cloud platforms are a plus). Expertise should include several of the following:
○ High-performance,up-time (99.999%) and self-recoverable systems.
○ Control, orchestration and automation platforms leveraging containers or VMs. ○ RPC frameworks (e.g., Protobuf/gRPC, Thrift, Bond)
● Experience with one or more Data Stores like (MySql, Postgres ) and NoSQL DataStores ( Mongo, Cassandra, Scylladb, Hbase, Redis, Aerospike etc.).
● Experience with Agile software development, TDD, and Continuous Integration. ● Experience in building Web/RESTFul/GraphQL services.
● Sound knowledge of *Nix, ORM(Hibernate, JPA), Spring ecosystem, Messaging platforms like Kafka/RMQ, build framework like Maven/Gradle etc.
● Very strong system design and object-oriented skills with a nifty ability to craft clean interfaces and operate at the right levels of abstraction.
● Solid coding skills with the ability to drive teams through massive refactoring exercises & improve coding standards across large code bases.
● Deep knowledge, understanding & experience of working with a large variety of multi-tier architectures. Awareness of pitfalls & use cases for a large variety of solutions. ● Exposure to complete product development cycles – from inception to production to scaling up, supporting new requirements, and re-architectures.
● Having experience building web infrastructure in cloud environments (such as AWS or Azure/GCP) is a plus. You understand and are always excited about learning new e.g.docker, Kubernetes.
● Education. M.Tech/M.Eng in Computer Science/Engineering or B.Tech/B.E in the same disciplines with equivalent years of experience would be a plus.
We'd particularly love it if:
● You’re a steward for engineering quality, reliability, scalability, availability, maintainability, flexibility habits and mindset in the organization under your purview, You know SOLID,12 factor App and Design Principles which you can apply or help the team in applying as needed. You can assure that our architectures are consistent with industry best practices. ● Version control tools like Git, SVN etc are good to have.
● Gather, understand, and prioritize requirements, research potential solutions, rapidly build prototypes, and distill and communicate what was learned, expected risks, resources & security concerns.
● Mentoring more junior engineers to instill engineering best practices and driving high standards in documentation, code reviews, design reviews, architecture discussions and strategy roadmap development.
● Actively participate in development along with team members - creating modules & systems that can then be treated as a working reflection of the best practices.
● Set the vision of the domain architecture and technology stack for technology in your organization, You understand LLD and HLD.
● Be an evangelist for technology - drive a culture of curiosity and active debate around technology in your organization.
● Experiment with new & relevant technologies and tools, and drive adoption while measuring yourself on the impact you are able to create.
Note: We just use degrees to measure the Temperature!!
-Creating Rest based Backend for both Web & Mobile Apps
-Standard Code Quality
-Can work on both SQL and NoSQL DB
-Familiar with GraphQL
Required Candidate profile
-Experience creating backend using Node.JS-Hands on experience with JavaScript Development on both client and server-side
-Experience with modern frameworks and design pattern
Strong proficiency with JavaScript
Knowledge of Node.js , react js and frameworks available for it.
Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds
Good understanding of server-side templating languages
Good understanding of server-side CSS preprocessors
Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as HTML5, and CSS3
Understanding accessibility and 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 differences between multiple delivery platforms, such as mobile vs. desktop, and optimizing output to match the specific platform.
Knowledge on Blockchain development is added advantage.
Previous Experience in .Net or PHP is a Plus
Experience : 1.5 to 4 years
Location : Mumbai / work from home for other Locations
Immediate joiner
*Candidate has knowledge of typescript will be most preferrable.*




