
Goodera is an employee volunteering, CSR, and ESG management company that enables corporations, foundations, governments, non-profits, and employees across 90+ countries. Goodera empowers companies to provide engaging and impactful virtual volunteering experiences to their employees globally and achieve
volunteering goals.
Through curated volunteering opportunities, end-to-end program management, and impact measurement, Goodera offers a seamless volunteering experience. Goodera enables non-profits to create a sustainable impact by raising money, increasing visibility, and building long-term volunteers for causes they support. Goodera is coheadquartered in San Mateo, CA, and Bangalore, India. For more details, please visit http://www.goodera.com" target="_blank">www.goodera.com
Key Responsibilities:
• Develop a deep understanding of the start-up ecosystem.
• Build customer-facing technology products for global customers.
• Own the Product's backend development, building reusable, testable, and scalable code.
• Research, evaluate, analyze and implement technical requirements.
• Collaborate with product management teams to define and implement innovative solutions for the
product direction, visuals, and experience.
• Mentor Junior members of the team
Requirement:
• 3+ years of experience building scalable products, distributed applications products/services.
• Min 1+ years of experience working on Node.js and its frameworks.
• Min 1+ years of experience building microservices.
• Knowledge of NoSQL database services e.g, MongoDB, DynamoDB, etc., and related tools with the expertise to create efficient schemas.
• Excellent coding and problem-solving skills and ability to produce high quality, bug-free and testable production-grade code.
• Ability to own end-to-end deliveries, right from requirements till release.
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development process.
• Ability to mentor junior members of the team.
• Ability to review code and continuously push for higher standards of development.
Benefits:
• Experience building a transformative product
• Work with a performance-oriented team driven by ownership, open to experiments and passionate about
creating impact through tech
• Learn to design system for high accuracy, efficiency and scalability
• End-to-end ownerships of your tasks

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We are looking for a passionate and skilled Node.js Developer to join our dynamic team. If you're excited about building scalable and efficient backend applications using modern technologies, we’d love to hear from you!
Responsibilities
Develop and maintain server-side components using Node.js
Design and build scalable RESTful APIs
Ensure high performance and responsiveness of applications
Implement security and data protection measures
Collaborate with team members to define and deliver high-quality software
Write unit and integration tests to ensure software quality
Required Skills
✅ Strong proficiency in JavaScript
✅ Good understanding of Node.js and Express
✅ Experience with NoSQL databases, especially MongoDB
✅ Familiarity with Git and version control workflows
✅ Ability to write reusable, testable, and efficient code
✅ Experience with JWT and modern authorization mechanisms
✅ Knowledge of security and data protection best practices
✅ Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
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- Participate in the entire application lifecycle, focusing on coding and debugging
- Write clean code to develop functional web applications
- Troubleshoot and debug applications
- Collaborate with Front-end developers to integrate user-facing elements with server-side logic
- Gather and address technical and design requirements
- Provide training and support to internal teams
- Build reusable code and libraries for future use
- Liaise with developers, designers to identify new features
- Follow emerging technologies
Requirements
- Spent at least 3 yrs in a solid back end role
- Experience taking a problem to a product solution (module/product)
- Prior experience working with startups and understand the fast-paced, dynamic nature of work
- Javascript, NodeJS
- Client-server architecture
- OOP concepts, including design patterns
- Understanding of RDBMS (MySQL, Postgresql)
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- Prior experience in fin-tech
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If the candidate cannot relocate to Gurgaon, we can also provide permanent Work from home for this position.
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- 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.
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- Excellent hands-on experience with Node.Js, Express.Js, JavaScript
- Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds
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- Excellent Object Oriented Programming skills and ability to write modular, secure, scalable, and maintainable code
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