Emeritus - Lead Full Stack Engineer - Node.js/React.js (7-10 yrs)

About the job :

Emeritus is committed to teaching the skills of the future by making high-quality education accessible and affordable to individuals, companies, and governments around the world.

It does this by collaborating with more than 50 top-tier universities across the United States, Europe, Latin America, Southeast Asia, India and China.

Emeritus' short courses, degree programs, professional certificates, and senior executive programs help individuals learn new skills and transform their lives, companies and organizations.

Its unique model of state-of-the-art technology, curriculum innovation, and hands-on instruction from senior faculty, mentors and coaches has educated more than 250,000 individuals across 80+ countries.

Founded in 2015, Emeritus, part of Eruditus Group, has more than 2,000 employees globally and offices in Mumbai, New Delhi, Shanghai, Singapore, Palo Alto, Mexico City, New York, Boston, London, and Dubai.

Following its $650 million Series E funding round in August 2021, the Company is valued at $3.2 billion, and is backed by Accel, SoftBank Vision Fund 2, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Leeds Illuminate, Prosus Ventures, Sequoia Capital India, and Bertelsmann.

Job Description :

We are looking for a Lead Full Stack engineer to join our core engineering team and help us build world class software and web-based applications.

Backend Responsibilities creating back-end solutions, building efficient rest api and integrating front-end components.

If you're interested in both getting your hands dirty with writing code from scratch and reviewing other people's work, we'd like to meet you.

Frontend responsibilities include creating web experience using the latest front-end technology in a highly scalable manner.

If you're interested in both getting your hands dirty with writing code from scratch and reviewing other people's work, we'd like to meet you.

Ultimately, you will contribute to all phases of the software development life cycle, from design to deployment to on-call production support

Roles and Responsibilities :

- Write effective and scalable code in node.js framework

- Write effective and scalable code in React.js, JavaScript, HTML and CSS

- Build back-end components for web applications

- Test applications for performance, responsiveness and security

- Review and debug junior developers' code

- Integrate data storage and data processing solutions

- Coordinate with team members who work on different layers of infrastructure

- Create and refine best practices, coding standards, and documentation, and takes the opportunity to share knowledge across the team.

- Make recommendations to refine and improve our engineering practices

Key Skills and Qualifications :

- 7-8+ years of experience in Node and React

- Well-versed in Web/Frontend technologies and frameworks like Node.JS, React, HTML5, CSS3 with LESS or SASS, JavaScript are required.

- Thorough understanding of framework like React, Preact and its core principles, especially in combination with Typescript, would be a huge plus

- In-Depth knowledge of experience in Swagger & MongoDB

- In-depth understanding of object-oriented programming

- Understanding of agile software development

- Familiarity with automated testing platforms

- Problem-solving skills

- Team spirit

- Degree in Engineering, Computer Science or relevant field

- Excellent written and verbal English communication

Good to have :

- Having knowledge in HTML, CSS, JavaScript (including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model), React.js would be a plus