Full Stack Engineer – Higher Ed Platforms (India)

Job description

Strata Information Group (SIG) is a trusted leader in higher‑education technology consulting, supporting colleges and universities with ERP/SIS modernization, digital transformation, CRM, cybersecurity, and strategic advisory services. As a long‑standing and deeply embedded partner within the higher‑education sector, SIG brings together technical depth, operational insight, and a culture rooted in integrity, collaboration, and exceptional client service. Our heritage is built on hands‑on expertise, genuine relationships, and a commitment to delivering value with humility and excellence—values that continue to define us as we scale. **Full Stack Engineer – Higher Ed Platforms** Node.js / React · Client-facing designation: Technical Consultant --- Location: Pune, India (Hybrid) Reports To: Lead – India Center of Excellence Employment Type: Full-time (engaged through SIG’s Employer of Record in India) Experience: 3–5 years Working Hours: Flexible, with 3–4 hours of daily overlap with US Eastern morning **About SIG** Strata Information Group (SIG) is a US-based leader in higher-education technology consulting. We help colleges and universities modernize the systems that run their institutions — student information, HR, and finance — through ERP/SIS implementation, integration, digital transformation, CRM, and cybersecurity work. We are building our first engineering Center of Excellence in Pune. This is a founding-team role. You will not be joining a large delivery pool with a fixed process — you will help set how this team builds. **The Role** This is a software engineering job. You will spend most of your time writing and shipping code. You will take functional specifications and turn them into working software across three areas: application integrations, Experience Card development for user-facing functionality, and workflow automation using Ellucian’s workflow tooling. Every one of those runs on APIs — you build against the REST APIs exposed by Ellucian’s student, HR, and finance platforms, which keeps you largely independent of backend database internals. There is a consulting dimension. You will join client calls, walk stakeholders through what you have built, and contribute to enablement and configuration delivery. But the center of the job is engineering. You will also help build it faster. We expect this team to use AI coding assistants as a normal part of daily development, and to contribute to the internal AI tooling SIG is building to compress delivery timelines. **APIs Are the Core of This Work** If there is one thing to take from this description, it is this: your primary skill is working with APIs. Ellucian exposes a very large API surface across its student, HR, and finance platforms. A significant part of the job is knowing that catalog — reading a business requirement, working out which APIs actually serve that function, understanding what each one returns and what it does not, and then writing the code that meets the requirement. Nobody hands you a mapping from business need to endpoint. You build that understanding, and it becomes some of the most valuable knowledge you carry. The second half is API security. These APIs move student records, employee data, and financial transactions. You need to understand authentication and authorization flows, how tokens and scopes work, and how to request only the access an integration genuinely needs. Getting this wrong is not a bug — it is a data exposure. *We are looking for depth here, not familiarity. Someone who has consumed a few REST endpoints will struggle. Someone who has designed, secured, debugged, and versioned real integrations will do well.* **What You Will Do** - Map business requirements to the right Ellucian APIs — investigate the available API catalog, determine which endpoints serve a given function, and validate that the data you need is actually there before you build. - Build and ship integrations between Ellucian platforms and third-party systems using REST APIs and JSON. - Develop Experience Cards — React-based UI components that deliver functionality directly to students, faculty, and staff. - Design and implement automated business processes using Ellucian Workflow. - Translate written specifications into production code, independently, with limited hand-holding. - Use AI coding assistants (GitHub Copilot, Claude, and similar) as a standard part of your development workflow. - Contribute to and extend SIG’s internal AI tooling that automates parts of the delivery process. - Configure integrations securely — scope credentials and service accounts to least privilege, and handle sensitive student, HR, and finance data safely in transit and at rest. - Evaluate and adopt low-code and no-code tools where they are the faster path to a working solution. - Participate in client-facing sessions — requirement walkthroughs, demos, and enablement delivery. **Required Qualifications** - 3–5 years of professional software development experience. - **Deep REST API fluency — this is the most important requirement.**You should be comfortable reading API documentation to work out what a system can do, consuming and designing endpoints, and handling authentication, tokens and scopes, pagination, rate limits, error and retry behaviour, versioning, and webhooks. - **API security.**Authentication and authorization patterns (OAuth 2.0, API keys, JWT), least-privilege scope and service-account design, secrets handling, and a working awareness of how over-permissioned integrations create data exposure. - Strong JavaScript engineering — Node.js on the server, React for user interfaces. This is how you will build. - Comfortable with HTML5 and CSS for building real interfaces, not just wiring them. - Working knowledge of common cloud and file-transfer technologies — AWS S3 (buckets, access policies, lifecycle), SFTP, and secure file exchange between systems. - Git-based version control and modern development workflow. - Demonstrated ability to work from a written specification and deliver independently, without daily supervision. - Clear written and verbal English — you will be talking directly to US-based clients and colleagues. - Genuine interest in AI-assisted development, and evidence you have used these tools in real work. **Preferred Qualifications** - Experience with AI/ML tooling, LLM APIs, prompt engineering, or building internal developer tools. - Automated testing built with AI assistance — generating test cases, unit and integration suites, or regression coverage using AI tools rather than writing every test by hand. - Exposure to low-code or no-code platforms and a view on when they are the right choice.