Full Stack Engineer – Higher Ed Platforms (India)

Strata Information Group; Pune District; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Strata Information Group in Pune, India is building its first engineering Center of Excellence for higher‑ed platforms. As a Full Stack Engineer you will write and ship code, focusing on API integrations, Experience Card development, and workflow automation within Ellucian’s ecosystem.

You will work on REST APIs, security, and data handling, collaborating with US‑based clients. The role supports a hybrid schedule with some overlap with US Eastern time.

Qualifications

• Deep REST API fluency and experience reading API catalogs.
• Strong API security knowledge, OAuth2, JWT, least privilege.
• Proficient in HTML5/CSS for UI development.
• Experience with Git-based workflows and modern development tooling.
• Clear written and spoken English for US-based clients.
• Interest in AI-assisted development and tooling.

Responsibilities

• Map business requirements to Ellucian APIs and endpoints.
• Build and ship integrations between Ellucian and third-party systems.
• Develop React UI components for Experience Cards.
• Design and implement Ellucian Workflow automations.
• Translate specifications into production code with minimal supervision.
• Use AI coding assistants as a standard part of development.
• Contribute to SIG’s internal AI tooling for faster delivery.
• Configure secure integrations with least-privilege credentials.
• Explore low-code/no-code tools where appropriate.
• Participate in client-facing sessions and requirement walkthroughs.

Skills

REST API fluency

API security

HTML/CSS

Git version control

English communication

AI-assisted development

Time-zone collaboration

Cloud/file transfer basics

Tools

Postman

OpenAPI/Swagger

GraphQL

API gateway

Job description

Full Stack Engineer – Higher Ed Platforms (India)

Pune, Maharashtra, India

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 afounding-teamrole. 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 independentof 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 centerof 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 exposesa very largeAPI 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 APIsactually servethat 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 businessneedto 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.
• 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.
• Experience with API tooling and standards — Postman, OpenAPI/Swagger, GraphQL, or API gateway platforms.
• Prior work in higher education technology, or with any enterprise ERP, SIS, HRMS, or finance platform.
• Experience with Ellucian products — Banner, Colleague, Ethos, Experience, or Workflow.
• SQL and relational database fundamentals.
• Experience working with distributed teams across time zones.

Ellucian Experience Is Not Required — We Will Teach You

Ellucian platform knowledge is rare in the Indian market, and we are not screening for it. We are screening for engineering ability and how quickly you learn.

If you join without a higher-education background, you will be given a structured ramp-up:

• Access to Ellucian training and certification, with badging targeted in your first 60 days.
• Direct knowledge transfer from SIG’s US delivery consultants, who have decades of platform depth — including guided orientation to the Ellucian API landscape.
• A defined, tangible deliverable to complete during onboarding, so you are building real work early rather than only studying.

What we need from you is the ability to absorb a new domain fast and start contributing inside two months.

Working Hours

Flexible schedule with a daily overlap requirement of 3–4 hours with US Eastern morning. In practice, this means your working day extends into the IST evening — typically finishing around 9:00–10:00 PM IST, with a corresponding later start.

Outside that overlap window, you manage your own hours. We care about what you deliver, not when you are logged in.

Who Does Well Here

• You are self-driven. You unblock yourself, ask sharp questions, and do not wait to be assigned work.
• You are curious about the tools that make you faster, and you actually try them.
• You are comfortable being early. This team is being built now, and the process is not fully written.
• You can talk to a non-technical client and explain what you built without making them feel lost.

Strata Information Group is an equal opportunity employer.

The listed salary range for this position is indicative and subject to adjustment based on the candidate's unique skills and location. Final compensation will be determined through mutual agreement between the successful candidate and SIG.

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