Back End Developer

About GradRight

Our vision is to be the world’s leading Ed-Fin Tech company dedicated to making higher education accessible and affordable to all. Our mission is to drive transparency and accountability in the global higher education sector and create significant impact using the power of technology, data science and collaboration. GradRight is the world’s first SaaS ecosystem that brings together students, universities and financial institutions in an integrated manner. It enables students to find and fund high return college education, universities to engage and select the best-fit students and banks to lend in an effective and efficient manner. In the last three years, we have enabled students to get the best deals on a $ 2.8+ Billion of loan requests and facilitated disbursements of more than $ 350+ Million in loans. GradRight won the HSBC Fintech Innovation Challenge supported by the Ministry of Electronics & IT, Government of India & was among the top 7 global finalists in The PIEoneer awards, UK.

GradRight’s team possesses extensive domestic and international experience in the launch and scale-up of premier higher education institutions. It is led by alumni of IIT Delhi, BITS Pilani, IIT Roorkee, ISB Hyderabad and University of Pennsylvania. GradRight is a Delaware, USA registered company with a wholly owned subsidiary in India.

Brief :

We are pursuing a complex set of problems that involve building for an international audience and for an industry that has largely been service-centric. As a SDE at GradRight, you’ll bring an unmatched customer-centricity to your work, with a focus on building for the long term and large scale.

You’ll contribute to frameworks that enable flexible / scalable customer journeys and tie them with institutional knowledge to help us build the best experiences for students and our partners.

Responsibilities :

1. Contribute to design discussions and decisions around building scalable and modular architecture

2. Build clean, modular and scalable backend services

3. Participate in sprint ceremonies and actively contribute to scaling the engineering organization from a process perspective

4. Stay on top of the software engineering ecosystem and propose new technologies / methodologies that can be adopted

5. Contribute to engineering hiring by conducting interviews

6. Champion infrastructure as code mindset and encourage automation Manage and mentor a small team of junior engineers

Requirements :

1. At least 3 years experience as an SDE, building large scale services

2. Experience working with node.Js, MongoDB and Google Cloud

3. Strong understanding of software design principles and patterns

4. Passion for solving complex problems

5. Experience working with AWS, CI / CD, Reddis & RabbitMQ

6. Experience with performance monitoring and scaling backend services

7. Experience with microservices and distributed systems in general

8. Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Location : Gurgaon

Additional resources :

1. Our team - https : / / gradright.Com / team.Html

2. Customer testimonials - https : / / gradright.Com / testimonials.Html

3. GradRight on social media - LinkedIn, Instagram