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GradRight is an ed-fin-tech startup focused on global higher education. Using data science, technology and strategic partnerships across the industry, we enable students to find the “Right University” at the “Right Cost”. We are on a mission to aid a million students to find their best-fit universities and financial offerings by 2025.

Our flagship product - FundRight is the world’s first student loan bidding platform. In a short span of 10 months, we have facilitated disbursements of more than $ 50 million in loans this year and we are poised to scale up rapidly.

We are launching our second product - SelectRight as an innovative approach to college selection and student recruitment for students and universities, respectively. The product rests on the three pillars of data science, transparency and ethics and hopes to create value for students and universities. 

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 Principal Engineer 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 drive the creation of 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. You’ll also manage a team of high performers to achieve the planned outcomes.

You’ll own the technology strategy of the engineering organization and be a key decision maker when it comes to processes and execution.

Responsibilities:

1. Drive design discussions and decisions around building scalable and modular architecture
2. Work with product, engineering and business teams to ideate on technology strategy and line up initiatives around the same
3. Build clean, modular and scalable backend services
4. Build clean, modular and scalable frontends
5. Own quality and velocity of releases across the engineering organization
6. Manage and mentor a team of engineers
7. Participate in sprint ceremonies and actively contribute to scaling the engineering organization from a process perspective
8. Stay on top of the software engineering ecosystem, propose and implement new technologies/methodologies as per the business needs
9. Contribute to engineering hiring by conducting interviews
10. Champion infrastructure-as-code mindset and encourage automation
11. Identify problems around engineering processes, propose solutions and drive implementations for the same

Requirements:

1. At least 8 years of experience, building large scale applications
2. Experience working at startups in growth phase with war stories to share
3. Experience with frontend technologies like vue.js or react.js
4. Strong experience with at least one backend framework, preferably express.js
5. Extensive experience in at least one programming language (preferably Javascript, GoLang) and ability to write maintainable, scalable and unit-testable code
6. Experience in CI/CD and cloud infrastructure management
7. Strong understanding of software design principles and patterns
8. Excellent command over data structures and algorithms
9. Passion for solving complex problems
10. Good understanding of various database technologies with strong opinions around their use cases
11. Experience with performance monitoring and scaling backend services
12. Experience with microservices and distributed systems in general
13. Experience with team management
14. Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Good to have:

1. Worked on products that addressed an international audience
2. Worked on products that scaled to millions of users
3. Exposure to emerging/latest technologies like blockchain, bots, AR/VR
4. Exposure to AI/ML

Location: Bangalore, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Pune, Delhi

Responsibilities :

● Build and nurture high performing teams of skilled software engineers. Find and hire top talent for your team

● Work closely with your team providing continuous feedback to raise the bar

● Shape team goals by developing a deep understanding of our business processes and success criteria

● Develop and execute a long-term product roadmap and architecture while balancing short term commitments

● Work closely with the team to architect and develop the best technical design and approach to solve complex problems.

● Take the accountability of the overall health of the products you build, and predictability of the deliverables of your team

● Effectively partner with engineering, product and business stakeholders across the organization to co-define and deliver on own and team goals

What are we looking for ?

● Bachelors or Masters Degree in Computer Science or a related field from a college of repute

● 8 to 14 years of industry experience in software engineering with 2 to 3 years of experience of directly managing a team of software engineers

● Prior experience in established start-ups would be preferred

● Experience with object-oriented design and languages

● Track record of building and delivering mission critical, 24x7 production software systems

● Experience architecting systems on AWS platform a strong plus

● Be able to deal with ambiguity and independently drive, design, and implement large scale software solution

● Proven track record of taking ownership and driving results on technical projects

● Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment

● Technical aptitude to quickly grasp complex technical issues and communicate directly with technical and non-technical teams

● Knowledge of professional software engineering practices and best practices for the full software development life cycle (SDLC), including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operation

We are looking for a Technical Program Manager with at least 12 years of experience managing the planning, execution, and delivery of complex technical projects or programs. You will ensure that technical projects are completed within agreed-upon timelines, budgets, and quality standards, and shall play a critical role in ensuring the successful delivery of complex technical projects and programs.

No of Positions 1

Skills Required

• 12+ years experience with development background and excellent communication skills
• Should have strong project management and people skills along with technology skills (primarily web based application development, but can be any)
• Program Planning: Define the scope and objectives of the program and develop a detailed project plan, including schedules, budgets, and resource requirements.
• Risk Management: Manage program risks, develops mitigation plans, and communicates risk status to stakeholders.
• Stakeholder Management: Work closely with stakeholders to ensure that program objectives are aligned with business goals and objectives.
• Communication: Communicate program status, risks, and issues to stakeholders and senior management.
• Project Management: Manage the day-to-day \ activities of the project team, ensuring that tasks are completed on time and within budget.
• Quality Assurance: Ensure that the program meets the required quality standards.
• Resource Management: Manage program resources, including staffing, budget, and equipment.
• Change Management: Manage changes to the program scope, schedule, and budget and ensures that stakeholders are informed and aligned with the changes.
• Technical Expertise: You will have the strong technical expertise to understand the technical aspects of the program and provide guidance to the project team.
• Continuous Improvement: Continuously monitor and evaluate program performance and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Collaboration: Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams, including software engineers, product managers, and other stakeholders. You must be able to build and maintain strong relationships with team members and stakeholders to ensure the project's success.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Supervise, plan, and manage the stages of product development, approving the product at each stage.
• For maximum efficiency, create detailed project plans at each stage of product development.
• Maintain a steady flow of ideas and solutions during product development initiatives in order to introduce innovation and improve operational efficiency.
• Keep track of key metrics and create reports to communicate development progress to senior management, product managers, and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Work with a variety of teams, such as software architects, software engineers, system engineers, developers, and product teams.
• Determine cross-team dependencies and include them in the program planning process.
• Determine how to solve technical problems by diagnosing them and suggesting potential solutions.
• Ensure that product development and delivery can be completed within the product budget and timeframe.
• Oversee the product deployment process and, if necessary, assist with the integration process.
• Make necessary changes to product development processes based on performance metrics.
• Stay current on the latest developments in our product category and industry.
• Ensure complete compliance with industry standards by documenting all processes and adjusting them as needed.
• Manage project escalations and assist in the formation of project teams as needed.
• Maintain and implement project plans within the organization necessary technical programs to assist product management teams.

Experience: 12+Years

Location: Hyderabad

• 15+ years of Hands-on technical application architecture experience and Application build/ modernization experience

• 15+ years of experience as a technical specialist in Customer-facing roles.

• Ability to travel to client locations as needed (25-50%)

• Extensive experience architecting, designing and programming applications in an AWS Cloud environment

• Experience with designing and building applications using AWS services such as EC2, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, AWS OpsWorks

• Experience architecting highly available systems that utilize load balancing, horizontal scalability and high availability

• Hands-on programming skills in any of the following: Python, Java, Node.js, Ruby, .NET or Scala

• Agile software development expert
• Experience with continuous integration tools (e.g. Jenkins)

• Hands-on familiarity with CloudFormation

• Experience with configuration management platforms (e.g. Chef, Puppet, Salt, or Ansible)

• Strong scripting skills (e.g. Powershell, Python, Bash, Ruby, Perl, etc.)

• Strong practical application development experience on Linux and Windows-based systems

• Extra curricula software development passion (e.g. active open source contributor)

We are looking for a bright and exceptional Engineering Manager to join our Hyderabad based Technology team. The role involves building complex next generation product used by our clients and architecting solutions to support new technical and business initiatives.

What you’ll do: • Manage, design, execute and take complete responsibility for the delivery and maintenance of software projects/products • Help the team translate the business requirements into R&D tasks • Work with business groups to outline project deliverables and manage the roadmap of the R&D tasks • Work with Technical Relationship managers to understand the client initiated R&D requests • Act as a point of contact for managing and driving production defects to resolution • Tailor processes to help manage time-sensitive issues and bring them to appropriate closure • Engage and manage team of highly talented technologists, and aid in them grow professionally with regular mentoring

What you’ll need: • A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science with 8+ years of experience, fintech domain is a plus • Demonstrated track record of end-to-end delivery of enterprise-grade software • Strong technology acumen, knowledge of software engineering process, design knowledge and architecture intelligence • Superior project management skills to ensure high-quality and timely solution delivery

• Attention to detail and quality, and the ability to work well in and across teams • Ability to advocate & influence multiple stakeholders • Excellent analytical and reasoning skills • Ability to learn new domains and deliver output • Experience leading a team of highly skilled engineers • Strong communication skills

Members of the Arcesium Company Group do not discriminate in employment matters on the basis of sex, race, colour, caste, creed, religion, pregnancy, national origin, age, military service eligibility, veteran status, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, or any other protected class.