GradRight

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:

Given our multi-geography, multi-stakeholder business model, the CRM is the central and most used software in the company that enables a number of complex customer relationship management use cases.

As a Salesforce developer at GradRight, you’ll build and maintain the CRM to enable all operational requirements of the company.

Responsibilities:

1. Work with product managers and owners to understand operational/functional requirements and translate them into technical requirements
2. Design and build high-performance, reusable, and reliable Apex code with best practices
3. Develop customized solutions within the Salesforce platform.
4. Ensure the best possible quality of the application
5. Troubleshooting and fixing bugs.
6. Writing documents and providing training for business users

Requirements:

1. At least 3 years of experience as a SalesForce developer
2. Apex development
3. Visualforce page development
4. Ability to communicate with business stakeholders and provide consultation on Salesforce solutions
5. Good problem-solving skills and ability to give optimal solutions
6. Lightning component development, Lightning design development
7. Hands-on experience in administration setup, e.g., managing users, security controls, and data as well as creating roles, profiles, and reports.
8. Experience in designing custom objects, custom fields, picklists, page layouts, workflow, approval processes, validation rules, custom tabs, reports, Visualforce pages, dashboards, and email generation according to application requirements
9. Experience in integrating with third party APIs

Good to have:

1. Experience with software development other than Salesforce
2. Experience building for international audience

SDET

GradRight is an ed-fin-tech startup focused on global higher education. Using data science, technology and strategic partnerships across the industry, we are enabling 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. We helped disburse more than USD 40 million in loans in 2020-21 and are growing aggressively.

Brief:

Quality is paramount at GradRight and as an SDET, you’ll own it. You will have a 360 degree view of how software quality impacts the entire business, with which you’ll identify and address problem areas, contribute to testing efforts on a daily basis as well as participate in setting up an impeccable QA organization for the long term.

Responsibilities:

1. Participate in sprint ceremonies and work with engineers, PMs and UX designers to understand feature requirements that can be converted into test cases
2. Write/maintain test suites for new features, products and feature updates
3. Contribute to discussions around writing testable code and ensure that sprints come to a successful closure while taking QA into consideration
4. Constantly strive to keep test coverage to highest possible level
5. Be the release owner - create test plans, monitor execution, report on test execution and work with engineers to ensure that bugs are fixed before releases
6. Build testing frameworks to help improve the velocity of QA efforts across the organization
7. Work with production support engineers to troubleshoot issues before handing them off to engineering team, while owning issue resolution

Requirements:

1. At least 3 years experience as an SDET
2. Expertise in various testing methodologies like functional, integration, black box, performance, etc
3. Expertise in writing end to end automation tests for both mobile and web applications using frameworks like Selenium, Appium, Nightwatch, REST-Assured, etc
4. Experience in designing QA strategy and developing corresponding test automation scripts/frameworks
5. Passion for documentation and writing clean code
6. Strong understanding of software development workflows and agile tools like JIRA
7. Proficient in at least one programming language
8. Exposure to software design principles and patterns
9. Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Good to have:

1. Experience in CI/CD and cloud infrastructure management
2. Worked on products that addressed international audience
3. Worked on products that scaled to millions of users

Location: Bengaluru (Currently remote)

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

Brief:

As a BI Developer at GradRight, you’ll be working with Tableau and supporting data sources to build reports for the requirements of various business teams.

Responsibilities:

1. Translate business needs to technical specifications for reports and dashboards
2. Design, build and deploy BI solutions
3. Maintain and support data analytics platforms (e.g. Tableau, Mixpanel, Google Analytics, etc)
4. Evaluate and improve existing BI systems
5. Collaborate with teams to integrate systems
6. Develop and execute database queries, conduct analysis and prepare data to be shared with respective stakeholders
7. Create visualizations and reports for requested projects
8. Develop and update technical documentation around reports

Requirements:

1. At least 3 years of proven experience as a BI Developer
2. Experience at a startup
3. Background in data warehouse design (e.g. dimensional modeling) and data mining
4. In-depth understanding of database management systems, online analytical processing (OLAP) and ETL (Extract, transform, load) framework
5. Working knowledge of Tableau
6. Knowledge of SQL queries and MongoDB
7. Proven abilities to take initiative and be innovative
8. Analytical mind with a problem-solving aptitude

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 an 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 be part of the Innovation Projects team at GradRight. This team works on third party integrations and adopting new tools/technologies to help build a cutting edge platform for the higher education space.

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to design discussions and decisions around building scalable and modular frontend.
• Participate in sprint ceremonies and actively contribute to scaling the engineering organization from a process perspective
• Stay on top of the software engineering ecosystem and propose new technologies/methodologies that can be adopted
• Contribute to engineering hiring by conducting interviews
• Champion infrastructure as code mindset and encourage automation

Requirements:

• At least 3 years experience as an SDE
• Strong experience with at least one frontend framework, preferably vue.js
• Strong understanding of software design principles and patterns
• Passion for solving complex problems
• Really quick learner and able to dive deep into new ideas/experiments at breakneck speed
• Passion for trying out new technologies and focusing on iterative development
• Experience with team management
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Good to have:

• Worked in a full-stack capacity at high growth startups
• Worked on products that addressed an international audience
• Exposure to emerging/latest technologies like blockchain, bots, AR/VR

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

About Us

GradRight is an Ed-fintech startup focused on global higher education. We are committed to enabling global youth aspirations by helping students find the "right education" at the "right cost". We aim to assist students in discovering their best fit universities and funding plans.

Our flagship product - FundRight is the world’s first student loan bidding platform. 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 hosted by The PIE News, UK. Since September 2020, we have received over US$500 million in loan requests and successfully secured over US$75 million in loan approvals for more than 1600 students.

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 an 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 build beautiful front-end experiences and enable flexible customer journeys while focusing on an international audience.

Responsibilities:

1. Lead design discussions and decisions around building a scalable and modular front-end architecture
2. Write clean and modular code
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. Manage and mentor a small team of junior engineers

Requirements:

1. At least 6 years experience as an SDE, with at least 2 years experience leading teams
2. Strong experience with vue.js
3. Able to write maintainable, scalable and unit-testable code
4. Strong understanding of software design principles and patterns
5. Excellent command over data structures and algorithms
6. Passion for solving complex problems
7. Experience with team management
8. Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Good to have:

1. Experience with GraphQL and micro-frontend architectures
2. Worked on products that addressed an international audience
3. Worked on products that scaled to millions of users

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 an 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 tying 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
7. Manage and mentor a small team of junior engineers

Requirements:

1. At least 4 years experience as an SDE, building large scale services
2. Extensive experience in at least one programming language and ability to write maintainable, scalable and unit-testable code
3. Strong understanding of software design principles and patterns
4. Excellent command over data structures and algorithms
5. Passion for solving complex problems
6. Good understanding of various database technologies with strong opinions around their use cases
7. Experience with performance monitoring and scaling backend services
8. Experience with microservices and distributed systems in general
9. Experience with team management
10. Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Good to have:

1. Experience working with node.js, MongoDB and Google Cloud
2. Experience in CI/CD and cloud infrastructure management
3. Worked on products that addressed an international audience
4. Worked on products that scaled to millions of users

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