GradRight

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

GradRight is an ed-fin-tech company committed to drive transparency and accountability in global higher education sector. 

We are the world's first platform that integrates 'Selection' with 'Financing'. and brings students, banks and universities in a SaaS environment to make smarter decisions.

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:

1. Contribute to design discussions and decisions around building scalable and modular frontend and backend 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 3 years experience as an SDE
2. Strong experience with at least one frontend framework, preferably vue.js
3. Strong experience with at least one backend framework, preferably express.js
4. Strong understanding of software design principles and patterns
5. Passion for solving complex problems
6. Really quick learner and able to dive deep into new ideas/experiments at breakneck speed
7. Passion for trying out new technologies and focusing on iterative development
8. Experience with team management
9. Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Good to have:

1. Worked in a full-stack capacity at high growth startups
2. Worked on products that addressed an international audience
3. Exposure to emerging/latest technologies like blockchain, bots, AR/VR
4. Exposure to AI/ML

About Us

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. 

Responsibilities:

1. Build and lead a QA team, work with them on a daily basis to ensure highest quality of QA

deliverables, on time

2. Participate in sprint ceremonies and work with engineers, PMs and UX designers to

understand feature requirements that can be converted into test cases

3. Strategize and drive the implementation of test suite and automation testing framework

4. Contribute to discussions around writing testable code and ensure that sprints come to a

successful closure while taking QA into consideration

5. Constantly strive to keep test coverage to the highest possible level

6. Be the release owner - help QA team create test plans, monitor execution, report on test

execution and work with engineers to ensure that bugs are fixed before releases

7. Work with production support engineers to troubleshoot issues and set priorities, before

handing them off to the engineering team, while owning issue resolution

Requirements:

1. At least 6 years experience in QA, with at least 2 years of experience leading QA efforts in a

startup environment

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 an international audience

3. Worked on products that scaled to millions of users

Location: Hyderabad/Gurugram (Work from Office -WFO)

Brief:

Quality is paramount at GradRight and as a QA engineer, 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 the 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. Work with production support engineers to troubleshoot issues before handing them off to the engineering team, while owning issue resolution

Requirements:

1. At least 3 years experience as a QA engineer, especially in manual QA
2. Expertise in various testing methodologies like functional, integration, black box, performance, etc
3. Strong understanding of software development workflows and agile tools like JIRA
4. Exposure to software design principles and patterns
5. Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Good to have:

1. Exposure to automation based QA for both mobile and web applications using frameworks like Selenium, Appium, Nightwatch, REST-Assured, etc
2. Experience in designing QA strategy and developing corresponding test automation scripts/frameworks
3. Worked on products that addressed an international audience
4. 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

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 1 year experience as an SDE at a startup
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. Passion for solving complex problems
5. Good understanding of various database technologies
6. Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Good to have:

1. Experience working with node.js, MongoDB and AWS
2. Experience with performance monitoring and scaling backend services
3. Experience with microservices and distributed systems in general
4. Experience in CI/CD and cloud infrastructure management
5. Worked on products that addressed an international audience
6. 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 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:

1. Contribute to design discussions and decisions around building scalable and modular frontend and backend 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 1.5 years experience as an SDE
2. Strong experience with at least one frontend framework, preferably vue.js
3. Strong experience with at least one backend framework, preferably express.js
4. Strong understanding of software design principles and patterns
5. Passion for solving complex problems
6. Really quick learner and able to dive deep into new ideas/experiments at breakneck speed
7. Passion for trying out new technologies and focusing on iterative development
8. Experience with team management
9. Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Good to have:

1. Worked in a full-stack capacity at high growth startups
2. Worked on products that addressed an international audience
3. Exposure to emerging/latest technologies like blockchain, bots, AR/VR
4. Exposure to AI/ML

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

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