Backend Developer

*Job description:*

*Company:* Innovative Fintech Start-up

*Location:* On-site in Gurgaon, India

*Job Type:* Full-Time

*Pay:* ₹100,000.00 - ₹150,000.00 per month

*Experience Level:* Senior (7+ years required)

*About Us*

We are a dynamic Fintech company revolutionizing the financial services landscape through cutting-edge technology. We're building innovative solutions to empower users in trading, market analysis, and financial compliance. As we expand, we're seeking a visionary Senior Developer to pioneer and lead our brand-new tech team from the ground up. This is an exciting opportunity to shape the future of our technology stack and drive mission-critical initiatives in a fast-paced environment.

*Role Overview*

As the Senior Developer and founding Tech Team Lead, you will architect, develop, and scale our core systems while assembling and mentoring a high-performing team. You'll work on generative AI-driven applications, integrate with financial APIs, and ensure robust, secure platforms for trading and market data. This role demands hands-on coding expertise combined with strategic leadership to deliver under tight deadlines and high-stakes conditions.

*Key Responsibilities*

Design, develop, and deploy scalable backend systems using Python as the primary language.

Lead the creation of a new tech team: recruit, mentor, and guide junior developers to foster a collaborative, innovative culture.

Integrate generative AI technologies (e.g., Claude from Anthropic, OpenAI models) to enhance features like intelligent coding assistants, predictive analytics, and automated workflows.

Solve complex problems in real-time, optimizing for performance in mission-critical financial systems.

Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align tech strategies with business goals, including relocation planning to Dubai.

Ensure code quality, security, and compliance in all developments.

Thrive in a high-pressure environment, managing priorities independently while driving projects to completion.

*Required Qualifications:*

7+ years of software development experience; 5+ years in Python.

Proven hands-on experience with OpenAI and Anthropic (Claude) APIs in production systems.

Strong problem-solving skills and ability to operate independently in ambiguous situations.

Experience leading projects, mentoring developers, or building teams.

Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.

Experience with financial markets, trading systems, or market data platforms.

Familiarity with Meta Trader integrations.

Cloud experience, especially Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

Knowledge of fintech compliance and trade reporting standards.

*What We Offer:*

Competitive salary and benefits package.

Opportunity to build and lead a team in a high-growth Fintech space.

A collaborative, innovative work culture with room for professional growth.

*Job Types:* Full-time, Permanent

*Work Location:* In person

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. With a strong presence in the U.S. and subsidiaries in India and commencement of UK operations, GradRight is well-poised for global expansion, having raised a Series A round of investments. GradRight’s 200+ team members across Hyderabad, Gurgaon, Bangalore, Kolkata and the US are led by alumni of IIT Delhi, IIT Kharagpur, BITS Pilani, ISB Hyderabad and University of Pennsylvania.

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:Contribute to design discussions and decisions around building scalable and modular architecture
• Build clean, modular and scalable backend services
• 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
• Manage and mentor a small team of junior engineers
• Requirements:At least 4 years experience as an SDE, building large scale services
• Extensive experience in at least one programming language and ability to write maintainable, scalable and unit-testable code
• Strong understanding of software design principles and patterns
• Excellent command over data structures and algorithms
• Passion for solving complex problems
• Good understanding of various database technologies with strong opinions around their use cases
• Experience with performance monitoring and scaling backend services
• Experience with microservices and distributed systems in general
• Experience with team management
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Good to have:Experience working with Node.js, MongoDB and Google Cloud
• Experience in CI/CD and cloud infrastructure management
• Worked on products that addressed an international audience
• Worked on products that scaled to millions of users
• Location: GurgaonAdditional resources:Our team - https://gradright.com/team.html
• Customer testimonials - https://gradright.com/testimonials.html
• GradRight on social media - LinkedIn, Instagram
• People will be eligible for ESOPs only after the 6 months of engagement with Gradright.

Job Description

Job Title: Data Engineer

Location: Hyderabad, India

Job Type: Full Time

Experience: 5 – 8 Years

Working Model: On-Site (No remote or work-from-home options available)

Work Schedule: Mountain Time Zone (3:00 PM to 11:00 PM IST)

Role Overview

The Data Engineer will be responsible for designing and implementing scalable backend systems, leveraging Python and PySpark to build high-performance solutions. The role requires a proactive and detail-orientated individual who can solve complex data engineering challenges while collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver quality results.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain backend systems using Python and PySpark.
• Optimise and enhance system performance for large-scale data processing.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define requirements and deliver solutions.
• Debug, troubleshoot, and resolve system issues and bottlenecks.
• Follow coding best practices to ensure code quality and maintainability.
• Utilise tools like Palantir Foundry for data management workflows (good to have).

Qualifications

• Strong proficiency in Python backend development.
• Hands-on experience with PySpark for data engineering.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Good communication skills for effective team collaboration.
• Experience with Palantir Foundry or similar platforms is a plus.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with large-scale data processing and pipeline development.
• Familiarity with agile methodologies and development tools.
• Ability to optimise and streamline backend processes effectively.
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Job description

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain serverless applications using AWS services such as Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, and S3.
• Collaborate with front-end developers to integrate user-facing elements with server-side logic.
• Build and maintain RESTful APIs to support web and mobile applications.
• Implement security best practices for AWS services and manage IAM roles and policies.
• Optimize application performance, scalability, and reliability through monitoring and testing.
• Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code following best practices and design patterns.
• Participate in code reviews, providing constructive feedback to peers.
• Troubleshoot and debug applications, identifying performance bottlenecks and areas for improvement.
• Stay updated with emerging technologies and industry trends related to serverless architectures and Python development.

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• Proven experience as a Python backend developer, with a strong portfolio of serverless applications.
• Proficiency in AWS services, particularly in serverless architectures (Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, etc.).
• Solid understanding of RESTful API design principles and best practices.
• Familiarity with CI/CD practices and tools (e.g., AWS CodePipeline, Jenkins).
• Experience with containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes) is a plus.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently and collaboratively.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with frontend technologies (JavaScript, React, Angular) is a plus.
• Knowledge of data storage solutions (SQL and NoSQL databases).
• AWS certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Developer Associate) are a plus.

What You will do 

● Create beautiful software experiences for our clients using design thinking, lean and agile methodology.

● Work on world-class software products using the latest cutting edge technologies and platforms.

● Work in a dynamic, collaborative, transparent, non-hierarchical culture.

● Work in collaborative, fast-paced and value-driven teams to build innovative customer experiences for our clients.

● Help to grow the next generation of developers and have a positive impact on the industry.

Basic Qualifications

● Experience: 4+ years.

● Hands-on development experience in backend, Java, SprintBoot, Hibernate, SQL, MongoDB, Jenkins, Microservices etc...

● Server-side development experience mainly in JAVA.

● Passion for software engineering and follow the best coding concepts. ● Good to great problem solving and communication skills.

● Experience in working with cross-border, distributed teams is a must.

Nice to have Qualifications 

● Product and customer-centric mindset.

● Great OO skills, including design patterns.

● Experience with large-scale enterprise systems

• gathering and analyzing user/business system requirements, Participate in design meetings and consult with clients to refine, test and debug programs to meet business.
• Develop, test and implement new software programs
• Identifying areas for modification in existing programs and subsequently developing these modifications
• Clearly and regularly communicate with management and technical support colleagues
• Design and Applications, Web Sites, Data Communication Processes and User Interfaces
• Writing and implementing efficient code
• Determining operational practicality
• Test, maintain and recommend software improvements to ensure strong functionality and optimization
• Working closely with other developers, UX designers, business and systems analysts
• Analyze user requirements , Make good technical decisions that provide solutions to business challenges
• achieve resolution to outstanding problems or issues
• Communicate effectively and professionally in all forms of communication with internal and external customers
• Possess strong problem solving and decision making skills while using good judgment

Primary Skills: Java Backend Development, UNIX, Oracle, SQL, MQFTP

Secondary Skills:  Autosys, Service Now

Experience: 6- 8 years

Responsibilities:

• Drive the Migration Project and support Business Applications teams through the project lifecycle.
• Interpret written business requirements, functional requirements and technical specification documents to design and develop technical solutions that meet business needs
• Contribute to Application development, migration of components, testing and Production Support.
• Collaborate with IT and Business partners to develop, and troubleshoot end to end technical solutions
• Create and maintain technical evaluation documentation using defined technical documentation templates that meet standards

Required Skills:

• Well versed with Java Backend Development.
• Proficient in Oracle, SQL.
• Experience in Shell scripting in UNIX, Autosys scheduler
• Good understanding of Database Management Systems (DBMS)
• Knowledge of different file movement patterns and tools  - File Transfers, Messaging, MQFTP, Sterling Integrator, Mobius
• Knowledge of different file formats plus file format conversion to & from JSON, csv etc.
• Good understanding of Object-Oriented Programming
• Good understanding of SDLC lifecycle & processes.
• Exposure to ITIL foundational concepts, Service Now and Production Management Activities.
• Financial Services experience will be a plus
• Experience in using Dev tools ( Eclipse ), code quality tools, defect tracking tools

Desired Skills: 

• Strong interpersonal, oral, presentation, and written communication skills

• Excellent team player with good organizational, communicational, analytical and logical skills.