Backend Engineer

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.

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Desirable Skills & Expertise:

• Master’s or bachelor’s degree in Engineering (CSE / IT / MCA / Software) are preferred.
• Possesses intellectual humility; smart-driven, creative and able to learn things from slipups, willing to raise others up.
• Excellent Logical & Analytical skills with integrated professionalism at all levels.
• Strong Knowledge in Java, Frame-works like Spring, Spring boot; J2EE technologies like Servlets, JSP and Web Application Server.
• Good knowledge in web technologies like HTML, Java Script, XML and CSS.
• Candidates must be team players, have a thirst for knowledge, the energy to work in a fast-paced environment and a desire to grow in an entrepreneurial company.

Key Responsibilities:

• The role is responsible for designing, coding and deploying of high-performance applications.
• Excellent interpersonal, Communication and effective organizational skills with solid technical skills.
• Should be able to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical personnel.
• Excellent trouble shootings & problem-solving skills.
• Practical Knowledge with SDLC from requirement analysis through testing and deployment is a plus.
• Devising possible solutions to anticipated problems.
• Develop and maintain strong product knowledge.
• Guide the clients through various stages of the project and transition to support organization.
• Review existing business processes and participate in the Process Improvement Program.