Front End Developer

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

You should apply if you have —

1. 3 - 5 years of technical experience (you can count internships & freelance work towards this).
2. Proficiency in React (especially Hooks) and Typescript; experience in Node.js is nice to have.
3. Experience in profiling apps for performance.
4. A track record of writing accessible and detailed version-control commits, documentation and code reviews.
5. A strong ability to write clean, scalable, self-documenting & highly-testable code.
6. Very good problem-solving skills.

You'll be helping us with some of these challenges —

1. How do we keep building more features while keeping the code clean, as small as possible and highly performant?
2. How do we build a strong testing-first delivery cycle so we can ship code with greater confidence?

We're problem-solvers at heart, and we value data-driven decision-making. We believe in high-quality execution, crafting great user experiences, honest & transparent communication and enabling our people to thrive and be the best version of themselves.

The early engineering + product team includes folks from https://home.lynk.co.in/" target="_blank">Lynk,Zoho and https://www.kilobytetech.com/" target="_blank">Kilobyte, and we're hoping to build one of the best teams in the city; kind & compassionate, diverse and smart — one you can be proud for being a part of.

We're all generalists and prefer picking the right tool for the job. That said, we do use a lot of new & exciting technology.

Backend

• Golang for most services and Node.js (https://koajs.com/" target="_blank">Koa, https://github.com/lukeed/polka#polka" target="_blank">Polka) for a few
• gRPC for inter-service communication
• PostgreSQL

Frontend

• 100% TypeScript
• React v17 & https://nextjs.org/" target="_blank">Next.js v10
• https://github.com/pmndrs/zustand#readme" target="_blank">Zustand
• https://chakra-ui.com/" target="_blank">Chakra-UI
• https://www.framer.com/motion/" target="_blank">Framer Motion
• https://storybook.js.org/" target="_blank">Storybook
• https://maizzle.com/" target="_blank">Maizzle

Infra

• AWS (with extensive use of RDS, S3, ECS, SQS, SES & CloudWatch)
• Gitlab for version-control and CI/CD
• All apps built and shipped as Docker images
• Kubernetes for container orchestration
• https://www.honeybadger.io/" target="_blank">Honeybadger for error analytics & uptime monitoring

• Should have experience in  developing and working on consumer facing web/app
• Proficient understanding of JavaScript libraries and frameworks ReactJS
• Proficient understanding of server side rendering through Next.js
• Proven skillsets in responsive Web UI development for enterprise application using technologies such as HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery, Bootstrap, React JS Good understanding of Data Structures, Algorithms and Operating Systems
• Should have experience on HTML5/CSS3, Javascript ,Redux, APIs Integration
• 3-4 years of experience in building client side cross platforms javascript apps in Web & mobile.
• Good experience of developing and integrating APIs
• Develop high-quality software design and architecture
• Review and debug code
• Find and address performance issues
• Proficient understanding of Git

• We are looking for a JavaScript developer who is proficient with React.
• Your primary focus will be on designing and developing products using Core UI and React.
• Should have good hands on experience in node, sass, javascript ES6,laravel concepts

1. Develop User interfaces for Modern Rich Internet Applications with the latest Front End Technologies Perform product analysis and development tasks of increasingly complex nature which may require extensive research and analysis.
2. Writing tested and documented JavaScript, HTML and CSS
3. Make design and technical decisions for AngularJS projects.
4. Ensuring high performance

You would possess experience building web applications using MVC frameworks (Reactjs, Redux) in a service-oriented environment.

• In-depth experience in object oriented Javascript.
• Excellent knowledge of professional software engineering practices and best practices for the full Software Development Lifecycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing and operations.
• Proficiency to code in front-end technologies such as Javascript/HTML/CSS.