Lead Instructional Designer

Position Title : Python Django Developer

Location : Gurgaon (6 Days WFO)

Experience : 3+ Years

Job Overview :

We are looking for a skilled Python Django Developer with a strong background in developing scalable, high-performance web applications. The ideal candidate must have 3+ Years of hands-on experience in Django and related technologies, including RabbitMQ, Redis, Celery, and PostgreSQL, to ensure seamless background task management, caching, and database performance.

Key Responsibilities :

• Develop, maintain, and enhance Django-based web applications and APIs.
• Design and implement message broker solutions using RabbitMQ for asynchronous communication.
• Integrate Redis for caching and session management to optimize application performance.
• Implement and manage task queues using Celery for efficient background processing.
• Work with PostgreSQL, ensuring proper database design, query optimization, and performance tuning.
• Collaborate with front-end developers, DevOps engineers, and stakeholders to deliver high-quality software solutions.
• Write clean, modular, and well-documented code following best practices.
• Debug, troubleshoot, and resolve issues across the application stack.
• Participate in code reviews, system design discussions, and team meetings.
• Ensure scalability, reliability, and security of applications.

Required Technical Skills :

• Minimum 3+ Years of relevant experience in Python and Django framework.
• Proficiency in RabbitMQ for message brokering.
• Hands-on experience with Redis for caching and session management.
• Strong knowledge of Celery for distributed task queues.
• Experience with PostgreSQL, including database design, indexing, and optimization.
• Expertise in RESTful API design and development.
• Understanding of Docker and containerized applications.

Preferred Skills :

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines for automated deployments.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms like AWS or GCP.
• Knowledge of Django ORM and its performance optimizations.
• Basic understanding of front-end technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript).

Soft Skills

• Strong problem-solving and analytical abilities.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Ability to adapt to an agile development environment and evolving requirements.

Educational Qualifications :

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.

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

We are the world's first platform that integrates 'Selection' with 'Financing'. and brings students, banks, and universities into a SaaS environment to make smarter decisions. 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 just two years, we have enabled students to get the best deals on $ 1 Billion of loan requests and facilitated disbursements of more than $ 120 Million in loans. We are India's largest single pipeline of education loans and are poised to scale up globally.

Our second product, SelectRight, is the world's first MarTech SaaS platform that redefines how students select the right colleges and how colleges find and engage with the right students.

GradRight is a Delaware, USA-registered company with a wholly-owned subsidiary in India.

Brief:

Obsession with customer needs, passionate about customer experience, and thrive on data - if you resonate with these, then we’d love to hear from you. As a product manager, you’ll be the voice of reason for our entire product ecosystem. You’ll join a fast-paced environment and work with cross-functional teams to design and deliver products aligned with the company’s vision and strategy.

Responsibilities:

1. Collect and analyze customer needs, collaborate with key stakeholders to ideate and deliver compelling solutions that create incremental value for customers
2. Create buy-in for product vision across all stakeholders
3. Develop positioning strategies that can drive growth and improve market share
4. Create and maintain detailed product requirements and roadmap
5. Create and track product success metrics and use them to identify problems and opportunities to pursue
6. Work with designers to build wireframes, validate and translate them into full-blown designs
7. Collaborate with engineering teams to drive feasibility analysis and refine product requirements
8. Work closely with engineering teams to deliver the roadmap while optimizing for time-to-market
9. Own the design <> engineering teams hand-off, release timelines, and work with business teams to plan and execute product launches
10. Evaluate marketing and sales strategies to ensure that they are in line with product strategy
11. Standardize the product design process and evangelize the same across all stakeholders

Requirements:

1. At least 6 years experience as a product manager at a B2C startup, with war stories to share
2. Proven track record of managing all aspects of product development lifecycle
3. Strong understanding of software development workflows and ability to work with top-notch engineering teams
4. Strong problem-solving skills and willingness to roll up one’s sleeves to get the job done
5. Excellent written and verbal communication skills
6. Strong presentational and public speaking skills
7. Bias for experimentation and ability to ask the right questions

Good to have:

1. Both B2C and B2B experience, preferably on marketplace-like initiatives
2. Exposure to edTech and/or finTech domains
3. Worked on products that addressed an international audience
4. Worked on products that scaled to millions of users

Location: Hyderabad

Additional resources:

1. Our team - https://gradright.com/team.html
2. Customer Testimonials - https://gradright.com/testimonials.html

GradRight on social media - LinkedIn, Instagram

Job Title: Project Manager

Location: Mumbai

Experience: 2 to 4 years

Job Type: Full-time

Job Description:

We are looking for a motivated and experienced Project Manager to lead software development projects in an Agile environment. The ideal candidate will have 2 to 4 years of experience managing projects, working closely with development teams, and ensuring timely and high-quality delivery aligned with business goals.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead and manage end-to-end software development projects.
• Facilitate Agile ceremonies like daily stand-ups, sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives.
• Collaborate with Product Owners to manage and prioritize the backlog.
• Remove impediments to ensure smooth workflow and timely delivery.
• Track project progress using Agile metrics (e.g., burndown charts, velocity).
• Communicate project status, risks, and issues effectively to stakeholders.
• Encourage a culture of collaboration, continuous improvement, and accountability.
• Ensure adherence to Agile methodologies and the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• 2 to 4 years of experience in a Project Manager or Scrum Master role.
• Strong understanding of Agile and Scrum frameworks.
• Basic knowledge of SDLC and understanding of software development practices.
• Familiarity with project tracking tools like JIRA and Confluence.
• Strong communication, problem-solving, and leadership skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Certification in Scrum (CSM) or Agile methodologies.
• Basic coding knowledge or understanding of software project structures.
• Experience in IT or software development environments.

Responsibilities

• To Attend the inbound calls of HNI customers in both Retail Liabilities &amp; Credit Cards and process the queries.
• To identify and convert the opportunities for cross-selling (banking products).
• Responsible for quality communication and customer servicing within laid down productivity and service benchmarks.
• Ensure customer “delight” and consistent service experience, including timely resolution of customer queries/issues.
• Complete the logs specified by the process (End-of-day target).
• Adherence to Information Security norms & quality process norms.
• To be aware of and comply with any updates about the process.
• Act on the feedback given by Team Leader/Team Coach or Quality or on the coaching provided to the team as guidelines for improving performance.

Requirements

• Graduate
• Preferably 1-2 years with 6 months which should be in a customer service role - Understanding of call centre industry an advantage.
• Excellent communication skills – Verbal &amp; Written.
• Flexible to work 24/7 (For Females: 7 AM till 8 PM) including Sundays/holidays
• Flexible to get scattered 8 Week Offs in a month with 9 hours shift
• Good listening skills and strong communication abilities.
• Be Confident and willing to learn with a flair for knowledge. Possess an upbeat, positive can-do attitude & works with integrity
• Team Player, collaborative Self-motivated person with the ability to act as a role model within the organization.
• Should be able to establish rapport quickly with peers, managers &amp; customers.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Build and maintain strong relationships with existing and potential clients, acting as their primary point of contact.

2. Identify sales opportunities and develop strategies to meet and exceed sales targets.

3. Conduct in-person client visits to personally demonstrate software solutions as an integral part of the sales internship.

4. Prepare and deliver engaging sales presentations and proposals to prospective clients.

5. Stay up-to-date with product knowledge and industry developments to effectively promote our offerings.

• Minimum 3 years experience in React redux and Flux
• 3 years experience in Frontend skills
• Familiarity with database technology such as MySQL,  MongoDB. ·
• Good communication. 

• Experience of a hardware life cycle, ie architecture, design, production+testing to field deployment of at least one hardware product.
• Understanding and working experience of C language with data structures.
• Ability to read the hardware/ functional/ register specs.
• Very good in debugging skills (using dumps, traces, and debuggers).
• Well, verse with Linux operating system (i. e. build environment, Make files, configuration management, shell scripting).
• Experience with PCB level design, and ability to design or review schematics and layouts
• Experience in any wireless networking chipset.
• Automotive/Industrial electronic systems design/validation
• Familiarity with operating system concepts like memory management, process scheduling, synchronization methods.
• Hands-on experience with any real-time operating system.
• Basic understanding of analog (ADCs, sensors, etc) and digital circuits.
• Prior experience in IoT startups.