
What you will be doing
● Building and maintaining micro services.
● Develop new features and improve existing features of the application.
● Coding, Implementing, Unit Testing and Documenting Typescript and Javascript based services.
● Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable code.
● Code reviews and ensuring adherence to software development standards.
● Contribute to team and organizational improvements in process and infrastructure.
● Participating in requirements gathering and functional specification activities.
● Resolving and helping to mitigate production issues.

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We’re looking for a passionate Backend Developer Intern who’s eager to learn and build a strong career in web development.
This is a 3-6 month internship where you’ll work on real, design-focused projects. You’ll have the opportunity to learn, grow, and make an impact in a collaborative environment.
What you need:
• Solid understanding of Node, Express.
• Experience with Database like Mongo DB.
What you’ll get:
• Hands-on experience working on client projects.
• Mentorship from experienced developers.
• Exposure to real-world tools, workflows, and industry practices.
• A chance to go full-time based on your performance.
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.


- 4+ years of software development experience
- Essential skills: PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, AJAX
- Code Ignitor and Laravel development experience a big plus
- Advanced knowledge of SQL is important
- Should be able to analyze requirement and design robust system
- Good oral and written communication skills
- Ability to work in a team-oriented and collaborative environment
- BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject



Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers
Build efficient, testable, and reusable PHP modules
Solve complex performance problems and architectural challenges
work on multiple projects with Product Development team
Contribute in all phases of the development lifecycle
Follow industry best practices
Develop and deploy new features to facilitate related procedures and tools if necessary Skills And Qualifications
Strong knowledge of PHP web frameworks ( Magento 1/2, Wordpress, YII, Laravel, Prestashop)
Understanding of MVC design patterns
Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, jQuery, HTML5, and CSS3
Knowledge of object oriented PHP programming Strong knowledge of the common PHP or web server exploits and their solutions
Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
Good knowledge of relational databases, version control tools (like GIT) and of developing web services
Experience in common third-party APIs (Google, Facebook, Ebay etc) (OPTIONAL)

Roles and Responsibilities:
- Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant APIs
- Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code to build features and improvements to the Plum product in a secure, well-tested, and performant way
- Collaborate with Product Management and other stakeholders within Engineering (Frontend, UX, etc.) to maintain a high bar for quality in a fast-paced, iterative environment
- Advocate for improvements to product quality, security, and performance
Qualifications:
- 5+ years of experience in shipping backend applications in NodeJs, with knowledge of Express.
- Experience with NextJS and Typescript is a plus. Able to integrate multiple data sources and databases into one system.
- Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable API infrastructure.
- Shows the drive for owning a project from concept to production, including proposal, discussion, and execution. Self-motivated and self-managing, with strong organizational Skills.
- Having experience maintaining a production grade open source project is a plus.


Immedieate joiners are preferred or those who cn join withn 15-20 days. - B.Tech in Computer Science from premier institute (IIT/NIT/IIIT)or equivalent work experience - 2 years’ experience developing Backend systems - Good understanding of algorithms and data structures - Knowledge of Cache, Queues, NoSQL & RDBMS(Mysql) - Proficiency in PHP/Python/Ruby/Java - Experience with MVC architectural pattern / framework like Django, ROR, Node.js - Experience of object-oriented programming / modular programming - Ability to multi-task, work with ambiguity and quickly re-prioritizing responsibilities - Experience with Agile software development - Knowledge of testing performance & stability using tools - Experience with either Github or GitLab, Confluence, & Jira
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Professional experience required: Total experience: 2+ Years
Industry/Role experience: - 2+ years’ experience developing Backend systems - Experience with Agile software development
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Behavioral Attributes: - Must have excellent communication skills - Must be the ability come up with innovative ideas and out-of-the-box solutions - Must be willing to challenge conventional methods to achieve exponential results |


What we are looking for
- At-least 3 years of experience of development on backend applications. Full stack experience is a cherry on the top!
- Experience / knowledge of designing robust systems, maintaining & scaling them
- Experience with usage of NoSQL databases like MongoDB & with SQL and RDBMS Systems
- Experience of creating applications with any of the popular frameworks in Python, Java, GoLang, Node
- Experience with JS frontend frameworks like React, Angular, Vue etc is a big plus
- Well versed with versioning systems like git
- Understanding of rest API implementation
Some of the responsibilties you will be taking up are following
- Working on creating performant and fault tolerant systems which are scalable
- Design, build, and maintain high performance, reusable, and reliable codebase
- Effectively work with product to gather requirements, gain deep understanding of use cases and business needs, and translate into design and implementation.
- Maintain code integrity and organization.
- Manage basic devops related to CI/CD
- Creating secure systems
- Lead other junior developers
- Define optimal and minimal architecture to achieve product requirements




