
About
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.
$ 1 BillionOur 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
- Collect and analyze customer needs, collaborate with key stakeholders to ideate and deliver compelling solutions that create incremental value for customers
- Create buy-in for product vision across all stakeholders
- Develop positioning strategies that can drive growth and improve market share
- Create and maintain detailed product requirements and roadmap
- Create and track product success metrics and use them to identify problems and opportunities to pursue
- Work with designers to build wireframes, validate and translate them into full-blown designs
- Collaborate with engineering teams to drive feasibility analysis and refine product requirements
- Work closely with engineering teams to deliver the roadmap while optimizing for time-to-market
- Own the design <> engineering teams hand-off, release timelines, and work with business teams to plan and execute product launches
- Evaluate marketing and sales strategies to ensure that they are in line with product strategy
- Standardize the product design process and evangelize the same across all stakeholders
- Requirements:At least 6 years experience as a product manager at a B2C startup, with war stories to share
- Proven track record of managing all aspects of product development lifecycle
- Strong understanding of software development workflows and ability to work with top-notch engineering teams
- Strong problem-solving skills and willingness to roll up one’s sleeves to get the job done
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Strong presentational and public speaking skills
- Bias for experimentation and ability to ask the right questions
- Good to have:Both B2C and B2B experience, preferably on marketplace-like initiatives
- Exposure to edTech and/or finTech domains
- Worked on products that addressed an international audience
- Worked on products that scaled to millions of users
Location: Gurgaon
Additional resources: Our team - https://gradright.com/team.html
- Customer Testimonials - https://gradright.com/testimonials.html
GradRight on social media - LinkedIn, Instagram

About GradRight
About
Gradright is an ed-fin start-up aiming to foster accountability and create a long-lasting impact in global higher education using the power of technology, data science and collaboration. Our mission is to aid a million students in making rational and informed decisions about their universities and finances by 2025 and help them in pursuing their passion without unnecessary financial burden.
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We are looking for a hands-on Java Application Engineer with 4–5 years of solid development experience to take ownership of a business-critical application currently in business continuity mode. While the application is not in active feature expansion, it is functionally essential and requires regular code enhancements, performance tuning, and reliable production support.
The role involves contributing to ongoing development work, fixing issues, implementing functional improvements, and supporting smooth operations. Looking ahead after couple of years, this role will be central to modernizing and re-architecting the application to align with cloud-native and scalable architecture patterns.
Key Responsibilities:
- Take ownership of an existing Java-based application, ensuring it runs smoothly in production.
- Implement functional enhancements, refactoring, and performance improvements as needed.
- Troubleshoot and resolve production issues with a focus on long-term stability and root cause elimination.
- Collaborate with DevOps, QA, and cross-functional teams to deploy safe, incremental changes.
- Participate in planning for the future modernization of the application - including architectural improvements and cloud readiness.
- Provide occasional support during US business hours to address critical issues or coordinate with global stakeholders when needed.
Required Skills:
- 5–8 years of hands-on Java development experience using Core Java, Spring, JSP/Servlets, and SQL
- Strong understanding of backend application design, debugging, and production support
- Working knowledge of WildFly and/or Apache Tomcat application servers is an asset
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, GitHub, and modern build tools
- Clear understanding of REST APIs, SOAP APIs, logging frameworks, and error-handling patterns
- Strong problem-solving skills and a proactive ownership mindset
● Basic knowledge of all testing types
● Experience in Web, Mobile & Mobile App testing
● Innovative mindset to track issues/bugs
● Good teamwork & Communication Skills


We are now seeking a talented and motivated individual to contribute to our product in the Cloud data
protection space. Ability to clearly comprehend customer needs in a cloud environment, excellent
troubleshooting skills, and the ability to focus on problem resolution until completion are a requirement.
Responsibilities Include:
Review proposed feature requirements
Create test plan and test cases
Analyze performance, diagnosis, and troubleshooting
Enter and track defects
Interact with customers, partners, and development teams
Researching customer issues and product initiatives
Provide input for service documentation
Required Skills:
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or related discipline
3+ years' experience inclusive of Software as a Service and/or DevOps engineering experience
Experience with AWS services like VPC, EC2, RDS, SES, ECS, Lambda, S3, ELB
Experience with technologies such as REST, Angular, Messaging, Databases, etc.
Strong troubleshooting skills and issue isolation skills
Possess excellent communication skills (written and verbal English)
Must be able to work as an individual contributor within a team
Ability to think outside the box
Experience in configuring infrastructure
Knowledge of CI / CD
Desirable skills:
Programming skills in scripting languages (e.g., python, bash)
Knowledge of Linux administration
Knowledge of testing tools/frameworks: TestNG, Selenium, etc
Knowledge of Identity and Security


Required Experience
· 3+ years of relevant technical experience as a data analyst role
· Intermediate / expert skills with SQL and basic statistics
· Experience in Advance SQL
· Python programming- Added advantage
· Strong problem solving and structuring skills
· Automation in connecting various sources to the data and representing it through various dashboards
· Excellent with Numbers and communicate data points through various reports/templates
· Ability to communicate effectively internally and outside Data Analytics team
· Proactively take up work responsibilities and take adhocs as and when needed
· Ability and desire to take ownership of and initiative for analysis; from requirements clarification to deliverable
· Strong technical communication skills; both written and verbal
· Ability to understand and articulate the "big picture" and simplify complex ideas
· Ability to identify and learn applicable new techniques independently as needed
· Must have worked with various Databases (Relational and Non-Relational) and ETL processes
· Must have experience in handling large volume and data and adhere to optimization and performance standards
· Should have the ability to analyse and provide relationship views of the data from different angles
· Must have excellent Communication skills (written and oral).
· Knowing Data Science is an added advantage
Required Skills
MYSQL, Advanced Excel, Tableau, Reporting and dashboards, MS office, VBA, Analytical skills
Preferred Experience
· Strong understanding of relational database MY SQL etc.
· Prior experience working remotely full-time
· Prior Experience working in Advance SQL
· Experience with one or more BI tools, such as Superset, Tableau etc.
· High level of logical and mathematical ability in Problem Solving

Purpose
All kids have extraordinary talent & creativity, and our mission in the world is to help
nurture it. We truly believe that education needs to develop the whole being, and
exploration of broad interests is key for originality.
We are working hard to be the world's most loved extra-curricular platform
& build the future of passion. We are here to do the best work of our lives, and
together, we hope you are too. Come & help shape the future of inspiration &
passion. As an early team member, you get to shape the direction of our products,
company culture, hiring & product engineering practices.
Team
We are a team that is maniacally customer obsessed & building products that
consumers love.
The plumber in chief, Subramanya Sharma (subba), was recently CPO & CMO @
Cleartrip helping build one of the most loved consumer companies in the region. He
was also instrumental in taking Cleartrip global (8 countries) & create global high
quality products in an increasingly flat world.
We want to recreate the magic and build the same customer obsession & product
culture here.
Principal engineer
About the role
You are an exceptional engineer first, and have experience in mentoring the
engineers in the team.
Build a strong engineering team & culture, hiring great engineers along our
journey.
Engineer new products and features, improve existing products and features.
Working knowledge of Devops & Infra part of the setup.
What are we looking for?
5+ years experience across the engineering stack (both frontend & backend).
Principal engineer 2
Bachelor/Masters of engineering.
You're proficient with multiple parts of our technology stack: React/Swift,
TypeScript, Node.js, and Postgres.
We are location agnostic, but in the same time zone (India). We have a small
garden office @ Jayanagar, Bangalore (home to some of the best dosas in India)
to jam together on anything that requires space.
You are not fixated about any one programming language & can learn new tech
as needed.
You are clear that problem solving & shipping >> scaling in the 0 to 1 stage.
You are somebody who shares the same ethos.
Bonus
You have expertise in data engineering, video or audio engineering.
You contribute to open source projects.
You've an interest in education & kids.
You have interests outside of technology, such as in art, music or any performing
art.
What is our interview process?
An initial 30 min call to understand each other at a high level.
An hour long technical interview where we shall dive deep into your past
experience and your ability to solve simple yet intriguing problem statements.
Optionally, you may have to work on a small assignment to ensure a good
match. (We care about your time and hence the assignment is designed to be
completed within a couple of hours time)
Funding Status
We are backed by a top-tier VC firm
Job description
We are looking for a highly motivated Node.js developer to optimize our application performance. You will be collaborating with our front-end application developers, designing back-end components, and integrating data storage and protection solutions.
Responsibilities
- Work as part of a team developing applications and services using Agile development methods
- Contribute to team and organizational improvements in process and infrastructure
- Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers with server-side logic
- Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code
- Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications
- Implementation of security and data protection
- Integration of data storage solutions (may include databases, key-value stores, blob stores, etc.)
Skills
- Excellent interpersonal, communication, and collaboration skills.
- Exceptional analytical and problem-solving aptitude.
- Great organizational and time management skills.
- At least 5 years’ experience as a Node.js developer.
- Extensive knowledge of JavaScript, web stacks, libraries, and frameworks.
- BitRise, BitBucket, GitHub
- Fluent in AWS environment and MicroServices
- Knowledge of front-end technologies such as HTML5 and CSS3.



