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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

About the Role 

As a result of our rapid growth, we are looking for a Java Backend Engineer to join our existing Cloud Engineering team and take the lead in the design and development of several key initiatives of our existing Miko3 product line as well as our new product development initiatives. 

Responsibilities 

•  Designing, developing and maintaining core system features, services and engines
• Collaborating with a cross functional team of the backend, Mobile application, AI, signal processing, robotics Engineers, Design, Content, and Linguistic Team to realize the requirements of a conversational social robotics platform which includes investigate design approaches, prototype new technology, and evaluate technical feasibility
• Ensure the developed backend infrastructure is optimized for scale and responsiveness 
• Ensure best practices in design, development, security, monitoring, logging, and DevOps adhere to the execution of the project. 
• Introducing new ideas, products, features by keeping track of the latest developments and industry trends 
• Operating in an Agile/Scrum environment to deliver high quality software against aggressive schedules

Requirements 

• Proficiency in distributed application development lifecycle (concepts of authentication/authorization, security, session management, load balancing, API gateway), programming techniques and tools (application of tested, proven development paradigms)  
• Proficiency in working on Linux based Operating system. 
• Proficiency in at least one server-side programming language like Java. Additional languages like Python and PHP are a plus 
• Proficiency in at least one server-side framework like Servlets, Spring, java spark (Java). 
• Proficient in using ORM/Data access frameworks like Hibernate,JPA with spring or other server-side frameworks. 
• Proficiency in at least one data serialization framework: Apache Thrift, Google ProtoBuffs, Apache Avro,Google Json,JackSon etc. 
• Proficiency in at least one of inter process communication frameworks WebSocket's, RPC, message queues, custom HTTP libraries/frameworks ( kryonet, RxJava ), etc.  
• Proficiency in multithreaded programming and Concurrency concepts (Threads, Thread Pools, Futures, asynchronous programming). 
• Experience defining system architectures and exploring technical feasibility tradeoffs (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling)
• Experience developing cloud software services and an understanding of design for scalability, performance and reliability
• Good understanding of networking and communication protocols, and proficiency in identification CPU, memory & I/O bottlenecks, solve read & write-heavy workloads. 
• Proficiency is concepts of monolithic and microservice architectural paradigms. 
• Proficiency in working on at least one of cloud hosting platforms like Amazon AWS, Google Cloud, Azure etc.   
• Proficiency in at least one of database SQL, NO-SQL, Graph databases like MySQL, MongoDB, Orientdb 
• Proficiency in at least one of testing frameworks or tools JMeter, Locusts, Taurus 
• Proficiency in at least one RPC communication framework: Apache Thrift, GRPC is an added plus 
• Proficiency in asynchronous libraries (RxJava), frameworks (Akka),Play,Vertx is an added plus 
• Proficiency in functional programming ( Scala ) languages is an added plus 
• Proficiency in working with NoSQL/graph databases is an added plus 
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git is an added plus 
• Working Knowledge of tools for server, application metrics logging and monitoring and is a plus Monit, ELK, graylog is an added plus 
• Working Knowledge of DevOps containerization utilities like Ansible, Salt, Puppet is an added plus 
• Working Knowledge of DevOps containerization technologies like Docker, LXD is an added plus  
• Working Knowledge of container orchestration platform like Kubernetes is an added plus 

Roles & Responsibilities

● Generating a pool of prospects by identifying the need for up-skilling depending on the student’s area of interest.

● Helping prospective students with detailed information about the programs offered through phone & creating a strong pipeline.

● Ensure meet daily deliverables & achieve weekly/monthly enrolment target.

• Help them understand the importance of navigating a career.

● Must be a good listener and be trained in matching candidate needs to a future career. 

• 5 to 6 years and 2 to 3 Years in RPA  - Business analyst
• Analyse, understand, and review existing business process documentation to ensure the complete processes steps documented.
• Participate in various types of interviews, meetings, or workshops to define, design, and configure automation solutions.
• Support the creation and maintenance of solution documentation (process definition document, solution design document, user manual, process estimation etc).
• Help with the creation and documentation of test procedures and scenarios prior to launch User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Support business teams in testing activities, including integration testing, end-to-end (business process) testing and UAT.
• Problem-solve issues that arise in the day-to-day running of automation processes and provide timely responses and solutions as required.
• Manage end to end Project Lifecycle
• Act as a SPOC for customers, Project Teams, Leadership, and administration
• Run workshops with client SMEs to understand the end-to-end process
• Identify any automation blockers and the suitability of the process for automation
• Calculate automation % and FTE benefit and build effort estimates, No of BOT
• Present summary of findings to the client and walk them through to-be design of the automated process
• Work closely with development team to ensure requirements are accurately mapped and suitable for development
• Must be able to provide suggestions for the improvement of existing process and design to-be flows

• Microsoft NAV 2017, ERP. Specific to SCM, MM, WH & PRODUCTION modules
• Role: Will be responsible for implementation and support of business processes w.r.t. Supply chain, planning,  warehouse and production. Change Management, requirement analysis, design, building of solutions, implementation and user feedback to improve the system. Data management and integration of ERP process with external system
• Education : B.Com/BE/BTech
• Experience : 5-8 Years of functional experience in MSFT NAV ERP in Production, Retail & warehouse setup. Practical implementation of modules/data migration/reports/MIS. Working experience in mid/large organization. 

Please find the JD below.

2   One Order framework and APIs, BADI Implementation, Implicit & Explicit enhancements, User exits, Customer Exits ,BSP Component Enhancement, GeniL and BOL Programming

3   ABAP Programming skills,  RICEFW elements, OOPS ABAP, Debugging skill

4   Abap interface using Web services, Configurations in SOAMANAGER, Basic understanding of XML

5   CRM Web UI Designing and Developments, AET tool, SQVI query

6   UI Framework & Configuration including Business Roles, Navigation Bar Profiles, Navigation Links

7   Experience on Smart Forms & mail forms and Develop/enhance smart forms

8   Knowledge on SolMan is preferable

Interview date F2F only on 1^st August 2019