



GradRight is an ed-fin-tech startup focused on global higher education. 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 a short span of 10 months, we have facilitated disbursements of more than $ 50 million in loans this year and we are poised to scale up rapidly.
We are launching our second product - SelectRight as an innovative approach to college selection and student recruitment for students and universities, respectively. The product rests on the three pillars of data science, transparency and ethics and hopes to create value for students and universities.
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 Principal Engineer 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 drive the creation of 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. You’ll also manage a team of high performers to achieve the planned outcomes.
You’ll own the technology strategy of the engineering organization and be a key decision maker when it comes to processes and execution.
Responsibilities:
- Drive design discussions and decisions around building scalable and modular architecture
- Work with product, engineering and business teams to ideate on technology strategy and line up initiatives around the same
- Build clean, modular and scalable backend services
- Build clean, modular and scalable frontends
- Own quality and velocity of releases across the engineering organization
- Manage and mentor a team of engineers
- Participate in sprint ceremonies and actively contribute to scaling the engineering organization from a process perspective
- Stay on top of the software engineering ecosystem, propose and implement new technologies/methodologies as per the business needs
- Contribute to engineering hiring by conducting interviews
- Champion infrastructure-as-code mindset and encourage automation
- Identify problems around engineering processes, propose solutions and drive implementations for the same
Requirements:
- At least 8 years of experience, building large scale applications
- Experience working at startups in growth phase with war stories to share
- Experience with frontend technologies like vue.js or react.js
- Strong experience with at least one backend framework, preferably express.js
- Extensive experience in at least one programming language (preferably Javascript, GoLang) and ability to write maintainable, scalable and unit-testable code
- Experience in CI/CD and cloud infrastructure management
- 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:
- Worked on products that addressed an international audience
- Worked on products that scaled to millions of users
- Exposure to emerging/latest technologies like blockchain, bots, AR/VR
- Exposure to AI/ML

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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