
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 an 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 tying 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

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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- NPM, Redis
- Typescript / Coffee script experience will be an added advantage
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- Understanding of TCP/IP networking and client/server web programming model
- Good communication skills
- Should be able to work with the cross-geo client team








