
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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- Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience.
- Good understanding of data structures and algorithms.
- Good understanding of high level and low-level design of distributed systems.
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Job specifications-
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, or related field.
- Understanding of ruby on rails as well as libraries
- Ability to write clear, readable ruby codes.
- Problem-solving capabilities.
- Understanding of code versioning tools like- Git
- Good understanding of front-end technologies including- HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS3.
- Familiarity with MVC, Mocking, RESTful, and ORM.
- Familiarity with testing tools.
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- 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
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- Understanding of rest API implementation
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- 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
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- Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers with server side logic.
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