
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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- Continuously research, evaluate, and integrate new technologies to improve applications and processes.
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- Strong understanding of multi-threading, concurrency, and performance optimization.
- Solid debugging, troubleshooting, and performance profiling expertise.
- Hands-on experience with source control systems (Git) and CI/CD environments.
- Familiarity with Agile methodologies (Scrum/Kanban).
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- Excellent communication, leadership, and collaboration skills.
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Requirements:
• Strong understanding of Nodejs & front-end Technology.
• Strong understanding of MEAN or MERN Stack.
• Strong knowledge of HTML, CSS, RWD, Javascript, and JQuery.
• Bring 1+ years of Experience in Node with typescript or React.
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• Experience working with AWS Clouds/Azure.
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• Relational DB knowledge (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, or SQL Server).
• NoSQL knowledge (MongoDB, Redis, Cassandra, or Hadoop).
• Ability to recite design patterns.
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- Build scalable and loosely coupled services to extend our platform
- Build bulletproof API integrations with third-party APIs for various use cases
- Evolve our Infrastructure and add a few more nines to our overall availability
- Have full autonomy and own your code, and decide on the technologies and tools to deliver as well as operate large-scale applications on AWS
- Give back to the open-source community through contributions to code and blog posts
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- Working knowledge of MySQL, MongoDB, Redis
- Good understanding of Data Structures, Algorithms, and Operating Systems
- You've worked with core AWS services in the past and have experience with EC2, ELB, AutoScaling, CloudFront, S3
- You can dabble in Frontend codebases using HTML, CSS, and Javascript
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- You might not have experience with all the tools that we use but you can learn those given the guidance and resources
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Prerequisite
We are looking for a Software Engineer across levels who have ever contributed to any large-scale systems be it content platform e.g. Quora/Medium, streaming platform e.g. Netflix or Hotstar, activity log system e.g. Twitter feeds or payment systems like Razorpay to name a few. I/O, Read-Writes, DB connections, Distributed Locking, Memory, Bandwidth, High Throughput, Low Latency and minimal CPU cycles excite you!! You are deep thinkers and can bring ideas to the table, before starting writing the code!!
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Who are you?
● 2-14yrs years of relevant large-scale product company experience ideally in a fast-moving B2C/B2B environment.
● Programming. Proficiency in object-oriented and multi-threaded programming in at least one of the following languages: Java, Python,React.js, Node.js, Next.js, PHP, Golang etc.
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● Demonstrated expertise in applying systems patterns (e.g., Client-server, N-tier, Master/Slave, MVC) and API constructions (e.g., Swagger, OpenAPI).
● Experience in a high-availability 24/7 environment (cloud platforms are a plus). Expertise should include several of the following:
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○ Control, orchestration and automation platforms leveraging containers or VMs. ○ RPC frameworks (e.g., Protobuf/gRPC, Thrift, Bond)
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● Solid coding skills with the ability to drive teams through massive refactoring exercises & improve coding standards across large code bases.
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AirFi is a market leader in providing portable Onboard Passenger Entertainment and Mobile Crew Sales Solutions to various passenger travel segments. Founded in 2011 in The Hague, Netherlands - AirFi is the world's fastest-growing company in mobile InFlight Entertainment space and in providing ancillary sales solutions to enterprise customers.
AirFi brings disruptive innovations in a cost-effective manner to the airline cabin and other modes of passenger transport mediums and is making thousands of passengers and crew happy every day all over the globe!
Your key responsibilities
- Responsible for ideating, designing, developing, and supporting the backend services of AirFi web apps for different modes of passenger transport including major airlines across the world.
- Manage your components independently, including but not limited to: gather requirements; communicate design decisions to cross-functional teams including data science, engineering, analytics, and operations; proactively seek user feedback.
- You will help AirFi to quickly iterate and scale web app development to different segments of customers with standard processes, automation, monitoring, and rapid quality assurance.
- Proactively monitor the web apps space for continuous improvements and optimisations, looking for new opportunities and challenges.
What we look for
- Exposure to product development, self-driven, highly motivated and you must be independent in managing on your own components or features
- You must be extremely collaborative and enjoy working cross-functionally with other engineers, designers, and stakeholders
- You must possess an affinity for metrics and analytics - You must be proactive and must move fast or pivot to meet the changing needs of the product
- You are a problem solver and can use everything from front end to command-line tools to help you identify and fix issues.
- You should be diligent, thoughtful, have an eye for detail and have great oral and written communication skills
- Work with product and engineering teams on different data driven products and help drive/implement the Data flows for the same.
- Designing, integrating and documenting technical components for seamless data extraction and analysis
Must have technical skills
- MUST: Experience in Javascript or any modern-day JS frameworks - 7+ years
- Experience NodeJS, MongoDB or any other NoSQL DB - 7+ years
- Experience on building RESTful services and MVC patterns - 5+ years
You get bonus point for
- Responsive web-frameworks (e.g. Foundation, Bootstrap)
- Experience in AngularJS, React, etc - 2+ years
- Linux skills (we run on embedded Linux)
- Expertise HTML5, CSS,
- Experience on Cloudant, AWS, GCP etc.
- Experience on eCommerce or payments related domains
What you can expect
We promise to provide opportunities that not only satisfy your creative instincts but also let you make a significant impact on the products that we create and ultimately the business we are in. We provide a great platform to take up multiple roles based on individual interests or skills and collaborate with different global teams. We boast of a professional, fun work environment with a flat hierarchy and super supportive people to work with. We also encourage a work culture where - no idea is a bad idea and the team can shout it out to be heard!
What more do we offer?
Some of our benefits that our employees cherish:
- Flexible work timings, remote working and work from home options
- Liberal employee policies including genuine open-door policy and special focus on keeping the work culture non toxic
- A very liberal leave policy that includes paternity, adoption and sabbatical leaves
- We provide Skill enhancement sponsorships
- Celebratory team events, regular team virtual GupShups and fun engagement activities including the annual team (destination) meetings and the annual family gala dinner!
- Meal coupons and random gift vouchers
- Career longevity perks and so on!
When we're in office some of the things that make AirFi an interesting place to work are - healthy breakfast, snacks and a fully loaded pantry (read: health alert!); we try to keep AirFi as a fun place to work at and have interesting team activities on Fridays with occasional beers.
You get the opportunity to work and socialise with our global team when they visit or when you visit our customer offices/hangers. Last but not the least, in case you are an aviation geek - the opportunity to be on test flights and learn how the aviation industry works!
Follow and engage with Us!
- https://www.linkedin.com/company/airfi">LinkedIn
- https://www.facebook.com/AirFi.aero">Facebook
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- http://airfi.aero/">Website
Sr. Software Developer
Job Description:
- Writing clean, high-quality, high-performance, maintainable code
- Develop and support software including applications, database integration, interfaces, and new functionality enhancements
- Coordinate cross-functionally to insure project meets business objectives and compliance standards
- Responsible for regular enhancement of Algorithm
- Develop and support software architecture
- Responsible for DevOps planning
- Support test and deployment of new products and features
- Participate in code reviews
Skills Required:
- Excellent programming skills and knowledge of complete development process.
- Should have knowledge in PHP, CI, Node.JS, MySQL, MongoDB and Modern JavaScript.
- Knowledge of TDD tools
Qualification:
BE/B.Tech/MCA/Mtech/M.E/PHD
Experience: 2 - 3 Years
Location: Bangalore
Salary: 8 Lakhs
Qualification: Any
Industry: Any
Gender: Any
Skills required: C#,SQL Server ,WEB-API and My-SQL knowledge but optional.
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