
Role Overview
As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will be working closely with our core team in building products from scratch into large-scale platforms and solving business problems leveraging new and innovative technology. More than anything, we are looking for engineers that are eager to learn and build a meaningful company. We are a small team and encourage engineers to wear many hats
Responsibilities
- Design and build highly reliable and performant applications that deliver a great user experience.
- Own large technical deliverables and execute in a structured manner.
- Take the accountability of the overall health of the applications you build.
- Platformize components as libraries, utilities and promote reuse.
- Be able to conceptualize and develop prototypes quickly
Skills & Requirements
▪ Work Experience between 2 to 6 years in large scale applications with desire to work in fast paced startups
▪ Experience/Knowledge of Node.JS, Express .JS, AWS, MongoDB.
Deep understanding of your tools: Languages, frameworks, systems.

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Our vision is to be the world’s leading Ed-Fin Tech company dedicated to making higher education accessible and affordable to all. Our mission is to drive transparency and accountability in the global higher education sector and create significant impact using the power of technology, data science and collaboration.
GradRight is the world’s first SaaS ecosystem that brings together students, universities and financial institutions in an integrated manner. It enables students to find and fund high return college education, universities to engage and select the best-fit students and banks to lend in an effective and efficient manner.
In the last three years, we have enabled students to get the best deals on a $ 2.8+ Billion of loan requests and facilitated disbursements of more than $ 350+ Million in loans. GradRight won the HSBC Fintech Innovation Challenge supported by the Ministry of Electronics & IT, Government of India. With a strong presence in the U.S. and subsidiaries in India and commencement of UK operations, GradRight is well-poised for global expansion, having raised a Series A round of investments. GradRight’s 200+ team members across Hyderabad, Gurgaon, Bangalore, Kolkata and the US are led by alumni of IIT Delhi, IIT Kharagpur, BITS Pilani, ISB Hyderabad and University of Pennsylvania.
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 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 tie 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
- Location: GurgaonAdditional resources:Our team - https://gradright.com/team.html
- Customer testimonials - https://gradright.com/testimonials.html
- GradRight on social media - LinkedIn, Instagram
- People will be eligible for ESOPs only after the 6 months of engagement with Gradright.
● Building and maintaining micro services.
● Develop new features and improve existing features of the application.
● Coding, Implementing, Unit Testing and Documenting Typescript and Javascript based services.
● Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable code.
● Code reviews and ensuring adherence to software development standards.
● Contribute to team and organizational improvements in process and infrastructure.
● Participating in requirements gathering and functional specification activities.
● Resolving and helping to mitigate production issues.
What you need to be successful
● Has proven himself as a solid individual contributor and has some initial management ability
● Understands the culture and upholds it
● Well respected with the team
● Looking to grow more as a manager than as an engineer
● Split time b/w hands-on technical work and people management of a small team
● Be a role model for the people in your team
● Responsible for team mentorship, technical planning, resource allocation & project delivery
● Build solid working relationships with counterparts outside engineering
● If we shortlist you for a lead role, then you'll have to mentor SDE-1 towards their SDE-2 journey.
● Progress up to manager in 2-3 years
● Strong Data Structure and Algorithms
● Experience of building micro services architectures, developing RESTful services, continuous integration, unit and integration testing.
● Proficient with Express, Jest, Sinon and other Javascript frameworks apart from
RDBMS and NoSQL databases - PostgreSQL, MongoDB
● Gauge or other BDD frameworks and experience in Fintech would be preferred.
● Fintech experience - preferred



Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers
Build efficient, testable, and reusable PHP modules
Solve complex performance problems and architectural challenges
work on multiple projects with Product Development team
Contribute in all phases of the development lifecycle
Follow industry best practices
Develop and deploy new features to facilitate related procedures and tools if necessary Skills And Qualifications
Strong knowledge of PHP web frameworks ( Magento 1/2, Wordpress, YII, Laravel, Prestashop)
Understanding of MVC design patterns
Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, jQuery, HTML5, and CSS3
Knowledge of object oriented PHP programming Strong knowledge of the common PHP or web server exploits and their solutions
Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
Good knowledge of relational databases, version control tools (like GIT) and of developing web services
Experience in common third-party APIs (Google, Facebook, Ebay etc) (OPTIONAL)



Job Description
Viaan Industries Limited is looking for a Software Developer who is motivated to combine the art of design with the art of programming.The ideal candidate for this position will have a broad technical skill set and extensive experience in this industry. As a result, the candidate should be able to design, develop, test and deploy the products required for the company's needs. Moreover, the candidate should be able to work with other developers in determining product strategy.
Responsibilities
- Own the product : Design, Develop & Deploy
- Ensure Quality & sustainability of the architecture
- Obsess about code quality, automated testing, continuous integration, code reviews, and documentation
- Provide quick & creative solutions for day-to-day operational issues
- Assure that all user input is validated before submitting to back-end.
- Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs.
Required Skills
- Proficient in Server Side Programming Languages :- PHP (Laravel)
- Proficient in design & architecting scalable products.
- Must have hands on experience in Ajax, Jquery.
- Database knowledge – MongoDb.
- Knowledge of Development Tools Bitbucket, Git, CI/CD with BitBucket and JIRA
- Web Server technologies:- Apache, Nginx
- Solid foundation in data structures, algorithms, and system design
- Expert in HTTP terminologies such as Request/Response cycle, content negotiation, CORS etc
- Management of hosting environment, including database administration and scaling an application to support load changes
- Optimization of the application for maximum speed and scalability
- Implementation of security and data protection
- Setup and administration of backups
- Obsess about code quality, automated testing, continuous integration, code reviews, and documentation.
- Exposure to microservices architecture/ API concepts would be an added advantage.
- Good organizational and time-management skills
Good To Have
- Knowledge of NodeJs, Angular
- Familiarity with AWS products - Beanstalk, Elb, ECS, EC2, SNS, SQS, S3, RDS, etc.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in computer science / engineering
● Build new features to allow for rapid product experimentation to power web and
android applications, implementing features in an efficient way
● Incrementally adapt an existing Node.js monolith for scalability and very fast growth
● Deliver within project timelines through diligent planning and attention to detail.
● Keep key stakeholders informed about progress and problems; avoid surprises.
● Identify and report performance bottlenecks wherever feasible
● Follow testing and documentation best practices for the services developed.
● Work in a dynamic and collaborative culture ensuring good teamwork and
communication with remote team members when needed
Requirements
● 2 or more years of backend development experience
● At least 1 year of experience with Node.js frameworks like Express, Koa, Sail etc.
● Strong problem-solving skills. Good knowledge of data structures and algorithms.
● Solid understanding design patterns and OOP concepts; familiarity with
object-oriented JS (asynchronous code, events loop etc) is highly preferable
● Strong hands-on exp of relational DBMS concepts with PostgreSQL / other SQL DBs
● Ability to quickly design and implement optimized solutions for feature requirements
● Good understanding of the fundamental design principles for a scalable application
● Strong handle over Git, following best practices to facilitate collaboration
Nice to haves
● Experience working with apps in a microservices architecture
● Familiarity with caching solutions like Redis, Memcached etc
● Knowledge of testing best practices and concepts of test-driven development and
experience with unit testing frameworks in any of the major programming languages
● Familiarity with documentation tools and generators for Node.js applications







