
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.

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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Your Impact
- Build scalable backend services.
- Design, implement, and maintain databases, ensuring data integrity, security, and efficient retrieval.
- Implement the core logic that makes applications work, handling data processing, user requests, and system operations
- Contribute to the architecture and design of new product features
- Optimize systems for performance, scalability, and security
- Stay up-to-date with new technologies and frameworks, contributing to the advancement of software development practices
- Working closely with product managers and designers to turn ideas into reality and shape the product roadmap.
What skills do you need?
- 4+ years of experience in backend development, especially building robust APIS using Node.js, Express.js, MYSQL
- Strong command of JavaScript and understanding of its quirks and best practices
- Ability to think strategically when designing systems—not just how to build, but why
- Exposure to system design and interest in building scalable, high-availability systems
- Prior work on B2C applications with a focus on performance and user experience
- Ensure that applications can handle increasing loads and maintain performance, even under heavy traffic
- Work with complex queries for performing sophisticated data manipulation, analysis, and reporting.
- Knowledge of Sequelize, MongoDB and AWS would be an advantage.
- Experience in optimizing backend systems for speed and scalability.

Designation : *Senior Node.js Developer*
CLient Name : *CLIRNET*
Key Responsibilities:
Design and develop scalable, high-performance backend systems using Node.js
Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify and solve complex software problems
Participate in code reviews to maintain code quality standards
Optimize application for maximum speed and scalability
Develop and maintain API endpoints
Implement security and data protection measures
Develop and maintain automated tests to ensure code quality and coverage
Participate in Agile development methodologies such as Scrum
Qualifications:
Minimum of 4 years of experience in Node.js development
Strong proficiency in Node.js and its core principles
Experience with backend frameworks such as Express.js
Experience with automated testing frameworks such as Jest or Mocha
Strong understanding of software development best practices, including Agile
methodologies
Familiarity with Git or other version control systems
Excellent communication skills and ability to work in a collaborative team environment


You will be directly working with the CTO and create an impact on the product which was named as TOP 20 software product companies in India by G2.

quality delivery
● Estimate engineering effort during multiple stages of the product life cycle
● Coach engineering teams in accomplishing architecture, design and implementation
goals Focus on details of software development, design, implementation and
debugging
● Have high technical competence, strong technical background with track record of
individual technical accomplishments
● Ability to play the role of the architect for the team
● Strong sense of ownership/ can do attitude and high attention to detail
● Work with designers, business analysts, and product managers to estimate and
plan projects in an Agile environment
Skills & Experience:
● Hands-on experience in developing, designing & scaling complex
systems Backend: Primarily Node.js and Python
● Databases: Elastic search, DynamoDB, MongoDB, MySQL and Redis
(cache) Web: React, Vue
● Strong Experience in REST API based Microservices development & integration that
includes long running orchestration services
● Preferred AWS Services experience across - S3, DynamoDB, EC2, AWS Lambda, ECS,
ElasticSearch Service, Route 53, API Gateway, CloudFront, CloudFormation, etc.
● Experience with continuous integration and deployment automation tools such as
Jenkins, Salt, Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Travis CI etc
● Experience with gRPC protocol and graphQL frameworks
● The ideal candidate should be willing to commit fully to the company and drive the
company forward

- Understand the architecture and design of multiple existing API capabilities
- Collaborate with the team to monitor and maintain the availability and performance of existing API capabilities
- Troubleshoot and resolve defects within existing API capabilities
- Collaborate with teammates to understand and troubleshoot issues within the larger system
- Perform periodic sustainment activities such as license, certificate, and credential updates.
- Develop enhancements to existing API capabilities as defined and approved by the leadership
- Participate in daily stand-up meetings and other Agile ceremonies
- Write clean, scalable code based on requirements and consistent with the design
- Unit Test enhancement and defect corrections
- Collaborate with teammates to perform system regression testing
- Deploy new baselines to production environments following existing Maintenance Release Processes
- Make recommendations for enhancements to improve existing software and/or to enhance the monitoring capability
- Serve as an expert on applications and provide technical support when appropriate
- Excellent analytical, programming, and debugging skills
- 3+ years of hands-on experience developing backend RoR & Java solutions
- Familiarity or proficiency with Spring Boot-based development
- Understanding of the fundamental technologies of the web, including HTTP, SSL, and JSON
- Working knowledge of AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, and SQL databases
- Enthusiasm for the latest and greatest tools and technologies
- Commitment to a DevOps culture
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- Has high standards, results-oriented, and a commitment to delivering high-quality software on time
Out of many tools and technologies, we use Java, MongoDb, Cassandra, Redis, Twem, Netty extensively for our back-end development.
- Leading the entire Backend platform for a product portfolio.
- End to end delivery new features.
- Evolving the architecture for performance and scalability.
- Design, develop and own components of a highly scalable, distributed web services platform.
- Constantly strive to improve software development process and team productivity.
- Mentor and train team members
- Lead module development independently
Required background, Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- 5.5+/ 7+ Years of experience in a scalable product/ecommerce organization·
- Excellent Java skills, Understanding of Spring framework & MVC approach
- Strong knowledge of Performance optimization and caching techniques.
- Strong Object Oriented Programming concepts, data structure and algorithms
- Experience in developing scalable, fault-tolerant, distributed backend services
- Experience with prevalent design patterns and advanced system designing
- Good experiences with databases and Schema design. We heavily use NoSQL databases
- Strong Problem Solving skills








