
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
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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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know the right technology.They should be able to meet coding principles and write code that is readable
and commented-on where appropriate.Through incorporating their cognitive abilities and extensive
industry experience, they are able to find optimal solutions easily.
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thinks of the end user of the software and works to solve problems within the organization’s
capabilities.Someone who knows the functionality they’re creating is of high value.
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millions of customers on-brand digital assets hence giving you exposure for handling a large user base in
a live environment.
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product development starting from product ideation, Interface design, user experience, analytics, and
engineering.
Typical work week look like:-
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more functional, cohesive codes to enhance the user experience.
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low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications between multiple systems, servers, and
environments.
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processes and also Integrating multiple data sources and databases into one system.
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- Work with engineers, product managers and senior leadership to turn our product and technical vision
into a tangible roadmap every month.
Our ideal candidate should have:-
- 2+ years of relevant experience in a Tech Startup
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Requirements
What you will do
• Review current code and anticipate engineering bottlenecks
• Designing and developing REST API interfaces
• Optimize queries
• Design SOLR based search solution
• Code review peer code
• Identifying code libraries and design patterns
What you will need
• Experience building out RESTful APIs for front-end clients
• Basic knowledge of a minimum one modern front-end framework such as React,Polymer, Angular or Vue.js
• Expert level understanding of NodeJS, and frameworks such as ExpressJS, Fast,LoopBack (preferred)
• Experience with a version control tool (we use git - GitHub and BitBucket)
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• SOLR or ElasticSearch experience
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Memcached
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infrastructure including caching, rate limiting, authentication, and authorization schemes
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Good to have:
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Location : Remote
Job Description
- Responsibilities:
- Execute on the software development strategy to improve our dynamic highly distributed system
- Understand and implement software development/engineering lifecycle concepts to drive features from conception to delivery
- Collaborate closely with the product management, architects and dev-ops to achieve quality releases
- Work hand-in-hand with customer support, documentation and downstream teams to enable customer success
- Make appropriate trade-offs to optimize time-to-release while maintaining performance and scalability requirements
- Be able to clearly communicate goals and desired outcomes to internal project teams
- Interview, mentor and coach new team members
Skills :
Requirements:
- BS/MS in Computer Science/Engineering with 8 years or equivalent experience
- Be a self-starter, able to learn independently and adapt quickly
- Advanced-level of experience as hands-on Core Java Software Engineer in a distributed/cloud-based product
- Solid experience with Spring framework, Rest API, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, Kubernetes and Docker
- Cloud Experience (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure)
- Strong experience and knowledge with Micro services, distributed processing systems, and performance optimization
- Experience with Agile development process and embrace Agile methodologies
- Strong believer of automation test and strive for higher code coverage
- Can-do attitude on problem-solving, quality and ability to execute
Education
- BS/MS in Computer Science/Engineering with 5 years or equivalent experience

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- Experience in Back-End development using Ruby on Rails or NodeJS
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- Experience on MVC patterns using frameworks like Rails, ExpressJS
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- Understanding Security aspects of the applications and can successfully implement OWASP compliant systems
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If you are exploring for opportunities to get a better work exposure & to get a chance to work for scalable products. Kindly go through the job description below & apply if you seem fit for this role.
𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 :
JavaScript, MongoDB, NoSQL, NodeJS/Go/Ruby/Python Data Structure, Algorithms, Product company/ Startup experience.
𝗥𝗼𝗹𝗲𝘀 & 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀:
" 𝗬𝗼𝘂'𝗹𝗹 𝗱𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱 𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝗲 𝘂𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝗳𝗮𝗿𝗺𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗮𝗴𝗿𝗶𝗯𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗲𝘀".
-Be involved and participate in the overall application lifecycle
-Main focus on coding and debugging
-Collaborate with Front-end developers
-Build high-quality reusable code that can be used in the future
-Develop functional and sustainable web applications with clean codes
-Troubleshoot and debug applications
-Conduct UI tests and optimize performance
-Manage cutting-edge technologies to improve applications
-Collaborate with multidisciplinary team of designers, developers and system administrators
-Follow new and emerging technologies
𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲: 2+ years.
𝗟𝗼𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: Patna / Work from Home
𝗦𝗮𝗹𝗮𝗿𝘆: As per market standards

As part of the engineering team, you would be expected to have
deep technology expertise with a passion for building highly scalable products.
This is a unique opportunity where you can impact the lives of people across 150+
countries!
Responsibilities
● Own architecture, design, development, and implementation of different modules/features of the services
● Design, develop, deploy and support web applications.
● Discover opportunities for performance improvements
● Recommend ways to improve reliability, efficiency and code quality
● Focus on continuous delivery and reducing complexity
● Carry out code reviews and manage pull requests
● Build applications based on micro-services architecture
Requirements
● Overall 1-3 years of experience in Backend development.
● B.E/B.Tech in CS or equivalent streams from institute of repute (IITs, NITs, BITs,
IIITs or equivalent)
● Strong object oriented design skills & knowledge of design patterns
● Experience designing & developing distributed systems involving multiple web services, databases (both SQL and NoSQL), caches, queues, etc. taking into consideration scalability, availability, fault tolerance, consistency, etc. of the overall system
● Well-aware of and enforces development best practices: Unit Tests, Code Reviews,
Integration Tests, CI/CD, Monitoring, Alerting, etc
Server Side skills:
Should have handson experience on JS technologies more than 3+ years
Building interactive dasboards from multiple systems and RESTfully
abstract to the UI through a Node.js backend
In depth knowledge of NodeJS, ExpressJS and Restify
Knowledge of authentication using PassportJS, AuthO or JWT.
Knowledge of media content uploading using any cloud
Should have good understanding of request validation, schema
validation and Error handling
Good understanding of Promises, Async/Await and Callbacks
Should have knowledge of Socket, Pubsub.
Payment gateways integration using Braintree, Stripe or any other
would be a good skills to have.
Should have good understanding of scheduled tasks in NodeJS and
CronJobs
In depth knowledge of ORM like Mongoose, Sequalize or KnexJS.
Hands on experience with JavaScript/TypeScript Development on
server side.




