Senior Software Engineer

Role Overview

We are seeking an excellent Python developer with strong coding skills and a proven ability to solve complex problems. The role involves working on backend systems and automation projects, with flexibility across domains for technically strong candidates.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop, optimize, and maintain Python-based applications.
• Contribute to backend development and automation workflows.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable solutions.
• Troubleshoot and resolve technical challenges with a problem-solving mindset.
• Ensure code quality, performance, and maintainability.

Key Requirements

• Strong expertise in Python programming with excellent coding skills.
• Experience in backend development or automation systems preferred.
• Demonstrated problem-solving ability and technical depth.
• Open to diverse domains, provided the candidate is technically strong.

Job title - Python developer

Exp – 4 to 6 years

Location – Pune/Mum/B’lore

PFB JD

Requirements:

• Proven experience as a Python Developer
• Strong knowledge of core Python and Pyspark concepts
• Experience with web frameworks such as Django or Flask
• Good exposure to any cloud platform (GCP Preferred)
• CI/CD exposure required
• Solid understanding of RESTful APIs and how to build them
• Experience working with databases like Oracle DB and MySQL
• Ability to write efficient SQL queries and optimize database performance
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail
• Strong SQL programing (stored procedure, functions)
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skill

Roles and Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain data pipelines and ETL processes using pyspark
• Work closely with data scientists and analysts to provide them with clean, structured data.
• Optimize data storage and retrieval for performance and scalability.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather data requirements.
• Ensure data quality and integrity through data validation and cleansing processes.
• Monitor and troubleshoot data-related issues to ensure data pipeline reliability.
• Stay up to date with industry best practices and emerging technologies in data engineering.

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.

We are looking for a Backend Developer who has 4-6 years of experience in designing, developing, and implementing backend services using Python and Django.

- Responsibilities-

- Design highly scalable, testable code and follow Test Driven Development methodology 

- Able to write well-organized, modularised code with test cases.

- Contribute to the design and architecture of our backend APIs and deployment of microservices

- Ensure adherence to engineering best practices and maintain the overall quality of our codebase.

- Work with the product team to translate powerful ideas into everyday business value.

- Skills-

- Back-end programming language: Python

- Familiarity with Django or Flask framework

- Familiarity with AWS and Elastic Search

- Experience in SQL and NoSQL databases with an insight into various data modeling use cases

- Experience with system & unit testing

- Familiarity with containerized deployment

- Proficiency with Git

- Sound with data structures and algorithms and have a good understanding of design patterns, software architectures