Software Engineer (MERN Stack)

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.

Job Profile :Sr. Software Engineer/Software Engineer/Associate Software Engineer

Technologies :NodeJS Developer

Eligibility Criteria :Requires minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree in IT, Computer Science, MCA or equivalent experience.

Experience :1 to 3 year

Job Description

Job roles and responsibilities

The candidate’s primary focus will be developing new features for our modern web application. They will get exposure to an ‘agile-centric’ delivery model, while leveraging modern / innovative JavaScript approaches. A candidate who is driven, innovative and has passion for elegant technical solutions will thrive in this role.

• You should have deep understanding of NodeJS

• You should be strong in Javascript and TypeScript

• You should be capable of writing complex queries

• ES6, Express, Apollo Server, Send Grid Email, Twilio SMS, Payment Gateway,

• Error Loggin, API Developement, API Security,

• PostGreSQL/MSSQL/MySQL, MongoDB/CouchDB

• Very good knowledge on REST API

• Good experience in Agile methodologies

• Ability to design and write code complying with coding standards and other factors like performance, scalability, reliability, reusability, modularity in mind

• You should have strong logical and problem solving skills

• Excellent communication and customer interfacing skills

• AWS certification is nice to have

• Strong proficiency with JavaScript and good to have ES6(Typescript) knowledge

• Knowledge of Node.js and frameworks such as Express, Restify

• Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds

• Understanding accessibility and security compliance

• User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments

• Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system

• Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application

Competencies and Skills Required

• Requires excellent analytical, problem solving, and good communications skills

• Must be able to work effectively with business stakeholders

• Strong passion for delivering technical solutions to business problems

• Understanding and mindset of Agile software delivery (Ability to adapt to continually changing priorities)

• Team player who understands the importance of teamwork and collaboration

• Passion for delivering new approaches and challenging the ‘status-quo’

• Hungry to learn and always in search of continuous improvement

2.       Proficiency with fundamental front-end languages such as HTML, CSS.

3.       Familiarity with JavaScript frameworks such as Angular JS, React, and Amber.

4.       Proficiency with server-side languages such as Python / Ruby / Java / PHP/ .Net.

5.       Good Understand with database technology such as MySQL, Oracle, and MongoDB.

Preferred Notice Period - Less Than 1 Month

Preferred Education - Tier 1 Engineering Colleges - IIT/NIT/DTU or similar

Preferred Work Background - Startup Engineering Experience

Mandatory Skills :-

4+ years of professional experience in Native React or React JS. Mongo db experience is good to have

Highly proficient in rendering components with Native APIs

Highly proficient in JavaScript, modern JavaScript, HTML,

Highly proficient in one or more libraries (e.g. Redux, React Router, etc) for state managing and routing in addition to React.

Proficient in using Git as a control system

Responsibilities :-    

Develop & deploy quality software and web applications-

Analyse and maintain existing software applications-

Design highly scalable, testable code-

Discover and fix programming bugs

Qualifications :-

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science

Please find below the required skill set

Skillsets:

• Strong Experience in Ruby on Rails
• Solid understanding of Ruby principles and core concepts.
• Good understanding of Object Oriented Concepts and principles.
• Understanding of RESTful/ SOAP APIs.
• Good understanding of front-end technologies including HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery, ReactJS and Bootstrap framework.
• Knowledge/ Experience in SQL and PL/SQL programming.
• Excellent communication Skill.