Sr Backend Engineer (Tech Lead )

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.

Responsibilities:

• Lead simultaneous development for multiple business verticals.
• Design & develop highly scalable, reliable, secure, and fault-tolerant systems.
• Ensure that exceptional standards are maintained in all aspects of engineering.
• Collaborate with other engineering teams to learn and share best practices.
• Take ownership of technical performance metrics and strive actively to improve them.
• Mentors junior members of the team and contributes to code reviews.

Requirements:

• A passion to solve tough engineering/data challenges.
• Be well versed with cloud computing platforms AWS/GCP
• Experience with SQL technologies (MySQL, PostgreSQL)
• Experience working with NoSQL technologies (MongoDB, ElasticSearch)
• Excellent Programming skills in Python/Java/GoLang
• Big Data streaming services (Kinesis, Kafka, RabbitMQ)
• Distributed cache systems(Redis, Memcache)
• Advanced data solutions(BigQuery, RedShift, DynamoDB, Cassandra)
• Automated testing frameworks and CI/CD pipelines Infrastructure orchestration(Docker/Kubernetes/Nginx)
• Cloud-native tech like Lambda, ASG, CDN, ELB, SNS/SQS, S3 Route53 SES

● 5+ years of experience as a Data engineer or related role.

● 5+ years of experience in application development using Python

● Strong experience with SQL and good to have NoSQL.

● Experience with Agile engineering practices.

● Preferred experience in writing queries for RDBMS, cloud-based data warehousing solutions like

Snowflake.

● Ability to work independently or as part of a team.

● Experience with cloud platforms, preferably AWS, is good to have

● Experience with ETL/LT tools and methodologies.

● Experience working on real-time Data Streaming and Data Streaming platforms

Enterprise Minds, with core focus on engineering products, automation and intelligence, partners customers on the trajectory towards increasing outcomes, relevance, and growth. 

Harnessing the power of Data and the forces that define AI, Machine Learning and Data Science, we believe in institutionalizing go-to-market models and not just explore possibilities. 

We believe in a customer-centric ethic without and people-centric paradigm within. With a strong sense of community, ownership, and collaboration our people work in a spirit of co-creation, co-innovation, and co-development to engineer next-generation software products with the help of accelerators. 

Through Communities we connect and attract talent that shares skills and expertise. Through Innovation Labs and global design studios we deliver creative solutions. 
We create vertical isolated pods which has narrow but deep focus. We also create horizontal pods to collaborate and deliver sustainable outcomes. 

We follow Agile methodologies to fail fast and deliver scalable and modular solutions. We are constantly self-asses and realign to work with each customer in the most impactful manner. 

Pre-requisites for the Role 

1. Job ID-EMPY0120MS 

1. Primary skill: Python Developer, Django, Problem solving. 

1. Secondary skill: Rest, API 

1. Years of Experience: 4-7 Years  

1. Location: Remote 

Budget- Open  

NP- Immediate 

PYTHON DEVELOPER 

• Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable Python code 
• Design and implement software platform with Microservices Architecture, based on AWS Lambda and Event sourced data 
• Integration of data storage solutions {may include databases, key-value stores, notification queues, etc.} 

• Integration with various backend monitoring tools 
• Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to these problems 
• Help maintain code quality, organization and automatization 
• Participate in early product demonstrations to customersExperience required: 
• Bachelor's or Masters in Computer Science or a related discipline 

• 2-6 years of relevant professional experience 
• Delivery of quality results within aggressive timelines 
• Knowledge of software development processesSkills Required: 
• Experience with Python, along with other common libraries/framework such as Flask, Celery, Django etc., 
• Good understanding with usage of Lambda in Python. 

• Good understanding in testing frameworks like PyTest. 
• Ability to work with IDEs like Visual Studio Code. 
• Basic understanding in developing private PIP packages. 
• Solid understanding of object-oriented programming. 
• Familiarity with concepts of MVC, Mocking, ORM, and RESTful. 

• A knack for writing clean, readable Python code. 
• Ability to integrate multiple data sources and databases into one system. 
• Ability to understand monitoring metrics, such as CPU, Memory, Disk Space, Network latency, and telemetry services. 
• Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application. 
• Understanding the fundamentals of RDBMS databases. 

• Ability to work with PostgreSQL is a plus. 
• Ability to work with AWS services like Lambda, Kinesis, SQS, SNS etc., is a plus. 
• Proficient understanding of Git. 
• Familiarity with continuous integration and continuous deployment. 
• Effective verbal and written communication skills. 

Designation: Technical Lead (ABL_SS_272)

Position description:

• Work with Product and Engineering leaders to drive and implement platform and product vision.
• Leverage deep and wide knowledge of technology stack to recommend appropriate architecture and design solutions, and provide technical leadership to a team of rock star Software Engineers.
• Translate the impact of design choices on non-functional attributes like scalability, performance, availability, and security.
• Create large-scale, multi-tiered, distributed web applications with databases, and designing web services, APIs, data models, and schemas, using SQL or NoSQL.
• Experience with Cloud environments, such as AWS.
• Comfortable working with Windows and Linux environments.
• Work with different data storage solutions such as Postgres, Oracle, SQL Server, ElasticSearch, SQL, Hadoop, or MongoDB.
• Experience delivering high-quality software following continuous delivery and using code quality tools (JIRA, GitHub, Jenkin, Hudson, Sonar, and Fortify, etc.).
• Drive adoption of best practices across the Software Engineering Lifecycle, including reviews, source control, build processes, continuous integration, and deployment.
• Develop and maintain cross-functional relationships and alignment.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Application Development using Golang / C++.

Reporting Department: Application Development and Maintenance (1991)

Educational qualifications preferred Degree: Bachelors degree

Required Skills:

• Experience of building scalable architectures
• Hands-on experience with GoLang, Node Js, C++ or Java or any other Open Source technologies/ Cloud Servers
• Experience in developing software using a formal & structured development methodology
• Ability to work in a collaborative team environment
• Experience with test-driven development & proper unit testing of code
• An iterative approach to development, using short development cycles & frequent builds
• Object-oriented programming/ Object Oriented Design (OOP/OOD)
• Ability to develop secure solutions & knowledge of industry best practices regarding information security & defensive development

Location – Pune, Gandhinagar (Currently Work from Home till 2022)

Educational Qualification - B.E / B.Tech, MCA, M.Tech, or any equivalent IT graduation or post-graduation

• J2EE - Sprint Boot Microservices.
• At least 8+ years of experience in Java development (J2EE, J2SE 8).
• Extensive experience with Spring, Spring Boot Micro Services, JPA, Hibernate.
• Extensive experience in REST and SOAP Webservices Services.
• Excellent knowledge of databases( PostgreSQL, MySQL).
• Experience in testing tools (JUnit, SOAP UI, Postman).
• Experience in build tools – Maven, Gradle. Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token.
• Experience in web application servers - Tomcat, etc.
• Understanding of Agile Development methodology – SCRUM.
• Understanding of continuous integration - Jenkins, and Code versioning tools- Git

Required Qualifications and Skills:

• 3-5 years of work experience in the development background, with at least 2 years experience in Java, Spring, Sprint Boot, Hibernate or JPA, MySQL, Oracle, Spring MVC.
• B.E. degree in Computer Science, Graduate in Software Engineering or equivalent
• Experience in Core JAVA, Spring, Spring Boot Frameworks.
• Experience with ORM's like Hibernate.
• Good knowledge of developing RESTful web services using Spring Boot, Java1.x,Servlet2.4, JSP2.0, JDBC3.0, Java Mail, Struts2.x, HTML, HTML5, Angular7+, JavaScript, JSF, Bootstrap2.x-3.x, JQuery & CSS 3.x, Maven 3.x, Apache Tomcat7
• Knowledge of Cloud AWS.
• Experience in any Messaging Queue e.g. Apache Kafka, ActiveMQ, etc.
• Experience on Web services with REST and SOAP.
• Experience working on tool set like Eclipse IDE, SQL clients.
• Experience using application server like Jboss, TomCat, Wildfly, glassfish.
• Experience in using tools like SOAP UI, POSTMAN
• Ability to write SQL queries to fetch data.
• Knowledge of Micro services, Redis Cache and Mongo DB (or any other NoSQL) is good to have

Software engineering - Bengaluru and remote

Building products at BiCSoM is about turning dreams and ideas into lovable technology and design solutions. As a mindful member of the BiCSoM team you will create rule-breaking backend systems for mobile applications and websites using Php, Laravel, Lumen, MySQL, PostgresSQL and AuroraDB. Large number of people across the globe use our products everyday, we take pride in wearing ‘Made with love in India’ on our sleeves.

What are we looking for?

1. We expect you to have your domain knowledge of Php, MySQL, AuroraDB, PostgresSQL, Laravel, Lumen, REST APIs and AWS based scalable backend development
2. There are few skills which you need to have from get-go:
1. You are a problem solver, polite and someone who values team members and customers
2. You respect time and understand, lost time never  comes back
3. You have the ability to explain your algorithms and solutions and understand how to ask questions with respect to mobile app development and web development scenarios
4. You are a smart and energetic talent from engineering and computer science background 
5. Based on the situations you can contribute individually or work with team and make work productive and fun
6. In terms of day to day work, for 4-5 years you should have done the following:
1. At least 8 to 10 live projects in Laravel, Lumen
2. Handled team of 2 to 3 developers on Php 
3. Thorough understanding of MVC framework in Php using Laravel and Lumen
4. Writing backend code with SOLID principle
5. Unit testing of your code with Travis CLI
6. Hands on experience with MySQL and PostgresSQL
7. Rock solid understanding of Blade template engine
8. Collaborative development with BitBucket or GIT and handling of code merge conflicts
9. Documenting backend code and APIs using Swagger
10. Expert Knowledge of code deployment on AWS is a must
11. Knowledge of NoSQL will be an added advantage
12. Expert in Linux,  and understanding of Ubuntu OS

1. Work location: Bengaluru city and Remote
2. Working days - 6 days a week

BiCSoM Technologies Private Limited is committed to breakthrough innovation and success for its team members. From our mindful culture of compassion and wisdom to passionate customer success philosophy, this is one awesome place to work! So come and experience what it takes to build digital products which are loved by millions of users across the globe. You will find speed, agility, fun and supportive culture where we are responsible for each other’s success. 

1. BiCSoM is a registered startup under the Startup India initiative of Government of India and a DIPP registered MSME
2. BiCSoM was recognized as one of the top AR/VR startups in India in 2018 in DCB Bank innovation carnival