technical lead

Role: Backend Engineer

Experience: 2–4 Years

Location: Remote

Education: B.Tech/M.Tech from IITs only

Tech Stack: Node.js, Golang, Microservices, REST APIs, AWS

What You’ll Do

• Design and build scalable backend services using Node.js and Golang
• Develop RESTful APIs and microservices architecture for high-performance applications
• Optimize and refactor code for performance and scalability
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product, frontend, and data teams
• Work in a cloud-native AWS environment with CI/CD and containerization

What We’re Looking For

• 2–4 years of backend development experience
• Strong hands-on with Node.js and Golang
• Experience in building distributed systems and APIs
• Good understanding of databases (SQL/NoSQL), caching, and performance optimization
• Must be from IITs (any campus)
• Strong problem-solving skills and startup mindset

Perks:

• 100% Remote Work
• Work with a high-caliber team from top institutes
• Impact-driven, fast-paced startup culture

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 Overview:

We are seeking a skilled PHP Laravel Developer to join our team. The successful candidate will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining web applications using Laravel framework.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop high-quality web applications using PHP, Laravel framework, and related technologies.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.
• Write clean, secure, and scalable code that meets coding standards and best practices.
• Conduct code reviews and maintain code quality standards.
• Troubleshoot and debug complex issues and provide timely solutions.
• Develop and maintain API integrations with third-party services.
• Perform unit testing, integration testing, and performance testing.
• Participate in project planning and estimation.
• Keep up-to-date with the latest trends and best practices in web development.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field.
• Minimum 1-3 years of experience in PHP development, with a focus on Laravel framework.
• Proficient in PHP, MySQL, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery, and Ajax.
• Experience with RESTful API development and integration.
• Solid understanding of object-oriented programming, MVC design patterns, and software development principles.
• Familiarity with Git version control and Agile development methodology.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

If you are a self-motivated individual with a passion for product development and want to work in a challenging environment, we encourage you to apply for this position.