SDE II Backend (Job Vacancy)

GradRight is the world’s first SaaS platform that brings together students, banks and universities to power smarter ‘Selection and ‘Financing’ of college education.

Using data science, technology and strategic partnerships across the industry, we are enabling students to find the ‘Right University’ at the ‘Right Cost’. We are on a mission to aid a million students to find their best-fit universities and finance them at the lowest cost, by 2025.

Our flagship product - FundRight is the world’s first student loan bidding platform. In a short span of 10 months, we have facilitated disbursements of more than $ 50 million in loans this year and we are poised to scale up rapidly. Our second product - SelectRight is an innovative approach to college selection and student recruitment for students and universities, respectively. The product rests on the three pillars of data science, transparency and ethics and hopes to create value for students and universities.

In just two years, GradRight has enabled students to get the best deals on a $ 1.75 Billion of loan requests and facilitated disbursements of more than $ 175 Million in loans. GradRight was Ranked 1 in the HSBC Fintech Innovation Challenge supported by the Ministry of Electronics & IT, Government of India & were among the top 7 global finalists in The PIEoneer awards hosted by The PIE News, UK.

GradRight’s team of 200+ members is led by alumni of IIT Delhi, BITS Pilani, IIT Roorkee, ISB Hyderabad and University of Pennsylvania and has significant experience in building successful brands in the education sector of India. GradRight is a USA registered company with a wholly owned subsidiary in India.

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 an 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 tying 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

Location: Hyderabad

Additional resources:

• Our team - https://gradright.com/team.html
• Customer testimonials - https://gradright.com/testimonials.html

GradRight on social media - LinkedIn, Instagram

Requirements 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