Vice President of Engineering (Job Vacancy)

Job Description: Vice President, Engineering About GradRight: Our vision is to be the world’s leading Ed-Fin Tech company dedicated to making higher education accessible and affordable. We aim to drive transparency and accountability in the global higher education sector and create a significant impact using 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 a high-return college education, universities to engage and select the best-fit students, and banks to lend effectively and efficiently. In just two years, we have enabled students to get the best deals on $ 1.8 Billion of loan requests and facilitated disbursements of more than $ 250 Million in loans. GradRight won the HSBC Fintech Innovation Challenge supported by the Ministry of Electronics & IT, Government of India. GradRight’s team has extensive domestic and international experience launching and scaling premier higher education institutions. Alumni of IIT Delhi, BITS Pilani, IIT Roorkee, ISB Hyderabad, and the University of Pennsylvania form the founding team at GradRight. GradRight is a Delaware, USA-registered company with a wholly-owned subsidiary in India. It has raised Series A investments from IvyCap Ventures Engineering at GradRight Each month on our products, thousands of students decide about their higher education and build a sustainable future with the help of unprecedented use of technology. We enable students, universities, and financial institutions around the world with cross-platform mobile and web applications that deliver. GradRight uses a modern, evolving technology stack (Node JS, Vue JS, Mongo DB, AWS, Python, Java, Redis, Apache Kafka, Google Cloud, and more) with a micro-service-based architecture. We strive to solve the most challenging and vital problems in the higher education sector with solutions built with engineering strength and innovation. With a strong and growing team of passionate and experienced product managers, designers, engineers, developers, and quality assurance experts, we are set to drive the impact we envision for the global community of stakeholders. Overview: As VP of Engineering, you will collaborate with company-wide stakeholders to lead the execution and own the delivery of the technology strategy and products of GradRight with a strong team of engineers and developers. Core Responsibilities: • Management & Product Delivery • Plan the technical roadmap with the Co-Founder, considering the broader business goals and execute • Ensure the engineering teams driving various products in the company are delivering high-quality products as per the plan. • Strategize with clear goals and timelines and adhere to them. Highlight and solve the risks of execution and effective delivery. • Provide the teams with the resources and support they need to be successful. • Set up, monitor, learn, and improve the engineering teams' processes and methodologies to increase efficiency and productivity. • Implementation of Technology Vision and Strategy • Align and understand the company’s broader and technology vision from the Co-founders/CTO • Work with the Co-founders/CTO to co-design the technology strategy and drive its effective implementation. • Security, Consistency & Quality • Ensure the development and deployment of applications in a secure manner • Collaborate to earn required security certifications as required to maintain and communicate high standards of security across applications and integrations • Maintain consistency of products, design, and coding standards across the company • People Management & Cross-company Alignment • Run 1:1s, recruit new hires, identify skills gaps, support with required training and mentoring (directly or indirectly), and provide growth and development opportunities for the entire engineering team. • Drive cross-company engagement to drive synergies across different departments with the engineering teams for seamless alignment and collaboration. • Ensure execution of the company policies (HR, Finance, etc.) and contribute to re-designing them to drive a thriving, enjoyable, and productive work environment for each team member. • Budget Preparation & Adherence • Create and constantly update an appropriate budget for the next 12 months by collaborating with the engineering team and Co-founders/CTO and bringing on board the key business stakeholders on its investment return. • Ensure adherence of execution to the approved budget (including team salaries, software & cloud costs, etc.). Expected Skills: • Strong technical expertise and experience in any of the popular technology stacks • Curious and detail-oriented about the latest trends and technologies • Communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences • Ability to act with honesty and high integrity under pressure • Ability to build and maintain relationships • Identify and solve complex technical problems • Ability to plan for the long term while executing in the short term • Mentoring and coaching skills • Negotiation skills Qualifications & Background Desired: • 10-15 years of experience in overall software development and engineering management • 5+ years of managerial experience leading multiple teams of developers and engineers • Proven experience of solid execution in the B2C (preferably in product companies) and B2B environments • Experience working in high-growth startup environments • Excellent written and verbal communication skills for coordinating across groups. • Experience in effectively leading and motivating a geo-scattered team of engineers Reporting supervisor: Co-Founder Location: Hyderabad preferred (for an exceptional candidate, Gurgaon can be considered) Compensation: Commensurate with experience with a Fixed + Variable + Stock structure: