GradRight - Senior Software Developer - Data Structure/Algorithm

Job Description

GradRight is an ed-fin-tech company committed to drive transparency and accountability in global higher education sector.

We are the world's first platform that integrates 'Selection' with 'Financing'. and brings students, banks and universities in a SaaS environment to make smarter decisions. 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 financial offerings by 2025.

Our flagship product - FundRight is the world's first student loan bidding platform. In just two years, we have enabled students to get the best deals on a $ 1 Billion of loan requests and facilitated disbursements of more than $ 120 Million in loans. We are India's largest single pipeline of education loans and we are poised to scale up globally.

Our second product - SelectRight is the world's first MarTech SaaS platform that redefines the way students select the right colleges and the way colleges find and engage with the right students.

GradRight is a Delaware, 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

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 : Hyderabad

Additional Resources
• Our team - Customer testimonials - GradRight on social media - LinkedIn, Instagram

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