Software Development Engineer- III Frontend - Gurugram, India - GradRight Inc.

Description

About us

GradRight is an ed-fin-tech startup focused on global higher 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 financial offerings by 2025.

Our flagship product - FundRight is the world's first student loan bidding platform. GradRight won the HSBC Fintech Innovation Challenge supported by the Ministry of Electronics & IT & was among the top 7 global finalists in The PIEoneer awards hosted by The PIE News, UK. In a short span of 10 months We have received $ 350 millions dollars in loan requests and facilitated disbursements of more than $ 50 million in loans this year and we are poised to scale up rapidly. We are launching the second product - SelectRight as 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 a lot of value for students and universities.

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 build beautiful front-end experiences and enable flexible customer journeys while focusing on an international audience.

Responsibilities:

1. Lead design discussions and decisions around building a scalable and modular front-end architecture
2. Write clean and modular code
3. Participate in sprint ceremonies and actively contribute to scaling the engineering organization from a process perspective
4. Stay on top of the software engineering ecosystem and propose new technologies/methodologies that can be adopted
5. Contribute to engineering hiring by conducting interviews
6. Manage and mentor a small team of junior engineers

Requirements:

1. At least 6 years experience as an SDE, with at least 2 years experience leading teams
2. Strong experience with
3. Able to write maintainable, scalable and unit-testable code
4. Strong understanding of software design principles and patterns
5. Excellent command over data structures and algorithms
6. Passion for solving complex problems
7. Experience with team management
8. Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Good to have:

1. Experience with GraphQL and micro-frontend architectures
2. Worked on products that addressed an international audience
3. Worked on products that scaled to millions of users