Software Engineer

About the Role:

As a Backend Systems- Senior Software Engineer you’re expected to support existing functionalities by addressing historical issues and contributing towards tech debt. You’re also expected to build out new features which are part of the Development Roadmap.

What you’ll be doing:

• Understand business requirements and identify the best approach to serve the requirement without risking the system's conceptual sanity.
• Drive Implementation approach discussions by taking complete ownership of partially defined problems.
• Practice TDD and help us retain/improve our code coverage.
• Optimise flows within systems for better performance in response times and memory consumption.
• Tear down unused flows and concepts to make way for the new and evolved ones.

What are we looking for?

• Someone with at least 4+ years of experience building backend systems using any of the following languages: Java, Python.
• Someone who takes ownership of delivery thereby not only closing your own work but also identifying dependencies and making sure they follow the track towards completion.
• Someone who can work both independently and in collaboration with the team as and when the situation demands for it.
• Someone who is not averse to learning and growth and has an open mind about inputs/suggestions from any stakeholder.

Bonus point if you have:

• Experience in the Fintech domain and/ or B2C product experience.
• An understanding of design principles and accepted software design practices.
• Experience building backend systems in Java+SpringBoot or Python+DJango.
• An engineering degree in Computer Science.
• Worked on products with a massive user scale - 1 Mn+ DAUs especially.