Senior Backend Engineer

What you will be doing??

• Evaluate product requirements for operational feasibility and create detailed specifications & tech designs based on user stories.
• Contribute to design/code reviews for quality assurance.
• Hands-on participation in development and bug fixing.
• Monitor and report technical execution progress as well as all technical issues, risk or mitigation plan in a timely manner.
• Taking up critical POCs and feasibility studies.
• Drive technical innovations in the product constantly to remain ahead of the curve.

Who you are??

• 5+ Years of experience.
• Have a pragmatic approach to problem solving and solution architecture and an keen eye for simplicity
• Have attention to detail when developing solutions
• Have the ability to break down and communicate complex problems in simple terms
• Have worked in medium to large teams for over 4+ years commercial experience as a software engineer/developer
• Have experience with Typescript, Node.js and modern JavaScript
• Have designed and implemented REST APIs and understand GraphQL very well
• Have experience with serverless technologies, microservice architectures
• Have experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure)
• Have extensive experience with various levels of testing e.g. unit, integration, end-to-end

Bonus skills

• Understanding and experience with golang
• Experience designing, developing, and running production-grade systems at medium scale and above (50k+ users)
• The ability to work across the fullstack (React-Native)
• Experience with AWS / Good understanding of AWS services - EC2, S3, Route 53, DynamoDB, Cloud Front, Lambda, SNS, SQS, API gateway, ELB, EBS
• Experience in the finance/payments domain

Our Software Engineer Philosophy

• We have a relentless focus on engineering productivity (we actively kill meetings that don’t add value to the team’s daily goals)
• We take a pragmatic / best practice approach to all levels of testing
• We empower all engineers to ship features as frequently as possible
• We value incremental releases processes over traditional waterfall methods
• We pride ourselves on creating a culture of software engineering excellence
• We encourage knowledge sharing amongst the team and believe continuous learning is critical to every engineer’s career