Simpl

The thrill of working at a start-up that is starting to scale massively is something else. Simpl (getsimpl.com) was formed in 2015 by Nitya Sharma, an investment banker from Wall Street and Chaitra Chidanand, a tech executive from the Valley, when they teamed up with a very clear mission - to make money simple so that people can live well and do amazing things. Simpl is the payment platform for the mobile-first world, and we’re backed by some of the best names in fintech globally (folks who have invested in Visa, Square and Transferwise), and has Joe Saunders, Ex-Chairman and CEO of Visa as a board member.

Everyone at Simpl is an internal entrepreneur who is given a lot of bandwidth and resources to create the next breakthrough towards the long-term vision of “making money Simpl”. Our first product is a
payment platform that lets people buy instantly, anywhere online, and pay later. In the background, Simpl uses big data for credit underwriting, risk and fraud modeling, all without any paperwork, and enables Banks and Non-Bank Financial Companies to access a whole new consumer market.

Areas of work
Principals are involved in Architecture Direction and Alignment
1. Tracking and directing how the overall system architecture evolves.
2. Developing and identifying useful architecture patterns within our systems based on
industry know-how and our own operational and development experience.
3. Develop and manage an architecture decisions guidelines framework that will be useful to
make consistent, faster and reliable architecture and design decisions.
4. Documenting or making this information available to all engineers - new or old
5. Create mechanisms to audit and ensure architectural compliance across engineering teams

Internal Developer Community and Tech growth for teams
Create and nurture tech communities so that developers can
● gain more knowledge about the industry practices
● learn to express their knowledge, opinions and views

Quality
Monitor and improve the quality of our systems by helping with
1. Bug reduction
2. MTTR reduction
3. Ensuring better engineering practices around testing, tooling, monitoring and resilience.

Cost - Infra and application costs
Ensuring systems are run and maintained with frugality in mind without compromising on business and operational expectations.

Hiring
Help hire and mentor engineers at Simpl.
Partners at Work
Principals partner with team leads, product managers, infosec engineers and devops engineers, ensuring alignment in vision and execution, splitting time between different domains as they see fit.

Minimum Qualifications
● At least 8 years of software development experience
● Experience with technically leading projects and architecting high-traffic consumer-facing applications.
● A background in CS or relevant technical experience.
● Familiarity with languages like Go, Java, Ruby and Python.
● Familiarity with the AWS Stack.

About Simpl:
Simpl (Fintech of the year - 2020) is a platform that empowers retailers to grow by building long term trusted relationships with their customers, one transaction at a time. For consumers, Simpl provides frictionless access to e-commerce, trust, safety and effortless budgeting, in 1-click.
Under the hood, we are building the payments infrastructure (identity, trust score and security) ground up for a world that is mobile first, where consumers frequently buy on the go & love convenience.

Everyone at Simpl is an internal entrepreneur who is given a lot of bandwidth and resources to create the next breakthrough towards a new world of Networked Commerce where commerce is easy, safe, affordable without fine prints & just Simpl!

Simpl was founded in 2015 by Nityanand Sharma and Chaitra Chidanand, and went live in 2016.

Role Summary:
We’re looking for polyglot developers who love to code. You should have >4 years of experience building high-quality products. You should have the ability to write clean code and must’ve worked on Ruby on Rails

About Simpl
The thrill of working at a start-up that is starting to scale massively is something else. Simpl (FinTech startup of the year - 2020) was formed in 2015 by Nitya Sharma, an investment banker from Wall Street and Chaitra Chidanand, a tech executive from the Valley, when they teamed up with a very clear mission - to make money simple so that people can live well and do amazing things. Simpl is the payment platform for the mobile-first world, and we’re backed by some of the best names in fintech globally (folks who have invested in Visa, Square and Transferwise), and
has Joe Saunders, Ex Chairman and CEO of Visa as a board member.

Everyone at Simpl is an internal entrepreneur who is given a lot of bandwidth and resources to create the next breakthrough towards the long term vision of “making money Simpl”. Our first product is a payment platform that lets people buy instantly, anywhere online, and pay later. In
the background, Simpl uses big data for credit underwriting, risk and fraud modelling, all without any paperwork, and enables Banks and Non-Bank Financial Companies to access a whole new consumer market.
In place of traditional forms of identification and authentication, Simpl integrates deeply into merchant apps via SDKs and APIs. This allows for more sophisticated forms of authentication that take full advantage of smartphone data and processing power

Skillset:
 Workflow manager/scheduler like Airflow, Luigi, Oozie
 Good handle on Python
 ETL Experience
 Batch processing frameworks like Spark, MR/PIG
 File formats: parquet, JSON, XML, thrift, avro, protobuff
 Rule engine (drools - business rule management system)
 Distributed file systems like HDFS, NFS, AWS, S3 and equivalent
 Built/configured dashboards

Nice to have:
 Data platform experience for eg: building data lakes, working with near - realtime
applications/frameworks like storm, flink, spark.
 AWS
 File encoding types: Thrift, Avro, Protobuff, Parquet, JSON, XML
 HIVE, HBASE

About Simpl (getsimpl.com)
The thrill of working at a start-up that is starting to scale massively is something else. Simpl (FinTech startup of the year - 2020) was formed in 2015 by Nitya Sharma, an investment banker from Wall Street and Chaitra Chidanand, a tech executive from the Valley, when they teamed up with a very clear mission - to make money simple, so that people can live well and do amazing things. Simpl is the payment platform for the mobile-first world, and we’re backed by some of the best names in fintech globally (folks who have invested in Visa, Square and Transferwise), and
has Joe Saunders, Ex Chairman and CEO of Visa as a board member.
Everyone at Simpl is an internal entrepreneur who is given a lot of bandwidth and resources to create the next breakthrough towards the long term vision of “making money Simpl”. Our first product is a payment platform that lets people buy instantly, anywhere online, and pay later. In
the background, Simpl uses big data for credit underwriting, risk and fraud modelling, all without any paperwork, and enables Banks and Non-Bank Financial Companies to access a whole new consumer market.
In place of traditional forms of identification and authentication, Simpl integrates deeply into merchant apps via SDKs and APIs. This allows for more sophisticated forms of authentication that take full advantage of smartphone data and processing power.

We are looking for an experienced (>4 years) mobile developer who is proficient with Android/iOS platforms along with exposure to React Native. You should have a sense of great ‘taste’ and be excited about building products with exceptional UX. You should be able to implement established best practices across the mobile platform including automation testing, continuous integration, and architectural patterns.

Responsibilities
1. Developing new user-facing features using Android/iOS and React Native
2. Building reusable and platform  specific components
3. Translating designs and wireframes into high-quality code
4. Optimizing components for maximum performance on Android and iOS
5. Brainstorm with designers & product managers to come up with product features

Requirements
1. Strong proficiency in tech stack (Java for Android developers & Swift, Objective-C for iOS
developers)
2. Thorough understanding of React Native and its core principles
3. Experience with popular React Native workflows (for Routing, State container, etc)
4. Experience with Native modules, bridging native code with React Native
5. Familiarity with newer specifications of ECMAScript
6. Experience with developing SDKs for Android or iOS platform is a plus
7. Familiarity with RESTful APIs
8. Familiarity with build pipelines and tools for mobile platforms
9. A knack for benchmarking and optimization

About Simpl
Simpl is focused on transforming how the people of India deal with money. Its first product is a payment mode that lets users skip traditional forms of payments entirely. Instead, all the transactions get added into a single bill, payable on the 1st and 16th of every month. This way, the checkout process takes less than a few seconds - making it a win-win for merchants and users alike.

In place of traditional forms of identification and authentication, Simpl integrates deeply into merchant apps via SDKs and APIs. This allows for more sophisticated forms of authentication that take full advantage of smartphone data and processing power.

Simpl was founded in 2015 by Nityanand Sharma and Chaitra Chidanand, and went live in 2016.
As a Software Engineering Manager, you will lead a team responsible for the implementation and evolution of key parts of this application.

Leadership Skills
● Manage a team of engineers and coach them to reach their full potential
● Develop engineers in their career path: Set objectives, provide feedback and review
performance.
● Ability to manage remote teams is essential.
● Prior experience with remote teams is helpful.
● You will be expected to bring these best practices to the rest of the organization.
● Act as the scrum master
● Ensure that the team builds high quality software by writing unit tests
● Interface with Product and Operation teams to resolve issues

Engineering Skills
● Be hands on: Write secure, efficient, good quality code
● Conduct peer code reviews
● Have a deep understanding of the techniques and technologies that are necessary for
scalability and performance.
● Experience with data modeling and relational databases
● Deep knowledge in one of the ROR/Golang/NodeJS/Java

http://getsimpl.com/">Simpl partners with popular online brands and offers their customers the ability to make purchases without paying for them at that very moment.

 

Over the years, additionally, it has also developed a range of offerings including a one-time checkout feature; Bill Box, which allows customers to automate their recurring expense payouts, and splitting a bill in three parts, to build a “full-stack solution,” said Nitya Sharma, co-founder and chief executive of Simpl, in an interview with TechCrunch.

 

Some of Simpl’s partners include telecom network Jio Platforms, food delivery service Zomato, pharmacy 1MG, grocer BigBasket and ticketing platform MakeMyTrip.

Know More About Simpl

[ https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/30/india-fintech-simpl-raises-40-million">https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/30/india-fintech-simpl-raises-40-million ]

[ https://getsimpl.com/about-us/">https://getsimpl.com/about-us/ ]

Java 1.8 or later/Golang/Ruby on Rails,
Spring, Spring Boot, Microservices, SQL / NoSLQ , REST APIs , Redis , Kafka, Rabbit MQ, Docker, AWS

B2B / B2C / Cloud (AWS/ GCP) / SAAS Products ,  Software Best Practices , REST / GRPC , Domain Driven Design, Event and Message Driven Systems , Data Structures , Algorithms, OOPS, System Design, JUnit, Mockito, Fitnesse, Cucumber, HTML/ CSS / Javascript, Git , Bitbucket, Maven, Asynchronous / Functional / Reactive Programming in Java

 

• An Engineering Degree - B.E/B.Tech/MS/PhD in any stream – Computer Science preferred.
• 7-12 years of relevant experience in building highly resilient, highly scalable systems
• Understand the product management space with Agile methodologies.
• Demonstrated end-to-end ownership for development and design of least one cloud-based product - Experience in building microservices / platforms is desirable.
• Strong desire to drive change, and ability to adapt to change quickly. Proficient in new and emerging technologies.
• Ability to balance the long-term “big picture” and short-term implications of design decisions.
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills - including negotiation, facilitation, and consensus building skills; ability to influence and persuade, without direct control.
• Mentoring / coaching Junior and Senior Engineers.
• Focus on reusability, frameworks, patterns and configuration tools for faster development.
• Excellent in Engineering excellence – code quality, performance tuning / chaos engineering, operational excellence etc.
• DevOps and TechFinOps mindset to problem solving and product development.

About Simpl 

The thrill of working at a start-up that is starting to scale massively is something else. Simpl (FinTech startup of the year - 2020) was formed in 2015 by Nitya Sharma, an investment banker from Wall Street and Chaitra Chidanand, a tech executive from the Valley, when they teamed up with a very clear mission - to make money simple, so that people can live well and do amazing things. Simpl is the payment platform for the mobile-first world, and we’re backed by some of the best names in fintech globally (folks who have invested in Visa, Square and Transferwise), and has Joe Saunders, Ex Chairman and CEO of Visa as a board member.

Everyone at Simpl is an internal entrepreneur who is given a lot of bandwidth and resources to create the next breakthrough towards the long term vision of “making money Simpl”. Our first product is a payment platform that lets people buy instantly, anywhere online, and pay later. In the background, Simpl uses big data for credit underwriting, risk and fraud modelling, all without any paperwork, and enables Banks and Non-Bank Financial Companies to access a whole new consumer market.

In place of traditional forms of identification and authentication, Simpl integrates deeply into merchant apps via SDKs and APIs. This allows for more sophisticated forms of authentication that take full advantage of smartphone data and processing power.

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We’re looking for polyglot developers who love to code. You should have >3 years of experience building high-quality products. You should have the ability to write clean code and must’ve worked on one of Ruby, NodeJS, Golang or Python

 

Responsibilities

1. Develop new features - build POCs, get feedback, and scale is our default mode
2. Building reusable and platform specific components
3. Translating designs and wireframes into high-quality code
4. Optimizing services for maximum performance
5. Ensure faster release cycles by managing distribution over the cloud 

Requirements

1. Hands-on experience in all aspects of software development - analysis, coding, writing tests, deployment, the works.
2. Knowledge of relational databases, SQL, ACID and distributed locking
3. Solid OOPS understanding.
4. Good exposure to building distributed systems, micro-services architecture.
5. Continuous delivery experience
6. Exposure to building platforms (not just products) would be a plus