twid

• 3+ Years of relevant Product Management, development and marketing experience.
• Very strong knowledge, expertise and hold on Digital Payments, Merchant Solutions, Loyalty Programs, Consumer Product Development
• A natural storyteller. Have strong empathy for users and is able to effectively communicate and engage with your audience across technology and business.
• You are curious about metrics, execution processes, macro trends
• Can do' attitude and comfort with working in a fast-paced, unstructured start-up environment.
• Outstanding product skills - including product management, development and marketing. Energetic self-starter with the ability to work independently in a competitive and fast-paced environment
• Instinctive ability to connect with potential partners, and customers and deliver customer-driven innovation based on an understanding of unique customer needs and to define the desired end-to-end customer experience.
• Ability to synthesize learnings, to draw relevant insights and think strategically to ensure right things get prioritized and acted upon by the team.
• High degree of flexibility and adaptability to evolving one's role based on changing project needs.
• Facilitative leadership and interpersonal skills to quickly gain a shared vision externally and internally to move things forward under strict timelines.

Role: Lead Software Engineer

Location: Bangalore 

About the company

 twid is shaping the future of Digital Currencies. We are technology innovators delivering new-age fintech solutions to solve large problems.

Millions of people earn loyalty points from credit/debit cards, offline/online retail brands, travel etc. But these points' visibility and usage is marginal. 

We are making reward points fungible, by building them as a currency so that you can use them freely for buying anything anywhere.

We are a new age payment method, combining your points and rupees. We ensure that shoppers don't just save on every payment, but also earn new accelerated rewards.

We empower banks, brands, acquirers and customers to make their loyalty programs viable. We turn their apps into contactless payment mode for offline payments, or as a checkout option for online merchants using 'pay with rewards'. 

We have dozens of clients from start-ups to leading global companies. They use twid to digitize and build points into currencies and drive liquidity for customers and from issuers. Our clients include Flipkart, PayU, Pine Labs, Cafe Coffee Day, Bata, FreshMenu, Allen Solly, Woodland, Flying Machine, Relaxo, Hush Puppies, Times Points, Peter England.

 twid is a well-funded company with dual headquarters in Singapore and Bangalore.

Vision & Mission

With a vision of building the largest Reward Points Payment Network and processing billion transactions a day, the company is on a mission to drive additional liquidity in the market for consumers to save more and spend more.

Your role

We are now looking for a Lead Software Engineer Lead that has a true passion for coding and building products, to join our agile working environment and a friendly team that has a strong passion for transforming fintech. Your work will include implementing backend and frontend tasks, helping & coaching our frontend and backend developers, defining the architecture of the platform, and leading the engineering together with the CTO and the Architect. You also will work closely with the UI/UX designers and researchers in the team. Drive the vision, strategy, team, and product. Have a big impact on the direction of the company.

Do you have the right stuff?

• You are passionate about the intersection of technology and creativity.
• You have a strong desire in building a company from the ground up and defining its culture.
• You are a "generalist" and can independently learn about new areas.
• You like to identify and then solve complex tasks with simple solutions.
• You like to help and coach people and build a good team culture around you.

What will you do?

• Lead the team in all technical aspects. Be a technical domain owner with coding responsibilities.
• Manage timelines and deliverables of the team and deliver quality product
• Direct interaction with customers and business development teams. Manage all integration aspects, set customer expectations and ensure smooth integrations. Resolve any issues in a timely manner
• Build and Maintain Web applications in PHP/NodeJs (Laravel/Lumen)
• Develop feature/product enhancements based on a given set of requirements and design.
• Debug and fix issues.
• Technical implementation and maintenance of compliance aspects for certifications (PCI-DSS, ISO etc)
• Building and maintaining of Scalable, Fault Tolerant and Distributed Systems

Your skills

• 7 to 12 years’ experience in relevant fields.
• Strong knowledge of PHP MVC frameworks. Experience in Laravel/Lumen is a plus.
• Proficient in front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap, jQuery/AngularJS
• Good knowledge on web security implementations
• Experience in GIT/SVN management
• Good knowledge of RESTful APIs and Services.
• Good social skills, open attitude, and ability to perform in a multicultural environment.
• Should be able to implement requirements as an individual and in a team.
• Knowledge/Experience in NoSQL is a plus.
• Knowledge/Experience in Python is a plus.
• Knowledge of UNIX/Linux and previous experience is a plus.
• Knowledge of AWS/Google Cloud would be a plus.