Zeni

We are looking for people that take quality as a point of pride. You will be a key member of the engineering staff working on our innovative FinTech product that simplifies the domain of finance management.

At Zeni.ai, we provide an AI-powered finance team with a real-time dashboard to manage all the finance functions for startups on one platform - bookkeeping, yearly taxes, bill pay & invoicing, financial projections & budgeting, employee reimbursements and more.  We are headquartered at Palo Alto, California plus engineering lab in Pune too.  The founders of Zeni are Snehal Shinde and Swapnil Shinde (Twins), they are serial entrepreneurs and Zeni is their third startup.  Before Zeni, they built Mezi.com that they sold to American Express at $120 million in merely two years.  Zeni is very well funded too and it can be disclosed when we talk.

The details about this position are as below:

• You must be or like to be a Jack of all
• Design and build fault-tolerant, high-performance, scalable systems
• Design and maintain the core software components that support Zeni platform
• Improve the scalability, resilience, observe ability, and efficiency of our core systems
• Code using primarily Python.
• Work closely with, and incorporate feedback from, product management, platform architects and senior engineers.
• Fail fast, fix fast. Rapidly fix bugs and solve the problems
• Proactively look for ways to make Zeni platform better
• Speed, Speed, Speed - must be a performance freak!

• E. / B.Tech in Computer Science.
• 2yrs to 5 yrs of commercial software development experience
• You have built some impressive, non-trivial web applications by hand
• Excellent programming skills in Python (Object Oriented is a BIG plus)
• Google App engine experience a huge plus
• Disciplined approach to testing and quality assurance
• Good understanding of web technologies (HTTP, Apache) and familiarity with Unix/Linux
• Good understanding of data structures, algorithms and design patterns
• Great written communication and documentation abilities
• Comfortable in a small, intense and high-growth start-up environment
• You know and can admit when something is not great.
• You can recognise that something you've done needs improvement
• Past participation in Hackathorns a big plus
• Startup experience or Product company experience is MUST.
• Experience integrating with 3rd party APIs
• Experience with Agile product development methodology
• Good at maintaining servers and troubleshooting
• Understanding of database query processing and indexing are preferred
• Experience with OAuth
• Experience with Google Cloud and/or Google App Engine platforms
• Experience writing unit tests
• Experience with distributed version control systems (eg: Git)