Architect/Principal Engineer

Role Overview

We are looking for a hands-on Engineering Manager to lead backend and platform development. You’ll drive scalable, secure, and high-performance solutions using Java, Spring Boot, and AWS, while mentoring a talented engineering team and delivering real-world impact through proven projects.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of backend engineers to deliver robust and scalable systems.

• Design and architect backend services using Java, Spring Boot, and AWS infrastructure.

• Ensure code quality, CI/CD, and best practices across deployments.

• Collaborate with Product, Design, and Data teams to translate business goals into technical outcomes.

• Drive technical decisions, performance optimization, and system reliability.

• Manage sprint planning, resource allocation, and project delivery timelines.

• Contribute to hands-on coding, design reviews, and architecture discussions.

Requirements

• 6–10 years of software development experience, including 2+ years leading engineering teams.

• Strong expertise in Java, Spring Boot, AWS (EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS), and related backend frameworks.

• Proven experience in building and scaling production-grade systems and services.

• Solid understanding of RESTful APIs, microservices, and distributed systems.

• Experience with Agile/Scrum development methodologies.

• Excellent leadership, communication, and decision-making skills.

• Prior experience in a fintech or high-scale product startup preferred.

Why Join Univest

• Shape how India trades and invests — real users, real money, real impact.

• Fast-paced environment with ownership and room to experiment.

• Work directly with founders on tech strategy and scale.

• Transparent, high-trust culture with competitive compensation and ESOPs.

• Fun, collaborative, and ambitious team driving real innovation in fintech.

Job Description: Python Developer  

Location: Pune   Employment Type: Full-Time   Experience: 0.6-1+ year 

Role Overview 

We are looking for a skilled Python Developer with 0.6-1+ years of experience to join our team. The ideal candidate should have hands-on experience in Python, REST APIs, Flask, and databases. You will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining scalable backend services.  

Key Responsibilities  

• Develop, test, and maintain high-quality Python applications.  
• Design and build RESTful APIs using Flask.  
• Integrate APIs with front-end and third-party services.  
• Work with relational (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL databases (MongoDB,  Redis).  
• Optimize performance and troubleshoot issues in backend applications.  
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and implement new features.  
• Follow best practices for code quality, security, and performance optimization.  

Required Skills  

• Strong proficiency in Python (0.6-1+ years).  
• Experience with Flask (or FastAPI/Django).  
• Hands-on experience with REST API development.  
• Proficiency in working with databases (SQL & NoSQL).  
• Familiarity with Git, Docker, and CI/CD pipelines is a plus.  

Preferred Qualifications  

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.  
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.  
• Ability to write clean, scalable, and well-documented code. 

Responsibilities:

• Good understanding of programming language
• Concepts of Java, Maven
• Source Control
• Logically Strong in coding practices
• Data structure Understanding.
• Security encryption and decryption
• Data encoding decoding

Requirements:

• Strong core Java development skills.
• Exposure to security tools.
• Experience in working with customers, understanding business requirements
• Good analytical and troubleshooting skills.
• Working knowledge of Jenkins/Maven
• Key requirements: Core Java, CI/CD, Docker, Maven, Jenkins, REST API, Kafka, Redis, cache, elastic cache

The ideal candidate would be a person having a strong technical know-how of Drupal application development & CMS concepts, backed with an equally strong hands-on experience. He / She should be fluent with the design concepts using Drupal 8 and above(Must) as well as be well versed with the best practices in the development, testing & deployment phases.

Experience : 5 – 9 years

Contract duration : 6 months

Major Accountability

• Demonstrate expertise in authoring & customizing Drupal modules as well as have experience in working with views, panels and features.
• Carry-out impact analysis & estimation for given set of requirements.
• Develop code by adhering to the Drupal, security and accessibility standards.
• Act as liaison with the client for troubleshooting: investigate, analyze, and solve software problems.
• Work self-directed and independently.

Essential Skills & Experience

• Have overall 4-8 years of IT experience on Drupal 8 platforms.
• Have expertise in developing complex websites based on Drupal 8 platforms and framework-based web applications.
• Have expertise in LAMP environment.
• Have working knowledge of web servers like Apache, Nginx etc.
• Have strong experience with source/version control systems.
• Have excellent communication, analytical & presentation skills.

Education

• Minimum education: B.E., BTech, MCA
• Languages: English written & spoken

• Python developer with Django experience
• 6-8 yrs of total experience
• Strong communication is a MUST

About us :

BharatPe was co-founded by Ashneer Grover and Shashvat Nakrani in 2018 with the vision to make financial inclusion a reality for Indian merchants.

BharatPe launched India's first UPI interoperable QR code, first ZERO MDR payment acceptance service, and first UPI payment backed merchant cash advance service.

In 2020, post-Covid, BharatPe also launched India's only ZERO MDR card acceptance terminals - BharatSwipe. Currently serving over 50 lakh merchants across 35 cities, the company has grown business 30x in 2019 and is a leader in UPI offline transactions, having processed 5 crore+ UPI transactions a month (annualized TPV of US$ 5+ Bn).

INVESTORS :

- The company's list of marquee investors includes Beenext, Sequoia, SteadView Capital, Ribbit Capital, Coatue Management LLC, Insight Partners, and Amplo.The company has already facilitated disbursement of over Rs. 500 crores to its merchants since launch.

- Total Funding : $283.5M

- Latest Funding : Series D

- Why Join BharatPe ?

- Quality of work : Our current tech setup is serving us well for now. But, at our pace of growth, we know we will outgrow it soon. So, we are rebuilding our tech stack from scratch. Be it infrastructure as code, containerization and orchestration, event driven microservices, stream processing, or intrusion kill chain, we have a clear roadmap as well as prior experience of building modern state-of-the-art technology architecture. This is an excellent opportunity to build a world class tech setup from scratch and take it to scale.

- High operating freedom : We believe in ownership and accountability rather than command and control. Our teams are structurally empowered to operate with a lot of freedom, with effective mechanisms built within the teams to help with sound yet quick decision making.

- Experimentation and risk taking is encouraged to achieve ambitious goals.

- Competitive compensation.

- Cash and high growth equity.

- We pay good cash and our equity is growing at a very fast pace.

- We have a good team, proven business, and ample capital. Thus, the downside risk is low and upside potential is high.

- We are accelerating full throttle.

- This is the best stage to join a startup.

- Positive culture.

- We believe new ideas can come from everywhere, so we are always on the lookout. Instead of carrot and stick approach, we appeal to internal motivation to excel.

- We are strong team players - we build on each other's strengths and have each other's back in failures.

Requirements :

- Innovative and self-motivated with passion to develop complex and scalable applications.

- 2-5 years of experience in software development with strong focus on algorithms and data structures.

- Strong coding and design skills with prior experience in developing scalable & high availability applications using Core Java/J2EE, Spring, Hibernate.

- Work experience with Relational databases is required (Primarily MySQL).

- Prior work experience with Non-Relational databases (primarily Redis, MongoDb) is an added plus.

- Strong Analytical and Problem Solving Skills.

- B Tech/BCA from IIT or BE in computer science from a top REC/NIT.