Backend Developer

Engineering Lead (Backend/Full stack)

About

It is a mission-oriented high-growth fintech startup building payment &

lending products to simplify education payments. Jodo’s suite of products make education payments convenient & affordable for parents while simplifying & streamlining fee collections for educational institutes. Jodo aims to be a category-defining company with a mission to be a

trusted partner to parents in fulfilling their aspirations for their kids’ education.

We are backed by marquee VC investors – Tiger Global, Elevation Capital and Matrix Partners – to realize this mission. It is started by three co-founders who have a pedigreed education

(IIT/IIM) and professional background (Nomura, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Barclays, Matrix Partners).

🎬Job Description:

We are looking for an Engineering Leader with a focus on building maintainable and scalable applications. The Lead will be responsible for the design and development of Jodo’s fee payments platform and be owning one of the products/verticals. Leads will be closely working

with Product Managers and Founders to execute projects from ideation to completion. As a hands-on Team Lead, you will take ownership of services/systems and guide a team of

developers.

📈Key Responsibilities

● Own and drive the development of one or more of Jodo’s products

● Take the lead in the design and development of the backend platform

● Mentor a team of developers, promote collaboration and engagement, and promote practices that improve the developer experience

● Work closely with Product Managers and Founders to brainstorm requirements and prioritize

● Own quality - actively participate in code reviews

● Own reliability - continuously monitor Production Health, proactively fix production issues

● Own execution - Plan and delegate work for the team, optimize for speed of development and incremental delivery

📃Requirements

● 6+ years of hands-on experience in application development

● 1+ years of leading a team

● Experience in working with distributed systems

● Proficient in building Microservices/RESTful APIs with any modern tech stack

● Working knowledge of relational and nonrelational databases

● Prior working knowledge of Python/Django is a big plus

● Familiarity with modern CI/CD tools

● Knowledge of AWS or any other Cloud Platform services

● Champion code quality and drive best practices

● Ability to analyze and convert business requirements into technical requirements

● Self-starter and ability to take the ownership

● Prior experience working in a startup environment is great to have

● Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

🤩Benefits

● Becoming a part of the early core team

● Competitive salary

● Work with colleagues from strong backgrounds & hungry to succeed

● Opportunity to interact with and learn from high-pedigree investors & mentors -

○ VCs: Elevation Capital (erstwhile SAIF Partners), Matrix Partners

○ Select angel investors: Kunal Shah, Nithin Kamath, Amit Ranjan

🔎What are we looking for?

● Self-starter with a high sense of ownership → Comfortable to work with minimal

supervision

● Hungry to learn and grow → Passion to learn & be a better version of oneself; motivated to succeed

● Bias for action → Have the temperament to experiment and execute in uncertainty

● Hustler → Ability to generate resources to solve a problem

● Intellectual honesty → Always seeking and presenting truth irrespective of personal

POV or beliefs

● Mission-oriented → Deeply care about delivering value and making an impact on customer’s lives

✅Key Details

● Role: Engineering Lead

● Location: Bengaluru

● Compensation: Negotiable based on candidate profile (structured as Fixed + ESOPs)

● Date of Joining: ASAP

• Must worked on Spring Boot as an individual contributor.
• Develop a distributed and scalable solution for high-performance financial solutions
• Design, code, test, debug, and document programs as well as support activities for the corporate systems architecture
• Develop tools for performance tracking, monitoring, and reporting on the suite of server-side applications
• Perform and manage stages of the SLDC and participate in the systems review with Project Lead/Manager
• Should have knowledge on Cloud applications preferably on AWS
• Devops with Jenkins, Shellscripting
• Must have experience / knowledge in Cluster Management Frameworks , Spark, Kafka,
• Elastic Search, Docker and database, build-and-test (preferred).
• Demonstrate skills in problem-solving and decision-making
• Experience with Test Driven Development using TestNG/Junit testing framework

• Minimum of 3+ years of experience with server-side core java development
• Hand-on experience in Micro Services with Spring Boot and use of tools like Sonar Qube, Jenkins, AWS.
• Test methodologies and testing tools e.g. JUnit.
• Shell scripting to handle basic scripting
• Able to work independently and produce high-quality solutions.
• Excellent team player and strong interpersonal skills.
• Participating in code reviews
• Knowledge in cloud and DevOps will be plus

Responsibilities: 

As a backend developer you would be responsible for:   

• Executing full lifecycle software development
• Architect and conceptualise the solution from initiation to completion meeting client requirements 
• Work with customer and their integration partners to ensure the product is well integrated 
• Programming well-designed, testable and efficient code 
• Develop flowcharts, layouts and documentation to identify requirements and solutions 
• Work with cross-functional teams (Product, Engineering and ML team) to craft custom solutions 
• Ensure clients change requests are addressed effectively in a timely manner 

Requirements:  

• 2+ years of experience in architecture and developing high performance web applications
• In-depth understanding of the entire web development process (design, development, and deployment)
• Strong NoSQL and/or SQL database design and query writing skills with a commitment to performance and efficiency 
• Knowledge of RESTful API and SOAP Webservices paradigms 
• Experience with CRM/ERPs like systems SAP, Oracle, SalesForce, Servicenow, Workday, etc. would be a huge plus 
• Ability to operate in a highly ambiguous and fast-paced environment 
• Superior verbal and written communication skills 

Our Technology Stacks:  

• Demonstrated experience in our tech stack will be a big plus as it lets you get up and running with our product that much sooner 
• Node.js back-end with typescript 
• MongoDB as database 
• React to power our user interfaces (don't worry, we don't expect it for back-end) 
• NGINX as our web server 
• RabbitMQ 
• Redis 
• Elasticsearch 
• Docker 

• Strong experience with Spring and Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Data, Spring Security
• Experience building REST and SOAP web services using Java
• Experience with Web Services(JSON, REST, JAX-RS, Spring based REST services)
• Experience with Java and J2EE/Java EE (including servlets, JSP, JSF, JDBC)
• Strong understanding of Java concurrency, concurrency patterns, experience building thread safe code
• Experience with messaging products like RabbitMQ, Kafka or ActiveMQ
• Experience in AWS Lambda, Serverless, DynamoDB, SQS, Kinesis
• Varied Understanding of NoSQL
• Experience with development tools like Eclipse, Git, Gradle, Sonar, Jenkins, Jira, Artifactory etc
• Experience with web application servers like Tomcat, Jetty, JBoss etc
• Experience with TDD, code testability standards, JUnit/Mockito
• Strong understanding of OOP & SOA principles, design patterns, industry best practices
• Experience with scripting and working in a Linux environment
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Strong interpersonal skills and time management skills
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills
• Experience with DevOps practices and CICD model of development