Backend Developer

Lean provides developers with a universal API to access their customers' financial accounts across the Middle East. We recognized that infrastructure barriers were hindering fintech growth in our home markets and set out to build a solution. With Lean, developers at any level can now create advanced financial solutions without grappling with infrastructure complexities, allowing them to focus squarely on customer needs.

Why Join Us?

Our products have garnered enthusiastic feedback from both developers and customers. With Sequoia leading our $33 million Series A round, our debut in the GCC marks just the beginning. We're committed to expanding regionally and enhancing stakeholder value. If you thrive on solving challenges and making a lasting impact, Lean is the place for you.

We offer competitive salaries, private healthcare, flexible office hours, and ensure every team member holds meaningful equity. Join us on our journey of enabling the next wave of financial innovation!

About the Role

We're looking for a problem-solver who thrives on challenges and can implement effective solutions to complex problems. You'll collaborate with cross-functional teams, stay current with fintech developments, and ensure our systems meet industry standards. Additionally, you'll participate in code reviews to maintain high-quality code and best practices.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience as a software engineer.
• Proficiency in Java, Spring Boot, and PostgreSQL.
• Experience with microservice architecture and REST fundamentals.
• Strong desire to learn and implement new technologies.
• Interest in the fintech industry, especially Open Banking.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• Strong problem-solving skills.
• Understanding of software development best practices.
• Self-motivated and comfortable working independently.

Bonus

• Experience in the financial sector.
• Experience in startup environments.
• Knowledge of Kafka, Redis, and NoSQL databases.
• Familiarity with API and OWASP Top 10 security vulnerabilities, and ability to produce secure code.

What Excites You?

• Freedom to build and experiment with new ideas.
• Being part of a team revamping codebases and implementing best practices.
• Collaborating with like-minded individuals.

What’s in It for You?

• Competitive salary and benefits package.
• Opportunity to work on products that empower developers to create financial applications.
• Chance to work with talented professionals passionate about fintech.
• As one of the first hires in Pune, you'll play a crucial role in shaping the culture and operations of our expanding team.

Our client is a rapid growth stage Edtech start-up focused on solving the teacher shortage crisis in the US education system using technology by bringing teachers to the classrooms and giving them access to the right tools to teach students in a highly engaging manner.

They have a development center in Mumbai and they are looking to scale up the teams in Pune and Bangalore as well.

What does the role entail:

● Design, develop, and maintain software applications using .NET Core ,C#

● Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code

● Collaborate with cross-functional teams to analyze requirements, design solutions, and implement new features

● Develop and implement unit tests and integration tests to ensure software quality

● Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback to peers

● Lead requirements/tasks and guide/mentor junior software engineers in the development process and help them grow their technical skills

Required Skills:

● B.E/B.Tech in computer science

● 4 - 7 years of experience

● Hands-on experience following skills

MS Technologies: NET CORE 5+, C#

Backend : MSSQL/MySQL/Postgres 

● Good understanding of Cloud technologies like Azure/AWS.

● Strong understanding of Design Principles, Design patterns and Microservices Architecture.

● Excellent problem-solving, critical thinking, and communication skills

● Must understand full stack development frameworks including knowledge of building scalable APIs, interfaces, software components, schema design, availability, and latency preferably in a cloud environment.

● Worked in fast-paced environment product startup/startup-like culture in an Agile software development environment

Looking to hire a single backend engineer who will become a part of the core team, with the track to become a part of the leadership at our company.

Candidate should have worked in startups, possess strong programming skills in Python, displays a sense of ownership and is highly energetic and eager to learn state-of-the-art tech and ML.

A minimum of 2 years of relevant experience is preferred.

2022 or later year pass outs - please apply only if you have relevant full-time and at least 2 prior internships experience

Representative (not exhaustive) responsibilities:

• Assess the current design and infrastructure of the backend server, and continuously implement enhancements to make the systems more robust, reliable and responsive
• Design, implement, test, and deploy APIs with Python on Linux servers
• Enhance back-end functionality and integrate with the front end to deliver a fully functional product
• Implement and set up automated tests to periodically test backend infrastructure for reliability, security and performance
• Design new data pipelines to enable the production deployment of new models
• Mentor junior employees and interns in the company
• Additionally, interest and ability to contribute to the continuous enhancement of our state-of-the-art NLP model pipeline and Inferencing engine is a big plus
• Be ready to roll up your sleeves and participate in customer calls, understand our ICP well, do research around product features, etc.

Fast Track Your Application

Think about the ICP for ContractKen. Sign up for a trial plan, experience the product and provide feedback on how to improve the current experience of the product to add immediate value to the ICP. We don't need you to fully code any feature in its entirety and are not looking for free work. The idea is to identify folks who get** what we are trying to do with ContractKen and find faster alignment with the right candidate.

Do not apply if

You're looking for your first, real-world model building, ML/AI role. We believe that deploying existing models (open source and proprietary) in production and delivering real business value to our customers is 10x more important than hyperparameter tuning or the latest algorithm implementation. While we'd love to entertain experienced ML data scientists, the emphasis on MLOps is as much as it is on experimentation.

• To perform requirement analysis and oversee the implementation of architectures of project scope
• To provide customized reusable solutions of project, program or operational scope
• To develop high-quality and detailed designs
• To conduct unit testing using automated unit test frameworks and identify and address possible risk by conducting mitigation action planning
• Conducting configuration of your own work or from the team and assess the technical impact of multiple technologies/strategies
• Reviewing the work of other developers with feedback for improvement (if applicable)
• Using coding standards and best practices to ensure quality deliverables
• Contribute as a team member to an operational, integration or application architecture requirements, design, implementation, or on-going operations deliverables

100ms is building a Platform-as-a-Service for developers integrating video-conferencing experiences into their apps. Our SDKs enable developers to add gold standard audio-video quality conferencing with much faster shipping times.

We are a team uniquely placed to work on this problem. We have built world-record scale live video infrastructure powering billions of live video minutes in a day. We are a remote-first global team with engineers who've built video teams at Facebook and Hotstar.

100ms' Platform-as-a-Service will reduce shipping live conferencing application time to days instead of months, allowing companies to focus on their core business.

We are looking for a few young software engineers to join our team, explore new technologies and solve cutting-edge technological problems.

Responsiblities:

As a software engineer(backend), you will be responsible for design, development and scalability of our backend platform. 

You will:

• Design and development of backend services
• Scalability, Reliability and Security of the applications
• End to end ownership of the features and modules
• Articulate complex architecture problems, drive engineering excellence and collaborate with a cross-functional team
• Help scale our platform to support billions of minutes a day across thousands devices around the world
• Share technical practices, build development teams, and improve workflows
• Contribute to open source as we set the standards for video conferencing
• Mentorship of other team members

You have:

• Bachelor's degree in (Computer Science/Information Technology) or equivalent practical experience
• At least 1-4 years of experience as Software Engineer/Developer
• Experience in building scalable applications
• Understanding of OOPS concepts, threading
• Experience in building RESTful APIs with monitoring, fault tolerance and metrics
• Proficient in Go or Python or any other server side programming language
• Knowledgeable in data structures and algorithms

Good to have:

• Experience with video conferencing, Sockets, WebRTC, and realtime communication
• Experience with Video Streaming, HLS, Dash.
• Prior experience with AWS, Azure or GCP.
• Hands on experience with Kubernetes
• Ability to take on complex and ambiguous problems
• Ability to speak and write in English fluently and idiomatically
• Strong inclination to keep up-to-date with latest trends, learn new concepts, or contribute to open-source projects and would be eager to talk about ideas in internal or external forums

Why 100ms:

• You'll be part of a small team at a fast-growing engineering-first startup
• You'll work with engineers across the globe with experience in video at places like Facebook and Hotstar
• You can grow as an individual contributor or as a team leader - freedom to set your own goals
• You'll work on problems at the cutting-edge of real-time video communication technology at massive scale