Backend Developer

Chai Finance is re−imagining payments in Korea and other international markets. We are a Series B funded startup backed by prominent VC firms Softbank and Hanwa Capital

Chai Raises series B+ funding round - https://bit.ly/33NALeY" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/33NALeY

https://techcrunch.com/2020/12/09/seoul-based-payment-tech-startup-chai-gets-60-million-from-hanhwa-softbank-ventures-asia/

More than 2 million users use CHAI eWallet to make payments in Korea.

Chai’s latest product is making the online payments space simpler and efficient. It provides a unified API for merchants to integrate with and manage all of the payment options available in Korea and South East Asia. It's currently used by 2000+ companies and processing multi-billion dollars in annualized volume. We are building a team to work on the product for South Asia Markets, and looking for engineers with a passion for fintech and digital payments.

PS: Chai (Korean) here stands for "Making a Difference" and not the 'Chai' in 'Chai Point'.


Culture and Values at Chai Finance

* You will be joining a team that stands for, as the company name 'CHAI' suggests - "Making a difference".
* You will be joining a culture that identifies more with Sports Teams rather than a 9 to 5 workplace.
* Your will have peers who are/have
** Highly Self Driven with A sense of purpose
** High Energy Levels - Building stuff is your sport
** Ownership - Solve customer problems end to end - Customer is your Boss
** Hunger to learn - Highly motivated to keep developing new tech skill sets


Who you are ?

* You are an athlete and building apps is your sport.
* Your passion drives you to learn and build stuff and not because your manager tells you to.
* Your work ethic is that of an athlete preparing for your next marathon. Your sport drives you and you like being in the zone.
* You are NOT a clockwatcher renting out your time, and NOT have an attitude of "I will do only what is asked for"

* Work on new product features of our international product
* Uphold our high engineering standards and bring consistency to the many codebases and processes you will encounter
* Collaborate with stakeholders across the organization such as experts in - product, design, infrastructure, and operations.

Here are some examples of our work
* Building intuitive, easy-to-use APIs for payment process.
* Integrating with local payment gateways in international markets.
* Building dashboard to manage gateways and transactions.
* Building analytics platform to provide insights.

* Have ideally 5+ Years of experience shipping high quality products. 
* Understands how to build scalable, resilient, and observable distributed systems.
* Must have built applications end to end taking full ownership
* Ability to work as both Individual contributor and mentor junior members in the team
* Experience working at payment gateways or aggregators or payment related APIs will be strongly preferred.
* Uphold best practices in engineering, security, and design
* Enjoy being a generalist working on both the frontend, backend, and anything it takes to solve problems and delight users both internally and externally
* Take pride in working on projects to successful completion involving a wide variety of technologies and systems

Technical Expertise:

• Strong proficiency in OOP concepts, C#, .NET Core, Entity Framework, React, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Dapper, ADO.NET, LINQ, and Web API Development.
• Experience with event-driven architecture and messaging systems such as Kafka or Rabbit MQ.
• Excellent debugging, troubleshooting, and performance optimization skills.
• Expertise in database development including tables, views, stored procedures, triggers, and functions.
• Hands-on experience with unit testing frameworks (XUnit).
• Proficiency in JWT services, Git, and third-party API integration.
• Experience in code review and mentoring junior developers.
• Preferred Qualification:
• Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Marketing, Communications, or related field.

Strong Engineering Manager / Lead Profiles

Mandatory (Experience 1) - Must have 8+ years of overall Software Engineering/Development experience

Mandatory (Experience 2) - Must have 3+ years of experience as Engineering Manager / Team Lead role, with ownership of technical direction, delivery, and people management

Mandatory (Experience 3) - Must have hands-on Backend development experience using Python or Java, with frameworks such as FastAPI / Django / Spring / Express (Node.js)

Mandatory (Experience 4) - Must have Frontend development exposure using ReactJS, JavaScript, HTML, CSS

Mandatory (Experience 5) - Must have experience designing and building APIs, services, and integrations, including system design, PR reviews, and architectural decision-making.

Mandatory (Experience 6) - Must have experience leading engineers end-to-end – mentoring, code reviews, execution planning, and improving team productivity/quality

Mandatory (Company) - Must be from Product Companies / Startups (early to growth stage), B2B SaaS + Fintech industry is highly preferred

Mandatory (Note) - This role will be 80% team management and 20% IC (hands on coding required)

Job Title: PHP Developer laravel

Salary package: Upto 6Lpa per annum

Experience: 1.5 years - 2.5 years

Location: Bangalore

Mandatory Skills:

Candidate must have Laravel experience

Skills:

• Strong proficiency with Laravel.
• Extensive knowledge of jQuery, JavaScript, Core PHP, MySQL, Bootstrap and Rest API.
• Good understanding of front-end technologies, such as HTML5, and CSS3
• Good understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git

Qualifications and Skills

• Strong knowledge of Core PHP, Shopify, Magento.
• Good knowledge of any PHP framework ( CodeIgniter and CakePHP )
• Hands-on experience one PHP framework
• Good analytical & communication skills.
• Must be proficient in PHP, MySQL, CSS, HTML, Javascript, AJAX, XML
• Should have excellent written communication skills (English)
• Must have the capacity to work independently and also as a part of a team
• Must have dedication and commitment towards work.

• Proficient in  PHP / HTML / CSS / MySql / Javascript/Jquery
• Knowledge of the MVC Framework will be a plus point.
• Good to have Contributions to open-source
• Strong Knowledge of Data Structure and OOPS concept
• Knowledge of Redis will be a plus point
• Should have background knowledge of E-commerce Systems
• Should have work with API's and its services
• Must be passionate about writing clean and maintainable code.

Responsibilities:

• Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code

• Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications

• Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers with server side logic

• Implementation of security and data protection

• Integration of data storage solutions (may include databases, key-value stores, blob stores, etc.)

• Expert in Python, with knowledge of at least one Python web framework (such as Django, Flask, etc depending on your technology stack)

• Familiarity with some ORM (Object Relational Mapper) libraries

• Able to integrate multiple data sources and databases into one system

• Understanding of the threading limitations of Python, and multi-process architecture

• Good understanding of server-side templating languages (such as Jinja 2, Mako, etc depending on your technology stack)

• Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3

• Understanding of accessibility and security compliance (depending on the specific project)

• Knowledge of user authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments

• Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application

• Familiarity with event-driven programming in Python

• Understanding of the differences between multiple delivery platforms, such as mobile vs desktop, and optimizing output to match the specific platform

• Able to create database schemas that represent and support business processes

• Strong unit test and debugging skills

• Basic knowledge of machine learning algorithm and libraries like keras, tensorflow, sklearn.

Candidates should have worked with Startups (IT Product Firms)

Should be from B2C Firms/Product/SaaS Firms

Key Skills: Python, Golang, Java, Distributed Systems, Cloud, Microservices Architecture, MVC, Design Patterns, Data Structure, Algorithms

Your Experience Across The Years in the Roles You’ve Played

• 6+ years of technology experience (at least 2 years in direct engineering management)
• Managing a 5-15 member engineering team in an agile product org
• Track record of collaborative working with multiple stakeholders
• Planning and analysis with effective communication skills

You’ll Be Improving & Responsible For

• Our products engineering team that works on initiatives fuelling the growth of our recent health retail insurance products
• Collaboration across cross-functional stakeholders to ensure delivery timelines are met
• Implementing product engineering best practices, and evangelizing them within the org
• Engineering management with a strong sense of ownership
• Problem solving with a clear and analytical approach and organized work habits
• Technological innovation in agile product engineering scenarios
• Product and business management principles and metrics