Backend Developer

Job Description: Software Engineer - Backend ( 3-5 Years)

Location: Bangalore

WHO WE ARE:

TIFIN is a fintech platform backed by industry leaders including JP Morgan, Morningstar, Broadridge, Hamilton Lane, Franklin Templeton, Motive Partners and a who’s who of the financial service industry. We are creating engaging wealth experiences to better financial lives

through AI and investment intelligence powered personalization. We are working to change the world of wealth in ways that personalization has changed the world of movies, music and more but with the added responsibility of delivering better wealth outcomes.

We use design and behavioral thinking to enable engaging experiences through software and application programming interfaces (APIs). We use investment science and intelligence to build algorithmic engines inside the software and APIs to enable better investor outcomes.

In a world where every individual is unique, we match them to financial advice and investments with a recognition of their distinct needs and goals across our investment marketplace and our advice and planning divisions.

OUR VALUES: Go with your GUT

●Grow at the Edge: We embrace personal growth by stepping out of our comfort zones to

discover our genius zones, driven by self-awareness and integrity. No excuses.

●Understanding through Listening and Speaking the Truth: Transparency, radical candor,

and authenticity define our communication. We challenge ideas, but once decisions are

made, we commit fully.

●I Win for Teamwin: We operate within our genius zones, taking ownership of our work

and inspiring our team with energy and attitude to win together.

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to the entire implementation process including driving the definition of improvements based on business needs and architectural improvements.

• Review code for quality and implementation of best practices.

• Promote coding, testing, and deployment best practices through hands-on research and demonstration.

• Write testable code that enables extremely high levels of code coverage.

• Ability to review frameworks and design principles toward suitability in the project context.

• Candidates who will demonstrate an ability to identify an opportunity lay out a rational plan for pursuing that opportunity, and see it through to completion.

Requirements:

• Engineering graduate with 3+ years of experience in software product development.

• Proficient in Python, Django, Pandas, GitHub, and AWS.

• Good knowledge of PostgreSQL, and MongoDB.

• Strong Experience in designing REST APIs.

• Experience with working on scalable interactive web applications.

• A clear understanding of software design constructs and their implementation.

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

• Familiarity with some ORM (Object Relational Mapper) libraries.

• Good understanding of Test Driven Development.

• Unit and Integration testing.

• Preferred exposure to Finance domain.

• Strong written and oral communication skills.

• Experience of more than 4 to 6 years in software development.
• Very Strong Experience in Core Java.
• Excellent Java Programming skills Experience in Data Structures, Algorithms and Design Patterns.
• Strong in Problem solving, Analytical skill and logical thinking.
• Skill to be trained: java, spring, mango db, cassandra.
• Strong experience in Spring Boot, Restful API
• Looking for shorter notice period candidates only.

Desired Experience

3+ years

Job Description

What You’ll Do

• Design financial systems for scale. Measure, plan, iterate.
• Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code
• Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications
• Setup and own the engineering architectures built around event sourcing, application sharding, database sharding, service communication mesh, etc.
• The tech: Go, Google Cloud Spanner, Kafka, Redis

What you bring to the table

• 3+ years of experience. Relevant experience is preferred.
• Knowledge of 2 common programming languages - Java & Node / Rust /Python & Go
• Comfortable in linux command line, AWS or GCP
• Strong unit test and debugging skills
• Great communication skills

Bonus if you have…

• Love building great products and engineering systems from scratch
• Are a Self-starter, Hustler and Curious to Learn
• Have an understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
• Thrive in an early-stage startup environment with less stability and more ambiguity
• Have an interest in financial products and/or cryptocurrency

Out of many tools and technologies, we use Java, MongoDb, Cassandra, Redis, Twem, Netty extensively for our back-end development.

• Leading the entire Backend platform for a product portfolio.
• End to end delivery new features.
• Evolving the architecture for performance and scalability.
• Design, develop and own components of a highly scalable, distributed web services platform.
• Constantly strive to improve software development process and team productivity.
• Mentor and train team members
• Lead module development independently

Required background, Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• 5.5+/ 7+ Years of experience in a scalable product/ecommerce organization·       
• Excellent Java skills, Understanding of Spring framework & MVC approach
• Strong knowledge of Performance optimization and caching techniques.
• Strong Object Oriented Programming concepts, data structure and algorithms
• Experience in developing scalable, fault-tolerant, distributed backend services
• Experience with prevalent design patterns and advanced system designing
• Good experiences with databases and Schema design. We heavily use NoSQL databases
• Strong Problem Solving skills