Backend Developer Intern - Python/Django

About us

Fisdom is one of the largest wealthtech platforms that allows investors to manage their wealth in an intuitive and seamless manner. Fisdom has a suite of products and services that takes care of every wealth requirement that an individual would have. This includes Mutual Funds, Stock Broking, Private Wealth, Tax Filing, and Pension funds

Fisdom has a B2C app and also an award-winning B2B2C distribution model where we have partnered with 15 of the largest banks in India such as Indian Bank and UCO Bank to provide wealth products to their customers. In our bank-led distribution model, our SDKs are integrated seamlessly into the bank’s mobile banking and internet banking application. Fisdom is the first wealthtech company in the country to launch a stock broking product for customers of a PSU bank.

The company is breaking down barriers by enabling access to wealth management to underserved customers. All our partners combined have a combined user base of more than 50 crore customers. This makes us uniquely placed to disrupt the wealthtech space which we believe is in its infancy in India in terms of wider adoption.

Where are we now and where are we heading towards

Founded by veteran VC-turned entrepreneur Subramanya SV(Subu) and former investment 

banker Anand Dalmia, Fisdom is backed by PayU (Naspers), Quona Capital, and Saama Capital; with $37million of total funds raised so far. Fisdom is known for its revenue and profitability focussed approach towards sustainable business.

Fisdom is the No.1 company in India in the B2B2C wealthtech space and one of the most admired companies in the fintech ecosystem for our business model. We look forward to growing the leadership position by staying focussed on product and technology innovation. 

Our technology team

Today we are a 60-member strong technology team. Everyone in the team is a hands-on engineer, including the team leads and managers. We take pride in being product engineers and we believe ‌engineers are fundamentally problem solvers first. Our culture binds us together as one cohesive unit. We stress on engineering excellence and strive to become a high talent density team. Some ‌values that we preach and practice include:

• Individual ownership and collective responsibility
• Focus on continuous learning and constant improvement in every aspect of engineering and product
• Cheer for openness, inclusivity and transparency.
• Merit-based growth

Key Responsibilities

• Write code, build prototypes and resolve issues.
• Write and review unit test cases.
• Review code & designs for both oneself and team members
• Defining and building microservices
• Building systems with positive business outcome
• Tracking module health, usage & behaviour tracking.

Key Skills

• An engineer with at least 1-3 years of working experience in web services, preferably in Python
• Must have a penchant for good API design.
• Must be a stickler for good, clear and secure coding.
• Must have built and released APIs in production.
• Experience in working with RDBMS & NoSQL databases.
• Working knowledge of GCP, AWS, Azure or any other cloud provider.
• Aggressive problem diagnosis & creative problem solving skills.
• Communication skills, to speak to developers across the world

Why join us and where?

We're a small but high performing engineering team. We recognize that the work we do impacts the lives of hundreds and thousands of people. Your work will contribute significantly to our mission. We pay competitive compensation and performance bonuses. We provide a high energy work environment and you are encouraged to play around new technology and self-learning. You will be based out of Bangalore.

About Company: Codezen Tech Solutions is a technical consultancy and development firm that believes in increasing transparency and efficiency using cloud based platforms.

Responsibilities and Duties:

• Writing and maintaining reliable Ruby code.
• Integrating user-facing elements designed by the front-end team.
• Connecting applications with additional web servers.
• Maintaining APIs.
• The ideal candidate will be fluent in Ruby and proficient with Ruby on Rails
• Extensive experience developing web applications in Object-Oriented Perl, Python, or Java can be substituted as long as there is a strong desire to work in Ruby
• Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable Ruby code
• Architecting, designing and developing scalable backend systems with RoR
• Solid understanding of deploying and maintaining Rails apps within the AWS environment.
• Set up workers and deploy across multiple instances.
• Work on complex modules and be hands on on the product code as and when required

Required Experience, Skills and Qualifications:

• 1-4 years of experience required
• Experience with Ruby on Rails, along with other common libraries such as RSpec and Resque
• Good understanding of the syntax of Ruby and its nuances
• Solid understanding of object-oriented programming
• Good understanding of server-side templating languages (such as Liquid, Slim, etc depending on your technology stack)
• Good understanding of server-side CSS preprocessors (such as Sass, based on project requirements)
• A knack for writing clean, readable Ruby code
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools (e.g. Git, Mercurial or SVN)
• Familiarity with development aiding tools {such as Bower, Bundler, Rake, etc.}
• Familiarity with continuous integration
• Familiarity with testing tools.
• Ability to quickly adapt & independently work in a fast-paced Agile environment with minimum supervision.

• Must have experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Experience with Python/Node.JS/Typescript
• At least 2+ years as back-end software developer
• A deep understanding of the benefits of the Microservice and serverless paradigms
• Prepared technical documentation, and understand why it’s important
• Understanding of database principals: SQL and NoSQL
• Collaboration and communication skills (you’ll be working with clients and internal teams)
• An understanding of programming fundamentals (OOP, data structures, algorithms)
• Familiarity and comfort with REST API, Postman
• The ability to work independently or within a team structure.
• A “lead by example” attitude, and motivation to deliver work you’re proud of

What you need to have:

You have 5 years or more of Backend end development experience with expertise in designing and implementing high-performance applications.

Worked with and built high-performance products using Node Js/GoLang/ Python and have seen the product evolution cycle from PoC to Production

You have a deep understanding of design principles and can rightly judge/implement solutions to complex problems

You are capable of writing high-quality code that conforms to the standards and best practices in a particular language/framework.

You have experience building a product using a mainstream library or framework.

You love to own end to end responsibility, starting from defining the problem statement (either yourself or alongside your peers), development (PoC if needed), testing, releasing in staging & then production environment, and finally monitoring.

Previous work experience in product-based startups

Experience building for products that have scaled and have seen the product evolution

• 3+ years of recent hands-on Java development
• Java, Python, JavaScript programming languages
• Fluency with RESTful APIs, AngularJS, HTML5 and CSS
• Great understanding of designing for performance, scalability, and reliability of data intensive application
• Understanding of database fundamentals and advanced SQL knowledge
• In-depth understanding of object oriented programming concepts and design patterns
• Ability to communicate clearly to technical and non-technical audiences, verbally and in writing
• Understanding of full software development life cycle, agile development and continuous integration
• Experience in Agile methodologies including Scrum and Kanban

What puts you over the top:

• Exposure to various technologies like Spring Boot, Microservices, Kubernetes and also some frontend technologies like React.js, Node.js or other UI frameworks.

●  Experience in AdTech or Programmatic

MUST HAVE GOOD EXPERIENCE IN SPRING BOOT, NODE JS, ANGULAR JS, REACT JS, JAVASCRIPT,JAVA, HTML/CSS.