Backend Developer

At Upswing, we are a passionate and self-driven team of thinkers who aspire to build the rails to connect the legacy financial sector with financial innovators through a simple and powerful banking-as-a-service (BaaS) platform.

We’re building our platform putting the focus on pragmatism, reliability, and maintainability. We believe that keeping the engineering complexity under control is key to preserving the development productivity and long-term evolution of a platform.

To bring this vision to life, we are building the infrastructure using Microservices architecture using the latest set of technologies that are also fun to work with such as Java, Scala, Postgres, Akka, Kafka with a completely automated DevOps pipeline from the get-go using tools like Chef, Jenkins, Grafana, Graylog.

We are looking for motivated engineers who will be working in a highly creative and cutting edge technology environment to build a world-class financial services suite.

Why you should join us:

• You will redefine the financial services landscape for India in the coming years.
• Be part of a core Engineering team that will create innovative and scalable Fintech solutions.
• Work with passionate and experienced engineering, product & business workforce that believes in teamwork, and that helps fast-track your learning on solving complex technical challenges.
• We are funded by the leading fintech VC `QED Investors` and other established Founders and Executives of awesome Indian companies.

What you will do if you join us:

• Propose solutions to solve complex system architecture challenges and actively lead the end-to-end development of the system.
• Create robust, flexible, consistent, and easy-to-use APIs
• Continuously strive for performance improvements, code reusability, and readability

You should have:

• Tech or a higher degree in computer science or a related field.
• 1+ years of experience working on the back-end development for complex distributed systems who are willing to adopt any Programming language as per the requirement.
• Familiarity with any of the following – Java, C++, Scala, Kotlin, and frameworks like Spring, Play, Hibernate, Django, etc.
• Good understanding of Algorithms, Data Structure, OOP, Design patterns, Parallel programming, Multithreading concepts & Event-Driven Systems.
• Experience with Relational databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, or any NoSQL database.

It’s a plus if you have:

• Familiarity with cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud
• Worked on Micro-services architecture

• Mandatory skills -PHP Experience.
• Experience in web application development and web developer.
• Good Knowledge of PHP, MySQL, jQuery, Javascript, HTML5, CSS3, XML
• Good debugging skills .
• Expertise in MVC Frameworks and good technology exposure of CI/Larvel frameworks added advantage.

Responsibilities   

• Understand the high-level product roadmap for the squad and immediate features to be developed, contributing to high-level estimation and lay-out of the development sequences. Complete complex development tasks with minimal guidance  
• Constantly and actively contribute to pushing code to production with the objective of becoming a main contributor. Write testable, efficient, and reusable code suitable for continuous integration and deployment, that respects best practices and industry development standards 
• Review Unified Modeling Language (UML) diagrams and technical documentation, ensuring its quality. Enable best practices to help the team achieve their technical tasks and continually thrive in improving the technology of the product/team.  
• Drive the adoption of best practices & regular participation in code reviews, design reviews, architecture discussions 
• Experiment with new and relevant technologies, and tools, and drive innovation & adoption while measuring yourself on the impact you can create. 
• Implementation of long-term technology vision for your team. Responsible for the complete architecture of your product. 
• Creating architecture & designs for new solutions around existing/new areas u Decide technology & tool choices for your team & be responsible for them. 
• Be accountable for code quality with the assistance of a QA Analyst to conduct adequate testing. 
• Review and contribute to technical documentation. Contribute actively to the design of the solution, challenging other members on technical decisions. 

Skills 

• Working with other TypeScript developers and software engineers to develop Front-end and back-end architecture that’s well-structured and flexible, along with the APIs to support it. 
• Developing and implementing Back-end architecture to support user interface concepts. 
• Developing and implementing highly responsive user interface components using Node concepts. 
• Create data visualization tools, libraries, and reusable code for prospects. 
• In-depth knowledge of TypeScript, CSS, HTML, and back-end languages. 
• Knowledge of Backend service like AWS Services, Microservice, Serverless software. 

Qualifications  

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, or related field. 
• Proficiency with TypeScript, CSS, HTML, and Back-end languages. 
• 7+ years’ experience in Node JS, Typescript, NoSQL, RDBMS, AWS Services 
• The ability to learn new technologies quickly 
• The ability to communicate complex procedures to other colleagues. 

• Required Good Coding Skills In HTML5, PHP, JS & MYSQL, BOOTSTRAP CSS, JQuery,
• Designing And Building The Website Front-End.
• Creating The Website Architecture.
• Designing And Managing The Website Back-End Including Database And Server Integration.
• Conducting Website Performance Tests.
• Troubleshooting Content Issues.
• Monitoring The Performance Of The Live Website.
• Knowledge Of CMS Have Additional Benefits
• Should Have A Deep Understanding Of UI/UX Frontend
• Should Have A Previous Experience With Landing Page Builders

Who We are

At e6data (https://e6x.io/">https://e6data.io) we’re building core algorithms that makes querying 25 - 200X more performant (i.e. faster and/or cheaper) than every other analytics platform in the world. This results in billions of dollars of value unlocked across faster analytics, savings on compute / infra, and new use cases becoming possible.

Our core team has 100+ years of combined experience and 10+ patents across diverse but complementary disciplines like real time databases, time series databases, SQL OLAP engines, distributed computing platforms, stream processing, and log analytics. Two of the founding team are second time founders with past exits.

We are passionate about solving the deepest and most important problems in computer science, and believe in making our technology available to customers regardless of their location, size, or budget. Our vision is for e6data to power every analytical workload in the world - regardless of deployment scenario (cloud, on-premise, edge), across every use case (end user queries, ETL / data pipelines), and every latency requirement (batch, streaming / real time).

What you'll do?

• Write awesome code
• The focus will be on performance of our data platform
• Identify tactical and long-term product improvements (could be code, script, etc.)
• Responsible for Planning and executing Metadata and Governance tool supports
• Build our internal Data Platform using exdata
• Adding scalable functionality to the system for new features like UDF's, sql functions etc

What are we looking for?

• Worked with Python for a minimum of 2 years
• Well versed with Django REST framework
• Knowledge of document based data stores like MongoDB
• Strong team player
• A passion for continuous learning and growth (both at a personal and team level)
• Experience (or enjoys) working in a startup will be an added advantage

We are looking for 2-3 years experienced Django Developer to join immediately in Delhi.

Responsibilities

As a Backend Developer,  you will be responsible for -

•  Building the Complete Backend of our web application and Mobile App from scratch.
• Work closely with the Frontend Engineer to integrate the algorithmic input from the Frontend Framework.
• Work closely with the product owners to create dynamic infographics with intuitive user controls.
• Participate in UAT, troubleshoot, bugs and application integration issues
• Optimize applications for best user experience
• Create and maintain documentation related to the developed processes and applications

Qualification & Experience

• 2-3 years of demonstrable experience designing, building, and working as a Django Developer for enterprise web application
• Ideally, this would include the following:
• Expert-level proficiency with Python, Django, and Django Rest Framework.
• Understanding of REST concepts and interacting with REST APIs
• Understanding of  Postgresql 
• Basic Understanding of Frontend Framework like React.js
• Deep understanding of a few Backend concepts:
• Familiarity with Elastic Search and AWS Technology
• Familiarity with Apache and Ngnix etc.
• Understanding of Python coding Standards
• In addition, the ideal candidate would have great problem-solving skills and familiarity with code versioning tools such as Github

Location:- Delhi

• Need to develop applications in PHP, HTML5, JQuery and Node.JS.
• Need to interact with Team Leads, QA team, Deployment team
• Need to interact with in-house and external customers
• Need to interact with internal team members for integrated development
• Need to have good communication skills
• Will Report to Lead Developer - PHP

Skills required:

• Need to have experience in developing projects using PHP, MySQL, HTML5, JavaScript, AJAX, JQuery , CSS3, Elastic Search and Node.JS
• Need to have experience in implementing web frameworks
• Need to have experience in database concepts
• Need experience in unit testing
• Need to have experience in trouble shooting and analyzing run time errors

Preference of Educational background:

• B.E
• B.Tech
• MCA

Preference of Professional background:

• Should have strong knowledge and understanding of Software Development Life Cycle.
• Solid Work experience of Object Oriented Development and MVC Design & Core PHP
• Sound knowledge of JavaScript / AJAX technologies and methods.
• Prior experience with XML, JSON and SOAP web services.
• Hands-on experience in writing complex SQL queries.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Node.js, Angular.js is a plus
• Version control systems like Sub version, GITLAB