


About the job
The Role:
We are looking for an enthusiastic Technology Lead (Python or Node), who adopts a hands-on approach and loves to build scalable, distributed and large web / mobile products. You would be responsible for designing the architecture, reviewing the code, building the technology and deploying web/mobile applications.
Responsibilities:
- Own the product development from scratch.
- Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications.
- Architect scalable software solutions and mentor a team of high performing developers.
- Participate in code reviews, design reviews, SCRUM ceremonies, and troubleshoot to ensure uptime for live systems etc.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in a technology-related field from a premier college.
- Prior 4+ years of experience in back-end development (Python/ Golang) in a start-up or a dynamic work environment.
- Good exposure in writing and optimizing SQL for high-performance systems.
- Understanding of asyncio and eventloop/ uvloop concepts. Knowledge of frameworks such as Quart/ Fastapi/ Starlette is preferred.
- Knowledge of AWS; Caching technologies like Redis, Memcache; ELK; mySQL Databases, etc.
- Strong understanding of System Design, Microservice Architecture, Kafka, Pub/Sub, Message queues, and in-memory data stores etc.
- Customer oriented, responsive to changes, and able to multi-task in a fast-paced environment.
We offer an innovative, fast paced, and entrepreneurial work environment where you’ll be at the centre of leading change by leveraging technology and creating boundless impact in the FinTech ecosystem.

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- Implement best practices for the engineering team across code hygiene, overall architecture design, testing, and deployment activities
- Drive technical decisions for building data pipelines, data lakes, and analyst access.
- Act as a leader within the engineering team, providing support and mentorship for teammates across functions
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent job experience
- Experienced developer in large data environments
- Experience using Git productively in a team environment
- Experience with Docker
- Experience with Amazon Web Services
- Ability to sit with business or technical SMEs to listen, learn and propose technical solutions to business problems
· Experience using and adapting to new technologies
· Take and understand business requirements and goals
· Work collaboratively with project managers and stakeholders to make sure that all aspects of the project are delivered as planned
· Strong SQL skills with MySQL or PostgreSQL
- Experience with non-relational databases and their role in web architectures desired
Knowledge and Experience:
- Good experience with Elixir and functional programming a plus
- Several years of python experience
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
- Excellent organizational skills
Proven verbal and written cross-department and customer communication skills

Job Description:
• In depth knowledge of NodeJS, ExpressJS, Mongo DB
• Experience implementing applications using React
• Experience creating front end applications using HTML5, React, Saga
• Hands on experience with JavaScript Development on both client and server-side
• Experience with modern frameworks and design patterns
• Experience in using Github / Bitbucket
• Knowledge of using AWS and deploying applications on AWS
• Nodejs
• Data structure & Algorithms
DESIRED SKILLS & EXPERIENCE
• BE/BTech in Computer Science or related technical discipline
• Good knowledge of JavaScript, JSON, Relational/NoSQL DB,
• Experience in writing modular/reusable code using JavaScript frameworks like Node JS, Express JS etc.
• Knowledge of Restful Web Services
• Understanding of OOPS, Data Structure, and Algorithms
• Knowledge of Python will be a plus point.
• Good Analytical and Problem-solving skills
• Knowledge of source control tools, preferably GIT
• Familiar with Agile methodologies



Brief Overview:
Through your work at Vauld, you will have the opportunity to change money for the 21st century. We’re a leading cryptocurrency platform and are passionate about increasing economic freedom around the world.
We are looking for a Lead Backend Engineer who has hands-on experience working with and leading Product teams and has solved for and built complex backend solutions. You'll be involved with bringing features and products from idea to completion and mentoring an incredibly talented group of peers.
If you are looking for a challenging work environment where you can grow and deepen your technical skills as a backend engineer and architect, we’d love to chat with you!
Key Responsibilities:
- Working with CXO’s, product managers, devops, and frontend engineers to collaboratively own the backend-end layer for Vauld’s application.
- Architect and build highly scalable, secure features keeping the long term vision of the product.
Requirements:
- You have 7 years or more of backend 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.
Preferred:
- Previous work experience in product-based startups
- Experience building for products that have scaled and have seen the product evolution
- Understands the cryptocurrency landscape
Working at Vauld:
You will join a fun and intellectually stimulating work environment. If you’re excited by the idea of making a real impact and joining a team where we pride ourselves on being disruptive and ambitious, a career with Vauld is perfect for you.
- 2+ years of experience on Java, Spring Boot, Hibernate in medium to large-scale projects
- Must have experience with at least some flavours of both SQL (MySQL, Postgres) and NoSQL (Kafka, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, NoSQL distributed cache system, DynamoDB etc), datastores in production
- Must have experience with Kafka or similar message queue systems in production
- Stellar problem solving skills
- Hunger to learn new things and ability to grasp new concepts quickly
- Ability to move quickly without breaking things too much (we are dreamers)
- Ability to work under immense pressure which is balanced by a sense of responsibility and ownership
- Should be able to groom juniors and take them to the next level
Basic Skills/Qualifications
• Master’s/Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering (BE/MCA/BCA)
• 5-9 years of strong software design and development experience and building and administering large-scale distributed applications
• Strong communication skills
• Agility and quick learner
• Understanding of the Software development lifecycle
• Good Analytical and problem-solving skills
• Self-motivated with the ability to prioritize, meet deadlines, and manage changing priorities
• Should have a high level of energy working as an individual Contributor and as a part of Team.
• Ability to think out of the box and questioning everything
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• Apply Server-side software development expertise, to design, develop and implement horizontally scalable components with the ability to handle large transaction and query volumes with following experience :
• Backend - NodeJS, Server-Side Events (SSE)
• Programming languages - Typescript, JavaScript
• API – REST, GraphQL
• Databases – MySQL, PostgreSQL
• Additional useful programming languages – Java, Scala
• CI/CD experience with:
• Git/TFS, Containers, Ansible
• Test Driven Development (TDD)
• Real-time or near real-time data pipelines
• BPMN 2.0 (Camunda)
• Knowledge of Design Thinking
• Experience working in short agile release cycles
• Enterprise grade development best-practices for end-to-end interoperability and integration
• Design with operational requirements, and support challenges in perspective







