

1. As a founding backend engineer, tackle a wide range of technical challenges: from
designing powerful new integrations to scaling our real-time web service to hundreds
of users
2. Build high-impact, end-user features that vastly improve user productivity.
3. In a small cross-functional team you will collaborate closely to discuss the feasibility
and direction of prototypes or planned product features.
4. Address complex problems at both an application and system-level, and maintain
existing codebases
5. Work directly with CTO to set the tone for the engineering culture and create
processes for improving engineering standards
This role is tailor-made for you if
1. You have a work experience of 3+ years as a Backend Developer
2. You have hands-on experience with Node JS, Golang will be a plus
3. Demonstrated fluency with REST APIs, third-party libraries, and client/server
architectures
5. You have experience with maintaining backend microservices
6. You are comfortable conducting code reviews and giving feedback to ensure high
standards of code maintainability and extensibility
7. You are energized by ambiguity and can create structure in a dynamic, fast-paced
environment
8. You’ve high confidence, low ego, and are generally a good human being :)
You earn brownie points if
1. You love Slack (we are a Slack first company)
2. You have been part of an early/mid-stage start-up before
3. You love TechCrunch. We are obsessed with reading and talking about startups
4. You have created some amazing open-source projects

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What We’re Looking For:
Architecting Marvels: Designing and implementing scalable, resilient distributed systems that make our platform sing.
Coding Ninjutsu: Crafting elegant, efficient code in Go and/or Java that runs like clockwork.
Keeping Watch: Hands-on with monitoring and troubleshooting using open-source Observability stack—think Loki, Grafana, and all things metrics.
Cloud Whisperer: Leveraging core AWS services to build and maintain robust infrastructure that never sleeps.
Pipeline Maestro: Setting up and optimising CI/CD pipelines to keep our deployment game strong.
Mentoring Mastery: Guiding and mentoring junior engineers, sharing your wisdom and helping them grow into future stars.
Bonus Points:
Startup Savvy: Thrived in the fast-paced, dynamic environment of a startup.
Fintech Finesse: Familiarity with the unique challenges and regulations of the fintech industry.
If you're excited about joining a dynamic team where you can architect, code, mentor, and innovate, send us your resume! Let's chat about how you can help us revolutionize the fintech space. 🚀
An Engineer’s Life @ SequoiaAT
As an Engineer, SequoiaAT will be a dream job for you. You will have an opportunity to work on technologies and product before they hit the market and get popular. If working on a gadget you may get to own one of them as an early tester. Working with us we have a be your own boss culture so you will have plenty of opportunities to interact directly with our customers and their customer. Our goals just do not end there, we want to work with you on your personal development goals and ensure that you meet them. We work on projects involving hardware integration, Wireless Including (BLE, LoRa, WiFi etc.) , Data Analytics, Digital Transformation etc. We are all engineers and we do not want you to have a feeling that you got stuck on one project and could not grow your career. We expect you to contribute to a variety of projects during a given period of time. We keep you well informed about new technology trends through our tech chat sessions and secondary skill development process.
Is it right job the right one for you?
If you are passionate and through about what you have been doing and willing to learn daily, then you will fit in very well. You should also have the ability to freely and clearly communicate your ideas or thoughts to succeed at SequoiaAT.
What Technology Skills required for this?
Primary Skills: Node.js What’s expected from your experience in primary skills area?
Strong proficiency in Node.js, frameworks (e.g. Express), and JavaScript Development of server-side logic, including APIs and views.
Deep knowledge of server-side templating languages, front-end technologies, fundamental design principles, HTML5, and CSS.
Integration of third party APIs Deployment of autoscaling strategies Write reusable, testable, and efficient code.
Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as Git Understanding of the Agile Development Process (i.e. Scrum)
Knowledge in React is a plus Secondary Skills


Familiarity with Agile development methodologies.
• Areas of expertise: Go, Electron, NodeJs.
• Developer in Linux and Windows environments
• Proficient in software development tools such as IDEs, debuggers, profilers, source control systems.
• Strong in coding languages (e.g. C, C++, Go, Java) and frameworks (e.g. NodeJs, Electron, Git)
Preferred Qualifications
The ideal candidate will possess the following experience:
• Good subject matter expertise with Kubernetes, Docker and other container orchestration tool.
• Practical experience developing, testing and operating a service in a hybrid cloud.
• Outstanding coding/scripting skills, preferably in Go.
• Experience with Linux/Unix
• Experience in Jenkins and CI/CD environment
• Strong oral and written communication skills
Experience: 6 to 10 Years
Must have:
- Experience in leading teams and handling communication among engineers and product managers,and have worked with mobile teams and product teams.
- Experience working on RFC documentation.
- Experience in architecting the software, estimating tasks, breaking down into subtasks, prioritizing tasks as per need, and timely delivery.
Responsibilities:
- Designing and developing mobile-first applications.
- Creating and maintaining clean and clear front-end code and backend APIs for our web and mobile applications.
- Automation and Deployments of builds - Frontend and Backend.
- Application Performance And Error Monitoring and Automation
- Maintaining excellent test coverage for our code base.
- Follow best practices while reviewing pull requests
- Working with our shared services and field teams to identify application bottlenecks and make relevant architectural decisions.
- Working with our front-end application developers to optimize performance across our system.
- Designing administrative tools for our shared services and business development teams
- Constantly optimizing our code bases with an eye for modularity and legibility.
- Writing documentation for our external and internal APIs.
Requirements:
- Strong understanding of RESTful JSON web API design principles.
- Demonstrable experience with NodeJS, Express. JS, PostgreSQL, MongoDB
- Familiarity with popular NodeJS packages (e. g. express, socket-io).
- Must have experience with test driven development(TDD).
- Experience in JavaScript development.
- Experience in backend web development.
- Containerisation experience working with Docker/ Kubernetes/ Docker Swarm
- Familiarity with multiple additional programming languages/stacks.
- Experience with NoSQL databases, ideally MongoDB.
- Experience with RDBMS databases like MySQL/PostgreSQL.
- An excellent understanding of distributed systems and their tradeoffs.
- Excellent documentation skills.
- Ability to clearly articulate technical problems, design and implementation choices to a broad range of stakeholders (e. g. sales team, users, security experts).
- Experience working with web sockets.
- Familiarity with the AWS stack.
- Experience in application security testing.
- Familiarity with client-side JavaScript frameworks and best practices.
- Familiarity with CI/CD Pipeline.
- Contributions to open source communities.
Perks and Benefits
- Work from anywhere
- Competitive salary and bonus program
- Annual company retreats to fantastic places
- Unlimited Vacation Policy
- Great healthcare coverage
- Professional development allowance
- Internet Allowance
- Customised CMMversary rewards on your 1,3,5,7 and 10-year work anniversaries
- Career Enablement – We meld your upskilling initiatives with organization’s strategic planning
- Take your Birthday Off
Job Responsibilities:
- Create standard RESTful APIs
- Define API models
- Define Database models
- Communicate with other teams about breaking changes
- Maintain code quality
- Optimizing services for maximum performance
Requirements: 5+ years of work experience
- Advanced understanding of SQL ( NoSQL is a plus)
- Proficient understanding of Node.js
- Willingness to learn new ways of doing things
- Experience exposing functionality through RESTful APIs and GraphQL
- Perform performance tuning and query optimization using native SQL Server tools
- Ensure performance, security, and availability of databases
- Should be familiar with the AWS ecosystem and services
- Experience in deployment of scalable, low-latency, and highly available distributed systems
- Experience with Scrum/Agile development

● You’ve been building the backend for web applications.
● You have experience with any of these backend programming languages --
Python, NodeJS or Java.
● You write an understandable, testable code with an eye towards
maintainability.
● You are a strong communicator. Explaining complex technical concepts to
designers, support, and other engineers is no problem for you.
● You possess strong computer science fundamentals: data structures,
algorithms, programming languages, distributed systems, and information
retrieval.
● You have completed a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or
related field, or equivalent training, fellowship, or work experience.
Essential: |
· Javascript |
· VueJS |
· Git |
· Gitlab CI |
· Docker |
· Npm |
· nodeJS |
Desirable: |
· Typescript |
· VisJS |
· Java |
· Spring |
· Spring boot |
· Experience in UX design |
· Experience in working directly with customers. |




