Backend Engineer

Experience: Back-end development: 6 years (Required)

Job Description:

We are looking for a highly skilled Senior Python Django Developer with extensive experience in building and scaling financial or payments-based applications. The ideal candidate has a deep understanding of system design, architecture patterns, and testing best practices, along with a strong grasp of the startup environment.

This role requires a balance of hands-on coding, architectural design, and collaboration across teams to deliver robust and scalable financial products.

Responsibilities:

• Design and develop scalable, secure, and high-performance applications using Python (Django framework).
• Architect system components, define database schemas, and optimize backend services for speed and efficiency.
• Lead and implement design patterns and software architecture best practices.
• Ensure code quality through comprehensive unit testing, integration testing, and participation in code reviews.
• Collaborate closely with Product, DevOps, QA, and Frontend teams to build seamless end-to-end solutions.
• Drive performance improvements, monitor system health, and troubleshoot production issues.
• Apply domain knowledge in payments and finance, including transaction processing, reconciliation, settlements, wallets, UPI, etc.
• Contribute to technical decision-making and mentor junior developers.

Requirements:

• 6 to 10 years of professional backend development experience with Python and Django.
• Strong background in payments/financial systems or FinTech applications.
• Proven experience in designing software architecture in a microservices or modular monolith environment.
• Experience working in fast-paced startup environments with agile practices.
• Proficiency in RESTful APIs, SQL (PostgreSQL/MySQL), NoSQL (MongoDB/Redis).
• Solid understanding of Docker, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure).
• Hands-on experience with test-driven development (TDD) and frameworks like pytest, unit test, or factory boy.
• Familiarity with security best practices in financial applications (PCI compliance, data encryption, etc.).

Preferred Skills:

• Exposure to event-driven architecture (Celery, Kafka, RabbitMQ).
• Experience integrating with third-party payment gateways, banking APIs, or financial instruments.
• Understanding of DevOps and monitoring tools (Prometheus, ELK, Grafana).
• Contributions to open-source or personal finance-related projects.

Online group buying platform that helps people connect with likeminded people who want to buy the same item/product at a discounted price.

• Overlook development of all consumer products in JAVA and
• Optimize components for maximum performance across a vast array of web-capable devices and
• Focus on code maintainability and performance of
• Provide technical advice and assists in solving programming
• Continuously create new and interactive features that would help to improve user experience and user engagement.
• Assist with troubleshooting of issues as
• Lead the design and architecture of software
• Assist in developing and maintaining continuous integration.

• Skills required: JAVA, Python (Flask and Django), Spring/Spring Boot, React, Hibernate,
• 2+ years of experience in Java and Python
• Linux, REST, Kafka, Mysql,, AWS, ELK Stack (Elasticsearch), CI/CD
• Good experience in Java and/or Python based
• Experience in designing databases and system
• Experience in building products from scratch at well-funded start-ups

[Senior NodeJS Developer] JP Funware & Technologies

Our Vision

JP Funware & Technologies is a new India-based online gaming company foraying into real money gaming with a portfolio that spans skill games (RummyXL) and many more upcoming ultimate games. The company specializes in technology and artificial intelligence to provide amazing game-playing experiences across its platforms. The Company for a future where the platform can deliver a culturally relevant and enjoyable experience in the Indian gaming environment, with features like easy payment withdrawal, less commission, and much more

The Role

JP Funware & Technologies is looking for a Senior NodeJS Developer passionate about working on core system architecture and cutting-edge technology with the experience and knack for real-money gaming. The ideal candidate should have experience in developing high-performance, scalable and secure applications using Node.js. You will be responsible for developing and maintaining server-side applications, implementing new features and fixing bugs, and collaborating with other team members to ensure the success of the project.

Key Responsibilities

·       Creating and maintaining server-side application logic.

·       Ensuring optimal performance of the central database and responsiveness to front-end requests.

·       Collaborating with front-end developers on the integration of elements.

·       Developing high-performance applications by writing testable, reusable, and efficient code.

·       Implementing effective security protocols, data protection measures, and storage solutions.

·       Collaborate with front-end developers on combining their front-end elements and components with the server side.

·       Work on security and data protection.

·       Incorporate data storage solutions (MongoDB).

·       Running diagnostic tests, repairing defects, and providing technical support.

·       Documenting Node.js processes, including database schemas, as well as preparing reports.

·       Design and optimize applications for high performance, high availability, and low latency

·       Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code.

·       Troubleshoot and debug applications.

·       Familiarity with how to create scalable Node.js applications.

Key skills and Experience Required

·       At least 6 years of experience in developing Node.js applications.

·       Strong understanding of JavaScript and Node.js.

·       Experience with popular Node.js frameworks such as Express, Koa, or NestJS.

·       Strong knowledge of database technologies such as MongoDB, MySQL, or PostgreSQL.

·       Experience with Git and version control.

·       Extensive knowledge of socket.io libraries, and frameworks (Express).

·       Working knowledge of front-end technologies such as HTML5 and CSS3.

·       Familiarity with how to create scalable Node.js applications.

·       Great organizational and time management skills.

·       Strong problem-solving and critical thinking skills.

·       Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

·       Master's degree in computer science, information science, or related field (preferred)

Why Explore a Career at JPFT

·      Disproportionate Learning

All you need to bring to the table is a passion for Real Money Games and/or Tech. The responsibility for your growth and managing your learning curve is totally ours. Real money games are one of the most challenging businesses from a Tech & Operations point of view and we intend to expose our employees to various facets of their domain to make them rich with hands-on experience.

·      Work-Life Balance

We do not glorify working overtime in the name of "startup hustle / hyper growth mindset". Efficiency is best driven when there is a solid work-life balance for our team members and we swear by this principle.

·      Wealth Creation

Attractive compensation way above the market along with our generous bonus policy helps us in helping our younger and more passionate team members focus on wealth creation at the very stage of joining the organization.

·      Peace of Mind

Flexible work culture and openness have been an integral part of our company structure from the beginning. We believe in taking care of your mental, physical, and emotional well-being.

It is a golden opportunity to be a part of the team and embark on a two-fold journey - enhancing the sports engagement of an average Indian and being the best RMG tech organization in the country. If you love sports and are passionate about technology and RMG, THIS IS THE PLACE for you!

Benefits at JPFT

Competitive Pay Packages || Swanky & vibrant workspace in Gurgaon || Investment in Learning & Development / Training || Employee Friendly Work Practices || Flexible Leave Policy || Company Laptop || Annual Offsite || Solve Challenging Problems|| High Scope of Innovation

Interview Process JPFT

· Exploratory Call by the HR Team

 The uniqueness of the hiring process at JPFT is that at least ONE Founder will be present in all your interviews. This ensures the candidate gets a very strategic view of where the company aims to be in the medium/long term.

· One Technical Round – The technical round is to gauge & understand competence on the desired skill set and alignment from a technical standpoint.

· Final Round with the Founding Team to understand alignment on the vision and long-term plans of the organization.

JPFT's Tech Stack

NodeJS

Redis

Socet.io

MongoDB

AWS

Unity, C#

• Good understanding and experience of HTML / CSS / JavaScript.
• Hands-on experience with ES6 / ES7 / ES8 features.
• Thorough understanding of the Request Lifecycle (including Event Queue, Event Loop, Worker Threads, etc).
• Familiarity with security principles including SSL protocols, data encryption, XSS, CSRF.
• Expertise in Web Services / REST APIs will be beneficial.
• Proficiency in Linux and deployment on Linux are valuable.
• Knowledge about ORM like Sequelize and ODM like Mongoose and the ability to handle DB transactions is a necessity.
• Experience with Angular JS / React JS will be an added advantage.
• Expertise with RDBMS like MySQL / PostgreSQL will be a plus.
• Knowledge of AWS services like S3, EC2 will be helpful.
• Understanding of Agile and CI/CD will be of value.

About us:

HappyFox is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) support platform. We offer an enterprise-grade help desk ticketing system and intuitively designed live chat software.

We serve over 12,000 companies in 70+ countries. HappyFox is used by companies that span across education, media, e-commerce, retail, information technology, manufacturing, non-profit, government and many other verticals that have an internal or external support function.

To know more, Visit! - https://www.happyfox.com/

We’re looking for a Lead Backend Engineer with 5+ years of experience in building web services to join our engineering team to help architect, build and run our growing list of products. You should have prior experience being responsible for building sufficiently complex products/services and mentoring software engineers.

Responsibilities: 

• Lead a team of engineers working on our product roadmap. You are expected to contribute to feature development with hands-on development tasks
• Oversee software architecture, source control workflows, and CI/CD processes and perform code reviews to ensure exceptional code quality
• Improve the development experience and the quality of the codebase. You will define and uphold best practices and coding standards for the team
• Responsible for architecture and design decisions
• Own stability and performance of the service that you work on
• Work with the Engineering Manager to ship stable software on time
• Contribute to the vision and long-term strategy in your area of expertise

Requirements: 

• 2+ years of experience in a technical lead role designing and building complex backend systems
• 5+ years of professional software development experience
• Excellent knowledge of best practices and coding patterns
• Deep knowledge of backend programming languages like Python and web application frameworks like Django
• Solid experience in building web services using relational databases like PostgreSQL or NoSQL databases like MongoDB
• Proficiency with Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Google Cloud Platform or Azure
• Extensive experience with Linux/UNIX production environments
• Strong sense of quality in terms of both program architecture and code style
• Passion to dig into technically complex problems to troubleshoot and figure out a solution
• Desire to continuously improve and ship the best quality product
• Pragmatic approach to make sure technical decisions align with actual business needs. 
• Good understanding of the trade-offs when building for product value, reliability, or performance
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to discuss and explain your point of view clearly and effectively
• An engineering degree is a must(B.E. CS preferred)