Backend Engineer

About Tazapay

Tazapay is a Singapore-based B2B payments startup, backed by Sequoia Capital, Saison Capital, and RTP Global, enabling small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to conduct secure cross-border commerce. Founded by experts in payments, e-commerce, and cross-border trade, Tazapay is focused on driving digital transformation in the B2B space, addressing post-pandemic shifts and new opportunities with a culture of openness, innovation, and growth.

What Awaits You?

Joining us now means being part of an exceptional team on an exciting journey just as we’re preparing for significant growth. This is a unique opportunity to help build something from the ground up, with the satisfaction of seeing your work impact thousands of users. You’ll experience growth across all areas – Sales, Software Development, Marketing, HR, Accounting, and more – and share in a culture of openness, innovation, and memorable experiences.

Are you ready for the ride?

Explore what you could accomplish with us!

Backend Engineer Role

Responsibilities (not exhaustive)

• Design, write, and deliver highly scalable, reliable, and fault-tolerant systems with minimal guidance.
• Participate in code and design reviews to maintain high development standards.
• Collaborate with product management to define and execute the feature roadmap.
• Translate business requirements into scalable and extensible design.
• Proactively manage stakeholder communication regarding deliverables, risks, changes, and dependencies.
• Coordinate with cross-functional teams (Mobile, DevOps, Data, UX, QA, etc.) on planning and execution.
• Continuously improve code quality, product performance, and customer satisfaction.
• Willingness to learn new languages and methodologies.
• Display a strong sense of ownership.
• Engage in service capacity and demand planning, software performance analysis, tuning, and optimization.

The Ideal Candidate

Education

• Degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
• 5+ years of experience in commercial software development within large distributed systems.

Experience

• Hands-on experience in designing, developing, testing, and deploying applications on one or more of the following: Golang, Ruby, Python, .Net Core, or Java for large-scale applications.
• In-depth knowledge of Linux as a production environment.
• Strong understanding of data structures, algorithms, distributed systems, and asynchronous architectures.
• Expert in at least one language: Golang, Python, Ruby, Java, C, C++.
• Proficient in OOP, including design patterns.
• Ability to design and implement low-latency RESTful services.
• Proven experience in building backend services for high-volume traffic.
• Strong understanding of system performance and scaling.
• Excellent communication, analytical skills, and design abilities.
• Experience with data modeling in both relational and NoSQL databases.
• Able to continuously refactor applications for high-quality design.
• Skilled in planning, prioritizing, estimating, and executing releases predictably.
• Able to scope, review, and refine user stories for technical completeness and dependency mitigation.
• Eager to learn new technologies and tackle complex challenges.
• “Can-do” attitude.

Nice to Have

• Familiarity with the Golang ecosystem.
• Experience running web services at scale; understanding of systems internals and networking.
• Knowledge of HTTP/HTTPS communication protocols.

Abilities and Traits

• Strong attention to product details and ability to meet deadlines.
• High focus and precision for extended periods of repetitive tasks.
• Proactive problem-solver with strong anticipation skills.
• Team-oriented and able to assist others in resolving issues.
• Quality-oriented and structured in approach.
• Exceptional planning, organization, and prioritization skills.
• Demonstrated logical and analytical thinking abilities.

If you’re excited by this role, we’d love to see how you can make an impact on our journey.

• Hands-on experience in development of rest services using python
• Good knowledge Django or Flask framework
• Designing database tables and structures
• Skilled at optimizing large complicated SQL statements
• Knowledge of best practices when dealing with relational databases
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as Git
• Good understanding of asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, and AJAX
• Experience in owning Code Quality and Code Review processes
• Good understanding of application debugging techniques
• Experienced in Agile methodologies
• Strong analytic, problem solving, and programming ability
• Initiative and drive to contribute
• Excellent organizational and task management skills
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Ability to work in global cross-office teams

Additionally, we seek individuals with the following qualifications:

• Understanding of SEO and accessibility issues and how they relate to development
• Experience with NoSQL using MongoDB/Cassandra is a plus.
• Experience in working with Amazon Web Services (AWS) like S3, EMR, EC2 is preferred

• Two years' experience as a Node.js developer.
• Extensive knowledge of JavaScript, web stacks, libraries, and frameworks.
• Knowledge of front-end technologies such as HTML5 and CSS3.
• Superb interpersonal, communication, and collaboration skills.
• Exceptional analytical and problem-solving aptitude.
• Great organizational and time management skills.

Hello to the Amazing Devs out there,

We're ToastApp. We're on a mission to revamp the Dine-In experience for the customers as well as for the restaurants.

We're growing rapidly and this search for a new techie is to enable us and push for exponential growth. This is where you come in. You're a proactive, sharp and self-motivated individual who is eager to learn and take ownership across our applications. You love communicating and working with others in your team towards success, taking us from where we are now to where we want to be!

Our ideal candidate has:

Strong knowledge of Python (3+ years)

Experience with Redis and queues (Celery/Dramatiq)

Strong knowledge of MongoDB and PSQL DBs

Experience with modern APIs based on REST (Flask, FastAPI)

Fluent English and excellent communication skills

Passion for writing clean code and tests

Nice to have:

Experience creating products for developers, data engineers and/or data consumers

Experience with ElasticSearch

Hands-on approach and is proactive

A keen eye for detail, striving for perfection

Our tech stack:

Python, Flask

Redis

RabbitMQ

Mongo, MySQL

Github

On a typical day, you will:

Uphold our high engineering standards and bring consistency to our product development

Create and develop new functionalities as well as maintain existing ones

Write clean and scalable code

Write code-reviews

Learn best practices from other team members

Benefits:

Our team is based out of Hyderabad. We believe the best work happens when given lots of uninterrupted time that's free of distractions.

8L - 28L Based on experience

ESOPs

22 days holidays

Performance-based Quarterly Bonus

• Min 5 years of software development experience, with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.
• Proficiency in a Go programming language
• Strong software development fundamentals (Data structures,  Algorithms, problem-solving,  OO  design,  systems architecture,  and development methods).
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, and interpersonal skills. Self-motivated attitude with the ability to multitask, learn and thrive in a timeline-driven environment
• Good understanding of memory/SQL/NoSQL database concepts (key-value, schemas, indexing, etc)
• Writing scalable, robust, testable, efficient, and easily maintainable code
• Translating software requirements into stable, working, high-performance software
• Playing a key role in architectural and design decisions, building toward an efficient microservice distributed architecture

Skills

• Strong knowledge of Go programming language, paradigms, constructs, and idioms
• Knowledge of common Goroutine and channel patterns
• Experience with the full site of Go frameworks and tools, including:
• Dependency management tools such as Godep, Sltr, etc.