Backend Engineer

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

• Design, implement, and maintain API-based applications and REST services.
• Proficiency with Node JS.
• Must have experience in cloud services Azure Cloud/AWS.
• Familiarity with database technology such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB.
• Develop high-quality, efficient, and scalable code.
• Understanding of Agile methodologies and SCRUM framework Strong debugging, analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Provide technical support during implementation efforts, working with technical team members and with business users as required to provide troubleshooting and solutions to technical issues.

Backend Developer (Python)

Company and Founders
Egregore Labs (http://www.egregorelabs.com/">www.egregorelabs.com) is a financial software company founded in 2017 by Prashant Vijay (ISB, Tulane) & Hari Balaji (IIM Ahmedabad, IIT Madras) both of whom have spent over a decade each in Financial Services, with a majority of their experience at Goldman Sachs across New York, Hong Kong & Singapore in roles across Trading, Quant & Technology. More about the founders is available here and here

We operate at the intersection of Unstructured Data and Finance. We run multiple products, including Romulus (http://www.romulus.co/">www.romulus.co) and Robana (http://www.robana.ai/">www.robana.ai) - all our products work on the same underlying principles and set of technologies.

Ideal Background

• At least 2 years experience in back-end development in a fast-paced environment, working in Python
• Deep understanding of technologies used in web-deployed SaaS products, including Rest APIs
• Exposure to AWS, Azure or other cloud providers
• Sound understanding of computer science principles
• Exposure to any of the following
• Financial services
• Natural Language Processing
• Robotic Process Automation
• Intelligent Document Processing
• Document Management and Repositories

Opportunity
We will share our workload as a team and we expect you to work on a broad range of tasks. Here’s are some of the things you might have to do on any given day:

• Developing APIs and endpoints for deployments of our product
• Infrastructure Development such as building databases, creating and maintaining automated jobs
• Build out the back-end to deploy and scale our product
• Build POCs for client deployments
• Integrate our products with 3rd party products/tools/services
• Document your code, write test cases, etc.

Skills

• Hands-on experience with Python (2+ years)
• Sound understanding of Postgres and NoSQL databases such as MongoDB
• Deep familiarity with UNIX, major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure), DevOps
• Understanding of databases, and related tools, paradigms
• A computer science education would be great, but other engineering disciplines are ok as well

Desirables
We are looking for a person who has :

• Resourcefulness- - we're looking for versatile developers who are good at figuring out what they need to use, learn, build, re-purpose to get the job done quickly and efficiently.
• Ownership- - We like to be directive and not prescriptive in our management. We- d love for you to take ownership of what you work on, and tell us what to do, rather than the other way round.
• Work Ethic- - We- ve grown up on Wall Street. We work hard, and have aggressive goals. We want our team-mates to be focused, goal-oriented and consistent high achievers.
• Execution Focus- - Our business is about getting things done, and getting things done right. We want outcome focused colleagues who can multi-task, and execute quickly and elegantly.

Work From Home

Package: 7-12 LPA

Enterprise Minds, with core focus on engineering products, automation and intelligence, partners customers on the trajectory towards increasing outcomes, relevance, and growth. 

Harnessing the power of Data and the forces that define AI, Machine Learning and Data Science, we believe in institutionalizing go-to-market models and not just explore possibilities. 

We believe in a customer-centric ethic without and people-centric paradigm within. With a strong sense of community, ownership, and collaboration our people work in a spirit of co-creation, co-innovation, and co-development to engineer next-generation software products with the help of accelerators. 

Through Communities we connect and attract talent that shares skills and expertise. Through Innovation Labs and global design studios we deliver creative solutions. 
We create vertical isolated pods which has narrow but deep focus. We also create horizontal pods to collaborate and deliver sustainable outcomes. 

We follow Agile methodologies to fail fast and deliver scalable and modular solutions. We are constantly self-asses and realign to work with each customer in the most impactful manner. 

Pre-requisites for the Role 

1. Job ID-EMPY0120MS 

1. Primary skill: Python Developer, Django, Problem solving. 

1. Secondary skill: Rest, API 

1. Years of Experience: 4-7 Years  

1. Location: Remote 

Budget- Open  

NP- Immediate 

PYTHON DEVELOPER 

• Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable Python code 
• Design and implement software platform with Microservices Architecture, based on AWS Lambda and Event sourced data 
• Integration of data storage solutions {may include databases, key-value stores, notification queues, etc.} 

• Integration with various backend monitoring tools 
• Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to these problems 
• Help maintain code quality, organization and automatization 
• Participate in early product demonstrations to customersExperience required: 
• Bachelor's or Masters in Computer Science or a related discipline 

• 2-6 years of relevant professional experience 
• Delivery of quality results within aggressive timelines 
• Knowledge of software development processesSkills Required: 
• Experience with Python, along with other common libraries/framework such as Flask, Celery, Django etc., 
• Good understanding with usage of Lambda in Python. 

• Good understanding in testing frameworks like PyTest. 
• Ability to work with IDEs like Visual Studio Code. 
• Basic understanding in developing private PIP packages. 
• Solid understanding of object-oriented programming. 
• Familiarity with concepts of MVC, Mocking, ORM, and RESTful. 

• A knack for writing clean, readable Python code. 
• Ability to integrate multiple data sources and databases into one system. 
• Ability to understand monitoring metrics, such as CPU, Memory, Disk Space, Network latency, and telemetry services. 
• Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application. 
• Understanding the fundamentals of RDBMS databases. 

• Ability to work with PostgreSQL is a plus. 
• Ability to work with AWS services like Lambda, Kinesis, SQS, SNS etc., is a plus. 
• Proficient understanding of Git. 
• Familiarity with continuous integration and continuous deployment. 
• Effective verbal and written communication skills. 

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent experience
• 2+ years of Full Stack development experience using NodeJs
• Knowledge of relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc. )
• Experience designing and developing REST APIs
• Strong analytical and communication skills
• Eager to learn new technologies
• Strong fundamental knowledge of object-oriented programming, data structures, algorithms, and performance
• Hands-on experience with agile practices, including coding standards, reviews, build process, testing, and code control management.

• Infrastructure experience including AWS, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes and CI/CD configuration and deployment is ideal.
• Our development team is looking for an experienced full-time Full Stack Developer to join our fast-growing organization.
• As part of the development team, you will be maintaining, enhancing, designing, developing, testing, and documenting on both the client and server-side of our products.
• The ideal candidate is an innovative problem solver, who has excellent communication and teamwork skills.
• NodeJS, React JS
• Docker, AWS

• Working knowledge of Node-Sync, callback hell and ways to control asynchronous behavior of Node functions.
• Strong command on ES6(EcmaScript) or Javascript and its concepts like prototypes, call back, closures etc
• Should have deep understanding of Native Node.js, Express.js, HAPI.js and middlewares.
• Candidates must have proper understanding and command on RESTful API development and consumptions.
• Candidates must know to use promises, async-await to control synchronization of business logic components.
• Candidates must have knowledge of JWT, oAuth and passport.js for user authentication.
• Candidates must have knowledge of GIT, Bit-bucket.
• Candidates must have knowledge of application deployment.
• Experience with NoSQL databases eg mongodb (preferred).

• 2+ years experience in application development

• experience with Python and Javascript is required. 

• good knowledge of operating systems and networking concepts

• experience in using and understanding code from Open Source

• Strong command of NoSQL and ability to design schemas.

• Knowledge of front-end technologies such as React Native, React.js, or Javascript

• Experience with cloud infrastructure tools in AWS and Google Cloud

• experience with implementing best software engineering practices like version control with git, code reviews, writing unit-tests, writing readable code

• inclination towards researching new technologies and adapt them to solve challenges we face.

• Address all tech challenges and continue with tech innovation in order to improve business operations

• Experience with Live video stream a plus.

• Experience with AI preferred.

• NoSQL DB (MongoDB, CouchDB), PostgreSQL
• Mocha test environment
• Should JS testing framework
• Experience implementing mock services
• Nock API mocking
• NPM, Redis
• Typescript / Coffee script experience will be an added advantage
• Experience working with opensource JS projects
• Experience in developing REST API
• Source code management tool - Git / GitHub
• Understanding of TCP/IP networking and client/server web programming model
• Good communication skills
• Should be able to work with the cross-geo client team