Backend Engineer

Job Description:

• Experience in Core Java 5.0 and above, CXF, Spring.
• Extensive experience in developing enterprise-scale n-tier applications for financial domain. Should possess good architectural knowledge and be aware of enterprise application design patterns.
• Should have the ability to analyze, design, develop and test complex, low-latency client-facing applications.
• Good development experience with RDBMS, preferably Sybase database.
• Good knowledge of multi-threading and high-volume server-side development.
• Experience in sales and trading platforms in investment banking/capital markets.
• Basic working knowledge of Unix/Linux.
• Excellent problem solving and coding skills in Java.
• Strong interpersonal, communication and analytical skills.
• Should have the ability to express their design ideas and thoughts.
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Strong Senior Backend Engineer profiles

Mandatory (Experience 1) – Must have 5+ years of hands-on Backend Engineering experience building scalable, production-grade systems

Mandatory (Experience 2) – Must have strong backend development experience using one or more frameworks (FastAPI / Django (Python), Spring (Java), Express (Node.js).

Mandatory (Experience 3) – Must have deep understanding of relevant libraries, tools, and best practices within the chosen backend framework

Mandatory (Experience 4) – Must have strong experience with databases, including SQL and NoSQL, along with efficient data modeling and performance optimization

Mandatory (Experience 5) – Must have experience designing, building, and maintaining APIs, services, and backend systems, including system design and clean code practices

Mandatory (Domain) – Experience with financial systems, billing platforms, or fintech applications is highly preferred (fintech background is a strong plus)

Mandatory (Company) – Must have worked in product companies / startups, preferably Series A to Series D

Mandatory (Education) – Candidates from Tier - 1 engineering institutes (IITs, BITS, are highly preferred)

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities

· Design, Code, test, debug, implement and document complex WSO2 sequences.

· Monitoring and logging tool stacks - Splunk/ELK/Prometheus, Grafana 4 Design, Code, test, debug, implement and document complex WSO2 sequences.

· Perform Build activities for WSO2 ESB Middleware integration, involves writing XSLT, ESB coding, configuration, and Analysis activities.

· Trouble shooting various problems in different stages of development using logs files, Traces and Log Analyzer.

· Responsible for understanding the requirement, solution design, coordinate the development and testing activities (end to end)

· Guide the team regarding WSO2 platform best practices, framework, reusable artefacts and ensure code quality and timely deliverables.

· Work with functional and technical customers to determine solutions that drive additional business value.

· Work with Github, Azure Devops and CI tools to automate dev, build, deployment and testing.

· Good knowledge in messaging brokers: WSO2 Message Broker, Apache Kafka.

· Monitoring the server (Monitoring logs and WSO2 metrics).

· Desired Candidate Profile

Desired Candidate Profile

· Candidate must have minimum 2+ years of hands-on experience in WSO2, preferably with WSO2 certification.

· Extensive experience in Integration by using WSO2 Product Stack (API Manager 2.6/3.x, Enterprise Integrator 6.5 and Identity Server 5.7.0)

· Experience in Implementing APIs in WSO2 EI and On-boarding APIs into WSO2 API Manager

· Experience in WSO2 API Manager for designing API facades and designing and implementing API Proxies.

· Hands-on experience in designing and developing high volume web services using API Protocols and Data Formats (REST, JSON, SOAP & XML).

· Must have hands on experience / knowledge with CI tools to automate dev, build, deploy.

· Experience in programming languages: Java, JavaScript, Python

· Experience in on boarding web applications into WSO2 Identity Server for authentication and authorizatio

Qualifications

• Minimum of a Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science, or a related four-year degree.

• 4 years of hands on experience in Integration

Responsibilities

• Understand existing business operations tool used by customer support and business teams.
• Work with Engineering Manager to upgrade the system to improve system stability and response times.
• Independently lead design and implement new features as per business requirements provided by Product Management team.
• Develop elegant, modular and maintainable solutions. Document all design, operations steps for knowledge sharing purposes.
• Guide junior team members on feature implementation and provide relevant training on existing modules.

Must-know Technologies

• Java EE
• Java Server Facelets (JSF)
• Java Persistence API (JPA), Hibernate
• SQL
• HTML, CSS, JavaScript
• Payara/GlassFish/similar application server environments

Preferred Skills

• 2-8 years of overall experience in software design and development.
• Ability to analyze existing application, implement new features and re-architect the application in case of inefficiencies.
• Strong object-oriented skills and ability to apply design patterns.
• Experience mentoring junior engineers on development, code review, project planning.

We are hiring for a Software Engineer Team Lead - Backend, to join our education-focused fintech lending startup, GrayQuest. Our core product is a combination of a lending product, a rewards product and an insurance product to redefine the education fees payment across the country.

• Participate in all stages of the Software Development Lifecycle
• Develop back-end components, services, and APIs. Support integration of user-facing elements, and collaborate closely with the design and front-end development team.
• Write elegant, effective, and scalable code while maintaining the highest level of coding standards.
• Take complete ownership of projects and ensure timely deliveries
• Ability to debug, refine, review, and deploy code
• Work closely with the QA team to test, and document project features.
• Ability to interact with all stakeholders. Understand business requirements, and effectively convert them into technical specifications
• Mentor junior developers and participate in peer Review

Requirements:

• Demonstrable experience as a Python Developer (3+ years)
• Strong knowledge of Python frameworks (Django Rest, Flask)
• Experience working on REST APIs
• Strong knowledge of SQL and JavaScript
• Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Working knowledge of React
• Familiarity with Agile development methodology
• Good understanding of task breakup, milestone definition, and work delegation.
• Past experience of working in a fintech/financial services domain or a consumer internet startup will be preferable but not required
• Work experience in early-stage startups (0 ->1) is a big plus
• Bachelors or equivalent degree from premier institutes is a plus
• Most importantly, the biggest skill we look for our prospective candidates is "Learnability" - how quickly can you learn. 

Why is this a great opportunity for the right candidate:

1. Work with a young dynamic core team backed by marquee investors from the financial services space
2. Work on a product/business that has achieved product market fit and take it to scale
3. Equity compensation and competitive market salaries
4. Work environment that prioritizes talent, hustle and dedication
   
   

We will also ensure we give a preference to applicants who directly email us with their background/context and why they think they should be a strong candidate for this position at GrayQuest. Email us at work (at the rate) grayquest (dot) com and cc Sonal (at the rate)grayquest (dot) com

Backend Engineer (GO Developer)

Remote Working | Engineering Team | Full-time
Candidates from Product development background only will be taken ahead.

The Impact you will create in the Job:

Build campaign generation services which can send app notifications at a speed of 10 million a minute.

Dashboards to show Real time key performance indicators to clients.

Develop complex user segmentation engines which creates segments on Terabytes of data within few seconds.

Leverage the power of Kubernetes to maintain clusters running inside VPC's across the world.

Building highly available & horizontally scalable platform services for ever growing data.

Use cloud-based services like AWS Lambda for blazing fast throughput & auto scalability.

You will build backend services and APIs to create scalable engineering systems.

As an individual contributor, you will tackle some of our broadest technical challenges that requires deep technical knowledge, hands-on software development and seamless collaboration with all functions.

You will envision and develop features that are highly reliable and fault tolerant to deliver a superior customer experience.

Collaborating various highly-functional teams in the company to meet deliverables throughout the software development lifecycle.

Identify and improvise areas of improvement through data insights and research.

What we look for?

3-6 years experience in developing high scale internet applications/API based services.

Worked with GoLang as a primary language

Experience with High scale real time architectures

Experience with queueing systems like RabbitMQ, Kafka etc

Experience with Elasticsearch would be a plus

Having hands on experience with Kubernetes would be a plus.

Understanding of SMTP protocol would be a plus

Experience with MTA will be an added advantage.

Very strong analytic and problem-solving skills.

Enjoys working at solving challenges that come with developing real time high scale applications.