Backend Software Engineer

What are the Key Responsibilities:

• Responsibilities include writing and testing code, debugging programs, and integrating applications with third-party web services. 
• Write effective, scalable code
• Develop back-end components to improve responsiveness and overall performance
• Integrate user-facing elements into applications
• Improve functionality of existing systems
• Implement security and data protection solutions
• Assess and prioritize feature requests
• Creates customized applications for smaller tasks to enhance website capability based on business needs
• Ensures web pages are functional across different browser types; conducts tests to verify user functionality
• Verifies compliance with accessibility standards
• Assists in resolving moderately complex production support problems

What are we looking for:

• 3+ Years of work experience as a Python Developer
• Expertise in at least one popular Python framework: Django
• Knowledge of NoSQL databases (Elastic search, MongoDB)
• Familiarity with front-end technologies like JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3
• Familiarity with Apache Kafka will give you an edge over others
• Good understanding of the operating system and networking concepts
• Good analytical and troubleshooting skills
• Graduation/Post Graduation in Computer Science / IT / Software Engineering
• Decent verbal and written communication skills to communicate with customers, support personnel, and management

• Sound knowledge of Core Java, JSP, Servlets & MVC, Spring
• Good knowledge of Java Script, Ajax
• Good knowledge of My SQL database server
• Experience in working with IDE like Eclipse or Netbeans
• Knowledge of Spring would be an advantage
• Great problem-solving attitude
• Strong OOP & OOAD fundamentals
• Knowledge of Java EE Design pattern
• Technical hands on Spring, Spring Security, Hibernate, JPA, Struts, OO JS, XML, Webservices (Restful, JAX-WS).
• Nice to have knowledge of Liferay, Amazon EC2, Google App Engine, Restful services, jQuery, YUI, EstJS (Sencha), frameworks.

• Understand the BRS / SRS document
• Coordinate with Team lead/DBA to understand the System design and Database design
• Development and Unit Testing
• Bug fixing and Change Request implementation

The Risk team is responsible for overall risk framework and strategy for the organization. The team develops various risk models, arrives at various sector reports from a risk perspective and provides in depth analysis and recommendation around risk profiles of various clients.

 

In this role, the person is responsible for playing a leadership role in the Risk function to identify, assess, monitor and make timely and measured judgments on all current and potential future risks faced, in order to protect the organization’s interest, assets and reputation of the group along with growing shareholder value and profitability.

Responsibilities

• Manage risk for the retail and wholesale portfolio. Should have managed organization level Risk Policies, Credit Underwriting and Collection functions.
• Manage risk framework for the organization - including updating, establishing new risk management mechanisms, to identify, assess, monitor, measure and control a broad spectrum of risks. Ensure all policies and frameworks are kept updated and deployed to the optimum level.
• Develop continuous monitoring and improvement of the quality of the organization's credit and lending portfolio through credit policy direction and implementation.
• Possess a complete understanding the business. Evaluate, improve, and monitor the business, including assisting in reporting to the Board and Board Committees and providing leadership in the effectiveness of credit risk management controls, systems, and processes across the organization.
• Lead and mentor a team of analysts.

Requirements

• Possess 7+ years of relevant experience in financial services industry in a risk role.
• Exposure to both wholesale and retail risk in a banking environment will be preferred. Some experience in a business / sales role within the banking / NBFC space will be an added advantage.
• Should have held a position of authority in terms of allocation and appropriating limits.
• Sector understanding in financial institution space and good knowledge of interpreting financial trends.
• High proficiency in Python and SQL/NoSQL.
• Experience with big data and cloud computing e.g., PySpark, data lake is a plus.
• Outstanding written, verbal and interpersonal communication skills.
• Ability to speak at various levels of an organization (CXOs to analysts).
• Have demonstrated resilience – stayed with companies and taking businesses to scale, have preferably not ‘hopped jobs. Strong organizational skills and excellent follow-through.
• Present / articulate / position an idea compellingly and ability to work in a fast-paced dynamic environment.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Takes personal ownership; Self-starter; Ability to drive projects with minimal guidance and focus on high impact work.
• Learns continuously; Seeks out knowledge, ideas and feedback.

 

They have a vision of enabling ecommerce for the next 500 million users in India in
non-metro and rural markets. DealShare has raised series C funding of USD 21 million with key investors like WestBridge Capital, Falcon Edge Capital, Matrix Partners India, Omidyar Network, Z3 Partners and Partners of DST Global and has a total funding of USD 34 million.They have 2 million customers across Rajasthan, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Karnataka and Delhi NCR with monthly transactions of 1.2 million and annual GMV of $100 million. Our aim is to expand operations to 100 cities across India and reach annual GMV of USD 500 Million by end of 2021.
They started in Sept 2018 and had 5000 active customers in the first three months. Today
we have 25K transactions per day, 1 Lakh DAU and 10 Lakh MAU with a monthly GMV of INR 100 Crores and 50% growth MoM. We aim to hit 2 Lakh transactions per day with an annual GMV of 500 Million USD by 2021.
We are hiring for various teams in discovery (search, recommendation, merchandising,
intelligent notifications) , pricing (automated pricing, competition price awareness, balancing revenue with profits, etc), user growth and retention (bargains, gamification), monetisation (ads), order fulfillment (cart/checkout, warehousing, last mile, delivery promise, demand forecasting), customer support, data infrastructure (warehousing, analytics), ML infrastructure (data versioning, model repository, model training, model hosting, feature store, etc). We are looking for passionate problem solvers to join us and solve really challenging problems and scale DealShare systems
You will:
● Implement the solve with minimal guidance after solutioning closure with senior engineers.
● Write code that has good low level design and is easy to understand, maintain, extend
and test.
● End to end ownership of product/feature from development to production and fixing
issues
● Ensure high unit, functional and integration automated test coverage. Ensure releases
are stable.
● Communicate with various stakeholders (product, QA, senior engineers) as necessary to
ensure quality deliverables, smooth execution and launch.
● Participate in code reviews, improve development and testing processes.
● Participate in hiring great engineers
Required:
● Bachelor’s degree (4 years) or higher in Computer Science or equivalent and 1-3 years
of experience in software development
● Excellent at problem solving, is a self thinker.
● Good understanding of computer science fundamentals, data structures and algorithms
and object oriented design.
● Good coding skills in any object oriented language (C++, Java, Scala, etc), preferably in
Java.
● Prior experience in building one or more modules of large-scale, highly available, low
latency, high quality distributed system is preferred.
● Extremely good at problem solving, is a self thinker.
● Ability to multitask and thrive in a fast paced timeline-driven environment.
● Good team player and ability to collaborate with others
● Self driven and motivated, very high on ownership
Is a plus
● Prior experience of working in Java
● Prior experience of using AWS offerings - EC2, S3, DynamoDB, Lambda, API Gateway,
Cloudfront, etc
● Prior experience of working on big data technologies - Spark, Hadoop, etc
● Prior experience on asynchronous processing (queuing systems), workflow systems.

You will:

• Build services that serve millions of users
• Build for performance, reliability, and scalability
• Design easy-to-use APIs, systems, and tools
• Work with small teams of engineers, product, design, operation and other teams
• Lead projects, achieve goals, celebrate success with your teams

What you bring:

• 5+ years as individual contributor
• Strong background in Computer Science
• Strong technical expertise in robust and scalable server platform
• Helpful experiences include Java, Python, AWS, GCP, DevOps
• Leadership at bijnis is a service - you must be influential, patient, compassionate, able to prioritize, and able to inspire
• Ability to collaborate across multiple and cross functional teams
• Strategic mindset combined with pragmatic execution, and bias for action

- Build the backend for Android & iOS application and website with Company Dashboard (MIS). 
- Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers with server side logic 
- Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performance applications
-Well versed with AWS and Server deployment 
- Excellent knowledge of Spring frameworks 
- Excellent knowledge of Java, JSP, JavaScript, AJAX, HTML, JSON 
- Good knowledge of MySQL 
- Knowledge of coding standards and good commenting practices 
- Experiences in developing RESTful web services must. 
- Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements 
- Ability to design applications around natural user interfaces 
- Experience with REST API connections 
- Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code 
- Integration of data storage solutions
- Build the backend for application and website with Android App, IOS, Company Dashboard. 
- Own software quality and optimize UI 
- Understand closely the requirements of the customers and get the features implemented on time 
- Creating of strong project timeline along with budgeting and regular reporting 

 

Requirements: 
- B. Tech/BE in Computer Science or related subject from a reputed university
- IIT/NIT/IIIT Only
- 2+ years of experience in Technology background and start-up environment. 
- Strong proficiency with J2EE with Spring MVC, JPA, DSA, MySQL, Git.
- Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as HTML5, JQuery and CSS3 
- Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application 
- Creating database schema that represent and support business processes 
- Advanced level (knowledge and experience) of programming languages and methodologies. 
- Excellent judgment/decision making, conflict resolution, leadership and motivational skills. 
- Should have strong work ethic and positive team attitude 

The ideal candidate should have Proven experience/Knowledge in development of highly scalable Java and J2EE applications using Spring, Hibernate, Oracle / MySql, Tomcat and JUnit Excellent fundamental knowledge of Object Oriented Programming, Data Structures, Algorithms, Databases, Web Programming and Design Patterns Excellent knowledge of development of RESTful web services and JSON Should have working knowledge of version control systems like Git Good knowledge of Java Messaging Server or any other messaging broker will be an added advantage Must be a good team player and have strong communication skills Familiar with Agile methodology of software development

About the Company:

Progcap is a Fintech and AI company that pioneers alternative credit scoring for small businesses using proprietary data from non-traditional sources. We aim to fuel credit to 100 million under-banked SMEs in the emerging markets worldwide with an initial focus on India.

Progcap is Sequoia-backed Series A startup, comprising of top tier talent from finance, technology, data science and operations. The Company is the recipient of the World Bank's "SME Product Innovation of the year", 2018 award, Madrid.

What you will be doing:

• Lead and provide first level supervision to project teams and ensures successful delivery of tasks assigned to the team along with sharing of project updates & related communication with stakeholders.
• Writing and ensuring reusable, testable, and efficient code.
• Managing data across multiple databases and providing analysis to stakeholders.
• Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications.
• Implementation of security and data protection (permission classes and middleware.)
• Implementation of user authentication and authorization across multiple systems, servers, and environments.

 

What you bring:

• Should have minimum 4 years of experience in development using Python and 1 year in leading Python based projects.
• Strong experience in Application lifecycle management – development, testing and deployment.
• Strong understanding and experience with code version control tools (git, svn, etc.)
• Expert in Python with working experience on Django, AWS, Lambda, RDS, NoSQL, Docker, Kubernetes.
• Integration of data storage solutions redis, postgresql, mysql (big query, big table, pubsub, appengine).
• Strong in data structures and algorithms
• Preferably candidates with Financial/lending Applications development experience with any Fintech Co.

 

 

 

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