Business Development- Cloud

Job Title - Senior Backend Engineer

About Tazapay 

Tazapay is a cross border payment service provider. They offer local collections via local payment methods, virtual accounts and cards in over 70 markets. The merchant does not need to create local entities anywhere and Tazapay offers the additional compliance framework to take care of local regulations and requirements. This results in decreased transaction costs, fx transparency and higher auth rates. 

They are licensed and backed by leading investors.   www.tazapay.com 

What’s exciting waiting for You? 

This is an amazing opportunity for you to join a fantastic crew before the rocket ship launch. It will be a story you will carry with you through your life and have the unique experience of building something ground up and have the satisfaction of seeing your product being used and paid for by thousands of customers. You will be a part of a growth story be it anywhere - Sales, Software Development, Marketing, HR, Accounting etc. 

We believe in a culture of openness, innovation & great memories together. 

Are you ready for the ride? 

Find what interesting things you could do with us. 

About the 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 our high development standards
• Partner with the product management team to define and execute the feature roadmap
• Translate business requirements into scalable and extensible design
• Proactively manage stakeholder communication related to 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 execution, and customer delight
• Willingness to learn new languages and methodologies
• An enormous 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 with 5+ years of experience in commercial software development in large distributed systems

Experience

• Hands-on experience in designing, developing, testing and deploying applications on Golang, Ruby,Python, .Net Core or Java for large scale applications
• Deep knowledge of Linux as a production environment
• Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, distributed systems, and asynchronous architectures
• Expert in at least 1 of the following languages: Golang, Python, Ruby, Java, C, C++
• Proficient in OOP, including design patterns. 
• Ability to design and implement low latency RESTful services
• Hands-on coder who has built backend services that handle high volume traffic.
• Strong understanding of system performance and scaling
• Possess excellent communication, sharp analytical abilities with proven design skills, able to think critically of the current system in terms of growth and stability
• Data modeling experience in both Relational and NoSQL databases
• Continuously refactor applications to ensure high-quality design
• Ability to plan, prioritize, estimate and execute releases with good degree of predictability
• Ability to scope, review and refine user stories for technical completeness and to alleviate dependency risks
• Passion for learning new things, solving challenging problems
• Ability to get stuff done!

Nice to have

• Familiarity with Golang ecosystem
• Familiarity with running web services at scale; understanding of systems internals and networking are a plus
• Be familiar with HTTP/HTTPS communication protocols.

Abilities and Traits

• Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines
• Ability to provide exceptional attention to details of the product.
• Ability to focus for extended periods of repetitious activity.
• Ability to think ahead and anticipate problems, issues and solutions
• Work well as a team player and help the team members to resolve issues
• Be committed to quality and be structured in approach
• Excellent and demonstrable concept formulation, logical and analytical skills
• Excellent planning, organizational, and prioritization skills

Location - Chennai - India

Join our team and let's groove together to the rhythm of innovation and opportunity!

Your Buddy

Tazapay

• To take lead and manage the backend team.
• Taking ownership and developing new micro services/systems to improve the products.
• Managing and adding on to our linux based content management system as well as our web servers.

• 4+ years of hands-on experience working with serverless architecture.
• Hands-on experience with products at a scale of > 50K DAUs.
• Should be able to architect and implement complex services/systems in a simple and scalable manner.
• Self starter with the ability to lead a team.
• Should be an expert in: Python. AWS Lambda, RDS and EC2 SQL databases, specifically postgresql. NOSQL Database, specifically dynamoDB.
• Should be able to write automated test cases for developed code.
• Should be proficient in the linux environment.
• Having the following skills will an added bonus: Experience developing with Neo4j databases. Firebase services. * Experience working with Docker and ECS.

• Your word counts You’ll get to play a key role in shaping up the product roadmap and will be involved in every stage
• Learning never stops With  advancing into the growth stage, there is immense potential and relevance to apply new developments you learn in your domain
• Sponsored training Do you want to learn something that helps improve your productivity or knowledge? We’ll sponsor that
• Remote friendly Even before Covid, half of us worked from home. Heck, you want to work from a village? Go for it.

• Healthy company culture We nurture a conducive environment for your personal and professional growth, and take extreme care to make sure you are happy at work
• Everyone gets to lead You own your idea, and you lead it’s execution
• Smart work is what matters with us We don’t count hours. We value getting the work done
• Teammates who will sing and jam with you

Job Description:

- Experience as a Web Methods Developer with both MFT and JDBC adapter 

experience​

- Experience in Web Methods Integration 9.x, 10.x/above.​

- AS2 transmission with partners.​

- Working experience in webMethods designer, Integration Server, Web Services 

(REST, SOAP), pub-sub model, JMS, SAP adapter, SFDC adapter, AS400 adapter, 

Web Methods Test Suit and MQ Adapters.​

- Hands on building BPM and TN integrations. Must have built process models in 

deployed them till production.​

- Hands on CAF. Must have built custom pages on CAF and deployed then till 

production.​

- Knowledge on Scrum methodology.​

- Basic Fundamental understanding, logical reasoning, problem solving approach.​

- Excellent communication.​

- Good Problem Solving Approach 

Primary Skills :

- Experience as a Web methods Developer with both MFT and JDBC adapter 

experience​

- RESTful service development​

- In-depth ESB knowledge​

- Experience in SAP adapters

Responsibilities:

. Handling/Maintaining Client Relations and communication

.Creative and innovative concerning Idea Generation for all kinds of branding activities for the client

· Excellent knowledge of branding and promotional activities for all leading social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn etc.

· Assist with the planning of marketing strategies to help drive traffic and engagement to the website

· Produce content for social media channels such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest etc.

· Keep up to date with any social media trends

· Track social media influencers

· Ensure you produce a consistent brand message,captions , and content across all the social media channels

· Regularly monitor competitor social media sites and create competitor analysis reports

· Contribute to the company blog

· Assist with social media performance reports

· Engage with social media users and respond to any mentions over Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest etc.

· Writing effective SEO content for blogs, websites and social media accounts.

· Coordination with the digital marketing team to report findings and recommendations.

Qualifications:

· Graduates with a minimum of 3-4 years of experience.

· Outgoing and easy to work with.

· Substantial social media presence.

· Ambitious and hardworking.

· Knowledge of tools for designing and video editing is an added advantage.

· Excellent communication skills

Relevant experience in determining a target audience and how to cater to unique marketing campaigns to capture their attention.

EXPERIENCE: 7 to 9 years in Java 2 Enterprise server side development. Must have applied knowledge of design patterns needed for building REST APIs and services for performance and scale.

SKILLS:

- Problem Solving and application of Object Oriented principles to development

- REST API development using Java, JAX-RPC,

- Server side development using Java, Spring Boot, Node.js

- Concurrent programming with Java

- Database programming in SQL with Oracle, MySQL or other RDBMs.

- Deployment to AWS and Kubernetes and building with Maven

- Affinity towards server side development

- Ability to understand existing code and re-engineer/re-factor/redesign.

- Written and spoken English communication and articulation.

NICE TO HAVE:

 - Working knowledge of GO Lang and Python scripting

- AWS Certifications

- Working knowledge of Elastic Search based persistence and search

- Secure coding practices

EDUCATION: Bachelor or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or Information Technology or related disciplines.