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💥 What will you do?

As a Lead Backend Engineer, you will

• Build out and help scale our Django (+ReactJS / VueJS) based web application as we add new features and customers

• Help us transition from monolithic system architecture to microservices and serverless system architecture to help meet our future scaling requirements

• Collaborate on a daily basis with a small, nimble team of product managers, engineers, and UX designers to understand business requirements and user experience goals and pain points.
• Build out features to enable multi-channel customer acquisition include partner channels, enterprise channels, and government channels
• Integrate third-party plugins to enhance customer experience and internal tooling build internal tooling to improve internal team efficiencies.
• Actively participate in code reviews
• Work with our quality assurance team to improve coverage on our automated testing suites

🙋 What are we looking for? 

While we do not have a strict list of requirements for candidates interested in this role, some indicators that you would fit this role and our engineering culture are 

• Prior experience of a few years (3+ years) with python based frameworks as Django or Flask would be essential to work on our application stack.

• You actively promote a culture of engineering excellence some of which could be writing efficient code, use of elegant design patterns, and styling your code through code-linting policies.

• You enjoy designing software architecture by collaborating with engineering managers, architects, and other lead engineers to explore existing systems, determining areas of complexity, potential risks to successful implementation.

• You enjoy coaching folks to achieve outcomes through nudges.

📢 Other information you may want to consider 

• We will be flexible for the rest of the pandemic and work remotely; however, we are not a remote-first company, and the work location would be Bangalore when things settle.
• Our backend tech stack includes Django, FastAPI, Postgres, Redis, Clickhouse, and TigerGraph. Our environments are managed through Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform.

ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• To coordinate with the sales team to deliver proposals, solutions etc. (including Request for proposals, request for information, idea and solution generation, road-map creation, and more)
• Coordinate with the tech team to generate appropriate project estimates and to come up with execution timelines and milestones.
• Where relevant, support sales team by presenting solution to prospects and clients.
• Ensure that the proposed (technical) solution is suitable for development, its associated architecture and also get the timelines required to develop the proposed scope.
• To build knowledge repository for further business development.
• To prepare case studies of all projects.
• Be updated with latest industry and technology trends, and to market research.
• Conduct account specific research on key accounts.
• Create solution frameworks for industries / domain we choose to play in.
• Provide support to sales team for any presentations and collaterals on our service offerings.
• Create and maintain a catalogue of service offerings along with necessary collateral in terms of presentations, documents etc.

QUALITIES & QUALIFICATIONS:

- Strong communication skills, written as well as oral

- Good sense of design

- Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities

- Familiarity with digital technologies (trends, key players, and more) as well as with software -

developmentprocess, methodologies, standard practices and conventions, and so on.

- MBA from a reputed institution

- Strong research skills, especially with regard to scanning financial reports, industry data trends,

and so on.

Catalyst IQ is hiring for one of the leading Fintech companies in India.

About company: We are India's leading financial services company that offers full-stack payments & financial solutions to consumers, offline merchants and online platforms. The company is on a mission to bring half a billion Indians into the mainstream economy through payments,commerce, banking, investments, and financial services. Its investors include Softbank, AntFinancial, AGH Holdings, Elevation Capital, Berkshire Hathaway, T Rowe Price, and Discovery Capital.

About the team: Central Design Team

Our Central Design team is responsible for all the Product Design and Research work related to various products. The team mainly looks at the design of the our consumer app and the products in the Merchant Ecosystem comprising of the EDC and POS Devices, the Golden Gate app (the FSE ecosystem), the Unified Merchants Portal (UMP), Net Banking Panel, different deltas and various products are aligned with each of the Deltas.

About the role:

As a product designer, you will be in a fast paced environment, and your day-to-day tasks will consist of engaging with product managers and other stakeholders, to understand the requirements and creating well designed flows, high and low fidelity prototypes,and visual interfaces for a good user experience. You will use your knowledge of design, expertise and skills to design products for these specific responsibilities assigned to you.

Expectations/Requirements:

· Work closely with cross-functional teams to gather and understand business and feature requirements.

· Translate requirements from the PRDs into concepts into wireframes and mock-ups that lead to intuitive user experiences.

· Design and deliver wireframes, user stories, user journeys, and mock-ups optimised for a wide range of devices and interfaces.

· Request and drive user research/usability tests as needed. Collaborate with all stakeholders on high fidelity interactive prototypes, design validation and improvement.

· Work with development team to ensure high quality designs are fully actualised.

· Participate as a contributor to an interdisciplinary team that includes other designers, project management, business and software developers.

· Staying up to date with the latest trends in product design.

· Work collaboratively with other designers to ensure a consistent, integrated brand perception and user-experience.

Superpowers/ Skills that will help you succeed in this role

· A degree in design, or equivalent experience in Design. Minimum 8+Yrs of Industry experince.

· Professional experience in User Experiences on web and mobile applications.

· Have worked in a product company ecosystem.

· Deep understanding of design processes and research methodologies.

· Well organized, responsible and dedicated, with the ability to work on multiple projects and deliver refined design in a short time.

· Proficient with the tools in Design and Prototyping (Figma / Sketch).

· Fast learner and extremely self-motivated to lead. Ability to handle multiple projects in an agile, fast and dynamic environment.

Why join us?

· A collaborative output driven program that brings cohesiveness across businesses through technology

· Improve the average revenue per use by increasing the cross-sell opportunities

· A solid 360 feedback from your peer teams on your support of their goals

· Respect, that is earned, not demanded from your peers and manager.

Compensation:

If you are the right fit, we believe in creating wealth for you. With enviable 500 mn+ registered users, 21 mn+ merchants and depth of data in our ecosystem, we are in a unique position to democratize credit for deserving consumers & merchants – and we are committed to it. India’s largest digital lending story is brewing here. It’s your opportunity to be a part of the story!

We are looking for bright and extraordinary software developers to join our technology team. You will build next generation software used by some of the most sophisticated alternative asset managers, as well as architecting solutions to support new technical and business initiatives.

           What You'll Do

• Build awesome end user experience using a combination of UX design + Right UI frameworks.
• Work with the product team to understand the end user needs and build intuitive UI flows.
• Develop technical design documentation for frontend.
• Collaborate with backend team to discuss and close API contracts.
• Collaborate with non-technical stakeholders (Product Managers, Designers) to review usability, accessibility of the UI.
• Build reusable components.

What You'll Need

• A bachelor's degree in Engineering with 2-5 years of experience in IT industry
• 2+  years of web development technologies including HTML5 JavaScript, typescript, React, CSS, TDD
• Good understanding of UX design, usability, accessibility, look and feel consistency
• Good understanding of architectural principles, patterns, web performance
• Experience in latest trends ES6/7 Node.
• Working knowledge of Object-Oriented JavaScript and Functional JavaScript.
• Having experience/understanding of Material UI design and mobx are preferred
• Deep understanding in core web and browser concepts
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills

Arcesium and its affiliates do not discriminate in employment matters on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, pregnancy, national origin, age, military service eligibility, veteran status, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, or any other category protected by law. Note that for us, this is more than just a legal boilerplate. We are genuinely committed to these principles, which form an important part of our corporate culture, and are eager to hear from extraordinarily well qualified individuals having a wide range of backgrounds and personal characteristics.

Your primary focus will be developing web applications and components. You'll implement them with the React.js framework, following generally accepted practices and workflows. You will ensure that you produce robust, secure, modular, and maintainable code. You will coordinate with other team members, including backend developers and UX/UI designers. Your commitment to team collaboration, good communication, and a quality product is crucial.

Day-to-day responsibilities include:

1. Developing new user-facing features using React.js and workflows like Redux.
2. Building reusable components and front-end libraries for future use.
3. Translating designs and wireframes in high-quality code.
4. Optimising components for maximum performance across a vast array of web-capable devices and browsers.
5. Integrating APIs for complete functionality.
6. Write technical documentation.

Responsibilities include:

1. Experience developing desktop and mobile applications for a minimum of 2 years.

2. Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model

3. Thorough understanding of React.js and its core principles

4. Should have experience with Redux and respective middlewares (eg. redux-thunk or redux-saga)

5. Familiarity with RESTful APIs

6. Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token

7. Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools

8. Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements

9. Knowledge of D3.js would be plus

Skills Required: HTML/CSS, Javascript, React.js, Redux.

Required Experience: 2 - 4 year of experience