DevOps Engineer

Director - Backend | Snapmint About Snapmint.

Experience: 12+ years, Location: Gurgaon.

Founded by serial Entrepreneurs from IIT Bombay, Snapmint is challenging the way banking is done by building the banking experience ground up. Our first product provides purchase financing at 0% interest rates to 300 Million banked consumers in India who do not have credit cards using instant credit scoring and advanced underwriting systems. We look at hundreds of variables, much beyond traditional credit models. With real time credit approval, seamless digital loan servicing and repayments technology we are revolutionizing the way banking is done for todays smartphone-wielding Indian. https://snapmint.com/

Job Overview: As Director Backend, you will lead a team of backend engineers, driving the development of scalable, reliable, and performant systems. You will work closely with product management, front-end engineers, and other cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality solutions while ensuring alignment with the companys technical and business goals. You will play a key role in coaching and mentoring engineers, promoting best practices, and helping to grow the backend engineering capabilities.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead, mentor, and manage a team of backend engineers, ensuring high-quality delivery and fostering a collaborative work environment.
• Collaborate with product managers, engineers, and other stakeholders to define technical solutions and design scalable backend architectures.
• Own the development and maintenance of backend systems, APIs, and services.
• Drive technical initiatives, including infrastructure improvements, performance optimizations, and platform scalability.
• Guide the team in implementing industry best practices for code quality, security, and performance.
• Participate in code reviews, providing constructive feedback and maintaining high coding standards.
• Promote agile methodologies and ensure the team adheres to sprint timelines and goals.
• Develop and track key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure team productivity and system reliability.
• Foster a culture of continuous learning, experimentation, and improvement within the backend engineering team.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• 12+ years of experience in backend development with a proven track record of leading engineering teams.
• Strong experience with backend language ie. Node.js
• Experience working with databases (SQL, NoSQL), caching systems, and RESTful APIs.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, or Azure and containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
• Solid understanding of software development principles, version control, and CI/CD practices.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to architect complex systems.
• Strong leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and manage multiple priorities effectively.

Company Overview 

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• Precision prospecting
• Intent-based targeting
• Data enrichment from 16+ premium sources
• AI-driven workflows to book more meetings, faster

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EXPERIENCE

Duties you'll be entrusted with:

• Develop and execute scalable APIs and applications using the Node.js or Nest.js framework
• Writing efficient, reusable, testable, and scalable code.
• Understanding, analyzing, and implementing – Business needs, feature modification requests, and conversion into software components
• Integration of user-oriented elements into different applications, data storage solutions
• Developing – Backend components to enhance performance and receptiveness, server-side logic, and platform, statistical learning models, highly responsive web applications
• Designing and implementing – High availability and low latency applications, data protection and security features
• Performance tuning and automation of applications and enhancing the functionalities of current software systems.
• Keeping abreast with the latest technology and trends.

Expectations from you:

Basic Requirements

• Minimum qualification: Bachelor’s degree or more in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, or a related field.
• Experience with Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Strong understanding of monitoring, logging, and observability practices.
• Experience with event-driven architectures (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ).
• Expertise in designing, implementing, and optimizing Elasticsearch.
• Work with modern tools including Jira, Slack, GitHub, Google Docs, etc.
• Expertise in Event driven architecture.
• Experience in Integrating Generative AI APIs.
• Working experience in high user concurrency.
• Experience in scaled databases for handling millions of records - indexing, retrieval, etc.,

Technical Skills

• Demonstrable experience in web application development with expertise in Node.js or Nest.js.
• Knowledge of database technologies and agile development methodologies.
• Experience working with databases, such as MySQL or MongoDB.
• Familiarity with web development frameworks, such as Express.js.
• Understanding of microservices architecture and DevOps principles.
• Well-versed with AWS and serverless architecture.

Soft Skills

• A quick and critical thinker with the ability to come up with a number of ideas about a topic and bring fresh and innovative ideas to the table to enhance the visual impact of our content.
• Potential to apply innovative and exciting ideas, concepts, and technologies.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest design trends, animation techniques, and software advancements.
• Multi-tasking and time-management skills, with the ability to prioritize tasks.

THRIVE

Some of the extensive benefits of being part of our team:

• We offer skill enhancement and educational reimbursement opportunities to help you further develop your expertise.
• The Member Reward Program provides an opportunity for you to earn up to INR 85,000 as an annual Performance Bonus.
• The McKinley Cares Program has a wide range of benefits:
• The wellness program covers sessions for mental wellness, and fitness and offers health insurance.
• In-house benefits have a referral bonus window and sponsored social functions.
• An Expanded Leave Basket including paid Maternity and Paternity Leaves and rejuvenation Leaves apart from the regular 20 leaves per annum. 
• Our Family Support benefits not only include maternity and paternity leaves but also extend to provide childcare benefits.
• In addition to the retention bonus, our McKinley Retention Benefits program also includes a Leave Travel Allowance program.
• We also offer an exclusive McKinley Loan Program designed to assist our employees during challenging times and alleviate financial burdens.

To design, develop, and maintain highly scalable, secure, and efficient backend systems that

power core business applications. The Senior Engineer – Backend will be responsible for

architecting APIs, optimizing data flow, and ensuring system reliability and performance. This

role will collaborate closely with frontend, DevOps, and product teams to deliver robust

solutions that enable seamless user experiences and support organizational growth through

clean, maintainable, and well-tested code.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain robust and scalable backend services using Node.js.

• Collaborate with front-end developers and product managers to define and implement

API specifications.

• Optimize application performance and scalability by identifying bottlenecks and

proposing solutions.

• Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code, and conduct code reviews to ensure

quality standards.

• Develop unit tests and maintain code coverage to ensure high quality.

• Document architectural solutions and system designs to ensure clarity and

maintainability.

• Troubleshoot and resolve issues in development, testing, and production environments.

• Stay up to date with emerging technologies and industry trends to continuously improve

our tech stack.

• Mentor and guide junior engineers, fostering a culture of learning and growth.

Key Skills and Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent

experience).

• 7+ years of experience in backend development with a focus on Node.js and Javascript.

• Strong understanding of RESTful APIs and microservices architecture.

• Proficiency in database technologies (SQL and NoSQL, such as DynamoDB, MongoDB,

PostgreSQL, etc.).

• Familiarity with containerization and orchestration technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).

• Knowledge of cloud platform (AWS) and deployment best practices.

• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work in a fast-paced environment.

• Strong communication and teamwork skills.

Good to have:

• Experience with front-end frameworks (e.g. Angular, React, Vue.js).

• Understanding of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

• Familiarity with responsive design and user experience principles.

Description

Do you dream about code every night? If so, we’d love to talk to you about a new product that we’re making to enable delightful testing experiences at scale for development teams who build modern software solutions.

What You'll Do

 Troubleshooting and analyzing technical issues raised by internal and external users.

 Working with Monitoring tools like Prometheus / Nagios / Zabbix.

 Developing automation in one or more technologies such as Terraform, Ansible, Cloud Formation, Puppet, Chef will be preferred.

 Monitor infrastructure alerts and take proactive action to avoid downtime and customer impacts.

 Working closely with the cross-functional teams to resolve issues.

 Test, build, design, deployment, and ability to maintain continuous integration and continuous delivery process using tools like Jenkins, maven Git, etc.

 Work in close coordination with the development and operations team such that the application is in line with performance according to the customer's expectations.

What you should have

 Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science or any related field.

 3 - 6 years of experience in Linux / Unix, cloud computing techniques.

 Familiar with working on cloud and datacenter for enterprise customers.

 Hands-on experience on Linux / Windows / Mac OS’s and Batch/Apple/Bash scripting.

 Experience with various databases such as MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MSSQL.

 Familiar with AWS technologies like EC2, S3, Lambda, IAM, etc.

 Must know how to choose the best tools and technologies which best fit the business needs.

 Experience in developing and maintaining CI/CD processes using tools like Git, GitHub, Jenkins etc.

 Excellent organizational skills to adapt to a constantly changing technical environment

• The Architect/ Lead Backend Engineer will handle the digital experience from inception to go-live model.
• The role holder is expected to create a vision and roadmap for the digital experience to provide best in class customer experience for each of the product solutions handled.  The role holder will play a critical role in leading the innovation and growth of our front end web and mobile platforms.
• Must be from Good Companies and have been working on high Scale of Traffic
• Proficiency in engineering practices and writing high quality code, with expertise in either one of Java or Groovy or Go.
• 3+ years of experience building microservices.
• Strong experience in architecting and building distributed systems, scalability, and availability
• Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and designing for performance
• Strong knowledge of cloud technologies like AWS/Google Cloud/Azure
• Good understanding of RxJava or Actors framework
• Proficient with RDBMS
• Strong knowledge on data stores, database design, data modelling and SQL queries
• Extensive experience building and owning large- scale distributed backend systems
• Experience working with three or more of : Unix/Linux environments, Distributed and parallel systems, Workflow automation, CI/CD Platform development, Cloud platforms development e.g. AWS/GCP, Kubernetes/Container platforms based development 

• Must have 5-8 years of experience in handling data
• Must have the ability to interpret large amounts of data and to multi-task
• Must have strong knowledge of and experience with programming (Python), Linux/Bash scripting, databases(SQL, etc)
• Must have strong analytical and critical thinking to resolve business problems using data and tech
•  Must have domain familiarity and interest of – Cloud technologies (GCP/Azure Microsoft/ AWS Amazon), open-source technologies, Enterprise technologies
• Must have the ability to collect, organize, analyze, and disseminate significant amounts of information with attention to detail and accuracy.
• Must have good communication skills
• Working knowledge/exposure to ElasticSearch, PostgreSQL, Athena, PrestoDB, Jupyter Notebook