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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
Simpl (Fintech of the year - 2020) is a platform that empowers retailers to grow by building long term trusted relationships with their customers, one transaction at a time. For consumers, Simpl provides frictionless access to e-commerce, trust, safety and effortless budgeting, in 1-click.
Under the hood, we are building the payments infrastructure (identity, trust score and security) ground up for a world that is mobile first, where consumers frequently buy on the go & love convenience.
Everyone at Simpl is an internal entrepreneur who is given a lot of bandwidth and resources to create the next breakthrough towards a new world of Networked Commerce where commerce is easy, safe, affordable without fine prints & just Simpl!
Simpl was founded in 2015 by Nityanand Sharma and Chaitra Chidanand, and went live in 2016.
Role Summary:
We’re looking for polyglot developers who love to code. You should have >4 years of experience building high-quality products. You should have the ability to write clean code and must’ve worked on Ruby on Rails
You will be working on:
- As a senior backend engineer, you will be expected to execute and deliver large and complex projects end-to-end, with or without the involvement of other team members
- Ensuring timely delivery of all product deliverables
- Play a key role in technical discussions within the team and be the go-to person for the team for guidance and troubleshooting
- Understand key Business and Engineering metrics around performance, quality, and availability and work regularly with the team to push the boundaries and improve them periodically
- Proactively participate in code reviews and architecture and design discussions
- Mentoring junior engineers and setting best practices for coding, code reviews, etc.
- Help the organization in building a top-quality team by participating in hiring initiatives and evangelizing about contributions, accomplishments, and victories
We are looking for:
- Strong and self-motivated individuals, should be able to independently drive decisions
- Solid experience in building web-based products
- Overall of 4+ years of expertise in at least one dynamic programming language and one MVC web framework, preferably Ruby on Rails
- Expertise in Database modeling, preferably relational DB, spotting DB bottlenecks, and writing optimized DB queries
- Expertise in all common Cloud technologies, preferably AWS. Knowledge of CI/CD tools and workflows
- Proven track record in building highly-available and scalable distributed systems
- Willingness to play and explore with new technologies and be a Subject Matter Expert and support them
- Someone who believes in small incremental improvements and is passionate about refactoring
- A keen eye for quality with regards to following and establishing good coding practices, improving code coverage
- Good stakeholder management, ability to build trust and rapport with internal and external stakeholders
1. Work experience between 3 years to 9 years in building large scale high user traffic consumer facing applications with desire to work in a fast paced startup.
2. Knowledge on reactive and asynchronous programming is preferable. If you have worked with coroutines, goroutines, high concurrency or optimized number of threads for processing on your backend server you could be a good fit.
3. Extremely proficient at writing performant, scalable and production ready code in Kotlin, Java (8 or above, comfortable with concepts like lambda, streams, multithreading etc), Elixir, Rust, or Golang. Should be familiar with static code analysis, code coverage and code reviews.
4. Experience with NoSQL DBs like MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis or Aerospike is required. Knowledge of graph DBs like Neo4j is preferred.
5. Strong in algorithms, problem solving and data structures.
6. Knowledge of TDD and experience with building applications integrated with CI-CD pipelines (automated build, tests and deployments).
7. Exposure to micro-services with good understanding of containers, kubernetes, logging, alerting and monitoring. Inter services communication. Should know how to handle multiple versions of APIs.
● Write clean, maintainable and efficient code
● Design robust, scalable and secure features
● Contribute in all phases of the development lifecycle
● Follow best practices (test-driven development, continuous integration, SCRUM, refactoring and code standards)
● Drive continuous adoption and integration of relevant new technologies into design
Requirements
● 2 to 5 years of experience in developing applications using Ruby on Rails
● Experience in Rails gems like rspec, devise, cancan, active-admin
● Proven work experience in software development
● Experience in writing ReSTful APIs
● Demonstrable knowledge of front-end technologies such as JavaScript, HTML, CSS and JQuery
● Experience developing highly interactive applications
● A firm grasp of Object Oriented analysis and design
● Passion for writing great, simple, clean, efficient code
● Good knowledge of relational databases
● Working knowledge of NoSQL database
● Experience in using AWS services is a plus.
About the company:
💰 Early-stage, funded, growing, growing fast, profitable!
🎯 Mission Driven: To help small & large Indian businesses grow faster
Min. Experience: 3+ years in Full Stack Development
Skillset:
- You primarily identify as a full-stack engineer and are comfortable working on the server-side as well as UI side.
- You have shipped code to production recently and regularly
- You are driven and care about doing a good job and improving your craft.
- You have high integrity, and you are reliable
- You have excellent coding, programming, and problem-solving skills.
- You have experience with implementing modern architectural patterns.
- You have good debugging skills and coding practices
- You are fluent in using the tools of the trade: Editors, Git, Command line, Slack, Jira
- You should have relevant experience in the Ruby on Rails stack.
- You have experience with multiple ORMs
- You have experience in Postgres / MySQL
- You have experience in ReactJS
What you can expect from us:
- Mentorship, growth, great work culture
- We are a people-first team. Mentorship and continuous improvement are a part of the team’s DNA
- We believe in solving problems from first principles
- A good balance between deep focussed work and collaborative work, we won't bother you with unnecessary meetings
What we ask from you:
- Bring your software engineering — both individual brilliance and collaborative skills.
- Bring your good nature — we're building a team that supports each other.
- Be vested or interested in the company vision
- Take ownership of your product
- Should be capable of handling one complete product end-to-end - with minimal oversight
Bonus:
- If you have DevOps expertise: Docker, Kubernetes, AWS
- If you have amazing frontend skills
- If you have created or contributed to an open-source component or library, we will love to see the code
- If you have given a talk or spoken in a meetup/conference
- If you have a hobby project, we will love to hear about it
- If you have previously worked in startups
Experience: 2 - 3 Years
Location: Bangalore
Salary: 8 Lakhs
Qualification: Any
Industry: Any
Gender: Any
Skills required: C#,SQL Server ,WEB-API and My-SQL knowledge but optional.
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