Engineering Lead (Backend/Full stack)
About
It is a mission-oriented high-growth fintech startup building payment &
lending products to simplify education payments. Jodo’s suite of products make education payments convenient & affordable for parents while simplifying & streamlining fee collections for educational institutes. Jodo aims to be a category-defining company with a mission to be a
trusted partner to parents in fulfilling their aspirations for their kids’ education.
We are backed by marquee VC investors – Tiger Global, Elevation Capital and Matrix Partners – to realize this mission. It is started by three co-founders who have a pedigreed education
(IIT/IIM) and professional background (Nomura, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Barclays, Matrix Partners).
🎬Job Description:
We are looking for an Engineering Leader with a focus on building maintainable and scalable applications. The Lead will be responsible for the design and development of Jodo’s fee payments platform and be owning one of the products/verticals. Leads will be closely working
with Product Managers and Founders to execute projects from ideation to completion. As a hands-on Team Lead, you will take ownership of services/systems and guide a team of
developers.
📈Key Responsibilities
● Own and drive the development of one or more of Jodo’s products
● Take the lead in the design and development of the backend platform
● Mentor a team of developers, promote collaboration and engagement, and promote practices that improve the developer experience
● Work closely with Product Managers and Founders to brainstorm requirements and prioritize
● Own quality - actively participate in code reviews
● Own reliability - continuously monitor Production Health, proactively fix production issues
● Own execution - Plan and delegate work for the team, optimize for speed of development and incremental delivery
📃Requirements
● 6+ years of hands-on experience in application development
● 1+ years of leading a team
● Experience in working with distributed systems
● Proficient in building Microservices/RESTful APIs with any modern tech stack
● Working knowledge of relational and nonrelational databases
● Prior working knowledge of Python/Django is a big plus
● Familiarity with modern CI/CD tools
● Knowledge of AWS or any other Cloud Platform services
● Champion code quality and drive best practices
● Ability to analyze and convert business requirements into technical requirements
● Self-starter and ability to take the ownership
● Prior experience working in a startup environment is great to have
● Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
🤩Benefits
● Becoming a part of the early core team
● Competitive salary
● Work with colleagues from strong backgrounds & hungry to succeed
● Opportunity to interact with and learn from high-pedigree investors & mentors -
○ VCs: Elevation Capital (erstwhile SAIF Partners), Matrix Partners
○ Select angel investors: Kunal Shah, Nithin Kamath, Amit Ranjan
🔎What are we looking for?
● Self-starter with a high sense of ownership → Comfortable to work with minimal
supervision
● Hungry to learn and grow → Passion to learn & be a better version of oneself; motivated to succeed
● Bias for action → Have the temperament to experiment and execute in uncertainty
● Hustler → Ability to generate resources to solve a problem
● Intellectual honesty → Always seeking and presenting truth irrespective of personal
POV or beliefs
● Mission-oriented → Deeply care about delivering value and making an impact on customer’s lives
✅Key Details
● Role: Engineering Lead
● Location: Bengaluru
● Compensation: Negotiable based on candidate profile (structured as Fixed + ESOPs)
● Date of Joining: ASAP
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Skills and Specifications:
Required Skills
- Experience in coding with Java
- Experience in working with Spring Framework
- Experience with basic API protocols
- Experience with developing, debugging and dev testing
- Decent communication skills
Nice to have
- Experience with distributed storage & Database Systems (SQL or
NoSQL, eg MySQL or MongoDB)
- Experience with production quality management, deployment &
monitoring.
- Experience with Tomcat, Nginx & Linux.
- Experience with Cloud Technologies (AWS, Azure, Oracle Cloud
etc)
- Product understanding skills.
● Proven work experience as a Back-end developer.
● In-depth understanding of the entire web development process (design, development and deployment).
● Proficient in Java, with a good knowledge of its ecosystems
● Basic understanding of JVM, its limitations, weaknesses, and workarounds
● Ability to decide when to use relational vs NoSQL databases and must be experienced with at least one of
the relational databases (MySQL) as well as experience with ElasticSearch will be good to have
● Familiarity with concepts of MVC, JDBC, and RESTful
● Experience with Spring, Spring Boot, Spring MVC
● Experience in CI/CD and Cloud technologies
● Expertise in developing enterprise-level web applications and RESTful APIs using MicroServices, with
demonstrable production-scale experience
● Familiarity with front-end languages (e.g. HTML, JavaScript and CSS) - Not mandatory
● Participation in coding competitions such as hackathon, hackerrank will be added advantage.
External Title: Backend Developer.
Location: Remote
Year of experience: 4+ years
Job Description:
- Understanding of the working of a web-based application.
- Expert Knowledge of Microservices architecture.
- Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds.
- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git.
- Basic understanding of REST APIs and their concepts.
- Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as HTML5, and CSS3, JavaScript.
As an Associate Software Engineer, you will have the opportunity to collaborate on the creation and maintenance of scalable, high-quality software as we grow. You'll work closely with the CTO and quickly gain skills and responsibilities as the team and the technical requirements grow.
Primary Responsibilities
- Develop RESTful APIs leveraging Django classes, ORM and Postgres Database
- Develop solutions that meet business objectives while leveraging industry best practices
- Write high-quality source code to program complete applications within deadlines
- Troubleshoot and debug applications
Technical Competencies
- Expertise with Python language
- Experience with Django: maintaining APIs
- Familiarity using Git, code repositories, branching and merging strategies
- Ability to break down complex concepts, tasks, or problems into more simple, understandable language and action plans
- Excellent communication skills, and attention to detail
- Good Documentation skills
Perks
- Work from home
- Flexible work schedule
- Flexible standup meetings
Interview Process
- Two technical rounds with Senior Developer and CTO
- Cultural Fit interview with Project Manager
Please do not apply if you don't have professional Django work experience.
Key Responsibilities :
1. Work closely with client and team and understanding the requirement, design, analyze and do the code changes
2.Helping team and client to resolve issues
3.Should able to handle day to day activity like team management, daily meeting
Technical Experience :
- Net development work experience
- Proficiency in NET Development with Net Core.
- Strong object-oriented programming OOPS design skills, SOLID principles and proficiency in software design patterns
- Experience in database MS SQL Server, No SQL
- Solid understanding of Microservices
- Good understanding Azure, Docker and Kubernetes
- Experience with version control systems GitHub and Bitbucket
Professional Attributes :
1.Should have good communication Skills
2.Should be good team player
3.Should be able to work independently and under pressure
4.Should have good logical and analytical thinking
Responsibilities
- Writing clean, high-quality, high-performance, maintainable code
- Develop and support software including applications, database integration, interfaces, and new functionality enhancements
- Coordinate cross-functionally to insure project meets business objectives and compliance standards
- Support test and deployment of new products and features
- Participate in code reviews
Skills & Qualifications
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4-12 years of experience in Java Development.
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Excellent verbal and written English communication is a must. You may have to interact with clients directly.
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Technology agnostic approach is a must. Ready to adopt new technology and a faster learning curve.
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Writing scalable, maintainable and reusable code.
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Keen interest in SAAS based products and mobile applications.
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Experience working with Distributed Systems
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Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, API Design Experience with Event-Driven Architecture, Multithreading
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Kafka iOS Experience with Event Sourcing Reactive and Functional
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Programming Strong understanding of best practices for creating/working with Microservices
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Experience implementing Message Brokers and Messaging subsystems(experience working with Kafka a strong plus)
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Be open-minded, creative, and self-critical; be collaborative and communicative
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Have experience with and curiosity about agile and lean philosophies
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Experience working with small teams to ship products to market
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Have experience developing full-service consumer, employee and business applications
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Language agnostic and experienced polyglot Passion for Working Software and SOLID principles
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Experience with designing and refactoring complex systems
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Experience with Test-Driven Development (TDD) Interest in working in a pair-programming environment Deep understanding of design patterns and applying them in production environments
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Passion for enabling team members
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Java 8 or Java 11. Both are LTS. The project will be on Java11
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Spring Boot
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Git
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SQL
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AWS and AWS Aurora
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Microservices
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Multithreading
Perks
- Flexible time schedule.
- Work from home or work from anywhere.
- Health insurance.
- Team building activities.
- Training and conference tickets.
¡ Solid Design and Architecture skills. Experience in the designing, development, and deployment of large-scale enterprise applications with multiple tiers. |
¡ Ensure agile test-driven development for robustness, usability, reliability, security and performance. |
¡ Expert in Core JAVA and Spring Boot and other Spring libraries, Eureka, Hystrix etc. |
¡ Experience creating architecture or developing web services to integrate applications with databases such as Oracle, MySQL, MongoDB, or Cassandra |
¡ Solid understanding of OOPS, algorithms and data structures. |
¡ Experience on Kafka / Scala / Storm / Elastic Search and Web Services like RESTful / SOAP. |
¡ Extensive experience with version control systems (Git is preferred) and issue tracking systems (JIRA is preferred) |
If you love to work in a fast-paced startup environment and desire to solve some very
challenging problems using technology, we want to hear from you.
We are looking for an enthusiastic and energetic individual to work as a Senior Software
Developer. You will be involved in working on multiple products for the scaling and growth
stage of the lifecycle.
We work closely with the real world,. If you are interested to grow and learn in your career
and at the same time work on products for the 1Bn user market, we encourage you to apply.
Responsibilities
● Managing and guiding a team of junior developers for timely delivery of product and
milestones
● Optimization of the application for maximum speed and scalability
● Implementation of security and data protection
● Design and implementation of data storage solutions
● Design & Build: Designing and developing high-volume, low-latency applications for
mission-critical systems, and delivering high-availability and performance.
● Collaborate - Collaborating within your product streams and team to bring best
practices and leverage a world-class tech stack.
● Measurable Outcome - You will need to set quantifiable objectives that encapsulate
the quality attributes of a system. The fitness of the application is measured against
set marks.
● DevOps - You will need to set up every essential (tracking/alerting) to make sure the
infrastructure/software you built is working as expected.
● Design and development of our REST APIs
● Help maintain code quality, architecture, and automation
Required Knowledge and Skills
● Over 3 years of experience working in backend development technologies and
DevOps
● Highly curious and ready to dive into complex technical challenges.
● Proficiency in development and scripting in Python, Django/Flask framework.
● Some experience in Angular 6+, JavaScript or TypeScript would be a plus.
● Database design and management, including being up on the latest practices -
bonus points for MySQL and MongoDB
● User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and
environments
● Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system
● Management of hosting environment, including database administration and scaling
an application to support load changes
● Setup and administration of backups
● Understanding differences between multiple delivery platforms such as mobile vs
desktop, and optimizing output to match the specific platform
● Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes
● Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests
● Understanding of “session management” in a distributed server environment
● Server management and deployment for the relevant environment
● Appreciation for clean and well-documented code
● Hands-on experience with architecture and structural design patterns
● Expertise in designing, developing, deploying, and integrating RESTful APIs
● Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical
requirements
● A knack for benchmarking and optimization
● Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
Personality
● Requires excellent communication skills – written, verbal, and presentation.
● You should be a team player.
● You should be positive towards problem-solving, have a very structural thought
process to solve problems
● Interest to work in a high paced start-up environment with a large amount of learning.
● Good understanding of different frameworks, and be able to pick up new
technologies at ease.
● You should be agile enough to figure out a need for new technologies/frameworks
and learn new technology for better product performance.
Mandatory technical skill: Core Java, Microservices, Spring, J2ee,
Good analytical and coding skill.