


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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- Create, maintain, test, and fix back-end infrastructure, including databases, data integration, API, core application logic, and other processes that need to be done behind the curtain. Since the job responsibilities can be performed remotely, we simply want our back-end developer to analyze user needs and improve user experience according.
- proficient in server-side development and optimization of data, including database creation and management and debugging
- Integrate data from various back-end services and databases
- Create and maintain software documentation
- Create user-friendly and intuitive interfaces
- Create and analyze reliable and secure back-end functionality
- Maintain, expand, and scale designed database
- Collaborate with front-end developers and web designers to match visual design intent.
- Design RESTful APIs
- Experience working with relational database like mysql/oracle, Mangodb
Responsibilities:
- Lead simultaneous development for multiple business verticals.
- Design & develop highly scalable, reliable, secure, and fault-tolerant systems.
- Ensure that exceptional standards are maintained in all aspects of engineering.
- Collaborate with other engineering teams to learn and share best practices.
- Take ownership of technical performance metrics and strive actively to improve them.
- Mentors junior members of the team and contributes to code reviews.
Requirements:
- A passion to solve tough engineering/data challenges.
- Be well versed with cloud computing platforms AWS/GCP
- Experience with SQL technologies (MySQL, PostgreSQL)
- Experience working with NoSQL technologies (MongoDB, ElasticSearch)
- Excellent Programming skills in Python/Java/GoLang
- Big Data streaming services (Kinesis, Kafka, RabbitMQ)
- Distributed cache systems(Redis, Memcache)
- Advanced data solutions(BigQuery, RedShift, DynamoDB, Cassandra)
- Automated testing frameworks and CI/CD pipelines Infrastructure orchestration(Docker/Kubernetes/Nginx)
- Cloud-native tech like Lambda, ASG, CDN, ELB, SNS/SQS, S3 Route53 SES
Requirements:
- 4-6 years of experience in developing Enterprise Web Applications using Java/J2EE technologies with a good professional track record.
- Excellent knowledge in Core Java (J2SE) and J2EE technologies.
- Proficient knowledge in Servlets, JDBC & JSP.
- Good knowledge of Spring framework (MVC, Cloud, Data and Security. Etc) and ORM framework like JPA/Hibernate.
- Strong knowledge of Exception Handling, Collections, File I/O Streams, Interfaces, and logging mechanisms is a must.
- Experience in developing REST APIs and integration of third-party APIs.
- Proficient knowledge in SQL/PLSQL.
- Expertise in application/web server deployment and connection pooling techniques.
- Cloud deployment (AWS & Azure) will be an added advantage.
- Experience in Version Control tools like Git, Bitbucket, etc.
- Experience in data security and protocols is a must.
- Maven and IDE tools experience is a must.
- Multi-threading and serialization techniques knowledge is a must.
- Good understanding of end-to-end software development lifecycle.
- Ability to read and understand requirements and design documents.
- Good Analytical skills and should be self-driven. Good communication with interpersonal skills.
- Open to learning new technologies and domains.
- A good team player and ready to take up new challenges
- Languages: Java(J2SE), J2EE (Servlets, JSPs, JDBC)
- Databases: MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL.
- DB Script: SQL and PL/SQL
- Frameworks: Spring, Spring Boot, Jersey, Hibernate and JPA
- OS: Windows, Linux/Unix.
- Cloud Services: AWS and Azure (Good to have)
- Version Control tools: Git, Bitbucket.
- Deployment Servers: Tomcat, JBoss, and Web sphere
- Build Tools: Gradle/Maven

Skills:
- Very Strong in WCF, WPF, MVVM, Restful WS, and XML
- Very good in Design/Architecture understanding
- Knowledge in DevExpress, Entity Framework, RDBMS and MS SQL Server would be a BIG
PLUS.
- Very Strong knowledge in OOPS and Design Patterns
- Working Knowledge in Design, Code reviews/quality, unit testing with NUnit/ XUnit and
Continuous integration
- Analytical, a problem solver, with good communication skills.
- Ability to understand the requirements, analyze and articulate into design.
- Ability to find out and work with alternatives, check feasibility and propose solutions.
- Experience in Agile methodology and following best practices
- R&D mindset and thirst for exploring/learning new skills
Qualifications
Qualifications - BE/BTech/MCA
Experience: 6+ years
- Experience building large scale, large volume services & distributed apps., taking them through production and post-production life cycles
- Experience in Programming Language: Java 8, Javascript
- Experience in Microservice Development or Architecture
- Experience with Web Application Frameworks: Spring or Springboot or Micronaut
- Designing: High Level/Low-Level Design
- Development Experience: Agile/ Scrum, TDD(Test Driven Development)or BDD (Behaviour Driven Development) Plus Unit Testing
- Infrastructure Experience: DevOps, CI/CD Pipeline, Docker/ Kubernetes/Jenkins, and Cloud platforms like – AWS, AZURE, GCP, etc
- Experience on one or more Database: RDBMS or NoSQL
- Experience on one or more Messaging platforms: JMS/RabbitMQ/Kafka/Tibco/Camel
- Security (Authentication, scalability, performance monitoring)
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for design and development of high end, robust, scalable products that disrupt the market
- Technically-intense role with primary focus on building cool products in a niche domain
- Evolution into Principal Software Engineers and Team leads and beyond based on one’s ability to demonstrate very strong technical expertise and project & people management skills.
- Reviewing code work for accuracy and functionality
- Analyzing code segments regularly.
Requirements:
Experience Range: 3+
Role: Software Engineer – final role will depend on candidate’s experience and credentials
Education: BE/B. Tech/MCA/M.Sc./MTech
Technology Stack: Java, Hibernate, spring, spring boot, Microservices, MySQL, reactJS, Elastic Search, AWS Infra

Key Responsibilities:
Experience with developing/implementing web applications built on PHP technologies.
Provide technical guidance and recommendations to other team members as required.
Development responsibilities include doing code review / bug analysis, analyzing development and impacts.
Provide effort planning estimates for application change requests and defect resolutions.
Run daily stand-up meetings as required and in concert with the program technical lead .
Assist in establishing and updating application release plans.
Manage and perform Web application deployments.
Perform root cause analysis for production issues and provide resolutions in a timely fashion .
Develop and maintain technical documentation Skills Requirement:
Minimum 1 years of experience with team leading
Minimum 2 to 3 year experience in laravel mysql
Excellent knowledge of REST services
Excellent knowledge of RDBMS concepts and database designing
Good Communication skills in Malayalam and English
Problem solving and decision making skills
Prior experience in handling a team.
Agile background is a plus.
Ready to adapt / learn a new programming language / tools / framework based on project requirements.
Able to provide technical leadership to a team of software engineers.
Responsibilities:
- Lead the development of the back-end systems for our first product.
- Build reliable, secure and performant back-end systems.
- Drive test coverage and continuous delivery automation within the team.
- Mentor and provide feedback to teammates.
Requirements:
- 3+ years of software development experience.
- Strong computer science fundamentals.
- Deep and wide knowledge of Java ecosystem.
- Can write code that is readable, maintainable, secure and performant.
- Know the importance of tests and how to approach writing different types of tests.
- Good intuition for REST API design.
- Deep understanding of relational databases, transactions, entity-relationship modelling.
- Comfortable writing highly concurrent systems.
- Experienced in using profilers, tuning garbage collection, optimising SQL queries.



