
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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Experience: 5-8 Years
Location: Noida
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Overview:
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Qualifications:
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (tier 1/2), Information Technology, or a related field.
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- Excellent core Python skills including threading, dictionary, OOPS Concept, Data structure, Web service.
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- Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as Angular, JavaScript, HTML5 and CSS3
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· Strong proficiency in Python programming and familiarity with relevant frameworks.
· Excellent leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills.
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- Experience with Version Controlling Tools - SVN, Mantis & Git
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