Engineering Manager / Engineering Lead

**Job Title**: Backend Developer (Python & Django)

**Company**: FatakPay FinTech

**Location**: Mumbai, India

**Salary Range**: INR 8 - 15 Lakhs per annum

**Job Overview**:

At FatakPay, a burgeoning name in the fintech sector, we are on the lookout for a proficient Backend Developer with expertise in Python and the Django framework. This role is an excellent opportunity for individuals who thrive in a fast-paced, technology-driven environment and are eager to contribute to innovative financial solutions.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Design and implement efficient backend services using Python and Django.

- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate user-facing elements with server-side logic.

- Optimize applications for maximum speed and scalability.

- Implement security and data protection measures.

- Design and implement data storage solutions.

- Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to these problems.

- Maintain code quality, organization, and automatization.

- Stay informed of emerging technologies/industry trends and apply them into operations and activities.

- AWS/GCP experience: Deploy and manage applications in cloud environments, ensuring high availability and scalability.

**Qualifications**:

- Minimum qualification: B.Tech or Engineering degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.

- 2-4 years of experience as a Backend Developer with a focus on Python and Django.

- Strong understanding of the Django framework, ORM, templating, forms, and RESTful APIs.

- Experience in cloud platforms like AWS or GCP is a significant advantage.

- Familiarity with front-end technologies (like JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3) is desirable.

- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git.

- Knowledge of user authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments.

- Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application.

- Ability to implement automated testing platforms and unit tests.

**Application Process**:

• At FatakPay, we are excited to welcome a new member to our team who shares our passion for innovation and excellence in the fintech sector. We look forward to exploring how your skills and ideas can help shape the future of financial technology!

We are looking for a Director of Engineering to lead one of our key product engineering teams. This role will report directly to the VP of Engineering and will be responsible for successful execution of the company's business mission through development of cutting-edge software products and solutions.

• As an owner of the product you will be required to plan and execute the product road map and provide technical leadership to the engineering team.
• You will have to collaborate with Product Management and Implementation teams and build a commercially successful product.
• You will be responsible to recruit & lead a team of highly skilled software engineers and provide strong hands on engineering leadership.
• Requirement deep technical knowledge in Software Product Engineering using Amazon Web Services,Java 8 Java/J2EE, Node.js, React.js, fullstack, NosqlDB, mongodb, cassandra, neo4j, elastic search, kibana, elk, kafka, redis, docker, kubernetes, Amazon Web Services ,Architecture Concepts,Design PatternsData Structures & Algorithms,Distributed Computing,Multi-threading,AWS,Docker,Kubernetes, apache, solr, activemq, rabbitmq, spark, scala, sqoop, hbase, hive, websocket, webcrawler, springboot, etc. is a must.

• 16+ years of experience in Software Engineering with at least 5+ years as an engineering leader in a software product company.
• Hands-on technical leadership with proven ability to recruit high performance talent
• High technical credibility - ability to audit technical decisions and push for the best solution to a problem.
• Experience building E2E Application right from backend database to persistent layer.
• Experience UI technologies Angular, react.js, Node.js or fullstack environment will be preferred.
• Experience with NoSQL technologies (MongoDB, Cassandra, Neo4j, Dynamodb, etc.)
• Elastic Search, Kibana, ELK, Logstash.
• Experience in developing Enterprise Software using Agile Methodology.
• Good understanding of Kafka, Redis, ActiveMQ, RabbitMQ, Solr etc.
• SaaS cloud-based platform exposure.
• Experience on Docker, Kubernetes etc.
• Ownership E2E design development and also quality enterprise product/application deliverable exposure
• A track record of setting and achieving high standards
• Strong understanding of modern technology architecture
• Key Programming Skills: Java, J2EE with cutting edge technologies
• Excellent team building, mentoring and coaching skills are a must-have

Our client is the fastest growing company in the space of student mobility in Asia Pacific as per Financial times.

More about them

- Long-term accommodation booking platform for students (think booking.com for student housing).

- Helps 80M students worldwide, find and book full-time accommodations near their universities, without the hassle of negotiation, nonstandardized and cumbersome paperwork, and broken payment process.

- Leading student housing platform globally, with 1M+ student housing units listed in 6 countries and across 80 cities.

- Growing rapidly and targeting $400M in annual gross bookings value by 2022.

We, r, are looking to hire an Director Engineering , who is a thought leader,and a world-class engineer who has a proven record of creating an impact on businessand engineering with little or no help. You will own the technology vision andsignificantly contribute to building the engineering team and culture. You will partner wiith Engineering Manager 2
the product and business teams to understand product features and specifications,translate them into high-level and low-level designs, thereby facilitating the team in building mission critical applications.


Key responsibilities
To build next-generation web applications which are efficient, reliable, and scalable.
Explore and design dynamic and compelling consumer experiences.
Analyze system function and performance requirements to support design
concepts.
Actively participate in design and code reviews to build robust applications and prototypes.
Work closely with Product managers, designers, and the business team to
implement solutions.
Maintain a very high standard of product quality, ensuring a delightful experience for users.
Endorsing upcoming standards, launching, iterating, and making a difference.

Technical Skills
1)4+ years of experience, working with web technologies and building scalable and distributed software products and infrastructure
2)Exposure to complete product development cycles - From inception to production toscaling up, supporting new requirements, re-architectures
3)Sound knowledge of design patterns and practices for writing clean, linted,maintainable, and reusable code
4)Experience in working with both backend and frontend web technologies
5)Experience with infrastructure deployment and maintenance
6)Keeps an eye on new platform and ecosystem changes

Regards
Team Merito

• Produce clean code and automated tests
• Align with enterprise architecture frameworks and standards
• Be the role-model for all engineers in the team in terms of technical competency
• Research, assess and adopt new technologies as required
• Be a guide and mentor to the team members and help in ramping up the overall skill-base of the team.
• Produce detailed estimates and optimized work plans for requirements and changes
• Ensure that features are delivered on time and that they meet the business needs
• Strive for quality of performance, usability, reliability, maintainability, and extensibility
• Identify opportunities for process and tool improvements
• Use analytical rigor to produce effective solutions to poorly defined problems
• Follow Build to Ship mantra in practice with full Dev Ops implementation
• 10+ years of core software development and product creation experience in CPaaS.
• Working knowledge in VoIP, communication API , J2EE, JMS/ Kafka, Web-Services, Hadoop, React, Node.js, GoLang.
• Working knowledge in Various CPaaS channels - SMS, voice, WhatsApp, RCS, Email.
• Working knowledge of DevOps, automation testing, test driven development, behavior driven development, server-less or micro-services
• Experience with AWS / Azure deployments
• Solid background in large scale software development.
• Full stack understanding of web/mobile/API/database development concepts and patterns
• Exposure to Microservices, Iaas, PaaS, service mesh, SaaS and cloud native application development.
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• Understanding of Agile Scrum and SDLC principles.
• Containerization and orchestrations:- Dockers, kuberenetes, openshift, consule etc.
• Knowledge on NFV (openstack, Vsphere, Vcloud etc)
• Experience in Data Analytics/AI/ML or Marketing Tech domain is an added advantage
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Responsibilities

• Help define Technical Roadmap and own the entire product delivery end to
• Work very closely with various business stakeholders to drive the execution of multiple business plans and
• Improve, optimize and identify opportunities for efficient software development processes
• Hire, Develop and Retain a strong team of
• Keep abreast of the changes in the industry and champion new technologies and development processes within the team
• Thinking backwards from a customer POV and relentlessly pursuing customer's cause in tech and product

• A graduation/post graduation degree in Computer Science (IITs, IIITs and NITs preferred)
• 7-12 years of strong experience in various frontend development technologies which includes Javascript (core and oops), Nodejs, Html, Css
• Expertise in 
• Any UI framework React/Vue 
• State Management libraries like redux
• Build tools (webpack, grunt, gulp etc)
• Experience with 
• best practices for JS development using jslint, testing frameworks etc.
• package managers like npm or yarn
• Experience working with agile teams and making rapid decisions in dynamic and disruptive environments.
• 2+ years of leading and managing a team consisting of backend, frontend and QA.
• Hands on writing and reviewing code
• Exceptional design and architectural skills.
• Strong communication skills.

Good to have

• Experience with AWS, Microfrontend, Nginx, CDN caching
• Exposure to Performance optimization techniques/tools (caching, cdn, lighthouse, optimization)
• Experience with Dockers & Containerization
• Knowledge of tools and best practices for Linting, Compiling, Minifying, Jenkins etc.
• Experience with "Micro Frontend architecture" & “Backend For Frontend”

• Making systems more efficient, more reliable and more secure
• Communicating across internal and external organizations

What you need to have:

• Minimum 12 years of experience
• Experience in IT Infra, IT Ops, Hardware and network connectivity
• Knowledge on VM ware, AWS cloud
• Experience in Monitoring tools
• Working knowledge on Unix /Linux
• Experience in security, network and compliance frameworks
• Hands-on experience with VMware, AWS Cloud/Multi Cloud, infrastructure automation and monitoring tools
• Understanding of security, risk and compliance frameworks, disaster recovery, high availability architectures, hardware, operating systems and networking connectivity 

2018 Forbes Indonesia Choice Award winner and Galen Growth’s 2018 Most

Innovative HealthTech Startup in Asia. Ours is a secure health-tech platform with a mission tosimplifying access to healthcare by connecting millions of patients with licensed doctors, insurance, labs, and pharmacies in one mobile application.

Key Job Responsibilities:

• He/She is a responsive team player who can proactively contribute for building technicalstrategies for applications and systems by promoting an understanding of the technology andbusiness roadmap.

• He /she is someone who thrives in a fun, fast-paced, dynamic, startup-like environment.
• Work very closely with various business stakeholders to drive the execution of multiplebusiness plans and technologies.

• Work closely with Product, Design, and Marketing to conceive features, plan projects, andbuild roadmaps

• Prior experience with scalable Architecture managing team of minimum 5 engineers andcoaching, mentoring while maintaining a role with code development.

• Proven history of contributing to product strategy and shipping products with multi-functionalteams.

• Highly involved in recruitment while building team also leading app development for bothplatforms

• Promote and support company policies, procedures, mission, values, and standards of ethicsand integrity.

Minimum Qualification:

• Total of 10+ years experience
• Hands-on working on Java ( {Language understanding - Java 8, Lambdas, Collections,popular frameworks & libraries}, JVM, GC tuning, performance tuning)
• Worked on REST frameworks/libraries like Spring MVC, Spring Boot, Dropwizard, RESTExpress etc
• Worked on Relational data stores viz. MySQL, Oracle, or Postgres

• Worked on Non-relational data stores viz. Cassandra, HBase, Couchbase, MongoDB, etc
• Worked on caching infra viz. Redis, Memcached, Aerospike, Riak, etc
• Worked on Queueing infra viz. Kafka, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ etc

Regards,
Volks consulting