Founding Engineer

Experience: Back-end development: 6 years (Required)

Job Description:

We are looking for a highly skilled Senior Python Django Developer with extensive experience in building and scaling financial or payments-based applications. The ideal candidate has a deep understanding of system design, architecture patterns, and testing best practices, along with a strong grasp of the startup environment.

This role requires a balance of hands-on coding, architectural design, and collaboration across teams to deliver robust and scalable financial products.

Responsibilities:

• Design and develop scalable, secure, and high-performance applications using Python (Django framework).
• Architect system components, define database schemas, and optimize backend services for speed and efficiency.
• Lead and implement design patterns and software architecture best practices.
• Ensure code quality through comprehensive unit testing, integration testing, and participation in code reviews.
• Collaborate closely with Product, DevOps, QA, and Frontend teams to build seamless end-to-end solutions.
• Drive performance improvements, monitor system health, and troubleshoot production issues.
• Apply domain knowledge in payments and finance, including transaction processing, reconciliation, settlements, wallets, UPI, etc.
• Contribute to technical decision-making and mentor junior developers.

Requirements:

• 6 to 10 years of professional backend development experience with Python and Django.
• Strong background in payments/financial systems or FinTech applications.
• Proven experience in designing software architecture in a microservices or modular monolith environment.
• Experience working in fast-paced startup environments with agile practices.
• Proficiency in RESTful APIs, SQL (PostgreSQL/MySQL), NoSQL (MongoDB/Redis).
• Solid understanding of Docker, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure).
• Hands-on experience with test-driven development (TDD) and frameworks like pytest, unit test, or factory boy.
• Familiarity with security best practices in financial applications (PCI compliance, data encryption, etc.).

Preferred Skills:

• Exposure to event-driven architecture (Celery, Kafka, RabbitMQ).
• Experience integrating with third-party payment gateways, banking APIs, or financial instruments.
• Understanding of DevOps and monitoring tools (Prometheus, ELK, Grafana).
• Contributions to open-source or personal finance-related projects.

Backend Architect

Experience - 12+ yrs

Mandatory Skills - NodeJS & MongoDB(Data Modelling/ Complex Queries/ Aggregation pipeline )

About Wekan Enterprise Solutions

Wekan Enterprise Solutions is a leading Technology Consulting company and a strategic investment partner of MongoDB. We help companies drive innovation in the cloud by adopting modern technology solutions that help them achieve their performance and availability requirements. With strong capabilities around Mobile, IOT and Cloud environments, we have an extensive track record helping Fortune 500 companies modernize their most critical legacy and on-premise applications, migrating them to the cloud and leveraging the most cutting-edge technologies.

Job Description

We are looking for passionate architects eager to be a part of our growth journey. The right candidate needs to be interested in working in high-paced and challenging environments leading technical teams, designing system architecture and reviewing peer code. Interested in constantly upskilling, learning new technologies and expanding their domain knowledge to new industries. This candidate needs to be a team player and should be looking to help build a culture of excellence. Do you have what it takes?

You will be working on complex data migrations, modernizing legacy applications and building new applications on the cloud for large enterprise and/or growth stage startups. You will have the opportunity to contribute directly into mission critical projects directly interacting with business stakeholders, customer's technical teams and MongoDB solutions Architects.

Location -Chennai or Bangalore

• Relevant experience of 12+ years building high-performance applications with at least 3+ years as an architect.
• Good problem solving skills
• Strong mentoring capabilities
• Good understanding of software development life cycle
• Strong experience in system design and architecture
• Strong focus on quality of work delivered
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Required Technical Skills

• Extensive hands-on experiencebuilding high-performance applications using Node. Js (Javascript/Typescript) and. NET/ Golang / Java / Python.
• Strong experience with appropriate framework(s).
• Well versed in monolithic and microservices architecture.
• Hands-on experience with data modeling onMongoDB and any other Relational or NoSQL databases
• Experience working with 3rd party integrations ranging from authentication, cloud services, etc.
• Hands-on experience with Kafka or RabbitMQ.
• Hands on experience with CI/CD pipelines and atleast 1 cloud provider - AWS / GCP / Azure
• Strong experience writing and maintaining clear documentation

Good to have skills:

• Experience working with frontend technologies - React. Js or Vue. Js or Angular.
• Extensive experience consulting with customers directly for defining architecture or system design.
• Technical certifications in AWS / Azure / GCPor other relevant technologies

About Us

At Toddle, we are on a mission to help schools around the world deliver better learning. We are a team of 2x founders – before founding Toddle, we set up a network of preschools and schools in India. We continue to operate these preschools and schools as it gives us a unique vantage

point into the challenges faced by schools.

Our belief is that real impact in education can only be achieved by improving schools. That’s because children spend more than 80% of their learning time in school and schools are here to stay as schools are not just about teaching & learning, they also play a pivotal social role in our lives. So while most Edtech companies are trying to solve for education by working outside the school system, we think that the focus needs to be on taking our schools to the next level.

Our first product is a collaboration platform for teaching teams – we say that Toddle is to teaching, what Figma is to design. In its current version, Toddle empowers teachers to work together and better across all stages of the teaching-learning process – right from curriculum

planning and assessments to progress-tracking and family communication.

Here are some key facts about us:

1. Currently used by 1,000+ schools and 30,000+ teachers from 107 countries

2. Global revenue – 40% from Americas, 30% from EMEA, 30% from APAC

3. NRR > 115%

4. NPS > 70

5. Annual churn < 5%

6. Inbound led GTM motion fuelled by positive word of mouth

We love solving for

1. Creating delightful experiences that help teaching teams collaborate better & be more effective

2. Building tools that help teachers personalise learning for their students

3. Helping teachers around the world connect with each other meaningfully

We are at a series A stage right now, growing fast in the SAAS Ed-tech space, and have been funded by Sequoia, Matrix, Beenext, and Better Capital among others.

Here’s what you’ll be doing

We are looking for a passionate and skilled Backend engineer, one who partners with us in creating beautiful products for teachers, students and parents alike. As a Backend engineer, you will play a major role in designing, developing and deploying high-quality web platforms. In

this multifaceted role, you will get the opportunity to work along curriculum experts, teachers, and students, and user-test the product in real school settings.

Required Skills:

Frameworks & Technologies: Node.js, Express, GraphQL, JWT

Database: SQL query writing and optimisation.

Tools: Git basics, Scripting basics

Good to have:

DevOps experience with AWS, CI/CD

Working experience in PostgreSQL

Is this someone that looks like you?

• Education: B.E/B.Tech degree

• Experience: 1 to 3 years of relevant working experience (SaaS preferred)

• Soft Skills: Having a bias towards action, a good sense of design, empathy, and good communication skills

• We deeply value building the right culture at Toddle, and these are a few things that we look for in each hire - Coach-ability, Curiosity, Ownership, Hustle and Humility

Excited about the role?

Here are a few more benefits:

1. Work from anywhere - Work from where you like - home, co-working space, cafe or the hills

2. Exposure to diverse learning opportunities

Work across different projects & teams to develop skills outside of your core expertise

Access to a small budget towards learning (e.g. books, online courses, substacks)

3. Uncapped leave policy

We trust you fully on your commitment to our mission and your judgement on planning your time and taking leaves:

No cap on the number of sick or casual leaves

Special paid leaves for childbirth, wedding etc.

And if in any circumstance you feel burnt out - there is a little something for this too!

No questions asked menstrual leave

4. Flexible working hours - Block “no-meeting hours” to enable uninterrupted focused work

5. No bell curve performance evaluations

6. And yes, a super fun and smart group of folks to collaborate and grow with.

Still with us? Here’s the process:

1. Shortlisting:

• Apply for the role.

• We’ll check out your application and assess it for a fit

• You will hear back from us within 2-3 days of the submission if shortlisted

2. Once shortlisted, we usually do about 2-3 rounds of interviews, a written assignment, and deep reference checks.

3. We value everyone’s time hence we make it a point to communicate proactively at all stages of your application. You can always reach out to us for any questions.

We are looking for a highly capable Node.js developer to optimize our mobile-based application performance. You will be collaborating with our front-end application developers, designing back-end components, and integrating data storage and protection solutions.

To ensure success as a Node.js developer, you should possess extensive knowledge of Node.Js based services and experience in a similar role. An accomplished Node.js developer will be someone whose expertise results in the stable, fast, and secure exchange of data between servers and end-users.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Actively participate in the overall application lifecycle.
• Focus on coding and debugging.
• Collaborate with front-end developers.
• Define and communicate technical and design requirements.
• Build a high-quality reusable code that can be used in the future.
• Create sustainable and functional web applications with clean codes.
• Learn about new technologies and stay up to date with current best practices.
• Conduct UI tests and optimize performance.
• Train, help, and support to other team members.

Requirements

• Hands-on backend mobile app/web development experience
• At least four years' experience as a Node.js developer.
• Hands-on experience of working on MongoDB database
• Knowledgeable of front-end technologies and platforms, such as JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3
• Good understanding of server-side CSS pre-processors
• Proven experience creating user authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
• Capability to integrate multiple data sources and databases into one system
• Proven experience managing of hosting environment, that includes database administration and scaling an application to support load changes
• Ability to setup, administer of backups, data migration, transformation, and scripting.
• Knowledgeable of OWASP security principles
• Understands “session management” in a server environment
• Tech/M.Tech in Computer Science or a related field

The database market is massive (the IDC estimates it to be $119B+ by 2025!) and MongoDB is at the head of its disruption. The MongoDB community is transforming industries and empowering developers to build amazing apps that people use every day. We are the leading modern data platform and the first database provider to IPO in over 20 years. Join our team and be at the forefront of innovation and creativity.

MongoDB is expanding our global team of consulting engineers to further our ongoing plans for worldwide growth!

MongoDB Professional Services works with customers of all shapes and sizes in all verticals, from tier-1 banks to small web startups, on a variety of interesting use cases from e-commerce platforms to trading systems to social media applications. Solve interesting problems, gain incredible cross-stack experience, work with the best and brightest people in the business, network with industry leaders, and see new places - all in a day’s work!

MongoDB consulting exists to support the development of our customers’ vision, accelerate customers’ time to value, and drive a multitude of customer adoption scenarios - from building new solutions to modernizing legacy applications or migrating to the cloud. Our consulting solutions ensure that organizations get the best out of MongoDB.

Be one of the recognized experts in this rapidly growing field in a high-growth software company successfully challenging the status quo of the database industry. 

Shift Timing

You will get an opportunity to work with Global customers (APAC, EMEA, and North America) So this would require you to work in monthly rotational shifts.

This role can be based out of our Gurugram/Bangalore Office or remotely in the India region.

Candidate Profile

We’re looking for a highly technical individual, with strong problem-solving and communication skills, and is comfortable working closely with customers. 

Our ideal candidate will have

• Excellent analytical, diagnostic skills, and problem-solving skills
• High motivation for a role that combines deep technical and customer-management dimensions
• Confidence speaking and presenting in a collaborative customer setting
• 4+ years of software development/consulting/support experience, preferably in a number of distinct industries/verticals
• Familiarity with enterprise-scale software architectures, application development methodologies, and software deployment and operations
• Competence in at least one of the following languages (in no particular order): Java, C#, Python, Node.js (JavaScript), Ruby, Go.
• Experience with databases such as MongoDB, Oracle, MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL
• Familiarity with Linux diagnostics and tuning; Windows tuning knowledge is a plus
• Should have the strong capability with, minimally, both English and any local language - as necessary

As a core member of the MongoDB Professional Services team, you will

• Contribute to helping migrate customers from self-hosted MongoDB on-prem/cloud to Atlas
• Contribute to customer implementations at any or all phases of the application lifecycle: portfolio assessment, application planning, and design, deployment architectures, development and build, integration and release configuration, system testing, production operations, application optimization, and best practices adoption
• Work as part of a wider delivery team comprising fellow consulting engineers, project managers, and account teams
• Cultivate your individual MongoDB reputation as a trusted advisor to guide MongoDB and our customers into the future
• Partner with Product and Engineering teams to influence the direction of the MongoDB product roadmap

Success Measures

As a Consulting Engineer, you will be successful in this role when you can execute the following

• Become a field expert in “everything MongoDB”
• Communicate complex technical proposals simply and convincingly to a wide range of audiences
• Gain a reputation as a trusted advisor with your clients, large and small
• Ensure your client’s success with their MongoDB endeavors
• Maintain the required level of billable utilization
• Influence MongoDB product development by contributing experience from the field
• Successfully communicate the product roadmap to external clients
• Constantly work on improving yourself, our products and our team

Do you know, Why MongoDB is a fantastic place to work and build your career?

• Top NoSQL database in the world
• Largest Ecosystem and the fastest growing database in the world
• Close to 26,800 customers in more than 100 countries and over 175+ million downloads
• Sequoia Capital and a number of other Top VC firms have invested in MongoDB. Sequoia Capital calls us out as one of their flagship portfolios; Sequoia has also invested in Apple, Google, Youtube, and WhatsApp
• 9-figure revenue company, with very high double-digit growth rates  
• Be a part of the company that’s reinventing the database, focused on innovation and speed
• Enjoy a fun, inspiring culture that is engineering focused
• Work with talented people around the globe
• Learn, contribute, and make an impact on the product and community

Life at MongoDB

Our India office culture

• 300+ people, with teams in Sales, Engineering, HR, Finance, IT & Marketing
• Regular group outings and opportunities to get to know your colleagues
• Employee affinity groups

 Our Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity
• Comprehensive Health cover, dental cover, travel insurance & Life Insurance.
• Free lunch twice per week and a fully stocked kitchen with healthy and sweet treats in office.
• Macbooks are company standard
• 26 weeks Maternity & 20 Paternity leave to spend time with new arrivals

let’s check out the below link to know more about the role and Flex Consulting Team in India:

https://www.mongodb.com/blog/post/meet-our-growing-flex-consulting-team

To drive the personal growth and business impact of our employees, we’re committed to developing a supportive and enriching culture for everyone. From employee affinity groups to fertility assistance and a generous parental leave policy, we value our employees’ wellbeing and want to support them along every step of their professional and personal journeys.https://www.mongodb.com/blog/channel/culture"> Learn more about what it’s like to work at MongoDB, and help us make an impact on the world!

MongoDB is committed to providing any necessary accommodations for individuals with disabilities within our application and interview process. To request an accommodation due to a disability, please inform your recruiter.

MongoDB is an equal opportunities employer.

We want a MEAN stack developer who is definitely not mean but is enthusiastic, quick at grasping, and has experience in handling multiple projects and codebases.

You should be energetic, authoritative, focused, and experimental at work.

We are looking for experienced backend engineers only.

Apply only if you have 8 YES out of the following 10 qualifying criteria :

-Strong grip over HTML, CSS, and Angular 9+

-Good with CSS styling and theming

-Expert at API development using NodeJS

-Experienced with MongoDB DB

-Self-starter with good communication skills

-At least 2+ years of experience

-Must be willing to work from Bangalore (HSR)

-Have than 2 years of experience with multiple frontend projects in MEAN Stack?

-HAVE worked in a B2C Startup for at least a year?

-CAN join in within 30-45 days?