We are hiring a Founding Engineer to anchor our engineering team. We’re looking for an enterprising and climate-conscious young engineer to build scalable financial systems and innovate on the future of climate finance. You will help build the first version of our product(s) and work
directly with our founders. The ideal candidate has demonstrated experience in product development at an early stage and an interest in climate tech. Bonus points if you’ve worked on marketplaces or lending products at a FinTech in a previous role.
Location: Hybrid / In-office (Mumbai) depending on preference
Role Type: Full-time
What you’ll be doing
• Lead the development of first product(s) across all phases of software and web
development including ideation, prototyping, design, production, and maintenance.
• Work closely with founders and internal/external stakeholders to build products, tools, and
services from scratch and deliver high-quality software solutions.
• Be actively involved in requirements gathering, customer interviews and the creation of
robust product solutions.
• Brainstorm and lay the foundations of the technology and architectural roadmap as well as
the development processes.
• Share your technical expertise to help the team make thoughtful and scalable design
decisions and identify performance bottlenecks to troubleshoot quickly.
• Manage product development priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.
• Hire and manage a small team of engineers (internal/outsourced).
• Ensure high-performant and responsive web applications and websites.
Skills & Qualities we’re looking for
Hard Skills
• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Computer Science (or equivalent experience).
• 4-7 years of experience as a full-stack developer (rare exceptions for highly skilled
developers) at a fast-paced, preferably early / growth stage start-up.
• Proficient with frontend technologies - HTML, CSS, JavaScript & ReactJS/VueJS.
• Proficient with backend technologies - Java/NodeJs/Golang/Python/Ruby.
• Hands-on experience working with any cloud AWS/GCP/Azure/DigitalOcean.
• Knowledge of codebases and version control systems (Git).
• Well-versed with SQL database design & RDBMS concepts.
• Strong arithmetic reasoning, logical and analytical thinking skills.
• Strong knowledge of code quality maintenance and performance analysis.
Soft skills
• Thoughtful problem-solving: We expect you to solve problems. Solving starts with a clear
and accurate understanding of the context. You can decompose tricky problems and work
towards a clean solution, by yourself or with teammates. You're comfortable asking for help
when you get stuck.
• Pragmatic and business-oriented: You care about the business impact of what you're
building, and you prioritise projects accordingly. You're not just going after cool stuff—you
understand the balance between craft, speed, and the bottom line.
• The right attitude toward a sense of urgency, risk, and ambiguity that comes naturally with
working at an early-stage startup.
• Clear communication skills so you can easily convey your thoughts, opinions, and feelings to
customers and teammates.
• Comfortable working in a fluid, growing organisation with minimal supervision.
• Not ideological about technology: To you, technologies and programming languages are
about tradeoffs. You may be opinionated, but you're not ideological and can learn new
technologies as you go.
• Equally effective in individual contributor or team management roles.
Bonus Points if you
• Have a genuine passion for our mission - to solve climate change and its challenges.
• Have worked on the creation of marketplace products/loan management systems (LMS) or
risk assessment solutions.
• Understand object-oriented design principles and design patterns.
• Are familiar with Authentication, Security, XSD, and System Integration concepts.
• Are proficient at product testing - with and without QA support.
• Have experience in agile software development methodologies.
• Have interests outside of technology - could be in any unrelated field (design, sports,
economics, business etc.)
Why Work with us
Aside from being a highly-motivated, mission-driven organisation we offer:
• Highly competitive salaries including attractive stock options.
• Flexibility with location (Remote / In-person) and working hours.
• 25-days paid leave every year + top-ups for key life events.
• Unlimited sick leave.
• Insurance for you and your spouse.
• A yearly learning allowance to go learn a new skill / develop new talent.
• A yearly allowance to use towards the improvement of your physical and mental health.
About Fintech Company
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● 2+ years experience with developing microservices and micro
frontends with modern javascript frameworks
● Knowledge of relational and non-relational databases.
● Experience with hybrid mobile & web applications for one or
more platforms
● Strong understanding of back-end, front-end and continuous
integration technologies
● Full stack understanding of web/mobile/API/database
development concepts and patterns.
● Familiarity with various stacks & programming languages.
- Strong experience require in C# coding & Concepts & Threads
- Strong Experience require in SqlServer & MySql & Sqllite
- Experience required in ASP.NET MVC & ASP.NET
- Expericend required in Restful services using WCF & WEB API
- Strong experience using Entity Framework (Edmx,code first)
. Experience require in ADO.NET
- Familiarity with the client side framework jQuery & Javacsript & Reactjs
. Familiarity with HTML & CSS
- Familiarity with Git Repositories
. Familiarity with Microsoft Azure
. Having knowledge in Xamarin.Forms will be added advantage
- Front-end skills (HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, ES6+, Ajax);
- 3+ years working with React/Redux + Typescript front-end applications
- Must have experience technologies like Python, React, node.js, PostgreSQL, AWS
- Experience with centrally managed state (Redux) and React Router
- Experience with data structuring libraries (Immutable.js / Immer)
- Experience of TDD/BDD, QA/Test frameworks such as Selenium, load testing (Blazemeter), unit testing (Mocha/Chai/Jest) etc.
- Experience optimising the performance of front-end applications
- A good understanding of agile development practices and common methodologies
- Experience building responsive, cross browser compatibility websites and applications
- Experience of integrating with web services and APIs, including REST endpoints.
- Experience using code version control systems (GIT) and CI/CD.
Position – Principal Architect
Location – Bangalore/Mumbai/Remote
About Us
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About the Role
A highly motivated individual who has experience in architecting end to end web based ecommerce/online/SaaS products and systems; bringing them to production quickly and with high quality. Able to understand expected business results and map architecture to drive business forward. Passionate about building world class solutions.
Role and Responsibilities
- Work with Product Managers and Business to understand business/product requirements and vision.
- Provide a clear architectural vision in line with business and product vision.
- Lead a team of architects, developers, and data engineers to provide platform services to other engineering teams.
- Provide architectural oversight to engineering teams across the organization.
- Hands on design and development of platform services and features owned by self - this is a hands-on coding role.
- Define guidelines for best practices covering design, unit testing, secure coding etc.
- Ensure quality by reviewing design, code, test plans, load test plans etc. as appropriate.
- Work closely with the QA and Support teams to track quality and proactively identify improvement opportunities.
- Work closely with DevOps and IT to ensure highly secure and cost optimized operations in the cloud.
- Grow technical skills in the team - identify skill gaps with plans to address them, participate in hiring, mentor other architects and engineers.
- Support other engineers in resolving complex technical issues as a go-to person.
Skills/Experience
- 12+ years of experience in design and development of ecommerce scale systems and highly scalable SaaS or enterprise products.
- Extensive experience in developing extensible and scalable web applications with
- Java, Spring Boot, Go
- Web Services - REST, OAuth, OData
- Database/Caching - MySQL, Cassandra, MongoDB, Memcached/Redis
- Queue/Broker services - RabbitMQ/Kafka
- Microservices architecture via Docker on AWS or Azure.
- Experience with web front end technologies - HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript libraries and frameworks such as jQuery, AngularJS, React, Vue.js, Bootstrap etc.
- Extensive experience with cloud based architectures and how to optimize design for cost.
- Expert level understanding of secure application design practices and a working understanding of cloud infrastructure security.
- Experience with CI/CD processes and design for testability.
- Experience working with big data technologies such as Spark/Storm/Hadoop/Data Lake Architectures is a big plus.
- Action and result-oriented problem-solver who works well both independently and as part of a team; able to foster and develop others' ideas as well as his/her own.
- Ability to organize, prioritize and schedule a high workload and multiple parallel projects efficiently.
- Excellent verbal and written communication with stakeholders in a matrixed environment.
- Long term experience with at least one product from inception to completion and evolution of the product over multiple years.
Qualification
B.Tech/MCA (IT/Computer Science) from a premier institution (IIT/NIT/BITS) and/or a US Master's degree in Computer Science.
Years of Exp – 14+
● Design and develop front-end applications using React
● Collaborate and contribute in a multi-functional team comprising of product managers,
architects, UI Designers, and customer support
● Convert UX designs in Sketch or PSDs to React components and layouts by working
closely with other front-end engineers
● Work with Redux to manage application state
● Implement latest React best practices such as Hooks and Suspense
● Contribute towards Unit/Integration/Performance Testing, System troubleshooting
● Build a rich and innovative user experience for our customers
Essential skills and qualifications:
● Ability to model data into appropriate state and props and build logical React components
● Passion for building new products in a fast paced, team-oriented environment
● Solid coding skills in modern ES6 JavaScript
● Proficiency using modern web development technologies and techniques such as
● HTML, CCS, ES6, CSS pre-processors, JavaScript, jQuery, Angular, React,
● Responsive Web Design, build tools like (Browserify, WebPack, Grunt, Gulp) etc
● Experience building customer facing UI and visualization tools
● Experience with Redux (or Flux, MobX) state management tools
● Experience with an integration testing framework, like Cypress or Testcafe
● Bonus: Experience with GraphQL and Apollo
● Bonus: Experience with React Hooks and Suspense
● Bonus: Experience with other functional programming languages like ReasonML
Job description
- 1-5 years professional experience in software development
- Proficiency in a modern programming language such as JavaScript
- Ability to work well with people
- Understanding of scalable computing systems, software architecture, data structures, and algorithms
- Experience with designing and building large-scale web services using AWS technologies
- Ability to work with NodeJS, ReactJS, DynamoDB, MySQL, NoSQL, Git or Elasticache
- Experience with JavaScript, CSS, HTML5, Ajax or similar web frameworks
- Good to have finance domain exposure
Under broad guidance, performs activities related to the analysis, design, programming, debugging, modification, and maintenance of software enhancements and/or new products.
Essential Functions
• Under broad guidance, analyzes, designs, programs, debugs, modifies, and maintains software enhancements and/or new products used in local, networked, or Internet-related computer programs.
• Under broad guidance, may interact with users to define system requirements and/or necessary modifications.
• Prepares feasibility studies to evaluate requirements for new and revised programs.
• Translates detailed design specifications into computer program instructions, debugs routine programs, prepares system test data and prepares program documentation.
• Completes documentation and procedures for installation and maintenance.
• Code may be used in commercial or end-user applications, such as desktop applications, mobile apps, financial management.
• Using current programming language and technologies, writes code, completes programming, and performs testing and debugging of applications.
Technical Requirements:
- Desired Skills: ReactJS, JavaScript, NodeJS, ExpressJS, Redis, mySQL, Json, Ajax, HTML5, CSS3,webRTC, RestFul Services, AWS/EC2/SQS/RDS/S3 and Git.
- Create RESTful based APIs in XML,JSON etc.
- Java, nice to have
1) understand the requirement gathering process completely
2) Understand Change Request Proess and other Software Development Process
3) Prepare Tecnical Documenation .
4) Problem Solving ad thinking laterallyas part of a team or individually to meet needs of the project
5) Manual Testing , unit testing of the software developed
6) Experience in Deployment and Build Management
7) Consulting Client /colleagues concerning the maintennce and performance of software appllications and obraining information clarify details and implement information