Full Stack Engineer

**Responsibilities:**

- Lead the backend development team, providing mentorship and guidance to junior developers.

- Design, develop, and maintain robust backend systems using Node.js and NestJS with TypeScript.

- Implement event sourcing and message queue solutions using technologies such as Kafka or RabbitMQ.

- Utilize strong PostgreSQL knowledge to design, optimize, and manage databases effectively.

- Implement DevOps practices and tools to ensure continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD), containerization with Docker, and orchestration with Kubernetes.

- Collaborate closely with frontend developers to integrate backend services with user interfaces seamlessly.

- Lead and contribute to architectural discussions and decisions to ensure scalability, reliability, and performance of our systems.

- Troubleshoot and resolve technical issues promptly, demonstrating strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

**Requirements:**

- Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

- 5+ years of experience in software development, with a significant focus on backend technologies.

- Proven leadership experience as a team lead or senior developer, with a track record of mentoring junior developers and leading successful projects.

- Profound expertise in Node.js and NestJS with TypeScript.

- Experience with event sourcing and message queues (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ).

- Strong knowledge of PostgreSQL, including database design, optimization, and management.

- Solid understanding of DevOps practices and tools (CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS/GCP/Azure).

- Ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams, including frontend developers.

- Strong analytical skills and problem-solving abilities.

- Excellent communication and leadership skills.

• Strong working knowledge of Typescript, MongoDB, MySQL, Express

• Strong proficiency in TypeScript, JavaScript including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model, ES6

• Hands-on experience in React JS

• Strong understanding of HTML5, CSS3

• Strong understanding of NodeJS fundamentals

• Knowledge and experience working with PostgreSQL is a major plus

• Experience with ORM libraries

• Familiarity with RESTful APIs

• Knowledge of tools like Git, GitHub, JIRA, Cucumber, Jasmine, and others that make coding more efficient and easier to share
• Familiarity of working in either the AWS Cloud or Azure including Docker + Kubernetes based microservice deployment.

About the role(s):

Software development and platform engineering has driven our success and growth of our platform & data businesses. We are now looking for more developers to join our team and help us build the best financial inclusion platform in the world. You'll be an integral part of product development team working collaboratively with cross functional team of business heads, product managers, credit risk experts, data scientists and technologists to iteratively design and build fintech products. You'll be constantly be challenged and you'll have the freedom to discover and advocate new technologies. 

Requirements:

We are looking for people who are truly full stack, and are as comfortable working on javascript front end as they are debugging database interactions, or improving their CloudFormation templates. While we are open to any degree and colleges, we are look for people who prides in being a coder and have demonstrable (3+ years) experience in software development. In particular we look for people who can:

• Code backend services, ideally using Node.js or Java, or other server side compiled language.
• Design and develop Rest API with integrations to lots of external systems. Experience of GraphQL is an advantage
• Develop modern and secure web front ends, ideally using React, Express and Redux.
• Interface with No-SQL/ MongoDB or SQL based data bases (PortgresSQL).
• Deploy their code into the cloud and support it there, ideally on AWS and GitHub. Experience with kubernetes and serverless is an advantage.
• Deliver in agile manner while coding cleanly, automating testing and clean coding, simple solutions, automated testing and continuous deployment.
• Takes ownership of a feature from the original idea through to live.

Attractive salary compensation including employee stock options, 10% time free to pursue own project, paid training and education support.

We truly practice flexible time with focus on output and core hours for team collaboration. While we are mostly working remotely at Fundfina and are open to applications across India, we will prefer that you are open to commuting to Mumbai or Bangalore or Delhi offices when required.

By submitting your application, you agree that Fundfina may collect your personal data for recruitment purposes. 

• Own and implement features used by large customers like Truecaller, Mozilla, Zomato, Netflix, etc.
• Performance, Security and Usability goals are in DNA.
• Full ownership and accountability of Microservices which includes day-to-day operations and maintenance.
• Business and technical Metric definitions and reviews.
• Drive CI & CD Evaluate technologies and development stacks for API-based platform which scales to 100,000 transactions per second.
• Perform push-button deployments of any version of the software to any environment on demand.
• Design and build web apps that are scalable and puts user experience front and center.
• Develop modular UI components for company-wide reuse.
• Evolve a common design language for UI across apps.
• Establish and advocate front-end coding guidelines.
• Meld UX and great-looking UI while keeping excellent code quality.
• Own end-to-end life cycle of the product from requirement analysis, design, development, test, release, and maintenance.
• Develop reusable tools/libraries
• Identify opportunities for automation and collaboration points.
• Continuously improve cycle time, throughput, and code quality.
• Continuously improve value-adding-activities/non-value-adding activities ratio.

• 4 - 6 years of experience in large-scale distributed systems.
• Proficient in Python/Golang/Java/ http://node.js/">Node.js 
• Understanding of CSS, Advanced Javascript, http://vue.js/">Vue.js, http://react.js/">React.js, and other web technologies.
• Understanding of Rest based API Architecture
• Writing high-performance, reliable and maintainable code.  
• Excellent microservices pattern understanding.  
• Ability to define cross-core contracts and bring them to closure through collaboration.
• Good knowledge of database structures, theories, principles, and practices.  
• Experience working with AWS components [EC2, S3, RDS, SQS, ECS, Lambda].
• Analytical and problem-solving skills  
• Good aptitude in multi-threading and concurrency concepts.  
• Working knowledge of Git and proficiency with at least one build server: Jenkins/Travis/Bamboo.
• Good to have a telecom background

We believe that great change begins with individuals who are given the freedom to make a difference, and we champion this in all that we do here at Vamstar. Hence we are urgently looking to hire a senior person to fill in for a Full Stack Engineer

The ideal candidate will be responsible for developing high-quality applications along with designing and implementing testable and highly scalable codes. If you have a gig towards Java, Node, AWS, Javascript and Typescript and have worked extensively in web application development; we are looking for you.

Responsibilities

• Managing team(s)
• Develop quality software and web applications
• Analyze and maintain existing software applications
• Design highly scalable, testable code
• Discover and fix programming bugs

Qualifications

• B.Tech - CS from a Tier 1/2 college
• Minimum 5 years of experience
• Great communication skills

Key Benefits 

• Performance Bonus on a Quarterly basis on performance 
• 25 days paid holidays each year including your accrued leaves, sick leaves, fixated and optional holidays. 
• Flexible working hours 
• Permanent Work from home 
• Yearly virtual cross-tribe pollinations (we have another engineering team in UK, US and Vietnam) 
• Wholesome development experience with MacBook Pro and extra monitor(s) post completion of Probation period/ machine bonuses 
• Regular and transparent appraisals based on performance. 

More about our Team: As an engineering team, we are dedicated, hardworking and always looking to learn and improve our craft. This happens in regular knowledge sharing sessions with both Full Stack and Machine Learning teams, and we are always keen to collaborate when a challenging problem comes up. In our work, we use industry best practices like Github. AWS, Ally, Trello, Slack, TDD, CI/CD and code reviews as part of building every feature. We also continually evaluate new technologies to see if they can help improve our platform.