Fullstack Developer

Company: CorpCare

Title: Lead Engineer (Full stack developer)

Location: Mumbai (work from office)

CTC: Commensurate with experience

About Us:  

CorpCare is India’s first all-in-one corporate funds and assets management platform. We offer a single-window solution for corporates, family offices, and HNIs. We assist corporates in formulating and managing treasury management policies and conducting reviews with investment committees and the board.

Job Summary:  

The Lead Engineer will be responsible for overseeing the development, implementation, and management of our corporate funds and assets management platform. This role demands a deep understanding of the broking industry/Financial services industry, software engineering, and product management. The ideal candidate will have a robust background in engineering leadership, a proven track record of delivering scalable technology solutions, and strong product knowledge.

Key Responsibilities:

• Engineering Strategy and Vision:

- Develop and communicate a clear engineering vision and strategy aligned with our broking and funds management platform.

- Conduct market research and technical analysis to identify trends, opportunities, and customer needs within the broking industry.

- Define and prioritize the engineering roadmap, ensuring alignment with business goals and customer requirements.

- Lead cross-functional engineering teams (software development, QA, DevOps, etc.) to deliver high-quality products on time and within budget.

- Oversee the entire software development lifecycle, from planning and architecture to development and deployment, ensuring robust and scalable solutions.

- Write detailed technical specifications and guide the engineering teams to ensure clarity and successful execution.

- Leverage your understanding of the broking industry to guide product development and engineering efforts.

- Collaborate with product managers to incorporate industry-specific requirements and ensure the platform meets the needs of brokers, traders, and financial institutions.

- Stay updated with regulatory changes, market trends, and technological advancements within the broking sector.

- Mentor and lead a high-performing engineering team, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

- Recruit, train, and retain top engineering talent to build a world-class development team.

- Conduct regular performance reviews and provide constructive feedback to team members.

- Define and track key performance indicators (KPIs) for engineering projects to ensure successful delivery and performance.

- Analyze system performance, user data, and platform metrics to identify areas for improvement and optimization.

- Prepare and present engineering performance reports to senior management and stakeholders.

- Work closely with product managers, sales, marketing, and customer support teams to align engineering efforts with overall business objectives.

- Provide technical guidance and support to sales teams to help them understand the platform's capabilities and competitive advantages.

- Engage with customers, partners, and stakeholders to gather feedback, understand their needs, and validate engineering solutions.

Requirements:

• BE /B. Tech - Computer Science from a top engineering college
• MBA a plus, not required
• 5+ years of experience in software engineering, with at least 2+ years in a leadership role.
• Strong understanding of the broking industry and financial services industry.
• Proven track record of successfully managing and delivering complex software products.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies.
• Deep understanding of software architecture, cloud computing, and modern development practices.

Technical Expertise:

• Front-End: React, Next.js, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3
• Back-End: Node.js, Express.js, RESTful APIs
• Database: MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB
• DevOps: Docker, Kubernetes, AWS (EC2, S3, RDS), CI/CD pipelines
• Version Control: Git, GitHub/GitLab
• Other: TypeScript, Webpack, Babel, ESLint, Redux

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in the broking or financial services industry.
• Familiarity with data analytics tools and methodologies.
• Knowledge of user experience (UX) design principles.
• Experience with trading platforms or financial technology products.

This role is ideal for someone who combines strong technical expertise with a deep understanding of the broking industry and a passion for delivering high-impact software solutions.

Responsibilities

·        Understand requirements and translate them to product features.

·        Participate in Scrum meetings and express the work done and the plan clearly. Participate in scrum ceremonies and clearly communicate.

• Develop applications using Front end, middleware, and database-related technologies.
• Should be hands-on in developing and implementing best practices and writing smart pieces of code.
• Coding standards should be followed, and the code should be highly performant.
• Should be able to write unit test cases using any of the frameworks and should be completely automated.
• Should have strong exposure to REST API design and principles and adhere to RAML/Swagger or Open API specification
• Should be able to do impact analysis and document the design of the components.
• Should be able to develop reusable components using proper design patterns as listed by lead/architect so that it is extensible.

The Role offers

·        An outstanding opportunity to re-imagine, redesign, and apply technology to add value to the business and operations.

·        An end-to-end project exposure across multiple technical stacks and cloud platform

·        An individual who has a passion for learning and adapts to new technologies quickly and scales to the next level easily.

• High visibility, the opportunity to interact with multiple groups within the organization, technology vendors, and implementation partners.

Essential Skills

·        4+ years of in-depth knowledge in Core Java, Spring DI, Spring MVC, REST, JMS, Hibernate, JDBC, PL/SQL

·        1+ years of experience in Spring boot, Angular 8 or above

·        2+ years of experience in RESTful HTTP services design

·        2+ years of experience in Javascript, JQuery, Bootstrap, HTML 5, CSS3

·        2+ years of experience with SQL Server, Postgre SQL writing stored procedures, performance tuning, and identifying deadlocks, transactions, and data locking/blocking scenarios

·        Working knowledge of Webpack, CLI, and Agile Scrum framework

·        Good communication and unit testing knowledge.

·        Good to have knowledge in one of the cloud platforms like AWS/Azure/PCF

·        Work experience in frameworks like JPA, Spring Core, Spring AOP, and Spring Data

·        Familiar with Continuous Integration methodologies and tools, including Jenkins

·        Good to have: Exposure to Microservices, Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud deployment 

Essential Qualification

·        MCA/equivalent master’s in computers is a must.

What You will do:

● Create beautiful software experiences for our clients using design thinking, lean and agile methodology.

● Work on software products designed from scratch using the latest cutting edge technologies, platforms and languages such as JAVA, python, Javascript, GoLang and Scala.

● Work in a dynamic, collaborative, transparent, non-hierarchical culture.

● Work in collaborative, fast-paced and value-driven teams to build innovative customer experiences for our clients.

● Help to grow the next generation of developers and have a positive impact on the industry.

Basic Qualifications:

● Experience: 4+ years.

● Hands-on development experience with a broad mix of languages such as JAVA, Python, Javascript etc.

● Server-side development experience mainly in JAVA, (Python and nodeJS can be considerable)

● UI development experience in ReactJS or AngularJS or PolymerJS or EmberJS or Jquery etc. are good to have.

● Passion for software engineering and follow the best coding concepts. ● Good to great problem solving and communication skills.

Nice to have Qualifications:

● Product and customer-centric mindset.

● Great OO skills, including design patterns.

● Experience with devops, continuous integration & deployment.

● Exposure to big data technologies, Machine Learning and NLP will be a plus.

Benefits:

● Competitive salary.

● Work from anywhere.

● Learning and gaining experience rapidly.

● Reimbursement for basic working set up at home.

● Insurance (including a top up insurance for COVID).

Location:

Remote - work from anywhere

The key skills and expertise needed are:

1. eCommerce/Retail experience can be optional but needs to have experience with any high volume customer facing web/mobile site

2. Web Development, Front End Development, AND In the browser performance profiling

3. Java, Spring Boot, React, Node, Redux, Webpack, Microservices, AND experience with AWS technologies to make the overall application stack more resilient

4. Performance Profiling of web/mobile experiences and experience with working in CICD environment

5. Experience working with Web based and mobile ecommerce sites or similar public facing websites with high customer volume

6. Needs to be able to work at the code level doing performance profile to evaluate how the website and associated digital platform is built to find performance improvement opportunities

• 3-5  years of experience in development of Java based Web software solutions
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• Expertise in Full Stack Java development using Java frameworks and libraries such as Spring, Spring Boot, Hibernate and Maven with Oracle database
• Have knowledge and experience with at least one of the following frontend technologies: ReactJS or Angular 2+
• Knowledge of JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3
• Have good written and verbal English language communication skills with an ability to work effectively in an international environment 

• Developing front end website and application architecture.
• Designing user interactions on web pages.
• Developing back-end website and applications.
• Creating servers and databases for functionality.
• Ensuring cross-platform optimization for mobile phones.
• Ensuring responsiveness of applications.
• Working alongside graphic designers for web design features.
• Seeing through a project from conception to finished product.
• Designing and developing APIs.
• Meeting both technical and consumer needs.
• Staying abreast of developments in web applications and programming languages.

• 7+ years of overall software development experience. 

• Hands-on experience with backend languages like Python, Java and Javascript. 

• 2+ years of distributed cloud systems architecture. 

• Good understanding of SQL and experience in designing database structures. 

• Understanding of frontend development and frameworks at a high level. 

• High availability and fault tolerance systems design experience. 

• Test Driven Design practitioner and good understanding of unit Testing and comprehensive test suite building. 

• Customer focused with good analytical thinking and problem solving. 

• Metrics based progress monitoring and reporting capabilities. 

• Flexibility to interface with cross timezone teams. 

• Should have led cross-functional teams like frontend, backend, UI/UX, devops, QA, etc. 

• Experience in security practices for web applications. 

Note: Hands on experience in Angular is also must.

• Hands-on expertise in managing technical teams and work closely with business stakeholders
• Should be familiar with card testing and POS ecosystem.
• Experience with designing APIs and building platform integrations in Commerce, POS, FinTech and Payments
• Payment’s domain experience.
• Extensive experience on Base24 & SWITCH part for payment format.
• Exposure on ISO8583 Messaging system.
• API understanding and creation.
• Working knowledge on cryptographic algorithms (RSA, EC, AES, SHA variants), TLS/SSL protocols. C Symetric and A symetrics, K.M.S.
• Digital Payments technical knowledge - QR/ POS/ UPI/ BQR
• Understanding of CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes, containerization, Docker
• Must have strong technical skills in Android APK and iOS development Concept and Web services.
• Supportability, monitoring, ops in general.
• Accurate cost models to deploy and operate
• Extensive experience in TLOG’s, data integration with downstream applications, and impact of POS changes on different financial, legal, compliance, loss prevention, etc. applications.
• Extensive experience with payment systems 7861 (EMV, payment middleware, encryption, tokenization, settlement, offline scenarios,).
• Extensive experience with different types of payment methods including credit, debit, gift cards (Both closed loop and open loop), PLCC, PayPal, AliPay, checks, etc. as well as different payment form factors like Tap N Go, contactless, swipe, EMV, Mobile, etc.
• Extensive experience with payment devices (pin pads, printers, registers, scanners).
• Experience in Node.js / Java / Python, building REST APIs, with experience/exposure to front end stack like JavaScript & React / Angular. 
• Experience with Storage systems - RDBMS, NoSQL (Cassandra/MongoDB), Redis/Memcache/Aerospike.
• Experience in messaging tools like Kafka/AWS Kinesis etc...
• Design expertise for performance, scalability, fault tolerance and high availability

• Experience with POS systems and Payments domain.
• Demonstrated experience for systems architecture, design, and integration for POS systems
• Java and/or Node.js. Experience building micro services (REST APIs) using Node.js
• Experience with one or more RDBMS databases like MySql, PostGreSQL
• Experience with one or more NoSQL databses like MongoDB, Cassandra, DynamoDB, Aerospike, Elastic Search, Redis, neo4j etc.,
• Caching technologies like: Redis, Elasticache,
• Cloud Providers like: AWS/ Google Cloud / Azure
• CI / CD : Jenkins, Docker, Kubernete