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Job Description:
- .Develop and maintain the backend for a web platform in the Fin-tech Industry domain.
- Create testing framework for all business use cases Maintain Deploy builds
Requirements:
Benefits:
We are hiring for a Software Engineer Team Lead - Backend, to join our education-focused fintech lending startup, GrayQuest. Our core product is a combination of a lending product, a rewards product and an insurance product to redefine the education fees payment across the country.
You will be joining a young and vibrant team of developers who are pushing the boundaries of consumer financing through technology.
Key Responsibilities :
- Participate in all stages of the Software Development Lifecycle
- Develop back-end components, services, and APIs. Support integration of user-facing elements, and collaborate closely with the design and front-end development team.
- Write elegant, effective, and scalable code while maintaining the highest level of coding standards.
- Take complete ownership of projects and ensure timely deliveries
- Ability to debug, refine, review, and deploy code
- Work closely with the QA team to test, and document project features.
- Ability to interact with all stakeholders. Understand business requirements, and effectively convert them into technical specifications
- Mentor junior developers and participate in peer Review
Requirements:
- Demonstrable experience as a Python Developer (3+ years)
- Strong knowledge of Python frameworks (Django Rest, Flask)
- Experience working on REST APIs
- Strong knowledge of SQL and JavaScript
- Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Working knowledge of React
- Familiarity with Agile development methodology
- Good understanding of task breakup, milestone definition, and work delegation.
- Past experience of working in a fintech/financial services domain or a consumer internet startup will be preferable but not required
- Work experience in early-stage startups (0 ->1) is a big plus
- Bachelors or equivalent degree from premier institutes is a plus
- Most importantly, the biggest skill we look for our prospective candidates is "Learnability" - how quickly can you learn.
Why is this a great opportunity for the right candidate:
- Work with a young dynamic core team backed by marquee investors from the financial services space
- Work on a product/business that has achieved product market fit and take it to scale
- Equity compensation and competitive market salaries
- Work environment that prioritizes talent, hustle and dedication
We will also ensure we give a preference to applicants who directly email us with their background/context and why they think they should be a strong candidate for this position at GrayQuest. Email us at work (at the rate) grayquest (dot) com and cc Sonal (at the rate)grayquest (dot) com
We are looking for a Node.js Developer responsible for managing the interchange of data
between the server and the users. Your primary focus will be the development of all server-side
logic, definition, and maintenance of the central database, and ensuring high performance and
responsiveness to requests from the front-end. You will also be responsible for integrating the
front-end elements built by your co-workers into the application. Therefore, a basic
understanding of front-end technologies is necessary as well.
Must-Have:
● Strong proficiency with JavaScript.
● Hands-on experience with HTML, CSS, and AJAX.
● Knowledge of Node.js and frameworks available for it (such as Express, StrongLoop, etc
depending on your technology stack).
● Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and
workarounds.
● Good understanding of server-side templating languages. (such as Jade, EJS, etc
depending on your technology stack)
● Development experience designing object-oriented JavaScript and SVG.
● User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and
environments.
● Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system.
● Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application.
● Understanding differences between multiple delivery platforms, such as mobile vs.
desktop, and optimizing output to match the specific platform.
Good to have:
● Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git.
● Understanding accessibility and security compliance.
● Typescript and Mongo DB knowledge.
● Knowledge of REST & GRPC.
● Understanding of containerization (Docker).
Responsibilities:
● Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code.
● Writing API Documentation.
● Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant
applications.
● Implementation of security and data protection.
● Integration of data storage solutions (may include databases, key-value stores, blob
stores, etc.).
● Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers with server-side
logic.
Out of many tools and technologies, we use Java, MongoDb, Cassandra, Redis, Twem, Netty extensively for our back-end development.
- Leading the entire Backend platform for a product portfolio.
- End to end delivery new features.
- Evolving the architecture for performance and scalability.
- Design, develop and own components of a highly scalable, distributed web services platform.
- Constantly strive to improve software development process and team productivity.
- Mentor and train team members
- Lead module development independently
Required background, Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- 5.5+/ 7+ Years of experience in a scalable product/ecommerce organization·
- Excellent Java skills, Understanding of Spring framework & MVC approach
- Strong knowledge of Performance optimization and caching techniques.
- Strong Object Oriented Programming concepts, data structure and algorithms
- Experience in developing scalable, fault-tolerant, distributed backend services
- Experience with prevalent design patterns and advanced system designing
- Good experiences with databases and Schema design. We heavily use NoSQL databases
- Strong Problem Solving skills
About the Role:
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer with experience in ROR/GoLang , having 3+ yrs of experience on how best to leverage and exploit the language’s unique paradigms, idioms, and syntax. Your primary focus will be on developing Enterprise Grade Systems and programs that are scalable and maintainable. You will ensure that these packages and programs are well documented and has a reasonable test coverage. You will coordinate with the rest of the team working on different layers of the infrastructure. A commitment to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and quality product is essential.
What You'll Do
- Writing scalable, robust, testable, efficient, and easily maintainable code
- Translating software requirements into stable, working, high performance software
- Playing a key role in architectural and design decisions, building toward an efficient micro services distributed architecture
What You'll Need
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Working experience on Ruby-on-Rails(ROR)/Golang.
- Worked on enterprise grade systems
- Have designed web services
- Know how to scale systems that have database bottlenecks etc.
- Having good exposure to Microservices architecture added value.
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Familiarity with OAuth, JWT, SSO, Authentication, and Identity Federation is an added advantage.
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Familiar with AWS, Docker, and Kubernetes, Pods and Meshes are added advantage.
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Experience in MySQL, Snowflake, and MongoDB is an added advantage
- Spend most of your time developing brand new software in Python
- Build out a secure data replication infrastructure to replicate transactional data across a hierarchical system
- Build out APIs for supporting a fleet of 20k devices
- Build out a configurable data analytics and reporting framework
- Build out real time dashboards for getting a high level and deep dive view of the overall system
- Be responsible for independently designing and building out modules of the overall system
- Work with a team of smart peers and take ownership of the resulting system
- Push yourselves, create impact, learn and grow as an engineer









