
Principal Engineer - Backend
at Corporate Finance and Alternate Asset Management.
common man. We are on a mission to deliver institutional-grade financial advice through
technology – no more missed opportunities and no more regrets.
The division has, within a tenure of less than 2 years, built the capability to manage as much as
200 Crores and is now en-route to triple it by the end of this year.
Thrive is therefore fulfilling the company’s vision to use Creativity and innovation to bring simple
solutions to complex problems of the common people.
WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR
We are inviting extraordinary people to solve ordinary problems, by breaking from routine and
building innovative products for our customers. An ideal candidate will:
● have mastered NodeJS (TypeScript), with at least 5 years of experience
● have good experience building large scale products on a No SQL database (MongoDB
preferred)
● know about building and scaling a product to handle large volumes of financial data and
transactions using Microservices architecture
● have experience working with and integrating 3rd party applications using RESTful APIs
● have seen the startup journey through business pivots and be willing to partner with the
business teams to drive engineering and product decisions
● have worked with large teams of engineering and product team members
● be able to advise the engineering team and enforce good coding and collaboration
practices making use of Object Oriented Programming, while ensuring the highest code
quality
● constantly strive to optimize the application from an efficiency, scalability and security
perspective and actively own the code reviews for the team
● conform to the agile development framework and own up to quality and reliability of the
deliverables
● have some exposure to front end technologies like React
● have worked with multiple hosting and service infrastructures including Azure and have
dabbled with the infra using Kubernetes, Docker,Pager Duty, New Relic, Data Dog, etc.

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- Strong hands-on code development experience in JAVA 14+, Restful Service, Spring Boot, JDBC Template.
- Experience in SQL scripting
- Experienced in developing and deploying web applications using Spring MVC and Spring boot.
- Hands on experience in one of the IDE’s – Eclipse or IntelliJ
- Experience with Tools- Maven, Jenkins
- Experience in entire software development life cycle from analysis, coding, testing, debugging and publishing using GIT
- AWS Services will be an added advantage
- Experience Kafka, K8s and Containers will be an added advantag.
Excellent communication, interpersonal & analytical skills with proven abilities in resolving the complex software issues
• As a Python full-stack developer, your role would involve design development and deploy full-stack applications out of Artificial intelligence projects with a focus on low latency and scalability.
• You also need to optimize the application for better performance and a large number of concurrent users.
• A strong technologist we care about doing things the right way rather than just doing them and thrives in a complex and challenging environment.
Who are we looking for?
• Bachelors / Masters in Computer Science or equivalent with at least 3+ years of professional experience.
• Solid understanding of design patterns, data structures, and advanced programming techniques
• As an Engineer in our team, you will design, code, test, and debug quality software programs.
• Strong software design and architectural skills in object-oriented and functional programming styles.
• Python, Celery, RabbitMQ, Kafka, Multithreading, Async, Microservices, Docker, Kubernetes.
• Experience in working with Machine Learning Pipelines
• Experience in Reactjs.
• Experience in Celery, RabbitMQ/Kafka.
• Experience in Unit Testing Tools.
• Experience in working with SQL & NonSql databases such as MySQL, Mongo DB.
• Exposure to cloud technologies.
• Demonstrate the ability to work in a fast paced and hyper-growth environment where the requirements are constantly changing.
• Nice to have: Experience developing products containing machine learning use cases.
• Familiar with agile techniques like code reviews, pair programming, collective code ownership, clean code, TDD and refactoring.
Design software, write code, write unit test cases, test code and review code on a daily basis
Tactical contributions to the low-level implementation
Create/enhance scalable, high performance and fault-tolerant architectures
Develop complex and distributed software modules using Java/JEE, Streaming, and Big Data technologies
Identify the performance and scalability bottlenecks and provide solutions to resolve
Write software to develop products on a daily basis
Write unit test cases and schedule/execute them
Provide estimation during grooming and sprint planning
Skills:
Excellent communication skills, verbal and written; ability to communicate with technical team and clients
Experience working in an Agile environment
Excellent analytical skills, ability to think abstractly and solve complex problems
Expertise in common object-oriented and enterprise design patterns
Technology agnostic
Hands-on experience on frameworks like Spring MVC, Spring Boot, Hibernate, JPA, OGM
Hands-on experience with relational databases (like Postgres, MySQL, Oracle)
Experience with Elasticsearch is a must
Ability to learn new frameworks and design patterns is a must
Ability to translate ideas into designs and proof of concepts is a must
Experience in SAAS, PAAS and cloud platforms such as Azure/AWS/Google Cloud Platform
Knowledge of product architecture and ability to suggest the latest architectural components
Knowledge of exposing and scaling microservices
Experience working in Linux or OS X command line environments
Experience working with Git, or other SCM tool
Knowledge of Java/JEE technology stack for M2M Applications and Support Platforms.
Should be conversant with state of the art technologies in this space and possess the ability to translate
(optional)
- 3+ year of experience in Development in JAVA technology.
- Strong Java Basics
- SpringBoot or Spring MVC
- Hands on experience on Relationl Databases (SQL query or Hibernate) + Mongo (JSON parsing)
- Proficient in REST API development
- Messaging Queue (RabitMQ or Kafka)
- Microservices
- Any Caching Mechanism
- Good at problem solving
Good to Have Skills:
- 3+ years of experience in using Java/J2EE tech stacks
- Good understanding of data structures and algorithms.
- Excellent analytical and problem solving skills.
- Ability to work in a fast paced internet start-up environment.
- Experience in technical mentorship/coaching is highly desirable.
- Understanding of AI/ML algorithms is a plus.
Your Day-to-Day Tasks Include:
Works in requirements like Engineering, Design, Development, and Deployment. All the tasks involves working with Java, SQL Server and Couchbase.
Build and monitor data pipelines that serve 100+ websites, 150M+ unique impressions daily. Write code that can handle 4x more scale than the given requirement.
Maintain uptime of multiple distributed web applications.
Build data pipelines to pull data from upstream partners like Google.
You Should Have:
Minimum 3 years of experience with Java.
Minimum 2 year of experience with any SQL database (MySql, MSSql, Oracle, DB2, Sybase). Minimum 3 years of experience with web development.
Experience with any NoSql database (MongoDb, Couchbase, CouchDb, DynamoDb). Experience of designing/implementing/maintaining scalable systems.
Experience with any cloud platform (AWS/Azure/GCP).
Good To Have:
Experience with BI and data reporting.
Experience with Elastic search.
Understanding of data warehousing.
Experience in Node.js.
What is the role?
You will be focusing on development of all server-side logic, definition, and maintenance of the central database. With your expertise in Node.js and as a full stack developer you will be managing the interchange of data between the server and the users.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and develop SaaS-based applications based on microservices architecture
- Driving innovations in the platform constantly
- Estimate efforts, identify risks, devices and meets project schedules
- Mentors/coaches engineers and provide technical leadership
What are we looking for?
An enthusiastic individual with the following skills. Please do not hesitate to apply if you do not match all of it. We are open to promising candidates who are passionate about their work and are team players.
- BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent.
- 3-6 years of strong design/development experience in building massively large-scale distributed internet systems and products
- Strong understanding of DevOps tasks, CI/CD
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Have keen eye to detail
- Displayed effectiveness in being a team player, have a proven track record of performance
- Enjoys working on challenging assignments and is result oriented
- Self-starter, self-motivated and work with minimal supervision
- Agile and display flexibility in swiftly adapting to change in work requirement
Strong proficiency in –
- JavaScript, Node.js and frameworks available for it
- Code versioning tools, such as Git
- NoSQL and RDBMS systems
- Push-pull systems like Kafka, Redis
- Data structures & algorithms skills
Good to have experience –
- Programming languages like Python, Golang, ReactJs
Be familiar with –
- Designing highly available solutions, fault-tolerant systems, microservices architecture, REST APIs for on-premises, cloud (Google Cloud Platform or Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure), or hybrid infrastructure.
- Modern container technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes
- Server-side templating languages such as Jade, EJS etc
- Open source software, frameworks, and broader cutting-edge technologies
Whom will you work with?
You will closely work with the engineering team and support the Product Team of Plum.
What can you look for?
A wholesome opportunity in a fast paced environment that will enable you to juggle between concepts, interact and share your ideas and have loads of learning while at work. This role will help you learn what and how ledgers work in a high volume traffic system. Will learn microservice for a high availability system. Work with a team of highly talented young professionals and enjoy the benefits of being at Xoxoday.
We are
A fast growing SaaS commerce company based in Bangalore with offices in Delhi, Mumbai, SF, Dubai, Singapore and Dublin. We have three products in our portfolio: Plum, Empuls and Compass. Xoxoday works with over 1000 global clients. We help our clients in engaging and motivating their employees, sales teams, channel partners or consumers for better business results.
Way forward
We look forward to connecting with you. As you may take time to review this opportunity, we will wait for a reasonable time of around 3-5 days before we screen the collected applications and start lining up job discussions with the hiring manager. We however assure you that we will attempt to maintain a reasonable time window for successfully closing this requirement. The candidates will be kept informed and updated on the feedback and application status.
Role and Responsibilities:
- As a backend developer, your primary focus will be the development of all server-side systems
- A basic understanding of front-end technologies is necessary as well. You will test, secure and deploy your code
- Work experience on Node.js is a must along with a server-side framework like Express.js
- Strong proficiency in JavaScript
- Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code
- Experience and proficiency integrating with REST APIs
- Understanding of scalable computing systems, software architecture, data structures, and algorithms
- Experience in working with databases such as MongoDB, Redis, Elasticsearch, etc.
- AgileScrum development cycle understanding.
Skills Required:
- At least 2 years of experience developing backends using NodeJS should be well versed with its asynchronous nature & event loop, and know its quirks and workarounds.
- Good knowledge of MongoDB(Must) & any other MySQL Database.
- Good knowledge of Redis, its data types, and their use cases.
- Experience developing and deploying REST APIs.
- Knowledge and working experience in Cloud environment - AWS or Azure
- Good knowledge of Unit Testing and available Test Frameworks.
- Should be a fast learner and a go-getter without any fear of trying out new things
Responsibilities:
- Write well designed, testable, scalable and efficient code and oversee assigned programs (e.g. conduct code review) and provide guidance to team members
- Apply design principles to ensure code modularity and error handling at appropriate levels
- Communicate software requirements to development teams
- Evaluate and select appropriate software or hardware and suggest integration methods
- Address technical concerns, ideas and suggestions and provide technological solution to it
- Monitor systems to ensure they meet both user needs and business goals
- Design the overall structure of the platform and oversee programs to ensure the proper implementation of the architecture
Desired Skills and Experience
- 2-7years of relevant experience in an online start-up with a record of substantial achievements
in the specific role
- Strong programming foundation in PHP, MySQL, Oops Concepts and can develop core PHP based applications
- Must have worked on MVC frameworks – Laravel, CodeIgniter, Cake PHP or Zend.
- Experience with JavaScript and jQuery for producing AJAX applications.
- HTML5, CSS3, XML knowledge is mandatory
- Ability to make modifications to the systems with little or no interruption of service
- Solid exposure to API integrations and familiar with various design & architectural patterns
- Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment
• Strong Nodejs experience with knowledge and understanding of ES6/7/8.
• Experience with DevOps.
• Understanding multi-threading concepts.
• Experience with NoSQL Databases.
• Proficiency with code versioning tools, such as Git, Github, Bitbucket.
• Experience working with common project management tools and Agile
development workflow
• Ingenuity, creativity, drive and determination are a must
Responsibilities:
- Should be able to write web services for the app.
- Manage projects from conceptualization, all the way through deployments by collaborating with everyone.
- Take initiatives to optimize.
- Keep up with the latest trends and tools and keep updating.
Our Tech Stack:
- On the backend, we use Node JS
- For the frontend, we use React
Skills
Mandatory:
Nodejs, Mongo DB, Express js, AWS Experience, Experience with mail, and phone authentication.
Must have exp in kafka and integrating with other data sources










