
Responsibilities:
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Design and implement backend infrastructure and APIs.
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Write high quality code that is robust, readable and scales.
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Possess the drive to dive deep. thrive and progress even in ambiguous situations.
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Encourage and support knowledge sharing within teams and external groups.
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Troubleshoot & debug applications.
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Adopt problem solving as a way of life - always go to the root cause.
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Collaborate with the team to discuss and implement ideas.
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Build responsive, robust and optimised applications.
Requirements:
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Passionate about building backend systems.
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Desire to explore new ideas, open to other ideas as well.
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Love for writing clean, beautiful, readable and testable code.
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Experience in designing extensible DRY code.
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Our stack is based on Django, Python3 Celery, Angular and Postgres.
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We expect you to have a good understanding of Python. It's even better if you are familiar with some of Git. Django, Celery, Redis and Unix Shell.

About OneFin
About
OneFin is a technology credit platform - we are building the operating system for financial services. We have built modular, plug-and-play APIs to help our partners (like NBFCs, financial institutions, fintech's, startups etc.) underwrite and collect loans from end customers. In a highly credit underserved country with rapidly increasing smartphone adoption, we are enabling any company to become a fintech company through our suite of APIs and regulatory layer, and helping build customised financial products for "Middle India" and its 360 million customers - for consumption based use cases, upskilling / education financing, medical financing, etc.
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Experience: 10+ Years
Budget: 1.7 LPM
Employment Type: [Contract]
Required Skills & Qualifications:
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- Strong proficiency in Python.
- Expertise in SQL (Postgres) and database optimization.
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