
Simpl (Fintech of the year - 2020) is a platform that empowers retailers to grow by building long term trusted relationships with their customers, one transaction at a time. For consumers, Simpl provides frictionless access to e-commerce, trust, safety and effortless budgeting, in 1-click.
Under the hood, we are building the payments infrastructure (identity, trust score and security) ground up for a world that is mobile first, where consumers frequently buy on the go & love convenience.
Everyone at Simpl is an internal entrepreneur who is given a lot of bandwidth and resources to create the next breakthrough towards a new world of Networked Commerce where commerce is easy, safe, affordable without fine prints & just Simpl!
Simpl was founded in 2015 by Nityanand Sharma and Chaitra Chidanand, and went live in 2016.
Role Summary:
We’re looking for polyglot developers who love to code. You should have >4 years of experience building high-quality products. You should have the ability to write clean code and must’ve worked on Ruby on Rails

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Simpl has revolutionized online checkout in India by creating a Pay-Later platform, empowering e-commerce merchants to offer their consumers a 1-click checkout, a line of credit at POS, and full buyer protection. It aims to empower merchants to own their customer's checkout experience. With Simpl merchants are able to provide consumers with an easy, safe, and intuitive user experience that builds a trusted relationship between the two.
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Job Description -
Role - Sr. Python Developer
Location -- Manyata Tech Park, Bangalore
Mode - Hybrid
Required Tech Skills:
- Experience in Python
- Experience in any Framework like Django, and Flask.
- Primary and Secondary skills - Python, OOPs and Data Structure
- Good understanding of Rest Api
- Familiarity with event-driven programming in Python
- Good analytical and troubleshooting skills
Strong Backend Engineer Profiles
Mandatory (Experience 1) – Must have 2+ years of hands-on Backend Engineering experience building production-grade systems in a B2B SaaS or product environment
Mandatory (Experience 2) – Must have strong backend development experience using at least one backend framework such as FastAPI / Django (Python), Spring (Java), or Express (Node.js)
Mandatory (Experience 3) – Must have a solid understanding of backend fundamentals, including API development, service-oriented architecture, data structures, algorithms, and clean coding practices
Mandatory (Experience 4) – Must have strong experience working with databases (SQL and/or NoSQL), including efficient data modeling and query optimization
Mandatory (Experience 5) – Must have experience designing, building, and maintaining APIs and backend services, including integrations with external systems (CRMs, payment gateways, ERPs, data platforms, etc.)
Mandatory (Experience 6) – Must have experience working in cloud-based environments (AWS / GCP / Azure) and be familiar with Git-based collaborative development workflows
Mandatory (Domain) – Experience with financial systems, billing platforms, fintech applications, or SaaS revenue-related workflows is highly preferred
Mandatory (Domain) – Experience with financial systems, billing platforms, or fintech applications is highly preferred (fintech background is a strong plus)
Mandatory (Company) – Must have worked in product companies / startups, preferably Series A to Series D
Preferred
Preferred (Education) – Candidates from Tier - 1 engineering institutes (IITs, BITS are highly preferred)
Design, test, and build scalable backend python services
Closely collaborate with marketing and product teams to build innovative, robust and
easy-to-use features that serve.
Developing high quality code based on detailed designs that cater to the product
requirements.
Responsible for troubleshooting, testing and maintaining the core product software and
databases to ensure strong optimisation and functionality
Required Skills:
Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent.
Minimum 3+ years experience in software development.
Expertise in Python 3.7, Django 2.2+ and REST APIs.
Willingness to learn and ability to flourish in a dynamic, high-growth, entrepreneurial
environment
Hands-on, self-starter, capable of working independently
- B.Tech/B.E(Computer Science/Information Technology) and 4+ years of software development experience
- Strong experience in Python
- Strong problem-solving skills, Computer science fundamentals, Data structures, and Algorithms
- Knowledge of Databases such as SQL and Nosql
Your responsibilities as a backend engineer will include:
- Back-end software development
- Software engineering and designing data models and write effective APIs
- Working together with engineers and product teams
- Understanding business use cases and requirements for different internal teams
- Maintenance of existing projects and New feature development
- Consume and integrate classifier/ ML snippets from Data science team
What we are looking for:
- 2+ years of industry experience with the Python and Django framework.
- Degree in Computer Science or related field
- Good analytical skills with strong fundamentals of data structures and algorithms
- Experience building backend services with hands-on experience through all stages of Agile software development life cycle.
- Ability to write optimized codes,debug programs, and integrate applications with third party tools by developing various APIs
- Experience with Databases.
- Experience with writing REST-APIs.
- Prototyping initial collection and leveraging existing tools and/or creating new tools
- Experience working different types of datasets (e.g. unstructured, semi-structured, with missing information)
- Ability to think critically and creatively in a dynamic environment, while picking up new tools and domain knowledge along the way
- A positive attitude, and a growth mindset
Bonus:
- Experience with relevant Python libraries such as Requests, sklearn, Selenium
- Hands on experience in Machine learning implementations
- Experience with Cloud infrastructure (e.g. AWS) and relevant microservices
- Good Humor
Note- We are currently working from home due to the pandemic. If selected you may work from a remote location though once office reopens candidate must work from Office.
- Solid experience in RoR, Golang, NodeJS or Python. Good to have exposure to ML.
- Should have experience in cloud computing
- Has an ability to quickly learn and contribute in multiple codebase
- Overcomes roadblocks and requires minimal oversight
- Takes initiatives to fix issues/tech debts before assigned to him/her
- Able to deep dive into codebase and advise QA of possible regression impact
- Communicates tech decisions through design docs and tech talks
- Has delivered projects with end-to-end accountability
- Keeps track of industry trends and introduces right tech/tools for a given job
- Excellent understanding of software engineering practices, Design Patterns, Data Structures, Algorithms
- Hands-on experience in backend programming languages.
- Experience in Python 3.X & Django is a must. Knowledge of .NET, Java, PHP is an added advantage.
- Hands-on experience in front-end technologies like Angular, jQuery, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, SCSS, etc.
- Experience with leading technical teams and acting as a technical mentor.
- Experience in client communication & reporting to the client-side management team.
- Experience in AWS is an added advantage.









