Senior Django Developer

About Us-

Binocs.co empowers institutional lenders with next-generation loan management software, streamlining the entire loan lifecycle and facilitating seamless interaction among stakeholders.

Team: Binocs.co is led by a passionate team with extensive experience in financial technology, lending, AI, and software development.

Investors: Our journey is backed by renowned investors who share our vision for transforming the loan management landscape: Beenext, Arkam Ventures, Accel, Saison Capital, Blume Ventures, Premji Invest, and Better Capital.

What we're looking for-

We seek a motivated, talented, and intelligent individual who shares our vision of being a changemaker. We value individuals dissatisfied with the status quo, strive to make improvements, and envision making significant contributions. We look for those who embrace challenges and dedicate themselves to solutions. We seek individuals who push for data-driven decisions, are unconstrained by titles, and value collaboration. We are building a fast-paced team to shape various business and technology aspects.

Responsibilities -

• Be a part of the initial team to define and set up a best-in-class digital platform for the Private Credit industry, and take full ownership of the components of the digital platform
• You will build robust and scalable web-based applications and need to think of platforms & reuse
• Driving and active contribution to High-Level Designs(HLDs) and Low-Level Designs (LLDs).
• Collaborate with frontend developers, product managers, and other stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into technical specifications.
• Mentor team members in adopting effective coding practices. Conduct comprehensive code reviews, focusing on both functional and non-functional aspects.
• Ensure the security, performance, and reliability of backend systems through proper testing, monitoring, and optimization.
• Participate in code reviews, sprint planning, and agile development processes to maintain code quality and project timelines.
• Simply, be an owner of the platform and do whatever it takes to get the required output for customers
• Be curious about product problems and have an open mind to dive into new domains eg: gen-AI.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest development trends, tools, and technologies.
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Qualifications -

• 3-5 years of experience in backend development, with a strong track record of successfully architecting and implementing scalable and high-performance backend systems.
• Proficiency in at least one backend programming language (e.g.,Python, Golang, Node.js, Java) & tech stack to write maintainable, scalable, unit-tested code.
• Good understanding of databases (e.g. MySQL, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (e.g. MongoDB, Elasticsearch, etc)
• Solid understanding of RESTful API design principles and best practices.
• Experience with multi-threading and concurrency programming
• Extensive experience in object-oriented design skills, knowledge of design patterns, and huge passion and ability to design intuitive module and class-level interfaces.
• Experience of cloud computing platforms and services (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform)
• Knowledge of Test Driven Development

Good to have-

• Experience with microservices architecture
• Knowledge of serverless computing and event-driven architectures (e.g., AWS Lambda, Azure Functions)
• Understanding of DevOps practices and tools for continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD).
• Contributions to open-source projects or active participation in developer communities.
• Experience working LLMs and AI technologies

Benefits-

By joining Binocs, you’ll become part of a vibrant and dynamic team dedicated to disrupting the fintech space with cutting-edge solutions. We offer a stimulating work environment where innovation is at the heart of everything we do. Our competitive compensation package, inclusive of equity, is designed to reward your contributions to our success.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including front-end developers, product managers, and designers, to understand project requirements and translate them into technical specifications.

• Design and develop server-side logic, APIs, and database schema to support the functionality and performance requirements of our SaaS platform.

• Write clean, modular, and well-documented code using any relevant programming language preferably Java with SpringBoot.

• Optimize the backend systems for maximum speed and scalability, ensuring high performance and responsiveness of the application.

• Implement data storage solutions using PostgreSQL or other relational databases, ensuring data integrity and security.

• Conduct thorough testing and debugging to identify and resolve any issues or bugs in the backend code.

• Stay up-to-date with emerging technologies, industry trends, and best practices in backend development and contribute to the continuous improvement of our development processes.

Requirements:

• Proven work experience as a Backend Developer or similar role, with a focus on server-side development.

• Proficiency in working with relational databases, particularly PostgreSQL, and writing efficient SQL queries.

• Familiarity with SaaS concepts and architecture.

• Experience with API design and development, including RESTful APIs.

• Solid understanding of software development principles, including object-oriented programming, design patterns, and data structures.

• Experience with version control systems, such as Git.

• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills, with keen attention to detail.

• Excellent communication and teamwork skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field is preferred, but not mandatory

About Wise

Wise is digital infrastructure for online education. Oversimplified as ‘Shopify for Tutors’ i.e., an easy to use tool for tutors to start teaching online. We have grown to 2mn users in 12 months and have much to do. We are backed by an incredible set of investors and individuals who have built product you already use. We have a small but rockstar team, cheap equity, smart money, opportunity to capture a huge market ($60bn) and a chance to make an impact while doing so.

What we need

We need you, if you are a senior software engineer with 4+ years of experience in building robust scalable systems. Work would involve building things quickly and adapting based on market feedback while ensuring the security and quality of the codebase. If you love coding and building things excites you, we would like to talk to you.

What you will need (Skills)

• Experience building microservices and distributed systems, RESTful APIs, user interfaces
• Knowledge and will of writing unit, integration tests is a must. TDD is a plus
• Preferably a polyglot: Strong command Ruby/Golang/Java/Python
• Some exposure to infra: Deployments, CI/CD setup, security. AWS exposure is good to have
• Strong database concepts. Experience with MongoDB is a plus

What you will do

• Feature analysis, hands on development, code reviews, deployment & rollouts
• Passionately maintain coding practices, quality & good design standards
• Design and develop highly scalable, available, secure and fault tolerant systems
• Actively contribute in assessing & improving/optimizing security & infrastructure

Great to have

• Sense of ownership
• Developers who can talk product and strategy
• Experience in building scalable consumer products
• Strong opinions, loosely held

Good to have

• Interest in mentorship
• Good written communication skills
• Bangalore love

Probably not ideal if

• If you have always been right about stuff in life
• No flexibility around working hours (this doesn’t mean we work long hours but if our systems get attacked in the middle of the night, we would need you to HODORR!)

Definitely get in touch if you

• Would have started the exact same company but willing to build it together with a great team
• Find our current product unbearably slow or inadequate
• Think this company isn’t going to work as it is right now

• Strong Java software development experience – with a focus on Java 8 & 9
• Experience with NoSql databases – ideally with MongoDB
• Experience implementing REST apis – ideally with JAX-RS
• Experience with Reactive Programming – ideally with RxJava
• Experience implementing unit tests

• Experience developing applications in fintech or established financial institutions
• Experience with microservice architectures
• Experience developing systems that can scale to large amounts of data
• Experience working in Agile Scrum
• Experience working on a globally distributed team

Role – Technical Architect

ZipLoan is looking out for a strong technology leader of Software Product Engineering, with a Technical Experience of about 12+ years, and hands-on experience in Software Product Development and ownership. You will head our Platform team which will be tasked with building ZipLoan's platform layer along with a set of engineers reporting to you.

Role:

1. Understand the business end-to-end in order to drive a use-case driven architecture.
2. Identify parts of the code-base which can be made reusable as modules or services.
3. Propose architecture improvements to provide reliability and robustness at scale.
4. Provide a roadmap for evolution of the technology ecosystem.
5. Identify and erase technical debt.
6. Provide consultancy to engineering teams on specific design challenges.
7. Propose engineering best practices and help teams in adopting them.

1. 12 years min experience in core software development.
2. Hands-on experience building consumer Web/mobile apps at scale.
3. Strong exposure to open-source technology – Python and other languages,

Linux, SQL and NoSQL databases, Web development frameworks

1. Strong architecture skills.
2. Ability to mentor engineering team members effectively.
3. Preferably a strong full-stack engineer or at least strong backend skills with some front-end skill.