Senior Software Engineer - Backend

About POSHN:

POSHN is a new and exciting India-based ag-fintech venture founded in 2020 and supported by leading marquee financial institutions.

We’re on a mission to organize and digitally transform the global agri-supply chain market. We are applying first principles thinking and re-imagining the solutions with a tech-product-first mindset.

The agri-supply chain space is gigantic, complex and has been largely un-organized. So we are taking the hassle out of it by creating a platform that empowers our products and facilitates a better, more efficient and seamless experience between each stakeholder.

About TEAM:

The core team holds together alumni of BITS Pilani, IIM & XLRI with each having decade-long experience in the fields of the supply chain, technology and product. Previously, we have built several highly impactful tech-product startups from the ground up.

About the role:

• You will work closely with the team, help define the product roadmap, and have a lot of room for flexibility. You are expected to gradually take responsibility of the full mobile engineering stack at Poshn.
• You will use lean experimentation principles and techniques to develop digital experiments where you will help accelerate evidence-based decision-making to inform product, business and commercial decisions.
• You will work with the team of UX, Data engineering to ensure that product & service solutions truly address important customer needs and thus deliver superior customer and business value.
• You will take initiative to improve the system both at the design and implementation levels. As Poshn grows, you may also help with recruiting and training the mobile engineering team.

Responsibilities

• Working closely with stakeholders to understand business requirements and help translate these into technical requirements for the development
• Ability to analyze the core business needs and to suggest the best approach
• Capturing and clearly articulating requirements: work closely with end customers to prioritize different working items
• Designing, building and configuring applications to meet business process and application requirements
• Execute, and deliver large and complex projects end-to-end, with or without the involvement of other team members
• Writing testable, scalable and efficient code and leading code reviews
• Carrying out solution testing: ensure efficient on-boarding processes for new clients; carry out root-cause analysis to develop logical conclusions and suggest alternatives
• Overall ownership of solution implementation: be in charge of assigned product, ensuring timely and efficient communication and solutions are delivered to plan
• Mentoring junior team members and ensuring they adhere to determining software quality standards

Career Experience we'd love to see:

• You have 3+ years of experience in building web & mobile-based backend applications preferably using a microservices architecture.
• You have made major contributions to 3 or more complex backend application projects from zero to one. You have experience designing and shipping fully functional applications.
• You understand the core engineering principles and agile methodologies and are also able to adapt them to a face pace working environment.

Technical Experience we’d love to see:

• Experience with building up scalable backend microservices architecture
• Proficient in languages such as NodeJS, Go or Python
• Expertise in Database modeling, NoSQL and SQL; spotting DB bottlenecks and writing optimized DB queries
• Expertise in all common AWS Cloud technologies, Knowledge of CI/CD tools and workflows
• Proven track record in building highly-available and scalable distributed systems
• Experience with performance and memory tuning 
• Experience with modern software engineering practices: agile development cycle, coding style, engineering documentation, unit & integration testing, code review, git version control, etc..

Bonus Points/Nice to have:

• Published mobile apps on the app store and play store.
• Experience with engineering hiring & training of engineers Interfacing and collaborating with B2B clients
• Any experience or knowledge of the e-commerce & supply chain industry

About you:

• We want you to come with creativity, expertise, flexibility and drive, but above all a desire to learn and keep learning
• You enjoy designing and building complex software systems with multiple components and code bases.
• You enjoy taking responsibility and ownership of tasks.
• Curious and a continuous hunger for learning and staying up to date with the latest solutions on the market
• Analytical mind Creativity, open-minded attitude
• Intuitive about how an idea can be turned to an actual working application that delivers value and meets customer needs.

Benefits:

• We offer a competitive salary and ESOPs to make sure you are rewarded for your best work
• Flexible hours and work arrangements either fully remote or a hybrid remote and in-office, suiting your home commitments.
• Generous leave
• Become one of the key team members of an exciting startup changing the agri-supply chain industry
• Open, fun and collaborative work culture
• Training and development to the areas of growth you’d like to uncover
• Autonomy at work