Site Reliability Engineer

• Advanced Linux / Unix support experience required.
• · Strong shell scripting and python programming skills for SRE related activities required.
• · Understanding on Veritas Cluster Service, Load Balancers, VMWare and Splunk required.
• · Knowledge on ITIL principles required.
• · Effective oral and written communication skills, and interpersonal skills to work well in a team environment required.
• · Strong organizational and coordination skills with the ability to manage multiple tasks and high-pressure situations for outage handling, management or resolution.
• · Be available for weekend work.

At Upswing, we are a passionate and self-driven team of thinkers who aspire to build the rails to connect the legacy financial sector with financial innovators through a simple and powerful banking-as-a-service (BaaS) platform. We’re building our platform putting the focus on pragmatism, reliability, and maintainability. We believe that keeping the engineering complexity under control is key to preserving the development productivity and long-term evolution of a platform.

To bring this vision to life, we are building the infrastructure using Microservices architecture using the latest set of technologies that are also fun to work with such as Java, Scala, Postgres, Akka, Kafka with a completely automated DevOps pipeline from the get-go using tools like Chef, Jenkins, Grafana, Graylog.

We are looking for motivated engineers who will be working in a highly creative and cutting-edge technology environment to build a world-class financial services suite.

Why you should join us:

• You will redefine the financial services landscape for India in the coming years.
• Be part of a core Engineering team that will create innovative and scalable Fintech solutions.
• Work with passionate and experienced engineering, product & business workforce that believes in teamwork, and that helps fast-track learning on solving complex technical challenges.
• We are funded by the leading fintech VC `QED Investors` and other established Founders and Executives of awesome Indian companies.

What you will do if you join us:

• Propose solutions to solve complex system architecture challenges and actively lead the end-to-end development of the system.
• Create robust, flexible, consistent, and easy-to-use APIs
• Continuously strive for performance improvements, code reusability, and readability
• Understand the product in detail and predict potential issues in feature development.
• Mentor and lead junior members of the team

You should have:

• Ability to think of out of the box
• Tech or a higher degree in computer science or a related field.
• 3+ years of experience working on the back-end development for complex distributed systems who are willing to adopt any Programming language as per the requirement.
• Familiarity with any of the following – Java, C++, Scala, Kotlin, and frameworks like Spring, Play, Hibernate, Django, etc.
• Good understanding of Algorithms, Data Structure, OOP, Design patterns, Parallel programming, Multithreading concepts & Event-Driven Systems.
• Understanding of micro-services architecture and best practices.
• Experience with Relational databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, or any NoSQL database.

It is a plus if you have:

• Familiarity with cloud platforms like AWS (Amazon Web Services), Azure or Google Cloud

▪ Identifies business opportunities by identifying prospects.

▪ Sells products by establishing contact and developing relationships with prospects. 

▪ Recommends solutions to issues in constructive ways.

▪ Outbound calling on data collected through lead generation activities / secondary data sources. 

▪ Conducts daily follow-ups on older leads and work on new leads.

▪ Maintains quality service by establishing and enforcing organization standards. 

▪ Is energetic, well-spoken, and eager to close sales deals and generate revenue for the organization.

1.       Core Responsibilities

·      Building feasible solutions/applications for our clients – this includes developing bots using Automation Anywhere new cloud-based platform A360, assisting in the design and development of Automation TaskBots to automate Business Processing involving various technologies including Web & Windows applications, Database, Image Recognition (OCR), PDF Integration, API, and Web Services

2.       Experience Requirements

·      5 plus years of Software Development experience in any RPA tool. Preferably Automation Anywhere

·      Providing guiding and training for customers around the application best practices

·      Assist with guidance for the application environment and helping to troubleshoot if necessary

·      Understand the technological pain areas of prospective customers and helping create a Proof of Concept that aligns to their needs and budget

·      Knowledge Requirements

·      Experience with Automation Anywhere, or related robotic process automation software

·      Programming or development experience (Java, .Net, C#, Visual Basic, VB.net, R, etc.)

·      Scripting knowledge or experience (Python, Perl, VB Script, Shell script, PowerShell, etc.)

·      Experience creating macros

·      Ability to understand and create business process workflow diagrams or procedural documentation

·      Understanding of SDLC, Waterfall, and Agile Development Methodologies

·      Exposure to performance measurement and continuous improvement methodologies

·      Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills

The ideal candidate is a highly resourceful and innovative developer with extensive experience in the layout, design and coding of websites specifically in PHP Laravel. You must also possess a strong knowledge of web application development using PHP programming language and MySQL Server databases. 

Responsibilities

• Perform a mix of maintenance, enhancements, and new development as required
• Conducting analysis of website and application requirements.
• Updating and altering application features to enhance performance.
• Finalizing back-end features and testing web applications.
• Responding to integration requests from front-end developers.
• Integrating data storage solutions.
• Troubleshooting application and code issues.
• Developing back-end portals with an optimized database.
• Writing back-end code and building efficient PHP modules
• Proven software development experience in PHP.
• Passion for best design and coding practices and a desire to develop new bold ideas.
• Good problem-solving skills.
• Familiarity with SQL/NoSQL databases.
• Proficient with code versioning tools including Git, Mercurial, CVS, and SVN.
• Previous experience creating scalable applications.
• Understanding of object-oriented PHP programming.

Qualifications

• Good knowledge and experience in web development and software design
• Expertise in front-end technologies (HTML, JavaScript, CSS), PHP frameworks, and MySQL databases
• Knowledge on web sockets, json is an added advantage.
• Good knowledge of relational databases, version control tools and of developing web services.
• Knowledge of front-end technologies including CSS3, JavaScript, and HTML5.
• Knowledge of PHP web framework Laravel.