
Software Development Engineer 1
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 your 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
You should have:
- Tech or a higher degree in computer science or a related field.
- 1+ 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.
- Experience with Relational databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, or any NoSQL database.
It’s a plus if you have:
- Familiarity with cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud
- Worked on Micro-services architecture

About Upswing Financial Technologies Private Limited
About
Here’s a quick read to know more about Upswing (upswing.one)
Company page on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/upswing-financial-technologies
We are a seed funded company, have recently raised USD 4Mn
• In the news: inc42.com/buzz/open-finance-startup-upswing-raises-4-mn-from-qed-investors
• Lead investor: http://qedinvestors.com/companies/upswing
• Angel investors: Founders and Senior executives of Jupiter, Cred, Slice, Epifi, Snapdeal, One Assist and many more.
Company vision:
At Upswing, our mission is to enable consumer companies to offer differentiated financial products and empower the financial institutions with greater reach through our Secure, Scalable and easy to integrate API platform.
We are enabling Consumer Tech/Non-Tech companies to become full stack banking players. The transformation will reduce the cost and complexity for any company to become a financial services company and re-define the future of banking
Our simple and powerful banking-as-a-service stack will help companies launch new banking products in weeks, not years.
Founding team has more than 40 years of experience in Building Banking, Lending, Payments and Disruptive Technology Stack.
Anupam Bagchi: Built Jupiter, India’s First Transit and multi bank EMI, Foundation to RuPay, Lending, Payments, Digital Banking. (linkedin.com/in/anupam-bagchi-b770572)
Nihar Gupta: Built Jupiter, Strategy and Execution of 811, Issuing, Acquiring, Toll Payments, Forex and Digital Banking (https://www.linkedin.com/in/nihargupta/)
Gazal Garg: Built disruptive tech at Zilingo from an idea to a unicorn, IIT Kharagpur alumnus - (linkedin.com/in/gazalgarg)
Tech stack
Candid answers by the company
We are enabling Consumer Tech/Non-Tech companies to become full stack banking players. The transformation will reduce the cost and complexity for any company to become a financial services company and re-define the future of banking
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