
Software Development Engineer 2



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

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
Connect with the team
Similar jobs


Introduction
We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced .Net Developer with 6+ years of expertise in .Net technologies, Azure Cloud Services, and Azure DevOps. The ideal candidate should be hands-on with coding, cloud services, and client-facing responsibilities. Strong communication, leadership, and problem-solving abilities are essential for this role.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop, enhance, document, and maintain application features using .Net Core 5/6+, C#, REST API, T-SQL, AngularJS/React JS.
- Provide application support and manage API integrations with third-party solutions/services.
- Participate in all stages of the software development life cycle (SDLC) including requirement analysis, design, coding, testing, and deployment.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and deliver new features.
- Ensure reusable, testable, and efficient code following best practices.
- Lead and mentor team members by providing technical guidance, code reviews, and support.
- Manage and monitor CI/CD pipelines through Azure DevOps (Classic / YAML).
- Implement solutions using Azure messaging services (Service Bus/Event Grid/Event Hub) and Azure Storage (Blobs, Tables, Queues).
- Utilize Azure Functions/Durable Functions to build scalable applications.
- Troubleshoot, debug, and resolve complex technical issues efficiently.
- Ensure compliance with coding standards, design patterns, and architectural guidelines.
- Support agile methodologies such as Scrum, Jira, and Agile SDLC models.
Primary Skills
- Strong development experience in C#, .Net Core 3.0/6.0+, Entity Framework, EF Core, Microservices, SOA.
- Expertise in Azure Cloud Services, Azure DevOps, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Hands-on experience with unit testing (X-Unit, MS-Test).
- Advanced SQL development including queries, stored procedures, views, functions, and triggers.
- Strong debugging, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
- Experience in large-scale software development and architectural design.
- Strong leadership and ownership qualities with excellent communication skills.
Secondary Skills
- Proficiency in JavaScript, React JS, Angular, jQuery.
- Experience with API Management (APIM).
- Knowledge of Azure Monitoring, Application Insights, KeyVault, SQL Azure.
- Hands-on with Git, Docker, Kubernetes, Azure Container Apps, Azure Container Registry.
- Familiarity with Agile project management tools (Jira, Scrum).
Requirements:
- 4-6 years of experience in developing Enterprise Web Applications using Java/J2EE technologies with a good professional track record.
- Excellent knowledge in Core Java (J2SE) and J2EE technologies.
- Proficient knowledge in Servlets, JDBC & JSP.
- Good knowledge of Spring framework (MVC, Cloud, Data and Security. Etc) and ORM framework like JPA/Hibernate.
- Strong knowledge of Exception Handling, Collections, File I/O Streams, Interfaces, and logging mechanisms is a must.
- Experience in developing REST APIs and integration of third-party APIs.
- Proficient knowledge in SQL/PLSQL.
- Expertise in application/web server deployment and connection pooling techniques.
- Cloud deployment (AWS & Azure) will be an added advantage.
- Experience in Version Control tools like Git, Bitbucket, etc.
- Experience in data security and protocols is a must.
- Maven and IDE tools experience is a must.
- Multi-threading and serialization techniques knowledge is a must.
- Good understanding of end-to-end software development lifecycle.
- Ability to read and understand requirements and design documents.
- Good Analytical skills and should be self-driven. Good communication with interpersonal skills.
- Open to learning new technologies and domains.
- A good team player and ready to take up new challenges
- Languages: Java(J2SE), J2EE (Servlets, JSPs, JDBC)
- Databases: MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL.
- DB Script: SQL and PL/SQL
- Frameworks: Spring, Spring Boot, Jersey, Hibernate and JPA
- OS: Windows, Linux/Unix.
- Cloud Services: AWS and Azure (Good to have)
- Version Control tools: Git, Bitbucket.
- Deployment Servers: Tomcat, JBoss, and Web sphere
- Build Tools: Gradle/Maven
Desired Candidate :
- Experience in Node.JS working with large scale backend applications
- Expertise in any Relational or NoSQL databases and any of caching databases
- Experience in integrating with RESTful/GraphQL APIs and Microservice APIs
- Good problem solving and debugging skill
- Good knowledge of engineering excellence: Unit Testing/TDD, Code quality,
- Documentation, CI&CD
- Exposure on event-driven, asynchronous I/O
- Experience in Linux development and AWS ecosystem tools
- Experience in non-functional requirements (Scalability, Performance optimisation, Security)
What you can achieve :
- Empowering Entrepreneurial Spirit: Whatever your role is, we'll encourage you to reinvent and reinvigorate; achieving the best for CaratLane and you.
- Celebrating Your Contribution: We recognize and reward everyone who approaches their job with true passion, and drives performance.
- The Best of Tanishq and CaratLane: Work with a disruptive, new-age omni-channel brand, while being a part of India's most trustworthy organisation - the Tata Group.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field.
- At-least more than 1+ Years of Experience in a similar role would be desired.
- Excellent technical, diagnostic, and troubleshooting skills.
- Strong leadership skills to drive good coding and design practices across multiple engineering teams
- Willingness to build professional relationships with staff and clients.
- Excellent communication, motivational, and interpersonal skills.
- Expertise in architecting, building, and maintaining ultra-low latency, cost-efficient systems in cloud environments
- Excellent track record in modernizing cloud-based applications using micro services, containers, and other architectures
- Experience and working knowledge in building large-scale, data-intensive Text search applications using Solr / Elastic Search is a Must
- Experience and working knowledge of AI/ML/ML Ops with respect to building large-scale, data-intensive applications would be a Plus
- Experience and working knowledge in building Java based Spring Boot micro-services integrated with any messaging framework
- Driven, Highly-motivated and passionate towards development & innovation
- Determining project requirements and developing work schedules for the team.
- Delegating tasks and achieving daily, weekly, and monthly goals.
- Liaising with team members, management, and clients to ensure projects are completed to standard.
- Identifying risks and forming contingency plans as soon as possible.
- Analyzing existing operations and scheduling training sessions and meetings to discuss improvements.
- Keeping up-to-date with industry trends and developments.
- Updating work schedules and performing troubleshooting as required.
- Motivating staff and creating a space where they can ask questions and voice their concerns.
- Being transparent with the team about challenges, failures, and successes.
- Writing progress reports and delivering presentations to the relevant stakeholders.
- Extremely hands-on in delivering Development and R&D tasks
- Design, plan and perform dev-analysis to determine effort estimates on every sprint for the team
- Running Demo's, ensuring thorough documentation of the features built
- Identify & Plan upgrades to technologies & frameworks from time-to-time
What/Why/How is Floworks?
Floworks (https://floworks.ai">https://floworks.ai) builds powerful business process tools that simplify business operations for the largest of e-commerce and logistics companies in India.
Floworks was founded by distinguished alums from IIT and BIT, with exemplary backgrounds in business and technology.
Floworks has raised two rounds of funding within just 6 months of existence.We are funded by London based Startup Incubator, Entrepreneur First whose investors include the likes of PayPal Cofounder Peter Thiel and LinkedIn Cofounder Reid Hoffman.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entrepreneur_First">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entrepreneur_First
Floworks in the press:
What will be your key responsibilities?
Although it’s an engineering role, you will have significant involvement in product, hiring and business as well. You may expect following key responsibilities:
Engineering: You’ll need to write code – a lot of code. At the end of the day, your most important responsibility is to get your company’s product to market and maximize the number of product experiments that can be run. You’ll make key architectural decisions that will be pillars of the engineering organization for years to come. At the same time, you’ll have to make serious trade-offs to balance speed of execution with quality.
Product: As a founding engineer, you’ll also have a significant amount of ownership over the product direction. You should expect to spend time talking to customers, teasing out use cases, and making prioritization decisions regarding both the short- and long-term roadmap. In many cases, you will be building features in the absence of any formal product requirement document.
Support: You should also expect to spend a fair amount of time in the trenches supporting customers. You’ll probably find yourself engaging with customers in shared Slack channels, WhatsApp groups etc.
Hiring: As a founding engineer, you will spend a ton of time sourcing, interviewing, and closing early team members.
Business: Finally, you’ll gain exposure to all other aspects of the business – from fundraising, to sales, and beyond. Although you probably won’t be closing deals or making pitch decks, you will certainly be expected to sell your product and pitch the company’s vision.
How do you know you are right fit for the role?
- You have at least 2-4 years of experience. You are proficient with most of the following languages/frameworks:
- NodeJS
- AWS
- Databases (both SQL and NoSQL)
- You crave ownership. If you often find yourself raising your hand to own things end-to-end, you will likely really enjoy the ownership afforded to you as a founding engineer.
- You’re okay with ambiguity. You won’t get product requirement documents or designs for everything you’re expected to build. A stellar founding engineer will know when to ask for clarity and when to make educated assumptions. If you tend to gravitate towards more loosely scoped projects, that’s a good indicator that you’ll do well in this type of role.
- You’re multidisciplinary. A typical day might include anything from several hours of coding, to a few customer conversations, to a technical brainstorm or architecture discussion, to an interview or two.
- You operate at light speed. A great founding engineer should welcome this challenge and thrive under the pressure of intense deadlines.
What will be the hiring process?
- 2 round of technical interviews
- 2 round of behavioural interview
What will be your compensation?
- Fixed: INR 20L-30L
- Bonus: 10-30% of Fixed depending upon performance.
- Equity: 0.1%-0.2%
- Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code.
- Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications.
- Implementation of security and data protection.
- Integration of data storage solutions {mysql, redis}.
- Understanding the requirements and planning the implementation accordingly.
- Good interaction with the team. Good debugging skills.
- Strong proficiency with JavaScript {optimized code}.
- Knowledge of Node.js and frameworks available for it {sequelize}.
- Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds.
- Optimization in terms of memory and time.
- Good understanding of server-side templating languages.
- Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as HTML5, and CSS3.
- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git.

- PHP Web Development experience - Core PHP and PHP frameworks.
- Strong knowledge of PHP web frameworks {such as Laravel, Yii, etc depending on your technology stack}
- Should have positive and adaptive behavior. Strong knowledge of the common PHP or web server exploits and their solutions
- Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3
- Understanding client requirements & functional specifications
- Developing and maintaining dynamic websites and web applications
- Ensuring foolproof performance of the deliverable
- Must be proficient in PHP, MySQL, CSS, HTML, JavaScript, AJAX, XML
- Experience with Joomla, WordPress, Drupal, Magento would be added advantage.
- Must have the capacity to work independently and as a part of a team
- Eager to learn new web technologies

Directly interfacing with the founding team and technology team to understand the requirements and providing solutions. Assisting & guiding team members in design and development.
Requirements:
An ideal candidate should have :
- Worked on one or more projects in production environment
- Should have knowledge of Fintech
- Should have 3+ years of experience in system/software solution development and delivery
- Should be hands-on on Java, J2EE Frameworks, Spring MVC, Hibernate, RESTful Webservices, MySQL and working knowledge of Unix/Linux
- Should have experience on deployments on cloud servers and should be ready to pick AWS cloud server deployment
- Should possess good architectural knowledge and be aware of enterprise application design patterns


