Software Engineer

We are looking for passionate people who love solving interesting and complex technology challenges, who are enthusiastic about building an industry first innovative product to solve new age real world problems. This role requires strategic leadership, the ability to manage complex technical challenges, and the ability to drive innovation while ensuring operational excellence. As a Backend SDE-2, you will collaborate with key stakeholders across the business, product management, and operations to ensure alignment with the organization's goals and play a critical role in shaping the technology roadmap and engineering culture.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategic Planning: Work closely with senior leadership to develop and implement engineering strategies that support business objectives. Understand broader organization goals and prepare technology roadmaps.
• Technical Excellence: Guide the team in designing and implementing scalable, extensible and secure software systems. Drive the adoption of best practices in technical architecture, coding standards, and software testing to ensure product delivery with highest speed AND quality.
• Project and Program Management: Setting up aggressive as well as realistic timelines with all the stakeholders, ensure the successful delivery of engineering projects as per the defined timelines with best quality standards ensuring budget constraints are met. Use agile methodologies to manage the development process and resolve bottlenecks.
• Cross-functional collaboration: Collaborate with Product Management, Design, Business, and Operations teams to define project requirements and deliverables. Ensure the smooth integration of engineering efforts across the organization.
• Risk Management: Anticipate and mitigate technical risks and roadblocks. Proactively identify areas of technical debt and drive initiatives to reduce it.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• 1-3 years of experience in software engineering
• Excellent problem-solving skills, with the ability to diagnose and resolve complex technical challenges.
• Proven track record of successfully delivering large-scale, high-impact software projects.
• Strong understanding of software design principles and patterns.
• Expertise in multiple programming languages and modern development frameworks.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS), microservices, and distributed systems.
• Experience with releational and non-relational databases.
• Experience with Redis, ElasticSearch.
• Experience in DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure automation.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and inspire teams and stakeholders at all levels.

Skills:- MySQL, Python, Django, AWS, NoSQL, Kafka, Redis, ElasticSearch

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

Job Summary
- Expand the product to suit the needs of all kinds of travellers. From family travellers to hardcore backpackers and from free independent travellers to those who need a more guided approach to planning their trip. 
- Launch across more countries. This means adding support for more geographies, things to do, weather, currencies and payments, transport and accommodation. 
- Scale it up to serve millions of users a year, from across the globe. We are seeing decent growth, but it is time to up the game.

Responsibilities and Duties
How you'll add value: 
- Own the architecture and design decisions that go into shaping our backend microservices 
- Build and ship robust features. 
- Work with web and mobile engineers to design and build APIs to power the traveler and influencer applications. 
- Help us scale out to multiple geographies and serve millions of travelers
Required Experience, Skills and Qualifications
- An innate desire to grow. Both personally and with respect to the value you add to other people's lives. 
- 4+ years industry experience working with golang/Django
- Sound understanding of CS fundamentals. We don't expect you to remember every algorithm by heart. But if you know how to find the most appropriate one for any given problem, let's talk. 
- Personal projects that show an aptitude for technical excellence and product sense. 
- Interest in contributing to open source projects 
- Bonus points if you have an interest in the philosophy behind technologies. - You are intrigued by why did people develop certain technologies the way they did.
Benefits
- Work with a bunch of amazing people on a challenging problem. 
- 1 backpacking trip each year to travel outside India. We don't allow you to travel, we WANT you to travel. 
- Stock. 
- We don't mind work from home/cafe/some random city in the world as long as your work and your team is not disrupted. 
- We don't have a leave policy (there is a guideline for legal reasons) but you are free to take as much personal time as you need as long as you get your job done.

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: ₹2,000,000.00 to ₹3,000,000.00 /year

• Total of 3-5 years of experience building cutting-edge products.
• Must have a degree in Computer Science or a related field. Strong understanding of object-oriented programming, concurrency, and fundamentals of computer science.

• Technically Hands-on, prior experience with scalable Architecture.
• Bring 3-5 years of software engineering and product delivery experience, with a strong background in algorithms.
• Excellent command over Data Structures and Algorithm Proficiency in implementation of algorithms and use of advanced data structures to solve problems in computing
• Exceptional coding skills in an Object-Oriented programming language (Python preferred with Django framework).
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Experience with web technologies Java/Python, Linux, Apache, MySQL, solr, memcache, redis.
• Experience in architecting & building real-time, large-scale e-commerce applications.
• Experience with high-performance websites catering to millions of daily traffic is a plus.

• Java/ Python, MySQL, Redis, ElasticSearch, Problem Solving, Scalability, Design Patterns, Distributed System

• Develop complex software products that include scale, algorithmic complexity, and a huge amount of data.
• Build cutting-edge scalable systems by writing simple and efficient code.
• Code, develop, design, and architect features related to the existing application. We expect you to own modules end to end and take pride in the work products you ship
• Contribute to all aspects of an agile software development lifecycle including design, architecture, development, documentation, testing, and operations.
• Design, implement, and maintain highly scalable, multi-tier, distributed server software applications
• Deliver across the entire app life cycle, design, build, deploy, test, release to app stores, and support
• Working directly with developers and product managers to conceptualize, build, test, and release products
• Take responsibility for performance and stability for all server functions
• Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency

Backend - Software Development Engineer-III

Responsibilities:-

• Research, design and build highly reliable, available and scalable platforms
• Explore design implications and work towards an appropriate balance between functionality, performance, and maintainability.
• Lead by example, mentor and guide team members on everything from structured problem solving to development of best practices
• Own large technical deliverables and execute in an exemplary way
• Be able to conceptualize and develop prototype quickly
• Working with a cross-discipline team of Design, Product, Data Science and Analytics team.
• Active participation in the hiring process to bring quality engineers in the team.

Requirements:-

• Strong proficiency in Javascript and TypeScript
• Strong proficiency of Node.js and frameworks available for it such as Express
• Strong understanding and experience of creating highly scalable and complex database design
• Good understanding of Data Modeling using RDBMS and NoSQL(Cassandra, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, Redis) data stores
• Strong problem-solving skills with a good understanding of data structures and algorithms
• Strong understanding of front-end technologies, such as HTML5, and CSS3
• User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
• Experience of creating highly scalable, fault tolerant, resilient distributed systems
• Strong knowledge of creating scalable system design and good understanding of microservice based architectures
• Understanding of caching enabled, PubSub and event driven architectures
• Hands on experience and good knowledge of AWS services
• Understanding automated testing platforms like selenium and unit tests like Chai, Mocha, Jasmine etc
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
• E/B.Tech/M.E./M.Tech/M.S.
• Curiosity to explore the cutting edge technologies and bake them in the products.
• Zeal and drive to take end to end ownership.
• 5+ years of experience in back end development preferably in microservice environment.

General Accountabilities/Job Responsibilities

• Participation in the requirements analysis, design, development and testing of applications.
• The candidate is expected to write code himself/herself.
• The candidate is expected to write high level code, code review, unit testing and deployment.
• Practical application of design principles with a focus on the user experience, usability, template
• designs, cross browser issues and client server concepts.
• Contributes to the development of project estimates, scheduling, and deliverables.
• Works closely with QA team to determine testing requirements to ensure full coverage and best
• quality of product.
• There is also the opportunity to mentor and guide junior team members in excelling their jobs.

Job Specifications

• BE/B. Tech. Computer Science or MCA from a reputed University.
• 3 -12 Years of experience in software development, with emphasis on JAVA/J2EE Server side programming.
• Hands on experience in Core Java, Multithreading, RMI, Socket programing,
• JDBC, NIO, webservices and Design patterns.
• Should have Knowledge of distributed system, distributed caching, messaging frameworks,
• ESB etc.
• Knowledge of Linux operating system and PostgreSQL/MySQL/MongoDB/Cassandra database is essential.
• Additionally, knowledge of HBase, Hadoop and Hive are desirable.
• Familiarity with message queue systems and AMQP and Kafka is desirable.
• Should have experience as a participant in Agile methodologies.
• Should have excellent written and verbal communication skills and presentation skills.
• This is not a Fullstack requirement, we are purely looking out for Backend resources.