
Software Engineer
at A Series B-funded, Fintech company, based out of Bangalore


● work directly with the product team to understand requirements, help formulate aggressive growth plans, and then translate that into an effective technical solution
● design and create services and system architecture for your projects
● participate in brainstorming sessions and contribute ideas to our technology, algorithms
and products
● dive into difficult problems and successfully deliver results on schedule
What will your day look like?
1. Own all services and tools
2. Develop and deploy required services responsible for the evolution of the overall product
3. Do server-side development in golang/python preferably (or any other language)
4. Deploying stuff in production in docker containers
5. Write tests
6. Invent awesome stuff to make your job easier
What are we looking for?
1. Motivation to design and build reliable, elegant backend services
2. Energy to build smart internal tools quickly
3. At least 1-2 years of backend development experience
4. Proficiency in golang is desired. We are open to you learning on the job.
5. Familiarity with SQL. Experience with Postgres, Redis is preferred.
6. Familiarity with message-oriented middleware like rabbitmq, google pubsub is preferred.

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Role & Responsibilities
Take end-to-end ownership of critical backend services — from architecture and development to deployment and scale.
Design systems for performance, reliability, and observability. Identify bottlenecks and eliminate them proactively.
Collaborate with product and design to deeply understand user pain points and build the right solutions.
Work independently and own complex modules with minimal oversight.
Champion clean, maintainable code and help set a high bar for engineering excellence across the team.
Stay up-to-date with new tools, technologies, and backend trends — and bring the best ideas into our stack.
Ideal Candidate
2+ years of backend development experience, ideally with Kotlin and Spring Boot (or willingness to ramp up quickly).
You’ve worked in fast-moving teams and thrive when given room to figure things out.
You take initiative and can drive complex modules to completion without needing constant guidance.
Strong with both low-level and high-level design; you know how to build scalable, reliable RESTful APIs.
Proficient with relational databases and aware of common performance pitfalls.
Confident with debugging and optimizing — memory leaks, latency issues, and other hard-to-find problems don’t scare you.
You write clean, testable code and know how to leave systems better than you found them.
You bring a product mindset — caring not just about what’s built, but why and how it delivers value to users.



What kind of work will you get?
We are looking for a Golang developer.
Examples of technical tasks:
Working on our backend SDK to implement APIs that will be consumed by the frontend widgets
Designing APIs for different auth recipes
Architecting auth flows
You will also be given non technical tasks like product brain storming, competitor analysis and writing documentation.
Note: Compensation is as per the applicant's geography
Requirements
Well versed in Golang with 2+ years of professional experience
Familiar with and comfortable working with Web frameworks like FastAPI, Django and Flask
Familiar with HTTP networking in Golang
Strong understanding of async and sync modes in Golang
Bonus:
Contributed to open source, or have your own open source repo with a community and many github stars
Built an in-house authentication or authorization solution or worked with solutions such as Keycloak, Auth0, Ory, Okta etc



About RARA NOW
Not just a delivery company
RARA NOW is revolutionizing instant delivery for e-commerce in Indonesia through data-driven logistics.
RARA NOW is making instant and same-day deliveries scalable and cost-effective by leveraging a differentiated operating model and real-time optimisation technology. RARA makes it possible for anyone, anywhere to get same-day delivery in Indonesia. While others are focusing on - one-to-one- deliveries, the company has developed proprietary, real-time batching tech to do - many-to-many- deliveries within a few hours. RARA is already in partnership with some of the top eCommerce players in Indonesia like Blibli, Sayurbox, Kopi Kenangan, and many more.
We are a distributed team with the company headquartered in Singapore, core operations in Indonesia, and a technology team based out of India.
Future of eCommerce Logistics:
Data-driven logistics company that is bringing in same-day delivery revolution in Indonesia
Revolutionising delivery as an experience
Empowering D2C Sellers with logistics as the core technology
About the Role
- Writing scalable, robust, testable, efficient, and easily maintainable code
- Translating software requirements into stable, working, high performance software
- Playing a key role in architectural and design decisions, building toward an efficient microservices distributed architecture.
- Strong knowledge of Go programming language, paradigms, constructs, and idioms
- Knowledge of language patterns such as - Goroutine and Channels
- Experience with the full site of Go frameworks and tools, including:
- Dependency management tools such as Godep.
- Popular Go web frameworks, such as Echo
- Request routing and API mechanisms
- Ability to write clean and effective Godoc comments
- Familiarity with code versioning tools - primarily Git.
- A basic understanding of computing and Linux systems
- Basic knowledge of Systems Engineering
- Memory management and pointers, specifically in Golang
- Implement Docker for smaller-scale applications that require simpler deployments
- Employ Linux Terminal command structures to allow easy back-end operations for less-expert technical staff
- Structure our user interface with React and ensure REST API access is available for enterprise-grade finance customers on-demand


Fulfil’s software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how millions of customer orders are fulfilled by merchants. Our products need to handle information at massive scale. We're looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas from all areas into our technology.
As a senior software engineer, you will work on our python based ORM and applications that scales to handle millions of transactions every hour. This is mission critical software and your primary focus will be building robust and scalable solutions that are easy to maintain.
In this role, you will be collaborating closely with the rest of the team working on different layers of infrastructure in an international environment. Therefore, a commitment to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and quality product are important.
What You’ll Do:
- Own definition and implementation of API interfaces (REST and GraphQL). We take pride in our 100% open API with over 600 endpoints.
- Implement simple solutions to complex business logic that enables our merchants to manage financials, orders and shipments across millions of transactions.
- Build reusable components and packages for future use.
- Translate specs and user stories into reviewable, test covered patches.
- Peer review code and refactor existing code.
- Integrate with our eCommerce partners (Shopify, BigCommerce, Amazon), shipping partners (UPS, USPS, FedEx, DHL) and EDI.
- Manage Kubernetes and Docker based global deployment of our infrastructure.
Requirements We’re Looking for Someone With:
- Experience working with ORMs like SQLAlchemy or Django (2-3 years)
- Experience with SQL and databases (Postgres preferred)
- Experience in developing large server side applications and microservices
- Ability to create high quality code
- Experience with python testing tools (pytest) and test automation
- Familiarity with code versioning tools like GIT
- Strong sense of ownership and leadership quality
- Experienced in the tools of our web stack- Python, Celery, Postgres, Redis, RabbitMQ
Nice to Haves:
- Prior experience at a growth stage Internet/Software company
- Experience with ReactJS, Google Cloud, Heroku
- Cloud deployment and scaling experience


Esper is looking for a software engineer to transform the customer experience
for developers and engineering teams using the platform of services to deploy
and build out their device fleets. You and your team will own services that will
enable customers to develop and customize their development process, along
with easing their use of Continuous Integration techniques for their software. We
need a leader that is experienced in delivering scalable multi-region fault tolerant
systems, is passionate about the developer tools space, is excited to have
software developers as their customers, and is obsessed about creating
compelling customer experiences.
In this role you will contribute to a critical and highly-visible function within the
Esper business. You will be given the opportunity to autonomously deliver the
technical direction of the service, and the feature roadmap. You will work with
extraordinary talent and have the opportunity to hire and shape the team to best
execute on the product. If you’re excited to have a large impact on Esper and the
device industry, you’ll find this role to be engaging, challenging, and full of
opportunities to learn and grow.
Key Responsibilities
Help drive business decisions with your technical input
Design, implement, test, deploy and maintain innovative software
solutions to transform service performance, durability, cost, and
security.
Use software engineering best practices to ensure a high standard of
quality for all of the team deliverables
Write high quality distributed system software
Work in an agile, startup-like development environment, where you are always working on the most important stuff.
Basic Qualifications
2 -4 years of professional software development experience
You’ve designed, built, scaled and maintained production services, and know how to compose a service oriented architecture.
Degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
You write high quality, well tested code to meet the needs of your customers
You are comfortable with programming languages like Go, Python, Java
You’ve good understanding of databases system like Postgres. Extensive Knowledge about Postgres is a big plus.
You’ve have worked with Docker, Kubernetes and have fundamental understanding of distributed systems like Kafka, Elasticsearch
Preferred Qualifications
Experience taking a lead role developing complex software systems that have successfully been delivered to customers.
Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams and senior management to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs and product strategy.
Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, continuous deployments, testing and operations
Demonstrated ability to mentor junior software engineers in all aspects of their engineering skill-sets.
What we think makes us special
Esper is a fast-growing, well-funded company where everyone matters and you can see your impact daily. We trust our teammates and offer intense ownership and therefore accountability. We’re inventing the future and building something special. The team really enjoys what we do and cares about your input. We don’t hire just to fill a spot, we want you to make a difference.
As you help us build this special company, Esper will take care of you. We offer flexible vacation, regular hack-days, competitive pay and benefits, and room for advancement. We hire capable veterans so we avoid the drama and trust in each other’s work. Our worldwide footprint mixes different cultures for a unique experience. We also like to have fun because we play just as hard as we work.


- Deliver features in an end-to-end manner: technical design, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance.
- Provide technical leadership and own specific areas of the platform.
- Work closely with Product Managers to translate product requirements to engineering specifications.
- Lead code review efforts and quality efforts in your area of ownership.
- Participate in product discussions, taking ownership and initiative.
- Work independently in a fast-paced environment.
- Mentored and guide junior engineers.
Must Haves:
- Minimum 2 years of working experience in Ruby on Rails/ Python/ Node.JS.
- Strong problem-solving skills, data structures, and algorithms.
- Excellent experience on databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc.
- Familiarity with tools for code reviews, version control (GIT).
- A knack for writing clean, readable Ruby/ Python/Node.JS code.
- Experience in application server hosting and monitoring.
- Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application.
Nice to Have:
- Hands-on with search platforms (Solr, Elasticsearch, etc).
- Prior experience with microservices-based architecture/SOA/distributed systems.
- Able to implement automated testing platforms and unit tests.
- Experience with common AWS service EC2, RDS, S3, SES, etc.
Key Competencies:
- Building Effective Team
- Solving Problems Creatively
- Learning Agility
- Drive For Result

- 3+ years of experience with Ruby On Rails.
- Strong Project & Time Management Skills, along with the ability to apply these skills while working independently, or as part of a team.
- Knowledge of blockchain technology, smart contracts and cryptocurrency will be an added advantage
- Experience in fintech domain will be another added advantage
- Bachelor’s degree in computer programming, computer science, or a related field.
- Fluency or understanding of specific languages, such as Java, PHP, or Python, and operating systems may be required.




Managing & mentoring a team of 5+ people
Ability to deliver projects/sprints on time
Obsessed with quality: Design reviews, code reviews, testing (system/performance)
Spending at least 50% time with hands-on coding while doing the above
Programming
Hands on experience with design and implementation of of WebApps and APIs using a PHP based framework (such as Laravel, Code Igniter, Cake or similar)
In addition to PHP, hands-on with a Python or node.js based framework
Good understanding of SQL (mySQL, postgres or similar. including clustering)
Good understanding of one no-SQL
Comfortable producing and refactoring code without assistance
Understands different major language paradigms (object oriented / functional /reactive)
Can reason about complexity of algorithms (time and space)
Basic CI/CD and DevOps



