



We are hiring for a Software Engineer Team Lead - Backend, to join our education-focused fintech lending startup, GrayQuest. Our core product is a combination of a lending product, a rewards product and an insurance product to redefine the education fees payment across the country.
You will be joining a young and vibrant team of developers who are pushing the boundaries of consumer financing through technology.
Key Responsibilities :
- Participate in all stages of the Software Development Lifecycle
- Develop back-end components, services, and APIs. Support integration of user-facing elements, and collaborate closely with the design and front-end development team.
- Write elegant, effective, and scalable code while maintaining the highest level of coding standards.
- Take complete ownership of projects and ensure timely deliveries
- Ability to debug, refine, review, and deploy code
- Work closely with the QA team to test, and document project features.
- Ability to interact with all stakeholders. Understand business requirements, and effectively convert them into technical specifications
- Mentor junior developers and participate in peer Review
Requirements:
- Demonstrable experience as a Python Developer (3+ years)
- Strong knowledge of Python frameworks (Django Rest, Flask)
- Experience working on REST APIs
- Strong knowledge of SQL and JavaScript
- Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Working knowledge of React
- Familiarity with Agile development methodology
- Good understanding of task breakup, milestone definition, and work delegation.
- Past experience of working in a fintech/financial services domain or a consumer internet startup will be preferable but not required
- Work experience in early-stage startups (0 ->1) is a big plus
- Bachelors or equivalent degree from premier institutes is a plus
- Most importantly, the biggest skill we look for our prospective candidates is "Learnability" - how quickly can you learn.
Why is this a great opportunity for the right candidate:
- Work with a young dynamic core team backed by marquee investors from the financial services space
- Work on a product/business that has achieved product market fit and take it to scale
- Equity compensation and competitive market salaries
- Work environment that prioritizes talent, hustle and dedication
We will also ensure we give a preference to applicants who directly email us with their background/context and why they think they should be a strong candidate for this position at GrayQuest. Email us at work (at the rate) grayquest (dot) com and cc Sonal (at the rate)grayquest (dot) com

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About Grey chain (https://greychaindesign.com/)
A Generative AI-as-a-service, Mobile & Digital Transformation firm helping organizations reimagine user experiences with Disruptive & Transformational thinking and partnership.
Trusted by: UNICEF, BOSE, KFINTECH, WHO and many Fortune 500 Companies
Home of over 110 Product Engineering nerds building the next generation of Digital Products.Primary Industries: Banking & Financial Services, Non-Profits, Retail & eCommerce, Consumer Goods and Consulting.
Your Responsibilities
As a Software Engineer, your key responsibilities will include:
1. Design and develop high-volume Tech applications, delivering high-availability
and performance.
2. Ensure successful delivery of all technology tasks assigned with high quality.
Developing and executing as per the project plans.
3. Contribute in all phases of the development lifecycle: concept, design, build,
deploy, test, release to app stores and support.
4. Diagnose performance issues, fix bugs (including crashes and ANRs) to increase
the functionality of the application.
5. A proven team member and individual contributor with strong analytical skills.
6. Write well designed, testable, efficient code.
7. Bring innovative ideas to meet our company’s technical needs and enhance
applications by identifying opportunities for improvements.
8. Communicate key project data to team members and building cohesion amongst
team members.
The Skills you’ll need
In order to be successful in this role, you must have the following skills & experience:
1. Hands on experience in designing and developing applications using Java and
frameworks available for it.
2. Object oriented programming experience using common design patterns.
3. Experience in handling external and embedded databases.
4. Knowledge of JVM, its drawbacks, weaknesses and workarounds.
5. Advanced level technical knowledge of Core Java (Classloading, Memory
Management, Transaction Management etc.)
6. Experience in SpringBoot/SpringCloud framework.
7. Working knowledge of Relational Databases, SQL and ORM technologies (Like
Hibernate).
8. Understanding of maven
9. Familiarity with microservices.
10.Experience using Gitlab or similar environment.
11.Good understanding of Agile methodology.
12.Proven analytical and problem-solving skills.
13.Good communication skills and ability to interact effectively at all levels across
technology teams.
Job Summary:
We are looking for a skilled and motivated Backend Engineer with 2 to 4 years of professional experience to join our dynamic engineering team. You will play a key role in designing, building, and maintaining the backend systems that power our products. You’ll work closely with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable, secure, and high-performance solutions that align with business and user needs.
This role is ideal for engineers ready to take ownership of systems, contribute to architectural decisions, and solve complex backend challenges.
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Key Responsibilities:
- Design, build, and maintain robust backend systems and APIs that are scalable and maintainable.
- Collaborate with product, frontend, and DevOps teams to deliver seamless, end-to-end solutions.
- Model and manage data using SQL (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL databases (e.g., MongoDB, Redis), incorporating caching where needed.
- Implement and manage authentication, authorization, and data security practices.
- Write clean, well-documented, and well-tested code following best practices.
- Work with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) to deploy, monitor, and scale services effectively.
- Use tools like Docker (and optionally Kubernetes) for containerization and orchestration of backend services.
- Maintain and improve CI/CD pipelines for faster and safer deployments.
- Monitor and debug production issues, using observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK) for root cause analysis.
- Participate in code reviews, contribute to improving development standards, and provide support to less experienced engineers.
- Work with event-driven or microservices-based architecture, and optionally use technologies like GraphQL, WebSockets, or message brokers such as Kafka or RabbitMQ when suitable for the solution.
Requirements:
- 2 to 4 years of professional experience as a Backend Engineer or similar role.
- Proficiency in at least one backend programming language (e.g., Python, Java, Go, Ruby, etc.).
- Strong understanding of RESTful API design, asynchronous programming, and scalable architecture patterns.
- Solid experience with both relational and NoSQL databases, including designing and optimizing data models.
- Familiarity with Docker, Git, and modern CI/CD workflows.
- Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure and deployment processes (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
- Exposure to monitoring, logging, and performance profiling practices in production environments.
- A good understanding of security best practices in backend systems.
- Strong problem-solving, debugging, and communication skills.
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced, agile environment with evolving priorities.

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Proven software development experience in PHP
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Understanding of open source projects like Laravel, Drupal, Mysqletc
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Demonstrable knowledge of web technologies including HTML, CSS, Javascript, AJAX etc
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Good knowledge of relational databases, version control tools and of developing web services
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Experience in common third-party APIs (Google, Facebook, Ebay etc)
Position Overview: We are looking for a senior developer who must be capable of building services using modern microservices architecture with NodeJS & serverless frameworks. Should have strong knowledge of ObjectOriented Concepts, and Node. Js frameworks like loopback, RDBMS, and microservice patterns. The candidate should be comfortable with application coding based on design and specifications, and also be comfortable working with JSON and RESTful services. The candidate must be a top-notch developer committed to keeping learning new things and becoming an integral part of and fostering growth within our development team.
Roles & Responsibilities:
- Developing and maintaining the backend systems that support the application
- Designing and implementing APIs and Microservices architecture to handle the application workload
- Developing and optimizing queries for RDBMS (MySQL) to manage data and ensure performance and scalability
- Managing and deploying the application on AWS using Lambda, ECS and other related services
- Collaborating with front-end developers to ensure smooth communication between front-end and back-end systems and back-end systems
- Writing clean, neat and reusable code that follows coding standards and best practices.
- Participating in code reviews and ensuring that coding standards are maintained
- Troubleshooting and debugging issues that arise in production environments
- Optimizing the application for performance, scalability, and security
- Continuously learning and staying up-to-date with the latest technologies and best practices in software development
- Documenting technical specifications, processes, and system design
Our client is looking out for an Associate Architect who has strong experience in to Technology
You will be involving in design, coding &scaling the product.
Collaborate with cross functional teams to solve complex problems.
You will be designing large scale distributed system.
Requirements:
8+ years of hands-on experience in developing, designing & scaling complex systems
Programming experience in Java, spring, Hibernate and MongoDb, micro services

Job Location : Mumbai / Bangalore
Expereince : 3 to 8 Years
JD :
Hands on experience in Python in 2.x and 3.x versions
- Developed and deployed services in AWS serverless Architecture
- Developed REST API’s using serverless framework, AWS Lambda, API Gateway
- Developed queue and notification services using AWS components - SQS, SNS
- Implemented authorization and authentication using AWS Cognito pool
- Developed Facial recognition systems using AWS Rekognition
- Hands on experience in Flask, Tornado, Quartz framework
- Hands on experience in designing and working on MicroService & Monolithic architecture
- Basic understanding of front-end technologies HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery
Mongo dB experience is must
Required Qualifications and Skills:
- 3-5 years of work experience in the development background, with at least 2 years experience in Java, Spring, Sprint Boot, Hibernate or JPA, MySQL, Oracle, Spring MVC.
- B.E. degree in Computer Science, Graduate in Software Engineering or equivalent
- Experience in Core JAVA, Spring, Spring Boot Frameworks.
- Experience with ORM's like Hibernate.
- Good knowledge of developing RESTful web services using Spring Boot, Java1.x,Servlet2.4, JSP2.0, JDBC3.0, Java Mail, Struts2.x, HTML, HTML5, Angular7+, JavaScript, JSF, Bootstrap2.x-3.x, JQuery & CSS 3.x, Maven 3.x, Apache Tomcat7
- Knowledge of Cloud AWS.
- Experience in any Messaging Queue e.g. Apache Kafka, ActiveMQ, etc.
- Experience on Web services with REST and SOAP.
- Experience working on tool set like Eclipse IDE, SQL clients.
- Experience using application server like Jboss, TomCat, Wildfly, glassfish.
- Experience in using tools like SOAP UI, POSTMAN
- Ability to write SQL queries to fetch data.
- Knowledge of Micro services, Redis Cache and Mongo DB (or any other NoSQL) is good to have


- Should be very strong Scala development(Coding)
- With Any combination of Java/Python/Spark/Bigdata
- 3+ years experience in Core Java/Scala with good understanding of multithreading
- The candidate must be good with Computer Science fundamentals
- Exposure to python/perl and Unix / K-Shell scripting
- Code management tools such as Git/Perforce.
- Experience with large batch-oriented systems
- DB2/Sybase or any RDBMS
- Prior experience with financial products, particularly OTC Derivatives
- Exposure to counterparty risk, margining, collateral or confirmation systems





