
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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Our AI agents identify what your audience is looking for, create content that answers those questions, and structure it so Google and AI systems can easily understand and recommend it. We also strengthen your online credibility through strategic backlinks and a strong social presence.
Everything is guided by real-time data. We focus on what works, remove what does not, and keep your content working around the clock. The result is simple: the right people can find you, trust you, and reach out when they need what you offer.
The Role
We need a Senior Engineer who ships production code that scales. You'll be the technical anchor—building critical infrastructure, solving complex problems, and mentoring junior developers through code reviews and pair programming.
You'll shape our future in four key ways: writing the code that becomes our foundation, being a key voice in engineering hiring decisions, helping establish the processes and patterns everyone follows, and having significant input on product decisions—your technical perspective directly influences what we build, not just how we build it. This isn't about managing people or writing performance reviews—it's about technical leadership through excellence.
What's in it for you:
- Own mission-critical systems end-to-end — Your code directly generates customer revenue
- Skip the politics, ship products — No layers of approval, no enterprise bureaucracy
- Shape product direction — Your technical insights influence product strategy, not just implementation
- Learn cutting-edge AI in production — Work with LLMs, vector databases, and agent orchestration at scale
- Shape technical decisions and processes — Your input matters on how we build, not just what
- Accelerated growth path — As we scale, you choose: become our technical lead or remain a deeply influential IC
- Direct founder access — Collaborate on product vision, not just execute specs
Location: Janakpuri, Delhi (Hybrid - Maker's Schedule)
Our Work Philosophy:
We follow the Maker's Schedule, not the Manager's Schedule. This means uninterrupted blocks of deep work when you're building, and high-bandwidth collaboration when we're solving problems together.
In Practice:
- In-office days: Whiteboard architecture sessions, rapid product iterations, deep dives into product strategy, complex debugging that needs three minds on one problem
- Deep work days: Uninterrupted coding from wherever you work best—home, office, or that coffee shop with perfect noise levels
- Balance by design: We optimize for both intense collaboration and deep focus
The best technical breakthroughs happen in two modes: intense in-person collaboration where ideas bounce rapidly, and deep solo work where complex problems get solved. We protect both.
Responsibilities
Technical Excellence
- Build production systems that handle millions of AI operations daily
- Write complex integrations that others can't figure out
- Solve scaling problems before they become emergencies
- Implement robust error handling and monitoring
- Own critical infrastructure components end-to-end
Architecture & Code Quality
- Design APIs that won't need v2 in 6 months
- Make pragmatic technical decisions (boring tech when appropriate)
- Help establish engineering processes—from code review to deployment
- Create patterns and standards other engineers can follow
- Lead code reviews that teach, not just critique
- Balance shipping speed with technical sustainability
Hiring & Technical Assessment
- Conduct technical interviews for engineering roles
- Design practical coding assessments that test real skills
- Provide strong input on hire/no-hire decisions
- Partner with founders on technical requirements for roles
- Help close strong candidates by selling the technical vision
Mentorship & Collaboration
- Pair with junior developers on complex problems
- Share knowledge through code reviews and documentation
- Unblock teammates when they're stuck
- Work directly with founders on technical strategy
- Partner with product team on feature design and technical feasibility
- Turn product ideas into technical specifications
- Work directly with founders on technical strategy
- Turn product ideas into technical specifications
Requirements
Must Have
- 5-7 years of software engineering experience
- Expert-level Python development skills
- Production experience with LLMs (OpenAI, Anthropic, not just prototypes)
- Built systems that scaled (and dealt with the failures)
- Strong debugging skills—you fix what others can't
- API design that makes sense to other developers
- Git workflows and collaborative development
Strong Advantages
- Previous early-stage startup experience
- Production experience with vector databases (Pinecone, Weaviate, pgvector)
- Elasticsearch or search infrastructure expertise
- Built revenue-generating AI/ML systems
- Experience with high-volume data pipelines
- Contributed to open source projects
- Informal mentorship or tech lead experience
Tech Stack
- Backend: Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL
- AI/ML: OpenAI APIs, LangChain, Vector DBs
- Infrastructure: AWS, Docker, GitHub Actions
- Search: Elasticsearch (evaluating alternatives)
What We Offer
- Early employee equity and financial upside
- No bureaucracy—your code ships to production
- Work on genuinely hard technical problems
- Learn from and contribute to cutting-edge AI systems
- Clear growth path as the team scales
Role & Responsibilities:
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Handle multiple products/modules simultaneously, lead the team in development and support
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Lead development teams
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Daily updates to customers and Product Managers/Delivery Managers
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Participate in design discussions
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Design and Architect small modules
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Effort estimations for modules, subsystems or use cases.
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Learn new skills and mentor the new team members
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Champion best practices within the team, including code reviews
Work Experience & Skills:
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B.E/B.Tech or any relevant Masters degree from reputed college.
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Strong 5+ years of experience in Java, J2EE, Spring IOC, Spring Annotations, Spring, JDBC, Jquery, Java script, HTML 5 and CSS
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Strong experience in Postgres or any SQL technology
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Experience with working on Tomcat, Apache, JBoss or any similar application server
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Should have 3+ years of experience in leading team.
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Good experience in JSON / RESTful API / Web Services.
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Experience in working on Agile methodology using Scrum and sprints
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Experience in using build tools, Maven, GIT, Bugzilla or similar tools.
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Experience in cloud technologies, Microservices and frameworks such as AWS or GPC,
container technologies like Docker is a plus.
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Ability to adapt to new development environments, changing business requirements and learning new systems highly desired
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Experience in Microservices, SpringBoot and Angular is a plus.
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Experience with tuning deployed applications for scalability and performance.
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Good knowledge of deployment and scripting on Linux/Unix servers
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Strong technical documentation skills.
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Good oral and written communication skills
Job Description
Job Description SQL DBA - Trainee Analyst/Engineer
Experience : 0 to 1 Years
No.of Positions: 2
Job Location: Bangalore
Notice Period: Immediate / Max 15 Days
The candidate should have strong SQL knowledge, Here are few points
- Implement and maintain the database design
- Create database objects (tables, indexes, etc.)
- Write database procedures, functions, and triggers
Good soft skills are a must (written and verbal communication)
Good team player
Ability to work in a 24x7 support model (rotation basis)
Strong fundamentals in Algorithms, OOPs and Data Structure
Should be flexible to support multiple IT platform
Analytical Thinking
Additional Information :
Functional Area: IT Software - DBA, Datawarehousing
Role Category: Admin/ Maintenance/ Security/ Datawarehousing
Role: DBA
Education :
B.Tech/ B.E
Skills
SQL DBA, IMPLEMENTATION, SQL, DBMS, DATA WAREHOUSING
Looking candidated from service base or service division of any company.
Minimum Qualification:
- Hands-on working on Java ( {Language understanding - Java 8, Lambdas, Collections, popular frameworks & libraries}, JVM, GC tuning, performance tuning)
- Worked on REST frameworks/libraries like Spring MVC, Spring Boot, Dropwizard, REST Express etc
- Worked on Relational data stores viz. MySQL, Oracle or Postgres
- Worked on Non-relational data stores viz. Cassandra, HBase, Couchbase, MongoDB etc
- Worked on caching infra viz. Redis, Memcached, Aerospike, Riak etc
- Worked on Queueing infra viz. Kafka, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ etc
inai is building the future of payments
inai is Segment for payments. We make the lives of digital/online merchants easier
by enabling them to manage their payments’ stack in a low-touch / no-code
fashion. Merchants can now future proof their payment stack and break out of the
consistent trade-off between a great checkout experience and the flexibility
required to maintain the same.
inai was founded by serial entrepreneurs who have decades of experience in
finance and tech. inai has been backed by marquee investors including Kunal
Shah, Razorpay, the first investors in Square/Twitter, and other stellar investors.
Background
Back-end engineers will build the core of inai’s platform which comprises of 3
broad teams:
• Front-end: handle the checkout experience for our merchants and the
dashboard their product teams would be using daily
• Integrations: that handle our integrations with various payment processors,
wallets, BNPLs, analytics providers, fraud and risk providers and accounting
software.
• Platform: The glue that holds it all together. APIs will be the norm, databases
your core, scalability, reliability, and system design your everyday concern.
You will
• Develop APIs to integrate with 3rd party systems — primarily in the payments
domain
• Work closely with our front end and integrations engineering teams and also
with our colleagues across the globe.
• Take ownership for the modules you develop and key technology decisions,
and customer issues.
• Contribute towards documentation (internal and customer-facing), code
reviews, tooling, and processes.
You will have
• 2 to 8 years experience as a full stack engineer. Atleast 1+ years in handling
payments recently.
• Experience in working with 3rd party APIs. You should be able to peruse 3rd
party API documentation and retro-fit the APIs with the platform team.
• Experience writing APIs in Python, relational databases
• Can communicate and interact with a larger team
• Experience in working with multiple payment gateways or integrating them
• Experience with handling payment tokens.
Good-to-have
• Experience with OpenAPI, JSON API specs
Benefits
• Health insurance for you and your loved ones - on us.
• Work-life balance: Our success will not come at the expense of your work-life
balance
• Grow with us: Working in the intersection of fintech and SaaS, you will have
all the opportunities to grow in this thriving sector.
• Work from Home: We will help set up your home in your residence in India.
Inai will continue to operate remotely till the situation returns back to normal.
● Strong programming skills in designing and implementation of multi-tier applications using web-based technologies like Spring MVC andSpring Boot.
● Knowledge in Spring Core such as Dependency Injection,Annotations and XML based Configurations.
● Knowledge in Spring JDBC & Spring Hibernate ORM.
● Good experience in developing applications with RESTFul Web Services.
● Knowledge in technologies like Apache Tomcat 7.0/8.0/8.5, Nginx
● Expertise in MySQL database technology
● Proficient at designing dynamic web applications using HTML5,
CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery, AJAX, JSON with responsive web applications using Bootstrap.
● Knowledge in AngularJS, Angular 2+ practices in commonly used
modules and creating reusable Components, Pipes and Services.
● Experienced in version control tools like GIT and ticket tracking platforms like Redmine, Backlog, etc.
An ideal candidate should have well-rounded experience (5-10 years) in various technologies - backend/web development (Python/Django), DevOps, Android and iOS - or at least 2 out of the above
The person would be managing an expanding team of developers and guide the product development, along with contributing significantly to the core decisions of the company.
An entrepreneurial spirit, and the passion to make a difference in the healthcare ecosystem of the country is recommended.
The candidate will be well compensated with a combination of cash + equity, depending on experience and expertise.








