Software Engineer

Roles:

• Developing core infrastructure in Python, Django.
• Developing models and business logic (e. g. transactions, payments, diet plan, search, etc).
• Architecting servers and services that enable new product features.
• Building out newly enabled product features

• Minimum 4 years of industry or open-source experience.
• Proficient in at least one OO language: Python(preferred)/Golang/Java.
• Writing high-performance, reliable and maintainable code.
• Good knowledge of database structures, theories, principles, and practices.
• Experience working with AWS components [EC2, S3, RDS, SQS, ECS, Lambda].

• Design and build user-facing products, owning the entire process from gathering functional requirements from teams, through testing and staging, to deploying in a Python based stack
• Guide the team in making technical trade-offs
• Proactively identify bottlenecks, areas for improvement and put forth a plan to course-correct
• Design and implement maintainable backend services, including data processing pipelines, APIs and internal tools
• Coordinating with internal teams to understand user requirements and provide technical solutions

About Tazapay Tazapay is founded by 3 seasoned professionals with extensive experience in payments, ecommerce, technology, cross border trade and high growth technology businesses. The company is financially backed by the likes of Sequoia Capital, Saison Capital, RTP Global etc. We https://tazapay.com/ are a Singapore-based b2b and payments startup enabling small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to conduct cross-border commerce securely. We believe the world will look very different after this pandemic, as it did after the second world war and the financial crisis of 2008. We foresee a gigantic acceleration towards digitalization. Especially in the B2B space which has lagged behind B2C peers. The pandemic will change that equation

Responsibilities

• Design, write and deliver highly scalable, reliable and fault tolerant systems with minimal guidance

• Participate in code and design reviews to maintain our high development standards

Partner with the product management team to define and execute the feature roadmap Translate business requirements into scalable and extensible design

• Proactively manage stakeholder communication related to deliverables, risks, changes and dependencies

• Coordinate with cross functional teams (Mobile, DevOps, Data, UX, QA etc.) on planning and execution

• Continuously improve code quality, product execution, and customer delight

• Willingness to learn new languages and methodologies

• An enormous sense of ownership

• Engage in service capacity and demand planning, software performance analysis, tuning and optimization

The Ideal Candidate Education

• Degree in Computer Science or equivalent with 5+ years of experience in commercial software development in large distributed systems Experience

• Hands-on experience in designing, developing, testing and deploying applications on Golang, Ruby,Python, .Net Core or Java for large scale applications

• Deep knowledge of Linux as a production environment

• Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, distributed systems, and asynchronous architectures

• Expert in at least 1 of the following languages: Golang, Python, Ruby, Java, C, C++

• Proficient in OOP, including design patterns.

• Ability to design and implement low latency RESTful services

• Hands-on coder who has built backend services that handle high volume traffic.

• Strong understanding of system performance and scaling

• Possess excellent communication, sharp analytical abilities with proven design skills, able to think critically of the current system in terms of growth and stability

• Data modeling experience in both Relational and NoSQL databases

• Continuously refactor applications to ensure high-quality design

• Ability to plan, prioritize, estimate and execute releases with good degree of predictability

• Ability to scope, review and refine user stories for technical completeness and to alleviate dependency risks

• Passion for learning new things, solving challenging problems

Nice to have

• Familiarity with Golang ecosystem

• Familiarity with running web services at scale; understanding of systems internals and networking are a plus

• Be familiar with HTTP/HTTPS communication protocols. Abilities and Traits

• Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines

• Ability to provide exceptional attention to details of the product.

• Ability to focus for extended periods of repetitious activity.

• Ability to think ahead and anticipate problems, issues and solutions

• Work well as a team player and help the team members to resolve issues

• Be committed to quality and be structured in approach

• Excellent and demonstrable concept formulation, logical and analytical skills

• Excellent planning, organizational, and prioritization skills

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: upto 20LPA

What are the Key Responsibilities:

• Responsibilities include writing and testing code, debugging programs, and integrating applications with third-party web services. 
• Write effective, scalable code
• Develop back-end components to improve responsiveness and overall performance
• Integrate user-facing elements into applications
• Improve functionality of existing systems
• Implement security and data protection solutions
• Assess and prioritize feature requests
• Creates customized applications for smaller tasks to enhance website capability based on business needs
• Ensures web pages are functional across different browser types; conducts tests to verify user functionality
• Verifies compliance with accessibility standards
• Assists in resolving moderately complex production support problems

What are we looking for:

• 3+ Years of work experience as a Python Developer
• Expertise in at least one popular Python framework: Django
• Knowledge of NoSQL databases (Elastic search, MongoDB)
• Familiarity with front-end technologies like JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3
• Familiarity with Apache Kafka will give you an edge over others
• Good understanding of the operating system and networking concepts
• Good analytical and troubleshooting skills
• Graduation/Post Graduation in Computer Science / IT / Software Engineering
• Decent verbal and written communication skills to communicate with customers, support personnel, and management

What will I be doing? 👩‍💻👨‍💻

Leading parts of the product from inception to launch, and own large parts of the product’s execution.
Working with our Sales and frontend team to build products with the goal of delighting and increasing the success of our users.
Architecting, building, testing, and releasing product-facing features.
Contributing to our side projects and free tools for the education industry.

What do I need? 🤓

1-2 years of industry experience in a software engineering role, preferably building a SaaS product. You can demonstrate significant impact that your work has had on the product and/or the team.
Deep knowledge of a high-level programming language (for example, PHP, Python, etc.) but it doesn’t need to be a language that we use here! Great people are effective and learn what we use quickly (or introduce us to better ways of working)
Deep knowledge of SQL Databases
Experience with scalable distributed systems, both built from scratch as well as on AWS primitives
Willingness to learn and use new technologies
Extremely data-driven
Ability to debug complex systems

Brownie points 🍰

Using a framework (for example, Laravel, Code Igniter, Django)
Understanding of containerisation (Docker/Kubernetes) along with ability to deploy to AWS ECS (or similar tools)

Feel free to apply even if you feel unsure about whether you meet every single requirement in this posting. As long as you're a quick learner, and are excited about changing the status quo for tech recruitment, we're happy to support you as you come up to speed with our tech stack.

Perks 😍

Flexible vacation
Take a tutorial, on us
Monthly remote meals

Tech stack 🔨

PHP
Laravel
NodeJS
VueJS
Ionic Angular
Digital Ocean
AWS
MySQL

Why Classcard? 🚀

We are still in the early stages of our journey. You will be working closely with our users, acting on both their feedback and what our data says. Things you build here will have tremendous impact on both our business and Classcard as a company.
What happens after I apply? 🤔

1. Quick phone call with a member of our engineering team to find out more about your experience and why you want to work at Classcard.

2. Video interview:

   Technical discussion with a senior engineer
   Pairing on an interesting problem
   Meet the founders