Software Engineer - Backend
Job Description
Introduction
Cashflo, true to its name, is on a mission to unlock $100+ billion of trapped working
capital in the economy by creating India’s largest marketplace for invoice discounting
to solve the day-to-day cashflow problems faced by businesses. Founded by ex-BCG
and ISB / IIM alumni, and backed by SAIF Partners, Cashflo helps democratize access
to credit in a fair and transparent manner. Awarded Supply Chain Finance solution of
the year in 2019, Cashflo creates a win-win ecosystem for Buyers, suppliers and
financiers through its unique platform model. Cashflo shares its parentage with HCS
Ltd., a 25-year-old, highly reputed financial services company has raised over Rs.
15,000 Crores in the market till date, for over 200 corporate clients.
Our leadership team consists of ex-BCG, ISB / IIM alumni with a team of industry
veterans from financial services serving as the advisory board. We bring to the table
deep insights in the SME lending space, based on 100+ years of combined experience
in Financial Services. We are a team of passionate problem solvers, and are looking for
like-minded people to join our team.
The challenge
▪ Solve a complex $300+ billion problem at the cutting edge of Fintech
innovation, and make a tangible difference to the small business landscape
in India.
▪ Find innovative solutions for problems in a yet to be discovered market.
Key Responsibilities
▪ As an early team member, you will get a chance to set the foundations of our
engineering culture. You will help articulate our engineering principles and
help set the long-term roadmap.
▪ Making decisions on the evolution of Cashflo's technical architecture
▪ Building new features end to end, from talking to customers to writing code
Our Ideal Candidate Will Have
▪ 3+ years of full-time software engineering experience
▪ Experience building scalable backend platforms (you've owned & built
features from start to finish before)
▪ Thorough knowledge of SDLC
▪ Extensive knowledge of any of Python, Go, NodeJS
▪ Expertise on any RDBMS or NoSQL databases
▪ Understanding of messaging systems like RabbitMQ, Kafka and protocols
▪ Understands CI/CD pipelines
▪ Exposure to cloud providers like AWS, GCP or Azure
▪ Seen extensive scale and understands the evolutionary technical challenges
About You
Product-minded. You have a sense for great user experience and feel for when
something is off. You love understanding customer pain points and solving for them.
Get a lot done. You enjoy all aspects of building a product and are comfortable
moving across the stack when necessary. You problem solve independently and enjoy
figuring stuff out.
High conviction. When you commit to something, you're in all the way. You're
opinionated, but you know when to disagree and commit. Mediocrity is the worst of all
possible outcomes.
What’s in it for me
▪ Gain exposure to the Fintech space - one of the largest and fastest growing
markets in India and globally
▪ Shape India’s B2B Payments landscape through cutting edge technology
innovation
▪ Be directly responsible for driving company’s success
▪ Join a high performance, dynamic and collaborative work environment
that throws new challenges on a daily basis
▪ Fast track your career with trainings, mentoring, growth opportunities
on both IC and management track
▪ Work-life balance and fun team events
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Required Skills:
- 2.5+ year of experience in Development in JAVA technology.
- Strong Java Basics
- SpringBoot or Spring MVC
- Hands on experience on Relationl Databases (SQL query or Hibernate) + Mongo (JSON parsing)
- Proficient in REST API development
- Messaging Queue (RabitMQ or Kafka)
- Microservices
- Any Caching Mechanism
- Good at problem solving
"Shypmax is India's first & only Cross border Logistics Platform backed by a contemporary product and premium service. We are one of the first IOSS ready courier service in India, focusing on compliance with
new regulations in the European Union (EU). We deliver to 220countries in the UK, USA, South East Asia, Australia, Europe, & Canada with 70+ carrier and network partnerships placed globally with a perfect
combination of technology and optimized shipping solutions."
Job Responsibilities:
Prior experience in deploying scalable infrastructure on the cloud.
Architect, design and develop web applications using Restful Services on Node.js.
Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git.
Lead code reviews to drive teams to the highest standards for Node.js web apps.
Strong background in algorithms, data structures, database design.
Experience in Node, Redis.
Experience in cloud infrastructure like google app engine/AWS/Heroku etc.
Design and create efficient RESTful endpoints for both internal and public consumption.
Participate in regular bug fixing Intimate knowledge of Git, Github, AWS, CDNs.
Experience with creating RESTful endpoints using the REST framework.
Developing high performing REST APIs for application functionality.
Necessary Requirement:
Min -2 years of Experience with Node.js
Min -1 years webhook Integration, Api Integration .
Hands on Experience working on Node. Js
Hands on Experience in REST APIs for application functionality.
Hands on Experience in cloud infrastructure
Responsibilities-
- Participate in the entire application lifecycle, focusing on coding and debugging
- Write clean code to develop functional web applications
- Troubleshoot and debug applications
- Collaborate with Front-end developers to integrate user-facing elements with server-side logic
- Gather and address technical and design requirements
- Provide training and support to internal teams
- Build reusable code and libraries for future use
- Liaise with developers, designers to identify new features
- Follow emerging technologies
Requirements-
- Spent at least 1 yr in a solid back end role
- Experience taking a problem to a product solution (module/product)
- Prior experience working with startups and understanding the fast-paced, dynamic nature of work
Must have skillsets:
- Javascript, NodeJS
- Client-server architecture
- OOP concepts, including design patterns
- Understanding of RDBMS (MySQL, Postgresql)
- Understanding of REST API
- Familiarity with frameworks such as ExpressJs
- Knowledge of TDD frameworks mocha, chai, jest, etc
- Knowledge of AWS (Lambda, RDS, EC2, SQS, S3, ECS, etc)
- Basic knowledge of Typescript, NextJs
- Prior experience in fin-tech
- Understanding the business requirement and providing good scalable solution
- Integrating user-facing elements developed by a front-end developers with server side logic
- Building reusable code and libraries for future use
- Optimizing the application for maximum speed and scalability
- Understanding differences between multiple delivery platforms such as mobile vs desktop, and optimizing output to match the specific platform
- Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes
- Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests
What you need to have:
- Engineers from Tier 1 colleges, B.Tech/ B.E from only from Tier 1 colleges
- Extensive and expert programming experience in anyone programming language (Golang/ C/ Java).
- A solid foundation in computer science, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, software design and distributed system applications
- Experience with building and scaling apps with RDBMS as well as NoSQLs.
- Experience creating scalable Web APIs for mobile and browser consumption
- Have a penchant for solving complex and interesting problems
- Worked in start-up culture with high levels of ownership and commitment
- Excellent coding skills – should be able to convert design into code fluently
- Working knowledge of - ReactJS, React Native, Golang, MySQL, NoSQL and hosting environment is AWS
Job Description
- Design & implement backend APIs
- Mentor junior developers technically.
- Actively work to reduce tech debt in the backend
- Work towards more stability & scalability of the backend
- Tech stack - Java, AWS, Aurora etc.
Eligibility
- 4-8 years of product company experience
- OOP implementation experience. Programming language does not matter. We use Java internally but have hired folks from non Java background.
- Hands on experience in SQL, Dynamo DB, Postgres etc preferred.
- Prior experience building REST APIs
- Advanced understanding of AWS stack
- Prior knowledge of solving problems at scale.
Kindly do not apply if you have less than 4 Yrs of Experience in Python
Position(6 Months Contract in Gurugram, India) :
Sr. Software Engineer
Experience:
4+ years of relevant exp
Location:
Gurugram, India
(Note: FREE accommodation can be given in Gurgaon, India for the 6 months & 'work from home' is not allowed)
About Company:
The company for which you will be working is an online insurance provider that operates a B2C platform as well as a B2B2C platform. They are working to revolutionize the way insurance is bought in India by not only offering an online platform but also providing every customer a touchpoint with its partners. The company has been a platform for Motor, Health, Travel, & Life Insurance.
Key Competencies:
- A strong technical solutioning sense.
- Excellent experience in writing code using the following technologies: Python and Django.
- Can write elegant and performant SQL queries.
- Understand end-user requirements, formulate use cases and come up with effective solutions.
- Strong problem-solving, data structures, and algorithm design skills.
- Good understanding of REST APIs and web technologies in general.
- Very good understanding of any RDBMS like MySQL and PostgreSQL.
- Knowledge of NoSQL databases.
- Ability to build a feature from scratch & drive it to completion.
- A willingness to learn and choose new technologies with a strong justification for the choices made.
Roles/Responsibilities:
- Be involved in all aspects of development: playing a critical role in the design, planning, development, testing, and deployment.
- Help develop best practices for future development.
- Thinks and implements in the right way instead of cutting corners.
- Conceptualize, Design, and Develop new features in the product.
- Integrate user-facing elements into applications, test & debug programs
- Own the delivery of an entire piece of a system or application.
- Use technical knowledge and creative thinking to provide the most innovative solutions.
- Optimizing the performance of the components and keeping up to date with the latest industry trends
- Doing effective peer reviews where your peers learn from you every time.
- Be a great team player
If interested, please share your CV with kuldeep[dot]pandey[@]benchkart[dot]com
- NoSQL DB (MongoDB, CouchDB), PostgreSQL
- Mocha test environment
- Should JS testing framework
- Experience implementing mock services
- Nock API mocking
- NPM, Redis
- Typescript / Coffee script experience will be an added advantage
- Experience working with opensource JS projects
- Experience in developing REST API
- Source code management tool - Git / GitHub
- Understanding of TCP/IP networking and client/server web programming model
- Good communication skills
- Should be able to work with the cross-geo client team
- Strong Java software development experience – with a focus on Java 8 & 9
- Experience with NoSql databases – ideally with MongoDB
- Experience implementing REST apis – ideally with JAX-RS
- Experience with Reactive Programming – ideally with RxJava
- Experience implementing unit tests
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience developing applications in fintech or established financial institutions
- Experience with microservice architectures
- Experience developing systems that can scale to large amounts of data
- Experience working in Agile Scrum
- Experience working on a globally distributed team