Tech Lead (Java)

What’s the opportunity?

Are you a backend developer looking to fast-track your learning and growth? Have you looked at world-class products like Asana, Notion, or Airtable, and felt “I wish I were part of the early team that built these products”?

We’re a team that has previously built and rolled out globally successful SaaS products used by tens of thousands of customers. We’re laser-focused on delivering a world-class product again, and looking for an ambitious backend engineer to join our existing team of 9 engineers. 

If it excites you to think of a fast-paced start-up environment, building something big from scratch, breaking down new problems, creating new APIs, working on performance issues, getting hands-on with DevOps initiatives, and showcasing demos of your work every Friday with a happy and passionate team, then this is the right opportunity for you.

Some of the tech problems you get to work on as a backend engineer would be to build the backend for a modern spreadsheet experience from scratch, work on infra as code, write robust code that is fault-tolerant, work on performant code that adheres to SLOs set by the organization.

About you:

● 3- 5 years of experience

● Expertise in the following areas ○ Java ○ HTTP Protocol

● You’ve heard of or worked with some of the following tech stacks/products ○ Spring ○ PostgreSQL ○ Redis ○ Docker ○ Message brokers ○ GitHub

● These non-functional areas are familiar to you ○ Performance ○ Debugging ○ Log management

Nice to have:

● Familiarity with AWS

What’s in it for me?

● Great opportunity: We genuinely care about everyone we hire. You’ll learn new things and grow no matter how experienced you are; you will be working with founders who have more than three decades of collective experience in building significant B2B SaaS startups.

● Great team: Work with a world-class, high-velocity team that truly embodies the values of empathy, curiosity, and customer-centricity. Check out the MTT(Meet The Team) videos on our LinkedIn.

● Great culture: An open, fun, and exciting startup culture that empowers its people to champion big problems with the freedom to think and innovate.

● Growth: You could easily and quickly transition into other roles you might like.

● Impact: You get to be part of a global, passionate team in a fast-paced and growth-oriented environment. The team has a work philosophy of being high on ambition, ownership, and a bias for action.

● Monetary rewards and benefits: Competitive stipend, flexible leave policy, and more

Engineering Lead (Backend/Full stack)

About

It is a mission-oriented high-growth fintech startup building payment &

lending products to simplify education payments. Jodo’s suite of products make education payments convenient & affordable for parents while simplifying & streamlining fee collections for educational institutes. Jodo aims to be a category-defining company with a mission to be a

trusted partner to parents in fulfilling their aspirations for their kids’ education.

We are backed by marquee VC investors – Tiger Global, Elevation Capital and Matrix Partners – to realize this mission. It is started by three co-founders who have a pedigreed education

(IIT/IIM) and professional background (Nomura, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Barclays, Matrix Partners).

🎬Job Description:

We are looking for an Engineering Leader with a focus on building maintainable and scalable applications. The Lead will be responsible for the design and development of Jodo’s fee payments platform and be owning one of the products/verticals. Leads will be closely working

with Product Managers and Founders to execute projects from ideation to completion. As a hands-on Team Lead, you will take ownership of services/systems and guide a team of

developers.

📈Key Responsibilities

● Own and drive the development of one or more of Jodo’s products

● Take the lead in the design and development of the backend platform

● Mentor a team of developers, promote collaboration and engagement, and promote practices that improve the developer experience

● Work closely with Product Managers and Founders to brainstorm requirements and prioritize

● Own quality - actively participate in code reviews

● Own reliability - continuously monitor Production Health, proactively fix production issues

● Own execution - Plan and delegate work for the team, optimize for speed of development and incremental delivery

📃Requirements

● 6+ years of hands-on experience in application development

● 1+ years of leading a team

● Experience in working with distributed systems

● Proficient in building Microservices/RESTful APIs with any modern tech stack

● Working knowledge of relational and nonrelational databases

● Prior working knowledge of Python/Django is a big plus

● Familiarity with modern CI/CD tools

● Knowledge of AWS or any other Cloud Platform services

● Champion code quality and drive best practices

● Ability to analyze and convert business requirements into technical requirements

● Self-starter and ability to take the ownership

● Prior experience working in a startup environment is great to have

● Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

🤩Benefits

● Becoming a part of the early core team

● Competitive salary

● Work with colleagues from strong backgrounds & hungry to succeed

● Opportunity to interact with and learn from high-pedigree investors & mentors -

○ VCs: Elevation Capital (erstwhile SAIF Partners), Matrix Partners

○ Select angel investors: Kunal Shah, Nithin Kamath, Amit Ranjan

🔎What are we looking for?

● Self-starter with a high sense of ownership → Comfortable to work with minimal

supervision

● Hungry to learn and grow → Passion to learn & be a better version of oneself; motivated to succeed

● Bias for action → Have the temperament to experiment and execute in uncertainty

● Hustler → Ability to generate resources to solve a problem

● Intellectual honesty → Always seeking and presenting truth irrespective of personal

POV or beliefs

● Mission-oriented → Deeply care about delivering value and making an impact on customer’s lives

✅Key Details

● Role: Engineering Lead

● Location: Bengaluru

● Compensation: Negotiable based on candidate profile (structured as Fixed + ESOPs)

● Date of Joining: ASAP

Backend .Net Developers

Vizag/Hyderabad/Remote

Contract / Fulltime

UK shift : 2- 11 PM IST

Exp Level: 6-10 years

Details:

.Net Core

C#

Experience in developing Microservices.

Experience deploying MicroServices in Docker containers

MVC or other design patterns

Container services in AWS/Azure

Experience with MS-SQL or Postgress

Knowledge on Message Queuing

EXCELLENT COMMUNICATION MUST

This role is a US Client facing, hence we need someone with excellent communication skills and also someone with prior US Client facing experience.

Interview Process:

Online Assessment

Call with our VP

End Customer Interview

*forward your resume to (ambikadotj@semperfidotcodotin)(dot - .)

) 2+yrs of strong experience in Java/J2EE technologies (Core Java, Spring, Springboot, Hibernate, 

JPA, Microservices)  

*) Experience with working on Java 8.0 and its emerging road map for 11  

*) Hands on experience in Springboot and good knowledge of MySQL, MongoDB  

*) Hands on experience in working with Angular 6 and above. Experience working with product 

management and UI/UX designers having knowledge of advanced Javascript, JQuery  

*) Working knowledge on components, modules, data/event bindings, templates, using and creating 

directives, writing routes, services, forms and models  

*) Solid understanding of the full frontend and backend development life cycle  

*) Strong experience in Spring Framework (Spring MVC, Spring security, Spring data, OAuth)  

*) Experience with Webservices (SOAP and REST) and API integration. Good knowledge of JSON and 

Swagger and Postman is required  

*) Experience with web application servers like Tomcat, Jetty, JBoss. Knowledge of Kafka with MQTT 

would be an added advantage  

*) Experience with TDD, code testability standards, JUnit  

*) Experience in managing configurations and deploying and hosting applications in AWS  

*) Experience with DevOps tools like Git, Maven, SourceTree, Jenkins, Docker and CICD model of 

development   

Key Responsibilities

• Back-end Implementation: Authorization, Authentication, Modular design
• Application Development: Documentation, code quality, Unit Testing, Optimization, Bug fixing.)
• Back-end Operations (build tools, deployment, speed: (app, tests, builds, deploys), monitoring errors/logs, and stability).
• Review the created data model & ask any necessary clarifying questions before starting on work
• Write API code to implement the action on visual elements.
• Develop Json Web Services and Web applications.
• Create prototypes and staging sites for review and feedback
• Optimize websites and applications to ensure fast loading speeds
• Maintain websites and implement any necessary additions or enhancements
• Identify and troubleshoot various website issues and coding problems
• Collaborate with members of the website team, including designers and front-end developers, to consistently improve functionality and user-friendliness of web applications
• Maintain updated knowledge of the development industry and any advancements in technology
• Meet tight deadlines as required
• Knowledge of the common application/web security and OWASP vulnerabilities.
• Knowledge of the encryption algorithms to protect sensitive information.
• Knowledge of PII, PCI, HIPPA, and GDPR compliance and how to implement.
• Understanding of security breaches of data-in-transit and data-at-rest and knowledge in implementation for both.
• Knowledge/Aware of finding the vulnerabilities of the third-party components/libraries used in the application and remediating vulnerabilities.

 

 

Technical Skills: Java,Spring boot, Rest API, Json, JPA and/or Hibernate, SQL, AWS

Database : MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, MongoDB

Other : Tomcat, Eclipse, Oauth, JWT, Git.