Tech Lead (Python)

About us

Fisdom is one of the largest wealthtech platforms that allows investors to manage their wealth in an intuitive and seamless manner. Fisdom has a suite of products and services that takes care of every wealth requirement that an individual would have. This includes Mutual Funds, Stock Broking, Private Wealth, Tax Filing, and Pension funds

Fisdom has a B2C app and also an award-winning B2B2C distribution model where we have partnered with 15 of the largest banks in India such as Indian Bank and UCO Bank to provide wealth products to their customers. In our bank-led distribution model, our SDKs are integrated seamlessly into the bank’s mobile banking and internet banking application. Fisdom is the first wealthtech company in the country to launch a stock broking product for customers of a PSU bank.

The company is breaking down barriers by enabling access to wealth management to underserved customers. All our partners combined have a combined user base of more than 50 crore customers. This makes us uniquely placed to disrupt the wealthtech space which we believe is in its infancy in India in terms of wider adoption.

Where are we now and where are we heading towards

Founded by veteran VC-turned entrepreneur Subramanya SV(Subu) and former investment 

banker Anand Dalmia, Fisdom is backed by PayU (Naspers), Quona Capital, and Saama Capital; with $37million of total funds raised so far. Fisdom is known for its revenue and profitability focussed approach towards sustainable business.

Fisdom is the No.1 company in India in the B2B2C wealthtech space and one of the most admired companies in the fintech ecosystem for our business model. We look forward to growing the leadership position by staying focussed on product and technology innovation. 

Our technology team

Today we are a 60-member strong technology team. Everyone in the team is a hands-on engineer, including the team leads and managers. We take pride in being product engineers and we believe ‌engineers are fundamentally problem solvers first. Our culture binds us together as one cohesive unit. We stress on engineering excellence and strive to become a high talent density team. Some ‌values that we preach and practice include:

• Individual ownership and collective responsibility
• Focus on continuous learning and constant improvement in every aspect of engineering and product
• Cheer for openness, inclusivity and transparency
• Merit-based growth

What we are looking for

• Are open to work in a flat, non-hierarchical setup where daily focus is only shipping features not reporting to managers
• Experience designing highly interactive web applications with performance, scalability, accessibility, usability, design, and security in mind.
• Experience with distributed (multi-tiered) systems, algorithms, and relational and no-sql databases.
• Ability to break-down larger/fuzzier problems into smaller ones in the scope of the product
• Experience with architectural trade-offs, applying synchronous and asynchronous design patterns, and delivering with speed while maintaining quality.
• Raise the bar on sustainable engineering by improving best practices, producing best in class of code, documentation, testing and monitoring.
• Contributes in code and actively takes part in code reviews. 
• Working with the Product Owner/managers to clearly define the scope of multiple sprints. Lead/guide the team through sprint(s) scoping, resource allocation and commitment - the execution plan.
• Drives feature development end-to-end. Active partner with product, design, and peer engineering leads and managers.
• Familiarity with build, release, deployment tools such as Ant, Maven, and Gradle, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins etc.
• Effective at influencing a culture of engineering craftsmanship and excellence
• Helps the team make the right choices. Drives adoption of engineering best practices and development processes within their team.
• Understanding security and compliance.
• User authentication and authorisation between multiple systems, servers, and environments.
• Based on your experience, you may lead a small team of Engineers.

If you don't have all of these, that's ok. But be excited about learning the few you don't know.

Skills

Microservices, Engineering Management, Quality management, Technical Architecture, technical lead. Hands-on programming experience in one of languages: Python, Golang.

Additional perks

• Access to large repositories of online courses through Myacademy (includes Udemy, Coursera, Harvard ManageMentor, Udacity and many more). We strongly encourage learning something outside of work as a habit.
• Career planning support/counseling / coaching support. Both internal and external coaches.
• Relocation policy

You will not be a good fit for this role if

• you have experience of only working with services companies or have spent a major part of your time there
• you are not open to shifting to new programming language or stack but exploring a position aligned to your current technical experience
• you are not very hands-on, seek direction constantly and need continuous supervision from a manager to finish tasks
• you like to working alone and mentoring junior engineers does not interest you
• you are looking to work in very large teams

Why join us and where?

We're a small but high performing engineering team. We recognize that the work we do impacts the lives of hundreds and thousands of people. Your work will contribute significantly to our mission. We pay competitive compensation and performance bonuses. We provide a high energy work environment and  you  are  encouraged  to  play  around  new  technology  and  self-learning. You will be based out of Bangalore

Engineering Manager – Backend

Opportunity in this role / Why should you join us?

Series D funded supply chain startup.

Requirements

• Software engineering experience of greater than or equal to 7 years
• Experience managing a technical team of at least 3 people
• Exposure to consumer facing products
• Strong technical background and ability to contribute to design and review
• Familiarity with our tech stack or an analogous tech stack

Technologies Used

• Web application frameworks : Ktor, Spring Boot, Ruby on Rails, Node.js, Java Play, AWS Lambda
• Languages : Kotlin, Java, Ruby, Javascript, Python
• Datastores : PostgreSQL, Aerospike, Redis, DynamoDB, Amazon Redshift
• Communication : HTTP, Amazon SQS, Sidekiq, Amazon SNS
• Server management : Amazon ECS, Docker
• Design frameworks : Domain Driven Design, Clean Architecture, Layered Architecture

Roles and Responsibilities

This role requires a person to drive the engineering of a set of products by aligning with business and product

stakeholders and building and upskilling a team to aid in this. The responsibilities include:

Business and product alignment and planning

• Work closely with business and product stakeholders to understand and align with product initiatives and iterations.
• Help shape the engineering requirement by aligning with the product manager and fleshing out concepts and user flows.
• Formalize business requirements into roadmaps and sprints.

1. Product and system development

• Drive high level modeling and design for projects, also focusing on non-functional aspects, including but not limited to database design, communication protocols, deployment systems, etc.
• Drive adoption of design frameworks like domain driven design, clean architecture, etc., resulting in a robust layered architecture.
• Drive good code review practices, using the review process as a mentoring tool to upskill people.
• Ensure test coverage of systems, partly through unit and integration testing, and partly through blackbox testing by collaborating with the Quality Assurance team, via good testing practices.

1. Project Management

• Drive the execution of the project by delegating tasks effectively.
• Resolve blockers through technical expertise, negotiation and delegation.
• Estimate timelines and ensure adherence to them through effective sync-ups and course corrections.

1. Maintenance

• Formulate SLAs and oversee their adherence for the various systems, effectively tracking issues and performance inefficiencies.
• Performance monitoring and optimization for systems.
• Drive technical re-design, remodeling and refactoring of systems for robustness and sustainability.

1. Team Management

• Typically manage a team of 3 - 6 members and a portfolio of 3 - 6 products.
• Do periodic assessment of reportees, chart their career growth paths and train them.
• Recruit members into the team by collaborating effectively with the recruitment team.

Product Overview

You will be contributing to products concerning both customers and partner drivers. Product sectors

include:

• Growth : You’ll build tools to help boost user growth on the platform including our industry bestdriver on-boarding, training and certification system, referral system, and lead managementmmodels.
• Lifecycle Management : Build tools to help users engage with the platform better, which includes rewards and recognition module, subscription service, account management tools, partner and customer wallets and payout modules, and churn detection systems among others.
• Transaction Experience : You’ll help deliver the most delightful booking experience to our customers and drivers. As part of this team, you’ll be responsible for our core booking system, pricing and payment systems, location tracking and filtering services, fraud prevention systems, and in-app ticketing and support among others.
• Fulfilment : As part of the fulfilment team, you’ll work on systems which ensure high degree of ride fulfilment on the platform. Tools including allocation methodologies and system, dynamic pricing, dynamic partner routing, and partner re-activation tools among others.
• Enterprise Solutions : You’ll help Porter’s enterprise customers achieve delivery excellence. You’ll build tools for contract management, fleet management, fleet and route optimisation tools, alerting and monitoring tools, and analytics suite among others.

JOB DESCRIPTION 

DYT - Do Your Thng, is an app, where all social media users can share brands they love with their followers and earn money while doing so! We believe everyone is an influencer. Our aim is to democratise social media and allow people to be rewarded for the content they post. How does DYT help you? It accelerates your career through collaboration opportunities with top brands and gives you access to a community full of experts in the influencer space. 

RESPONSIBILITIES 

• Expert in Python with knowledge of Python best practices (PEP8) 
• Strong knowledge of python web frameworks such as Django, Flask • Strong knowledge of building RESTful APIs using Django Rest Framework • Good Understanding of Django ORM Libraries 
• Able to integrate multiple data sources and databases into one system • Strong experience on Linux 
• Solid database skills in a relational database (i.e. PostgresSQL,MYSql) • Able to create database schemas that represent and support business processes • Strong unit test and debugging skills 
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools (git) 
• Experience deploying on AWS is desirable 
• Experience with Docker,Test Drive Development will be a plus 
• Excellent interpersonal, leadership, influence and communication skills • Experience in designing scalable micro-services is desirable 

QUALIFICATIONS 

• 1-3 years of experience as a backend developer 
• At least one product build and published 
• SKILLS Contribute in all phases of the development lifecycle 
• Write well designed, testable, efficient code 
• Work well under pressure and meet deadlines without sacrificing quality • Work with distributed development teams 

• Design, develop, test, debug and maintain components of a feature-rich management and orchestration product
• Manage one or more project priorities and deadlines
• The programming languages are mainly Python and Java
• Understand the infrastructure details of public clouds and use DevOps best practices to implement provisioning

You'll Need:

• Strong software design and implementation skills in building infrastructure frameworks.
• Experience building and operating extensible, scalable resilient systems.
• Working knowledge of Java and Python.
• Solid understanding of basic systems operations (disk, network, etc).
• Willingness and ability to learn new languages and concepts.
• 8+ years of experience and a BS/MS degree in Computer Science -or- a related field.

Nice to have:

• Cloud infrastructure systems engineering experience.
• Experience in building control planes.
• Experience building RESTful APIs.
• Experience with containers and cluster managers like Kubernetes.
• Experience in App deployment and config management frameworks such as Ansible, Terraform, Chef, Puppet, etc.