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Job Description: Software Engineer - Backend ( 3-5 Years)

Location: Bangalore

WHO WE ARE:

TIFIN is a fintech platform backed by industry leaders including JP Morgan, Morningstar, Broadridge, Hamilton Lane, Franklin Templeton, Motive Partners and a who’s who of the financial service industry. We are creating engaging wealth experiences to better financial lives

through AI and investment intelligence powered personalization. We are working to change the world of wealth in ways that personalization has changed the world of movies, music and more but with the added responsibility of delivering better wealth outcomes.

We use design and behavioral thinking to enable engaging experiences through software and application programming interfaces (APIs). We use investment science and intelligence to build algorithmic engines inside the software and APIs to enable better investor outcomes.

In a world where every individual is unique, we match them to financial advice and investments with a recognition of their distinct needs and goals across our investment marketplace and our advice and planning divisions.

OUR VALUES: Go with your GUT

●Grow at the Edge: We embrace personal growth by stepping out of our comfort zones to

discover our genius zones, driven by self-awareness and integrity. No excuses.

●Understanding through Listening and Speaking the Truth: Transparency, radical candor,

and authenticity define our communication. We challenge ideas, but once decisions are

made, we commit fully.

●I Win for Teamwin: We operate within our genius zones, taking ownership of our work

and inspiring our team with energy and attitude to win together.

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to the entire implementation process including driving the definition of improvements based on business needs and architectural improvements.

• Review code for quality and implementation of best practices.

• Promote coding, testing, and deployment best practices through hands-on research and demonstration.

• Write testable code that enables extremely high levels of code coverage.

• Ability to review frameworks and design principles toward suitability in the project context.

• Candidates who will demonstrate an ability to identify an opportunity lay out a rational plan for pursuing that opportunity, and see it through to completion.

Requirements:

• Engineering graduate with 3+ years of experience in software product development.

• Proficient in Python, Django, Pandas, GitHub, and AWS.

• Good knowledge of PostgreSQL, and MongoDB.

• Strong Experience in designing REST APIs.

• Experience with working on scalable interactive web applications.

• A clear understanding of software design constructs and their implementation.

• Understanding of the threading limitations of Python and multi-process architecture.

• Familiarity with some ORM (Object Relational Mapper) libraries.

• Good understanding of Test Driven Development.

• Unit and Integration testing.

• Preferred exposure to Finance domain.

• Strong written and oral communication skills.

Sal: Upto 30LPA+ESOPs

Location: Bangalore and Mumbai

Hybrid work mode

EXP: 3-6y

Roles & Responsibilities

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 General Catalysts and Elevation Capital, 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

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 big thinkers and are looking for like-minded people to join

our team.

We are looking for someone who loves a challenge, is ambitious, super tenacious and

persistent. S/he is a self-starter, thrives in a dynamic, small start-up environment, has a

knack for understanding customer needs, and loves to get sh*t done! If you check these

boxes - we want to talk to you!

The opportunity:

-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

-Join a high performance, dynamic and collaborative work environment that throws new

challenges on a daily basis

-Be part of the early founding team and be directly responsible for driving the company's

success

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 you

● 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

• Lead the development of the backend systems for our first product
• Build reliable, secure and performant backend systems
• Drive test coverage and continuous delivery automation within the team
• Mentor and provide feedback to teammates

Requirements

• 5+ years of software development experience
• Strong computer science fundamentals
• Deep and wide knowledge of Python ecosystem
• Can write code that is readable, maintainable, secure and performant
• Know the importance of tests and how to approach writing different types of tests
• Good intuition for REST API design
• Deep understanding of relational databases, transactions, entity-relationship modeling
• Comfortable writing highly concurrent systems
• Experienced in using profilers, tuning garbage collection, optimizing SQL queries

💥 What will you do?

As a Lead Backend Engineer, you will

• Build out and help scale our Django (+ReactJS / VueJS) based web application as we add new features and customers

• Help us transition from monolithic system architecture to microservices and serverless system architecture to help meet our future scaling requirements

• Collaborate on a daily basis with a small, nimble team of product managers, engineers, and UX designers to understand business requirements and user experience goals and pain points.
• Build out features to enable multi-channel customer acquisition include partner channels, enterprise channels, and government channels
• Integrate third-party plugins to enhance customer experience and internal tooling build internal tooling to improve internal team efficiencies.
• Actively participate in code reviews
• Work with our quality assurance team to improve coverage on our automated testing suites

🙋 What are we looking for? 

While we do not have a strict list of requirements for candidates interested in this role, some indicators that you would fit this role and our engineering culture are 

• Prior experience of a few years (3+ years) with python based frameworks as Django or Flask would be essential to work on our application stack.

• You actively promote a culture of engineering excellence some of which could be writing efficient code, use of elegant design patterns, and styling your code through code-linting policies.

• You enjoy designing software architecture by collaborating with engineering managers, architects, and other lead engineers to explore existing systems, determining areas of complexity, potential risks to successful implementation.

• You enjoy coaching folks to achieve outcomes through nudges.

📢 Other information you may want to consider 

• We will be flexible for the rest of the pandemic and work remotely; however, we are not a remote-first company, and the work location would be Bangalore when things settle.
• Our backend tech stack includes Django, FastAPI, Postgres, Redis, Clickhouse, and TigerGraph. Our environments are managed through Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform.

Kognitos is a cutting-edge automation platform that combines the power of Generative AI and Natural

Language Processing (NLP) to provide a conversational and intuitive experience for business users. As a

fully serverless, SaaS automation platform, Kognitos enables users to build, manage, and execute

automations in natural language, with the ability to process and understand domain-specific language.

Kognitos provides a detailed auditable view of its runs, allowing users to gain insights into why an action

happened or what might have gone wrong in case of an exceptional situation. Additionally, Kognitos's

conversational exception handling, powered by Generative AI, allows for quick and easy resolution of

unexpected system errors or business exceptions.

Responsibilities:

- Develop and maintain the backend infrastructure for our applications using Python and AWS Serverless

technologies.

- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and implement scalable and robust systems, including

microservices and cloud-based architectures.

- Ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of the backend systems through monitoring and

optimization.

- Create and maintain database schema and queries to support the application features.

- Write unit and integration tests for the backend code and ensure code quality through code reviews.

- Continuously improve the software development process by incorporating best practices and modern

software development methodologies, such as Agile, DevOps, and CI/CD.

- Investigate and troubleshoot production issues and provide timely solutions to minimize downtime and

ensure smooth operations.

- Participate in architectural discussions and contribute to the development of technical solutions and best

practices.

- Stay up to date with the latest technologies and trends in software development and recommend

improvements to the technology stack to increase efficiency and scalability.

- Work in a fast-paced, collaborative environment with a focus on delivering high-quality software that

meets customer needs.

Required Experience/Skills:

- B.S. or higher degree in Computer Science/Engineering or similar field or equivalent work experience

- 4-20 years of industry experience (or equivalent)

- Proficient in Python programming language

- Experience with modern software development practices and methodologies, including Agile, DevOps,

and Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD).

- Experience with large-scale distributed systems, microservices, and cloud-based architectures.

- Strong understanding of software design patterns, algorithms, data structures, and database technologies.

- A natural problem solver, with the ability to identify problems and lead the development of a solution.

Qualification & Experience