Falcon - Technical Lead - Backend Development (5-9 yrs)

Team Lead - Backend

Who are we?

Falcon a Series-A funded cloud-native, AI-first banking technology & processing platform that helps banks, NBFCs, and PPIs quickly and affordably launch next-gen financial products, such as credit card, credit line on UPI, prepaid card, fixed deposits, and loans.

Since our 2022 launch, we've processed USD 1 Bn+ in transactions, signed on 12 of India's top financial institutions, & clocked USD 15 Mn+ in revenue. Our company is backed by marquee investors from around the world, including heavyweight investors from Japan, USA, as well as leading Indian ventures and banks.

Job Description :

Tech Lead in Backend at Falcon help grow our efforts across the entire Falcon ecosystem. As Tech Lead in Backend, you'll work in a key position, where your efforts will have a noticeable impact on both the company and product. In addition to the requirements below, successful candidates and team members will share a passion for high-quality software, strong engineering principles, and methodical problem-solving skills

Primary Responsibilities :

- Design and code microservice-based applications

- Lead, mentor and train a team of developers

- Integrate with several partners, including issuer processors, external interface gateways, and with iOS and Android development layers.

- Integrate with prevalent third party applications like banks, payment gateways, and card processors

- Develop with TDD style

- Work on cutting-edge open-source stacks

- Create system design documents and diagrams like flowcharts and use case diagrams

- Drive change in a DevOps-led engineering environment

It's essential that you :

- Have a BE/B.Tech. in Computer Science/Computer Engineering or equivalent experience of 5-9 years. Have Hands-on experience with coding, design and mentoring developers

- Are able to train and lead the junior developers

- Are fluent in Java 8, Spring framework, Spring Boot, REST, and preferably but not necessarily have experience in Webservices and Hibernate.

- Are fluent in JPA and JMS

- Have an understanding of MQ, JMS, and Queue management

- Are aware of database technologies such as PostgreSQL, Oracle, and MySQL Are experienced in using Git.

- Are flexible and quick at picking up new technologies

We'd love it if you also :

- Are well-versed in payments and BFSI domains, e.g. credit cards, investments, and insurance

- Are well-versed with Junit, Mockito, Assertj or related unit testing frameworks

- Know agile and scrum methodologies as well as clean and secure coding practices

- Know Spring Cloud frameworks (particularly Spring Boot)

- Have knowledge of MongoDB or other NoSQL databases.

- Have experience with protocols like ISO, Swift, XML, Soap, Web Services, and TCP

- Contribute to the open-source community

Other specifics :

Location : Gurgaon (hybrid)