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Job Description : Backend Engineer

Function: Software Engineering - Backend Development

Experience : 2-3 years

About the Role :

We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Golang Backend Engineer to join our team.

This role will be instrumental in building and scaling our payment platform, requiring a deep understanding of the Indian payment ecosystem and experience working with payment aggregators and gateways.

The ideal candidate will not only be a strong technical contributor but also a mentor and coach for other engineers, promoting best practices and driving engineering excellence.

A DevOps and TechFinOps mindset is crucial for this role, as is the ability to collaborate effectively within an Agile environment.

Responsibilities :

Development and Design :

- Design, develop, and maintain highly resilient and scalable backend services using Golang.

- Contribute to the architecture and implementation of our payment platform, ensuring its performance, security, and reliability.

Payment Domain Expertise :

- Leverage your deep understanding of the Indian payment ecosystem to build and integrate with payment aggregators and gateways.

- Stay up-to-date with the latest trends and regulations in the payment domain.

Mentorship and Coaching :

- Mentor and coach junior and senior engineers, sharing your knowledge and expertise.

- Foster a culture of learning and growth within the team.

- Champion engineering best practices, including code quality, performance tuning, chaos engineering, and operational excellence.

- Drive the adoption of reusable components, frameworks, patterns, and configuration tools to accelerate development.

DevOps and TechFinOps Mindset :

- Apply a DevOps and TechFinOps mindset to problem-solving and product development.

- Contribute to the automation of deployment and infrastructure management.

- Consider the financial implications of technical decisions.

- Work closely with product managers and other stakeholders in an Agile environment.

- Participate in sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives.

- Take end-to-end ownership for the development and design of cloud-based products, from conception to deployment and maintenance.

- Contribute to the development and maintenance of microservices and platforms.

- Proactively identify areas for improvement in our development processes and technologies.

- Stay proficient in new and emerging technologies.

- Effectively communicate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.

- Influence and persuade others without direct control.

Requirements :

- An Engineering Degree - B.E/B.Tech/MS/PhD in any stream - Computer Science preferred.

- 2-3 years of relevant experience in building highly resilient, highly scalable systems.

- Must have : Strong exposure in the Payment Domain and a strong understanding of the Indian payment ecosystem.

- Must have : Experience working with Payment Aggregators and Payment Gateways.

- Experience working with product management and Agile methodologies.

- Demonstrated end-to-end ownership for the development and design of at least one cloud-based product.

- Experience in building microservices/platforms is desirable.

- Strong desire to drive change and ability to adapt to change quickly.

- Proficient in new and emerging technologies.

- Ability to balance the long-term big picture and short-term implications of design decisions.

- Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills - including negotiation, facilitation, and consensus-building skills; ability to influence and persuade, without direct control.

- Excellent in Engineering excellence - code quality, performance tuning/chaos engineering, operational excellence, etc.

Tech Stack : Golang