Senior Backend Engineer

About the Startup!

BharatX is a startup trying to change how the 250 million Indian Middle-Class Indians get access to credit. We give Credit via other consumer-facing apps and platforms as-a-Feature to their customers via a simple integration of our APIs in a Plug-and-Play manner. Our offerings enable journeys like Postpaid on Uber/Ola, Pay after Trial on Lenskart/Meesho, Pay in 3 on Flipkart/BoAt, Credit-Line on PhonePe/Gpay in a white-labelled and embedded manner!

Who We Are:

A team of young, ambitious, and bold people love to dedicate their life’s work towards something meaningful for India & the world. We love to have a shit ton of fun and cut the bullshit corporate culture! We are not colleagues, we are a family, in it for the long run! 

Folks who believe in us:

We have been fortunate to have a lot of Global VCs, Founders, Clients, Angels and Industry veterans back us in our journey. We also have a lot of mentors in the Industry Globally who work with us day in, day out on building BharatX. Some of our Investors Include:

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Global VCs

• Y Combinator (Batch of W22) (25+ Unicorns)
• Soma Capital (20+ Unicorns)
• 8i Ventures (Slice & M2P seed investors)
• WorldQuant (Global Hedge Fund) & it’s Executives
• Multiply Ventures (Ex-Paytm President’s Fund)
• Java Capital 
• Letsventure & more… |

Angels

• Harshil Mathur and Shashank - Founders @ Razorpay
• Kunal Shah - Founder @ CRED
• Arash Ferdowsi - Co-Founder @ Dropbox
• Vikas Chowdhury - President @ Reliance Jio
• Ankur Aggarwal - Co-Founder @ Dunzo
• Sajid Rahman - Board member - South Bangla Bank
• Faiz Mayalakkara - Director of Investments @ UAE’s Sovereign Wealth Fund & more….  |

A special shout out to some of the clients of BharatX who have also chosen to back us, their vote of confidence in our product and vision is the most valuable to us.

What you will impact:

You will be directly responsible for designing and implementing modules and systems that will affect millions of people that will use BharatX. You will be exposed to an array of technologies used within BharatX - including but not limited to SQL and NoSQL databases, message brokers, and HTTP servers. You can also introduce us to other stacks that you think we should add to our arsenal. As a backend engineer, you would be directly working on one or more of: 

• Production server apps and systems that affect all our customers.
• Designing data pipelines for flow of data between different systems within BharatX.
• Infrastructure deployments that we use to support our products and services.
• Lead integrations with third-party service providers.
• Existing systems’ optimizations or redesign for better scale and stability.

What you will learn:

How to get stuff done! You will solve real-world challenges that no experience or training can help you. Only your grit and passion for solving the problem will help you figure out how to deal with them. You will learn to deploy in scale that will affect millions in multiple ways - be it underwriting algorithms, APIs or databases.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and design back-end components, services, and APIs.
• Write elegant, effective, and scalable code while maintaining the highest level of coding standards.
• Take complete ownership of projects and ensure timely deliveries.
• Identify architectural weaknesses, design issues, performance and scalability issues, and recommend solutions.
• Participate actively in code reviews.

What we look for:

We need people who are quick learners and bold enough to suggest crazy ideas. From a technical front, we need people who have:

• Demonstrable experience with backend development and design, including handling different kinds of databases, developing server-side apps, and handling and maintaining cloud infrastructure. 
• Good knowledge of networking, security and ability to architect new systems.
• Reverse engineering & pro-googling.
• Excellent code documentation and communication skills.
• Practical knowledge of Git.
• Ability to interact with all stakeholders. Understand business requirements and effectively convert them into technical specifications.
• Ability to make architectural decisions (choice of development frameworks and tools, database optimisations, load handling).
• Startup work experience (preferred).

We also encourage you to apply even if you took a break from professional life for whatever reasons. For us, the people and their skills matter more than their resumes.

What you get:

We don’t seek employees, we seek friends. If you are looking for an environment where smart people work around you who help you achieve your goals without any corporate bureaucracy, encourage you to make mistakes and get complete ownership of your work, then this is the place for you! Here are some side perks that come with this job:

• Be a part of our 0 to 1 ride!
• Attractive compensation with the best-in-class ESOP Structure. You take care of doing your best work, and we will take care of making sure you never have to worry about money.
• Insurance for your entire family.
• Choose your own device (and keep it if you stay long enough).
• Unlimited paid time off with no questions asked.
• Encouragement to take time for your mental health and personal life.
• Maternity and Paternity Leave.
• A tight-knit and brutally honest team with no politics or hierarchy :D