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Role Overview:We are seeking a skilled and passionate Backend SDE 3 with 5+ years of experience in backend/platform engineering. The ideal candidate should have hands-on expertise in backend programming and a strong understanding of the applications and system design concepts. You will play a vital role in designing, developing, and maintaining robust and scalable backend systems that power our innovative fintech products suite. This role requires a strong foundation in software engineering principles, technical leadership and implementations of best practices.Key Responsibilities- Ownership of product/ feature end-to-end for all phases from the development to the production - Ensuring the developed features are scalable and highly available with no quality concerns - Work closely with senior engineers for refining the design and implementation - Contribute to Low-Level and High-Level Design discussions and documentation - Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code following best practices and design patterns - Assist directly and indirectly in the continual hiring and development of technical talent - Create and execute appropriate quality plans, project plans, test strategies and processes for development activities in concert with business and project management efforts. - Proactively mentoring and guiding the young talent of the engineering team to enforce S/W engineering best practices - The ideal candidate is a passionate engineer about delivering experiences that delight customers and creating solutions that are robust. He/She should be able to commit and own the deliverables end to end - Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams including front-end, product, and design - Proactively identify and resolve issues, implement effective error handling, and contribute to monitoring strategies - Participate in CI/CD processes and leverage AWS cloud services for deployment and management - Actively participate in code reviews and contribute to a culture of continuous improvementRequired Skills & Qualifications:- 5+ years of professional backend development experience. - 4+ years of programming experience with at least one modern language such as Typescript, Python, Node.js, NestJS, JavaScript etc with strong proficiency. - 2+ years of experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems. - Strong Proficiency in Data Structures, Algorithmic design, problem solving and complexity analysis. - Experience in building scalable high performance large systems. - Solid understanding and hands-on experience with RESTful API design and communication. - Experience with both SQL (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL (e.g., MongoDB, DynamoDB) databases, including schema design. - Proficient in asynchronous programming concepts (e.g., async/await, Promises, event loop). - Working knowledge of user authentication and authorization principles and implementation - Familiarity with Firebase authentication and JWT. - Knowledge of cloud technologies (AWS preferred) and CI/CD concepts/to ols. - Outstanding interpersonal, communication and collaboration skills - Attention to details coupled with the ability to think abstractly and analytically. - Proven technical Leadership and mentoring experience - Obsession with code quality and customer experience. - Proven track record of being able to learn new tools and technologies, languages and workflows. - Exceptional at time and priority management. - Passion for working in a high-paced startup environment and a continuous learning mindset.