Senior Engineer - 2 (Backend)

<div style="color: rgb(23, 27, 39); font-family: PuviRegular, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><strong>Job Title</strong> - Software Engineer- 2 (Backend)<br><br></div><div style="color: rgb(23, 27, 39); font-family: PuviRegular, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><strong>Location </strong>- Bangalore<br><br><b style="font-family: PuviSemibold, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"><strong>About Tazapay</strong></b><strong><br></strong><br>Tazapay is a cross border payment service provider.

They offer local collections via local payment methods, virtual accounts and cards in over 70 markets. The merchant does not need to create local entities anywhere and Tazapay offers the additional compliance framework to take care of local regulations and requirements. This results in decreased transaction costs, fx transparency and higher auth rates.<br><br>They are licensed and backed by leading investors. <a href="http://www.tazapay.com/" style="color: rgb(40, 92, 195); outline: none medium; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">www.tazapay.com</a><br><br>What’s exciting waiting for You?This is an amazing opportunity for you to join a fantastic crew before the rocket ship launch.

It will be a story you will carry with you through your life and have the unique experience of building something ground up and have the satisfaction of seeing your product being used and paid for by thousands of customers. You will be a part of a growth story be it anywhere - Sales, Software Development, Marketing, HR, Accounting</div><div style="color: rgb(23, 27, 39); font-family: PuviRegular, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">etc.

We believe in a culture of openness, innovation & great memories together.<br><br>Are you ready for the ride?<br><br>Find what interesting things you could do with us.<br><br><b style="font-family: PuviSemibold, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"><strong>About the Backend Engineer role<br>Responsibilities (not exhaustive)</strong><br></b><br>Design, write and deliver highly scalable, reliable and fault tolerant systems with minimal guidance </div><div style="color: rgb(23, 27, 39); font-family: PuviRegular, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Participate in code and design reviews to maintain our high development standards</div><div style="color: rgb(23, 27, 39); font-family: PuviRegular, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">● Partner with the product management team to define and execute the feature roadmap</div><div style="color: rgb(23, 27, 39); font-family: PuviRegular, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">● Translate business requirements into scalable and extensible design</div><div style="color: rgb(23, 27, 39); font-family: PuviRegular, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">● Proactively manage stakeholder communication related to deliverables, risks, changes and dependencies</div><div style="color: rgb(23, 27, 39); font-family: PuviRegular, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">● Coordinate with cross functional teams (Mobile, DevOps, Data, UX, QA etc.) on planning and execution</div><div style="color: rgb(23, 27, 39); font-family: PuviRegular, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">● Continuously improve code quality, product execution, and customer delight</div><div style="color: rgb(23, 27, 39); font-family: PuviRegular, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">● Willingness to learn new languages and methodologies</div><div style="color: rgb(23, 27, 39); font-family: PuviRegular, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">● An enormous sense of ownership</div><div style="color: rgb(23, 27, 39); font-family: PuviRegular, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">● Engage in service capacity and demand planning, software performance analysis, tuning and optimization<br><br><b style="font-family: PuviSemibold, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"><strong>The Ideal Candidate<br>Education</strong></b></div><div style="color: rgb(23, 27, 39); font-family: PuviRegular, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">● Degree in Computer Science or equivalent with 5+ years of experience in commercial software development in large distributed systems<br><br><b style="font-family: PuviSemibold, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"><strong>Experience</strong><br><br></b>Hands-on experience in designing, developing, testing and deploying applications on Golang, Ruby, Python, .Net Core or Java for large scale applications</div><div style="color: rgb(23, 27, 39); font-family: PuviRegular, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">● Deep knowledge of Linux as a production environment</div><div style="color: rgb(23, 27, 39); font-family: PuviRegular, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">● Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, distributed systems, and asynchronous architectures</div><div style="color: rgb(23, 27, 39); font-family: PuviRegular, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">● Expert in at least 1 of the following languages: Golang, Python, Ruby, Java, C, C++</div><div style="color: rgb(23, 27, 39); font-family: PuviRegular, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">● Proficient in OOP, including design patterns.</div><div style="color: rgb(23, 27, 39); font-family: PuviRegular, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">● Ability to design and implement low latency RESTful services</div><div style="color: rgb(23, 27, 39); font-family: PuviRegular, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">● Hands-on coder who has built backend services that handle high volume traffic.</div><div style="color: rgb(23, 27, 39); font-family: PuviRegular, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">● Strong understanding of system performance and scaling</div><div style="color: rgb(23, 27, 39); font-family: PuviRegular, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">● Possess excellent communication, sharp analytical abilities with proven design skills, able to think critically of the current system in terms of growth and stability</div><div style="color: rgb(23, 27, 39); font-family: PuviRegular, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">● Data modeling experience in both Relational and NoSQL databases</div><div style="color: rgb(23, 27, 39); font-family: PuviRegular, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">● Continuously refactor applications to ensure high-quality design</div><div style="color: rgb(23, 27, 39); font-family: PuviRegular, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">● Ability to plan, prioritize, estimate and execute releases with good degree of predictability</div><div style="color: rgb(23, 27, 39); font-family: PuviRegular, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">● Ability to scope, review and refine user stories for technical completeness and to alleviate dependency risks</div><div style="color: rgb(23, 27, 39); font-family: PuviRegular, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">● Passion for learning new things, solving challenging problems</div><div style="color: rgb(23, 27, 39); font-family: PuviRegular, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">● Ability to get stuff done!<br><br></div><div style="color: rgb(23, 27, 39); font-family: PuviRegular, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><b style="font-family: PuviSemibold, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"><strong>Nice to have<br></strong></b><br>Familiarity with Golang ecosystem</div><div style="color: rgb(23, 27, 39); font-family: PuviRegular, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">● Familiarity with running web services at scale; understanding of systems internals and networking are a plus</div><div style="color: rgb(23, 27, 39); font-family: PuviRegular, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">● Be familiar with HTTP/HTTPS communication protocols.<br><br><b style="font-family: PuviSemibold, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"><strong>Abilities and Traits<br></strong><br></b>● Ability to follow agile best practices.</div><div style="color: rgb(23, 27, 39); font-family: PuviRegular, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">● Ability to provide exceptional attention to details of the product.</div><div style="color: rgb(23, 27, 39); font-family: PuviRegular, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">● Ability to think ahead and anticipate problems, issues and solutions</div><div style="color: rgb(23, 27, 39); font-family: PuviRegular, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">● Work well as a team player and help the team members to resolve issues</div><div style="color: rgb(23, 27, 39); font-family: PuviRegular, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">● Be committed to quality and be structured in approach</div><div style="color: rgb(23, 27, 39); font-family: PuviRegular, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">● Excellent and demonstrable concept formulation, logical and analytical skills</div><div style="color: rgb(23, 27, 39); font-family: PuviRegular, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">● Excellent planning, organizational, and prioritization skills<br><br></div><div style="color: rgb(23, 27, 39); font-family: PuviRegular, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Join our team and let's groove together to the rhythm of innovation and opportunity!</div>