- Technical ownership , spearheading Architectural Strategy and will be responsible for product direction.

- Lead, mentor, and guide a team of backend developers, providing technical expertise and fostering a collaborative environment to achieve project goals effectively.

- Oversee the design, development, testing, and deployment of backend applications using Java ensuring adherence to best practices, coding standards, and project timelines.

- Architect, build, and deploy backend applications from scratch.

- Interact with stakeholders to understand requirements, analyze the impact of changes, come up with reasonable timelines, and execute.

- Plan and execute extensive load testing for services.

- Create an execution plan for the team to iterate based on the load test findings to ensure a resilient, self healing set of subsystems that have loose coupling and high cohesion.

- Understand and analyze existing systems to identify improvements and performance/maintenance issues.

- Fix or rebuild existing systems to ensure resilience.

- Write extensive test cases in a way that systems can be easily modified in the future with confidence and without ambiguity.

- Build ETL pipelines to collect data in a Data lake.

- Use the Data lake to power BI and generate reports.

- Maintain clear and concise documentation of technical specifications, code changes, and architectural decisions.

- Prepare a growth plan for the team and help them achieve it.

- Provide regular feedback for the team.

We are looking for someone with :

- 9 to 15 years of hands-on experience in Backend technologies.

- Strong architectural leadership experience.

- Strong experience in Java.

- Experience with debugging and solving issues in a cloud environment.

- Experience with PostgreSQL or similar databases.

- Experience with NoSQL databases.

- Deep understanding of technology and architecture in a highly scalable and available environment.

- Experience with open-source technologies such as Elasticsearch, Redis, Kafka, etc, and their adoption into products.

- Proven experience in leading and managing development teams, providing technical guidance and mentorship.

- Willingness to work in a startup-like environment.

- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science / Information Technology.

Following aspects would be a plus :

- Prior experience in FinTech

- Experience in using AWS services such as S3, SNS, SQS etc.

- Contributed to open-source projects

- Experience with Big data pipelines

- Experience with BI tools