About Snapmint:

Snapmint is a leading fintech company redefining access to consumer credit in India. With over 10 million Customers across 2,200+ cities, our zero-cost EMI platform enables responsible purchases without the need for a credit card across categories like fashion, electronics, and lifestyle. India has over 300 million credit eligible consumers, yet fewer than 35 million actively use credit cards. Snapmint addresses this gap by offering a trusted, transparent alternative grounded in financial inclusion and ethical lending practices.

Founded in 2017, Snapmint is a profitable, high-growth company doubling year-on-year. Our founding team, alumni of IIT Bombay and ISB, brings deep experience from companies like Oyo, Ola, Maruti Suzuki, and has successfully built and exited ventures in ad-tech, patent analytics, and bank-tech.We are building the future of responsible consumer finance, simple, transparent, and customer-first.

About the Role :

Snapmint is looking for a highly hands-on Senior Backend Engineer (SDE III) who enjoys writing production code while driving the architecture of complex backend systems. This role is suited for engineers who thrive in solving non-trivial technical challenges, designing scalable systems, and building high-performance services that power a rapidly growing fintech platform. You will influence technical direction, mentor engineers, and take ownership of critical backend components.

Key Responsibilities :

- Design and build large-scale backend systems and distributed services

- Drive architecture decisions that impact multiple engineering teams

- Write high-quality production code and actively contribute to core backend components

- Design fault-tolerant, scalable, and high-throughput services

- Lead system design reviews and enforce engineering best practices

- Identify technical debt and drive long-term platform improvements

- Mentor engineers and elevate the overall engineering quality of the team

- Collaborate with product, infrastructure, and data teams to build scalable systems

What We're Looking For:

- 6-10 years of backend development experience

- Strong programming expertise in Node.js (preferred) or another modern backend language

- Experience designing and building large-scale distributed systems

- Experience building event-driven or asynchronous architectures

- Strong understanding of data structures, algorithms, and software design principles

- Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases

- Experience building systems on cloud infrastructure

- Strong experience with microservices architecture and API design

Preferred Qualifications:

- Strong knowledge of performance optimization and scalability patterns

- Experience designing low-latency or high-throughput services

- Prior experience in a high-growth product company

- Contributions to open-source projects are a plus