Role Description

We are looking for an Engineering Leader with a focus on building maintainable and scalable applications. The Lead will be responsible for the design and development of Jodo's fee payments platform and be owning one of the products/verticals. Leads will be closely working with Product Managers and Founders to execute projects from ideation to completion. As a hands-on Team Lead, you will take ownership of services/systems and guide a team of developers.

Responsibilities

• Own and drive the development of one or more of Jodo’s products
• Take the lead in the design and development of the backend platform
• Mentor a team of developers, promote collaboration and engagement, and promote practices that improve the developer experience
• Work closely with Product Managers and Founders to brainstorm requirements and prioritize
• Own quality - actively participate in code reviews
• Own reliability - continuously monitor Production Health, proactively fix production issues
• Own execution - Plan and delegate work for the team, optimize for speed of development and incremental delivery

Requirements

• 6+ years of hands-on experience in application development
• 1+ years of leading a team
• Experience in working with distributed systems
• Proficient in building Microservices/RESTful APIs with any modern tech stack
• Working knowledge of relational and nonrelational databases
• Prior working knowledge of Python/Django is a big plus
• Familiarity with modern CI/CD tools
• Knowledge of AWS or any other Cloud Platform services
• Champion code quality and drive best practices
• Ability to analyze and convert business requirements into technical requirements
• Self-starter and ability to take the ownership
• Prior experience working in a startup environment is great to have
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

Benefits

• Becoming a part of the early core team
• Competitive salary
• Work with colleagues from strong backgrounds & hungry to succeed
• Opportunity to interact with and learn from high-pedigree investors & mentors -
  • VCs: Tiger Global, Elevation Capital (erstwhile SAIF Partners), Matrix Partners
  • Select angel investors: Kunal Shah, Nithin Kamath, Amit Ranjan

What are we looking for?

• Self-starter with a high sense of ownership - Comfortable working with minimal supervision
• Hungry to learn and grow - Passion to learn & be a better version of oneself; motivated to succeed
• Bias for action - Have the temperament to experiment and execute in uncertainty
• Hustler - Ability to generate resources to solve a problem
• Intellectual honesty - Always seeking and presenting truth irrespective of personal POV or beliefs
• Mission-oriented - Deeply care about delivering value and making an impact on customer's lives

Key Details

• Role: Engineering Lead
• Location: Bangalore
• Compensation: Negotiable based on candidate profile (structured as Fixed + ESOPs)