Senior Backend Engineer (5-6Y)

Xflow Payments Inc; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,000,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

A cross-border payments company in Bengaluru is seeking a Software Engineer to design, build, and maintain APIs. The ideal candidate should have 5-6 years of experience, a strong computer science background, and proficiency in languages like Ruby, Python, or Java. You will lead technical initiatives and contribute to a robust engineering culture while solving complex, real-world problems.

Qualifications

• 5-6 years of professional software development experience.
• Strong foundation in computer science, with competencies in Data Structures and algorithms.
• Ability to convert design into efficient code.

Responsibilities

• Ideate, define, validate and refine product requirements.
• Design and maintain reliable APIs.
• Set standards in sustainable engineering with best practices.

Skills

Data Structures

Algorithms

Ruby

Python

Java

C++

Education

B. E or B. Tech in Computer Science or equivalent

Job description

Xflow is cross-border payments infrastructure that provides businesses access to global markets, starting with those in India and subsequently other parts of South & South East Asia. We are enabling users to accept and payout money globally in a simple, reliable, compliant, transparent and financially compelling manner.

Building payments infrastructure is hard, and elegantly solving for cross-border payments infrastructure for businesses even more so. The complexity stems from the different changing regulatory requirements of the many countries that we will operate in, building payment guarantees in existing rails (or for that matter, creating a new payment rail altogether) and capturing value in a way where we are net additive to our users.

Finally, and we cannot stress this enough, culture eats everything else for breakfast. We aim to be an engineering driven company that believes finance problems are rooted in code and strongly prefer individuals who share a similar belief.

You will:

• Ideate, define, validate and refine product requirements in collaboration with product, and subsequently come up with engineering solutions for the finalized product requirements.

• Design solutions for problem statements with a fair degree of fuzziness with the right abstractions and separation of concerns.

• Design, build, and maintain APIs that users can rely on for decades.

• Develop domain models and implement business logic with suitable class design.

• Identify common reusable components as libraries, utilities and services and promote reuse.

• Define critical system and business metrics and alerts to maintain system uptime and business continuity.

• Solve complex problems in an innovative way and deliver quality solutions while taking ownership and accountability of assigned things.

• Set a standard in sustainable engineering by defining best practices, producing best in class of code, external and internal documentation, and testing.

• Debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack.

• Meet with users to gather feedback, and take pride from working on projects that solve acute real world problems.

• Lead multiple tracks of work simultaneously, balancing short-term deliverables with long-term architectural thinking.

• Contribute to and influence infrastructure and security decisions, ensuring robustness, scalability and compliance.

• Help drive engineering culture by setting high standards, mentoring peers, and advocating for best practices.

You have:

• B. E or B. Tech in Computer Science or any equivalent degree.

• 5–6 years of professional software development experience.

• Strong foundation in computer science, with strong competencies in Data Structures, algorithms and their space-time complexities.

• Highly proficient with at least one language (e.g: Ruby, Python, Java, C++, etc.,).

• Ability to convert design into efficient code fluently.

• Own and drive technical initiatives with a small group of engineers.

• Strong mentorship experience or built services ground up.

• Good exposure to scale and non-functional optimisations.

• The skills and inclination to think rigorously about API design and diving deep into the details.

• Dealt with solving ambiguous problems and can think laterally when faced with a new problem.

• Excellent debugging skills.

• Experience working across infrastructure and/or security aspects is a plus.

• Ability to drive engineering culture and influence technical direction beyond immediate teams.

Bonus Points if you have:

• Experience working in the Fintech / Payments industry.